Isaiah 27:3

27:3 I, the Lord, protect it; ¹ 

I water it regularly. ² 

I guard it night and day,

so no one can harm it. ³ 

Isaiah 36:8

36:8 Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

Isaiah 36:20

36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” ⁴ 

Isaiah 38:15-16

38:15 What can I say?

He has decreed and acted. ⁵ 

I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief. ⁶ 

38:16 O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life;

may years of life be restored to me. ⁷ 

Restore my health ⁸  and preserve my life.’

Isaiah 45:22

45:22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, ⁹ 

all you who live in the earth’s remote regions!

For I am God, and I have no peer.

Isaiah 48:11

48:11 For my sake alone ¹⁰  I will act,

for how can I allow my name to be defiled? ¹¹ 

I will not share my glory with anyone else! ¹² 

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¹ tn Heb “her.” Apparently “vineyard” is the antecedent, though normally this noun is understood as masculine (see Lev 25:3, however).

² tn Or perhaps, “constantly.” Heb “by moments.”

³ tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.”

⁴ tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?

⁵ tn Heb “and he has spoken and he has acted.”

⁶ tn Heb “because of the bitterness of my soul.”

⁷ tn The translation offered here is purely speculative. The text as it stands is meaningless and probably corrupt. It reads literally, “O lord, on account of them [the suffix is masculine plural], they live, and to all in them [the suffix is feminine plural], life of my spirit.”

⁸ tn The prefixed verbal form could be taken as indicative, “you restore my health,” but the following imperatival form suggests it be understood as an imperfect of request.

⁹ tn The Niphal imperative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. The Niphal probably has a tolerative sense, “allow yourselves to be delivered, accept help.”

¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text repeats לְמַעֲנִי (lÿma’ani, “for my sake”) for emphasis.

¹¹ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “for how can it be defiled?” The subject of the verb is probably “name” (v. 9).

¹² sn See 42:8.