Isaiah 1

a 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor

b 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem

Isaiah 2

a 2:9 Or not raise them up

b 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish

Isaiah 4

a 4:4 Or the Spirit

b 4:4 Or the Spirit

c 4:5 Or over all the glory there

Isaiah 5

a 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters

b 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms

c 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms

d 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat

Isaiah 6

a 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

a 7:2 Or has set up camp in

b 7:3 Shear-Jashub means a remnant will return.

c 7:14 The Hebrew is plural.

d 7:14 Or young woman

e 7:14 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and they

f 7:14 Immanuel means God with us.

g 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms

Isaiah 8

a 8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil; also in verse 3.

b 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.

c 8:9 Or Do your worst

d 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel

Isaiah 9

a In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-21 is numbered 9:1-20.

b 9:20 Or arm

Isaiah 10

a 10:13 Or treasures; / I subdued the mighty,

b 10:21 Hebrew shear-jashub (see 7:3 and note); also in verse 22

c 10:27 Hebrew; Septuagint broken / from your shoulders

Isaiah 11

a 11:6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feed

b 11:11 That is, the upper Nile region

c 11:11 Hebrew Shinar

d 11:13 Or hostility

Isaiah 12

a 12:2 Or song

Isaiah 13

a 13:6 Hebrew Shaddai

b 13:19 Or Chaldeans

Isaiah 14

a 14:4 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.

b 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

Isaiah 15

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

b 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.

Isaiah 16

a 16:5 Hebrew tent

b 16:8 Probably the Dead Sea

Isaiah 17

a 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Isaiah 18

a 18:1 Or of locusts

b 18:1 That is, the upper Nile region

Isaiah 19

a 19:18 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text City of Destruction

b 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

a 20:3 That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5

Isaiah 21

a 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion

b 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.

Isaiah 22

a 22:23 Or throne

Isaiah 23

a 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,

b 23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through

c 23:13 Or Chaldeans

Isaiah 24

a 24:22 Or released

Isaiah 25

a 25:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Isaiah 26

a 26:8 Or judgments

b 26:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

Isaiah 27

a 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

b 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Isaiah 28

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

b 28:15 Or false gods

c 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

d 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Isaiah 29

a 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.

b 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules

Isaiah 33

a 33:6 Or is a treasure from him

b 33:8 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text / the cities

Isaiah 34

a 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.

b 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

c 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

d 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

Isaiah 36

a 36:9 Or charioteers

Isaiah 37

a 37:9 That is, the upper Nile region

b 37:20 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:19); Masoretic Text you alone are the LORD

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

d 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

a 40:3 Or A voice of one calling in the wilderness: / “Prepare the way for the LORD

b 40:3 Hebrew; Septuagint make straight the paths of our God

c 40:9 Or Zion, bringer of good news, / go up on a high mountain. / Jerusalem, bringer of good news

d 40:13 Or mind

Isaiah 41

a 41:2 Or east, / whom victory meets at every step

Isaiah 43

a 43:3 That is, the upper Nile region

b 43:14 Or Chaldeans

c 43:22 Or Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of

d 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

a 44:2 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.

Isaiah 45

a 45:2 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.

b 45:13 Hebrew him

c 45:14 That is, the upper Nile region

Isaiah 46

a 46:1 Or are but beasts and cattle

Isaiah 47

a 47:1 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 5

Isaiah 48

a 48:14 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 20

Isaiah 49

a 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be

b 49:12 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim

c 49:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous

Isaiah 51

a 51:19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can I

Isaiah 52

a 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text wail

b 52:13 Or will prosper

c 52:14 Hebrew you

d 52:15 Or so will many nations be amazed at him (see also Septuagint)

Isaiah 53

a 53:8 Or From arrest

b 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?

c 53:10 Hebrew though you make

d 53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life.

e 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied

f 53:11 Or by knowledge of him

g 53:12 Or many

h 53:12 Or numerous

Isaiah 54

a 54:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Isaiah 57

a 57:9 Or to the king

b 57:9 Or idols

Isaiah 58

a 58:8 Or your righteous One

Isaiah 59

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

Isaiah 60

a 60:9 Or the trading ships

Isaiah 61

a 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind

Isaiah 62

a 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.

b 62:4 Beulah means married.

Isaiah 63

a 63:9 Or Savior 9in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them

b 63:11 Or But may he recall

c 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called

Isaiah 64

a In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.

b 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of

Isaiah 65

a 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches

Isaiah 66

a 66:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

b 66:19 Some Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul