Discovery BoxIsaiah 6:8 
Context6:8 I heard the voice of the sovereign master say, “Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” 1 I answered, “Here I am, send me!”
Isaiah 7:6
Context7:6 They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. 2 Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.” 3
Isaiah 8:20
Context8:20 Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. 4 Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened. 5
Isaiah 12:1
Context12:1 At that time 6 you will say:
“I praise you, O Lord,
for even though you were angry with me,
your anger subsided, and you consoled me.
Isaiah 12:4
Context12:4 At that time 7 you will say:
“Praise the Lord!
Ask him for help! 8
Publicize his mighty acts among the nations!
Make it known that he is unique! 9
Isaiah 22:4
Context22:4 So I say:
“Don’t look at me! 10
I am weeping bitterly.
Don’t try 11 to console me
concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” 12
Isaiah 22:13
Context22:13 But look, there is outright celebration! 13
You say, “Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep,
eat meat and drink wine.
Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” 14
Isaiah 29:12
Context29:12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read 15 and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.” 16
Isaiah 29:14
Context29:14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people –
an absolutely extraordinary deed. 17
Wise men will have nothing to say,
the sages will have no explanations.” 18
Isaiah 33:14
Context33:14 Sinners are afraid in Zion;
panic 19 grips the godless. 20
They say, 21 ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire?
Who among us can coexist with unquenchable 22 fire?’
Isaiah 38:15
Context38:15 What can I say?
He has decreed and acted. 23
I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief. 24
Isaiah 42:17
Context42:17 Those who trust in idols
will turn back and be utterly humiliated, 25
those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”
Isaiah 45:23-24
Context45:23 I solemnly make this oath 26 –
what I say is true and reliable: 27
‘Surely every knee will bow to me,
every tongue will solemnly affirm; 28
45:24 they will say about me,
“Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” 29
All who are angry at him will cower before him. 30
Isaiah 48:7
Context48:7 Now they come into being, 31 not in the past;
before today you did not hear about them,
so you could not say,
‘Yes, 32 I know about them.’
Isaiah 48:20
Context48:20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Babylonians!
Announce it with a shout of joy!
Make this known!
Proclaim it throughout the earth! 33
Say, ‘The Lord protects 34 his servant Jacob.
Isaiah 62:11
Context62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: 35
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘Look, your deliverer comes!
Look, his reward is with him
and his reward goes before him!’” 36
1 tn Heb “for us.” The plural pronoun refers to the Lord, the seraphs, and the rest of the heavenly assembly.
2 tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.”
3 tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.”
sn The precise identity of this would-be puppet king is unknown. He may have been a Syrian official or the ruler of one of the small neighboring states. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 370.
4 tn Heb “to [the] instruction and to [the] testimony.” The words “then you must recall” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text vv. 19-20a are one long sentence, reading literally, “When they say to you…, to the instruction and to the testimony.” On the identity of the “instruction” and “testimony” see the notes at v. 16.
5 tn Heb “If they do not speak according to this word, [it is] because it has no light of dawn.” The literal translation suggests that “this word” refers to the instruction/testimony. However, it is likely that אִם־לֹא (’im-lo’) is asseverative here, as in 5:9. In this case “this word” refers to the quotation recorded in v. 19. For a discussion of the problem see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 230, n. 9. The singular pronoun in the second half of the verse is collective, referring back to the nation (see v. 19b).
6 tn Or “in that day” (KJV).
7 tn Or “in that day” (KJV).
8 tn Heb “call in his name,” i.e., “invoke his name.”
9 tn Heb “bring to remembrance that his name is exalted.” The Lord’s “name” stands here for his character and reputation.
10 tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).
11 tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).
12 tn Heb “the daughter of my people.” “Daughter” is here used metaphorically to express the speaker’s emotional attachment to his people, as well as their vulnerability and weakness.
13 tn Heb “happiness and joy.”
14 tn The prophet here quotes what the fatalistic people are saying. The introductory “you say” is supplied in the translation for clarification; the concluding verb “we die” makes it clear the people are speaking. The six verbs translated as imperatives are actually infinitives absolute, functioning here as finite verbs.
15 tn Heb “and if the scroll is handed to one who does not know a scroll.”
16 tn Heb “I do not know a scroll.”
17 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.
18 tn Heb “the wisdom of their wise ones will perish, the discernment of their discerning ones will keep hidden.”
19 tn Or “trembling” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “shake with fear.”
20 tn Or “the defiled”; TEV “The sinful people of Zion”; NLT “The sinners in Jerusalem.”
21 tn The words “they say” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
22 tn Or “perpetual”; or “everlasting” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
23 tn Heb “and he has spoken and he has acted.”
24 tn Heb “because of the bitterness of my soul.”
25 tn Heb “be ashamed with shame”; ASV, NASB “be utterly put to shame.”
26 tn Heb “I swear by myself”; KJV, NASB “have sworn.”
27 tn Heb “a word goes out from my mouth [in] truth and will not return.”
28 tn Heb “swear” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “confess allegiance.”
29 tn Heb “‘Yes, in the Lord,’ one says about me, ‘is deliverance and strength.’”
30 tn Heb “will come to him and be ashamed.”
31 tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”
32 tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”
33 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).
34 tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
35 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).
36 sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.
