103:17 But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, 1
and is faithful to their descendants, 2
119:142 Your justice endures, 3
and your law is reliable. 4
119:144 Your rules remain just. 5
Give me insight so that I can live. 6
51:5 I am ready to vindicate, 7
I am ready to deliver, 8
I will establish justice among the nations. 9
The coastlands 10 wait patiently for me;
they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power. 11
51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 12 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 13 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 14 will not disappear. 15
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 16 will be permanent;
the deliverance I give will last.”
9:24 “Seventy weeks 17 have been determined
concerning your people and your holy city
to put an end to 18 rebellion,
to bring sin 19 to completion, 20
to atone for iniquity,
to bring in perpetual 21 righteousness,
to seal up 22 the prophetic vision, 23
and to anoint a most holy place. 24
1 tn Heb “but the loyal love of the
2 tn Heb “and his righteousness to sons of sons.”
3 tn Heb “your justice [is] justice forever.”
4 tn Or “truth.”
5 tn Heb “just are your rules forever.”
6 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
7 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”] is near.”
8 tn Heb “my deliverance goes forth.”
9 tn Heb “and my arms will judge [on behalf of] nations.”
10 tn Or “islands” (NIV); TEV “Distant lands.”
11 tn Heb “for my arm” (so NIV, NRSV).
12 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
13 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
14 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
15 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”
16 tn Heb “my vindication”; many English versions “my righteousness”; NRSV, TEV “my deliverance”; CEV “my victory.”
17 tn Heb “sevens.” Elsewhere the term is used of a literal week (a period of seven days), cf. Gen 29:27-28; Exod 34:22; Lev 12:5; Num 28:26; Deut 16:9-10; 2 Chr 8:13; Jer 5:24; Dan 10:2-3. Gabriel unfolds the future as if it were a calendar of successive weeks. Most understand the reference here as periods of seventy “sevens” of years, or a total of 490 years.
18 tc Or “to finish.” The present translation reads the Qere (from the root תָּמַם, tamam) with many witnesses. The Kethib has “to seal up” (from the root הָתַם, hatam), a confusion with a reference later in the verse to sealing up the vision.
19 tc The present translation reads the Qere (singular), rather than the Kethib (plural).
20 tn The Hebrew phrase לְכַלֵּא (lÿkhalle’) is apparently an alternative (metaplastic) spelling of the root כָּלָה (kalah, “to complete, finish”), rather than a form of כָּלָא (kala’, “to shut up, restrain”), as has sometimes been supposed.
21 tn Or “everlasting.”
22 sn The act of sealing in the OT is a sign of authentication. Cf. 1 Kgs 21:8; Jer 32:10, 11, 44.
23 tn Heb “vision and prophecy.” The expression is a hendiadys.
24 tn Or “the most holy place” (NASB, NLT); or “a most holy one”; or “the most holy one,” though the expression is used of places or objects elsewhere, not people.