Yesaya 65:1

The Lord Will Distinguish Between Sinners and the Godly

65:1 “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; ¹ 

I appeared to those who did not look for me. ² 

I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’

to a nation that did not invoke ³  my name.

Yesaya 37:7

37:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; ⁴  he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down ⁵  with a sword in his own land.”’”

Yesaya 52:6

52:6 For this reason my people will know my name,

for this reason they will know ⁶  at that time ⁷  that I am the one who says,

‘Here I am.’”

Yesaya 6:8

6:8 I heard the voice of the sovereign master say, “Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” ⁸  I answered, “Here I am, send me!”

Yesaya 13:17

13:17 Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them; ⁹ 

they are not concerned about silver,

nor are they interested in gold. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 28:16

28:16 Therefore, this is what the sovereign master, the Lord, says:

“Look, I am laying ¹¹  a stone in Zion,

an approved ¹²  stone,

set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. ¹³ 

The one who maintains his faith will not panic. ¹⁴ 

Yesaya 29:14

29:14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people –

an absolutely extraordinary deed. ¹⁵ 

Wise men will have nothing to say,

the sages will have no explanations.” ¹⁶ 

Yesaya 43:19

43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.

Now it begins to happen! ¹⁷  Do you not recognize ¹⁸  it?

Yes, I will make a road in the desert

and paths ¹⁹  in the wilderness.

Yesaya 58:9

58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;

you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’

You must ²⁰  remove the burdensome yoke from among you

and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

Yesaya 65:17-18

65:17 For look, I am ready to create

new heavens and a new earth! ²¹ 

The former ones ²²  will not be remembered;

no one will think about them anymore. ²³ 

65:18 But be happy and rejoice forevermore

over what I am about to create!

For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem ²⁴  to be a source of joy, ²⁵ 

and her people to be a source of happiness. ²⁶ 

Yesaya 38:5

38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor ²⁷  David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

Yesaya 38:8

38:8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” ²⁸  And then the shadow went back ten steps. ²⁹ 

Yesaya 66:12

66:12 For this is what the Lord says:

“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,

the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. ³⁰ 

You will nurse from her breast ³¹  and be carried at her side;

you will play on her knees.

[65:1]  ¹ tn Heb “I allowed myself to be sought by those who did not ask.”

[65:1]  ² tn Heb “I allowed myself to be found by those who did not seek.”

[65:1]  ³ tn Heb “call out in”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “call on.”

[37:7]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “cause him to fall” (so KJV, ASV, NAB), that is, “kill him.”

[52:6]  ⁶ tn The verb is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[52:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[6:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “for us.” The plural pronoun refers to the Lord, the seraphs, and the rest of the heavenly assembly.

[13:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “against them”; NLT “against Babylon.”

[13:17]  ¹⁰ sn They cannot be bought off, for they have a lust for bloodshed.

[28:16]  ¹¹ tc The Hebrew text has a third person verb form, which does not agree with the first person suffix that precedes. The form should be emended to יֹסֵד (yosed), a Qal active participle used in a present progressive or imminent future sense.

[28:16]  ¹² tn Traditionally “tested,” but the implication is that it has passed the test and stands approved.

[28:16]  ¹³ sn The reality behind the metaphor is not entirely clear from the context. The stone appears to represent someone or something that gives Zion stability. Perhaps the ideal Davidic ruler is in view (see 32:1). Another option is that the image of beginning a building project by laying a precious cornerstone suggests that God is about to transform Zion through judgment and begin a new covenant community that will experience his protection (see 4:3-6; 31:5; 33:20-24; 35:10).

[28:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “will not hurry,” i.e., act in panic.

[29:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Therefore I will again do something amazing with these people, an amazing deed, an amazing thing.” This probably refers to the amazing transformation predicted in vv. 17-24, which will follow the purifying judgment implied in vv. 15-16.

[29:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the wisdom of their wise ones will perish, the discernment of their discerning ones will keep hidden.”

[43:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “sprouts up”; NASB “will spring forth.”

[43:19]  ¹⁸ tn Or “know” (KJV, ASV); NASB “be aware of”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “perceive.”

[43:19]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew texts has “streams,” probably under the influence of v. 20. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has נתיבות (“paths”).

[58:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 9b-10 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in vv. 9b-10a), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 10b.

[65:17]  ²¹ sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.

[65:17]  ²² tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”

[65:17]  ²³ tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”

[65:18]  ²⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[65:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Jerusalem, joy.” The next verse suggests the meaning: The Lord will create Jerusalem to be a source of joy to himself.

[65:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “her people, happiness.” See the preceding note.

[38:5]  ²⁷ tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).

[38:8]  ²⁸ tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”

[38:8]  sn These steps probably functioned as a type of sundial. See HALOT 614 s.v. מַעֲלָה and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 256.

[38:8]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”

[66:12]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Look, I am ready to extend to her like a river prosperity [or “peace”], and like an overflowing stream, the riches of nations.”

[66:12]  ³¹ tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).