Yesaya 17:10

17:10 For you ignore ¹  the God who rescues you;

you pay no attention to your strong protector. ² 

So this is what happens:

You cultivate beautiful plants

and plant exotic vines. ³ 

Yesaya 21:10

21:10 O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, ⁴ 

what I have heard

from the Lord who commands armies,

the God of Israel,

I have reported to you.

Yesaya 25:1

25:1 O Lord, you are my God! ⁵ 

I will exalt you in praise, I will extol your fame. ⁶ 

For you have done extraordinary things,

and executed plans made long ago exactly as you decreed. ⁷ 

Yesaya 37:17

37:17 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! ⁸ 

Yesaya 37:19

37:19 They have burned the gods of the nations, ⁹  for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 38:5

38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor ¹¹  David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

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. ¹² 

He does not get tired or weary;

there is no limit to his wisdom. ¹³ 

Yesaya 45:3

45:3 I will give you hidden treasures, ¹⁴ 

riches stashed away in secret places,

so you may recognize that I am the Lord,

the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.

Yesaya 49:4

49:4 But I thought, ¹⁵  “I have worked in vain;

I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” ¹⁶ 

But the Lord will vindicate me;

my God will reward me. ¹⁷ 

Yesaya 52:12

52:12 Yet do not depart quickly

or leave in a panic. ¹⁸ 

For the Lord goes before you;

the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Yesaya 61:6

61:6 You will be called, ‘the Lord’s priests,

servants of our God.’ ¹⁹ 

You will enjoy ²⁰  the wealth of nations

and boast about ²¹  the riches you receive from them. ²² 

[17:10]  ¹ tn Heb “you have forgotten” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[17:10]  ² tn Heb “and the rocky cliff of your strength you do not remember.”

[17:10]  ³ tn Heb “a vine, a strange one.” The substantival adjective זָר (zar) functions here as an appositional genitive. It could refer to a cultic plant of some type, associated with a pagan rite. But it is more likely that it refers to an exotic, or imported, type of vine, one that is foreign (i.e., “strange”) to Israel.

[21:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “My trampled one, and the son of the threshing floor.”

[25:1]  ⁵ sn The prophet speaks here as one who has observed the coming judgment of the proud.

[25:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “name.” See the note at 24:15.

[25:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “plans from long ago [in] faithfulness, trustworthiness.” The feminine noun אֱמוּנָה (’emunah, “faithfulness”) and masculine noun אֹמֶן (’omen, “trustworthiness”), both of which are derived from the root אָמַן (’aman), are juxtaposed to emphasize the basic idea conveyed by the synonyms. Here they describe the absolute reliability of the divine plans.

[37:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “Hear all the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

[37:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they put their gods in the fire.”

[37:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “so they destroyed them” (NASB similar).

[38:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).

[40:28]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ 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).

[45:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “treasures of darkness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “treasures from dark, secret places.”

[49:4]  ¹⁵ tn Or “said” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “I replied.”

[49:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for nothing and emptiness.” Synonyms are combined to emphasize the common idea.

[49:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “But my justice is with the Lord, and my reward [or “wage”] with my God.”

[52:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “or go in flight”; NAB “leave in headlong flight.”

[61:6]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text adds, “it will be said concerning you.”

[61:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “eat” (KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “feed on”; NLT “be fed with.”

[61:6]  ²¹ tc The form in the Hebrew text is probably a corruption of יִתְאַמְּרוּ (yit’ammÿru), a Hitpael from אָמַר (’amar), meaning “boast about” (see HALOT 67 s.v. II אמר, HALOT 416 s.v. ימר, and BDB 56 s.v. אָמַר).

[61:6]  ²² tn Heb “their glory” (i.e., riches).