Isaiah 2:3

2:3 many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain,

to the temple of the God of Jacob,

so ¹  he can teach us his requirements, ² 

and ³  we can follow his standards.” ⁴ 

For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; ⁵ 

the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem. ⁶ 

Isaiah 42:22

42:22 But these people are looted and plundered;

all of them are trapped in pits ⁷ 

and held captive ⁸  in prisons.

They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them;

they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, “Bring that back!” ⁹ 

Isaiah 43:9

43:9 All nations gather together,

the peoples assemble.

Who among them announced this?

Who predicted earlier events for us? ¹⁰ 

Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right;

let them listen and affirm, ‘It is true.’

Isaiah 54:17

54:17 No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed;

you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. ¹¹ 

This is what the Lord will do for his servants –

I will vindicate them,” ¹² 

says the Lord.

Isaiah 65:16

65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth ¹³ 

will do so in the name of the faithful God; ¹⁴ 

whoever makes an oath in the earth

will do so in the name of the faithful God. ¹⁵ 

For past problems will be forgotten;

I will no longer think about them. ¹⁶ 

[2:3]  ¹ tn The prefixed verb form with simple vav (ו) introduces a purpose/result clause after the preceding prefixed verb form (probably to be taken as a cohortative; see IBHS 650 §39.2.2a).

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “his ways.” In this context God’s “ways” are the standards of moral conduct he decrees that people should live by.

[2:3]  ³ tn The cohortative with vav (ו) after the prefixed verb form indicates the ultimate purpose/goal of their action.

[2:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “walk in his ways.”

[2:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “for out of Zion will go instruction.”

[2:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

[42:22]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text has בַּחוּרִים (bakhurim, “young men”), but the text should be emended to בְּהוֹרִים (bÿhorim, “in holes”).

[42:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “and made to be hidden”; NAB, NASB, NIV, TEV “hidden away in prisons.”

[42:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “they became loot and there was no one rescuing, plunder and there was no one saying, ‘Bring back’.”

[43:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the former things was causing us to hear?”

[54:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

[54:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “this is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication from me.”

[65:16]  ²⁵ tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.

[65:16]  ²⁶ tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”