52:1 Wake up! Wake up!
Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful clothes,
O Jerusalem, 1 holy city!
For uncircumcised and unclean pagans
will no longer invade you.
64:10 Your chosen 2 cities have become a desert;
Zion has become a desert,
Jerusalem 3 is a desolate ruin.
64:11 Our holy temple, our pride and joy, 4
the place where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire;
all our prized possessions have been destroyed. 5
11:1 So the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, 6 while the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to settle in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine 7 remained in other cities.
A song, a psalm by the Korahites.
48:1 The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise
in the city of our God, 9 his holy hill.
87:3 People say wonderful things about you, 10
O city of God. (Selah)
9:24 “Seventy weeks 11 have been determined
concerning your people and your holy city
to put an end to 12 rebellion,
to bring sin 13 to completion, 14
to atone for iniquity,
to bring in perpetual 15 righteousness,
to seal up 16 the prophetic vision, 17
and to anoint a most holy place. 18
1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
2 tn Heb “holy” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT); NIV “sacred.”
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 tn Heb “our source of pride.”
5 tn Or “all that we valued has become a ruin.”
6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
7 tn Heb “nine of the hands.” The word “hand” is used here in the sense or a part or portion.
8 sn Psalm 48. This so-called “Song of Zion” celebrates the greatness and glory of the Lord’s dwelling place, Jerusalem. His presence in the city elevates it above all others and assures its security.
9 sn The city of our God is Jerusalem, which is also referred to here as “his holy hill,” that is, Zion (see v. 2, as well as Isa 66:20; Joel 2:1; 3:17; Zech 8:3; Pss 2:6; 15:1; 43:3; 87:1; Dan 9:16).
10 tn Heb “glorious things are spoken about you.” The translation assumes this is a general reference to compliments paid to Zion by those who live within her walls and by those who live in the surrounding areas and lands. Another option is that this refers to a prophetic oracle about the city’s glorious future. In this case one could translate, “wonderful things are announced concerning you.”
11 tn Heb “sevens.” Elsewhere the term is used of a literal week (a period of seven days), cf. Gen 29:27-28; Exod 34:22; Lev 12:5; Num 28:26; Deut 16:9-10; 2 Chr 8:13; Jer 5:24; Dan 10:2-3. Gabriel unfolds the future as if it were a calendar of successive weeks. Most understand the reference here as periods of seventy “sevens” of years, or a total of 490 years.
12 tc Or “to finish.” The present translation reads the Qere (from the root תָּמַם, tamam) with many witnesses. The Kethib has “to seal up” (from the root הָתַם, hatam), a confusion with a reference later in the verse to sealing up the vision.
13 tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).
14 tn The Hebrew phrase לְכַלֵּא (lÿkhalle’) is apparently an alternative (metaplastic) spelling of the root כָּלָה (kalah, “to complete, finish”), rather than a form of כָּלָא (kala’, “to shut up, restrain”), as has sometimes been supposed.
15 tn Or “everlasting.”
16 sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.
17 tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.
18 tn Or “the most holy place” (NASB, NLT); or “a most holy one”; or “the most holy one,” though the expression is used of places or objects elsewhere, not people.
19 sn The order of the second and third temptations differs in Luke’s account (4:5-12) from the order given in Matthew.
20 tn Grk “and he stood him.”
21 sn The highest point of the temple probably refers to the point on the temple’s southeast corner where it looms directly over a cliff some 450 ft (135 m) high. However, some have suggested the reference could be to the temple’s high gate.
22 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
23 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
24 tn On the term αὐλήν (aulhn) BDAG 150 s.v. αὐλή 1 states, “(outer) court of the temple…Rv 11:2.”
25 tn The precise meaning of the phrase ἔκβαλε ἔξωθεν (ekbale exwqen) is difficult to determine.
26 tn Or “to the nations” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).
27 sn The holy city appears to be a reference to Jerusalem. See also Luke 21:24.
28 tc The Textus Receptus, on which the KJV rests, reads “the book” of life (ἀπὸ βίβλου, apo biblou) instead of “the tree” of life. When the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus translated the NT he had access to no Greek