Isaiah 28:23

28:23 Pay attention and listen to my message! ¹ 

Be attentive and listen to what I have to say! ² 

Isaiah 32:9

The Lord Will Give True Security

32:9 You complacent ³  women,

get up and listen to me!

You carefree ⁴  daughters,

pay attention to what I say!

Isaiah 38:10

38:10 “I thought, ⁵ 

‘In the middle of my life ⁶  I must walk through the gates of Sheol,

I am deprived ⁷  of the rest of my years.’

Isaiah 22:4

22:4 So I say:

“Don’t look at me! ⁸ 

I am weeping bitterly.

Don’t try ⁹  to console me

concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 36:5

36:5 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. ¹¹  In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?

Isaiah 38:11

38:11 “I thought,

‘I will no longer see the Lord ¹²  in the land of the living,

I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. ¹³ 

Isaiah 45:19

45:19 I have not spoken in secret,

in some hidden place. ¹⁴ 

I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,

‘Seek me in vain!’ ¹⁵ 

I am the Lord,

the one who speaks honestly,

who makes reliable announcements. ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 49:4

49:4 But I thought, ¹⁷  “I have worked in vain;

I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” ¹⁸ 

But the Lord will vindicate me;

my God will reward me. ¹⁹ 

Isaiah 65:1

The Lord Will Distinguish Between Sinners and the Godly

65:1 “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; ²⁰ 

I appeared to those who did not look for me. ²¹ 

I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’

to a nation that did not invoke ²²  my name.

[28:23]  ¹ tn Heb “to my voice.”

[28:23]  ² tn Heb “to my word”; cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “hear my speech.”

[32:9]  ³ tn Or “self-assured”; NASB, NRSV “who are at ease.”

[32:9]  ⁴ tn Or “self-confident”; NAB “overconfident.”

[38:10]  ⁵ tn Or “I said” (KJV, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[38:10]  ⁶ tn The precise meaning of the phrase בִּדְמִי יָמַי (bidmi yamay, “in the [?] of my days”) is uncertain. According to HALOT 226 s.v. דְּמִי this word is a hapax legomenon meaning “half.” Others derive the form from דַּמִי (dami, “quiet, rest, peacefulness”).

[38:10]  ⁷ tn The precise meaning of the verb is uncertain. The Pual of of פָּקַד (paqad) occurs only here and in Exod 38:21, where it appears to mean “passed in review” or “mustered.” Perhaps the idea is, “I have been called away for the remainder of my years.” To bring out the sense more clearly, one can translate, “I am deprived of the rest of my years.”

[22:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).

[22:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).

[22:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “the daughter of my people.” “Daughter” is here used metaphorically to express the speaker’s emotional attachment to his people, as well as their vulnerability and weakness.

[36:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.

[38:11]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [yÿhvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.

[38:11]  ¹² tc The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew mss) was likely חֶלֶד (kheled, “world”).

[45:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “in a place of a land of darkness” (ASV similar); NASB “in some dark land.”

[45:19]  ¹⁴ tn “In vain” translates תֹהוּ (tohu), used here as an adverbial accusative: “for nothing.”

[45:19]  ¹⁵ tn The translation above assumes that צֶדֶק (tsedeq) and מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim) are adverbial accusatives (see 33:15). If they are taken as direct objects, indicating the content of what is spoken, one might translate, “who proclaims deliverance, who announces justice.”

[49:4]  ¹⁵ tn Or “said” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “I replied.”

[49:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for nothing and emptiness.” Synonyms are combined to emphasize the common idea.

[49:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “But my justice is with the Lord, and my reward [or “wage”] with my God.”

[65:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I allowed myself to be sought by those who did not ask.”

[65:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “I allowed myself to be found by those who did not seek.”

[65:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “call out in”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “call on.”