Isaiah 24:8

24:8 The happy sound ¹  of the tambourines stops,

the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt,

the happy sound of the harp ceases.

Isaiah 14:4

14:4 you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: ² 

“Look how the oppressor has met his end!

Hostility ³  has ceased!

Isaiah 30:7

30:7 Egypt is totally incapable of helping. ⁴ 

For this reason I call her

‘Proud one ⁵  who is silenced.’” ⁶ 

Isaiah 33:8

33:8 Highways are empty, ⁷ 

there are no travelers. ⁸ 

Treaties are broken, ⁹ 

witnesses are despised, ¹⁰ 

human life is treated with disrespect. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 56:2

56:2 The people who do this will be blessed, ¹² 

the people who commit themselves to obedience, ¹³ 

who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,

who refrain from doing anything that is wrong. ¹⁴ 

Isaiah 66:23

66:23 From one month ¹⁵  to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people ¹⁶  will come to worship me,” ¹⁷  says the Lord.

Isaiah 56:6

56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of ¹⁸  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 ¹⁹  my covenant –

[24:8]  ¹ tn Heb “the joy” (again later in this verse).

[14:4]  ² tn Heb “you will lift up this taunt over the king of Babylon, saying.”

[14:4]  ³ tc The word in the Hebrew text (מַדְהֵבָה, madhevah) is unattested elsewhere and of uncertain meaning. Many (following the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a) assume a dalet-resh (ד-ר) confusion and emend the form to מַרְהֵבָה (marhevah, “onslaught”). See HALOT 548 s.v. II *מִדָּה and HALOT 633 s.v. *מַרְהֵבָה.

[30:7]  ³ tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”

[30:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”).

[30:7]  ⁵ tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב.

[33:8]  ⁴ tn Or “desolate” (NAB, NASB); NIV, NRSV, NLT “deserted.”

[33:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

[33:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

[33:8]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “he despises cities.” The term עָרִים (’arim, “cities”) is probably a corruption of an original עֵדִים (’edim, “[legal] witnesses”), a reading that is preserved in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a. Confusion of dalet (ד) and resh (ר) is a well-attested scribal error.

[33:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “he does not regard human beings.”

[56:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”

[56:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”

[56:2]  ⁷ tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

[66:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “new moon.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[66:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “all flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NAB, NASB, NIV “all mankind”; NLT “All humanity.”

[66:23]  ⁸ tn Or “bow down before” (NASB).

[56:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “who attach themselves to.”

[56:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”