51:8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes;
a clothes moth will devour them like wool.
But the vindication I provide 1 will be permanent;
the deliverance I give will last.”
56:1 This is what the Lord says,
“Promote 2 justice! Do what is right!
For I am ready to deliver you;
I am ready to vindicate you openly. 3
51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 4 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 5 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 6 will not disappear. 7
1 tn Heb “my vindication”; many English versions “my righteousness”; NRSV, TEV “my deliverance”; CEV “my victory.”
2 tn Heb “guard”; KJV “Keep”; NAB “Observe”; NASB “Preserve”; NIV, NRSV “Maintain.”
3 tn Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”
3 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
4 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
5 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
6 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”