Discovery BoxIsaiah 1:24 
Context1:24 Therefore, the sovereign Lord who commands armies, 1
the powerful ruler of Israel, 2 says this:
“Ah, I will seek vengeance 3 against my adversaries,
I will take revenge against my enemies. 4
Isaiah 6:5
Context6:5 I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, 5 for my lips are contaminated by sin, 6 and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. 7 My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.” 8
Isaiah 8:4
Context8:4 for before the child knows how to cry out, ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria 9 will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” 10
Isaiah 10:13
Context10:13 For he says:
“By my strong hand I have accomplished this,
by my strategy that I devised.
I invaded the territory of nations, 11
and looted their storehouses.
Like a mighty conqueror, 12 I brought down rulers. 13
Isaiah 40:27
Context40:27 Why do you say, Jacob,
Why do you say, Israel,
“The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, 14
My God is not concerned with my vindication”? 15
Isaiah 43:6
Context43:6 I will say to the north, ‘Hand them over!’
and to the south, ‘Don’t hold any back!’
Bring my sons from distant lands,
and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,
Isaiah 43:10
Context43:10 You are my witnesses,” says the Lord,
“my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may consider 16 and believe in me,
and understand that I am he.
No god was formed before me,
and none will outlive me. 17
Isaiah 44:3
Context44:3 For I will pour water on the parched ground 18
and cause streams to flow 19 on the dry land.
I will pour my spirit on your offspring
and my blessing on your children.
Isaiah 45:4
Context45:4 For the sake of my servant Jacob,
Israel, my chosen one,
I call you by name
and give you a title of respect, even though you do not recognize 20 me.
Isaiah 47:6
Context47:6 I was angry at my people;
I defiled my special possession
and handed them over to you.
You showed them no mercy; 21
you even placed a very heavy burden on old people. 22
Isaiah 49:22
Context49:22 This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“Look I will raise my hand to the nations;
I will raise my signal flag to the peoples.
They will bring your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Isaiah 52:5
Context52:5 And now, what do we have here?” 23 says the Lord.
“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,
those who rule over them taunt,” 24 says the Lord,
“and my name is constantly slandered 25 all day long.
Isaiah 54:10
Context54:10 Even if the mountains are removed
and the hills displaced,
my devotion will not be removed from you,
nor will my covenant of friendship 26 be displaced,”
says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 56:5
Context56:5 I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument 27
that will be better than sons and daughters.
I will set up a permanent monument 28 for them that will remain.
Isaiah 60:7
Context60:7 All the sheep of Kedar will be gathered to you;
the rams of Nebaioth will be available to you as sacrifices. 29
They will go up on my altar acceptably, 30
and I will bestow honor on my majestic temple.
Isaiah 60:10
Context60:10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls;
their kings will serve you.
Even though I struck you down in my anger,
I will restore my favor and have compassion on you. 31
Isaiah 60:21
Context60:21 All of your people will be godly; 32
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. 33
Isaiah 63:5
Context63:5 I looked, but there was no one to help;
I was shocked because there was no one offering support. 34
So my right arm accomplished deliverance;
my raging anger drove me on. 35
Isaiah 66:1
Context66:1 This is what the Lord says:
“The heavens are my throne
and the earth is my footstool.
Where then is the house you will build for me?
Where is the place where I will rest?
1 tn Heb “the master, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].” On the title “the Lord who commands armies,” see the note at v. 9.
2 tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Israel.”
3 tn Heb “console myself” (i.e., by getting revenge); NRSV “pour out my wrath on.”
4 sn The Lord here identifies with the oppressed and comes as their defender and vindicator.
5 tn Isaiah uses the suffixed (perfect) form of the verb for rhetorical purposes. In this way his destruction is described as occurring or as already completed. Rather than understanding the verb as derived from דָּמַה (damah, “be destroyed”), some take it from a proposed homonymic root דמה, which would mean “be silent.” In this case, one might translate, “I must be silent.”
6 tn Heb “a man unclean of lips am I.” Isaiah is not qualified to praise the king. His lips (the instruments of praise) are “unclean” because he has been contaminated by sin.
7 tn Heb “and among a nation unclean of lips I live.”
8 tn Perhaps in this context, the title has a less militaristic connotation and pictures the Lord as the ruler of the heavenly assembly. See the note at 1:9.
9 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
10 sn The child’s name foreshadows what will happen to Judah’s enemies; when their defeat takes place, the child will be a reminder that God predicted the event and brought it to pass. As such the child will be a reminder of God’s protective presence with his people.
11 tn Heb “removed the borders of nations”; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV “boundaries.”
12 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has כְּאַבִּיר (kÿ’abir, “like a strong one”); the marginal reading (Qere) is כַּבִיר (kavir, “mighty one”).
13 tn Heb “and I brought down, like a strong one, ones sitting [or “living”].” The participle יוֹשְׁבִים (yoshÿvim, “ones sitting”) could refer to the inhabitants of the nations, but the translation assumes that it refers to those who sit on thrones, i.e., rulers. See BDB 442 s.v. יָשַׁב and HALOT 444 s.v. ישׁב.
14 tn Heb “my way is hidden from the Lord” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
15 tn Heb “and from my God my justice passes away”; NRSV “my right is disregarded by my God.”
16 tn Or “know” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
17 tn Heb “and after me, there will not be”; NASB “there will be none after Me.”
18 tn Heb “the thirsty.” Parallelism suggests that dry ground is in view (see “dry land” in the next line.)
19 tn Heb “and streams”; KJV “floods.” The verb “cause…to flow” is supplied in the second line for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
20 tn Or “know” (NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT); NIV “acknowledge.”
21 tn Or “compassion.”
22 tn Heb “on the old you made very heavy your yoke.”
23 tn Heb “and now what [following the marginal reading (Qere)] to me here?”
24 tn The verb appears to be a Hiphil form from the root יָלַל (yalal, “howl”), perhaps here in the sense of “mock.” Some emend the form to יְהוֹלָּלוֹ (yÿhollalo) and understand a Polel form of the root הָלַל meaning here “mock, taunt.”
25 tn The verb is apparently a Hitpolal form (with assimilated tav, ת) from the root נָאַץ (na’ats), but GKC 151-52 §55.b explains it as a mixed form, combining Pual and Hitpolel readings.
26 tn Heb “peace” (so many English versions); NLT “of blessing.”
27 tn Heb “a hand and a name.” For other examples where יָד (yad) refers to a monument, see HALOT 388 s.v.
28 tn Heb “name” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).
29 tn Heb “will serve you,” i.e., be available as sacrifices (see the next line). Another option is to understood these “rams” as symbolic of leaders who will be subject to the people of Zion. See v. 10.
30 tc Heb “they will go up on acceptance [on] my altar.” Some have suggested that the preposition עַל (’al) is dittographic (note the preceding יַעֲלוּ [ya’alu]). Consequently, the form should be emended to לְרָצוֹן (lÿratson, “acceptably”; see BDB 953 s.v. רָצוֹן). However, the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa has both לרצון followed by the preposition על, which would argue against deleted the preposition. As the above translation seeks to demonstrate, the preposition עַל (’al) indicates a norm (“in accordance with acceptance” or “acceptably”; IBHS 218 §11.2.13e, n. 111) and the “altar” functions as an objective accusative with a verb of motion (cf. Gen 49:4; Lev 2:2; Num 13:17; J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 2:534, n. 14).
31 tn Heb “in my favor I will have compassion on you.”
32 tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”
33 tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”
34 sn See Isa 59:16 for similar language.
35 tn Heb “and my anger, it supported me”; NIV “my own wrath sustained me.”
