Isaiah 49:16

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

your walls are constantly before me.

Isaiah 65:3

65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me ² 

as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards ³ 

and burn incense on brick altars. ⁴ 

Isaiah 21:8

21:8 Then the guard ⁵  cries out:

“On the watchtower, O sovereign master, ⁶ 

I stand all day long;

at my post

I am stationed every night.

Isaiah 58:11

58:11 The Lord will continually lead you;

he will feed you even in parched regions. ⁷ 

He will give you renewed strength, ⁸ 

and you will be like a well-watered garden,

like a spring that continually produces water.

Isaiah 60:11

60:11 Your gates will remain open at all times;

they will not be shut during the day or at night,

so that the wealth of nations may be delivered,

with their kings leading the way. ⁹ 

Isaiah 62:6

62:6 I ¹⁰  post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;

they should keep praying all day and all night. ¹¹ 

You who pray to ¹²  the Lord, don’t be silent!

Isaiah 51:13

51:13 Why do you forget ¹³  the Lord, who made you,

who stretched out the sky ¹⁴ 

and founded the earth?

Why do you constantly tremble all day long ¹⁵ 

at the anger of the oppressor,

when he makes plans to destroy?

Where is the anger of the oppressor? ¹⁶ 

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

[65:3]  ² tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

[65:3]  ³ tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[65:3]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”

[21:8]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has, “the lion,” but this makes little sense here. אַרְיֵה (’aryeh, “lion”) is probably a corruption of an original הָרֹאֶה (haro’eh, “the one who sees”), i.e., the guard mentioned previously in v. 6.

[21:8]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay). Some translations take this to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV), while others take it to refer to the guard’s human master (“my lord”; cf. NIV, NLT).

[58:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “he will satisfy in parched regions your appetite.”

[58:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “and your bones he will strengthen.”

[60:11]  ⁵ tn Or “led in procession.” The participle is passive.

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

[62:6]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”

[51:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and that you forget.”

[51:13]  ⁸ tn Or “the heavens” (also in v. 16). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[51:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “and that you tremble constantly all the day.”

[51:13]  ¹⁰ tn The question anticipates the answer, “Ready to disappear!” See v. 14.