Discovery BoxIsaiah 30:15 
Context30:15 For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says:
“If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; 1
if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, 2
but you are unwilling.
Isaiah 37:3
Context37:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: 3 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 4 and humiliation, 5 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 6
Isaiah 40:26
ContextWho created all these heavenly lights? 8
He is the one who leads out their ranks; 9
he calls them all by name.
Because of his absolute power and awesome strength,
not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:31
Context40:31 But those who wait for the Lord’s help 10 find renewed strength;
they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, 11
they run without growing weary,
they walk without getting tired.
Isaiah 51:9
Context51:9 Wake up! Wake up!
Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord! 12
Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity!
Did you not smash 13 the Proud One? 14
Did you not 15 wound the sea monster? 16
Isaiah 52:1
Context52:1 Wake up! Wake up!
Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful clothes,
O Jerusalem, 17 holy city!
For uncircumcised and unclean pagans
will no longer invade you.
Isaiah 58:11
Context58:11 The Lord will continually lead you;
he will feed you even in parched regions. 18
He will give you renewed strength, 19
and you will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring that continually produces water.
1 tn Heb “in returning and in quietness you will be delivered.” Many English versions render the last phrase “shall be saved” or something similar (e.g., NAB, NASB, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “in quietness and in trust is your strength” (NASB and NRSV both similar).
3 tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him” (cf. NRSV).
4 tn Or “rebuke” (KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV), or “correction.”
5 tn Or “contempt”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “disgrace.”
6 tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”
7 tn Heb “Lift on high your eyes and see.”
8 tn The words “heavenly lights” are supplied in the translation for clarification. See the following lines.
9 tn Heb “the one who brings out by number their host.” The stars are here likened to a huge army that the Lord leads out. Perhaps the next line pictures God calling roll. If so, the final line may be indicating that none of them dares “go AWOL.” (“AWOL” is a military acronym for “absent without leave.”)
10 tn The words “for the Lord’s help” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
11 tn Heb “they rise up [on] wings like eagles” (TEV similar).
12 tn The arm of the Lord is a symbol of divine military power. Here it is personified and told to arouse itself from sleep and prepare for action.
13 tn Heb “Are you not the one who smashed?” The feminine singular forms agree grammatically with the feminine noun “arm.” The Hebrew text has ַהמַּחְצֶבֶת (hammakhtsevet), from the verbal root חָצַב (khatsav, “hew, chop”). The Qumran scroll 1QIsaa has, probably correctly, המחצת, from the verbal root מָחַץ (makhats, “smash”) which is used in Job 26:12 to describe God’s victory over “the Proud One.”
14 tn This title (רַהַב, rahav, “proud one”) is sometimes translated as a proper name: “Rahab” (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). It is used here of a symbolic sea monster, known elsewhere in the Bible and in Ugaritic myth as Leviathan. This sea creature symbolizes the forces of chaos that seek to destroy the created order. In the Bible “the Proud One” opposes God’s creative work, but is defeated (see Job 26:12; Ps 89:10). Here the title refers to Pharaoh’s Egyptian army that opposed Israel at the Red Sea (see v. 10, and note also Isa 30:7 and Ps 87:4, where the title is used of Egypt).
15 tn The words “did you not” are understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line). The rhetorical questions here and in v. 10 expect the answer, “Yes, you certainly did!”
16 tn Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannin) is another name for the symbolic sea monster. See the note at 27:1. In this context the sea creature represents Egypt. See the note on the title “Proud One” earlier in this verse.
17 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
18 tn Heb “he will satisfy in parched regions your appetite.”
19 tn Heb “and your bones he will strengthen.”
