55:5 Look, you will summon nations 1 you did not previously know;
nations 2 that did not previously know you will run to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, 3
for he bestows honor on you.
58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;
you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’
You must 4 remove the burdensome yoke from among you
and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.
1 tn Heb “a nation,” but the singular is collective here, as the plural verbs in the next line indicate (note that both “know” and “run” are third plural forms).
2 tn Heb “a nation,” but the singular is collective here, as the plural verbs that follow indicate.
3 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
4 tn Heb “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 9b-10 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in vv. 9b-10a), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 10b.