Isaiah 63:18

63:18 For a short time your special ¹  nation possessed a land, ² 

but then our adversaries knocked down ³  your holy sanctuary.

Isaiah 8:14

8:14 He will become a sanctuary, ⁴ 

but a stone that makes a person trip,

and a rock that makes one stumble –

to the two houses of Israel. ⁵ 

He will become ⁶  a trap and a snare

to the residents of Jerusalem. ⁷ 

Isaiah 16:12

16:12 When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, ⁸ 

and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective! ⁹ 

Isaiah 60:13

60:13 The splendor of Lebanon will come to you,

its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together,

to beautify my palace; ¹⁰ 

I will bestow honor on my throne room. ¹¹ 

[63:18]  ¹ tn Or “holy” (ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT).

[63:18]  ² tn Heb “for a short time they had a possession, the people of your holiness.”

[63:18]  ³ tn Heb “your adversaries trampled on.”

[8:14]  ⁴ tn Because the metaphor of protection (“sanctuary”) does not fit the negative mood that follows in vv. 14b-15, some contend that מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash, “sanctuary”) is probably a corruption of an original מוֹקֵשׁ (moqesh, “snare”), a word that appears in the next line (cf. NAB and H. Wildberger, Isaiah, 1:355-56). If the MT reading is retained (as in the above translation), the fact that Yahweh is a sanctuary wraps up the point of v. 13 and stands in contrast to God’s treatment of those who rebel against him (the rest of v. 14).

[8:14]  ⁵ sn The two “houses” of Israel (= the patriarch Jacob) are the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah.

[8:14]  ⁶ tn These words are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. וְהָיָה (vÿhayah, “and he will be”) does double duty in the parallel structure of the verse.

[8:14]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:12]  ⁷ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[16:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “when he appears, when he grows tired, Moab on the high places, and enters his temple to pray, he will not prevail.” It is possible that “when he grows tired” is an explanatory gloss for the preceding “when he appears.”

[60:13]  ¹⁰ tn Or “holy place, sanctuary.”

[60:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the place of my feet.” See Ezek 43:7, where the Lord’s throne is called the “place of the soles of my feet.”