Isaiah 5:15

5:15 Men will be humiliated,

they will be brought low;

the proud will be brought low. ¹ 

Isaiah 33:4

33:4 Your plunder ²  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ³ 

they swarm over it like locusts! ⁴ 

Isaiah 43:26

43:26 Remind me of what happened! Let’s debate!

You, prove to me that you are right! ⁵ 

Isaiah 45:22

45:22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, ⁶ 

all you who live in the earth’s remote regions!

For I am God, and I have no peer.

Isaiah 57:12

57:12 I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, ⁷ 

but they will not help you.

Isaiah 64:1

64:1 (63:19b) ⁸  If only you would tear apart the sky ⁹  and come down!

The mountains would tremble ¹⁰  before you!

Isaiah 64:9

64:9 Lord, do not be too angry!

Do not hold our sins against us continually! ¹¹ 

Take a good look at your people, at all of us! ¹² 

Isaiah 64:12

64:12 In light of all this, ¹³  how can you still hold back, Lord?

How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “men are brought down, men are brought low, the eyes of pride are brought low.”

[33:4]  ² tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.

[33:4]  ³ tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”

[33:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”

[43:26]  ³ tn Heb “you, tell in order that you may be right”; NAB “prove your innocence.”

[45:22]  ⁴ tn The Niphal imperative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. The Niphal probably has a tolerative sense, “allow yourselves to be delivered, accept help.”

[57:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “I, I will declare your righteousness and your deeds.”

[64:1]  ⁶ sn In BHS the chapter division occurs in a different place from the English Bible: 64:1 ET (63:19b HT) and 64:2-12 (64:1-11 HT). Beginning with 65:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible are again the same.

[64:1]  ⁷ tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[64:1]  ⁸ tn Or “quake.” נָזֹלּוּ (nazollu) is from the verbal root זָלַל (zalal, “quake”; see HALOT 272 s.v. II זלל). Perhaps there is a verbal allusion to Judg 5:5, the only other passage where this verb occurs. In that passage the poet tells how the Lord’s appearance to do battle caused the mountains to shake.

[64:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “do not remember sin continually.”

[64:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “Look, gaze at your people, all of us.” Another option is to translate, “Take a good look! We are all your people.”

[64:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “because of these”; KJV, ASV “for these things.”