Discovery BoxIsaiah 29:14 
Context29:14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people –
an absolutely extraordinary deed. 1
Wise men will have nothing to say,
the sages will have no explanations.” 2
Isaiah 41:11
Context41:11 Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated;
your adversaries 3 will be reduced to nothing 4 and perish.
Isaiah 45:20
Context45:20 Gather together and come!
Approach together, you refugees from the nations!
Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,
those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
Isaiah 49:4
Context49:4 But I thought, 5 “I have worked in vain;
I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” 6
But the Lord will vindicate me;
my God will reward me. 7
1 tn Heb “Therefore I will again do something amazing with these people, an amazing deed, an amazing thing.” This probably refers to the amazing transformation predicted in vv. 17-24, which will follow the purifying judgment implied in vv. 15-16.
2 tn Heb “the wisdom of their wise ones will perish, the discernment of their discerning ones will keep hidden.”
3 tn Heb “the men of your strife”; NASB “those who contend with you.”
4 tn Heb “like nothing”; NAB “come to nought.”
5 tn Or “said” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “I replied.”
6 tn Heb “for nothing and emptiness.” Synonyms are combined to emphasize the common idea.
7 tn Heb “But my justice is with the Lord, and my reward [or “wage”] with my God.”
