Discovery BoxIsaiah 13:5 
Context13:5 They come from a distant land,
from the horizon. 1
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, 2
coming to destroy the whole earth. 3
Isaiah 21:16
Context21:16 For this is what the sovereign master 4 has told me: “Within exactly one year 5 all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
Isaiah 34:1
Context34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen!
Pay attention, you people!
The earth and everything it contains must listen,
the world and everything that lives in it. 6
Isaiah 36:17
Context36:17 until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 37:32
Context37:32 “For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;
survivors will come out of Mount Zion.
The intense devotion of the Lord who commands armies 7 will accomplish this.
Isaiah 41:1
Context41:1 “Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! 8
Let the nations find renewed strength!
Let them approach and then speak;
let us come together for debate! 9
Isaiah 42:9
Context42:9 Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; 10
now I announce new events.
Before they begin to occur,
I reveal them to you.” 11
Isaiah 45:20
Context45:20 Gather together and come!
Approach together, you refugees from the nations!
Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,
those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
Isaiah 48:7
Context48:7 Now they come into being, 12 not in the past;
before today you did not hear about them,
so you could not say,
‘Yes, 13 I know about them.’
Isaiah 48:18
Context48:18 If only you had obeyed my 14 commandments,
prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, 15
deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. 16
Isaiah 60:13
Context60:13 The splendor of Lebanon will come to you,
its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together,
to beautify my palace; 17
I will bestow honor on my throne room. 18
Isaiah 66:15
Context66:15 For look, the Lord comes with fire,
his chariots come like a windstorm, 19
to reveal his raging anger,
his battle cry, and his flaming arrows. 20
Isaiah 66:18
Context66:18 “I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming 21 to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; 22 they will come and witness my splendor.
Isaiah 66:23
Context66:23 From one month 23 to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people 24 will come to worship me,” 25 says the Lord.
1 tn Heb “from the end of the sky.”
2 tn Or “anger”; cf. KJV, ASV “the weapons of his indignation.”
3 tn Or perhaps, “land” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NLT). Even though the heading and subsequent context (see v. 17) indicate Babylon’s judgment is in view, the chapter has a cosmic flavor that suggests that the coming judgment is universal in scope. Perhaps Babylon’s downfall occurs in conjunction with a wider judgment, or the cosmic style is poetic hyperbole used to emphasize the magnitude and importance of the coming event.
4 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
5 tn Heb “in still a year, like the years of a hired worker.” See the note at 16:14.
6 tn Heb “the world and its offspring”; NASB “the world and all that springs from it.”
7 tn Heb “the zeal of the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].” In this context the Lord’s “zeal” refers to his intense devotion to and love for his people which prompts him to protect and restore them.
8 tn Or “islands” (KJV, NIV, CEV); TEV “distant lands”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”
9 tn The Hebrew term מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) could be translated “judgment,” but here it seems to refer to the dispute or debate between the Lord and the nations.
10 tn Heb “the former things, look, they have come.”
11 tn Heb “before they sprout up, I cause you to hear.” The pronoun “you” is plural, referring to the people of Israel. In this verse “the former things” are the Lord’s earlier predictive oracles which have come to pass, while “the new things” are predicted events that have not yet begun to take place. “The former things” are earlier events in Israel’s history which God announced beforehand, such as the Exodus (see 43:16-18). “The new things” are the predictions about the servant (42:1-7). and may also include Cyrus’ conquests (41:25-27).
12 tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”
13 tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”
14 tn Heb “paid attention to” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “had listened to.”
15 tn Heb “like a river your peace would have been.” שָׁלוֹם (shalom) probably refers here to the peace and prosperity which God promised in return for obedience to the covenant.
16 tn Heb “and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah) probably refers here to divine deliverance from enemies. See v. 19.
17 tn Or “holy place, sanctuary.”
18 tn Heb “the place of my feet.” See Ezek 43:7, where the Lord’s throne is called the “place of the soles of my feet.”
19 sn Chariots are like a windstorm in their swift movement and in the way that they kick up dust.
20 tn Heb “to cause to return with the rage of his anger, and his battle cry [or “rebuke”] with flames of fire.”
21 tc The Hebrew text reads literally “and I, their deeds and their thoughts, am coming.” The syntax here is very problematic, suggesting that the text may have suffered corruption. Some suggest that the words “their deeds and their thoughts” have been displaced from v. 17. This line presents two primary challenges. In the first place, the personal pronoun “I” has no verb after it. Most translations insert “know” for the sake of clarity (NASB, NRSV, NLT, ESV). The NIV has “I, because of their actions and their imaginations…” Since God’s “knowledge” of Israel’s sin occasions judgment, the verb “hate” is an option as well (see above translation). The feminine form of the next verb (בָּאָה, ba’ah) could be understood in one of two ways. One could provide an implied noun “time” (עֵת, ’et) and render the next line “the time is coming/has come” (NASB, ESV). One could also emend the feminine verb to the masculine בָּא (ba’) and have the “I” at the beginning of the line govern this verb as well (for the Lord is speaking here): “I am coming” (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT).
22 tn Heb “and the tongues”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “and tongues.”
23 tn Heb “new moon.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
24 tn Heb “all flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NAB, NASB, NIV “all mankind”; NLT “All humanity.”
25 tn Or “bow down before” (NASB).
