3:19 Look, at that time I will deal with those who mistreated you.
I will rescue the lame sheep 1
and gather together the scattered sheep.
I will take away their humiliation
and make the whole earth admire and respect them. 2
60:15 You were once abandoned
and despised, with no one passing through,
but I will make you 3 a permanent source of pride
and joy to coming generations.
61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,
their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will recognize that
the Lord has blessed them.” 4
62:7 Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, 5
until he makes Jerusalem the pride 6 of the earth.
62:12 They will be called, “The Holy People,
the Ones Protected 7 by the Lord.”
You will be called, “Sought After,
City Not Abandoned.”
1 tn The word “sheep” is supplied for clarification. As in Mic 4:6-7, the exiles are here pictured as injured and scattered sheep whom the divine shepherd rescues from danger.
2 tn Heb “I will make them into praise and a name, in all the earth, their shame.” The present translation assumes that “their shame” specifies “them” and that “name” stands here for a good reputation.
3 tn Heb “Instead of your being abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you.”
4 tn Heb “all who see them will recognize them, that they [are] descendants [whom] the Lord has blessed.”
5 tn “Jerusalem” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; note the following line.
6 tn Heb “[the object of] praise.”
7 tn Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).
8 tn Heb “will be” (so NAB, NRSV); TEV “your land will be a good place to live in.”