Isaiah 5:5

5:5 Now I will inform you

what I am about to do to my vineyard:

I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, ¹ 

I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. ² 

Isaiah 28:22

28:22 So now, do not mock,

or your chains will become heavier!

For I have heard a message about decreed destruction,

from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land. ³ 

Isaiah 30:8

30:8 Now go, write it ⁴  down on a tablet in their presence, ⁵ 

inscribe it on a scroll,

so that it might be preserved for a future time

as an enduring witness. ⁶ 

Isaiah 36:5

36:5 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. ⁷  In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?

Isaiah 36:8

36:8 Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

Isaiah 36:10

36:10 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’” ⁸ 

Isaiah 37:20

37:20 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.” ⁹ 

Isaiah 37:26

37:26 ¹⁰ Certainly you must have heard! ¹¹ 

Long ago I worked it out,

in ancient times I planned ¹²  it,

and now I am bringing it to pass.

The plan is this:

Fortified cities will crash

into heaps of ruins. ¹³ 

Isaiah 43:1

The Lord Will Rescue His People

43:1 Now, this is what the Lord says,

the one who created you, O Jacob,

and formed you, O Israel:

“Don’t be afraid, for I will protect ¹⁴  you.

I call you by name, you are mine.

Isaiah 43:19

43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.

Now it begins to happen! ¹⁵  Do you not recognize ¹⁶  it?

Yes, I will make a road in the desert

and paths ¹⁷  in the wilderness.

Isaiah 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ¹⁸ 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ¹⁹ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ²⁰ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ²¹ 

Isaiah 48:16

48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!

From the very first I have not spoken in secret;

when it happens, ²²  I am there.”

So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. ²³ 

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (ba’ar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.”

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “and it will become a trampled place” (NASB “trampled ground”).

[28:22]  ³ tn Or “the whole earth” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NCV).

[30:8]  ⁵ tn The referent of the third feminine singular pronominal suffix is uncertain. Perhaps it refers to the preceding message, which accuses the people of rejecting the Lord’s help in favor of an alliance with Egypt.

[30:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “with them.” On the use of the preposition here, see BDB 86 s.v. II אֵת.

[30:8]  ⁷ sn Recording the message will enable the prophet to use it in the future as evidence that God warned his people of impending judgment and clearly spelled out the nation’s guilt. An official record of the message will also serve as proof of the prophet’s authority as God’s spokesman.

[36:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point. The phrase “word of lips” refers to mere or empty talk in Prov 14:23.

[36:10]  ⁹ sn In v. 10 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 7. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.

[37:20]  ¹¹ tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:19 reads, “that you, Lord, are the only God.”

[37:26]  ¹³ tn Having quoted the Assyrian king’s arrogant words in vv. 23-24, the Lord now speaks to the king.

[37:26]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say.

[37:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “formed” (so KJV, ASV).

[37:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and it is to cause to crash into heaps of ruins fortified cities.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb תְהִי (tÿhi) is the implied plan, referred to in the preceding lines with third feminine singular pronominal suffixes.

[43:1]  ¹⁵ tn Or “redeem.” See the note at 41:14. Cf. NCV “saved you”; CEV “rescued you”; NLT “ransomed you.”

[43:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “sprouts up”; NASB “will spring forth.”

[43:19]  ¹⁸ tn Or “know” (KJV, ASV); NASB “be aware of”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “perceive.”

[43:19]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew texts has “streams,” probably under the influence of v. 20. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has נתיבות (“paths”).

[47:8]  ¹⁹ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

[47:8]  ²² tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

[48:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”

[48:16]  ²² sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.