Isaiah 7:3

7:3 So the Lord told Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub ¹  and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ² 

Isaiah 29:13

29:13 The sovereign master ³  says,

“These people say they are loyal to me; ⁴ 

they say wonderful things about me, ⁵ 

but they are not really loyal to me. ⁶ 

Their worship consists of

nothing but man-made ritual. ⁷ 

Isaiah 36:4

36:4 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence? ⁸ 

Isaiah 36:7

36:7 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’

Isaiah 36:11-12

36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ⁹  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ¹⁰  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 36:12 But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ¹¹  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!” ¹² 

Isaiah 37:6

37:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. ¹³ 

Isaiah 38:1

The Lord Hears Hezekiah’s Prayer

38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. ¹⁴  The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”

Isaiah 38:3

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹⁵  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ¹⁶  and how I have carried out your will.” ¹⁷  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹⁸ 

Isaiah 49:6

49:6 he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant,

to reestablish the tribes of Jacob,

and restore the remnant ¹⁹  of Israel? ²⁰ 

I will make you a light to the nations, ²¹ 

so you can bring ²²  my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

[7:3]  ¹ tn The name means “a remnant will return.” Perhaps in this context, where the Lord is trying to encourage Ahaz, the name suggests that only a few of the enemy invaders will return home; the rest will be defeated.

[7:3]  ² tn Heb “the field of the washer”; traditionally “the fuller’s field” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “the Washerman’s Field.”

[29:13]  ³ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonai).

[29:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “Because these people draw near to me with their mouth.”

[29:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “and with their lips they honor me.”

[29:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “but their heart is far from me.” The heart is viewed here as the seat of the will, from which genuine loyalty derives.

[29:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught.”

[36:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”

[36:11]  ⁷ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

[36:11]  ⁸ tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”

[36:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[36:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

[37:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”

[38:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying”; NRSV “became sick and was at the point of death.”

[38:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[38:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

[49:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the protected [or “preserved”] ones.”

[49:6]  ¹⁸ sn The question is purely rhetorical; it does not imply that the servant was dissatisfied with his commission or that he minimized the restoration of Israel.

[49:6]  ¹⁹ tn See the note at 42:6.

[49:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “be” (so KJV, ASV); CEV “you must take.”