14:10 All of them respond to you, saying:
‘You too have become weak like us!
You have become just like us!
41:8 “You, my servant Israel,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
offspring of Abraham my friend, 1
41:16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away;
the wind will scatter them.
You will rejoice in the Lord;
you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
42:17 Those who trust in idols
will turn back and be utterly humiliated, 2
those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”
48:4 I did this 3 because I know how stubborn you are.
Your neck muscles are like iron
and your forehead like bronze. 4
48:6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! 5
Will you not admit that what I say is true? 6
From this point on I am announcing to you new events
that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. 7
65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! 8
But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; 9
you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. 10
1 tn Or perhaps, “covenantal partner” (see 1 Kgs 5:15 HT [5:1 ET]; 2 Chr 20:7).
1 tn Heb “be ashamed with shame”; ASV, NASB “be utterly put to shame.”
1 tn The words “I did this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 4 is subordinated to v. 3.
2 sn The image is that of a person who has tensed the muscles of the face and neck as a sign of resolute refusal.
1 tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”
2 tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”
3 tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”
1 tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”
2 tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”
3 tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”