8:20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 1
1:17 But you, dear friends – recall the predictions 9 foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 10
107:22 Let them present thank offerings,
and loudly proclaim what he has done! 11
60:5 Then you will look and smile, 12
you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. 13
For the riches of distant lands 14 will belong to you
and the wealth of nations will come to you.
60:6 Camel caravans will cover your roads, 15
young camels from Midian and Ephah.
All the merchants of Sheba 16 will come,
bringing gold and incense
and singing praises to the Lord. 17
60:7 All the sheep of Kedar will be gathered to you;
the rams of Nebaioth will be available to you as sacrifices. 18
They will go up on my altar acceptably, 19
and I will bestow honor on my majestic temple.
1 sn Offered burnt offerings on the altar. F. D. Maurice includes a chapter on the sacrifice of Noah in The Doctrine of Sacrifice. The whole burnt offering, according to Leviticus 1, represented the worshiper’s complete surrender and dedication to the
2 tn “And” is not in Greek, but is supplied for the sake of English style.
3 tn Or “going.” Though the participle is anarthrous, so also is the subject. Thus, the participle could be either adverbial or adjectival.
4 tn Grk “(who go/going) according to their own lusts.”
5 tn Grk “and their mouth speaks bombastic things.”
6 sn Enchanting folks (Grk “awing faces”) refers to the fact that the speeches of these false teachers are powerful and seductive.
7 tn Or “to their own advantage.”
8 tn Grk “may mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.”
9 tn Grk “words.” In conjunction with προεῖπον (proeipon), however, the meaning of the construction is that the apostles uttered prophecies.
10 sn This verse parallels 2 Pet 3:2 both conceptually and in much of the verbiage. There is one important difference, however: In 2 Pet 3:2 the prophets and apostles speak; here, just the apostles speak. This makes good sense if Jude is using 2 Peter as his main source and is urging his readers to go back to the authoritative writings, both OT and now especially NT.
11 tn Heb “and let them proclaim his works with a ringing cry.”
12 tn Or “shine,” or “be radiant” (NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
13 tn Heb “and it will tremble and be wide, your heart.”
14 tn Heb “the wealth of the sea,” i.e., wealth that is transported from distant lands via the sea.
15 tn Heb “an abundance of camels will cover you.”
16 tn Heb “all of them, from Sheba.”
17 tn Heb “and they will announce the praises of the Lord.”
18 tn Heb “will serve you,” i.e., be available as sacrifices (see the next line). Another option is to understood these “rams” as symbolic of leaders who will be subject to the people of Zion. See v. 10.
19 tc Heb “they will go up on acceptance [on] my altar.” Some have suggested that the preposition עַל (’al) is dittographic (note the preceding יַעֲלוּ [ya’alu]). Consequently, the form should be emended to לְרָצוֹן (lÿratson, “acceptably”; see BDB 953 s.v. רָצוֹן). However, the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa has both לרצון followed by the preposition על, which would argue against deleted the preposition. As the above translation seeks to demonstrate, the preposition עַל (’al) indicates a norm (“in accordance with acceptance” or “acceptably”; IBHS 218 §11.2.13e, n. 111) and the “altar” functions as an objective accusative with a verb of motion (cf. Gen 49:4; Lev 2:2; Num 13:17; J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 2:534, n. 14).