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 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!’”’” ⁴ 

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.” ⁵ 

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 ⁶  you.

I call you by name, you are mine.

Isaiah 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ⁷ 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ⁸ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ⁹ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 48:16

48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!

From the very first I have not spoken in secret;

when it happens, ¹¹  I am there.”

So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. ¹² 

[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).

[36:10]  ⁵ 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]  ⁷ tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:19 reads, “that you, Lord, are the only God.”

[43:1]  ⁹ tn Or “redeem.” See the note at 41:14. Cf. NCV “saved you”; CEV “rescued you”; NLT “ransomed you.”

[47:8]  ¹¹ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ¹² tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

[47:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

[48:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”

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