Isaiah 3:9

3:9 The look on their faces ¹  testifies to their guilt; ² 

like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. ³ 

Too bad for them! ⁴ 

For they bring disaster on themselves.

Isaiah 41:22-23

41:22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!

Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, ⁵ 

so we may examine them ⁶  and see how they were fulfilled. ⁷ 

Or decree for us some future events!

41:23 Predict how future events will turn out, ⁸ 

so we might know you are gods.

Yes, do something good or bad,

so we might be frightened and in awe. ⁹ 

Isaiah 48:20

48:20 Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Babylonians!

Announce it with a shout of joy!

Make this known!

Proclaim it throughout the earth! ¹⁰ 

Say, ‘The Lord protects ¹¹  his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 45:21

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! ¹² 

Let them consult with one another!

Who predicted this in the past?

Who announced it beforehand?

Was it not I, the Lord?

I have no peer, there is no God but me,

a God who vindicates and delivers; ¹³ 

there is none but me.

[3:9]  ¹ sn This refers to their proud, arrogant demeanor.

[3:9]  ² tn Heb “answers against them”; NRSV “bears witness against them.”

[3:9]  ³ tn Heb “their sin, like Sodom, they declare, they do not conceal [it].”

[3:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “woe to their soul.”

[41:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “As for the former things, tell us what they are!”

[41:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “so we might set [them to] our heart.”

[41:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “and might know their outcome.”

[41:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “Declare the coming things, with respect to the end.”

[41:23]  ¹⁰ tc The translation assumes the Qere (וְנִרְאֶה [vÿnir’eh], from יָרֵא [yare’], “be afraid”).

[48:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[48:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.

[45:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

[45:21]  ¹⁸ tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”