54:9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, 1
when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood 2 would never again cover the earth.
In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.
1 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “For [or “indeed”] the waters of Noah [is] this to me.” כִּי־מֵי (ki-me, “for the waters of”) should be emended to כְּמֵי (kÿmey, “like the days of”), which is supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa and all the ancient versions except LXX.
2 tn Heb “the waters of Noah” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).