8:17 I will wait patiently for the Lord,
who has rejected the family of Jacob; 1
I will wait for him.
14:26 This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;
my hand is ready to strike all the nations.” 2
33:10 “Now I will rise up,” says the Lord.
“Now I will exalt myself;
now I will magnify myself. 3
33:11 You conceive straw, 4
you give birth to chaff;
your breath is a fire that destroys you. 5
43:22 “But you did not call for me, O Jacob;
you did not long 6 for me, O Israel.
46:5 To whom can you compare and liken me?
Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!
55:4 Look, I made him a witness to nations, 7
a ruler and commander of nations.”
65:6 Look, I have decreed: 8
I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 9
1 tn Heb “who hides his face from the house of Jacob.”
2 tn Heb “and this is the hand that is outstretched over all the nations.”
3 tn Or “lift myself up” (KJV); NLT “show my power and might.”
4 tn The second person verb and pronominal forms in this verse are plural. The hostile nations are the addressed, as the next verse makes clear.
5 sn The hostile nations’ plans to destroy God’s people will come to nothing; their hostility will end up being self-destructive.
5 tn Or “strive”; KJV, ASV, NRSV “been weary of me.”
6 sn Ideally the Davidic king was to testify to the nations of God’s greatness (cf. Pss 18:50 HT [18:49 ET]; 22:28 HT [22:27 ET]). See J. H. Eaton, Kingship in the Psalms (SBT), 182-84.
7 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
8 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”