Isaiah 9:21

9:21 Manasseh fought against ¹  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. ² 

Isaiah 10:3

10:3 What will you do on judgment day, ³ 

when destruction arrives from a distant place?

To whom will you run for help?

Where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 18:4

18:4 For this is what the Lord has told me:

“I will wait ⁴  and watch from my place,

like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, ⁵ 

like a cloud of mist ⁶  in the heat ⁷  of harvest.” ⁸ 

Isaiah 20:6

20:6 At that time ⁹  those who live on this coast ¹⁰  will say, ‘Look what has happened to our source of hope to whom we fled for help, expecting to be rescued from the king of Assyria! How can we escape now?’”

Isaiah 24:13

24:13 This is what will happen throughout ¹¹  the earth,

among the nations.

It will be like when they beat an olive tree,

and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest. ¹² 

Isaiah 28:21

28:21 For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, ¹³ 

he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, ¹⁴ 

to accomplish his work,

his peculiar work,

to perform his task,

his strange task. ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 40:31

40:31 But those who wait for the Lord’s help ¹⁶  find renewed strength;

they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, ¹⁷ 

they run without growing weary,

they walk without getting tired.

Isaiah 52:7

52:7 How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains ¹⁸ 

the feet of a messenger who announces peace,

a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” ¹⁹ 

Isaiah 55:2

55:2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? ²⁰ 

Why spend ²¹  your hard-earned money ²²  on something that will not satisfy?

Listen carefully ²³  to me and eat what is nourishing! ²⁴ 

Enjoy fine food! ²⁵ 

Isaiah 64:5

64:5 You assist ²⁶  those who delight in doing what is right, ²⁷ 

who observe your commandments. ²⁸ 

Look, you were angry because we violated them continually.

How then can we be saved? ²⁹ 

Isaiah 65:25

65:25 A wolf and a lamb will graze together; ³⁰ 

a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, ³¹ 

and a snake’s food will be dirt. ³² 

They will no longer injure or destroy

on my entire royal mountain,” ³³  says the Lord.

[9:21]  ¹ tn The words “fought against” are supplied in the translation both here and later in this verse for stylistic reasons.

[9:21]  ² 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.”

[10:3]  ³ tn Heb “the day of visitation” (so KJV, ASV), that is, the day when God arrives to execute justice on the oppressors.

[18:4]  ⁵ tn Or “be quiet, inactive”; NIV “will remain quiet.”

[18:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “like the glowing heat because of light.” The precise meaning of the line is uncertain.

[18:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “a cloud of dew,” or “a cloud of light rain.”

[18:4]  ⁸ tc Some medieval Hebrew mss, with support from the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate, read “the day.”

[18:4]  ⁹ sn It is unclear how the comparisons in v. 4b relate to the preceding statement. How is waiting and watching similar to heat or a cloud? For a discussion of interpretive options, see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:362.

[20:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).

[20:6]  ⁸ sn This probably refers to the coastal region of Philistia (cf. TEV).

[24:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the midst of” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[24:13]  ¹⁰ sn The judgment will severely reduce the earth’s population. See v. 6.

[28:21]  ¹¹ sn This probably alludes to David’s victory over the Philistines at Baal Perazim. See 2 Sam 5:20.

[28:21]  ¹² sn This probably alludes to the Lord’s victory over the Canaanites at Gibeon, during the days of Joshua. See Josh 10:10-11.

[28:21]  ¹³ sn God’s judgment of his own people is called “his peculiar work” and “his strange task,” because he must deal with them the way he treated their enemies in the past.

[40:31]  ¹³ tn The words “for the Lord’s help” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[40:31]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they rise up [on] wings like eagles” (TEV similar).

[52:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “How delightful on the mountains.”

[52:7]  ¹⁶ tn Or “has become king.” When a new king was enthroned, his followers would give this shout. For other examples of this enthronement formula (Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular מָלַךְ [malakh], followed by the name of the king), see 2 Sam 15:10; 1 Kgs 1:11, 13, 18; 2 Kgs 9:13. The Lord is an eternal king, but here he is pictured as a victorious warrior who establishes his rule from Zion.

[55:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for what is not food.”

[55:2]  ¹⁸ tn The interrogative particle and the verb “spend” are understood here by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[55:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “your labor,” which stands by metonymy for that which one earns.

[55:2]  ²⁰ tn The infinitive absolute follows the imperative and lends emphasis to the exhortation.

[55:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “good” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[55:2]  ²² tn Heb “Let your appetite delight in fine food.”

[64:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “meet [with kindness].”

[64:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the one who rejoices and does righteousness.”

[64:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “in your ways they remember you.”

[64:5]  ²² tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “look, you were angry and we sinned against them continually [or perhaps, “in ancient times”] and we were delivered.” The statement makes little sense as it stands. The first vav [ו] consecutive (“and we sinned”) must introduce an explanatory clause here (see Num 1:48 and Isa 39:1 for other examples of this relatively rare use of the vav [ו] consecutive). The final verb (if rendered positively) makes no sense in this context – God’s anger at their sin resulted in judgment, not deliverance. One of the alternatives involves an emendation to וַנִּרְשָׁע (vannirsha’, “and we were evil”; LXX, NRSV, TEV). The Vulgate and the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a support the MT reading. One can either accept an emendation or cast the statement as a question (as above).

[65:25]  ²¹ sn A similar statement appears in 11:6.

[65:25]  ²² sn These words also appear in 11:7.

[65:25]  ²³ sn Some see an allusion to Gen 3:14 (note “you will eat dirt”). The point would be that even in this new era the snake (often taken as a symbol of Satan) remains under God’s curse. However, it is unlikely that such an allusion exists. Even if there is an echo of Gen 3:14, the primary allusion is to 11:8, where snakes are pictured as no longer dangerous. They will no longer attack other living creatures, but will be content to crawl along the ground. (The statement “you will eat dirt” in Gen 3:14 means “you will crawl on the ground.” In the same way the statement “dirt will be its food” in Isa 65:25 means “it will crawl on the ground.”)

[65:25]  ²⁴ tn Heb “in all my holy mountain.” These same words appear in 11:9. See the note there.