Isaiah 12:1

12:1 At that time ¹  you will say:

“I praise you, O Lord,

for even though you were angry with me,

your anger subsided, and you consoled me.

Isaiah 54:7-8

54:7 “For a short time I abandoned ²  you,

but with great compassion I will gather you.

54:8 In a burst ³  of anger I rejected you ⁴  momentarily,

but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,”

says your protector, ⁵  the Lord.

Isaiah 57:17-18

57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;

I attacked them and angrily rejected them, ⁶ 

yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. ⁷ 

57:18 I have seen their behavior, ⁸ 

but I will heal them and give them rest,

and I will once again console those who mourn. ⁹ 

Psalms 30:5

30:5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment,

and his good favor restores one’s life. ¹⁰ 

One may experience sorrow during the night,

but joy arrives in the morning. ¹¹ 

[12:1]  ¹ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[54:7]  ² tn Or “forsook” (NASB).

[54:8]  ³ tn According to BDB 1009 s.v. שֶׁטֶף the noun שֶׁצֶף here is an alternate form of שֶׁטֶף (shetef, “flood”). Some relate the word to an alleged Akkadian cognate meaning “strength.”

[54:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “I hid my face from you.”

[54:8]  ⁵ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[57:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”

[57:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”

[57:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “his ways” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); TEV “how they acted.”

[57:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I will restore consolation to him, to his mourners.”

[30:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for [there is] a moment in his anger, [but] life in his favor.” Because of the parallelism with “moment,” some understand חַיִּים (khayyim) in a quantitative sense: “lifetime” (cf. NIV, NRSV). However, the immediate context, which emphasizes deliverance from death (see v. 3), suggests that חַיִּים has a qualitative sense: “physical life” or even “prosperous life” (cf. NEB “in his favour there is life”).

[30:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the evening weeping comes to lodge, but at morning a shout of joy.” “Weeping” is personified here as a traveler who lodges with one temporarily.