Yesaya 6:5

6:5 I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, ¹  for my lips are contaminated by sin, ²  and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. ³  My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.” ⁴ 

Yesaya 10:12

10:12 But when ⁵  the sovereign master ⁶  finishes judging ⁷  Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I ⁸  will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays. ⁹ 

Yesaya 33:15

33:15 The one who lives ¹⁰  uprightly ¹¹ 

and speaks honestly;

the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures

and rejects a bribe; ¹² 

the one who does not plot violent crimes ¹³ 

and does not seek to harm others ¹⁴  –

Yesaya 33:20

33:20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!

You ¹⁵  will see Jerusalem, ¹⁶ 

a peaceful settlement,

a tent that stays put; ¹⁷ 

its stakes will never be pulled up;

none of its ropes will snap in two.

Yesaya 38:3

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹⁸  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ¹⁹  and how I have carried out your will.” ²⁰  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ²¹ 

Yesaya 40:26

40:26 Look up at the sky! ²² 

Who created all these heavenly lights? ²³ 

He is the one who leads out their ranks; ²⁴ 

he calls them all by name.

Because of his absolute power and awesome strength,

not one of them is missing.

Yesaya 49:5

49:5 So now the Lord says,

the one who formed me from birth ²⁵  to be his servant –

he did this ²⁶  to restore Jacob to himself,

so that Israel might be gathered to him;

and I will be honored ²⁷  in the Lord’s sight,

for my God is my source of strength ²⁸  –

Yesaya 51:6

51:6 Look up at the sky!

Look at the earth below!

For the sky will dissipate ²⁹  like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like clothes;

its residents will die like gnats.

But the deliverance I give ³⁰  is permanent;

the vindication I provide ³¹  will not disappear. ³² 

Yesaya 65:12

65:12 I predestine you to die by the sword, ³³ 

all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, ³⁴ 

because I called to you, and you did not respond,

I spoke and you did not listen.

You did evil before me; ³⁵ 

you chose to do what displeases me.”

Yesaya 66:4

66:4 So I will choose severe punishment ³⁶  for them;

I will bring on them what they dread,

because I called, and no one responded,

I spoke and they did not listen.

They did evil before me; ³⁷ 

they chose to do what displeases me.”

[6:5]  ¹ tn Isaiah uses the suffixed (perfect) form of the verb for rhetorical purposes. In this way his destruction is described as occurring or as already completed. Rather than understanding the verb as derived from דָּמַה (damah, “be destroyed”), some take it from a proposed homonymic root דמה, which would mean “be silent.” In this case, one might translate, “I must be silent.”

[6:5]  ² tn Heb “a man unclean of lips am I.” Isaiah is not qualified to praise the king. His lips (the instruments of praise) are “unclean” because he has been contaminated by sin.

[6:5]  ³ tn Heb “and among a nation unclean of lips I live.”

[6:5]  ⁴ tn Perhaps in this context, the title has a less militaristic connotation and pictures the Lord as the ruler of the heavenly assembly. See the note at 1:9.

[10:12]  ⁵ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[10:12]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 16, 23, 24, 33 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[10:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “his work on/against.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV “on”; NIV “against.”

[10:12]  ⁸ tn The Lord is speaking here, as in vv. 5-6a.

[10:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will visit [judgment] on the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of the height of his eyes.” The proud Assyrian king is likened to a large, beautiful fruit tree.

[33:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “walks” (so NASB, NIV).

[33:15]  ¹¹ tn Or, possibly, “justly”; NAB “who practices virtue.”

[33:15]  ¹² tn Heb “[who] shakes off his hands from grabbing hold of a bribe.”

[33:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “[who] shuts his ear from listening to bloodshed.”

[33:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “[who] closes his eyes from seeing evil.”

[33:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your eyes” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[33:20]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[33:20]  ¹⁷ tn Or “that does not travel”; NASB “which shall not be folded.”

[38:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[38:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ²¹ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

[40:26]  ²² tn Heb “Lift on high your eyes and see.”

[40:26]  ²³ tn The words “heavenly lights” are supplied in the translation for clarification. See the following lines.

[40:26]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the one who brings out by number their host.” The stars are here likened to a huge army that the Lord leads out. Perhaps the next line pictures God calling roll. If so, the final line may be indicating that none of them dares “go AWOL.” (“AWOL” is a military acronym for “absent without leave.”)

[49:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “from the womb” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:5]  ²⁶ tn The words “he did this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text the infinitive construct of purpose is subordinated to the previous statement.

[49:5]  ²⁷ tn The vav (ו) + imperfect is translated here as a result clause; one might interpret it as indicating purpose, “and so I might be honored.”

[49:5]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and my God is [perhaps, “having been”] my strength.” The disjunctive structure (vav [ו] + subject + verb) is interpreted here as indicating a causal circumstantial clause.

[51:6]  ²⁹ tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.

[51:6]  ³⁰ tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”

[51:6]  ³¹ tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”

[51:6]  ³² tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”

[65:12]  ³³ tn Heb “I assign you to the sword.” Some emend the Qal verb form מָנִיתִי (maniti, “I assign”) to the Piel מִנִּיתִי (minniti, “ I ordain”). The verb sounds like the name of the god Meni (מְנִי, mÿni, “Destiny, Fate”). The sound play draws attention to the irony of the statement. The sinners among God’s people worship the god Meni, apparently in an effort to ensure a bright destiny for themselves. But the Lord is the one who really determines their destiny and he has decreed their demise.

[65:12]  ³⁴ tn Or “at the slaughter”; NIV “for the slaughter”; NLT “before the executioner.”

[65:12]  ³⁵ tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”

[66:4]  ³⁶ tn The precise meaning of the noun is uncertain. It occurs only here and in 3:4 (but see the note there). It appears to be derived from the verbal root עָלַל (’alal), which can carry the nuance “deal severely.”

[66:4]  ³⁷ tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”