Discovery BoxIsaiah 16:8 
Context16:8 For the fields of Heshbon are dried up,
as well as the vines of Sibmah.
The rulers of the nations trample all over its vines,
which reach Jazer and spread to the desert;
their shoots spread out and cross the sea.
Isaiah 26:19
Context26:19 1 Your dead will come back to life;
your corpses will rise up.
Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! 2
For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, 3
and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits. 4
Isaiah 26:21
Context26:21 For look, the Lord is coming out of the place where he lives, 5
to punish the sin of those who live on the earth.
The earth will display the blood shed on it;
it will no longer cover up its slain. 6
Isaiah 30:14
Context30:14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,
so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. 7
Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough 8
to scoop a hot coal from a fire 9
or to skim off water from a cistern.” 10
Isaiah 37:30
Context37:30 11 “This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: 12 This year you will eat what grows wild, 13 and next year 14 what grows on its own. But the year after that 15 you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. 16
Isaiah 39:2
Context39:2 Hezekiah welcomed 17 them and showed them his storehouse with its silver, gold, spices, and high-quality olive oil, as well as his whole armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom. 18
Isaiah 44:13
Context44:13 A carpenter takes measurements; 19
he marks out an outline of its form; 20
he scrapes 21 it with chisels,
and marks it with a compass.
He patterns it after the human form, 22
like a well-built human being,
and puts it in a shrine. 23
Isaiah 51:6
Context51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 24 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 25 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 26 will not disappear. 27
Isaiah 65:22
Context65:22 No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, 28
or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, 29
for my people will live as long as trees, 30
and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced. 31
Isaiah 66:12
Context66:12 For this is what the Lord says:
“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,
the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. 32
You will nurse from her breast 33 and be carried at her side;
you will play on her knees.
Isaiah 66:19
Context66:19 I will perform a mighty act among them 34 and then send some of those who remain to the nations – to Tarshish, Pul, 35 Lud 36 (known for its archers 37 ), Tubal, Javan, 38 and to the distant coastlands 39 that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.
1 sn At this point the Lord (or prophet) gives the people an encouraging oracle.
2 tn Heb “dust” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “for the dew of lights [is] your dew.” The pronominal suffix on “dew” is masculine singular, like the suffixes on “your dead” and “your corpses” in the first half of the verse. The statement, then, is addressed to collective Israel, the speaker in verse 18. The plural form אוֹרֹת (’orot) is probably a plural of respect or magnitude, meaning “bright light” (i.e., morning’s light). Dew is a symbol of fertility and life. Here Israel’s “dew,” as it were, will soak the dust of the ground and cause the corpses of the dead to spring up to new life, like plants sprouting up from well-watered soil.
4 sn It is not certain whether the resurrection envisioned here is intended to be literal or figurative. A comparison with 25:8 and Dan 12:2 suggests a literal interpretation, but Ezek 37:1-14 uses resurrection as a metaphor for deliverance from exile and the restoration of the nation (see Isa 27:12-13).
5 tn Heb “out of his place” (so KJV, ASV).
6 sn This implies that rampant bloodshed is one of the reasons for divine judgment. See the note at 24:5.
7 tn Heb “Its shattering is like the shattering of a jug of [i.e., “made by”] potters, [so] shattered one cannot save [any of it].”
8 tn The words “large enough” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 tn Heb “to remove fire from the place of kindling.”
10 tn On the meaning of גֶבֶא (geveh, “cistern”) see HALOT 170 s.v.
11 tn At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 22-29) ends and the Lord again addresses Hezekiah and the people directly (see v. 21).
12 tn Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) is a future reminder of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14-25.
13 sn This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.
14 tn Heb “and in the second year” (so ASV).
15 tn Heb “in the third year” (so KJV, NAB).
16 tn The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 30b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity.
17 tn Heb “was happy with”; NAB, NASB “was pleased”; NIV “received the envoys gladly.”
18 tn Heb “there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his kingdom.”
19 tn Heb “stretches out a line” (ASV similar); NIV “measures with a line.”
20 tn Heb “he makes an outline with the [?].” The noun שֶׂרֶד (shered) occurs only here; it apparently refers to some type of tool or marker. Cf. KJV “with a line”; ASV “with a pencil”; NAB, NRSV “with a stylus”; NASB “with red chalk”; NIV “with a marker.”
21 tn Heb “works” (so NASB) or “fashions” (so NRSV); NIV “he roughs it out.”
22 tn Heb “he makes it like the pattern of a man”; NAB “like a man in appearance.”
23 tn Heb “like the glory of man to sit [in] a house”; NIV “that it may dwell in a shrine.”
24 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
25 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
26 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
27 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”
28 tn Heb “they will not build, and another live [in it].”
29 tn Heb “they will not plant, and another eat.”
30 tn Heb “for like the days of the tree [will be] the days of my people.”
31 tn Heb “the work of their hands” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “their hard-won gains.”
32 tn Heb “Look, I am ready to extend to her like a river prosperity [or “peace”], and like an overflowing stream, the riches of nations.”
33 tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).
34 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).
35 tn Some prefer to read “Put” (i.e., Libya).
36 sn That is, Lydia (in Asia Minor).
37 tn Heb “drawers of the bow” (KJV and ASV both similar).
38 sn Javan is generally identified today as Greece (so NIV, NCV, NLT).
39 tn Or “islands” (NIV).
