Text -- Isaiah 45:19 (NET)

45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 45:19

¹ tn Heb “in a place of a land of darkness” (ASV similar); NASB “in some dark land.”

² tn “In vain” translates תֹהוּ (tohu), used here as an adverbial accusative: “for nothing.”

³ tn The translation above assumes that צֶדֶק (tsedeq) and מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim) are adverbial accusatives (see 33:15). If they are taken as direct objects, indicating the content of what is spoken, one might translate, “who proclaims deliverance, who announces justice.”