Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Isa 51:6) | 1 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 47:12) | 5 tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 45:1) | 3 tn Heb “and the belts of kings I will loosen”; NRSV “strip kings of their robes”; NIV “strip kings of their armor.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 42:15) | 3 sn The imagery of this verse, which depicts the Lord bringing a curse of infertility to the earth, metaphorically describes how the Lord will destroy his enemies. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 41:20) | 1 tn The words “I will do this” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text has here simply, “in order that.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 29:13) | 4 tn Heb “but their heart is far from me.” The heart is viewed here as the seat of the will, from which genuine loyalty derives. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 27:12) | 4 sn The Israelites will be freed from exile (likened to beating the olives off the tree) and then gathered (likened to collecting the olives). |
| (0.35) | (Isa 23:17) | 3 tn Heb “and she will return to her [prostitute’s] wages and engage in prostitution with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the earth.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 23:12) | 2 tn Heb “[to the] Kittim, get up, cross over; even there there will be no rest for you.” On “Kittim” see the note on “Cyprus” at v. 1. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 22:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he will tightly [or “surely”] wind you [with] winding like a ball, to a land broad of hands [i.e., “sides”].” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 21:17) | 1 tn Heb “and the remnant of the number of the bow, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 14:2) | 1 tn Heb “and the house of Israel will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 11:10) | 3 tn Heb “a root from Jesse, which stands for a signal flag of the nations, of him nations will inquire” [or “seek”]. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 10:27) | 2 tn Heb “he [i.e., the Lord] will remove his [i.e, Assyria’s] burden from upon your shoulder.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 8:14) | 3 tn These words are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. וְהָיָה (vehayah, “and he will be”) does double duty in the parallel structure of the verse. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 7:25) | 1 tn Heb “and all the hills which were hoed with a hoe, you will not go there [for] fear of the thorns and briers.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 5:16) | 2 tn Heb “by judgment/justice.” When God justly punishes the evildoers denounced in the preceding verses, he will be recognized as a mighty warrior. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 5:5) | 1 tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (baʿar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 4:1) | 1 sn The seven-to-one ratio emphasizes the great disparity that will exist in the population due to the death of so many men in battle. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 1:16) | 1 sn Having demonstrated the people’s guilt, the Lord calls them to repentance, which will involve concrete action in the socio-economic realm, not mere emotion. |
