Yesaya 5:13

5:13 Therefore my ¹  people will be deported ² 

because of their lack of understanding.

Their ³  leaders will have nothing to eat, ⁴ 

their ⁵  masses will have nothing to drink. ⁶ 

Yesaya 14:27

14:27 Indeed, ⁷  the Lord who commands armies has a plan,

and who can possibly frustrate it?

His hand is ready to strike,

and who can possibly stop it? ⁸ 

Yesaya 16:5

16:5 Then a trustworthy king will be established;

he will rule in a reliable manner,

this one from David’s family. ⁹ 

He will be sure to make just decisions

and will be experienced in executing justice. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 27:9

27:9 So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, ¹¹ 

and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: ¹² 

They will make all the stones of the altars ¹³ 

like crushed limestone,

and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand. ¹⁴ 

Yesaya 29:21

29:21 those who bear false testimony against a person, ¹⁵ 

who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate ¹⁶ 

and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. ¹⁷ 

Yesaya 43:12-13

43:12 I decreed and delivered and proclaimed,

and there was no other god among you.

You are my witnesses,” says the Lord, “that I am God.

43:13 From this day forward I am he;

no one can deliver from my power; ¹⁸ 

I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Yesaya 45:11

45:11 This is what the Lord says,

the Holy One of Israel, ¹⁹  the one who formed him,

concerning things to come: ²⁰ 

“How dare you question me ²¹  about my children!

How dare you tell me what to do with ²²  the work of my own hands!

Yesaya 46:10

46:10 who announces the end from the beginning

and reveals beforehand ²³  what has not yet occurred,

who says, ‘My plan will be realized,

I will accomplish what I desire,’

Yesaya 48:8

48:8 You did not hear,

you do not know,

you were not told beforehand. ²⁴ 

For I know that you are very deceitful; ²⁵ 

you were labeled ²⁶  a rebel from birth.

Yesaya 56:1

The Lord Invites Outsiders to Enter

56:1 This is what the Lord says,

“Promote ²⁷  justice! Do what is right!

For I am ready to deliver you;

I am ready to vindicate you openly. ²⁸ 

Yesaya 56:11

56:11 The dogs have big appetites;

they are never full. ²⁹ 

They are shepherds who have no understanding;

they all go their own way,

each one looking for monetary gain. ³⁰ 

Yesaya 57:17

57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;

I attacked them and angrily rejected them, ³¹ 

yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. ³² 

Yesaya 58:10

58:10 You must ³³  actively help the hungry

and feed the oppressed. ³⁴ 

Then your light will dispel the darkness, ³⁵ 

and your darkness will be transformed into noonday. ³⁶ 

Yesaya 59:7

59:7 They are eager to do evil, ³⁷ 

quick to shed innocent blood. ³⁸ 

Their thoughts are sinful;

they crush and destroy. ³⁹ 

Yesaya 59:13

59:13 We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord;

we turned back from following our God.

We stir up ⁴⁰  oppression and rebellion;

we tell lies we concocted in our minds. ⁴¹ 

[5:13]  ¹ sn It is not certain if the prophet or the Lord is speaking at this point.

[5:13]  ² tn The suffixed (perfect) form of the verb is used; in this way the coming event is described for rhetorical effect as occurring or as already completed.

[5:13]  ³ tn The third masculine singular suffix refers back to “my people.”

[5:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “Their glory will be men of hunger.” כָּבוֹד (kavod, “glory”) is in opposition to הָמוֹן (hamon, “masses”) and refers here to the rich and prominent members of the nation. Some prefer to repoint מְתֵי (mÿtey, “men of”) as מִתֵי (mitey, “dead ones of”).

[5:13]  ⁵ tn The third masculine singular suffix refers back to “my people.”

[5:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “and their masses will be parched [by] thirst.”

[14:27]  ⁷ tn Or “For” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “His hand is outstretched and who will turn it back?”

[16:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “and a throne will be established in faithfulness, and he will sit on it in reliability, in the tent of David.”

[16:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “one who judges and seeks justice, and one experienced in fairness.” Many understand מְהִר (mÿhir) to mean “quick, prompt” (see BDB 555 s.v. מָהִיר), but HALOT 552 s.v. מָהִיר offers the meaning “skillful, experienced,” and translates the phrase in v. 5 “zealous for what is right.”

[27:9]  ¹¹ tn Or “be atoned for” (NIV); cf. NRSV “be expiated.”

[27:9]  ¹² tn Heb “and this [is] all the fruit of removing his sin.” The meaning of the statement is not entirely clear, though “removing his sin” certainly parallels “Jacob’s sin will be removed” in the preceding line. If original, “all the fruit” may refer to the result of the decision to remove sin, but the phrase may be a corruption of לְכַפֵּר (lekhaper, “to atone for”), which in turn might be a gloss on הָסִר (hasir, “removing”).

[27:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “when he makes the stones of an altar.” The singular “altar” is collective here; pagan altars are in view, as the last line of the verse indicates. See also 17:8.

[27:9]  ¹⁴ sn As interpreted and translated above, this verse says that Israel must totally repudiate its pagan religious practices in order to experience God’s forgiveness and restoration. Another option is to understand “in this way” and “this” in v. 9a as referring back to the judgment described in v. 8. In this case כָּפַר (kafar, “atone for”) is used in a sarcastic sense; Jacob’s sin is “atoned for” and removed through severe judgment. Following this line of interpretation, one might paraphrase the verse as follows: “So in this way (through judgment) Jacob’s sin will be “atoned for,” and this is the way his sin will be removed, when he (i.e., God) makes all the altar stones like crushed limestone….” This interpretation is more consistent with the tone of judgment in vv. 8 and 10-11.

[29:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the ones who make a man a sinner with a word.” The Hiphil of חָטָא (khata’) here has a delocutive sense: “declare a man sinful/guilty.”

[29:21]  ¹⁶ sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.

[29:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”

[43:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “No one can oppose what I do.”

[45:11]  ¹⁹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[45:11]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ tn Heb “Ask me” The rhetorical command sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[45:11]  ²² tn Heb “Do you command me about…?” The rhetorical question sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

[46:10]  ²³ tn Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”

[48:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “beforehand your ear did not open.”

[48:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “deceiving, you deceive.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[48:8]  ²⁶ tn Or “called” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[56:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “guard”; KJV “Keep”; NAB “Observe”; NASB “Preserve”; NIV, NRSV “Maintain.”

[56:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”

[56:11]  ²⁹ sn The phrase never full alludes to the greed of the leaders.

[56:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “for his gain from his end.”

[57:17]  ³¹ tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”

[57:17]  ³² tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”

[58:10]  ³³ tn Heb “if you.” See the note on “you must” in v. 9b.

[58:10]  ³⁴ tn Heb “If you furnish for the hungry [with] your being, and the appetite of the oppressed you satisfy.”

[58:10]  ³⁵ tn Heb “will rise in the darkness.”

[58:10]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and your darkness [will be] like noonday.”

[59:7]  ³⁷ tn Heb “their feet run to evil.”

[59:7]  ³⁸ tn Heb “they quickly pour out innocent blood.”

[59:7]  ³⁹ tn Heb “their thoughts are thoughts of sin, destruction and crushing [are] in their roadways.”

[59:13]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “speaking.” A new sentence was started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[59:13]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”