Yesaya 36:8

36:8 Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

Yesaya 37:27

37:27 Their residents are powerless; ¹ 

they are terrified and ashamed.

They are as short-lived as plants in the field

or green vegetation. ² 

They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ³ 

when it is scorched by the east wind. ⁴ 

Yesaya 45:23

45:23 I solemnly make this oath ⁵  –

what I say is true and reliable: ⁶ 

‘Surely every knee will bow to me,

every tongue will solemnly affirm; ⁷ 

Yesaya 49:9

49:9 You will say ⁸  to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’

and to those who are in dark dungeons, ⁹  ‘Emerge.’ ¹⁰ 

They will graze beside the roads;

on all the slopes they will find pasture.

Yesaya 50:1

50:1 This is what the Lord says:

“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate

by which I divorced her?

Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? ¹¹ 

Look, you were sold because of your sins; ¹² 

because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother. ¹³ 

Yesaya 56:5

56:5 I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument ¹⁴ 

that will be better than sons and daughters.

I will set up a permanent monument ¹⁵  for them that will remain.

Yesaya 58:9

58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;

you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’

You must ¹⁶  remove the burdensome yoke from among you

and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

Yesaya 65:5

65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself!

Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’

These people are like smoke in my nostrils,

like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

[37:27]  ¹ tn Heb “short of hand”; KJV, ASV “of small power”; NASB “short of strength.”

[37:27]  ² tn Heb “they are plants in the field and green vegetation.” The metaphor emphasizes how short-lived these seemingly powerful cities really were. See Ps 90:5-6; Isa 40:6-8, 24.

[37:27]  ³ tn Heb “[they are] grass on the rooftops.” See the preceding note.

[37:27]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text has “scorched before the standing grain” (perhaps meaning “before it reaches maturity”), but it is preferable to emend קָמָה (qamah, “standing grain”) to קָדִים (qadim, “east wind”) with the support of 1Q Isa^a; cf. J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:657, n. 8.

[45:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “I swear by myself”; KJV, NASB “have sworn.”

[45:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “a word goes out from my mouth [in] truth and will not return.”

[45:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “swear” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “confess allegiance.”

[49:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “to say.” In the Hebrew text the infinitive construct is subordinated to what precedes.

[49:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “in darkness” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “the prisoners of darkness.”

[49:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “show yourselves” (so ASV, NAB, NASB).

[50:1]  ¹¹ sn The Lord challenges the exiles (Zion’s children) to bring incriminating evidence against him. The rhetorical questions imply that Israel accused the Lord of divorcing his wife (Zion) and selling his children (the Israelites) into slavery to pay off a debt.

[50:1]  ¹² sn The Lord admits that he did sell the Israelites, but it was because of their sins, not because of some debt he owed. If he had sold them to a creditor, they ought to be able to point him out, but the preceding rhetorical question implies they would not be able to do so.

[50:1]  ¹³ sn The Lord admits he did divorce Zion, but that too was the result of the nation’s sins. The force of the earlier rhetorical question comes into clearer focus now. The question does not imply that a certificate does not exist and that no divorce occurred. Rather, the question asks for the certificate to be produced so the accuser can see the reason for the divorce in black and white. The Lord did not put Zion away arbitrarily.

[56:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “a hand and a name.” For other examples where יָד (yad) refers to a monument, see HALOT 388 s.v.

[56:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “name” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[58:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 9b-10 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in vv. 9b-10a), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 10b.