Yesaya 3:22-23

3:22 festive dresses, robes, shawls, purses, 3:23 garments, vests, head coverings, and gowns. ¹ 

Yesaya 8:15

8:15 Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, ² 

and will fall and be seriously injured,

and will be ensnared and captured.”

Yesaya 10:8

10:8 Indeed, ³  he says:

“Are not my officials all kings?

Yesaya 13:7

13:7 For this reason all hands hang limp, ⁴ 

every human heart loses its courage. ⁵ 

Yesaya 23:6

23:6 Travel to Tarshish!

Wail, you residents of the coast!

Yesaya 26:11

26:11 O Lord, you are ready to act, ⁶ 

but they don’t even notice.

They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, ⁷ 

yes, fire will consume your enemies. ⁸ 

Yesaya 28:24

28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? ⁹ 

Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

Yesaya 31:4

The Lord Will Defend Zion

31:4 Indeed, this is what the Lord says to me:

“The Lord will be like a growling lion,

like a young lion growling over its prey. ¹⁰ 

Though a whole group of shepherds gathers against it,

it is not afraid of their shouts

or intimidated by their yelling. ¹¹ 

In this same way the Lord who commands armies will descend

to do battle on Mount Zion and on its hill. ¹² 

Yesaya 34:6

34:6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,

it is covered ¹³  with fat;

it drips ¹⁴  with the blood of young rams and goats

and is covered ¹⁵  with the fat of rams’ kidneys.

For the Lord is holding a sacrifice ¹⁶  in Bozrah, ¹⁷ 

a bloody ¹⁸  slaughter in the land of Edom.

Yesaya 36:8

36:8 Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

Yesaya 36:11

36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ¹⁹  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ²⁰  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Yesaya 37:5

37:5 When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,

Yesaya 39:5

39:5 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the word of the Lord who commands armies:

Yesaya 43:11

43:11 I, I am the Lord,

and there is no deliverer besides me.

Yesaya 46:13

46:13 I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away;

I am bringing my salvation near, ²¹  it does not wait.

I will save Zion; ²² 

I will adorn Israel with my splendor.” ²³ 

Yesaya 47:14

47:14 Look, they are like straw,

which the fire burns up;

they cannot rescue themselves

from the heat ²⁴  of the flames.

There are no coals to warm them,

no firelight to enjoy. ²⁵ 

Yesaya 49:18

49:18 Look all around you! ²⁶ 

All of them gather to you.

As surely as I live,” says the Lord,

“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;

you will put them on as if you were a bride.

Yesaya 54:13

54:13 All your children will be followers of the Lord,

and your children will enjoy great prosperity. ²⁷ 

Yesaya 57:21

57:21 There will be no prosperity,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Yesaya 58:9

58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;

you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’

You must ²⁸  remove the burdensome yoke from among you

and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

[3:23]  ¹ tn The precise meaning of many of the words in this list is uncertain.

[3:23]  sn The rhetorical purpose for such a lengthy list is to impress on the audience the guilt of these women with their proud, materialistic attitude, whose husbands and fathers have profited at the expense of the poor.

[8:15]  ² tn Heb “over them” (so NASB); NCV “over this rock.”

[10:8]  ³ tn Or “For” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV).

[13:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “drop”; KJV “be faint”; ASV “be feeble”; NAB “fall helpless.”

[13:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “melts” (so NAB).

[26:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “O Lord, your hand is lifted up.”

[26:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “They will see and be ashamed of zeal of people.” Some take the prefixed verbs as jussives and translate the statement as a prayer, “Let them see and be put to shame.” The meaning of the phrase קִנְאַת־עָם (qin’at-’am, “zeal of people”) is unclear. The translation assumes that this refers to God’s angry judgment upon people. Another option is to understand the phrase as referring to God’s zealous, protective love of his covenant people. In this case one might translate, “by your zealous devotion to your people.”

[26:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “yes, fire, your enemies, will consume them.” Many understand the prefixed verb form to be jussive and translate, “let [fire] consume” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The mem suffixed to the verb may be enclitic; if a pronominal suffix, it refers back to “your enemies.”

[28:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See BDB 400 s.v. יוֹם.

[31:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “As a lion growls, a young lion over its prey.” In the Hebrew text the opening comparison is completed later in the verse (“so the Lord will come down…”), after a parenthesis describing how fearless the lion is. The present translation divides the verse into three sentences for English stylistic reasons.

[31:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Though there is summoned against it fullness of shepherds, by their voice it is not terrified, and to their noise it does not respond.”

[31:4]  ¹² tn Some prefer to translate the phrase לִצְבֹּא עַל (litsbo’ ’al) as “fight against,” but the following context pictures the Lord defending, not attacking, Zion.

[34:6]  ¹³ tn The verb is a rare Hotpaal passive form. See GKC 150 §54.h.

[34:6]  ¹⁴ tn The words “it drips” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ¹⁵ tn The words “and is covered” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for there is a sacrifice to the Lord.”

[34:6]  ¹⁷ sn The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene.

[34:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “great” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[36:11]  ¹⁹ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

[36:11]  ²⁰ tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”

[46:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “my salvation.” The verb “I am bringing near” is understood by ellipsis (note the previous line).

[46:13]  ²² tn Heb “I will place in Zion salvation”; NASB “I will grant salvation in Zion.”

[46:13]  ²³ tn Heb “to Israel my splendor”; KJV, ASV “for Israel my glory.”

[47:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “hand,” here a metaphor for the strength or power of the flames.

[47:14]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “there is no coal [for?] their food, light to sit before it.” Some emend לַחְמָם (lakhmam, “their food”) to לְחֻמָּם (lÿkhummam, “to warm them”; see HALOT 328 s.v. חמם). This statement may allude to Isa 44:16, where idolaters are depicted warming themselves over a fire made from wood, part of which was used to form idols. The fire of divine judgment will be no such campfire; its flames will devour and destroy.

[49:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “Lift up around your eyes and see.”

[54:13]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and great [will be] the peace of your sons.”

[58:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 9b-10 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in vv. 9b-10a), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 10b.