Isaiah 2:7

2:7 Their land is full of gold and silver;

there is no end to their wealth. ¹ 

Their land is full of horses;

there is no end to their chariots. ² 

Isaiah 11:4

11:4 He will treat the poor fairly, ³ 

and make right decisions ⁴  for the downtrodden of the earth. ⁵ 

He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, ⁶ 

and order the wicked to be executed. ⁷ 

Isaiah 18:6

18:6 They will all be left ⁸  for the birds of the hills

and the wild animals; ⁹ 

the birds will eat them during the summer,

and all the wild animals will eat them during the winter.

Isaiah 24:6

24:6 So a treaty curse ¹⁰  devours the earth;

its inhabitants pay for their guilt. ¹¹ 

This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, ¹² 

and are reduced to just a handful of people. ¹³ 

Isaiah 27:13

27:13 At that time ¹⁴  a large ¹⁵  trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost ¹⁶  in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in ¹⁷  the land of Egypt. They will worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. ¹⁸ 

Isaiah 29:4

29:4 You will fall;

while lying on the ground ¹⁹  you will speak;

from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. ²⁰ 

Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; ²¹ 

from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation. ²² 

Isaiah 36:10

36:10 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’” ²³ 

Isaiah 36:20

36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” ²⁴ 

Isaiah 65:16

65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth ²⁵ 

will do so in the name of the faithful God; ²⁶ 

whoever makes an oath in the earth

will do so in the name of the faithful God. ²⁷ 

For past problems will be forgotten;

I will no longer think about them. ²⁸ 

[2:7]  ¹ tn Or “treasuries”; KJV “treasures.”

[2:7]  ² sn Judah’s royal bureaucracy had accumulated great wealth and military might, in violation of Deut 17:16-17.

[11:4]  ³ tn Heb “with justice” (so NAB) or “with righteousness” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “make decisions with rectitude”; cf. ASV, NRSV “and decide with equity.”

[11:4]  ⁵ tn Or “land” (NAB, NCV, CEV). It is uncertain if the passage is picturing universal dominion or focusing on the king’s rule over his covenant people. The reference to God’s “holy mountain” in v. 9 and the description of renewed Israelite conquests in v. 14 suggest the latter, though v. 10 seems to refer to a universal kingdom (see 2:2-4).

[11:4]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he will strike the earth with the scepter of his mouth.” Some have suggested that in this context אֶרֶץ (’erets, “earth”) as an object of judgment seems too broad in scope. The parallelism is tighter if one emends the word to ץ(י)עָרִ (’arits, “potentate, tyrant”). The phrase “scepter of his mouth” refers to the royal (note “scepter”) decrees that he proclaims with his mouth. Because these decrees will have authority and power (see v. 2) behind them, they can be described as “striking” the tyrants down. Nevertheless, the MT reading may not need emending. Isaiah refers to the entire “earth” as the object of God’s judgment in several places without specifying the wicked as the object of the judgment (Isa 24:17-21; 26:9, 21; 28:22; cf. 13:11).

[11:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “and by the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.” The “breath of his lips” refers to his speech, specifically in this context his official decrees that the wicked oppressors be eliminated from his realm. See the preceding note.

[18:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “they will be left together” (so NASB).

[18:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “the beasts of the earth” (so KJV, NASB).

[24:6]  ⁷ sn Ancient Near Eastern treaties often had “curses,” or threatened judgments, attached to them. (See Deut 28 for a biblical example of such curses.) The party or parties taking an oath of allegiance acknowledged that disobedience would activate these curses, which typically threatened loss of agricultural fertility as depicted in the following verses.

[24:6]  ⁸ tn The verb אָשַׁם (’asham, “be guilty”) is here used metonymically to mean “pay, suffer for one’s guilt” (see HALOT 95 s.v. אשׁם).

[24:6]  ⁹ tn BDB 359 s.v. חָרַר derives the verb חָרוּ (kharu) from חָרַר (kharar, “burn”), but HALOT 351 s.v. II חרה understands a hapax legomenon חָרָה (kharah, “to diminish in number,” a homonym of חָרָה) here, relating it to an alleged Arabic cognate meaning “to decrease.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has חורו, perhaps understanding the root as חָוַר (khavar, “grow pale”; see Isa 29:22 and HALOT 299 s.v. I חור).

[24:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and mankind is left small [in number].”

[27:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “and it will be in that day.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[27:13]  ¹⁰ tn Traditionally, “great” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT); CEV “loud.”

[27:13]  ¹¹ tn Or “the ones perishing.”

[27:13]  ¹² tn Or “the ones driven into.”

[27:13]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[29:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from the ground” (so NIV, NCV).

[29:4]  ¹² tn Heb “and from the dust your word will be low.”

[29:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “and your voice will be like a ritual pit from the earth.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. See the note on “incantations” in 8:19. Here the word is used metonymically for the voice that emerges from such a pit.

[29:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and from the dust your word will chirp.” The words “as if muttering an incantation” are supplied in the translation for clarification. See the parallelism and 8:19.

[36:10]  ¹³ sn In v. 10 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 7. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.

[36:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?

[65:16]  ¹⁷ tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.

[65:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”