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 7:25

7:25 They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. ³  Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them. ⁴ 

Isaiah 10:6

10:6 I sent him ⁵  against a godless ⁶  nation,

I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, ⁷ 

to take plunder and to carry away loot,

to trample them down ⁸  like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 28:18

28:18 Your treaty with death will be dissolved; ⁹ 

your agreement ¹⁰  with Sheol will not last. ¹¹ 

When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, ¹² 

you will be overrun by it. ¹³ 

[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”).

[7:25]  ³ tn Heb “and all the hills which were hoed with a hoe, you will not go there [for] fear of the thorns and briers.”

[7:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it will become a pasture for cattle and a trampling place for sheep.”

[10:6]  ⁵ sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).

[10:6]  ⁶ tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”

[10:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”

[10:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”

[28:18]  ⁷ tn On the meaning of כָּפַר (kafar) in this context, see HALOT 494 s.v. I כפר and J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:515, n. 9.

[28:18]  ⁸ tn Normally the noun חָזוּת (khazut) means “vision.” See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ⁹ tn Or “will not stand” (NIV, NRSV).

[28:18]  ¹⁰ tn See the note at v. 15.

[28:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you will become a trampling place for it.”