1:22 Your 1 silver has become scum, 2
your beer is diluted with water. 3
12:3 Joyfully you will draw water
from the springs of deliverance. 4
51:21 So listen to this, oppressed one,
who is drunk, but not from wine!
1 tn The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.
2 tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.
3 sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.
4 tn Or “salvation” (so many English versions, e.g., KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); CEV “victory.”