Yesaya 4:1

4:1 Seven women will grab hold of

one man at that time. ¹ 

They will say, “We will provide ²  our own food,

we will provide ³  our own clothes;

but let us belong to you ⁴  –

take away our shame!” ⁵ 

Yesaya 5:24

5:24 Therefore, as flaming fire ⁶  devours straw,

and dry grass disintegrates in the flames,

so their root will rot,

and their flower will blow away like dust. ⁷ 

For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies,

they have spurned the commands ⁸  of the Holy One of Israel. ⁹ 

Yesaya 23:18

23:18 Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 36:16

36:16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. ¹¹  Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Yesaya 49:26

49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;

they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. ¹² 

Then all humankind ¹³  will recognize that

I am the Lord, your deliverer,

your protector, ¹⁴  the powerful ruler of Jacob.” ¹⁵ 

[4:1]  ¹ tn Or “in that day” (ASV).

[4:1]  sn The seven to one ratio emphasizes the great disparity that will exist in the population due to the death of so many men in battle.

[4:1]  ² tn Heb “eat” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “buy.”

[4:1]  ³ tn Heb “wear” (so NASB, NRSV); NCV “make.”

[4:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “only let your name be called over us.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28, and BDB 896 s.v. I ָקרָא Niph. 2.d.(4). The language reflects the cultural reality of ancient Israel, where women were legally the property of their husbands.

[4:1]  ⁵ sn This refers to the humiliation of being unmarried and childless. The women’s words reflect the cultural standards of ancient Israel, where a woman’s primary duties were to be a wife and mother.

[5:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “a tongue of fire” (so NASB), referring to a tongue-shaped flame.

[5:24]  ⁷ sn They are compared to a flowering plant that withers quickly in a hot, arid climate.

[5:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “the word.”

[5:24]  ⁹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[23:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for eating to fullness and for beautiful covering[s].”

[23:18]  sn The point of this verse, which in its blatant nationalism comes precariously close to comparing the Lord to one who controls or manages a prostitute, is that Tyre will become a subject of Israel and her God. Tyre’s commercial profits will be used to enrich the Lord’s people.

[36:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”

[49:26]  ¹² sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.

[49:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:26]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.