Isaiah Notes
Isaiah 1
a 1:17 Some ancient versions read the oppressed.
b 1:29 Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Vulgate; some Hebrew manuscripts and Targum read you.
Isaiah 3
a 3:6 Literally hand
Isaiah 7
Isaiah 8
a 8:1 Literally Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty
b 8:7 That is, the Euphrates
c 8:8 Literally God-With-Us
d 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel
Isaiah 9
a 9:3 Following Qere and Targum; Kethib and Vulgate read not increased joy; Septuagint reads Most of the people You brought down in Your joy.
Isaiah 10
a 10:16 Following Bomberg; Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls read YHWH (the LORD).
b 10:30 Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint and Syriac read Listen to her, O Anathoth.
Isaiah 11
a 11:15 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint, Syriac, and Targum read dry up.
b 11:15 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 12
a 12:2 Exodus 15:2
Isaiah 14
Isaiah 15
a 15:2 Hebrew bayith, literally house
b 15:4 Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint and Syriac read loins.
c 15:5 Or The Third Eglath, an unknown city (compare Jeremiah 48:34)
d 15:9 Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate read Dibon; Septuagint reads Rimon.
e 15:9 Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate read Dibon; Septuagint reads Rimon.
Isaiah 17
a 17:2 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint reads It shall be forsaken forever; Targum reads Its cities shall be forsaken and desolate.
b 17:8 Hebrew Asherim, Canaanite deities
c 17:9 Septuagint reads Hivites; Targum reads laid waste; Vulgate reads as the plows.
d 17:9 Septuagint reads Amorites; Targum reads in ruins; Vulgate reads corn.
Isaiah 18
a 18:7 Following Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Masoretic Text omits From; Targum reads To.
Isaiah 19
a 19:7 That is, the Nile
b 19:13 That is, ancient Memphis
c 19:15 Compare Isaiah 9:14–16
d 19:18 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Arabic, Dead Sea Scrolls, Targum, and Vulgate read Sun; Septuagint reads Asedek (literally Righteousness).
Isaiah 20
a 20:1 Or the Commander in Chief
Isaiah 21
a 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls read Then the observer cried.
Isaiah 22
a 22:19 Septuagint omits he will pull you down; Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read I will pull you down.
Isaiah 23
a 23:1 Hebrew Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus
b 23:2 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint and Targum read Passing over the water; Dead Sea Scrolls read Your messengers passing over the sea.
c 23:3 That is, the Nile
d 23:10 That is, the Nile
Isaiah 26
a 26:4 Or Rock of Ages
b 26:19 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Syriac and Targum read their dead bodies; Septuagint reads those in the tombs.
Isaiah 27
a 27:2 Following Masoretic Text (Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica), Bomberg, and Vulgate; Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), some Hebrew manuscripts, and Septuagint read delight; Targum reads choice vineyard.
b 27:9 Hebrew Asherim, Canaanite deities
c 27:12 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 29
a 29:1 That is, Jerusalem
Isaiah 30
a 30:7 Literally Rahab Sits Idle
Isaiah 33
a 33:2 Septuagint omits their; Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read our.
b 33:8 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls read witnesses; Septuagint omits cities; Targum reads They have been removed from their cities.
Isaiah 36
Isaiah 37
a 37:36 Or Angel
Isaiah 38
a 38:11 Hebrew YAH, YAH
b 38:11 Following some Hebrew manuscripts; Masoretic Text and Vulgate read rest; Septuagint omits among the inhabitants of the world; Targum reads land.
c 38:14 Following Bomberg; Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls read Lord.
d 38:15 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls and Targum read And shall I say to Him; Septuagint omits first half of this verse.
Isaiah 39
a 39:1 Spelled Berodach-Baladan in 2 Kings 20:12
Isaiah 40
a 40:3 Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint omits in the desert.
b 40:6 Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, and Vulgate read I.
c 40:12 Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls read waters of the sea; Targum reads waters of the world.
Isaiah 41
a 41:29 Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls, Syriac, and Targum read nothing; Septuagint omits the first line.
Isaiah 45
a 45:2 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read mountains; Targum reads I will trample down the walls; Vulgate reads I will humble the great ones of the earth.
Isaiah 48
a 48:16 The Hebrew verb is singular.
Isaiah 49
a 49:5 Qere, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Septuagint read is gathered to Him; Kethib reads is not gathered.
b 49:17 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Targum, and Vulgate read builders.
c 49:24 Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Dead Sea Scrolls, Syriac, and Vulgate read the mighty; Septuagint reads unjustly.
Isaiah 51
a 51:23 Literally your soul
Isaiah 52
a 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls read Mock; Septuagint reads Marvel and wail; Targum reads Boast themselves; Vulgate reads Treat them unjustly.
b 52:15 Or startle
Isaiah 53
a 53:9 Literally he or He
b 53:11 Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read From the labor of His soul He shall see light.
Isaiah 56
a 56:5 Literally him
Isaiah 57
a 57:8 Literally hand, a euphemism
Isaiah 62
Isaiah 65
a 65:11 Literally Troop or Fortune, a pagan deity
b 65:11 Literally Number or Destiny, a pagan deity
Isaiah 66
a 66:19 Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint reads Put (compare Jeremiah 46:9).