Yesaya 13:16

13:16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes;

their houses will be looted

and their wives raped.

Yesaya 14:11

14:11 Your splendor ¹  has been brought down to Sheol,

as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. ² 

You lie on a bed of maggots,

with a blanket of worms over you. ³ 

Yesaya 25:7

25:7 On this mountain he will swallow up

the shroud that is over all the peoples, ⁴ 

the woven covering that is over all the nations; ⁵ 

Yesaya 29:19

29:19 The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord;

the poor among humankind will take delight ⁶  in the Holy One of Israel. ⁷ 

Yesaya 32:13

32:13 Mourn ⁸  over the land of my people,

which is overgrown with thorns and briers,

and over all the once-happy houses ⁹ 

in the city filled with revelry. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 33:7

33:7 Look, ambassadors ¹¹  cry out in the streets;

messengers sent to make peace ¹²  weep bitterly.

Yesaya 35:8

35:8 A thoroughfare will be there –

it will be called the Way of Holiness. ¹³ 

The unclean will not travel on it;

it is reserved for those authorized to use it ¹⁴  –

fools ¹⁵  will not stray into it.

Yesaya 36:7

36:7 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’

Yesaya 37:20

37:20 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.” ¹⁶ 

Yesaya 37:25

37:25 I dug wells

and drank water. ¹⁷ 

With the soles of my feet I dried up

all the rivers of Egypt.’

Yesaya 37:31

37:31 Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. ¹⁸ 

Yesaya 40:17

40:17 All the nations are insignificant before him;

they are regarded as absolutely nothing. ¹⁹ 

Yesaya 45:2

45:2 “I will go before you

and level mountains. ²⁰ 

Bronze doors I will shatter

and iron bars ²¹  I will hack through.

Yesaya 65:6

65:6 Look, I have decreed: ²² 

I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;

I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, ²³ 

[14:11]  ¹ tn Or “pride” (NCV, CEV); KJV, NIV, NRSV “pomp.”

[14:11]  ² tn Or “harps” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:11]  ³ tn Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”

[25:7]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ sn The point of the imagery is unclear. Perhaps the shroud/covering referred to was associated with death in some way (see v. 8).

[29:19]  ⁶ tn Or “will rejoice” (NIV, NCV, NLT).

[29:19]  ⁷ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[32:13]  ⁸ tn “Mourn” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text vv. 12-13 are one long sentence.

[32:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “indeed, over all the houses of joy.” It is not certain if this refers to individual homes or to places where parties and celebrations were held.

[32:13]  ¹⁰ sn This same phrase is used in 22:2.

[33:7]  ¹¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown. Proposals include “heroes” (cf. KJV, ASV “valiant ones”; NASB, NIV “brave men”); “priests,” “residents [of Jerusalem].” The present translation assumes that the term is synonymous with “messengers of peace,” with which it corresponds in the parallel structure of the verse.

[33:7]  ¹² tn Heb “messengers of peace,” apparently those responsible for negotiating the agreements that have been broken (see v. 8).

[35:8]  ¹³ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and there will be there a road and a way, and the Way of Holiness it will be called.” וְדֶרֶךְ (vÿderekh, “and a/the way”) is accidentally duplicated; the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a does not reflect the repetition of the phrase.

[35:8]  ¹⁴ tn The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. The text reads literally “and it is for them, the one who walks [on the] way.” In this context those authorized to use the Way of Holiness would be morally upright people who are the recipients of God’s deliverance, in contrast to the morally impure and foolish who are excluded from the new covenant community.

[35:8]  ¹⁵ tn In this context “fools” are those who are morally corrupt, not those with limited intellectual capacity.

[37:20]  ¹⁶ tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:19 reads, “that you, Lord, are the only God.”

[37:25]  ¹⁷ tc The Hebrew text has simply, “I dug and drank water.” But the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:24 has “foreign waters.” זָרִים (zarim, “foreign”) may have accidentally dropped out of the Isaianic text by homoioteleuton (cf. NCV, NIV, NLT). Note that the preceding word, מַיִם (mayim, “water) also ends in mem (ם). The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has “foreign waters” for this line. However, in several other passages the 1QIsa^a scroll harmonizes with 2 Kgs 19 against the MT (Isa 36:5; 37:9, 20). Since the addition of “foreign” to this text in Isaiah by a later scribe would be more likely than its deletion, the MT reading should be accepted.

[37:31]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “The remnant of the house of Judah that is left will add roots below and produce fruit above.”

[40:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “[as derived] from nothing and unformed.”

[45:2]  ²⁰ tc The form הֲדוּרִים (hadurim) makes little, if any, sense here. It is probably a corruption of an original הָרָרִים (hararim, “mountains”), the reduplicated form of הָר (har, “mountain”).

[45:2]  ²¹ tn That is, on the gates. Cf. CEV “break the iron bars on bronze gates.”

[65:6]  ²² tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”

[65:6]  ²³ tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”