2:3 many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain,
to the temple of the God of Jacob,
so 1 he can teach us his requirements, 2
and 3 we can follow his standards.” 4
For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; 5
the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem. 6
18:7 At that time
tribute will be brought to the Lord who commands armies,
by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned,
a people that are feared far and wide,
a nation strong and victorious,
whose land rivers divide. 7
The tribute 8 will be brought to the place where the Lord who commands armies has chosen to reside, on Mount Zion. 9
22:25 “At that time,” 10 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.” 11 Indeed, 12 the Lord has spoken.
34:6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,
it is covered 14 with fat;
it drips 15 with the blood of young rams and goats
and is covered 16 with the fat of rams’ kidneys.
For the Lord is holding a sacrifice 17 in Bozrah, 18
a bloody 19 slaughter in the land of Edom.
44:23 Shout for joy, O sky, for the Lord intervenes; 23
shout out, you subterranean regions 24 of the earth.
O mountains, give a joyful shout;
you too, O forest and all your trees! 25
For the Lord protects 26 Jacob;
he reveals his splendor through Israel. 27
45:18 For this is what the Lord says,
the one who created the sky –
he is the true God, 28
the one who formed the earth and made it;
he established it,
he did not create it without order, 29
he formed it to be inhabited –
“I am the Lord, I have no peer.
49:5 So now the Lord says,
the one who formed me from birth 30 to be his servant –
he did this 31 to restore Jacob to himself,
so that Israel might be gathered to him;
and I will be honored 32 in the Lord’s sight,
for my God is my source of strength 33 –
49:7 This is what the Lord,
the protector 34 of Israel, their Holy One, 35 says
to the one who is despised 36 and rejected 37 by nations, 38
a servant of rulers:
“Kings will see and rise in respect, 39
princes will bow down,
because of the faithful Lord,
the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”
51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;
he will console all her ruins.
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
her desert like the Garden of the Lord.
Happiness and joy will be restored to 40 her,
thanksgiving and the sound of music.
56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of 41 the Lord and serve him,
who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants –
all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,
and who are faithful to 42 my covenant –
59:21 “As for me, this is my promise to 43 them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” 44 says the Lord.
66:5 Hear the word of the Lord,
you who respect what he has to say! 45
Your countrymen, 46 who hate you
and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name,
say, “May the Lord be glorified,
then we will witness your joy.” 47
But they will be put to shame.
1 tn The prefixed verb form with simple vav (ו) introduces a purpose/result clause after the preceding prefixed verb form (probably to be taken as a cohortative; see IBHS 650 §39.2.2a).
2 tn Heb “his ways.” In this context God’s “ways” are the standards of moral conduct he decrees that people should live by.
3 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) after the prefixed verb form indicates the ultimate purpose/goal of their action.
4 tn Heb “walk in his ways.”
5 tn Heb “for out of Zion will go instruction.”
6 tn Heb “the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
7 tn On the interpretive difficulties of this verse, see the notes at v. 2, where the same terminology is used.
8 tn The words “the tribute” are repeated here in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “to the place of the name of the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts], Mount Zion.”
10 tn Or “In that day” (KJV).
11 sn Eliakim’s authority, though seemingly secure, will eventually be removed, and with it his family’s prominence.
12 tn Or “for” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
13 tn Heb “for eating to fullness and for beautiful covering[s].”
sn The point of this verse, which in its blatant nationalism comes precariously close to comparing the Lord to one who controls or manages a prostitute, is that Tyre will become a subject of Israel and her God. Tyre’s commercial profits will be used to enrich the Lord’s people.
14 tn The verb is a rare Hotpaal passive form. See GKC 150 §54.h.
15 tn The words “it drips” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
16 tn The words “and is covered” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
17 tn Heb “for there is a sacrifice to the Lord.”
18 sn The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene.
19 tn Heb “great” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
20 tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”
21 tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”
22 tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”
23 tn Heb “acts”; NASB, NRSV “has done it”; NLT “has done this wondrous thing.”
24 tn Heb “lower regions.” This refers to Sheol and forms a merism with “sky” in the previous line. See Pss 63:9; 71:20.
25 tn Heb “O forest and all the trees in it”; NASB, NRSV “and every tree in it.”
26 tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
27 tn That is, by delivering Israel. Cf. NCV “showed his glory when he saved Israel”; TEV “has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.”
28 tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.
29 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.
30 tn Heb “from the womb” (so KJV, NASB).
31 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.
32 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.”
33 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.
34 tn Heb “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
35 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
36 tc The Hebrew text reads literally “to [one who] despises life.” It is preferable to read with the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa לבזוי, which should be vocalized as a passive participle, לִבְזוּי (livzuy, “to the one despised with respect to life” [נֶפֶשׁ is a genitive of specification]). The consonantal sequence וי was probably misread as ה in the MT tradition. The contextual argument favors the 1QIsaa reading. As J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 2:294) points out, the three terse phrases “convey a picture of lowliness, worthlessness, and helplessness.”
37 tn MT’s Piel participle (“to the one who rejects”) does not fit contextually. The form should be revocalized as a Pual, “to the one rejected.”
38 tn Parallelism (see “rulers,” “kings,” “princes”) suggests that the singular גּוֹי (goy) be emended to a plural or understood in a collective sense (see 55:5).
39 tn For this sense of קוּם (qum), see Gen 19:1; 23:7; 33:10; Lev 19:32; 1 Sam 20:41; 25:41; 1 Kgs 2:19; Job 29:8.
40 tn Heb “found in” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
41 tn Heb “who attach themselves to.”
42 tn Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”
43 tn Or “my covenant with” (so many English versions); NCV “my agreement with.”
sn The Lord promises the repentant (note “to them”) that they and their offspring will possess his spirit and function as his spokesmen. In this regard they follow in the footsteps of the Lord’s special servant. See 42:1; 49:2; 51:16.
44 tn Heb “from now and on into the future.”
45 tn Heb “who tremble at his word.”
46 tn Heb “brothers” (so NASB, NIV); NRSV “Your own people”; NLT “Your close relatives.”
47 tn Or “so that we might witness your joy.” The point of this statement is unclear.