27:3 I, the Lord, protect it; 1
I water it regularly. 2
I guard it night and day,
so no one can harm it. 3
48:12 Listen to me, O Jacob,
Israel, whom I summoned!
I am the one;
I am present at the very beginning
and at the very end. 4
65:17 For look, I am ready to create
new heavens and a new earth! 5
The former ones 6 will not be remembered;
no one will think about them anymore. 7
1 tn Heb “her.” Apparently “vineyard” is the antecedent, though normally this noun is understood as masculine (see Lev 25:3, however).
2 tn Or perhaps, “constantly.” Heb “by moments.”
3 tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.”
4 tn Heb “I [am] he, I [am the] first, also I [am the] last.”
7 sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.
8 tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”
9 tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”