Isaiah 30:11

30:11 Turn aside from the way,

stray off the path. ¹ 

Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.” ² 

Isaiah 46:3

46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, ³ 

all you who are left from the family of Israel, ⁴ 

you who have been carried from birth, ⁵ 

you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. ⁶ 

Isaiah 22:4

22:4 So I say:

“Don’t look at me! ⁷ 

I am weeping bitterly.

Don’t try ⁸  to console me

concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” ⁹ 

Isaiah 30:1

Egypt Will Prove Unreliable

30:1 “The rebellious ¹⁰  children are as good as dead,” ¹¹  says the Lord,

“those who make plans without consulting me, ¹² 

who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, ¹³ 

and thereby compound their sin. ¹⁴ 

Isaiah 38:12

38:12 My dwelling place ¹⁵  is removed and taken away ¹⁶  from me

like a shepherd’s tent.

I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; ¹⁷ 

from the loom he cuts me off. ¹⁸ 

You turn day into night and end my life. ¹⁹ 

[30:11]  ¹ sn The imagery refers to the way or path of truth, as revealed by God to the prophet.

[30:11]  ² sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[46:3]  ³ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”

[46:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”

[46:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”

[46:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”

[22:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).

[22:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).

[22:4]  ⁷ 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.

[30:1]  ⁷ tn Or “stubborn” (NCV); cf. NIV “obstinate.”

[30:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “Woe [to] rebellious children.”

[30:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “making a plan, but not from me.”

[30:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and pouring out a libation, but not [from] my spirit.” This translation assumes that the verb נָסַךְ (nasakh) means “pour out,” and that the cognate noun מַסֵּכָה (massekhah) means “libation.” In this case “pouring out a libation” alludes to a ceremony that formally ratifies an alliance. Another option is to understand the verb נָסַךְ as a homonym meaning “weave,” and the cognate noun מַסֵּכָה as a homonym meaning “covering.” In this case forming an alliance is likened to weaving a garment.

[30:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “consequently adding sin to sin.”

[38:12]  ⁹ tn According to HALOT 217 s.v. דּוֹר this noun is a hapax legomenon meaning “dwelling place,” derived from a verbal root meaning “live” (see Ps 84:10). For an interpretation that understands the form as the well-attested noun meaning “generation,” see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:679, n. 4.

[38:12]  ¹⁰ tn The verb form appears to be a Niphal from גָּלָה (galah), which normally means “uncovered, revealed” in the Niphal. Because of the following reference to a shepherd’s tent, some prefer to emend the form to וְנָגַל, a Niphal from גָלָל (galal, “roll”) and translate “is rolled [or “folded”] up.”

[38:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I rolled up, like a weaver, my life” (so ASV).

[38:12]  ¹² sn For a discussion of the imagery employed here, see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:684.

[38:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “from day to night you bring me to an end.”