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 44:26
Context44:26 who fulfills the oracles of his prophetic servants 2
and brings to pass the announcements 3 of his messengers,
who says about Jerusalem, 4 ‘She will be inhabited,’
and about the towns of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt,
her ruins I will raise up,’
Isaiah 56:6
Context56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of 5 the Lord and serve him,
who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants –
all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,
and who are faithful to 6 my covenant –
Isaiah 65:8
Context65:8 This is what the Lord says:
“When 7 juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,
someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ 8
So I will do for the sake of my servants –
I will not destroy everyone. 9
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 “the word of his servant.” The following context indicates that the Lord’s prophets are in view.
3 tn Heb “counsel.” The Hebrew term עֵצָה (’etsah) probably refers here to the divine plan as announced by the prophets. See HALOT 867 s.v. I עֵצָה.
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn Heb “who attach themselves to.”
6 tn Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”
7 tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….”
8 tn Heb “for a blessing is in it.”
9 tn Heb “by not destroying everyone.”
