Discovery BoxIsaiah 38:1 
Context38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 1 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”
Isaiah 44:23
Context44:23 Shout for joy, O sky, for the Lord intervenes; 2
shout out, you subterranean regions 3 of the earth.
O mountains, give a joyful shout;
you too, O forest and all your trees! 4
For the Lord protects 5 Jacob;
he reveals his splendor through Israel. 6
Isaiah 51:6
Context51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 7 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 8 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 9 will not disappear. 10
Isaiah 54:1
Context54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth!
Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the desolate one are more numerous
than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
1 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying”; NRSV “became sick and was at the point of death.”
2 tn Heb “acts”; NASB, NRSV “has done it”; NLT “has done this wondrous thing.”
3 tn Heb “lower regions.” This refers to Sheol and forms a merism with “sky” in the previous line. See Pss 63:9; 71:20.
4 tn Heb “O forest and all the trees in it”; NASB, NRSV “and every tree in it.”
5 tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
6 tn That is, by delivering Israel. Cf. NCV “showed his glory when he saved Israel”; TEV “has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.”
7 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
8 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
9 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
10 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”
