41:5 The coastlands 1 see and are afraid;
the whole earth 2 trembles;
they approach and come.
41:6 They help one another; 3
one says to the other, ‘Be strong!’
1 tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”
2 tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.
3 tn Heb “each his neighbor helps”; NCV “The workers help each other.”