Yesaya 8:1

A Sign-Child is Born

8:1 The Lord told me, “Take a large tablet ¹  and inscribe these words ²  on it with an ordinary stylus: ³  ‘Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.’ ⁴ 

Yesaya 13:9

13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment ⁵  is coming;

it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, ⁶ 

destroying ⁷  the earth ⁸ 

and annihilating its sinners.

Yesaya 22:23

22:23 I will fasten him like a peg into a solid place; ⁹  he will bring honor and respect to his father’s family. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 28:28

28:28 Grain is crushed,

though one certainly does not thresh it forever.

The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,

but his horses do not crush it.

Yesaya 44:12

44:12 A blacksmith works with his tool ¹¹ 

and forges metal over the coals.

He forms it ¹²  with hammers;

he makes it with his strong arm.

He gets hungry and loses his energy; ¹³ 

he drinks no water and gets tired.

Yesaya 46:6

46:6 Those who empty out gold from a purse

and weigh out silver on the scale ¹⁴ 

hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god.

They then bow down and worship it.

Yesaya 51:10

51:10 Did you not dry up the sea,

the waters of the great deep?

Did you not make ¹⁵  a path through the depths of the sea,

so those delivered from bondage ¹⁶  could cross over?

Yesaya 57:6

57:6 Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love;

they, they are the object of your devotion. ¹⁷ 

You pour out liquid offerings to them,

you make an offering.

Because of these things I will seek vengeance. ¹⁸ 

Yesaya 57:17

57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;

I attacked them and angrily rejected them, ¹⁹ 

yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. ²⁰ 

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. ²¹ 

You will nurse from her breast ²²  and be carried at her side;

you will play on her knees.

[8:1]  ¹ sn Probably made of metal, wood, or leather. See HALOT 193 s.v. גִּלָּיוֹן.

[8:1]  ² tn Heb “write” (so KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV).

[8:1]  ³ tn Heb “with the stylus of a man.” The significance of the qualifying genitive “a man” is uncertain. For various interpretations see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:219, n. 1.

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “quickly, [the] plunder; it hurries, [the] loot.” The first word (מַהֵר, maher) is either a Piel imperative (“hurry [to]”) or infinitive (“hurrying,” or “quickly”). The third word (חָשׁ, khash) is either a third masculine singular perfect or a masculine singular participle, in either case from the root חוּשׁ (khush, “hurry”). Perhaps it is best to translate, “One hastens to the plunder, one hurries to the loot.” In this case מַהֵר is understood as an infinitive functioning as a verb, the subject of חוּשׁ is taken as indefinite, and the two nouns are understood as adverbial accusatives. As we discover in v. 3, this is the name of the son to be born to Isaiah through the prophetess.

[13:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”

[13:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “[with] cruelty, and fury, and rage of anger.” Three synonyms for “anger” are piled up at the end of the line to emphasize the extraordinary degree of divine anger that will be exhibited in this judgment.

[13:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “making desolate.”

[13:9]  ⁸ tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

[22:23]  ⁹ sn The metaphor depicts how secure his position will be.

[22:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he will become a glorious throne for the house of his father.”

[44:12]  ¹¹ tn The noun מַעֲצָד (ma’atsad), which refers to some type of tool used for cutting, occurs only here and in Jer 10:3. See HALOT 615 s.v. מַעֲצָד.

[44:12]  ¹² tn Some English versions take the pronoun “it” to refer to an idol being fashioned by the blacksmith (cf. NIV, NCV, CEV). NLT understands the referent to be “a sharp tool,” which is then used by the carpenter in the following verse to carve an idol from wood.

[44:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “and there is no strength”; NASB “his strength fails.”

[46:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the reed,” probably referring to the beam of a scales. See BDB 889 s.v. קָנֶה 4.c.

[51:10]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?”

[51:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the redeemed” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “the ransomed.”

[57:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “among the smooth stones of the stream [is] your portion, they, they [are] your lot.” The next line indicates idols are in view.

[57:6]  ¹⁸ tn The text reads literally, “Because of these am I relenting?” If the prefixed interrogative particle is retained at the beginning of the sentence, then the question would be rhetorical, with the Niphal of נָחָם (nakham) probably being used in the sense of “relent, change one’s mind.” One could translate: “Because of these things, how can I relent?” However, the initial letter he may be dittographic (note the final he [ה] on the preceding word). In this case one may understand the verb in the sense of “console oneself, seek vengeance,” as in 1:24.

[57:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”

[57:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”

[66:12]  ²¹ 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]  ²² tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).