Yesaya 5:4

5:4 What more can I do for my vineyard

beyond what I have already done?

When I waited for it to produce edible grapes,

why did it produce sour ones instead?

Yesaya 14:32

14:32 How will they respond to the messengers of this nation? ¹ 

Indeed, the Lord has made Zion secure;

the oppressed among his people will find safety in her.

Yesaya 15:4

15:4 The people of ²  Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,

their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.

For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress;

their courage wavers. ³ 

Yesaya 23:1

The Lord Will Judge Tyre

23:1 Here is a message about Tyre:

Wail, you large ships, ⁴ 

for the port is too devastated to enter! ⁵ 

From the land of Cyprus ⁶  this news is announced to them.

Yesaya 25:11

25:11 Moab ⁷  will spread out its hands in the middle of it, ⁸ 

just as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim;

the Lord ⁹  will bring down Moab’s ¹⁰  pride as it spreads its hands. ¹¹ 

Yesaya 34:1

The Lord Will Judge Edom

34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen!

Pay attention, you people!

The earth and everything it contains must listen,

the world and everything that lives in it. ¹² 

Yesaya 34:14

34:14 Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; ¹³ 

wild goats will bleat to one another. ¹⁴ 

Yes, nocturnal animals ¹⁵  will rest there

and make for themselves a nest. ¹⁶ 

Yesaya 37:7

37:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; ¹⁷  he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down ¹⁸  with a sword in his own land.”’”

Yesaya 42:10

42:10 Sing to the Lord a brand new song!

Praise him ¹⁹  from the horizon of the earth,

you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, ²⁰ 

you coastlands ²¹  and those who live there!

Yesaya 47:12

47:12 Persist ²²  in trusting ²³  your amulets

and your many incantations,

which you have faithfully recited ²⁴  since your youth!

Maybe you will be successful ²⁵  –

maybe you will scare away disaster. ²⁶ 

Yesaya 47:15

47:15 They will disappoint you, ²⁷ 

those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. ²⁸ 

Each strays off in his own direction, ²⁹ 

leaving no one to rescue you.”

Yesaya 48:21

48:21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions;

he makes water flow out of a rock for them;

he splits open a rock and water flows out.’ ³⁰ 

Yesaya 59:5

59:5 They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake

and spin a spider’s web.

Whoever eats their eggs will die,

a poisonous snake is hatched. ³¹ 

[14:32]  ¹ sn The question forces the Philistines to consider the dilemma they will face – surrender and oppression, or battle and death.

[15:4]  ² tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[15:4]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has, “For this reason the soldiers of Moab shout, his inner being quivers for him.” To achieve tighter parallelism, some emend the first line, changing חֲלֻצֵי (khalutse, “soldiers”) to חַלְצֵי (khaltse, “loins”) and יָרִיעוּ (yari’u, “they shout,” from רוּעַ, rua’) to יָרְעוּ (yor’u, “they quiver”), a verb from יָרַע (yara’), which also appears in the next line. One can then translate v. 4b as “For this reason the insides of the Moabites quiver, their whole body shakes” (cf. NAB, NRSV).

[23:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “ships of Tarshish.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[23:1]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “for it is destroyed, from a house, from entering.” The translation assumes that the mem (מ) on בַּיִת (bayit) was originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. This assumption allows one to take בַּיִת as the subject of the preceding verb. It is used in a metaphorical sense for the port city of Tyre. The preposition min (מִן) prefixed to בּוֹא (bo’) indicates negative consequence: “so that no one can enter.” See BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b.

[23:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Kittim,” a designation for the people of Cyprus. See HALOT 504-05 s.v. כִּתִּיִּים.

[25:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:11]  ⁸ tn The antecedent of the third masculine singular pronominal suffix is probably the masculine noun מַתְבֵּן (matben, “heap of straw”) in v. 10 rather than the feminine noun מַדְמֵנָה (madmenah, “manure pile”), also in v. 10.

[25:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Moab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:11]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text has, “he will bring down his pride along with the [?] of his hands.” The meaning of אָרְבּוֹת (’arbot), which occurs only here in the OT, is unknown. Some (see BDB 70 s.v. אָרְבָּה) translate “artifice, cleverness,” relating the form to the verbal root אָרָב (’arav, “to lie in wait, ambush”), but this requires some convoluted semantic reasoning. HALOT 83 s.v. *אָרְבָּה suggests the meaning “[nimble] movements.” The translation above, which attempts to relate the form to the preceding context, is purely speculative.

[34:1]  ¹² tn Heb “the world and its offspring”; NASB “the world and all that springs from it.”

[34:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “will meet” (so NIV); NLT “will mingle there.”

[34:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and a goat will call to its neighbor.”

[34:14]  ¹⁵ tn The precise meaning of לִּילִית (lilit) is unclear, though in this context the word certainly refers to some type of wild animal or bird. The word appears to be related to לַיְלָה (laylah, “night”). Some interpret it as the name of a female night demon, on the basis of an apparent Akkadian cognate used as the name of a demon. Later Jewish legends also identified Lilith as a demon. Cf. NRSV “Lilith.”

[34:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and will find for themselves a resting place.”

[37:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”) is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the Lord’s sovereignty over the king is apparent.

[37:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “cause him to fall” (so KJV, ASV, NAB), that is, “kill him.”

[42:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “his praise.” The phrase stands parallel to “new song” in the previous line.

[42:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and its fullness”; NASB, NIV “and all that is in it.”

[42:10]  ²¹ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “distant coastlands.”

[47:12]  ²² tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”

[47:12]  ²³ tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.

[47:12]  ²⁴ tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”

[47:12]  ²⁵ tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”

[47:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.

[47:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “So they will be to you”; NIV “That is all they can do for you.”

[47:15]  ²⁸ tn Heb “that for which you toiled, your traders from your youth.” The omen readers and star gazers are likened to merchants with whom Babylon has had an ongoing economic relationship.

[47:15]  ²⁹ tn Heb “each to his own side, they err.”

[48:21]  ³⁰ sn The translation above (present tense) assumes that this verse describes God’s provision for returning Babylonian exiles (see v. 20; 35:6; 49:10) in terms reminiscent of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exod 17:6).

[59:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “that which is pressed in hatches [as] a snake.”