46:8 Remember this, so you can be brave! 1
Think about it, you rebels! 2
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,
46:10 who announces the end from the beginning
and reveals beforehand 5 what has not yet occurred,
who says, ‘My plan will be realized,
I will accomplish what I desire,’
1 tn The meaning of the verb אָשַׁשׁ (’ashash, which appears here in the Hitpolel stem) is uncertain. BDB 84 s.v. אשׁשׁ relates it to a root meaning “found, establish” in Arabic; HALOT 100 s.v. II אשׁשׁ gives the meaning “pluck up courage.” The imperative with vav (ו) may indicate purpose following the preceding imperative.
2 tn Heb “return [it], rebels, to heart”; NRSV “recall it to mind, you transgressors.”
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 tn Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”