Yesaya 6:7

6:7 He touched my mouth with it and said, “Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.” ¹ 

Yesaya 8:11

The Lord Encourages Isaiah

8:11 Indeed this is what the Lord told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people: ² 

Yesaya 13:17

13:17 Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them; ³ 

they are not concerned about silver,

nor are they interested in gold. ⁴ 

Yesaya 14:24

14:24 ⁵ The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:

“Be sure of this:

Just as I have intended, so it will be;

just as I have planned, it will happen.

Yesaya 34:5

34:5 He says, ⁶  “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. ⁷ 

Look, it now descends on Edom, ⁸ 

on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

Yesaya 41:29

41:29 Look, all of them are nothing, ⁹ 

their accomplishments are nonexistent;

their metal images lack any real substance. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 42:9

42:9 Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; ¹¹ 

now I announce new events.

Before they begin to occur,

I reveal them to you.” ¹² 

Yesaya 48:7

48:7 Now they come into being, ¹³  not in the past;

before today you did not hear about them,

so you could not say,

‘Yes, ¹⁴  I know about them.’

Yesaya 48:10

48:10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;

I have purified you ¹⁵  in the furnace of misery.

Yesaya 49:16

49:16 Look, I have inscribed your name ¹⁶  on my palms;

your walls are constantly before me.

Yesaya 54:15

54:15 If anyone dares to ¹⁷  challenge you, it will not be my doing!

Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated. ¹⁸ 

Yesaya 65:6

65:6 Look, I have decreed: ¹⁹ 

I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;

I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, ²⁰ 

Yesaya 65:14

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ²¹ 

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ²² 

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ²³ 

[6:7]  ¹ tn Or “ritually cleansed,” or “atoned for” (NIV).

[8:11]  ² tc Heb “with strength of hand and he warned me from walking in the way of these people, saying.” Some want to change the pointing of the suffix and thereby emend the Qal imperfect יִסְּרֵנִי (yissÿreni, “he was warning me”) to the more common Piel perfect יִסְּרַנִי (yissÿrani, “he warned me”). Others follow the lead of the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and read יְסִירֵנִי (yÿsireni, “he was turning me aside,” a Hiphil imperfect from סוּר, sur).

[13:17]  ³ tn Heb “against them”; NLT “against Babylon.”

[13:17]  ⁴ sn They cannot be bought off, for they have a lust for bloodshed.

[14:24]  ⁵ sn Having announced the downfall of the Chaldean empire, the Lord appends to this prophecy a solemn reminder that the Assyrians, the major Mesopotamian power of Isaiah’s day, would be annihilated, foreshadowing what would subsequently happen to Babylon and the other hostile nations.

[34:5]  ⁶ tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Lord speaks at this point.

[34:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “indeed [or “for”] my sword is drenched in the heavens.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has תראה (“[my sword] appeared [in the heavens]”), but this is apparently an attempt to make sense out of a difficult metaphor. Cf. NIV “My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens.”

[34:5]  sn In v. 4 the “host of the heaven” refers to the heavenly luminaries (stars and planets, see, among others, Deut 4:19; 17:3; 2 Kgs 17:16; 21:3, 5; 23:4-5; 2 Chr 33:3, 5) that populate the divine/heavenly assembly in mythological and prescientific Israelite thought (see Job 38:7; Isa 14:13). As in 24:21, they are viewed here as opposing God and being defeated in battle.

[34:5]  ⁸ sn Edom is mentioned here as epitomizing the hostile nations that oppose God.

[41:29]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text has אָוֶן (’aven, “deception,” i.e., “false”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has אין (“nothing”), which forms a better parallel with אֶפֶס (’efes, “nothing”) in the next line. See also 40:17 and 41:12.

[41:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “their statues are wind and nothing”; NASB “wind and emptiness”; NIV “wind and confusion.”

[42:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the former things, look, they have come.”

[42:9]  ¹² tn Heb “before they sprout up, I cause you to hear.” The pronoun “you” is plural, referring to the people of Israel. In this verse “the former things” are the Lord’s earlier predictive oracles which have come to pass, while “the new things” are predicted events that have not yet begun to take place. “The former things” are earlier events in Israel’s history which God announced beforehand, such as the Exodus (see 43:16-18). “The new things” are the predictions about the servant (42:1-7). and may also include Cyrus’ conquests (41:25-27).

[48:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”

[48:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”

[48:10]  ¹⁵ tc The Hebrew text has בְּחַרְתִּיךָ (bÿkhartikha, “I have chosen you”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly בחנתיכה (“I have tested you”). The metallurgical background of the imagery suggests that purification through testing is the idea.

[49:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “you.” Here the pronoun is put by metonymy for the person’s name.

[54:15]  ¹⁷ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb here for emphasis.

[54:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “will fall over you.” The expression נָפַל עַל (nafal ’al) can mean “attack,” but here it means “fall over to,” i.e., “surrender to.”

[65:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”

[65:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”

[65:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14]  ²² tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14]  ²³ tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”