Yesaya 5:25

5:25 So the Lord is furious ¹  with his people;

he lifts ²  his hand and strikes them.

The mountains shake,

and corpses lie like manure ³  in the middle of the streets.

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ⁴ 

Yesaya 9:7

9:7 His dominion will be vast ⁵ 

and he will bring immeasurable prosperity. ⁶ 

He will rule on David’s throne

and over David’s kingdom, ⁷ 

establishing it ⁸  and strengthening it

by promoting justice and fairness, ⁹ 

from this time forward and forevermore.

The Lord’s intense devotion to his people ¹⁰  will accomplish this.

Yesaya 9:17

9:17 So the sovereign master was not pleased ¹¹  with their young men,

he took no pity ¹²  on their orphans and widows;

for the whole nation was godless ¹³  and did wicked things, ¹⁴ 

every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. ¹⁵ 

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ¹⁶ 

Yesaya 9:21

9:21 Manasseh fought against ¹⁷  Ephraim,

and Ephraim against Manasseh;

together they fought against Judah.

Despite all this, his anger does not subside,

and his hand is ready to strike again. ¹⁸ 

Yesaya 27:9

27:9 So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, ¹⁹ 

and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: ²⁰ 

They will make all the stones of the altars ²¹ 

like crushed limestone,

and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand. ²² 

Yesaya 37:33

37:33 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

‘He will not enter this city,

nor will he shoot an arrow here. ²³ 

He will not attack it with his shielded warriors, ²⁴ 

nor will he build siege works against it.

Yesaya 45:21

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! ²⁵ 

Let them consult with one another!

Who predicted this in the past?

Who announced it beforehand?

Was it not I, the Lord?

I have no peer, there is no God but me,

a God who vindicates and delivers; ²⁶ 

there is none but me.

Yesaya 48:1

The Lord Appeals to the Exiles

48:1 Listen to this, O family of Jacob, ²⁷ 

you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’

and are descended from Judah, ²⁸ 

who take oaths in the name of the Lord,

and invoke ²⁹  the God of Israel –

but not in an honest and just manner. ³⁰ 

Yesaya 54:9

54:9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, ³¹ 

when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood ³²  would never again cover the earth.

In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

Yesaya 54:17

54:17 No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed;

you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. ³³ 

This is what the Lord will do for his servants –

I will vindicate them,” ³⁴ 

says the Lord.

Yesaya 59:21

59:21 “As for me, this is my promise to ³⁵  them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” ³⁶  says the Lord.

Yesaya 66:8

66:8 Who has ever heard of such a thing?

Who has ever seen this?

Can a country ³⁷  be brought forth in one day?

Can a nation be born in a single moment?

Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!

[5:25]  ¹ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord rages.”

[5:25]  ² tn Or “extends”; KJV, ASV “he hath stretched forth.”

[5:25]  ³ tn Or “garbage” (NCV, CEV, NLT); NAB, NASB, NIV “refuse.”

[5:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched.”

[9:7]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text has לְםַרְבֵּה (lÿmarbeh), which is a corrupt reading. לם is dittographic; note the preceding word, שָׁלוֹם (shalom). The corrected text reads literally, “great is the dominion.”

[9:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and to peace there will be no end” (KJV and ASV both similar). On the political and socio-economic sense of שָׁלוֹם (shalom) in this context, see the note at v. 6 on “Prince of Peace.”

[9:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “over the throne of David, and over his kingdom.” The referent of the pronoun “his” (i.e., David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:7]  ⁸ tn The feminine singular pronominal suffix on this form and the following one (translated “it” both times) refers back to the grammatically feminine noun “kingdom.”

[9:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “with/by justice and fairness”; ASV “with justice and with righteousness.”

[9:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the zeal of the Lord.” In this context the Lord’s “zeal” refers to his intense devotion to and love for his people which prompts him to vindicate them and to fulfill his promises to David and the nation.

[9:17]  ¹¹ tn The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has לא יחמול (“he did not spare”) which is an obvious attempt to tighten the parallelism (note “he took no pity” in the next line). Instead of taking שָׂמַח (samakh) in one of its well attested senses (“rejoice over, be pleased with”), some propose, with support from Arabic, a rare homonymic root meaning “be merciful.”

[9:17]  ¹² tn The translation understands the prefixed verbs יִשְׂמַח (yismakh) and יְרַחֵם (yÿrakhem) as preterites without vav (ו) consecutive. (See v. 11 and the note on “he stirred up.”)

[9:17]  ¹³ tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “profaned”; NIV “ungodly.”

[9:17]  ¹⁴ tn מֵרַע (mera’) is a Hiphil participle from רָעַע (ra’a’, “be evil”). The intransitive Hiphil has an exhibitive force here, indicating that they exhibited outwardly the evidence of an inward condition by committing evil deeds.

[9:17]  ¹⁵ tn Or “foolishness” (NASB), here in a moral-ethical sense.

[9:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched.”

[9:17]  sn See the note at 9:12.

[9:21]  ¹⁷ tn The words “fought against” are supplied in the translation both here and later in this verse for stylistic reasons.

[9:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in all this his anger is not turned, and still his hand is outstretched” (KJV and ASV both similar); NIV “his hand is still upraised.”

[9:21]  sn See the note at 9:12.

[27:9]  ¹⁹ tn Or “be atoned for” (NIV); cf. NRSV “be expiated.”

[27:9]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ 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]  ²² 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.

[37:33]  ²³ tn Heb “there” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). In terms of English style “here” is expected in collocation with “this” in the previous line.

[37:33]  ²⁴ tn Heb “[with] a shield” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV).

[45:21]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

[45:21]  ²⁶ tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”

[48:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV, CEV “people of Israel.”

[48:1]  ²⁸ tc The Hebrew text reads literally “and from the waters of Judah came out.” מִמֵּי (mimme) could be a corruption of מִמְּעֵי (mimmÿ’e, “from the inner parts of”; cf. NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV) as suggested in the above translation. Some translations (ESV, NKJV) retain the MT reading because the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, which corrects a similar form to “from inner parts of” in 39:7, does not do it here.

[48:1]  ²⁹ tn Heb “cause to remember”; KJV, ASV “make mention of.”

[48:1]  ³⁰ tn Heb “not in truth and not in righteousness.”

[54:9]  ³¹ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “For [or “indeed”] the waters of Noah [is] this to me.” כִּי־מֵי (ki-me, “for the waters of”) should be emended to כְּמֵי (kÿmey, “like the days of”), which is supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and all the ancient versions except LXX.

[54:9]  ³² tn Heb “the waters of Noah” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[54:17]  ³³ tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

[54:17]  ³⁴ tn Heb “this is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication from me.”

[59:21]  ³⁵ tn Or “my covenant with” (so many English versions); NCV “my agreement with.”

[59:21]  sn The Lord promises the repentant (note “to them”) that they and their offspring will possess his spirit and function as his spokesmen. In this regard they follow in the footsteps of the Lord’s special servant. See 42:1; 49:2; 51:16.

[59:21]  ³⁶ tn Heb “from now and on into the future.”

[66:8]  ³⁷ tn Heb “land,” but here אֶרֶץ (’erets) stands metonymically for an organized nation (see the following line).