59:21 “As for me, this is my promise to 1 them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” 2 says the Lord.
65:8 This is what the Lord says:
“When 3 juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,
someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ 4
So I will do for the sake of my servants –
I will not destroy everyone. 5
1 tn Or “my covenant with” (so many English versions); NCV “my agreement with.”
2 tn Heb “from now and on into the future.”
3 tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….”
4 tn Heb “for a blessing is in it.”
5 tn Heb “by not destroying everyone.”