Isaiah 7:8

7:8 For Syria’s leader is Damascus,

and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.

Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation. ¹ 

Isaiah 21:16

21:16 For this is what the sovereign master ²  has told me: “Within exactly one year ³  all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

Isaiah 23:17

23:17 At the end of seventy years ⁴  the Lord will revive ⁵  Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms. ⁶ 

Isaiah 36:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

36:1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, ⁷  King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

[7:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Ephraim will be too shattered to be a nation”; NIV “to be a people.”

[21:16]  ² tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[21:16]  ³ tn Heb “in still a year, like the years of a hired worker.” See the note at 16:14.

[23:17]  ³ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[23:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “visit [with favor]” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “will deal with.”

[23:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “and she will return to her [prostitute’s] wages and engage in prostitution with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the earth.”

[36:1]  ⁴ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.