8:18 Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me 1 are reminders and object lessons 2 in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.
10:6 I sent him 3 against a godless 4 nation,
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, 5
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down 6 like dirt in the streets.
29:23 For when they see their children,
whom I will produce among them, 9
they will honor 10 my name.
They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; 11
they will respect 12 the God of Israel.
35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. 13
They will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 14
happiness and joy will overwhelm 15 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 16
41:9 you whom I am bringing back 17 from the earth’s extremities,
and have summoned from the remote regions –
I told you, “You are my servant.”
I have chosen you and not rejected you.
42:24 Who handed Jacob over to the robber?
Who handed Israel over to the looters? 18
Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned?
They refused to follow his commands;
they disobeyed his law. 19
43:10 You are my witnesses,” says the Lord,
“my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may consider 20 and believe in me,
and understand that I am he.
No god was formed before me,
and none will outlive me. 21
44:2 This is what the Lord, the one who made you, says –
the one who formed you in the womb and helps you:
“Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob,
Jeshurun, 22 whom I have chosen!
51:11 Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return;
they will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 23
happiness and joy will overwhelm 24 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 25
60:21 All of your people will be godly; 26
they will possess the land permanently.
I will plant them like a shoot;
they will be the product of my labor,
through whom I reveal my splendor. 27
1 sn This refers to Shear-jashub (7:3) and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (8:1, 3).
2 tn Or “signs and portents” (NAB, NRSV). The names of all three individuals has symbolic value. Isaiah’s name (which meant “the Lord delivers”) was a reminder that the Lord was the nation’s only source of protection; Shear-jashub’s name was meant, at least originally, to encourage Ahaz (see the note at 7:3), and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz’s name was a guarantee that God would defeat Israel and Syria (see the note at 8:4). The word מוֹפֶת (mofet, “portent”) can often refer to some miraculous event, but in 20:3 it is used, along with its synonym אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) of Isaiah’s walking around half-naked as an object lesson of what would soon happen to the Egyptians.
3 sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).
4 tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”
5 tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”
6 tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”
7 tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).
8 sn This probably refers to the coastal region of Philistia (cf. TEV).
9 tn Heb “for when he sees his children, the work of my hands in his midst.”
10 tn Or “treat as holy” (also in the following line); NASB, NRSV “will sanctify.”
11 sn Holy One of Jacob is similar to the phrase “Holy One of Israel” common throughout Isaiah; see the sn at Isa 1:4.
12 tn Or “fear,” in the sense of “stand in awe of.”
13 tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”
14 tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.
15 tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”
16 tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
17 tn Heb “whom I have taken hold of [i.e., to lead back].”
18 tn Heb “Who gave to the robber Jacob, and Israel to the looters?” In the first line the consonantal text (Kethib) has מְשׁוֹסֶה (mÿshoseh), a Polel participle from שָׁסָה (shasah, “plunder”). The marginal reading (Qere) is מְשִׁיסָּה (mÿshissah), a noun meaning “plunder.” In this case one could translate “Who handed Jacob over as plunder?”
19 tn Heb “they were not willing in his ways to walk, and they did not listen to his law.”
20 tn Or “know” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
21 tn Heb “and after me, there will not be”; NASB “there will be none after Me.”
22 sn Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel; it occurs here and in Deut 32:15; 33:5, 26.
23 tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.
24 tn Heb “overtake” (so NIV); NASB “they will obtain.”
25 tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee.”
26 tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”
27 tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”