Isaiah 34:4

34:4 All the stars in the sky will fade away, ¹ 

the sky will roll up like a scroll;

all its stars will wither,

like a leaf withers and falls from a vine

or a fig withers and falls from a tree. ² 

Isaiah 13:5

13:5 They come from a distant land,

from the horizon. ³ 

It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, ⁴ 

coming to destroy the whole earth. ⁵ 

Isaiah 13:10

13:10 Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations

no longer give out their light; ⁶ 

the sun is darkened as soon as it rises,

and the moon does not shine. ⁷ 

Isaiah 14:13

14:13 You said to yourself, ⁸ 

“I will climb up to the sky.

Above the stars of El ⁹ 

I will set up my throne.

I will rule on the mountain of assembly

on the remote slopes of Zaphon. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 42:5

42:5 This is what the true God, ¹¹  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, ¹² 

the one who gives breath to the people on it,

and life to those who live on it: ¹³ 

Isaiah 66:1

66:1 This is what the Lord says:

“The heavens are my throne

and the earth is my footstool.

Where then is the house you will build for me?

Where is the place where I will rest?

Isaiah 66:22

66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.

Isaiah 37:16

37:16 “O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! ¹⁴  You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky ¹⁵  and the earth.

Isaiah 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ¹⁶ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ¹⁷ 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Isaiah 55:10

55:10 ¹⁸ The rain and snow fall from the sky

and do not return,

but instead water the earth

and make it produce and yield crops,

and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

[34:4]  ¹ tc Heb “and all the host of heaven will rot.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a inserts “and the valleys will be split open,” but this reading may be influenced by Mic 1:4. On the other hand, the statement, if original, could have been omitted by homoioarcton, a scribe’s eye jumping from the conjunction prefixed to “the valleys” to the conjunction prefixed to the verb “rot.”

[34:4]  ² tn Heb “like the withering of a leaf from a vine, and like the withering from a fig tree.”

[13:5]  ³ tn Heb “from the end of the sky.”

[13:5]  ⁴ tn Or “anger”; cf. KJV, ASV “the weapons of his indignation.”

[13:5]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps, “land” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NLT). Even though the heading and subsequent context (see v. 17) indicate Babylon’s judgment is in view, the chapter has a cosmic flavor that suggests that the coming judgment is universal in scope. Perhaps Babylon’s downfall occurs in conjunction with a wider judgment, or the cosmic style is poetic hyperbole used to emphasize the magnitude and importance of the coming event.

[13:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “do not flash forth their light.”

[13:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “does not shed forth its light.”

[14:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “you, you said in your heart.”

[14:13]  ⁸ sn In Canaanite mythology the stars of El were astral deities under the authority of the high god El.

[14:13]  ⁹ sn Zaphon, the Canaanite version of Olympus, was the “mountain of assembly” where the gods met.

[42:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “the God.” The definite article here indicates distinctiveness or uniqueness.

[42:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and its offspring” (so NASB); NIV “all that comes out of it.”

[42:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and spirit [i.e., “breath”] to the ones walking in it” (NAB, NASB, and NRSV all similar).

[37:16]  ¹¹ sn Cherubim (singular “cherub”) refers to the images of winged angelic creatures that were above the ark of the covenant.

[37:16]  ¹² tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[45:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ¹⁴ tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.

[55:10]  ¹⁵ tn This verse begins in the Hebrew text with כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר (ki ka’asher, “for, just as”), which is completed by כֵּן (ken, “so, in the same way”) at the beginning of v. 11. For stylistic reasons, this lengthy sentence is divided up into separate sentences in the translation.