Isaiah 2:9

2:9 Men bow down to them in homage,

they lie flat on the ground in worship. ¹ 

Don’t spare them! ² 

Isaiah 2:13

2:13 for all the cedars of Lebanon,

that are so high and mighty,

for all the oaks of Bashan; ³ 

Isaiah 3:11

3:11 Too bad for the wicked sinners!

For they will get exactly what they deserve. ⁴ 

Isaiah 7:21

7:21 At that time ⁵  a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

Isaiah 8:15

8:15 Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, ⁶ 

and will fall and be seriously injured,

and will be ensnared and captured.”

Isaiah 19:24

19:24 At that time Israel will be the third member of the group, along with Egypt and Assyria, and will be a recipient of blessing ⁷  in the earth. ⁸ 

Isaiah 22:8

22:8 They ⁹  removed the defenses ¹⁰  of Judah.

At that time ¹¹  you looked

for the weapons in the House of the Forest. ¹² 

Isaiah 22:17

22:17 Look, the Lord will throw you far away, ¹³  you mere man! ¹⁴ 

He will wrap you up tightly. ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 26:16

26:16 O Lord, in distress they looked for you;

they uttered incantations because of your discipline. ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 28:24

28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? ¹⁷ 

Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

Isaiah 29:3

29:3 I will lay siege to you on all sides; ¹⁸ 

I will besiege you with troops; ¹⁹ 

I will raise siege works against you.

Isaiah 38:21

38:21 ²⁰  Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

Isaiah 47:3

47:3 Let your private parts be exposed!

Your genitals will be on display! ²¹ 

I will get revenge;

I will not have pity on anyone,” ²² 

Isaiah 54:15

54:15 If anyone dares to ²³  challenge you, it will not be my doing!

Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated. ²⁴ 

Isaiah 55:6

55:6 Seek the Lord while he makes himself available; ²⁵ 

call to him while he is nearby!

Isaiah 57:2

57:2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace;

they rest on their beds. ²⁶ 

Isaiah 60:1

Zion’s Future Splendor

60:1 “Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!

The splendor ²⁷  of the Lord shines on you!

[2:9]  ¹ tn Heb “men bow down, men are low.” Since the verbs שָׁחָח (shakhakh) and שָׁפַל (shafal) are used later in this discourse to describe how God will humiliate proud men (see vv. 11, 17), some understand v. 9a as a prediction of judgment, “men will be brought down, men will be humiliated.” However, these prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive appear to carry on the description that precedes and are better taken with the accusation. They draw attention to the fact that human beings actually bow down and worship before the lifeless products of their own hands.

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “don’t lift them up.” The idiom “lift up” (נָשָׂא with לְ, nasa’ with preposition lamed) can mean “spare, forgive” (see Gen 18:24, 26). Here the idiom plays on the preceding verbs. The idolaters are bowed low as they worship their false gods; the prophet asks God not to “lift them up.”

[2:13]  ³ sn The cedars of Lebanon and oaks of Bashan were well-known for their size and prominence. They make apt symbols here for powerful men who think of themselves as prominent and secure.

[3:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “for the work of his hands will be done to him.”

[7:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “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.

[8:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “over them” (so NASB); NCV “over this rock.”

[19:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will be a blessing” (so NCV).

[19:24]  ¹² tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB).

[22:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “he,” i.e., the enemy invader. NASB, by its capitalization of the pronoun, takes this to refer to the Lord.

[22:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “covering.”

[22:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of v. 12.

[22:8]  ¹⁶ sn Perhaps this refers to a royal armory, or to Solomon’s “House of the Forest of Lebanon,” where weapons may have been kept (see 1 Kgs 10:16-17).

[22:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “will throw you with a throwing.”

[22:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “O man” (so NASB); NAB “mortal man”; NRSV “my fellow.”

[22:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and the one who wraps you [will] wrap.”

[26:16]  ¹⁷ tn The meaning of this verse is unclear. It appears to read literally, “O Lord, in distress they visit you, they pour out [?] an incantation, your discipline to them.” פָּקַד (paqad) may here carry the sense of “seek with interest” (cf. Ezek 23:21 and BDB 823 s.v.) or “seek in vain” (cf. Isa 34:16), but it is peculiar for the Lord to be the object of this verb. צָקוּן (tsaqun) may be a Qal perfect third plural form from צוּק (tsuq, “pour out, melt”), though the verb is not used of pouring out words in its two other occurrences. Because of the appearance of צַר (tsar, “distress”) in the preceding line, it is tempting to emend the form to a noun and derive it from צוּק (“be in distress”) The term לַחַשׁ (lakhash) elsewhere refers to an incantation (Isa 3:3; Jer 8:17; Eccl 10:11) or amulet (Isa 3:20). Perhaps here it refers to ritualistic prayers or to magical incantations used to ward off evil.

[28:24]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See BDB 400 s.v. יוֹם.

[29:3]  ²¹ tc The Hebrew text has כַדּוּר (khadur, “like a circle”), i.e., “like an encircling wall.” Some emend this phrase to כְּדָוִד (kÿdavid, “like David”), which is supported by the LXX (see v. 1). However, the rendering in the LXX could have arisen from a confusion of the dalet (ד) and resh (ר).

[29:3]  ²² tn The meaning of מֻצָּב (mutsav) is not certain. Because of the parallelism (note “siege works”), some translate “towers.” The noun is derived from נָצַב (natsav, “take one’s stand”) and may refer to the troops stationed outside the city to prevent entrance or departure.

[38:21]  ²³ tc If original to Isaiah 38, vv. 21-22 have obviously been misplaced in the course of the text’s transmission, and would most naturally be placed here, between Isa 38:6 and 38:7. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8, where these verses are placed at this point in the narrative, not at the end. Another possibility is that these verses were not in the original account, and a scribe, familiar with the 2 Kgs version of the story, appended vv. 21-22 to the end of the account in Isaiah 38.

[47:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Your shame will be seen.” In this context “shame” is a euphemism referring to the genitals.

[47:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “I will not meet a man.” The verb פָּגַע (pagah) apparently carries the nuance “meet with kindness” here (cf. 64:5, and see BDB 803 s.v. Qal.2).

[54:15]  ²⁷ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb here for emphasis.

[54:15]  ²⁸ tn Heb “will fall over you.” The expression נָפַל עַל (nafal ’al) can mean “attack,” but here it means “fall over to,” i.e., “surrender to.”

[55:6]  ²⁹ tn Heb “while he allows himself to be found.” The Niphal form has a tolerative force here.

[57:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “he enters peace, they rest on their beds, the one who walks straight ahead of himself.” The tomb is here viewed in a fairly positive way as a place where the dead are at peace and sleep undisturbed.

[60:1]  ³³ tn Or “glory” (so most English versions).