50:9 Look, the sovereign Lord helps me.
Who dares to condemn me?
Look, all of them will wear out like clothes;
a moth will eat away at them.
65:22 No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, 1
or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, 2
for my people will live as long as trees, 3
and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced. 4
51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 5 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 6 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 7 will not disappear. 8
1 tn Heb “they will not build, and another live [in it].”
2 tn Heb “they will not plant, and another eat.”
3 tn Heb “for like the days of the tree [will be] the days of my people.”
4 tn Heb “the work of their hands” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “their hard-won gains.”
1 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
2 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
3 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
4 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”