Isaiah 22:25

22:25 “At that time,” ¹  says the Lord who commands armies, “the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.” ²  Indeed, ³  the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 23:18

23:18 Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes. ⁴ 

Isaiah 34:6

34:6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,

it is covered ⁵  with fat;

it drips ⁶  with the blood of young rams and goats

and is covered ⁷  with the fat of rams’ kidneys.

For the Lord is holding a sacrifice ⁸  in Bozrah, ⁹ 

a bloody ¹⁰  slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ¹¹ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ¹² 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Isaiah 49:7

49:7 This is what the Lord,

the protector ¹³  of Israel, their Holy One, ¹⁴  says

to the one who is despised ¹⁵  and rejected ¹⁶  by nations, ¹⁷ 

a servant of rulers:

“Kings will see and rise in respect, ¹⁸ 

princes will bow down,

because of the faithful Lord,

the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 51:3

51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;

he will console all her ruins.

He will make her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the Garden of the Lord.

Happiness and joy will be restored to ¹⁹  her,

thanksgiving and the sound of music.

Isaiah 52:5

52:5 And now, what do we have here?” ²⁰  says the Lord.

“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,

those who rule over them taunt,” ²¹  says the Lord,

“and my name is constantly slandered ²²  all day long.

Isaiah 54:17

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

you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. ²³ 

This is what the Lord will do for his servants –

I will vindicate them,” ²⁴ 

says the Lord.

Isaiah 56:3

56:3 No foreigner who becomes a follower of ²⁵  the Lord should say,

‘The Lord will certainly ²⁶  exclude me from his people.’

The eunuch should not say,

‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”

Isaiah 56:6

56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of ²⁷  the Lord and serve him,

who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants –

all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,

and who are faithful to ²⁸  my covenant –

Isaiah 59:21

59:21 “As for me, this is my promise to ²⁹  them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” ³⁰  says the Lord.

[22:25]  ¹ tn Or “In that day” (KJV).

[22:25]  ² sn Eliakim’s authority, though seemingly secure, will eventually be removed, and with it his family’s prominence.

[22:25]  ³ tn Or “for” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[23:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “for eating to fullness and for beautiful covering[s].”

[34:6]  ⁷ tn The verb is a rare Hotpaal passive form. See GKC 150 §54.h.

[34:6]  ⁸ tn The words “it drips” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ⁹ tn The words “and is covered” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for there is a sacrifice to the Lord.”

[34:6]  ¹¹ sn The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene.

[34:6]  ¹² tn Heb “great” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[45:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ¹¹ tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.

[49:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:7]  ¹⁴ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[49:7]  ¹⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads literally “to [one who] despises life.” It is preferable to read with the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a לבזוי, which should be vocalized as a passive participle, לִבְזוּי (livzuy, “to the one despised with respect to life” [נֶפֶשׁ is a genitive of specification]). The consonantal sequence וי was probably misread as ה in the MT tradition. The contextual argument favors the 1QIsa^a reading. As J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 2:294) points out, the three terse phrases “convey a picture of lowliness, worthlessness, and helplessness.”

[49:7]  ¹⁶ tn MT’s Piel participle (“to the one who rejects”) does not fit contextually. The form should be revocalized as a Pual, “to the one rejected.”

[49:7]  ¹⁷ tn Parallelism (see “rulers,” “kings,” “princes”) suggests that the singular גּוֹי (goy) be emended to a plural or understood in a collective sense (see 55:5).

[49:7]  ¹⁸ tn For this sense of קוּם (qum), see Gen 19:1; 23:7; 33:10; Lev 19:32; 1 Sam 20:41; 25:41; 1 Kgs 2:19; Job 29:8.

[51:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “found in” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[52:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and now what [following the marginal reading (Qere)] to me here?”

[52:5]  ²⁰ tn The verb appears to be a Hiphil form from the root יָלַל (yalal, “howl”), perhaps here in the sense of “mock.” Some emend the form to יְהוֹלָּלוֹ (yÿhollalo) and understand a Polel form of the root הָלַל meaning here “mock, taunt.”

[52:5]  ²¹ tn The verb is apparently a Hitpolal form (with assimilated tav, ת) from the root נָאַץ (na’ats), but GKC 151-52 §55.b explains it as a mixed form, combining Pual and Hitpolel readings.

[54:17]  ²² tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

[54:17]  ²³ tn Heb “this is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication from me.”

[56:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “who attaches himself to.”

[56:3]  ²⁶ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[56:6]  ²⁸ tn Heb “who attach themselves to.”

[56:6]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”

[59:21]  ³¹ tn Or “my covenant with” (so many English versions); NCV “my agreement with.”

[59:21]  ³² tn Heb “from now and on into the future.”