43:9 All nations gather together,
the peoples assemble.
Who among them announced this?
Who predicted earlier events for us? 1
Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right;
let them listen and affirm, ‘It is true.’
65:8 This is what the Lord says:
“When 2 juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,
someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ 3
So I will do for the sake of my servants –
I will not destroy everyone. 4
1 tn Heb “and the former things was causing us to hear?”
2 tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….”
3 tn Heb “for a blessing is in it.”
4 tn Heb “by not destroying everyone.”