Isaiah 43:22

The Lord Rebukes His People

43:22 “But you did not call for me, O Jacob;

you did not long ¹  for me, O Israel.

Isaiah 50:8

50:8 The one who vindicates me is close by.

Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! ² 

Who is my accuser? ³  Let him challenge me! ⁴ 

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord Empowers Cyrus

44:24 This is what the Lord, your protector, ⁵  says,

the one who formed you in the womb:

“I am the Lord, who made everything,

who alone stretched out the sky,

who fashioned the earth all by myself, ⁶ 

Isaiah 63:3

63:3 “I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself;

no one from the nations joined me.

I stomped on them ⁷  in my anger;

I trampled them down in my rage.

Their juice splashed on my garments,

and stained ⁸  all my clothes.

Isaiah 29:13

29:13 The sovereign master ⁹  says,

“These people say they are loyal to me; ¹⁰ 

they say wonderful things about me, ¹¹ 

but they are not really loyal to me. ¹² 

Their worship consists of

nothing but man-made ritual. ¹³ 

Isaiah 36:16

36:16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ¹⁴  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Isaiah 61:1

The Lord Will Rejuvenate His People

61:1 The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me,

because the Lord has chosen ¹⁵  me. ¹⁶ 

He has commissioned ¹⁷  me to encourage ¹⁸  the poor,

to help ¹⁹  the brokenhearted,

to decree the release of captives,

and the freeing of prisoners,

[43:22]  ¹ tn Or “strive”; KJV, ASV, NRSV “been weary of me.”

[50:8]  ² tn Heb “Let us stand together!”

[50:8]  ³ tn Heb “Who is the master of my judgment?”

[50:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “let him approach me”; NAB, NIV “Let him confront me.”

[44:24]  ³ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[44:24]  ⁴ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has “Who [was] with me?” The marginal reading (Qere) is “from with me,” i.e., “by myself.” See BDB 87 s.v. II אֵת 4.c.

[63:3]  ⁴ sn Nations, headed by Edom, are the object of the Lord’s anger (see v. 6). He compares military slaughter to stomping on grapes in a vat.

[63:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and I stained.” For discussion of the difficult verb form, see HALOT 170 s.v. II גאל. Perhaps the form is mixed, combining the first person forms of the imperfect (note the alef prefix) and perfect (note the תי- ending).

[29:13]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonai).

[29:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “Because these people draw near to me with their mouth.”

[29:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and with their lips they honor me.”

[29:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “but their heart is far from me.” The heart is viewed here as the seat of the will, from which genuine loyalty derives.

[29:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught.”

[36:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[61:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “anointed,” i.e., designated to carry out an assigned task.

[61:1]  ⁸ sn The speaker is not identified, but he is distinct from the Lord and from Zion’s suffering people. He possesses the divine spirit, is God’s spokesman, and is sent to release prisoners from bondage. The evidence suggests he is the Lord’s special servant, described earlier in the servant songs (see 42:1-4, 7; 49:2, 9; 50:4; see also 51:16).

[61:1]  ⁹ tn Or “sent” (NAB); NCV “has appointed me.”

[61:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “proclaim good news to.”

[61:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to bind up [the wounds of].”