Discovery BoxIsaiah 1:6 
Context1:6 From the soles of your feet to your head,
there is no spot that is unharmed. 1
There are only bruises, cuts,
and open wounds.
They have not been cleansed 2 or bandaged,
nor have they been treated 3 with olive oil. 4
Isaiah 10:4
Context10:4 You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners,
or to fall among those who have been killed. 5
Despite all this, his anger does not subside,
and his hand is ready to strike again. 6
Isaiah 14:24
Context14:24 7 The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:
“Be sure of this:
Just as I have intended, so it will be;
just as I have planned, it will happen.
Isaiah 21:10
Context21:10 O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, 8
what I have heard
from the Lord who commands armies,
the God of Israel,
I have reported to you.
Isaiah 23:4
Context23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon,
for the sea 9 says this, O fortress of the sea:
“I have not gone into labor
or given birth;
I have not raised young men
or brought up young women.” 10
Isaiah 23:13
Context23:13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans,
these people who have lost their identity! 11
The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.
They erected their siege towers, 12
demolished 13 its fortresses,
and turned it into a heap of ruins. 14
Isaiah 37:6
Context37:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 15
Isaiah 38:5
Context38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor 16 David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,
Isaiah 41:9
Context41:9 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.
Isaiah 46:3
Context46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, 18
all you who are left from the family of Israel, 19
you who have been carried from birth, 20
you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. 21
Isaiah 46:11
Context46:11 who summons an eagle 22 from the east,
from a distant land, one who carries out my plan.
Yes, I have decreed, 23
yes, I will bring it to pass;
I have formulated a plan,
yes, I will carry it out.
Isaiah 51:22
Context51:22 This is what your sovereign master, 24 the Lord your God, says:
“Look, I have removed from your hand
the cup of intoxicating wine, 25
the goblet full of my anger. 26
You will no longer have to drink it.
Isaiah 52:5
Context52:5 And now, what do we have here?” 27 says the Lord.
“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,
those who rule over them taunt,” 28 says the Lord,
“and my name is constantly slandered 29 all day long.
1 tn Heb “there is not in it health”; NAB “there is no sound spot.”
2 tn Heb “pressed out.”
3 tn Heb “softened” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “soothed.”
4 sn This verse describes wounds like those one would receive in battle. These wounds are comprehensive and without remedy.
5 tn Heb “except one kneels in the place of the prisoner, and in the place of the slain [who] fall.” On the force of בִּלְתִּי (bilti, “except”) and its logical connection to what precedes, see BDB 116 s.v. בֵלֶת. On the force of תַּחַת (takhat, “in the place of”) here, see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:258, n. 6.
6 tn Heb “in all this his anger was not turned, and still his hand was outstretched”; KJV, ASV, NRSV “his had is stretched out still.”
sn See the note at 9:12.
7 sn Having announced the downfall of the Chaldean empire, the Lord appends to this prophecy a solemn reminder that the Assyrians, the major Mesopotamian power of Isaiah’s day, would be annihilated, foreshadowing what would subsequently happen to Babylon and the other hostile nations.
8 tn Heb “My trampled one, and the son of the threshing floor.”
9 tn J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:430-31) sees here a reference to Yam, the Canaanite god of the sea. He interprets the phrase מָעוֹז הַיָּם (ma’oz hayyam, “fortress of the sea”) as a title of Yam, translating “Mighty One of the Sea.” A more traditional view is that the phrase refers to Sidon.
10 tn Or “virgins” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB).
sn The sea is personified here as a lamenting childless woman. The foreboding language anticipates the following announcement of Tyre’s demise, viewed here as a child of the sea, as it were.
11 tn Heb “this people [that] is not.”
12 tn For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 118 s.v. *בַּחוּן.
13 tn Or “laid bare.” For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 889 s.v. ערר.
14 sn This verse probably refers to the Assyrian destruction of Babylon.
15 tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”
16 tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).
17 tn Heb “whom I have taken hold of [i.e., to lead back].”
18 tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”
19 tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”
20 tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”
21 tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”
22 tn Or, more generally, “a bird of prey” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV; see 18:6).
23 tn Heb “spoken”; KJV “I have spoken it.”
24 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
25 tn Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”
26 tn Heb “the goblet of the cup of my anger.”
27 tn Heb “and now what [following the marginal reading (Qere)] to me here?”
28 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.”
29 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.
