43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.
Now it begins to happen! 1 Do you not recognize 2 it?
Yes, I will make a road in the desert
and paths 3 in the wilderness.
65:17 For look, I am ready to create
new heavens and a new earth! 4
The former ones 5 will not be remembered;
no one will think about them anymore. 6
1 tn Heb “sprouts up”; NASB “will spring forth.”
2 tn Or “know” (KJV, ASV); NASB “be aware of”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “perceive.”
3 tn The Hebrew texts has “streams,” probably under the influence of v. 20. The Qumran scroll 1QIsaa has נתיבות (“paths”).
4 sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.
5 tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”
6 tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”