42:5 This is what the true God, 1 the Lord, says –
the one who created the sky and stretched it out,
the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, 2
the one who gives breath to the people on it,
and life to those who live on it: 3
49:18 Look all around you! 4
All of them gather to you.
As surely as I live,” says the Lord,
“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;
you will put them on as if you were a bride.
66:12 For this is what the Lord says:
“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,
the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. 5
You will nurse from her breast 6 and be carried at her side;
you will play on her knees.
1 tn Heb “the God.” The definite article here indicates distinctiveness or uniqueness.
2 tn Heb “and its offspring” (so NASB); NIV “all that comes out of it.”
3 tn Heb “and spirit [i.e., “breath”] to the ones walking in it” (NAB, NASB, and NRSV all similar).
4 tn Heb “Lift up around your eyes and see.”
7 tn Heb “Look, I am ready to extend to her like a river prosperity [or “peace”], and like an overflowing stream, the riches of nations.”
8 tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).