Yesaya 11:12

11:12 He will lift a signal flag for the nations;

he will gather Israel’s dispersed people ¹ 

and assemble Judah’s scattered people

from the four corners of the earth.

Yesaya 13:13

13:13 So I will shake the heavens, ² 

and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, ³ 

because of the fury of the Lord who commands armies,

in the day he vents his raging anger. ⁴ 

Yesaya 26:9

26:9 I ⁵  look for ⁶  you during the night,

my spirit within me seeks you at dawn,

for when your judgments come upon the earth,

those who live in the world learn about justice. ⁷ 

Yesaya 34:1

The Lord Will Judge Edom

34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen!

Pay attention, you people!

The earth and everything it contains must listen,

the world and everything that lives in it. ⁸ 

Yesaya 40:22

40:22 He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; ⁹ 

its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. ¹⁰ 

He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, ¹¹ 

and spreads it out ¹²  like a pitched tent. ¹³ 

Yesaya 40:28

40:28 Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The Lord is an eternal God,

the creator of the whole earth. ¹⁴ 

He does not get tired or weary;

there is no limit to his wisdom. ¹⁵ 

Yesaya 41:9

41:9 you whom I am bringing back ¹⁶  from the earth’s extremities,

and have summoned from the remote regions –

I told you, “You are my servant.”

I have chosen you and not rejected you.

Yesaya 42:10

42:10 Sing to the Lord a brand new song!

Praise him ¹⁷  from the horizon of the earth,

you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, ¹⁸ 

you coastlands ¹⁹  and those who live there!

Yesaya 43:6

43:6 I will say to the north, ‘Hand them over!’

and to the south, ‘Don’t hold any back!’

Bring my sons from distant lands,

and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,

Yesaya 45:8

45:8 O sky, rain down from above!

Let the clouds send down showers ²⁰  of deliverance!

Let the earth absorb it ²¹  so salvation may grow, ²² 

and deliverance may sprout up ²³  along with it.

I, the Lord, create it. ²⁴ 

Yesaya 49:13

49:13 Shout for joy, O sky! ²⁵ 

Rejoice, O earth!

Let the mountains give a joyful shout!

For the Lord consoles his people

and shows compassion to the ²⁶  oppressed.

Yesaya 66:22

66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.

[11:12]  ¹ tn Or “the banished of Israel,” i.e., the exiles.

[13:13]  ² tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[13:13]  ³ tn Heb “from its place” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV).

[13:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “and in the day of the raging of his anger.”

[26:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “with my soul I.” This is a figure for the speaker himself (“I”).

[26:9]  ⁶ tn Or “long for, desire.” The speaker acknowledges that he is eager to see God come in judgment (see vv. 8, 9b).

[26:9]  ⁷ tn The translation understands צֶדֶק (tsedeq) in the sense of “justice,” but it is possible that it carries the nuance “righteousness,” in which case one might translate, “those who live in the world learn to live in a righteous manner” (cf. NCV).

[34:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “the world and its offspring”; NASB “the world and all that springs from it.”

[40:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “the circle of the earth” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[40:22]  ¹⁰ tn The words “before him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[40:22]  ¹¹ tn The otherwise unattested noun דֹּק (doq), translated here “thin curtain,” is apparently derived from the verbal root דקק (“crush”) from which is derived the adjective דַּק (daq, “thin”; see HALOT 229 s.v. דקק). The nuance “curtain” is implied from the parallelism (see “tent” in the next line).

[40:22]  ¹² tn The meaning of the otherwise unattested verb מָתַח (matakh, “spread out”) is determined from the parallelism (note the corresponding verb “stretch out” in the previous line) and supported by later Hebrew and Aramaic cognates. See HALOT 654 s.v. *מתה.

[40:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “like a tent [in which] to live”; NAB, NASB “like a tent to dwell (live NIV, NRSV) in.”

[40:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.

[40:28]  ¹⁵ sn Exiled Israel’s complaint (v. 27) implies that God might be limited in some way. Perhaps he, like so many of the pagan gods, has died. Or perhaps his jurisdiction is limited to Judah and does not include Babylon. Maybe he is unable to devise an adequate plan to rescue his people, or is unable to execute it. But v. 28 affirms that he is not limited temporally or spatially nor is his power and wisdom restricted in any way. He can and will deliver his people, if they respond in hopeful faith (v. 31a).

[41:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “whom I have taken hold of [i.e., to lead back].”

[42:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “his praise.” The phrase stands parallel to “new song” in the previous line.

[42:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and its fullness”; NASB, NIV “and all that is in it.”

[42:10]  ¹⁹ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “distant coastlands.”

[45:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “let the clouds drip with”; KJV “let the skies pour down.”

[45:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “open up” (so NASB); NIV, NLT “open wide.”

[45:8]  ²² tc The plural verb should be emended to a singular form. The vav (ו) ending is probably virtually dittographic (note the yod at the beginning of the following word).

[45:8]  ²³ tc The Hiphil verb form (תַצְמִיחַ, tatsmiakh) should probably be emended to a Qal (תִצְמַח, titsmakh). The יח sequence at the end of the form is probably due to dittography (note the following יַחַד, yakhad).

[45:8]  ²⁴ tn The masculine singular pronominal suffix probably refers back to יָשַׁע (yasha’, “salvation”).

[49:13]  ²⁵ tn Or “O heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[49:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “his” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).