45:17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; 1
you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. 2
48:10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have purified you 3 in the furnace of misery.
65:6 Look, I have decreed: 4
I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 5
1 tn Heb “Israel will be delivered by the Lord [with] a permanent deliverance.”
2 tn Heb “you will not be ashamed and you will not be humiliated for ages of future time.”
3 tc The Hebrew text has בְּחַרְתִּיךָ (bÿkhartikha, “I have chosen you”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa reads correctly בחנתיכה (“I have tested you”). The metallurgical background of the imagery suggests that purification through testing is the idea.
5 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
6 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”