Isaiah 5:8

Disaster is Coming

5:8 Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, ¹ 

those who also accumulate landed property ² 

until there is no land left, ³ 

and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. ⁴ 

Isaiah 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ⁵ 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ⁶ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ⁷ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ⁸ 

Isaiah 47:10

47:10 You were complacent in your evil deeds; ⁹ 

you thought, ¹⁰  ‘No one sees me.’

Your self-professed ¹¹  wisdom and knowledge lead you astray,

when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’ ¹² 

Isaiah 52:4

52:4 For this is what the sovereign Lord says:

“In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt;

Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.

Isaiah 52:10

52:10 The Lord reveals ¹³  his royal power ¹⁴ 

in the sight of all the nations;

the entire ¹⁵  earth sees

our God deliver. ¹⁶ 

[5:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Woe [to] those who make a house touch a house.” The exclamation הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death.

[5:8]  ² tn Heb “[who] bring a field near a field.”

[5:8]  ³ tn Heb “until the end of the place”; NASB “until there is no more room.”

[5:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.”

[47:8]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

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

[47:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “you trusted in your evil”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “wickedness.”

[47:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “said”; NAB “said to yourself”’ NASB “said in your heart.”

[47:10]  ¹¹ tn The words “self-professed” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[47:10]  ¹² tn See the note at v. 8.

[52:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “lays bare”; NLT “will demonstrate.”

[52:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “his holy arm.” This is a metonymy for his power.

[52:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the remote regions,” which here stand for the extremities and everything in between.

[52:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the deliverance of our God.” “God” is a subjective genitive here.