Discovery BoxIsaiah 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. 1
Despite all this, his anger does not subside,
and his hand is ready to strike again. 2
Isaiah 21:2
Context21:2 I have received a distressing message: 3
“The deceiver deceives,
the destroyer destroys.
Attack, you Elamites!
Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all the groaning!” 4
Isaiah 25:6
Context25:6 The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. 5
At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine –
tender meat and choicest wine. 6
Isaiah 36:6
Context36:6 Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!
Isaiah 40:2
Context40:2 “Speak kindly to 7 Jerusalem, 8 and tell her
that her time of warfare is over, 9
that her punishment is completed. 10
For the Lord has made her pay double 11 for all her sins.”
Isaiah 43:14
Context43:14 This is what the Lord says,
your protector, 12 the Holy One of Israel: 13
“For your sake I send to Babylon
and make them all fugitives, 14
turning the Babylonians’ joyful shouts into mourning songs. 15
Isaiah 48:14
Context48:14 All of you, gather together and listen!
Who among them 16 announced these things?
The Lord’s ally 17 will carry out his desire against Babylon;
he will exert his power against the Babylonians. 18
Isaiah 49:26
Context49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. 19
Then all humankind 20 will recognize that
I am the Lord, your deliverer,
your protector, 21 the powerful ruler of Jacob.” 22
Isaiah 51:3
Context51:3 Certainly the Lord will console Zion;
he will console all her ruins.
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
her desert like the Garden of the Lord.
Happiness and joy will be restored to 23 her,
thanksgiving and the sound of music.
Isaiah 55:12
Context55:12 Indeed you will go out with joy;
you will be led along in peace;
the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you,
and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.
Isaiah 66:24
Context66:24 “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, 24 and the fire that consumes them will not die out. 25 All people will find the sight abhorrent.” 26
1 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.
2 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.
3 tn Heb “a severe revelation has been related to me.”
4 sn This is often interpreted to mean “all the groaning” that Babylon has caused others.
5 sn That is, Mount Zion (see 24:23); cf. TEV; NLT “In Jerusalem.”
6 tn Heb “And the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] will make for all the nations on this mountain a banquet of meats, a banquet of wine dregs, meats filled with marrow, dregs that are filtered.”
7 tn Heb “speak to the heart of Jerusalem.” Jerusalem is personified as a woman.
8 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
9 tn Heb “that she is filled [with] her warfare.” Some understand צָבָא (tsavah, “warfare”) as meaning “hard service” or “compulsory labor” in this context.
10 tn Heb “that her punishment is accepted [as satisfactory].”
11 tn Heb “for she has received from the hand of the Lord double.” The principle of the double portion in punishment is also seen in Jer 16:18; 17:18 and Rev 18:6. For examples of the double portion in Israelite law, see Exod 22:4, 7, 9 (double restitution by a thief) and Deut 21:17 (double inheritance portion for the firstborn).
12 tn Or “kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
13 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
14 tn Heb “and I bring down [as] fugitives all of them.”
15 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.
16 sn This probably refers to the idol gods (see v. 5).
17 tn Or “friend,” or “covenant partner.”
sn The
18 tn Heb “and his arm [against] the Babylonians.”
19 sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.
20 tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).
21 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
22 tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.
23 tn Heb “found in” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
24 tn Heb “for their worm will not die.”
25 tn Heb “and their fire will not be extinguished.”
26 tn Heb “and they will be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
sn This verse depicts a huge mass burial site where the seemingly endless pile of maggot-infested corpses are being burned.
