Isaiah 7:25

7:25 They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. ¹  Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them. ² 

Isaiah 9:21

9:21 Manasseh fought against ³  Ephraim,

and Ephraim against Manasseh;

together they fought against Judah.

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ⁴ 

Isaiah 23:18

23:18 Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes. ⁵ 

Isaiah 28:28

28:28 Grain is crushed,

though one certainly does not thresh it forever.

The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,

but his horses do not crush it.

Isaiah 31:2

31:2 Yet he too is wise ⁶  and he will bring disaster;

he does not retract his decree. ⁷ 

He will attack the wicked nation, ⁸ 

and the nation that helps ⁹  those who commit sin. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 31:8

31:8 Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; ¹¹ 

a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. ¹² 

They will run away from this sword ¹³ 

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

Isaiah 35:8

35:8 A thoroughfare will be there –

it will be called the Way of Holiness. ¹⁴ 

The unclean will not travel on it;

it is reserved for those authorized to use it ¹⁵  –

fools ¹⁶  will not stray into it.

Isaiah 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ¹⁷ 

You delivered me ¹⁸  from the pit of oblivion. ¹⁹ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ²⁰ 

Isaiah 49:25

49:25 Indeed,” says the Lord,

“captives will be taken from a warrior;

spoils will be rescued from a conqueror.

I will oppose your adversary

and I will rescue your children.

Isaiah 55:10

55:10 ²¹ The rain and snow fall from the sky

and do not return,

but instead water the earth

and make it produce and yield crops,

and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

[7:25]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “and it will become a pasture for cattle and a trampling place for sheep.”

[9:21]  ³ tn The words “fought against” are supplied in the translation both here and later in this verse for stylistic reasons.

[9:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched” (KJV and ASV both similar); NIV “his hand is still upraised.”

[23:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “for eating to fullness and for beautiful covering[s].”

[31:2]  ⁷ sn This statement appears to have a sarcastic tone. The royal advisers who are advocating an alliance with Egypt think they are wise, but the Lord possesses wisdom as well and will thwart their efforts.

[31:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he does not turn aside [i.e., “retract”] his words”; NIV “does not take back his words.”

[31:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he will arise against the house of the wicked.”

[31:2]  ¹⁰ sn That is, Egypt.

[31:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and against the help of the doers of sin.”

[31:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “Assyria will fall by a sword, not of a man.”

[31:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and a sword not of humankind will devour him.”

[31:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he will flee for himself from before a sword.”

[35:8]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn In this context “fools” are those who are morally corrupt, not those with limited intellectual capacity.

[38:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ¹⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).

[38:17]  ¹⁵ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”

[55:10]  ¹⁵ tn This verse begins in the Hebrew text with כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר (ki ka’asher, “for, just as”), which is completed by כֵּן (ken, “so, in the same way”) at the beginning of v. 11. For stylistic reasons, this lengthy sentence is divided up into separate sentences in the translation.