Isaiah 40:17

40:17 All the nations are insignificant before him;

they are regarded as absolutely nothing. ¹ 

Isaiah 41:29

41:29 Look, all of them are nothing, ² 

their accomplishments are nonexistent;

their metal images lack any real substance. ³ 

Isaiah 34:12

34:12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom

and all her officials will disappear. ⁴ 

Isaiah 41:12

41:12 When you will look for your opponents, ⁵  you will not find them;

your enemies ⁶  will be reduced to absolutely nothing.

Isaiah 45:6

45:6 I do this ⁷  so people ⁸  will recognize from east to west

that there is no God but me;

I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Isaiah 45:22

45:22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, ⁹ 

all you who live in the earth’s remote regions!

For I am God, and I have no peer.

Isaiah 46:9

46:9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! ¹⁰ 

Truly I am God, I have no peer; ¹¹ 

I am God, and there is none like me,

Isaiah 54:15

54:15 If anyone dares to ¹²  challenge you, it will not be my doing!

Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated. ¹³ 

Isaiah 5:8

Disaster is Coming

5:8 Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, ¹⁴ 

those who also accumulate landed property ¹⁵ 

until there is no land left, ¹⁶ 

and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. ¹⁷ 

Isaiah 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ¹⁸ 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ¹⁹ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ²⁰ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ²¹ 

Isaiah 47:10

47:10 You were complacent in your evil deeds; ²² 

you thought, ²³  ‘No one sees me.’

Your self-professed ²⁴  wisdom and knowledge lead you astray,

when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’ ²⁵ 

Isaiah 52:4

52:4 For this is what the sovereign Lord says:

“In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt;

Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.

Isaiah 52:10

52:10 The Lord reveals ²⁶  his royal power ²⁷ 

in the sight of all the nations;

the entire ²⁸  earth sees

our God deliver. ²⁹ 

Isaiah 45:14

The Lord is the Nations’ Only Hope

45:14 This is what the Lord says:

“The profit ³⁰  of Egypt and the revenue ³¹  of Ethiopia,

along with the Sabeans, those tall men,

will be brought to you ³²  and become yours.

They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. ³³ 

They will bow down to you

and pray to you: ³⁴ 

‘Truly God is with ³⁵  you; he has no peer; ³⁶ 

there is no other God!’”

[40:17]  ¹ tn Heb “[as derived] from nothing and unformed.”

[41:29]  ² tc The Hebrew text has אָוֶן (’aven, “deception,” i.e., “false”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has אין (“nothing”), which forms a better parallel with אֶפֶס (’efes, “nothing”) in the next line. See also 40:17 and 41:12.

[41:29]  ³ tn Heb “their statues are wind and nothing”; NASB “wind and emptiness”; NIV “wind and confusion.”

[34:12]  ³ tn Heb “will be nothing”; NCV, TEV, NLT “will all be gone.”

[41:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “the men of your struggle”; NASB “those who quarrel with you.”

[41:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “the men of your battle”; NAB “who do battle with you.”

[45:6]  ⁵ tn The words “I do this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[45:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “they” (so KJV, ASV); TEV, CEV “everyone”; NLT “all the world.”

[45:22]  ⁶ tn The Niphal imperative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. The Niphal probably has a tolerative sense, “allow yourselves to be delivered, accept help.”

[46:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “remember the former things, from antiquity”; KJV, ASV “the former things of old.”

[46:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “and there is no other” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[54:15]  ⁸ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb here for emphasis.

[54:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “will fall over you.” The expression נָפַל עַל (nafal ’al) can mean “attack,” but here it means “fall over to,” i.e., “surrender to.”

[5:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “Woe [to] those who make a house touch a house.” The exclamation הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death.

[5:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[who] bring a field near a field.”

[5:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “until the end of the place”; NASB “until there is no more room.”

[5:8]  ¹² tn Heb “and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.”

[47:8]  ¹⁰ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ¹² tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

[47:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

[47:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you trusted in your evil”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “wickedness.”

[47:10]  ¹² tn Or “said”; NAB “said to yourself”’ NASB “said in your heart.”

[47:10]  ¹³ tn The words “self-professed” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[47:10]  ¹⁴ tn See the note at v. 8.

[52:10]  ¹² tn Heb “lays bare”; NLT “will demonstrate.”

[52:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “his holy arm.” This is a metonymy for his power.

[52:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the remote regions,” which here stand for the extremities and everything in between.

[52:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the deliverance of our God.” “God” is a subjective genitive here.

[45:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “labor,” which stands metonymically for the fruits of labor, either “monetary profit,” or “products.”

[45:14]  ¹⁴ tn Or perhaps, “merchandise” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “the gain of Ethiopia”; CEV “the treasures of Ethiopia.”

[45:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they will pass over to you”; NASB, NIV “will come over to you”; CEV “will belong to you.”

[45:14]  ¹⁶ sn Restored Israel is depicted here in typical ancient Near Eastern fashion as an imperial power that receives riches and slaves as tribute.

[45:14]  ¹⁷ sn Israel’s vassals are portrayed as so intimidated and awed that they treat Israel as an intermediary to God or sub-deity.

[45:14]  ¹⁸ tn Or perhaps, “among.” Cf. KJV, ASV “Surely God is in thee.”

[45:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “there is no other” (so NIV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs at the end of v. 18, in v. 21, and at the end of v. 22.