28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? 1
Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?
29:11 To you this entire prophetic revelation 2 is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read 3 and say, “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t, because it is sealed.”
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 “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See BDB 400 s.v. יוֹם.
2 tn Heb “vision” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “one who knows a/the scroll.”
3 tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….”
4 tn Heb “for a blessing is in it.”
5 tn Heb “by not destroying everyone.”