Isaiah 27:3

27:3 I, the Lord, protect it; ¹ 

I water it regularly. ² 

I guard it night and day,

so no one can harm it. ³ 

Isaiah 48:12

48:12 Listen to me, O Jacob,

Israel, whom I summoned!

I am the one;

I am present at the very beginning

and at the very end. ⁴ 

Isaiah 65:17

65:17 For look, I am ready to create

new heavens and a new earth! ⁵ 

The former ones ⁶  will not be remembered;

no one will think about them anymore. ⁷ 

[27:3]  ¹ tn Heb “her.” Apparently “vineyard” is the antecedent, though normally this noun is understood as masculine (see Lev 25:3, however).

[27:3]  ² tn Or perhaps, “constantly.” Heb “by moments.”

[27:3]  ³ tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.”

[48:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “I [am] he, I [am the] first, also I [am the] last.”

[65:17]  ⁷ sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.

[65:17]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”

[65:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”