Isaiah 9:3

9:3 You ¹  have enlarged the nation;

you give them great joy. ² 

They rejoice in your presence

as harvesters rejoice;

as warriors celebrate ³  when they divide up the plunder.

Isaiah 11:16

11:16 There will be a highway leading out of Assyria

for the remnant of his people, ⁴ 

just as there was for Israel,

when ⁵  they went up from the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 14:24

14:24 ⁶ The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:

“Be sure of this:

Just as I have intended, so it will be;

just as I have planned, it will happen.

Isaiah 20:3

20:3 Later the Lord explained, “In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush,

Isaiah 24:2

24:2 Everyone will suffer – the priest as well as the people, ⁷ 

the master as well as the servant, ⁸ 

the elegant lady as well as the female attendant, ⁹ 

the seller as well as the buyer, ¹⁰ 

the borrower as well as the lender, ¹¹ 

the creditor as well as the debtor. ¹² 

Isaiah 26:9

26:9 I ¹³  look for ¹⁴  you during the night,

my spirit within me seeks you at dawn,

for when your judgments come upon the earth,

those who live in the world learn about justice. ¹⁵ 

Isaiah 66:22

66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.

[9:3]  ¹ sn The Lord is addressed directly in vv. 3-4.

[9:3]  ² tc The Hebrew consonantal text reads “You multiply the nation, you do not make great the joy.” The particle לֹא (lo’, “not”) is obviously incorrect; the marginal reading has לוֹ (lo, “to him”). In this case, one should translate, “You multiply the nation, you increase his (i.e., their) joy.” However, the parallelism is tighter if one emends הַגּוֹי לוֹ (hagoy lo, “the nation, to him”) to הַגִּילָה (haggilah, “the joy,” a noun attested in Isa 65:18), which corresponds to הַשִּׂמְחָה (hasimkhah, “the joy”) later in the verse (H. Wildberger, Isaiah, 1:386). As attractive as this reading is, it has not textual evidence supporting it. The MT reading (accepting the marginal reading “to him” for the negative particle “not”) affirms that Yahweh caused the nation to grow in population and increased their joy.

[9:3]  ³ tn Heb “as they are happy.” The word “warriors” is supplied in the translation to clarify the word picture. This last simile comes close to reality, for vv. 4-5 indicate that the people have won a great military victory over their oppressors.

[11:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “and there will be a highway for the remnant of his people who remain, from Assyria.”

[11:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the day” (so KJV).

[14:24]  ⁷ sn Having announced the downfall of the Chaldean empire, the Lord appends to this prophecy a solemn reminder that the Assyrians, the major Mesopotamian power of Isaiah’s day, would be annihilated, foreshadowing what would subsequently happen to Babylon and the other hostile nations.

[24:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and it will be like the people, like the priest.”

[24:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “like the servant, like his master.”

[24:2]  ¹² tn Heb “like the female servant, like her mistress.”

[24:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “like the buyer, like the seller.”

[24:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “like the lender, like the borrower.”

[24:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “like the creditor, just as the one to whom he lends.”

[26:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “with my soul I.” This is a figure for the speaker himself (“I”).

[26:9]  ¹⁴ tn Or “long for, desire.” The speaker acknowledges that he is eager to see God come in judgment (see vv. 8, 9b).

[26:9]  ¹⁵ tn The translation understands צֶדֶק (tsedeq) in the sense of “justice,” but it is possible that it carries the nuance “righteousness,” in which case one might translate, “those who live in the world learn to live in a righteous manner” (cf. NCV).