Isaiah 6:11

6:11 I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said,

“Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated,

and houses are uninhabited,

and the land is ruined and devastated,

Isaiah 31:3

31:3 The Egyptians are mere humans, not God;

their horses are made of flesh, not spirit.

The Lord will strike with ¹  his hand;

the one who helps will stumble

and the one being helped will fall.

Together they will perish. ² 

Isaiah 31:8

31:8 Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; ³ 

a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. ⁴ 

They will run away from this sword ⁵ 

and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.

Isaiah 37:19

37:19 They have burned the gods of the nations, ⁶  for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them. ⁷ 

Isaiah 38:11

38:11 “I thought,

‘I will no longer see the Lord ⁸  in the land of the living,

I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. ⁹ 

Isaiah 44:13

44:13 A carpenter takes measurements; ¹⁰ 

he marks out an outline of its form; ¹¹ 

he scrapes ¹²  it with chisels,

and marks it with a compass.

He patterns it after the human form, ¹³ 

like a well-built human being,

and puts it in a shrine. ¹⁴ 

Isaiah 51:12

51:12 “I, I am the one who consoles you. ¹⁵ 

Why are you afraid of mortal men,

of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass? ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 56:2

56:2 The people who do this will be blessed, ¹⁷ 

the people who commit themselves to obedience, ¹⁸ 

who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,

who refrain from doing anything that is wrong. ¹⁹ 

[31:3]  ¹ tn Heb “will extend”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV “stretch out.”

[31:3]  ² tn Heb “together all of them will come to an end.”

[31:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Assyria will fall by a sword, not of a man.”

[31:8]  ² tn Heb “and a sword not of humankind will devour him.”

[31:8]  ³ tn Heb “he will flee for himself from before a sword.”

[37:19]  ¹ tn Heb “and they put their gods in the fire.”

[37:19]  ² tn Heb “so they destroyed them” (NASB similar).

[38:11]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [yÿhvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.

[38:11]  ² tc The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew mss) was likely חֶלֶד (kheled, “world”).

[44:13]  ¹ tn Heb “stretches out a line” (ASV similar); NIV “measures with a line.”

[44:13]  ² tn Heb “he makes an outline with the [?].” The noun שֶׂרֶד (shered) occurs only here; it apparently refers to some type of tool or marker. Cf. KJV “with a line”; ASV “with a pencil”; NAB, NRSV “with a stylus”; NASB “with red chalk”; NIV “with a marker.”

[44:13]  ³ tn Heb “works” (so NASB) or “fashions” (so NRSV); NIV “he roughs it out.”

[44:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “he makes it like the pattern of a man”; NAB “like a man in appearance.”

[44:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “like the glory of man to sit [in] a house”; NIV “that it may dwell in a shrine.”

[51:12]  ¹ tc The plural suffix should probably be emended to the second masculine singular (which is used in v. 13). The final mem (ם) is probably dittographic; note the mem at the beginning of the next word.

[51:12]  ² tn Heb “Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, and of the son of man who [as] grass is given up?” The feminine singular forms should probably be emended to the masculine singular (see v. 13). They have probably been influenced by the construction אַתְּ־הִיא (’at-hi’) in vv. 9-10.

[56:2]  ¹ tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”

[56:2]  ² tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”

[56:2]  ³ tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”