8:17 I will wait patiently for the Lord,
who has rejected the family of Jacob; 1
I will wait for him.
43:22 “But you did not call for me, O Jacob;
you did not long 3 for me, O Israel.
43:28 So I defiled your holy princes,
and handed Jacob over to destruction,
and subjected 4 Israel to humiliating abuse.”
44:1 “Now, listen, Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!”
1 tn Heb “who hides his face from the house of Jacob.”
2 tn The referent of אֵל גִּבּוֹר (’el gibbor, “mighty God”) is uncertain. The title appears only here and in 9:6, where it is one of the royal titles of the coming ideal Davidic king. (Similar titles appear in Deut 10:17 and Neh 9:32 [“the great, mighty, and awesome God”] and in Jer 32:18 [“the great and mighty God”]. Both titles refer to God.) Though Hos 3:5 pictures Israel someday seeking “David their king,” and provides some support for a messianic interpretation of Isa 10:21, the Davidic king is not mentioned in the immediate context of Isa 10:21 (see Isa 11, however). The preceding verse mentions Israel relying on the Lord, so it is likely that the title refers to God here.
3 tn Or “strive”; KJV, ASV, NRSV “been weary of me.”
4 tn The word “subjected” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.