Discovery BoxIsaiah 14:2 
Context14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. 1 They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.
Isaiah 36:16
Context36:16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. 2 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
Isaiah 44:15
Context44:15 A man uses it to make a fire; 3
he takes some of it and warms himself.
Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread.
Then he makes a god and worships it;
he makes an idol and bows down to it. 4
Isaiah 49:23
Context49:23 Kings will be your children’s 5 guardians;
their princesses will nurse your children. 6
With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you
and they will lick the dirt on 7 your feet.
Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;
those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.
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. 8
Then all humankind 9 will recognize that
I am the Lord, your deliverer,
your protector, 10 the powerful ruler of Jacob.” 11
Isaiah 66:5
Context66:5 Hear the word of the Lord,
you who respect what he has to say! 12
Your countrymen, 13 who hate you
and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name,
say, “May the Lord be glorified,
then we will witness your joy.” 14
But they will be put to shame.
Isaiah 66:19
Context66:19 I will perform a mighty act among them 15 and then send some of those who remain to the nations – to Tarshish, Pul, 16 Lud 17 (known for its archers 18 ), Tubal, Javan, 19 and to the distant coastlands 20 that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.
1 tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”
2 tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”
3 tn Heb “and it becomes burning [i.e., firewood] for a man”; NAB “to serve man for fuel.”
4 tn Or perhaps, “them.”
5 tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).
6 tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.
7 tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”
8 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.
9 tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).
10 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
11 tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.
12 tn Heb “who tremble at his word.”
13 tn Heb “brothers” (so NASB, NIV); NRSV “Your own people”; NLT “Your close relatives.”
14 tn Or “so that we might witness your joy.” The point of this statement is unclear.
15 tn Heb “and I will set a sign among them.” The precise meaning of this statement is unclear. Elsewhere “to set a sign” means “perform a mighty act” (Ps 78:43; Jer 32:20), “make [someone] an object lesson” (Ezek 14:8), and “erect a [literal] standard” (Ps 74:4).
16 tn Some prefer to read “Put” (i.e., Libya).
17 sn That is, Lydia (in Asia Minor).
18 tn Heb “drawers of the bow” (KJV and ASV both similar).
19 sn Javan is generally identified today as Greece (so NIV, NCV, NLT).
20 tn Or “islands” (NIV).
