Isaiah 37:30

37:30 ¹ “This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: ²  This year you will eat what grows wild, ³  and next year ⁴  what grows on its own. But the year after that ⁵  you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. ⁶ 

Isaiah 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ⁷ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ⁸ 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Isaiah 49:21

49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ⁹ 

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced. ¹⁰ 

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

Isaiah 51:23

51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ¹¹ 

who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’

You made your back like the ground,

and like the street for those who walked over you.”

Isaiah 57:15

57:15 For this is what the high and exalted one says,

the one who rules ¹²  forever, whose name is holy:

“I dwell in an exalted and holy place,

but also with the discouraged and humiliated, ¹³ 

in order to cheer up the humiliated

and to encourage the discouraged. ¹⁴ 

[37:30]  ¹ tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 22-29) ends and the Lord again addresses Hezekiah and the people directly (see v. 21).

[37:30]  ² tn Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) is a future reminder of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14-25.

[37:30]  ³ sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.

[37:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “and in the second year” (so ASV).

[37:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the third year” (so KJV, NAB).

[37:30]  ⁶ tn The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 30b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity.

[45:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ⁸ 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.

[49:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”

[49:21]  ¹⁴ tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”

[51:23]  ¹⁹ tn That is, to make them drink it.

[57:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the one who dwells forever.” שֹׁכֵן עַד (shokhen ’ad) is sometimes translated “the one who lives forever,” and understood as a reference to God’s eternal existence. However, the immediately preceding and following descriptions (“high and exalted” and “holy”) emphasize his sovereign rule. In the next line, he declares, “I dwell in an exalted and holy [place],” which refers to the place from which he rules. Therefore it is more likely that שֹׁכֵן עַד (shokhen ’ad) means “I dwell [in my lofty palace] forever” and refers to God’s eternal kingship.

[57:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and also with the crushed and lowly of spirit.” This may refer to the repentant who have humbled themselves (see 66:2) or more generally to the exiles who have experienced discouragement and humiliation.

[57:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to restore the lowly of spirit and to restore the heart of the crushed.”