Yesaya 7:11

7:11 “Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous.” ¹ 

Yesaya 19:7

19:7 along with the plants by the mouth of the river. ² 

All the cultivated land near the river

will turn to dust and be blown away. ³ 

Yesaya 41:23

41:23 Predict how future events will turn out, ⁴ 

so we might know you are gods.

Yes, do something good or bad,

so we might be frightened and in awe. ⁵ 

Yesaya 43:19

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

Now it begins to happen! ⁶  Do you not recognize ⁷  it?

Yes, I will make a road in the desert

and paths ⁸  in the wilderness.

[7:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Make it as deep as Sheol or make it high upwards.” These words suggest that Ahaz can feel free to go beyond the bounds of ordinary human experience.

[19:7]  ² tn Heb “the plants by the river, by the mouth of the river.”

[19:7]  ³ tn Heb “will dry up, [being] scattered, and it will vanish.”

[41:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “Declare the coming things, with respect to the end.”

[41:23]  ⁵ tc The translation assumes the Qere (וְנִרְאֶה [vÿnir’eh], from יָרֵא [yare’], “be afraid”).

[41:23]  tn Heb “so we might be frightened and afraid together.” On the meaning of the verb שָׁתָע (shata’), see the note at v. 10.

[43:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “sprouts up”; NASB “will spring forth.”

[43:19]  ⁷ tn Or “know” (KJV, ASV); NASB “be aware of”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “perceive.”

[43:19]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew texts has “streams,” probably under the influence of v. 20. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has נתיבות (“paths”).