Yesaya 1:4

1:4 ¹ The sinful nation is as good as dead, ² 

the people weighed down by evil deeds.

They are offspring who do wrong,

children ³  who do wicked things.

They have abandoned the Lord,

and rejected the Holy One of Israel. ⁴ 

They are alienated from him. ⁵ 

Yesaya 29:23

29:23 For when they see their children,

whom I will produce among them, ⁶ 

they will honor ⁷  my name.

They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; ⁸ 

they will respect ⁹  the God of Israel.

Yesaya 30:11-12

30:11 Turn aside from the way,

stray off the path. ¹⁰ 

Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.” ¹¹ 

30:12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:

“You have rejected this message; ¹² 

you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, ¹³ 

and rely on that kind of behavior. ¹⁴ 

[1:4]  ¹ sn Having summoned the witnesses and announced the Lord’s accusation against Israel, Isaiah mourns the nation’s impending doom. The third person references to the Lord in the second half of the verse suggest that the quotation from the Lord (cf. vv. 2-3) has concluded.

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “Woe [to the] sinful nation.” The Hebrew term הוֹי, (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death. In highly dramatic fashion the prophet acts out Israel’s funeral in advance, emphasizing that their demise is inevitable if they do not repent soon.

[1:4]  ³ tn Or “sons” (NASB). The prophet contrasts four terms of privilege – nation, people, offspring, children – with four terms that depict Israel’s sinful condition in Isaiah’s day – sinful, evil, wrong, wicked (see J. A. Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah, 43).

[1:4]  ⁴ sn Holy One of Israel is one of Isaiah’s favorite divine titles for God. It pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “they are estranged backward.” The LXX omits this statement, which presents syntactical problems and seems to be outside the synonymous parallelistic structure of the verse.

[29:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “for when he sees his children, the work of my hands in his midst.”

[29:23]  ⁷ tn Or “treat as holy” (also in the following line); NASB, NRSV “will sanctify.”

[29:23]  ⁸ sn Holy One of Jacob is similar to the phrase “Holy One of Israel” common throughout Isaiah; see the sn at Isa 1:4.

[29:23]  ⁹ tn Or “fear,” in the sense of “stand in awe of.”

[30:11]  ¹⁰ sn The imagery refers to the way or path of truth, as revealed by God to the prophet.

[30:11]  ¹¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[30:12]  ¹² tn The sentence actually begins with the word “because.” In the Hebrew text vv. 12-13 are one long sentence.

[30:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “and you trust in oppression and cunning.”

[30:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and you lean on it”; NAB “and depend on it.”