Isaiah 55:13

55:13 Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes,

firs will grow in place of nettles;

they will be a monument to the Lord, ¹ 

a permanent reminder that will remain. ² 

Isaiah 34:3

34:3 Their slain will be left unburied, ³ 

their corpses will stink; ⁴ 

the hills will soak up their blood. ⁵ 

Isaiah 14:8

14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ⁶ 

as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ⁷ 

‘Since you fell asleep, ⁸ 

no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ⁹ 

Isaiah 34:10

34:10 Night and day it will burn; ¹⁰ 

its smoke will ascend continually.

Generation after generation it will be a wasteland

and no one will ever pass through it again.

Isaiah 5:24

5:24 Therefore, as flaming fire ¹¹  devours straw,

and dry grass disintegrates in the flames,

so their root will rot,

and their flower will blow away like dust. ¹² 

For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies,

they have spurned the commands ¹³  of the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁴ 

Isaiah 15:5

15:5 My heart cries out because of Moab’s plight, ¹⁵ 

and for the fugitives ¹⁶  stretched out ¹⁷  as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah.

For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith;

they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim. ¹⁸ 

[55:13]  ¹ tn Heb “to the Lord for a name.” For שֵׁם (shem) used in the sense of “monument,” see also 56:5, where it stands parallel to יָד (yad).

[55:13]  ² tn Or, more literally, “a permanent sign that will not be cut off.”

[34:3]  ³ tn Heb “will be cast aside”; NASB, NIV “thrown out.”

[34:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “[as for] their corpses, their stench will arise.”

[34:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “hills will dissolve from their blood.”

[14:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “concerning you.”

[14:8]  ⁶ tn The word “singing” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. Note that the personified trees speak in the second half of the verse.

[14:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “lay down” (in death); cf. NAB “laid to rest.”

[14:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “the [wood]cutter does not come up against us.”

[34:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “it will not be extinguished.”

[5:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “a tongue of fire” (so NASB), referring to a tongue-shaped flame.

[5:24]  ¹⁰ sn They are compared to a flowering plant that withers quickly in a hot, arid climate.

[5:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the word.”

[5:24]  ¹² sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[15:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “for Moab.” For rhetorical purposes the speaker (the Lord?, see v. 9) plays the role of a mourner.

[15:5]  ¹² tn The vocalization of the Hebrew text suggests “the bars of her gates,” but the form should be repointed to yield, “her fugitives.” See HALOT 156-57 s.v. בָּרִחַ, and BDB 138 s.v. בָּרִיהַ.

[15:5]  ¹³ tn The words “are stretched out” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “For the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it; for [on] the road to Horonaim an outcry over shattering they raise up.”