Yesaya 14:26

14:26 This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;

my hand is ready to strike all the nations.” ¹ 

Yesaya 41:5

41:5 The coastlands ²  see and are afraid;

the whole earth ³  trembles;

they approach and come.

Yesaya 42:4

42:4 He will not grow dim or be crushed ⁴ 

before establishing justice on the earth;

the coastlands ⁵  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ⁶ 

Yesaya 62:7

62:7 Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, ⁷ 

until he makes Jerusalem the pride ⁸  of the earth.

[14:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and this is the hand that is outstretched over all the nations.”

[41:5]  ² tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”

[41:5]  ³ 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.

[42:4]  ⁴ tn For rhetorical effect the terms used to describe the “crushed (רָצַץ, ratsats) reed” and “dim (כָּהָה, kahah) wick” in v. 3 are repeated here.

[42:4]  ⁵ tn Or “islands” (NIV); NLT “distant lands beyond the sea.”

[42:4]  ⁶ tn Or “his law” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV) or “his instruction” (NLT).

[62:7]  ⁷ tn “Jerusalem” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; note the following line.

[62:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “[the object of] praise.”