34:9 Remain loyal to 1 the Lord, you chosen people of his, 2
for his loyal followers 3 lack nothing!
97:10 You who love the Lord, hate evil!
He protects 4 the lives of his faithful followers;
he delivers them from the power 5 of the wicked.
10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, 6 to obey all his commandments, 7 to love him, to serve him 8 with all your mind and being, 9
56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of 12 the Lord and serve him,
who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants –
all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,
and who are faithful to 13 my covenant –
12:1 Then 16 he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. 17 He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then 18 he leased it to tenant farmers 19 and went on a journey.
4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while 20 the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.
1 tn Heb “fear.”
2 tn Heb “O holy ones of his.”
3 tn Heb “those who fear him.”
4 tn The participle may be verbal, though it might also be understood as substantival and appositional to “the
5 tn Heb “hand.”
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.
10 tc A number of LXX
11 tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “who attach themselves to.”
13 tn Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”
14 tc The words “when they rise again” are missing from several important witnesses (א B C D L W Δ Ψ 33 579 892 2427 pc c r1 k syp co). They are included in A Θ Ë1,(13) Ï lat sys,h. The strong external pedigree of the shorter reading gives one pause. Nevertheless, the Alexandrian and other
15 tn Grk “For the seven had her as wife.”
16 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
17 sn The vineyard is a figure for Israel in the OT (Isa 5:1-7). The nation and its leaders are the tenants, so the vineyard here may well refer to the promise that resides within the nation. The imagery is like that in Rom 11:11-24.
18 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
19 sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.
20 tn Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clause.