Isaiah 45:5

45:5 I am the Lord, I have no peer, ¹ 

there is no God but me.

I arm you for battle, ²  even though you do not recognize ³  me.

Isaiah 46:9

46:9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! ⁴ 

Truly I am God, I have no peer; ⁵ 

I am God, and there is none like me,

Isaiah 53:4

53:4 But he lifted up our illnesses,

he carried our pain; ⁶ 

even though we thought he was being punished,

attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done. ⁷ 

[45:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and there is none besides.” On the use of עוֹד (’od) here, see BDB 729 s.v. 1.c.

[45:5]  ² tn Heb “gird you” (so NASB) or “strengthen you” (so NIV).

[45:5]  ³ tn Or “know” (NAB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT); NIV “have not acknowledged.”

[46:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “remember the former things, from antiquity”; KJV, ASV “the former things of old.”

[46:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and there is no other” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[53:4]  ⁷ sn Illness and pain stand by metonymy (or perhaps as metaphors) for sin and its effects, as vv. 11-12 make clear.

[53:4]  ⁸ tn The words “for something he had done” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The group now realizes he suffered because of his identification with them, not simply because he was a special target of divine anger.