Yesaya 27:11

27:11 When its branches get brittle, ¹  they break;

women come and use them for kindling. ² 

For these people lack understanding, ³ 

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Yesaya 29:11

29:11 To you this entire prophetic revelation ⁴  is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read ⁵  and say, “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t, because it is sealed.”

Yesaya 48:11

48:11 For my sake alone ⁶  I will act,

for how can I allow my name to be defiled? ⁷ 

I will not share my glory with anyone else! ⁸ 

Yesaya 65:16

65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth ⁹ 

will do so in the name of the faithful God; ¹⁰ 

whoever makes an oath in the earth

will do so in the name of the faithful God. ¹¹ 

For past problems will be forgotten;

I will no longer think about them. ¹² 

[27:11]  ¹ tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[27:11]  ² tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried up branches that is only good for firewood.

[27:11]  ³ tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”

[29:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “vision” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[29:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “one who knows a/the scroll.”

[48:11]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text repeats לְמַעֲנִי (lÿma’ani, “for my sake”) for emphasis.

[48:11]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “for how can it be defiled?” The subject of the verb is probably “name” (v. 9).

[48:11]  ⁸ sn See 42:8.

[65:16]  ⁹ tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.

[65:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ¹² tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”