Isaiah 34:1

The Lord Will Judge Edom

34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen!

Pay attention, you people!

The earth and everything it contains must listen,

the world and everything that lives in it. ¹ 

Isaiah 48:19

48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, ² 

and your children ³  like its granules.

Their name would not have been cut off

and eliminated from my presence. ⁴ 

Isaiah 22:24

22:24 His father’s family will gain increasing prominence because of him, ⁵  including the offspring and the offshoots. ⁶  All the small containers, including the bowls and all the jars will hang from this peg.’ ⁷ 

Isaiah 42:5

42:5 This is what the true God, ⁸  the Lord, says –

the one who created the sky and stretched it out,

the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, ⁹ 

the one who gives breath to the people on it,

and life to those who live on it: ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 44:3

44:3 For I will pour water on the parched ground ¹¹ 

and cause streams to flow ¹²  on the dry land.

I will pour my spirit on your offspring

and my blessing on your children.

Isaiah 61:9

61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,

their offspring among the peoples.

All who see them will recognize that

the Lord has blessed them.” ¹³ 

Isaiah 65:23

65:23 They will not work in vain,

or give birth to children that will experience disaster. ¹⁴ 

For the Lord will bless their children

and their descendants. ¹⁵ 

[34:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the world and its offspring”; NASB “the world and all that springs from it.”

[48:19]  ² tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”

[48:19]  ³ tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”

[48:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”

[22:24]  ³ tn Heb “and all the glory of the house of his father they will hang on him.” The Lord returns to the peg metaphor of v. 23a. Eliakim’s secure position of honor will bring benefits and jobs to many others in the family.

[22:24]  ⁴ tn The precise meaning and derivation of this word are uncertain. Cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “the issue”; CEV “relatives.”

[22:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the small vessels, from the vessels that are bowls to all the vessels that are jars.” The picture is that of a single peg holding the weight of all kinds of containers hung from it.

[42:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the God.” The definite article here indicates distinctiveness or uniqueness.

[42:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “and its offspring” (so NASB); NIV “all that comes out of it.”

[42:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and spirit [i.e., “breath”] to the ones walking in it” (NAB, NASB, and NRSV all similar).

[44:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the thirsty.” Parallelism suggests that dry ground is in view (see “dry land” in the next line.)

[44:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “and streams”; KJV “floods.” The verb “cause…to flow” is supplied in the second line for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[61:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “all who see them will recognize them, that they [are] descendants [whom] the Lord has blessed.”

[65:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they will not give birth to horror.”

[65:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “for offspring blessed by the Lord they [will be], and their descendants along with them.”