25:2 My God, I trust in you.
Please do not let me be humiliated;
do not let my enemies triumphantly rejoice over me!
25:3 Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated.
Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted 1 and humiliated.
37:19 They will not be ashamed when hard times come; 2
when famine comes they will have enough to eat. 3
29:22 So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob: 4
“Jacob will no longer be ashamed;
their faces will no longer show their embarrassment. 5
45:17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; 6
you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. 7
49:23 Kings will be your children’s 8 guardians;
their princesses will nurse your children. 9
With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you
and they will lick the dirt on 10 your feet.
Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;
those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.
54:4 Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame!
Don’t be intimidated, 11 for you will not be humiliated!
You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth;
you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment. 12
3:11 In that day you 13 will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me, 14
for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast, 15
and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.
“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble
and a rock that will make them fall, 18
yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 19
10:1 Brothers and sisters, 21 my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites 22 is for their salvation.
1 tn Heb “those who deal in treachery in vain.” The adverb רֵיקָם (reqam, “in vain”) probably refers to the failure (or futility) of their efforts. Another option is to understand it as meaning “without cause” (cf. NIV “without excuse”; NRSV “wantonly treacherous”).
2 tn Heb “in a time of trouble.”
3 tn Heb “in days of famine they will be satisfied.”
4 tn Heb “So this is what the Lord says to the house of Jacob, the one who ransomed Abraham.” The relative pronoun must refer back to “the Lord,” not to the immediately preceding “Jacob.” It is uncertain to what event in Abraham’s experience this refers. Perhaps the name “Abraham” stands here by metonymy for his descendants through Jacob. If so, the Exodus is in view.
5 tn Heb “and his face will no longer be pale.”
6 tn Heb “Israel will be delivered by the Lord [with] a permanent deliverance.”
7 tn Heb “you will not be ashamed and you will not be humiliated for ages of future time.”
8 tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).
9 tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.
10 tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”
11 tn Or “embarrassed”; NASB “humiliated…disgraced.”
12 tn Another option is to translate, “the disgrace of our widowhood” (so NRSV). However, the following context (vv. 6-7) refers to Zion’s husband, the Lord, abandoning her, not dying. This suggests that an אַלְמָנָה (’almanah) was a woman who had lost her husband, whether by death or abandonment.
13 sn The second person verbs and pronouns are feminine singular, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed here.
14 tn Heb “In that day you not be ashamed because of all your actions, [in] which you rebelled against me.”
15 tn Heb “the arrogant ones of your pride.”
16 tn The phrase ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ (Jh agaph tou qeou, “the love of God”) could be interpreted as either an objective genitive (“our love for God”), subjective genitive (“God’s love for us”), or both (M. Zerwick’s “general” genitive [Biblical Greek, §§36-39]; D. B. Wallace’s “plenary” genitive [ExSyn 119-21]). The immediate context, which discusses what God has done for believers, favors a subjective genitive, but the fact that this love is poured out within the hearts of believers implies that it may be the source for believers’ love for God; consequently an objective genitive cannot be ruled out. It is possible that both these ideas are meant in the text and that this is a plenary genitive: “The love that comes from God and that produces our love for God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (ExSyn 121).
17 sn On the OT background of the Spirit being poured out, see Isa 32:15; Joel 2:28-29.
18 tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”
19 sn A quotation from Isa 28:16; 8:14.
20 sn A quotation from Isa 28:16.
21 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
22 tn Grk “on behalf of them”; the referent (Paul’s fellow Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.