42:17 Those who trust in idols
will turn back and be utterly humiliated, 1
those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”
54:4 Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame!
Don’t be intimidated, 2 for you will not be humiliated!
You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth;
you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment. 3
1 tn Heb “be ashamed with shame”; ASV, NASB “be utterly put to shame.”
2 tn Or “embarrassed”; NASB “humiliated…disgraced.”
3 tn Another option is to translate, “the disgrace of our widowhood” (so NRSV). However, the following context (vv. 6-7) refers to Zion’s husband, the Lord, abandoning her, not dying. This suggests that an אַלְמָנָה (’almanah) was a woman who had lost her husband, whether by death or abandonment.