Discovery BoxIsaiah 12:5 
Context12:5 Sing to the Lord, for he has done magnificent things,
let this be known 1 throughout the earth!
Isaiah 17:4
ContextJacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished, 3
and he will become skin and bones. 4
Isaiah 22:17
Context22:17 Look, the Lord will throw you far away, 5 you mere man! 6
He will wrap you up tightly. 7
Isaiah 27:7
Context27:7 Has the Lord struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? 8
Has Israel been killed like their enemies? 9
Isaiah 28:24
Context28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? 10
Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?
Isaiah 33:22
Context33:22 For the Lord, our ruler,
the Lord, our commander,
the Lord, our king –
he will deliver us.
Isaiah 37:1
Context37:1 When King Hezekiah heard this, 11 he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
Isaiah 37:37
Context37:37 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh. 12
Isaiah 38:7
Context38:7 Isaiah replied, 13 “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said:
Isaiah 38:9
Context38:9 This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
Isaiah 38:21
Context38:21 14 Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”
Isaiah 42:12
Context42:12 Let them give the Lord the honor he deserves; 15
let them praise his deeds in the coastlands. 16
Isaiah 52:9
Context52:9 In unison give a joyful shout,
O ruins of Jerusalem!
For the Lord consoles his people;
he protects 17 Jerusalem.
Isaiah 57:14
Context“Build it! Build it! Clear a way!
Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
Isaiah 63:10
Context63:10 But they rebelled and offended 19 his holy Spirit, 20
so he turned into an enemy
and fought against them.
1 tc The translation follows the marginal reading (Qere), which is a Hophal participle from יָדַע (yada’), understood here in a gerundive sense.
2 tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
3 tn Heb “will be tiny.”
4 tn Heb “and the fatness of his flesh will be made lean.”
5 tn Heb “will throw you with a throwing.”
6 tn Heb “O man” (so NASB); NAB “mortal man”; NRSV “my fellow.”
7 tn Heb “and the one who wraps you [will] wrap.”
8 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Like the striking down of the one striking him down does he strike him down?” The meaning of the text is unclear, but this may be a rhetorical question, suggesting that Israel has not experienced divine judgment to the same degree as her oppressors. In this case “the one striking down” refers to Israel’s oppressors, while the pronoun “him” refers to Israel. The subject of the final verb (“does he strike down”) would then be God, while the pronoun “him” would again refer to Israel.
9 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Or like the killing of his killed ones is he killed?” If one accepts the interpretation of the parallel line outlined in the previous note, then this line too would contain a rhetorical question suggesting that Israel has not experienced destruction to the same degree as its enemies. In this case “his killed ones” refers to the one who struck Israel down, and Israel would be the subject of the final verb (“is he killed”).
10 tn Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See BDB 400 s.v. יוֹם.
11 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
12 tn Heb “and Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.”
13 tn The words “Isaiah replied” are supplied in the translation for clarification. In the present form of the Hebrew text v. 7 is joined directly to v. 6, but vv. 21-22, if original to Isaiah 38, must be inserted here. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8.
14 tc If original to Isaiah 38, vv. 21-22 have obviously been misplaced in the course of the text’s transmission, and would most naturally be placed here, between Isa 38:6 and 38:7. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8, where these verses are placed at this point in the narrative, not at the end. Another possibility is that these verses were not in the original account, and a scribe, familiar with the 2 Kgs version of the story, appended vv. 21-22 to the end of the account in Isaiah 38.
15 tn Heb “Let them ascribe to the Lord glory.”
16 tn Heb “and his praise in the coastlands [or “islands”] let them declare.”
17 tn Or “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
18 tn Since God is speaking throughout this context, perhaps we should emend the text to “and I say.” However, divine speech is introduced in v. 15.
19 tn Or “grieved, hurt the feelings of.”
20 sn The phrase “holy Spirit” occurs in the OT only here (in v. 11 as well) and in Ps 51:11 (51:13 HT), where it is associated with the divine presence.
