Isaiah 33:15

33:15 The one who lives ¹  uprightly ² 

and speaks honestly;

the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures

and rejects a bribe; ³ 

the one who does not plot violent crimes ⁴ 

and does not seek to harm others ⁵  –

Isaiah 36:11

36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ⁶  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ⁷  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Isaiah 36:16

36:16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ⁸  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Isaiah 37:6

37:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. ⁹ 

Isaiah 38:5

38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor ¹⁰  David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

Isaiah 45:21

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! ¹¹ 

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; ¹² 

there is none but me.

Isaiah 48:1

The Lord Appeals to the Exiles

48:1 Listen to this, O family of Jacob, ¹³ 

you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’

and are descended from Judah, ¹⁴ 

who take oaths in the name of the Lord,

and invoke ¹⁵  the God of Israel –

but not in an honest and just manner. ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 48:8

48:8 You did not hear,

you do not know,

you were not told beforehand. ¹⁷ 

For I know that you are very deceitful; ¹⁸ 

you were labeled ¹⁹  a rebel from birth.

Isaiah 50:4

The Servant Perseveres

50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, ²⁰ 

so that I know how to help the weary. ²¹ 

He wakes me up every morning;

he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do. ²² 

Isaiah 65:12

65:12 I predestine you to die by the sword, ²³ 

all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, ²⁴ 

because I called to you, and you did not respond,

I spoke and you did not listen.

You did evil before me; ²⁵ 

you chose to do what displeases me.”

Isaiah 66:4

66:4 So I will choose severe punishment ²⁶  for them;

I will bring on them what they dread,

because I called, and no one responded,

I spoke and they did not listen.

They did evil before me; ²⁷ 

they chose to do what displeases me.”

Isaiah 66:8

66:8 Who has ever heard of such a thing?

Who has ever seen this?

Can a country ²⁸  be brought forth in one day?

Can a nation be born in a single moment?

Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!

Isaiah 66:19

66:19 I will perform a mighty act among them ²⁹  and then send some of those who remain to the nations – to Tarshish, Pul, ³⁰  Lud ³¹  (known for its archers ³² ), Tubal, Javan, ³³  and to the distant coastlands ³⁴  that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.

[33:15]  ¹ tn Heb “walks” (so NASB, NIV).

[33:15]  ² tn Or, possibly, “justly”; NAB “who practices virtue.”

[33:15]  ³ tn Heb “[who] shakes off his hands from grabbing hold of a bribe.”

[33:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “[who] shuts his ear from listening to bloodshed.”

[33:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “[who] closes his eyes from seeing evil.”

[36:11]  ⁶ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

[36:11]  ⁷ tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”

[36:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[37:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”

[38:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).

[45:21]  ²⁶ tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

[45:21]  ²⁷ tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”

[48:1]  ³¹ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV, CEV “people of Israel.”

[48:1]  ³² tc The Hebrew text reads literally “and from the waters of Judah came out.” מִמֵּי (mimme) could be a corruption of מִמְּעֵי (mimmÿ’e, “from the inner parts of”; cf. NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV) as suggested in the above translation. Some translations (ESV, NKJV) retain the MT reading because the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, which corrects a similar form to “from inner parts of” in 39:7, does not do it here.

[48:1]  ³³ tn Heb “cause to remember”; KJV, ASV “make mention of.”

[48:1]  ³⁴ tn Heb “not in truth and not in righteousness.”

[48:8]  ³⁶ tn Heb “beforehand your ear did not open.”

[48:8]  ³⁷ tn Heb “deceiving, you deceive.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[48:8]  ³⁸ tn Or “called” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[50:4]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “has given to me a tongue of disciples.”

[50:4]  ⁴² tc Heb “to know [?] the weary with a word.” Comparing it with Arabic and Aramaic cognates yields the meaning of “help, sustain.” Nevertheless, the meaning of עוּת (’ut) is uncertain. The word occurs only here in the OT (see BDB 736 s.v.). Various scholars have suggested an emendation to עָנוֹת (’anot) from עָנָה (’anah, “answer”): “so that I know how to respond kindly to the weary.” Since the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and the Vulgate support the MT reading, that reading is retained.

[50:4]  ⁴³ tn Heb “he arouses for me an ear, to hear like disciples.”

[65:12]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “I assign you to the sword.” Some emend the Qal verb form מָנִיתִי (maniti, “I assign”) to the Piel מִנִּיתִי (minniti, “ I ordain”). The verb sounds like the name of the god Meni (מְנִי, mÿni, “Destiny, Fate”). The sound play draws attention to the irony of the statement. The sinners among God’s people worship the god Meni, apparently in an effort to ensure a bright destiny for themselves. But the Lord is the one who really determines their destiny and he has decreed their demise.

[65:12]  ⁴⁷ tn Or “at the slaughter”; NIV “for the slaughter”; NLT “before the executioner.”

[65:12]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”

[66:4]  ⁵¹ tn The precise meaning of the noun is uncertain. It occurs only here and in 3:4 (but see the note there). It appears to be derived from the verbal root עָלַל (’alal), which can carry the nuance “deal severely.”

[66:4]  ⁵² tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”

[66:8]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “land,” but here אֶרֶץ (’erets) stands metonymically for an organized nation (see the following line).

[66:19]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “and I will set a sign among them.” The precise meaning of this statement is unclear. Elsewhere “to set a sign” means “perform a mighty act” (Ps 78:43; Jer 32:20), “make [someone] an object lesson” (Ezek 14:8), and “erect a [literal] standard” (Ps 74:4).

[66:19]  ⁶² tn Some prefer to read “Put” (i.e., Libya).

[66:19]  ⁶³ sn That is, Lydia (in Asia Minor).

[66:19]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “drawers of the bow” (KJV and ASV both similar).

[66:19]  ⁶⁵ sn Javan is generally identified today as Greece (so NIV, NCV, NLT).

[66:19]  ⁶⁶ tn Or “islands” (NIV).