25:15 I continually look to the Lord for help, 5
for he will free my feet from the enemy’s net. 6
17:7 At that time 7 men will trust in their creator; 8
they will depend on 9 the Holy One of Israel. 10
17:8 They will no longer trust in 11 the altars their hands made,
or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made. 12
45:20 Gather together and come!
Approach together, you refugees from the nations!
Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,
those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! 13
Let them consult with one another!
Who predicted this in the past?
Who announced it beforehand?
Was it not I, the Lord?
I have no peer, there is no God but me,
a God who vindicates and delivers; 14
there is none but me.
45:22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, 15
all you who live in the earth’s remote regions!
For I am God, and I have no peer.
52:10 The Lord reveals 16 his royal power 17
in the sight of all the nations;
the entire 18 earth sees
our God deliver. 19
145:15 Everything looks to you in anticipation, 20
and you provide them with food on a regular basis. 21
16:19 Then I said, 22
“Lord, you give me strength and protect me.
You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. 23
Nations from all over the earth
will come to you and say,
‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods –
worthless idols that could not help them at all. 24
1 sn This scene of universal and overwhelming attraction of the nations to Israel’s God finds initial fulfillment in the establishment of the church (Acts 2:5-11) but ultimate completion in the messianic age (Isa 45:14, 24; 60:14; Zech 14:16-21).
2 sn Note that here the angel of the
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 sn The seventy years refers to the predicted period of Babylonian exile, a period with flexible beginning and ending points depending on the particular circumstances in view (cf. Jer 25:1; 28:1; 29:10; Dan 9:2). Here the end of the seventy years appears to be marked by the completion of the temple in 516
5 tn Heb “my eyes continually [are] toward the
6 tn Heb “for he will bring out from a net my feet.” The hostility of the psalmist’s enemies is probably in view (see v. 19).
7 tn Heb “in that day” (so ASV, NASB, NIV); KJV “At that day.”
8 tn Heb “man will gaze toward his maker.”
9 tn Heb “his eyes will look toward.”
10 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
11 tn Heb “he will not gaze toward.”
12 tn Heb “and that which his fingers made he will not see, the Asherah poles and the incense altars.”
13 tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.
14 tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”
15 tn The Niphal imperative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose after the preceding imperative. The Niphal probably has a tolerative sense, “allow yourselves to be delivered, accept help.”
16 tn Heb “lays bare”; NLT “will demonstrate.”
17 tn Heb “his holy arm.” This is a metonymy for his power.
18 tn Heb “the remote regions,” which here stand for the extremities and everything in between.
19 tn Heb “the deliverance of our God.” “God” is a subjective genitive here.
20 tn Heb “the eyes of all wait for you.”
21 tn Heb “and you give to them their food in its season” (see Ps 104:27).
22 tn The words “Then I said” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation to show the shift from God, who has been speaking to Jeremiah, to Jeremiah, who here addresses God.
23 tn Heb “O
24 tn Once again the translation has sacrificed some of the rhetorical force for the sake of clarity and English style: Heb “Only falsehood did our ancestors possess, vanity and [things in which?] there was no one profiting in them.”