Yesaya 3:17

3:17 So ¹  the sovereign master ²  will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women ³  with skin diseases, ⁴ 

the Lord will make the front of their heads bald.” ⁵ 

Yesaya 8:22

8:22 When one looks out over the land, he sees ⁶  distress and darkness, gloom ⁷  and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land. ⁸ 

Yesaya 38:13

38:13 I cry out ⁹  until morning;

like a lion he shatters all my bones;

you turn day into night and end my life. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 47:7

47:7 You said,

‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ ¹¹ 

You did not think about these things; ¹² 

you did not consider how it would turn out. ¹³ 

Yesaya 65:3

65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me ¹⁴ 

as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards ¹⁵ 

and burn incense on brick altars. ¹⁶ 

[3:17]  ¹ tn In the Hebrew text vv. 16-17 and one long sentence, “Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk…, the sovereign master will afflict….” In v. 17 the Lord refers to himself in the third person.

[3:17]  ² tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in v. 18 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[3:17]  ³ tn Heb “the daughters of Zion.”

[3:17]  ⁴ tn Or “a scab” (KJV, ASV); NIV, NCV, CEV “sores.”

[3:17]  ⁵ tn The precise meaning of this line is unclear because of the presence of the rare word פֹּת (pot). Since the verb in the line means “lay bare, make naked,” some take פֹּת as a reference to the genitals (cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV, CEV). (In 1 Kgs 7:50 a noun פֹּת appears, with the apparent meaning “socket.”) J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:139, n. 2), basing his argument on alleged Akkadian evidence and the parallelism of the verse, takes פֹּת as “forehead.”

[8:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).

[8:22]  ⁷ tn The precise meaning of מְעוּף (mÿ’uf) is uncertain; the word occurs only here. See BDB 734 s.v. מָעוּף.

[8:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “ and darkness, pushed.” The word מְנֻדָּח (mÿnudakh) appears to be a Pual participle from נדח (“push”), but the Piel is unattested for this verb and the Pual occurs only here.

[38:13]  ⁹ tn The verb form in the Hebrew text is a Piel from שָׁוַה (shavah). There are two homonyms שָׁוַה, one meaning in the Piel “level, smooth out,” the other “set, place.” Neither fits in v. 13. It is likely that the original reading was שִׁוַּעְתִּי (shivva’ti, “I cry out”) from the verbal root שָׁוַע (shava’), which occurs exclusively in the Piel.

[38:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from day to night you bring me to an end.”

[47:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Forever I [will be] permanent queen”; NIV “the eternal queen”; CEV “queen forever.”

[47:7]  ¹² tn Heb “you did not set these things upon your heart [or “mind”].”

[47:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “you did not remember its outcome”; NAB “you disregarded their outcome.”

[65:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

[65:3]  ¹⁵ tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[65:3]  ¹⁶ tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”