Discovery BoxIsaiah 14:29 
Context14:29 Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines,
just because the club that beat you has been broken! 1
For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root,
and its fruit will be a darting adder. 2
Isaiah 30:29
Context30:29 You will sing
as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival.
You will be happy like one who plays a flute
as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel. 3
Isaiah 35:10
Context35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. 4
They will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 5
happiness and joy will overwhelm 6 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 7
Isaiah 51:11
Context51:11 Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return;
they will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 8
happiness and joy will overwhelm 9 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 10
Isaiah 65:18
Context65:18 But be happy and rejoice forevermore
over what I am about to create!
For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem 11 to be a source of joy, 12
and her people to be a source of happiness. 13
1 sn The identity of this “club” (also referred to as a “serpent” in the next line) is uncertain. It may refer to an Assyrian king, or to Ahaz. For discussion see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:331-32. The viper/adder referred to in the second half of the verse is his successor.
2 tn Heb “flying burning one.” The designation “burning one” may allude to the serpent’s appearance or the effect of its poisonous bite. (See the note at 6:2.) The qualifier “flying” probably refers to the serpent’s quick, darting movements, though one might propose a homonym here, meaning “biting.” (See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:332, n. 18.) Some might think in terms of a mythological flying, fire breathing dragon (cf. NAB “a flying saraph”; CEV “a flying fiery dragon”), but this proposal does not make good sense in 30:6, where the phrase “flying burning one” appears again in a list of desert animals.
3 tn Heb “[you will have] joy of heart, like the one going with a flute to enter the mountain of the Lord to the Rock of Israel.” The image here is not a foundational rock, but a rocky cliff where people could hide for protection (for example, the fortress of Masada).
4 tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”
5 tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.
6 tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”
7 tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
8 tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.
9 tn Heb “overtake” (so NIV); NASB “they will obtain.”
10 tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee.”
11 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
12 tn Heb “Jerusalem, joy.” The next verse suggests the meaning: The Lord will create Jerusalem to be a source of joy to himself.
13 tn Heb “her people, happiness.” See the preceding note.
