Isaiah 8:15

8:15 Many will stumble over the stone and the rock,

and will fall and be seriously injured,

and will be ensnared and captured.”

Isaiah 51:1

There is Hope for the Future

51:1 “Listen to me, you who pursue godliness,

who seek the Lord!

Look at the rock from which you were chiseled,

at the quarry from which you were dug!


tn Heb “over them” (so NASB); NCV “over this rock.”

tn Or “righteousness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “justice”; NLT “hope for deliverance.”

tn Heb “the excavation of the hole.”

sn The “rock” and “quarry” refer here to Abraham and Sarah, the progenitors of the nation.