Isaiah 46:4

46:4 Even when you are old, I will take care of you, ¹ 

even when you have gray hair, I will carry you.

I made you and I will support you;

I will carry you and rescue you. ² 

Isaiah 46:9

46:9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! ³ 

Truly I am God, I have no peer; ⁴ 

I am God, and there is none like me,

Isaiah 60:16

60:16 You will drink the milk of nations;

you will nurse at the breasts of kings. ⁵ 

Then you will recognize that I, the Lord, am your deliverer,

your protector, ⁶  the powerful ruler of Jacob. ⁷ 

Genesis 6:17

6:17 I am about to bring ⁸  floodwaters ⁹  on the earth to destroy ¹⁰  from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. ¹¹  Everything that is on the earth will die,

Genesis 9:9

9:9 “Look! I now confirm ¹²  my covenant with you and your descendants after you ¹³ 

Ezekiel 34:11

34:11 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

Ezekiel 34:24

34:24 I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince ¹⁴  among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 37:14

37:14 I will place my breath ¹⁵  in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord – I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 37:28

37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” ¹⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “until old age, I am he” (NRSV similar); NLT “I will be your God throughout your lifetime.”

² sn Unlike the weary idol gods, whose images must be carried by animals, the Lord carries his weary people.

³ tn Heb “remember the former things, from antiquity”; KJV, ASV “the former things of old.”

⁴ tn Heb “and there is no other” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁵ sn The nations and kings are depicted as a mother nursing her children. Restored Zion will be nourished by them as she receives their wealth as tribute.

⁶ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

⁷ sn See 1:24 and 49:26.

⁸ tn The Hebrew construction uses the independent personal pronoun, followed by a suffixed form of הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) and the a participle used with an imminent future nuance: “As for me, look, I am going to bring.”

⁹ tn Heb “the flood, water.”

¹⁰ tn The verb שָׁחָת (shakhat, “to destroy”) is repeated yet again, only now in an infinitival form expressing the purpose of the flood.

¹¹ tn The Hebrew construction here is different from the previous two; here it is רוּחַ חַיִּים (ruakh khayyim) rather than נֶפֶשׁ הַיָּה (nefesh khayyah) or נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים (nishmat khayyim). It refers to everything that breathes.

¹² tn Heb “I, look, I confirm.” The particle הִנְנִי (hinni) used with the participle מֵקִים (meqim) gives the sense of immediacy or imminence, as if to say, “Look! I am now confirming.”

¹³ tn The three pronominal suffixes (translated “you,” “your,” and “you”) are masculine plural. As v. 8 indicates, Noah and his sons are addressed.

¹⁴ sn The messianic king (“David”) is called both “king” and “prince” in 37:24-25. The use of the term “prince” for this king facilitates the contrast between this ideal ruler and the Davidic “princes” denounced in earlier prophecies (see 7:27; 12:10, 12; 19:1; 21:25; 22:6, 25).

¹⁵ tn Or “spirit.” This is likely an allusion to Gen 2 and God’s breath which creates life.

¹⁶ sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.