Isaiah 8:7

8:7 So look, the sovereign master ¹  is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River ²  – the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks. ³ 

Isaiah 36:12

36:12 But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ⁴  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!” ⁵ 

Isaiah 37:2

37:2 Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁶  clothed in sackcloth, sent this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

Isaiah 57:11

57:11 Whom are you worried about?

Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully

and not remember me

or think about me? ⁷ 

Because I have been silent for so long, ⁸ 

you are not afraid of me. ⁹ 

Isaiah 66:19

66:19 I will perform a mighty act among them ¹⁰  and then send some of those who remain to the nations – to Tarshish, Pul, ¹¹  Lud ¹²  (known for its archers ¹³ ), Tubal, Javan, ¹⁴  and to the distant coastlands ¹⁵  that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.

[8:7]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[8:7]  ² tn Heb “the mighty and abundant waters of the river.” The referent of “the river” here, the Euphrates River, has been specified in the translation for clarity. As the immediately following words indicate, these waters symbolize the Assyrian king and his armies which will, as it were, inundate the land.

[8:7]  ³ tn Heb “it will go up over all its stream beds and go over all its banks.”

[36:12]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

[37:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “elders of the priests” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NCV “the older priests”; NRSV, TEV, CEV “the senior priests.”

[57:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”

[57:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”

[57:11]  ¹² sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.

[66:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “and I will set a sign among them.” The precise meaning of this statement is unclear. Elsewhere “to set a sign” means “perform a mighty act” (Ps 78:43; Jer 32:20), “make [someone] an object lesson” (Ezek 14:8), and “erect a [literal] standard” (Ps 74:4).

[66:19]  ¹⁴ tn Some prefer to read “Put” (i.e., Libya).

[66:19]  ¹⁵ sn That is, Lydia (in Asia Minor).

[66:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “drawers of the bow” (KJV and ASV both similar).

[66:19]  ¹⁷ sn Javan is generally identified today as Greece (so NIV, NCV, NLT).

[66:19]  ¹⁸ tn Or “islands” (NIV).