Yesaya 4:5

4:5 Then the Lord will create

over all of Mount Zion ¹ 

and over its convocations

a cloud and smoke by day

and a bright flame of fire by night; ² 

indeed a canopy will accompany the Lord’s glorious presence. ³ 

Yesaya 5:24

5:24 Therefore, as flaming fire ⁴  devours straw,

and dry grass disintegrates in the flames,

so their root will rot,

and their flower will blow away like dust. ⁵ 

For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies,

they have spurned the commands ⁶  of the Holy One of Israel. ⁷ 

Yesaya 17:13

17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, ⁸ 

when he shouts at ⁹  them, they will flee to a distant land,

driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills,

or like dead thistles ¹⁰  before a strong gale.

Yesaya 24:18

24:18 The one who runs away from the sound of the terror

will fall into the pit; ¹¹ 

the one who climbs out of the pit,

will be trapped by the snare.

For the floodgates of the heavens ¹²  are opened up ¹³ 

and the foundations of the earth shake.

Yesaya 26:21

26:21 For look, the Lord is coming out of the place where he lives, ¹⁴ 

to punish the sin of those who live on the earth.

The earth will display the blood shed on it;

it will no longer cover up its slain. ¹⁵ 

Yesaya 27:11

27:11 When its branches get brittle, ¹⁶  they break;

women come and use them for kindling. ¹⁷ 

For these people lack understanding, ¹⁸ 

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on 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 48:11

48:11 For my sake alone ²¹  I will act,

for how can I allow my name to be defiled? ²² 

I will not share my glory with anyone else! ²³ 

[4:5]  ¹ tn Heb “over all the place, Mount Zion.” Cf. NLT “Jerusalem”; CEV “the whole city.”

[4:5]  ² tn Heb “a cloud by day, and smoke, and brightness of fire, a flame by night.” Though the accents in the Hebrew text suggest otherwise, it might be preferable to take “smoke” with what follows, since one would expect smoke to accompany fire.

[4:5]  sn The imagery of the cloud by day and fire by night recalls the days of Moses, when a cloud and fire were tangible reminders that the Lord was guiding and protecting his people (Exod 13:21-22; 14:19, 24). In the future age envisioned in Isa 4, the Lord’s protective presence will be a reality.

[4:5]  ³ tn Heb “indeed (or “for”) over all the glory, a canopy.” This may allude to Exod 40:34-35, where a cloud overshadows the meeting tent as it is filled with God’s glory.

[5:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “a tongue of fire” (so NASB), referring to a tongue-shaped flame.

[5:24]  ⁵ sn They are compared to a flowering plant that withers quickly in a hot, arid climate.

[5:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “the word.”

[5:24]  ⁷ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[17:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “the peoples are in an uproar like the uproar of mighty waters.”

[17:13]  ⁹ tn Or “rebukes.” The verb and related noun are used in theophanies of God’s battle cry which terrifies his enemies. See, for example, Pss 18:15; 76:7; 106:9; Isa 50:2; Nah 1:4, and A. Caquot, TDOT 3:49-53.

[17:13]  ¹⁰ tn Or perhaps “tumbleweed” (NAB, NIV, CEV); KJV “like a rolling thing.”

[24:18]  ¹¹ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[24:18]  ¹² tn Heb “from the height”; KJV “from on high.”

[24:18]  ¹³ sn The language reflects the account of the Noahic Flood (see Gen 7:11).

[26:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “out of his place” (so KJV, ASV).

[26:21]  ¹⁵ sn This implies that rampant bloodshed is one of the reasons for divine judgment. See the note at 24:5.

[27:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[27:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried up branches that is only good for firewood.

[27:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”

[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.”

[48:11]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text repeats לְמַעֲנִי (lÿma’ani, “for my sake”) for emphasis.

[48:11]  ²² tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “for how can it be defiled?” The subject of the verb is probably “name” (v. 9).

[48:11]  ²³ sn See 42:8.