65:8 This is what the Lord says:
“When 4 juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,
someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ 5
So I will do for the sake of my servants –
I will not destroy everyone. 6
1 tn Heb “will be a blessing” (so NCV).
2 tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB).
3 tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”
5 tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….”
6 tn Heb “for a blessing is in it.”
7 tn Heb “by not destroying everyone.”