Isaiah 7:11

7:11 “Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous.” ¹ 

Isaiah 14:8

14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ² 

as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ³ 

‘Since you fell asleep, ⁴ 

no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ⁵ 

Isaiah 21:6

21:6 For this is what the sovereign master ⁶  has told me:

“Go, post a guard!

He must report what he sees.

Isaiah 22:1

The Lord Will Judge Jerusalem

22:1 Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: ⁷ 

What is the reason ⁸ 

that all of you go up to the rooftops?

Isaiah 33:2

33:2 Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you.

Give us strength each morning! ⁹ 

Deliver us when distress comes. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 41:13

41:13 For I am the Lord your God,

the one who takes hold of your right hand,

who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’

Isaiah 45:4

45:4 For the sake of my servant Jacob,

Israel, my chosen one,

I call you by name

and give you a title of respect, even though you do not recognize ¹¹  me.

Isaiah 47:15

47:15 They will disappoint you, ¹² 

those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. ¹³ 

Each strays off in his own direction, ¹⁴ 

leaving no one to rescue you.”

Isaiah 48:9

48:9 For the sake of my reputation ¹⁵  I hold back my anger;

for the sake of my prestige ¹⁶  I restrain myself from destroying you. ¹⁷ 

Isaiah 51:19

51:19 These double disasters confronted you.

But who feels sorry for you?

Destruction and devastation,

famine and sword.

But who consoles you? ¹⁸ 

[7:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Make it as deep as Sheol or make it high upwards.” These words suggest that Ahaz can feel free to go beyond the bounds of ordinary human experience.

[14:8]  ² tn Heb “concerning you.”

[14:8]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “lay down” (in death); cf. NAB “laid to rest.”

[14:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “the [wood]cutter does not come up against us.”

[21:6]  ³ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 16 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[22:1]  ⁴ sn The following message pertains to Jerusalem. The significance of referring to the city as the Valley of Vision is uncertain. Perhaps the Hinnom Valley is in view, but why it is associated with a prophetic revelatory “vision” is not entirely clear. Maybe the Hinnom Valley is called this because the destruction that will take place there is the focal point of this prophetic message (see v. 5).

[22:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “What to you, then?”

[33:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “Be their arm each morning.” “Arm” is a symbol for strength. The mem suffixed to the noun has been traditionally understood as a third person suffix, but this is contrary to the context, where the people speak of themselves in the first person. The mem (מ) is probably enclitic with ellipsis of the pronoun, which can be supplied from the context. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:589, n. 1.

[33:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “[Be] also our deliverance in the time of distress.”

[45:4]  ⁶ tn Or “know” (NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT); NIV “acknowledge.”

[47:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “So they will be to you”; NIV “That is all they can do for you.”

[47:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “that for which you toiled, your traders from your youth.” The omen readers and star gazers are likened to merchants with whom Babylon has had an ongoing economic relationship.

[47:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “each to his own side, they err.”

[48:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “for the sake of my name” (so NAB, NASB); NLT “for my own sake.”

[48:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “and my praise.” לְמַעַן (lÿma’an, “for the sake of”) is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[48:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I restrain [myself] concerning you not to cut you off.”

[51:19]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text has אֲנַחֲמֵךְ (’anakhamekh), a first person form, but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly יִנַחֲמֵךְ (yinakhamekh), a third person form.