Isaiah 55:4

55:4 Look, I made him a witness to nations, ¹ 

a ruler and commander of nations.”

Isaiah 13:3

13:3 I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; ² 

I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, ³ 

my boasting, arrogant ones. ⁴ 

Isaiah 23:11

23:11 The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea, ⁵ 

he shook kingdoms;

he ⁶  gave the order

to destroy Canaan’s fortresses. ⁷ 

Isaiah 5:6

5:6 I will make it a wasteland;

no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, ⁸ 

and thorns and briers will grow there.

I will order the clouds

not to drop any rain on it.

Isaiah 10:6

10:6 I sent him ⁹  against a godless ¹⁰  nation,

I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, ¹¹ 

to take plunder and to carry away loot,

to trample them down ¹²  like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 45:11-12

45:11 This is what the Lord says,

the Holy One of Israel, ¹³  the one who formed him,

concerning things to come: ¹⁴ 

“How dare you question me ¹⁵  about my children!

How dare you tell me what to do with ¹⁶  the work of my own hands!

45:12 I made the earth,

I created the people who live ¹⁷  on it.

It was me – my hands ¹⁸  stretched out the sky, ¹⁹ 

I give orders to all the heavenly lights. ²⁰ 

Isaiah 48:5

48:5 I announced them to you beforehand;

before they happened, I predicted them for you,

so you could never say,

‘My image did these things,

my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’

Isaiah 34:16

34:16 Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! ²¹ 

Not one of these creatures will be missing, ²² 

none will lack a mate. ²³ 

For the Lord has issued the decree, ²⁴ 

and his own spirit gathers them. ²⁵ 

Isaiah 38:1

The Lord Hears Hezekiah’s Prayer

38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. ²⁶  The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”

[55:4]  ¹ sn Ideally the Davidic king was to testify to the nations of God’s greatness (cf. Pss 18:50 HT [18:49 ET]; 22:28 HT [22:27 ET]). See J. H. Eaton, Kingship in the Psalms (SBT), 182-84.

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “my consecrated ones,” i.e., those who have been set apart by God for the special task of carrying out his judgment.

[13:3]  ³ tn Heb “my warriors with respect to my anger.”

[13:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “the boasting ones of my pride”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV “my proudly exulting ones.”

[23:11]  ³ tn Heb “his hand he stretched out over the sea.”

[23:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” For stylistic reasons the pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation here.

[23:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “concerning Canaan, to destroy her fortresses.” NIV, NLT translate “Canaan” as “Phoenicia” here.

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “it will not be pruned or hoed” (so NASB); ASV and NRSV both similar.

[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.”

[45:11]  ⁶ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[45:11]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads “the one who formed him, the coming things.” Among various suggestions, some have proposed an emendation of יֹצְרוֹ (yotsÿro, “the one who formed him”) to יֹצֵר (yotser, “the one who forms”; the suffixed form in the Hebrew text may be influenced by vv. 9-10, where the same form appears twice) and takes “coming things” as the object of the participle (either objective genitive or accusative): “the one who brings the future into being.”

[45:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “Ask me” The rhetorical command sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[45:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “Do you command me about…?” The rhetorical question sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[45:12]  ⁷ tn The words “who live” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[45:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “I, even my hands”; NASB “I stretched out…with My hands”; NRSV “it was my hands that stretched out.” The same construction occurs at the beginning of v. 13.

[45:12]  ⁹ tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[45:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and to all their host I commanded.” See the notes at 40:26.

[34:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “Seek from upon the scroll of the Lord and read.”

[34:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “one from these will not be missing.” הֵנָּה (hennah, “these”) is feminine plural in the Hebrew text. It may refer only to the birds mentioned in v. 15b or may include all of the creatures listed in vv. 14b-15 (all of which are identified with feminine nouns).

[34:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “each its mate they will not lack.”

[34:16]  ¹¹ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “for a mouth, it has commanded.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and a few medieval mss have פִּיהוּ (pihu, “his mouth [has commanded]”), while a few other medieval mss read פִּי יְהוָה (pi yÿhvah, “the mouth of the Lord [has commanded]”).

[34:16]  ¹² tn Heb “and his spirit, he gathers them.” The pronominal suffix (“them”) is feminine plural, referring to the birds mentioned in v. 15b or to all of the creatures listed in vv. 14b-15 (all of which are identified with feminine nouns).

[38:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying”; NRSV “became sick and was at the point of death.”