Isaiah 1

[BACK TO [1]] 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor

[BACK TO [2]] 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem

Isaiah 2

[BACK TO [3]] 2:9 Or not raise them up

[BACK TO [4]] 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish

Isaiah 4

[BACK TO [5]] 4:4 Or the Spirit

[BACK TO [6]] 4:4 Or the Spirit

[BACK TO [7]] 4:5 Or over all the glory there

Isaiah 5

[BACK TO [8]] 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters

[BACK TO [9]] 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms

[BACK TO [10]] 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms

[BACK TO [11]] 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat

Isaiah 6

[BACK TO [12]] 6:9, 10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes

Isaiah 7

[BACK TO [13]] 7:2 Or has set up camp in

[BACK TO [14]] 7:3 Shear-Jashub means a remnant will return.

[BACK TO [15]] 7:14 The Hebrew is plural.

[BACK TO [16]] 7:14 Or young woman

[BACK TO [17]] 7:14 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and they

[BACK TO [18]] 7:14 Immanuel means God with us.

[BACK TO [19]] 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms

Isaiah 8

[BACK TO [20]] 8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil; also in verse 3.

[BACK TO [21]] 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.

[BACK TO [22]] 8:9 Or Do your worst

[BACK TO [23]] 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel

Isaiah 9

[BACK TO [24]] In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2–21 is numbered 9:1–20.

[BACK TO [25]] 9:20 Or arm

Isaiah 10

[BACK TO [26]] 10:13 Or treasures; / I subdued the mighty,

[BACK TO [27]] 10:21 Hebrew shear-jashub (see 7:3 and note); also in verse 22

[BACK TO [28]] 10:27 Hebrew; Septuagint broken / from your shoulders

Isaiah 11

[BACK TO [29]] 11:6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feed

[BACK TO [30]] 11:11 That is, the upper Nile region

[BACK TO [31]] 11:11 Hebrew Shinar

[BACK TO [32]] 11:13 Or hostility

Isaiah 12

[BACK TO [33]] 12:2 Or song

Isaiah 13

[BACK TO [34]] 13:6 Hebrew Shaddai

[BACK TO [35]] 13:19 Or Chaldeans

Isaiah 14

[BACK TO [36]] 14:4 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.

[BACK TO [37]] 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

Isaiah 15

[BACK TO [38]] 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.

[BACK TO [39]] 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.

Isaiah 16

[BACK TO [40]] 16:5 Hebrew tent

[BACK TO [41]] 16:8 Probably the Dead Sea

Isaiah 17

[BACK TO [42]] 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Isaiah 18

[BACK TO [43]] 18:1 Or of locusts

[BACK TO [44]] 18:1 That is, the upper Nile region

Isaiah 19

[BACK TO [45]] 19:18 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text City of Destruction

[BACK TO [46]] 19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed

Isaiah 20

[BACK TO [47]] 20:3 That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5

Isaiah 21

[BACK TO [48]] 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion

[BACK TO [49]] 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.

Isaiah 22

[BACK TO [50]] 22:23 Or throne

Isaiah 23

[BACK TO [51]] 23:2, 3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys ³are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,

[BACK TO [52]] 23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through

[BACK TO [53]] 23:13 Or Chaldeans

Isaiah 24

[BACK TO [54]] 24:22 Or released

Isaiah 25

[BACK TO [55]] 25:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Isaiah 26

[BACK TO [56]] 26:8 Or judgments

[BACK TO [57]] 26:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

Isaiah 27

[BACK TO [58]] 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

[BACK TO [59]] 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Isaiah 28

[BACK TO [60]] 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13

[BACK TO [61]] 28:15 Or false gods

[BACK TO [62]] 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

[BACK TO [63]] 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Isaiah 29

[BACK TO [64]] 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.

[BACK TO [65]] 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules

Isaiah 33

[BACK TO [66]] 33:6 Or is a treasure from him

[BACK TO [67]] 33:8 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text / the cities

Isaiah 34

[BACK TO [68]] 34:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.

[BACK TO [69]] 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

[BACK TO [70]] 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

[BACK TO [71]] 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

Isaiah 36

[BACK TO [72]] 36:9 Or charioteers

Isaiah 37

[BACK TO [73]] 37:9 That is, the upper Nile region

[BACK TO [74]] 37:20 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:19); Masoretic Text you alone are the LORD

[BACK TO [75]] 37:25 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have in foreign lands.

[BACK TO [76]] 37:27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fields

Isaiah 40

[BACK TO [77]] 40:3 Or A voice of one calling in the wilderness: / “Prepare the way for the LORD

[BACK TO [78]] 40:3 Hebrew; Septuagint make straight the paths of our God

[BACK TO [79]] 40:9 Or Zion, bringer of good news, / go up on a high mountain. / Jerusalem, bringer of good news

[BACK TO [80]] 40:13 Or mind

Isaiah 41

[BACK TO [81]] 41:2 Or east, / whom victory meets at every step

Isaiah 43

[BACK TO [82]] 43:3 That is, the upper Nile region

[BACK TO [83]] 43:14 Or Chaldeans

[BACK TO [84]] 43:22 Or Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of

[BACK TO [85]] 43:28 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them.

Isaiah 44

[BACK TO [86]] 44:2 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.

Isaiah 45

[BACK TO [87]] 45:2 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.

[BACK TO [88]] 45:13 Hebrew him

[BACK TO [89]] 45:14 That is, the upper Nile region

Isaiah 46

[BACK TO [90]] 46:1 Or are but beasts and cattle

Isaiah 47

[BACK TO [91]] 47:1 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 5

Isaiah 48

[BACK TO [92]] 48:14 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 20

Isaiah 49

[BACK TO [93]] 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be

[BACK TO [94]] 49:12 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim

[BACK TO [95]] 49:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous

Isaiah 51

[BACK TO [96]] 51:19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can I

Isaiah 52

[BACK TO [97]] 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text wail

[BACK TO [98]] 52:13 Or will prosper

[BACK TO [99]] 52:14 Hebrew you

[BACK TO [100]] 52:15 Or so will many nations be amazed at him (see also Septuagint)

Isaiah 53

[BACK TO [101]] 53:8 Or From arrest

[BACK TO [102]] 53:8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?

[BACK TO [103]] 53:10 Hebrew though you make

[BACK TO [104]] 53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life.

[BACK TO [105]] 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied

[BACK TO [106]] 53:11 Or by knowledge of him

[BACK TO [107]] 53:12 Or many

[BACK TO [108]] 53:12 Or numerous

Isaiah 54

[BACK TO [109]] 54:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Isaiah 57

[BACK TO [110]] 57:9 Or to the king

[BACK TO [111]] 57:9 Or idols

Isaiah 58

[BACK TO [112]] 58:8 Or your righteous One

Isaiah 59

[BACK TO [113]] 59:19 Or When enemies come in like a flood, / the Spirit of the LORD will put them to flight

Isaiah 60

[BACK TO [114]] 60:9 Or the trading ships

Isaiah 61

[BACK TO [115]] 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind

Isaiah 62

[BACK TO [116]] 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.

[BACK TO [117]] 62:4 Beulah means married.

Isaiah 63

[BACK TO [118]] 63:9 Or Savior 9in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them

[BACK TO [119]] 63:11 Or But may he recall

[BACK TO [120]] 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called

Isaiah 64

[BACK TO [121]] In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2–12 is numbered 64:1–11.

[BACK TO [122]] 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of

Isaiah 65

[BACK TO [123]] 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches

Isaiah 66

[BACK TO [124]] 66:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

[BACK TO [125]] 66:19 Some Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul