Isaiah 49:16

49:16 Look, I have inscribed your name ¹  on my palms;

your walls are constantly before me.

Isaiah 25:12

25:12 The fortified city (along with the very tops of your ²  walls) ³  he will knock down,

he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground. ⁴ 

Isaiah 60:18

60:18 Sounds of violence ⁵  will no longer be heard in your land,

or the sounds of ⁶  destruction and devastation within your borders.

You will name your walls, ‘Deliverance,’

and your gates, ‘Praise.’

Isaiah 62:6

62:6 I ⁷  post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;

they should keep praying all day and all night. ⁸ 

You who pray to ⁹  the Lord, don’t be silent!

[49:16]  ¹ tn Heb “you.” Here the pronoun is put by metonymy for the person’s name.

[25:12]  ² sn Moab is addressed.

[25:12]  ³ tn Heb “a fortification, the high point of your walls.”

[25:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “he will bring [it] down, he will make [it] touch the ground, even to the dust.”

[60:18]  ³ tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[60:18]  ⁴ tn The words “sounds of” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[62:6]  ⁴ sn The speaker here is probably the prophet.

[62:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “all day and all night continually they do not keep silent.” The following lines suggest that they pray for the Lord’s intervention and restoration of the city.

[62:6]  ⁶ tn Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”