8:17 I will wait patiently for the Lord,
who has rejected the family of Jacob; 1
I will wait for him.
12:5 Sing to the Lord, for he has done magnificent things,
let this be known 2 throughout the earth!
21:6 For this is what the sovereign master 3 has told me:
“Go, post a guard!
He must report what he sees.
50:5 The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; 7
I have not rebelled,
I have not turned back.
63:2 Why are your clothes red?
Why do you look like someone who has stomped on grapes in a vat? 8
64:10 Your chosen 9 cities have become a desert;
Zion has become a desert,
Jerusalem 10 is a desolate ruin.
1 tn Heb “who hides his face from the house of Jacob.”
2 tc The translation follows the marginal reading (Qere), which is a Hophal participle from יָדַע (yada’), understood here in a gerundive sense.
3 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 16 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
4 tn Heb “and the remnant of the number of the bow, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few.”
5 tn Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
6 tn The words “Isaiah replied” are supplied in the translation for clarification. In the present form of the Hebrew text v. 7 is joined directly to v. 6, but vv. 21-22, if original to Isaiah 38, must be inserted here. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8.
7 tn Or perhaps, “makes me obedient.” The text reads literally, “has opened for me an ear.”
8 tn Heb “and your garments like one who treads in a vat?”
9 tn Heb “holy” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT); NIV “sacred.”
10 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.