Yesaya 10:30

10:30 Shout out, daughter of Gallim!

Pay attention, Laishah!

Answer her, Anathoth! ¹ 

Yesaya 27:5

27:5 unless they became my subjects ² 

and made peace with me;

let them make peace with me. ³ 

Yesaya 40:25

40:25 “To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?”

says the Holy One. ⁴ 

Yesaya 42:18

The Lord Reasons with His People

42:18 “Listen, you deaf ones!

Take notice, ⁵  you blind ones!

Yesaya 42:21

42:21 The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice

by magnifying his law and displaying it. ⁶ 

Yesaya 43:21

43:21 the people whom I formed for myself,

so they might praise me.” ⁷ 

[10:30]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text reads “Poor [is] Anathoth.” The parallelism is tighter if עֲנִיָּה (’aniyyah,“poor”) is emended to עֲנִיהָ (’aniha, “answer her”). Note how the preceding two lines have an imperative followed by a proper name.

[27:5]  ² tn Heb “or let him take hold of my refuge.” The subject of the third masculine singular verb form is uncertain. Apparently the symbolic “thorns and briers” are in view, though in v. 4b a feminine singular pronoun was used to refer to them.

[27:5]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has, “he makes peace with me, peace he makes with me.” Some contend that two alternative readings are preserved here and one should be deleted. The first has the object שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) preceding the verb עָשָׂה (’asah, “make”); the second reverses the order. Another option is to retain both statements, although repetitive, to emphasize the need to make peace with Yahweh.

[40:25]  ⁴ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[42:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “look to see”; NAB, NCV “look and see”; NRSV “look up and see.”

[42:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “The Lord was pleased for the sake of his righteousness [or “justice”], he was magnifying [the] law and was making [it] glorious.” The Lord contrasts his good intentions for the people with their present crisis (v. 22). To demonstrate his just character and attract the nations, the Lord wanted to showcase his law among and through Israel (Deut 4:5-8). But Israel disobeyed (v. 24) and failed to carry out their commission.

[43:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “[so] they might declare my praise.”