49:9 You will say 3 to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’
and to those who are in dark dungeons, 4 ‘Emerge.’ 5
They will graze beside the roads;
on all the slopes they will find pasture.
1 tn Heb “and shall rest” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NIV, NRSV “and settle.”
2 tn The meaning of this word (נַהֲלֹל, nahalol) is uncertain; some understand this as referring to another type of thorn bush. For bibliography, see HALOT 676 s.v. I *נַהֲלֹל.
3 tn Heb “to say.” In the Hebrew text the infinitive construct is subordinated to what precedes.
4 tn Heb “in darkness” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “the prisoners of darkness.”
5 tn Heb “show yourselves” (so ASV, NAB, NASB).
5 tn Heb “was happy with”; NAB, NASB “was pleased”; NIV “received the envoys gladly.”
6 tn Heb “there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his kingdom.”