61:8 For I, the Lord, love justice
and hate robbery and sin.
I will repay them because of my faithfulness; 1
I will make a permanent covenant with them.
65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 2 says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended 3 me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.” 4
1 tn Heb “in faithfulness”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “faithfully.”
2 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
3 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
4 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.