Isaiah 37:31

37:31 Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. ¹ 

Isaiah 25:6

25:6 The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. ² 

At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine –

tender meat and choicest wine. ³ 

Isaiah 41:4

41:4 Who acts and carries out decrees? ⁴ 

Who ⁵  summons the successive generations from the beginning?

I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning,

and at the very end – I am the one. ⁶ 

Isaiah 64:5

64:5 You assist ⁷  those who delight in doing what is right, ⁸ 

who observe your commandments. ⁹ 

Look, you were angry because we violated them continually.

How then can we be saved? ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ¹¹ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ¹² 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

[37:31]  ¹ tn Heb “The remnant of the house of Judah that is left will add roots below and produce fruit above.”

[25:6]  ² sn That is, Mount Zion (see 24:23); cf. TEV; NLT “In Jerusalem.”

[25:6]  ³ tn Heb “And the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] will make for all the nations on this mountain a banquet of meats, a banquet of wine dregs, meats filled with marrow, dregs that are filtered.”

[41:4]  ³ tn Heb “Who acts and accomplishes?”; NASB “Who has performed and accomplished it.”

[41:4]  ⁴ tn The interrogative particle is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[41:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “I, the Lord, [am with] the first, and with the last ones I [am] he.”

[64:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “meet [with kindness].”

[64:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the one who rejoices and does righteousness.”

[64:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “in your ways they remember you.”

[64:5]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “look, you were angry and we sinned against them continually [or perhaps, “in ancient times”] and we were delivered.” The statement makes little sense as it stands. The first vav [ו] consecutive (“and we sinned”) must introduce an explanatory clause here (see Num 1:48 and Isa 39:1 for other examples of this relatively rare use of the vav [ו] consecutive). The final verb (if rendered positively) makes no sense in this context – God’s anger at their sin resulted in judgment, not deliverance. One of the alternatives involves an emendation to וַנִּרְשָׁע (vannirsha’, “and we were evil”; LXX, NRSV, TEV). The Vulgate and the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a support the MT reading. One can either accept an emendation or cast the statement as a question (as above).

[45:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ⁶ 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.