Yesaya 1:24

1:24 Therefore, the sovereign Lord who commands armies, ¹ 

the powerful ruler of Israel, ²  says this:

“Ah, I will seek vengeance ³  against my adversaries,

I will take revenge against my enemies. ⁴ 

Yesaya 43:24

43:24 You did not buy me aromatic reeds; ⁵ 

you did not present to me ⁶  the fat of your sacrifices.

Yet you burdened me with your sins;

you made me weary with your evil deeds. ⁷ 

Yesaya 63:10

63:10 But they rebelled and offended ⁸  his holy Spirit, ⁹ 

so he turned into an enemy

and fought against them.

Yesaya 65:3-5

65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me ¹⁰ 

as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards ¹¹ 

and burn incense on brick altars. ¹² 

65:4 They sit among the tombs ¹³ 

and keep watch all night long. ¹⁴ 

They eat pork, ¹⁵ 

and broth ¹⁶  from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself!

Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’

These people are like smoke in my nostrils,

like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

[1:24]  ¹ tn Heb “the master, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].” On the title “the Lord who commands armies,” see the note at v. 9.

[1:24]  ² tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Israel.”

[1:24]  ³ tn Heb “console myself” (i.e., by getting revenge); NRSV “pour out my wrath on.”

[1:24]  ⁴ sn The Lord here identifies with the oppressed and comes as their defender and vindicator.

[43:24]  ⁵ tn That is, “calamus” (so NIV); NCV, TEV, NLT “incense”; CEV “spices.”

[43:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “you did not saturate me”; NASB “Neither have you filled Me.”

[43:24]  ⁷ sn In vv. 22-24 the Lord appears to be condemning his people for failure to bring the proper sacrifices. However, this is problematic. If this refers to the nation’s behavior while in exile, such cultic service was impossible and could hardly be expected by the Lord. If this refers to the nation’s conduct before the exile, it contradicts other passages that depict Israel as bringing excessive sacrifices (see, e.g., Isa 1:11-14; Jer 6:20; Amos 4:4-5, 5:21-23). Rather than being a condemnation of Israel’s failure to bring sacrifices, these verses are better taken as a highly rhetorical comment on the worthlessness of Israel’s religious ritual. They may have brought sacrifices, but not to the Lord, for he did not accept them or even want them. See C. R. North, Second Isaiah, 127, and R. Whybray, Isaiah 40-66 (NCBC), 91.

[63:10]  ⁸ tn Or “grieved, hurt the feelings of.”

[63:10]  ⁹ sn The phrase “holy Spirit” occurs in the OT only here (in v. 11 as well) and in Ps 51:11 (51:13 HT), where it is associated with the divine presence.

[65:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

[65:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[65:3]  ¹² tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”

[65:4]  ¹³ sn Perhaps the worship of underworld deities or dead spirits is in view.

[65:4]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “and in the watches they spend the night.” Some understand נְּצוּרִים (nÿtsurim) as referring to “secret places” or “caves,” while others emend the text to וּבֵין צוּרִים (uven tsurim, “between the rocky cliffs”).

[65:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the flesh of the pig”; KJV, NAB, NASB “swine’s flesh.”

[65:4]  ¹⁶ tc The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, reads מְרַק (mÿraq, “broth”), while the consonantal text (Kethib) has פְרַק (feraq, “fragment”).