6:12 and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place,
and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned. 1
41:5 The coastlands 2 see and are afraid;
the whole earth 3 trembles;
they approach and come.
1 tn Heb “and great is the abandonment in the midst of the land.”
2 tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”
3 tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.