Discovery BoxIsaiah 1:12 
Context1:12 When you enter my presence,
do you actually think I want this –
animals trampling on my courtyards? 1
Isaiah 10:10
Context10:10 I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, 2
whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem’s 3 or Samaria’s.
Isaiah 13:12
Context13:12 I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold,
and people more scarce 4 than gold from Ophir.
Isaiah 14:26
Context14:26 This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;
my hand is ready to strike all the nations.” 5
Isaiah 19:2
Context19:2 “I will provoke civil strife in Egypt, 6
brothers will fight with each other,
as will neighbors,
cities, and kingdoms. 7
Isaiah 28:23
Context28:23 Pay attention and listen to my message! 8
Be attentive and listen to what I have to say! 9
Isaiah 29:2
Context29:2 I will threaten Ariel,
and she will mourn intensely
and become like an altar hearth 10 before me.
Isaiah 30:7
Context30:7 Egypt is totally incapable of helping. 11
For this reason I call her
‘Proud one 12 who is silenced.’” 13
Isaiah 32:9
Contextget up and listen to me!
You carefree 15 daughters,
pay attention to what I say!
Isaiah 33:13
Context33:13 You who are far away, listen to what I have done!
You who are close by, recognize my strength!”
Isaiah 33:24
Context33:24 No resident of Zion 16 will say, “I am ill”;
the people who live there will have their sin forgiven.
Isaiah 38:22
Context38:22 Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”
Isaiah 43:28
Context43:28 So I defiled your holy princes,
and handed Jacob over to destruction,
and subjected 17 Israel to humiliating abuse.”
Isaiah 46:5
Context46:5 To whom can you compare and liken me?
Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!
Isaiah 48:13
Context48:13 Yes, my hand founded the earth;
my right hand spread out the sky.
I summon them;
they stand together.
Isaiah 56:8
Context56:8 The sovereign Lord says this,
the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel:
“I will still gather them up.” 18
Isaiah 57:12
Context57:12 I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, 19
but they will not help you.
Isaiah 66:13
Context66:13 As a mother consoles a child, 20
so I will console you,
and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
1 tn Heb “When you come to appear before me, who requires this from your hand, trampling of my courtyards?” The rhetorical question sarcastically makes the point that God does not require this parade of livestock. The verb “trample” probably refers to the eager worshipers and their sacrificial animals walking around in the temple area.
2 tn Heb “Just as my hand found the kingdoms of the idol[s].” The comparison is expanded in v. 11a (note “as”) and completed in v. 11b (note “so”).
3 map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 tn The verb is supplied in the translation from the first line. The verb in the first line (“I will make scarce”) does double duty in the parallel structure of the verse.
5 tn Heb “and this is the hand that is outstretched over all the nations.”
6 tn Heb I will provoke Egypt against Egypt” (NAB similar).
7 tn Heb “and they will fight, a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.” Civil strife will extend all the way from the domestic level to the provincial arena.
8 tn Heb “to my voice.”
9 tn Heb “to my word”; cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “hear my speech.”
10 tn The term אֲרִיאֵל (’ari’el, “Ariel”) is the word translated “altar hearth” here. The point of the simile is not entirely clear. Perhaps the image likens Jerusalem’s coming crisis to a sacrificial fire.
11 tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”
12 tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”).
13 tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב.
14 tn Or “self-assured”; NASB, NRSV “who are at ease.”
15 tn Or “self-confident”; NAB “overconfident.”
16 tn The words “of Zion” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
17 tn The word “subjected” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
18 tn The meaning of the statement is unclear. The text reads literally, “Still I will gather upon him to his gathered ones.” Perhaps the preposition -לְ (lamed) before “gathered ones” introduces the object of the verb, as in Jer 49:5. The third masculine singular suffix on both עָלָיו (’alayv) and נִקְבָּצָיו (niqbatsayv) probably refers to “Israel.” In this case one can translate literally, “Still I will gather to him his gathered ones.”
19 tn Heb “I, I will declare your righteousness and your deeds.”
20 tn Heb “like a man whose mother comforts him.”
