Yesaya 1:22

1:22 Your ¹  silver has become scum, ² 

your beer is diluted with water. ³ 

Yesaya 22:7

22:7 Your very best valleys were full of chariots; ⁴ 

horsemen confidently took their positions ⁵  at the gate.

Yesaya 33:4

33:4 Your plunder ⁶  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ⁷ 

they swarm over it like locusts! ⁸ 

Yesaya 60:1

Zion’s Future Splendor

60:1 “Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!

The splendor ⁹  of the Lord shines on you!

Yesaya 66:20

66:20 They will bring back all your countrymen ¹⁰  from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them ¹¹  on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels ¹²  to my holy hill Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord’s temple in ritually pure containers.

[1:22]  ¹ tn The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.

[1:22]  ² tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.

[1:22]  ³ sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.

[22:7]  ⁴ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[22:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “taking a stand, take their stand.” The infinitive absolute emphasizes the following finite verb. The translation attempts to bring out this emphasis with the adverb “confidently.”

[33:4]  ⁶ tn The pronoun is plural; the statement is addressed to the nations who have stockpiled plunder from their conquests of others.

[33:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “and your plunder is gathered, the gathering of the locust.”

[33:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “like a swarm of locusts swarming on it.”

[60:1]  ⁹ tn Or “glory” (so most English versions).

[66:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “brothers” (so NIV); NCV “fellow Israelites.”

[66:20]  ¹¹ tn The words “they will bring them” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[66:20]  ¹² tn The precise meaning of this word is uncertain. Some suggest it refers to “chariots.” See HALOT 498 s.v. *כִּרְכָּרָה.