Yesaya 5:5

5:5 Now I will inform you

what I am about to do to my vineyard:

I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, ¹ 

I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. ² 

Yesaya 41:14

41:14 Don’t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, ³ 

men of ⁴  Israel.

I am helping you,” says the Lord,

your protector, ⁵  the Holy One of Israel. ⁶ 

Yesaya 41:17

41:17 The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none;

their tongues are parched from thirst.

I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; ⁷ 

I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.

Yesaya 43:2-3

43:2 When you pass through the waters, I am with you;

when you pass ⁸  through the streams, they will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;

the flames will not harm ⁹  you.

43:3 For I am the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel, ¹⁰  your deliverer.

I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price,

Ethiopia and Seba ¹¹  in place of you.

Yesaya 43:12

43:12 I decreed and delivered and proclaimed,

and there was no other god among you.

You are my witnesses,” says the Lord, “that I am God.

Yesaya 44:5

44:5 One will say, ‘I belong to the Lord,’

and another will use ¹²  the name ‘Jacob.’

One will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’

and use the name ‘Israel.’” ¹³ 

Yesaya 45:3

45:3 I will give you hidden treasures, ¹⁴ 

riches stashed away in secret places,

so you may recognize that I am the Lord,

the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.

Yesaya 45:7-8

45:7 I am ¹⁵  the one who forms light

and creates darkness; ¹⁶ 

the one who brings about peace

and creates calamity. ¹⁷ 

I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

45:8 O sky, rain down from above!

Let the clouds send down showers ¹⁸  of deliverance!

Let the earth absorb it ¹⁹  so salvation may grow, ²⁰ 

and deliverance may sprout up ²¹  along with it.

I, the Lord, create it. ²² 

Yesaya 45:12

45:12 I made the earth,

I created the people who live ²³  on it.

It was me – my hands ²⁴  stretched out the sky, ²⁵ 

I give orders to all the heavenly lights. ²⁶ 

Yesaya 45:19

45:19 I have not spoken in secret,

in some hidden place. ²⁷ 

I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,

‘Seek me in vain!’ ²⁸ 

I am the Lord,

the one who speaks honestly,

who makes reliable announcements. ²⁹ 

Yesaya 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ³⁰ 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ³¹ 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ³² 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ³³ 

Yesaya 47:10

47:10 You were complacent in your evil deeds; ³⁴ 

you thought, ³⁵  ‘No one sees me.’

Your self-professed ³⁶  wisdom and knowledge lead you astray,

when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’ ³⁷ 

Yesaya 48:16-17

48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!

From the very first I have not spoken in secret;

when it happens, ³⁸  I am there.”

So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. ³⁹ 

48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, ⁴⁰  says,

the Holy One of Israel: ⁴¹ 

“I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you how to succeed,

who leads you in the way you should go.

Yesaya 49:4

49:4 But I thought, ⁴²  “I have worked in vain;

I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” ⁴³ 

But the Lord will vindicate me;

my God will reward me. ⁴⁴ 

Yesaya 49:18

49:18 Look all around you! ⁴⁵ 

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 49:26

49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;

they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. ⁴⁶ 

Then all humankind ⁴⁷  will recognize that

I am the Lord, your deliverer,

your protector, ⁴⁸  the powerful ruler of Jacob.” ⁴⁹ 

Yesaya 57:16

57:16 For I will not be hostile ⁵⁰  forever

or perpetually angry,

for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, ⁵¹ 

the life-giving breath I created.

Yesaya 60:16

60:16 You will drink the milk of nations;

you will nurse at the breasts of kings. ⁵² 

Then you will recognize that I, the Lord, am your deliverer,

your protector, ⁵³  the powerful ruler of Jacob. ⁵⁴ 

Yesaya 61:8

61:8 For I, the Lord, love justice

and hate robbery and sin.

I will repay them because of my faithfulness; ⁵⁵ 

I will make a permanent covenant with them.

Yesaya 63:1

The Victorious Divine Warrior

63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, ⁵⁶ 

dressed in bright red, coming from Bozrah? ⁵⁷ 

Who ⁵⁸  is this one wearing royal attire, ⁵⁹ 

who marches confidently ⁶⁰  because of his great strength?

“It is I, the one who announces vindication,

and who is able to deliver!” ⁶¹ 

Yesaya 65:18

65:18 But be happy and rejoice forevermore

over what I am about to create!

For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem ⁶²  to be a source of joy, ⁶³ 

and her people to be a source of happiness. ⁶⁴ 

Yesaya 66:22

66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (ba’ar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.”

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “and it will become a trampled place” (NASB “trampled ground”).

[41:14]  ³ tn Heb “O worm Jacob” (NAB, NIV). The worm metaphor suggests that Jacob is insignificant and despised.

[41:14]  ⁴ tn On the basis of the parallelism (note “worm”) and an alleged Akkadian cognate, some read “louse” or “weevil.” Cf. NAB “O maggot Israel”; NRSV “you insect Israel.”

[41:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “your kinsman redeemer.” A גָּאַל (ga’al, “kinsman redeemer”) was a protector of the extended family’s interests.

[41:14]  ⁶ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[41:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “will answer them” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[43:2]  ⁸ tn The verb is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[43:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “burn” (so NASB); NAB, NRSV, NLT “consume”; NIV “set you ablaze.”

[43:3]  ¹⁰ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[43:3]  ¹¹ sn Seba is not the same as Sheba in southern Arabia; cf. Gen 1:10; 1 Chr 1:9.

[44:5]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text has a Qal verb form, “and another will call by the name of Jacob.” With support from Symmachus (an ancient Greek textual witness), some read the Niphal, “and another will be called by the name of Jacob.”

[44:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “and by the name of Israel he will title.” Some, with support from several ancient versions, prefer to change the Piel (active) verb form to a Pual (passive), “and he will be titled by the name of Israel.”

[45:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “treasures of darkness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “treasures from dark, secret places.”

[45:7]  ¹⁵ tn The words “I am” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text the participle at the beginning of v. 7 stands in apposition to “the Lord” in v. 6.

[45:7]  ¹⁶ tn On the surface v. 7a appears to describe God’s sovereign control over the cycle of day and night, but the following statement suggests that “light” and “darkness” symbolize “deliverance” and “judgment.”

[45:7]  ¹⁷ sn This verses affirms that God is ultimately sovereign over his world, including mankind and nations. In accordance with his sovereign will, he can cause wars to cease and peace to predominate (as he was about to do for his exiled people through Cyrus), or he can bring disaster and judgment on nations (as he was about to do to Babylon through Cyrus).

[45:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “let the clouds drip with”; KJV “let the skies pour down.”

[45:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “open up” (so NASB); NIV, NLT “open wide.”

[45:8]  ²⁰ tc The plural verb should be emended to a singular form. The vav (ו) ending is probably virtually dittographic (note the yod at the beginning of the following word).

[45:8]  ²¹ tc The Hiphil verb form (תַצְמִיחַ, tatsmiakh) should probably be emended to a Qal (תִצְמַח, titsmakh). The יח sequence at the end of the form is probably due to dittography (note the following יַחַד, yakhad).

[45:8]  ²² tn The masculine singular pronominal suffix probably refers back to יָשַׁע (yasha’, “salvation”).

[45:12]  ²³ tn The words “who live” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[45:12]  ²⁴ tn Heb “I, even my hands”; NASB “I stretched out…with My hands”; NRSV “it was my hands that stretched out.” The same construction occurs at the beginning of v. 13.

[45:12]  ²⁵ tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[45:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and to all their host I commanded.” See the notes at 40:26.

[45:19]  ²⁷ tn Heb “in a place of a land of darkness” (ASV similar); NASB “in some dark land.”

[45:19]  ²⁸ tn “In vain” translates תֹהוּ (tohu), used here as an adverbial accusative: “for nothing.”

[45:19]  ²⁹ tn The translation above assumes that צֶדֶק (tsedeq) and מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim) are adverbial accusatives (see 33:15). If they are taken as direct objects, indicating the content of what is spoken, one might translate, “who proclaims deliverance, who announces justice.”

[47:8]  ³⁰ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

[47:8]  ³¹ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

[47:8]  ³² tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

[47:8]  ³³ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

[47:10]  ³⁴ tn Heb “you trusted in your evil”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “wickedness.”

[47:10]  ³⁵ tn Or “said”; NAB “said to yourself”’ NASB “said in your heart.”

[47:10]  ³⁶ tn The words “self-professed” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[47:10]  ³⁷ tn See the note at v. 8.

[48:16]  ³⁸ tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”

[48:16]  ³⁹ sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.

[48:17]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[48:17]  ⁴¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[49:4]  ⁴² tn Or “said” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “I replied.”

[49:4]  ⁴³ tn Heb “for nothing and emptiness.” Synonyms are combined to emphasize the common idea.

[49:4]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “But my justice is with the Lord, and my reward [or “wage”] with my God.”

[49:18]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “Lift up around your eyes and see.”

[49:26]  ⁴⁶ sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.

[49:26]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:26]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.

[57:16]  ⁵⁰ tn Or perhaps, “argue,” or “accuse” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[57:16]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “for a spirit from before me would be faint.”

[60:16]  ⁵² sn The nations and kings are depicted as a mother nursing her children. Restored Zion will be nourished by them as she receives their wealth as tribute.

[60:16]  ⁵³ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[60:16]  ⁵⁴ sn See 1:24 and 49:26.

[61:8]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “in faithfulness”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “faithfully.”

[63:1]  ⁵⁶ sn Edom is here an archetype for the Lord’s enemies. See 34:5.

[63:1]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “[in] bright red garments, from Bozrah.”

[63:1]  ⁵⁸ tn The interrogative particle is understood by ellipsis; note the first line of the verse.

[63:1]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “honored in his clothing”; KJV, ASV “glorious in his apparel.”

[63:1]  ⁶⁰ tc The Hebrew text has צָעָה (tsa’ah), which means “stoop, bend” (51:14). The translation assumes an emendation to צָעַד (tsa’ad, “march”; see BDB 858 s.v. צָעָה).

[63:1]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “I, [the one] speaking in vindication [or “righteousness”], great to deliver.”

[65:18]  ⁶² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[65:18]  ⁶³ tn Heb “Jerusalem, joy.” The next verse suggests the meaning: The Lord will create Jerusalem to be a source of joy to himself.

[65:18]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “her people, happiness.” See the preceding note.