Isaiah 40:8

40:8 The grass dries up,

the flowers wither,

but the decree of our God is forever reliable.” ¹ 

Isaiah 60:21

60:21 All of your people will be godly; ² 

they will possess the land permanently.

I will plant them like a shoot;

they will be the product of my labor,

through whom I reveal my splendor. ³ 

Isaiah 14:20

14:20 You will not be buried with them, ⁴ 

because you destroyed your land

and killed your people.

The offspring of the wicked

will never be mentioned again.

Isaiah 25:2

25:2 Indeed, ⁵  you have made the city ⁶  into a heap of rubble,

the fortified town into a heap of ruins;

the fortress of foreigners ⁷  is no longer a city,

it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 34:10

34:10 Night and day it will burn; ⁸ 

its smoke will ascend continually.

Generation after generation it will be a wasteland

and no one will ever pass through it again.

Isaiah 47:7

47:7 You said,

‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ ⁹ 

You did not think about these things; ¹⁰ 

you did not consider how it would turn out. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 51:8

51:8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes;

a clothes moth will devour them like wool.

But the vindication I provide ¹²  will be permanent;

the deliverance I give will last.”

Isaiah 57:16

57:16 For I will not be hostile ¹³  forever

or perpetually angry,

for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, ¹⁴ 

the life-giving breath I created.

Isaiah 51:6

51:6 Look up at the sky!

Look at the earth below!

For the sky will dissipate ¹⁵  like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like clothes;

its residents will die like gnats.

But the deliverance I give ¹⁶  is permanent;

the vindication I provide ¹⁷  will not disappear. ¹⁸ 

[40:8]  ¹ tn Heb “but the word of our God stands forever.” In this context the divine “word” specifically refers to his decreed promise assuring Jerusalem that her suffering is over and his glorious return imminent (vv. 1-5).

[60:21]  ² tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”

[60:21]  ³ tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”

[14:20]  ³ tn Heb “you will not be united with them in burial” (so NASB).

[25:2]  ⁴ tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[25:2]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “you have made from the city.” The prefixed mem (מ) on עִיר (’ir, “city”) was probably originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:456, n. 3.

[25:2]  ⁶ tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).

[34:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “it will not be extinguished.”

[47:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “Forever I [will be] permanent queen”; NIV “the eternal queen”; CEV “queen forever.”

[47:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “you did not set these things upon your heart [or “mind”].”

[47:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “you did not remember its outcome”; NAB “you disregarded their outcome.”

[51:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “my vindication”; many English versions “my righteousness”; NRSV, TEV “my deliverance”; CEV “my victory.”

[57:16]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps, “argue,” or “accuse” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[57:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “for a spirit from before me would be faint.”

[51:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.

[51:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”

[51:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”

[51:6]  ¹² tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”