40:10 I have not failed to tell about your justice; 1
I spoke about your reliability and deliverance;
I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness. 2
71:15 I will tell about your justice,
and all day long proclaim your salvation, 3
though I cannot fathom its full extent. 4
51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 5 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 6 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 7 will not disappear. 8
51:7 Listen to me, you who know what is right,
you people who are aware of my law! 9
Don’t be afraid of the insults of men;
don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!
51:8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes;
a clothes moth will devour them like wool.
But the vindication I provide 10 will be permanent;
the deliverance I give will last.”
1 tn Heb “your justice I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.”
2 tn Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”
3 tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”
4 tn Heb “though I do not know [the] numbers,” that is, the tally of God’s just and saving acts. HALOT 768 s.v. סְפֹרוֹת understands the plural noun to mean “the art of writing.”
5 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
6 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
7 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
8 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”
9 tn Heb “people (who have) my law in their heart.”
10 tn Heb “my vindication”; many English versions “my righteousness”; NRSV, TEV “my deliverance”; CEV “my victory.”