Isaiah 29:14

29:14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people –

an absolutely extraordinary deed. ¹ 

Wise men will have nothing to say,

the sages will have no explanations.” ² 

Isaiah 62:11

62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: ³ 

“Say to Daughter Zion,

‘Look, your deliverer comes!

Look, his reward is with him

and his reward goes before him!’” ⁴ 

[29:14]  ¹ tn Heb “Therefore I will again do something amazing with these people, an amazing deed, an amazing thing.” This probably refers to the amazing transformation predicted in vv. 17-24, which will follow the purifying judgment implied in vv. 15-16.

[29:14]  ² tn Heb “the wisdom of their wise ones will perish, the discernment of their discerning ones will keep hidden.”

[62:11]  ³ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).

[62:11]  ⁴ sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.