Yesaya 7:20

7:20 At that time ¹  the sovereign master will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River, ²  the king of Assyria, to shave the head and the pubic hair; ³  it will also shave off the beard.

Yesaya 22:25

22:25 “At that time,” ⁴  says the Lord who commands armies, “the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.” ⁵  Indeed, ⁶  the Lord has spoken.

Yesaya 29:16

29:16 Your thinking is perverse! ⁷ 

Should the potter be regarded as clay? ⁸ 

Should the thing made say ⁹  about its maker, “He didn’t make me”?

Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?

Yesaya 30:10

30:10 They ¹⁰  say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!”

and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! ¹¹ 

Tell us nice things,

relate deceptive messages. ¹² 

Yesaya 33:1

The Lord Will Restore Zion

33:1 The destroyer is as good as dead, ¹³ 

you who have not been destroyed!

The deceitful one is as good as dead, ¹⁴ 

the one whom others have not deceived!

When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed;

when you finish ¹⁵  deceiving, others will deceive you!

Yesaya 41:26

41:26 Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know?

Who announced it ¹⁶  ahead of time, so we could say, ‘He’s correct’?

Indeed, none of them decreed it!

Indeed, none of them announced it!

Indeed, no one heard you say anything!

Yesaya 42:5

42:5 This is what the true God, ¹⁷  the Lord, says –

the one who created the sky and stretched it out,

the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, ¹⁸ 

the one who gives breath to the people on it,

and life to those who live on it: ¹⁹ 

Yesaya 45:18

45:18 For this is what the Lord says,

the one who created the sky –

he is the true God, ²⁰ 

the one who formed the earth and made it;

he established it,

he did not create it without order, ²¹ 

he formed it to be inhabited –

“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Yesaya 55:11

55:11 In the same way, the promise that I make

does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. ²² 

No, it is realized as I desire

and is fulfilled as I intend.” ²³ 

Yesaya 58:11

58:11 The Lord will continually lead you;

he will feed you even in parched regions. ²⁴ 

He will give you renewed strength, ²⁵ 

and you will be like a well-watered garden,

like a spring that continually produces water.

[7:20]  ¹ tn Heb “in that day” (so ASV, NASB); KJV “In the same day.”

[7:20]  ² tn Heb “the river” (so KJV); NASB “the Euphrates.” The name of the river has been supplied in the present translation for clarity.

[7:20]  ³ tn Heb “the hair of the feet.” The translation assumes that the word “feet” is used here as a euphemism for the genitals. See BDB 920 s.v. רֶגֶל.

[22:25]  ⁴ tn Or “In that day” (KJV).

[22:25]  ⁵ sn Eliakim’s authority, though seemingly secure, will eventually be removed, and with it his family’s prominence.

[22:25]  ⁶ tn Or “for” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[29:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “your overturning.” The predicate is suppressed in this exclamation. The idea is, “O your perversity! How great it is!” See GKC 470 §147.c. The people “overturn” all logic by thinking their authority supersedes God’s.

[29:16]  ⁸ tn The expected answer to this rhetorical question is “of course not.” On the interrogative use of אִם (’im), see BDB 50 s.v.

[29:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “that the thing made should say.”

[30:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “who” (so NASB, NRSV). A new sentence was started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Do not see for us right things.”

[30:10]  ¹² tn Heb “Tell us smooth things, see deceptive things.”

[33:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “Woe [to] the destroyer.”

[33:1]  sn In this context “the destroyer” appears to refer collectively to the hostile nations (vv. 3-4). Assyria would probably have been primary in the minds of the prophet and his audience.

[33:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the deceitful one”; NAB, NIV “O traitor”; NRSV “you treacherous one.” In the parallel structure הוֹי (hoy, “woe [to]”) does double duty.

[33:1]  ¹⁵ tc The form in the Hebrew text appears to derive from an otherwise unattested verb נָלָה (nalah). The translation follows the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a in reading ככלתך, a Piel infinitival form from the verbal root כָּלָה (kalah), meaning “finish.”

[41:26]  ¹⁶ tn The words “who announced it” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The interrogative particle and verb are understood by ellipsis (see the preceding line).

[42:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the God.” The definite article here indicates distinctiveness or uniqueness.

[42:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and its offspring” (so NASB); NIV “all that comes out of it.”

[42:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and spirit [i.e., “breath”] to the ones walking in it” (NAB, NASB, and NRSV all similar).

[45:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

[45:18]  ²¹ tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.

[55:11]  ²² tn Heb “so is the word which goes out from my mouth, it does not return to empty.” “Word” refers here to divine promises, like the ones made just prior to and after this (see vv. 7b, 12-13).

[55:11]  ²³ tn Heb “but it accomplishes what I desire, and succeeds [on the mission] which I send it.”

[55:11]  sn Verses 8-11 focus on the reliability of the divine word and support the promises before (vv. 3-5, 7b) and after (vv. 12-13) this. Israel can be certain that repentance will bring forgiveness and a new covenantal relationship because God’s promises are reliable. In contrast to human plans (or “thoughts”), which are destined to fail (Ps 94:11) apart from divine approval (Prov 19:21), and human deeds (or “ways”), which are evil and lead to destruction (Prov 1:15-19; 3:31-33; 4:19), God’s plans are realized and his deeds accomplish something positive.

[58:11]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he will satisfy in parched regions your appetite.”

[58:11]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and your bones he will strengthen.”