Isaiah 7:23

7:23 At that time ¹  every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun ²  with thorns and briers.

Isaiah 7:25

7:25 They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. ³  Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them. ⁴ 

Isaiah 23:12

23:12 He said,

“You will no longer celebrate,

oppressed ⁵  virgin daughter Sidon!

Get up, travel to Cyprus,

but you will find no relief there.” ⁶ 

Isaiah 34:14

34:14 Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; ⁷ 

wild goats will bleat to one another. ⁸ 

Yes, nocturnal animals ⁹  will rest there

and make for themselves a nest. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 35:8

35:8 A thoroughfare will be there –

it will be called the Way of Holiness. ¹¹ 

The unclean will not travel on it;

it is reserved for those authorized to use it ¹²  –

fools ¹³  will not stray into it.

Isaiah 48:16

48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!

From the very first I have not spoken in secret;

when it happens, ¹⁴  I am there.”

So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 52:4

52:4 For this is what the sovereign Lord says:

“In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt;

Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.

Isaiah 52:11

52:11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there!

Don’t touch anything unclean!

Get out of it!

Stay pure, you who carry the Lord’s holy items! ¹⁶ 

[7:23]  ¹ tn Heb “in that day.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[7:23]  ² tn Heb “will become” (so NASB); NAB “shall be turned to.”

[7:25]  ³ tn Heb “and all the hills which were hoed with a hoe, you will not go there [for] fear of the thorns and briers.”

[7:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it will become a pasture for cattle and a trampling place for sheep.”

[23:12]  ⁵ tn Or “violated, raped,” the point being that Daughter Sidon has lost her virginity in the most brutal manner possible.

[23:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “[to the] Kittim, get up, cross over; even there there will be no rest for you.” On “Kittim” see the note on “Cyprus” at v. 1.

[34:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “will meet” (so NIV); NLT “will mingle there.”

[34:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “and a goat will call to its neighbor.”

[34:14]  ⁹ tn The precise meaning of לִּילִית (lilit) is unclear, though in this context the word certainly refers to some type of wild animal or bird. The word appears to be related to לַיְלָה (laylah, “night”). Some interpret it as the name of a female night demon, on the basis of an apparent Akkadian cognate used as the name of a demon. Later Jewish legends also identified Lilith as a demon. Cf. NRSV “Lilith.”

[34:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and will find for themselves a resting place.”

[35:8]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and there will be there a road and a way, and the Way of Holiness it will be called.” וְדֶרֶךְ (vÿderekh, “and a/the way”) is accidentally duplicated; the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a does not reflect the repetition of the phrase.

[35:8]  ¹⁰ tn The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. The text reads literally “and it is for them, the one who walks [on the] way.” In this context those authorized to use the Way of Holiness would be morally upright people who are the recipients of God’s deliverance, in contrast to the morally impure and foolish who are excluded from the new covenant community.

[35:8]  ¹¹ tn In this context “fools” are those who are morally corrupt, not those with limited intellectual capacity.

[48:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”

[48:16]  ¹² sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.

[52:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “the vessels of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB).