Text -- Isaiah 41:5 (NET)

41:5 The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 41:5

¹ tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”

² tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.