Isaiah 9:13

9:13 The people did not return to the one who struck them,

they did not seek reconciliation ¹  with the Lord who commands armies.

Isaiah 15:8

15:8 Indeed, the cries of distress echo throughout Moabite territory;

their wailing can be heard in Eglaim and Beer Elim. ² 

Isaiah 19:22

19:22 The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and then healing them. They will turn to the Lord and he will listen to their prayers ³  and heal them.

Isaiah 25:12

25:12 The fortified city (along with the very tops of your ⁴  walls) ⁵  he will knock down,

he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground. ⁶ 

Isaiah 26:4

26:4 Trust in the Lord from this time forward, ⁷ 

even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector! ⁸ 

Isaiah 32:15

32:15 This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. ⁹ 

Then the desert will become an orchard

and the orchard will be considered a forest. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 32:17

32:17 Fairness will produce peace ¹¹ 

and result in lasting security. ¹² 

Isaiah 42:4

42:4 He will not grow dim or be crushed ¹³ 

before establishing justice on the earth;

the coastlands ¹⁴  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 62:7

62:7 Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, ¹⁶ 

until he makes Jerusalem the pride ¹⁷  of the earth.

Isaiah 64:12

64:12 In light of all this, ¹⁸  how can you still hold back, Lord?

How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

[9:13]  ¹ tn This verse describes the people’s response to the judgment described in vv. 11-12. The perfects are understood as indicating simple past.

[15:8]  ² tn Heb “to Eglaim [is] her wailing, and [to] Beer Elim [is] her wailing.”

[19:22]  ³ tn Heb “he will be entreated.” The Niphal has a tolerative sense here, “he will allow himself to be entreated.”

[25:12]  ⁴ sn Moab is addressed.

[25:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “a fortification, the high point of your walls.”

[25:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “he will bring [it] down, he will make [it] touch the ground, even to the dust.”

[26:4]  ⁵ tn Or “forevermore.” For other uses of the phrase עֲדֵי־עַד (’ade-’ad) see Isa 65:18 and Pss 83:17; 92:7.

[26:4]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text has “for in Yah, the Lord, an everlasting rock.” Some have suggested that the phrase בְּיָהּ (beyah, “in Yah”) is the result of dittography. A scribe seeing כִּי יְהוָה (ki yÿhvah) in his original text would somehow have confused the letters and accidentally inserted בְּיָהּ between the words (bet and kaf [ב and כ] can be confused in later script phases). A number of English versions retain both divine names for emphasis (ESV, NIV, NKJV, NRSV, NLT). One of the Qumran texts (1QIsa^a) confirms the MT reading as well.

[32:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “until a spirit is emptied out on us from on high.” The words “this desolation will continue” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic purposes. The verb עָרָה (’arah), used here in the Niphal, normally means “lay bare, expose.” The term רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”) is often understood here as a reference to the divine spirit (cf. 44:3 and NASB, NIV, CEV, NLT), but it appears here without an article (cf. NRSV “a spirit”), pronominal suffix, or a genitive (such as “of the Lord”). The translation assumes that it carries an impersonal nuance “vivacity, vigor” in this context.

[32:15]  ⁷ sn The same statement appears in 29:17b, where, in conjunction with the preceding line, it appears to picture a reversal. Here it seems to depict supernatural growth. The desert will blossom into an orchard, and the trees of the orchard will multiply and grow tall, becoming a forest.

[32:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the product of fairness will be peace.”

[32:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the work of fairness [will be] calmness and security forever.”

[42:4]  ⁸ tn For rhetorical effect the terms used to describe the “crushed (רָצַץ, ratsats) reed” and “dim (כָּהָה, kahah) wick” in v. 3 are repeated here.

[42:4]  ⁹ tn Or “islands” (NIV); NLT “distant lands beyond the sea.”

[42:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “his law” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV) or “his instruction” (NLT).

[62:7]  ⁹ tn “Jerusalem” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; note the following line.

[62:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[the object of] praise.”

[64:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “because of these”; KJV, ASV “for these things.”