Yesaya 5:9

5:9 The Lord who commands armies told me this: ¹ 

“Many houses will certainly become desolate,

large, impressive houses will have no one living in them. ² 

Yesaya 29:21

29:21 those who bear false testimony against a person, ³ 

who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate ⁴ 

and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. ⁵ 

Yesaya 44:9

44:9 All who form idols are nothing;

the things in which they delight are worthless.

Their witnesses cannot see;

they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

Yesaya 45:11

45:11 This is what the Lord says,

the Holy One of Israel, ⁶  the one who formed him,

concerning things to come: ⁷ 

“How dare you question me ⁸  about my children!

How dare you tell me what to do with ⁹  the work of my own hands!

Yesaya 56:2

56:2 The people who do this will be blessed, ¹⁰ 

the people who commit themselves to obedience, ¹¹ 

who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,

who refrain from doing anything that is wrong. ¹² 

Yesaya 58:4

58:4 Look, your fasting is accompanied by ¹³  arguments, brawls,

and fistfights. ¹⁴ 

Do not fast as you do today,

trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

Yesaya 66:9

66:9 “Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?”

asks the Lord.

“Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?”

asks your God. ¹⁵ 

[5:9]  ¹ tn Heb “in my ears, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].”

[5:9]  ² tn Heb “great and good [houses], without a resident.”

[29:21]  ³ tn Heb “the ones who make a man a sinner with a word.” The Hiphil of חָטָא (khata’) here has a delocutive sense: “declare a man sinful/guilty.”

[29:21]  ⁴ sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.

[29:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”

[45:11]  ⁶ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[45:11]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads “the one who formed him, the coming things.” Among various suggestions, some have proposed an emendation of יֹצְרוֹ (yotsÿro, “the one who formed him”) to יֹצֵר (yotser, “the one who forms”; the suffixed form in the Hebrew text may be influenced by vv. 9-10, where the same form appears twice) and takes “coming things” as the object of the participle (either objective genitive or accusative): “the one who brings the future into being.”

[45:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “Ask me” The rhetorical command sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[45:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “Do you command me about…?” The rhetorical question sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[56:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”

[56:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”

[56:2]  ¹² tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

[58:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “you fast for” (so NASB); NRSV “you fast only to quarrel.”

[58:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and for striking with a sinful fist.”

[66:9]  ¹⁵ sn The rhetorical questions expect the answer, “Of course not!”