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

a 7:3 Literally A Remnant Shall Return

b 7:14 Literally God-With-Us

c 7:20 That is, the Euphrates

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

a 14:4 Or insolent

b 14:12 Literally Day Star

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

a 36:2 A title, probably Chief of Staff or Governor

b 36:11 Literally Judean

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

a 62:4 Literally My Delight Is in Her

b 62:4 Literally Married

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).