Isaiah 9:5

9:5 Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth ¹ 

and every garment dragged through blood

is used as fuel for the fire.

Isaiah 25:7

25:7 On this mountain he will swallow up

the shroud that is over all the peoples, ² 

the woven covering that is over all the nations; ³ 

Isaiah 30:13

30:13 So this sin will become your downfall.

You will be like a high wall

that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse;

it crumbles suddenly, in a flash. ⁴ 

Isaiah 32:20

32:20 you will be blessed,

you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, ⁵ 

you who let your ox and donkey graze. ⁶ 

Isaiah 33:6

33:6 He is your constant source of stability; ⁷ 

he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; ⁸ 

he gives all this to those who fear him. ⁹ 

Isaiah 46:3

46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, ¹⁰ 

all you who are left from the family of Israel, ¹¹ 

you who have been carried from birth, ¹² 

you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. ¹³ 

Isaiah 47:15

47:15 They will disappoint you, ¹⁴ 

those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. ¹⁵ 

Each strays off in his own direction, ¹⁶ 

leaving no one to rescue you.”

Isaiah 54:6

54:6 “Indeed, the Lord will call you back

like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, ¹⁷ 

like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.

Isaiah 64:4

64:4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, ¹⁸ 

no eye has seen any God besides you,

who intervenes for those who wait for him.

[9:5]  ¹ tn Heb “Indeed every boot marching with shaking.” On the meaning of סְאוֹן (sÿ’on, “boot”) and the related denominative verb, both of which occur only here, see HALOT 738 s.v. סְאוֹן.

[25:7]  ² tn The Hebrew text reads, “the face of the shroud, the shroud over all the nations.” Some emend the second הַלּוֹט (hallot) to a passive participle הַלּוּט (hallut, “that is wrapped”).

[25:7]  ³ sn The point of the imagery is unclear. Perhaps the shroud/covering referred to was associated with death in some way (see v. 8).

[30:13]  ³ tn The verse reads literally, “So this sin will become for you like a breach ready to fall, bulging on a high wall, the breaking of which comes suddenly, in a flash.” Their sin produces guilt and will result in judgment. Like a wall that collapses their fall will be swift and sudden.

[32:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “by all the waters.”

[32:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “who set free the foot of the ox and donkey”; NIV “letting your cattle and donkeys range free.”

[33:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he is the stability of your times.”

[33:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “a rich store of deliverance, wisdom, and knowledge.”

[33:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “the fear of the Lord, it is his treasure.”

[46:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”

[46:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”

[46:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”

[46:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”

[47:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “So they will be to you”; NIV “That is all they can do for you.”

[47:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “that for which you toiled, your traders from your youth.” The omen readers and star gazers are likened to merchants with whom Babylon has had an ongoing economic relationship.

[47:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “each to his own side, they err.”

[54:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “like a woman abandoned and grieved in spirit.”

[64:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “from ancient times they have not heard, they have not listened.”