Yesaya 3:9

3:9 The look on their faces ¹  testifies to their guilt; ² 

like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. ³ 

Too bad for them! ⁴ 

For they bring disaster on themselves.

Yesaya 17:8

17:8 They will no longer trust in ⁵  the altars their hands made,

or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made. ⁶ 

Yesaya 19:25

19:25 The Lord who commands armies will pronounce a blessing over the earth, saying, ⁷  “Blessed be my people, Egypt, and the work of my hands, Assyria, and my special possession, ⁸  Israel!”

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 45:11

45:11 This is what the Lord says,

the Holy One of Israel, ¹¹  the one who formed him,

concerning things to come: ¹² 

“How dare you question me ¹³  about my children!

How dare you tell me what to do with ¹⁴  the work of my own hands!

Yesaya 60:6

60:6 Camel caravans will cover your roads, ¹⁵ 

young camels from Midian and Ephah.

All the merchants of Sheba ¹⁶  will come,

bringing gold and incense

and singing praises to the Lord. ¹⁷ 

Yesaya 60:21

60:21 All of your people will be godly; ¹⁸ 

they will possess the land permanently.

I will plant them like a shoot;

they will be the product of my labor,

through whom I reveal my splendor. ¹⁹ 

[3:9]  ¹ sn This refers to their proud, arrogant demeanor.

[3:9]  ² tn Heb “answers against them”; NRSV “bears witness against them.”

[3:9]  ³ tn Heb “their sin, like Sodom, they declare, they do not conceal [it].”

[3:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “woe to their soul.”

[17:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “he will not gaze toward.”

[17:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and that which his fingers made he will not see, the Asherah poles and the incense altars.”

[19:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “which the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] will bless [it], saying.” The third masculine singular suffix on the form בֵּרֲכוֹ (berakho) should probably be emended to a third feminine singular suffix בֵּרֲכָהּ (berakhah), for its antecedent would appear to be the feminine noun אֶרֶץ (’erets, “earth”) at the end of v. 24.

[19:25]  ⁸ tn Or “my inheritance” (NAB, NASB, NIV).

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

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

[45:11]  ¹¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[45:11]  ¹² tc The Hebrew text reads “the one who formed him, the coming things.” Among various suggestions, some have proposed an emendation of יֹצְרוֹ (yotsÿro, “the one who formed him”) to יֹצֵר (yotser, “the one who forms”; the suffixed form in the Hebrew text may be influenced by vv. 9-10, where the same form appears twice) and takes “coming things” as the object of the participle (either objective genitive or accusative): “the one who brings the future into being.”

[45:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “Ask me” The rhetorical command sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[45:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Do you command me about…?” The rhetorical question sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[60:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “an abundance of camels will cover you.”

[60:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “all of them, from Sheba.”

[60:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and they will announce the praises of the Lord.”

[60:21]  ¹⁸ tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”

[60:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”