Discovery BoxIsaiah 25:1 
Context25:1 O Lord, you are my God! 1
I will exalt you in praise, I will extol your fame. 2
For you have done extraordinary things,
and executed plans made long ago exactly as you decreed. 3
Isaiah 25:9
Context25:9 At that time they will say, 4
“Look, here 5 is our God!
We waited for him and he delivered us.
Here 6 is the Lord! We waited for him.
Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
Isaiah 30:18
Context30:18 For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy;
he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. 7
Indeed, the Lord is a just God;
all who wait for him in faith will be blessed. 8
Isaiah 31:3
Context31:3 The Egyptians are mere humans, not God;
their horses are made of flesh, not spirit.
The Lord will strike with 9 his hand;
the one who helps will stumble
and the one being helped will fall.
Together they will perish. 10
Isaiah 36:18
Context36:18 Hezekiah is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.” Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria? 11
Isaiah 38:5
Context38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor 12 David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,
Isaiah 40:28
Context40:28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is an eternal God,
the creator of the whole earth. 13
He does not get tired or weary;
there is no limit to his wisdom. 14
Isaiah 42:5
Context42:5 This is what the true God, 15 the Lord, says –
the one who created the sky and stretched it out,
the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, 16
the one who gives breath to the people on it,
and life to those who live on it: 17
Isaiah 48:1
Context48:1 Listen to this, O family of Jacob, 18
you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’
and are descended from Judah, 19
who take oaths in the name of the Lord,
and invoke 20 the God of Israel –
but not in an honest and just manner. 21
Isaiah 51:22
Context51:22 This is what your sovereign master, 22 the Lord your God, says:
“Look, I have removed from your hand
the cup of intoxicating wine, 23
the goblet full of my anger. 24
You will no longer have to drink it.
Isaiah 55:7
Context55:7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle 25
and sinful people their plans. 26
They should return 27 to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, 28
and to their God, for he will freely forgive them. 29
1 sn The prophet speaks here as one who has observed the coming judgment of the proud.
2 tn Heb “name.” See the note at 24:15.
3 tn Heb “plans from long ago [in] faithfulness, trustworthiness.” The feminine noun אֱמוּנָה (’emunah, “faithfulness”) and masculine noun אֹמֶן (’omen, “trustworthiness”), both of which are derived from the root אָמַן (’aman), are juxtaposed to emphasize the basic idea conveyed by the synonyms. Here they describe the absolute reliability of the divine plans.
4 tn Heb “and one will say in that day.”
5 tn Heb “this [one].”
6 tn Heb “this [one].”
7 tn Heb “Therefore the Lord waits to show you mercy, and therefore he is exalted to have compassion on you.” The logical connection between this verse and what precedes is problematic. The point seems to be that Judah’s impending doom does not bring God joy. Rather the prospect of their suffering stirs within him a willingness to show mercy and compassion, if they are willing to seek him on his terms.
8 tn Heb “Blessed are all who wait for him.”
9 tn Heb “will extend”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV “stretch out.”
10 tn Heb “together all of them will come to an end.”
11 tn Heb “Have the gods of the nations rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not!”
12 tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).
13 tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.
14 sn Exiled Israel’s complaint (v. 27) implies that God might be limited in some way. Perhaps he, like so many of the pagan gods, has died. Or perhaps his jurisdiction is limited to Judah and does not include Babylon. Maybe he is unable to devise an adequate plan to rescue his people, or is unable to execute it. But v. 28 affirms that he is not limited temporally or spatially nor is his power and wisdom restricted in any way. He can and will deliver his people, if they respond in hopeful faith (v. 31a).
15 tn Heb “the God.” The definite article here indicates distinctiveness or uniqueness.
16 tn Heb “and its offspring” (so NASB); NIV “all that comes out of it.”
17 tn Heb “and spirit [i.e., “breath”] to the ones walking in it” (NAB, NASB, and NRSV all similar).
18 tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV, CEV “people of Israel.”
19 tc The Hebrew text reads literally “and from the waters of Judah came out.” מִמֵּי (mimme) could be a corruption of מִמְּעֵי (mimmÿ’e, “from the inner parts of”; cf. NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV) as suggested in the above translation. Some translations (ESV, NKJV) retain the MT reading because the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa, which corrects a similar form to “from inner parts of” in 39:7, does not do it here.
20 tn Heb “cause to remember”; KJV, ASV “make mention of.”
21 tn Heb “not in truth and not in righteousness.”
22 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
23 tn Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”
24 tn Heb “the goblet of the cup of my anger.”
25 tn Heb “Let the wicked one abandon his way.” The singular is collective.
26 tn Heb “and the man of evil his thoughts.” The singular is collective.
27 tn Heb “let him return.” The singular is collective, meaning “let them.”
28 tn The imperfect with vav (ו) conjunctive after the jussive indicates purpose/result.
29 sn The appeal and promise of vv. 6-7 echoes the language of Deut 4:25-31; 30:1-10; and 1 Kgs 8:46-53, all of which anticipate the exile and speak of the prerequisites for restoration.
