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 14:11
Context14:11 Your splendor 5 has been brought down to Sheol,
as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. 6
You lie on a bed of maggots,
with a blanket of worms over you. 7
Isaiah 22:18
Context22:18 He will wind you up tightly into a ball
and throw you into a wide, open land. 8
There you will die,
and there with you will be your impressive chariots, 9
which bring disgrace to the house of your master. 10
Isaiah 26:11
Context26:11 O Lord, you are ready to act, 11
but they don’t even notice.
They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, 12
yes, fire will consume your enemies. 13
Isaiah 30:22
Context30:22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols 14
and your gold-plated images. 15
You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag,
saying to them, “Get out!”
Isaiah 37:29
Context37:29 Because you rage against me
and the uproar you create has reached my ears, 16
I will put my hook in your nose, 17
and my bridle between your lips,
and I will lead you back
the way you came.”
Isaiah 39:6
Context39:6 ‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors 18 have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
Isaiah 41:13
Context41:13 For I am the Lord your God,
the one who takes hold of your right hand,
who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’
Isaiah 43:3
Context43:3 For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, 19 your deliverer.
I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price,
Ethiopia and Seba 20 in place of you.
Isaiah 43:14
Context43:14 This is what the Lord says,
your protector, 21 the Holy One of Israel: 22
“For your sake I send to Babylon
and make them all fugitives, 23
turning the Babylonians’ joyful shouts into mourning songs. 24
Isaiah 43:23
Context43:23 You did not bring me lambs for your burnt offerings;
you did not honor me with your sacrifices.
I did not burden you with offerings;
I did not make you weary by demanding 25 incense.
Isaiah 44:3
Context44:3 For I will pour water on the parched ground 26
and cause streams to flow 27 on the dry land.
I will pour my spirit on your offspring
and my blessing on your children.
Isaiah 44:22
Context44:22 I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud,
the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. 28
Come back to me, for I protect 29 you.”
Isaiah 47:10
Context47:10 You were complacent in your evil deeds; 30
you thought, 31 ‘No one sees me.’
Your self-professed 32 wisdom and knowledge lead you astray,
when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’ 33
Isaiah 48:17
Context48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, 34 says,
the Holy One of Israel: 35
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.
Isaiah 49:19-20
Context49:19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;
it is desolate and devastated. 36
But now you will be too small to hold your residents,
and those who devoured you will be far away.
49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement
will say within your hearing,
‘This place is too cramped for us, 37
make room for us so we can live here.’ 38
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 49:25
Context49:25 Indeed,” says the Lord,
“captives will be taken from a warrior;
spoils will be rescued from a conqueror.
I will oppose your adversary
and I will rescue your children.
Isaiah 51:20
Context51:20 Your children faint;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a snare.
They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger,
by the battle cry of your God. 39
Isaiah 51:23
Context51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors 40
who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’
You made your back like the ground,
and like the street for those who walked over you.”
Isaiah 54:5
Context54:5 For your husband is the one who made you –
the Lord who commands armies is his name.
He is your protector, 41 the Holy One of Israel. 42
He is called “God of the entire earth.”
Isaiah 58:3
Context58:3 They lament, 43 ‘Why don’t you notice when we fast?
Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’
Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, 44
you oppress your workers. 45
Isaiah 58:14
Context58:14 Then you will find joy in your relationship to the Lord, 46
and I will give you great prosperity, 47
and cause crops to grow on the land I gave to your ancestor Jacob.” 48
Know for certain that the Lord has spoken. 49
Isaiah 60:14
Context60:14 The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you;
all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet.
They will call you, ‘The City of the Lord,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.’ 50
Isaiah 60:16
Context60:16 You will drink the milk of nations;
you will nurse at the breasts of kings. 51
Then you will recognize that I, the Lord, am your deliverer,
your protector, 52 the powerful ruler of Jacob. 53
Isaiah 60:19
Context60:19 The sun will no longer supply light for you by day,
nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you;
the Lord will be your permanent source of light –
the splendor of your God will shine upon you. 54
Isaiah 65:7
Context65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 55 says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended 56 me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.” 57
Isaiah 65:14
Context65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! 58
But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; 59
you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. 60
Isaiah 66:22
Context66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.
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 Or “pride” (NCV, CEV); KJV, NIV, NRSV “pomp.”
6 tn Or “harps” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).
7 tn Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”
8 tn Heb “and he will tightly [or “surely”] wind you [with] winding like a ball, to a land broad of hands [i.e., “sides”].”
9 tn Heb “and there the chariots of your splendor.”
10 sn Apparently the reference to chariots alludes to Shebna’s excessive pride, which in turn brings disgrace to the royal family.
11 tn Heb “O Lord, your hand is lifted up.”
12 tn Heb “They will see and be ashamed of zeal of people.” Some take the prefixed verbs as jussives and translate the statement as a prayer, “Let them see and be put to shame.” The meaning of the phrase קִנְאַת־עָם (qin’at-’am, “zeal of people”) is unclear. The translation assumes that this refers to God’s angry judgment upon people. Another option is to understand the phrase as referring to God’s zealous, protective love of his covenant people. In this case one might translate, “by your zealous devotion to your people.”
13 tn Heb “yes, fire, your enemies, will consume them.” Many understand the prefixed verb form to be jussive and translate, “let [fire] consume” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The mem suffixed to the verb may be enclitic; if a pronominal suffix, it refers back to “your enemies.”
14 tn Heb “the platings of your silver idols.”
15 tn Heb “the covering of your gold image.”
16 tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךָ (sha’anankha, “your complacency”) is emended to שְׁאוֹנְךָ (shÿ’onÿkha, “your uproar”). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38. However, the LXX seems to support the MT and Sennacherib’s cavalier dismissal of Yahweh depicts an arrogant complacency (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:658, n. 10).
17 sn The word-picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.
18 tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV).
19 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
20 sn Seba is not the same as Sheba in southern Arabia; cf. Gen 1:10; 1 Chr 1:9.
21 tn Or “kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
22 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
23 tn Heb “and I bring down [as] fugitives all of them.”
24 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “as for the Babylonians, in ships their joyful shout.” This might be paraphrased, “even the Babylonians in the ships [over which] they joyfully shouted.” The point would be that the Lord caused the Babylonians to flee for safety in the ships in which they took such great pride. A slight change in vocalization yields the reading “into mourning songs,” which provides a good contrast with “joyful shout.” The prefixed bet (בְּ) would indicate identity.
25 tn Heb “with.” The words “by demanding” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
26 tn Heb “the thirsty.” Parallelism suggests that dry ground is in view (see “dry land” in the next line.)
27 tn Heb “and streams”; KJV “floods.” The verb “cause…to flow” is supplied in the second line for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
28 tn Heb “I blot out like a cloud your rebellious deeds, and like a cloud your sins.” “Rebellious deeds” and “sins” stand by metonymy for the guilt they produce. Both עָב (’av) and עָנָן (’anan) refer to the clouds in the sky. It is tempting for stylistic purposes to translate the second with “fog” or “mist” (cf. NAB, NRSV “cloud…mist”; NIV “cloud…morning mist”; NLT “morning mists…clouds”), but this distinction between the synonyms is unwarranted here. The point of the simile seems to be this: The Lord forgives their sins, causing them to vanish just as clouds disappear from the sky (see Job 7:9; 30:15).
29 tn Heb “redeem.” See the note at 41:14.
30 tn Heb “you trusted in your evil”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “wickedness.”
31 tn Or “said”; NAB “said to yourself”’ NASB “said in your heart.”
32 tn The words “self-professed” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
34 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
35 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
36 tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete.
37 tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.
38 tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”
39 tn Heb “those who are full of the anger of the Lord, the shout [or “rebuke”] of your God.”
40 tn That is, to make them drink it.
41 tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
42 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
43 tn The words “they lament” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
44 tn Heb “you find pleasure”; NASB “you find your desire.”
45 tn Or perhaps, “debtors.” See HALOT 865 s.v. * עָצֵב.
46 tn For a parallel use of the phrase “find joy in” (Hitpael of עָנַג [’anag] followed by the preposition עַל [’al]), see Ps 37:4.
47 tn Heb “and I will cause you to ride upon the heights of the land.” The statement seems to be an allusion to Deut 32:13, where it is associated, as here, with God’s abundant provision of food.
48 tn Heb “and I will cause you to eat the inheritance of Jacob your father.” The Hebrew term נַחֲלָה (nakhalah) likely stands by metonymy for the crops that grow on Jacob’s “inheritance” (i.e., the land he inherited as a result of God’s promise).
49 tn Heb “for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” The introductory כִּי (ki) may be asseverative (as reflected in the translation) or causal/explanatory, explaining why the preceding promise will become reality (because it is guaranteed by the divine word).
50 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
51 sn The nations and kings are depicted as a mother nursing her children. Restored Zion will be nourished by them as she receives their wealth as tribute.
52 tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
53 sn See 1:24 and 49:26.
54 tn Heb “and your God for your splendor.”
55 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
56 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
57 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.
58 tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”
59 tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”
60 tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”
