Isaiah 33:20

33:20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!

You ¹  will see Jerusalem, ² 

a peaceful settlement,

a tent that stays put; ³ 

its stakes will never be pulled up;

none of its ropes will snap in two.

Isaiah 49:19-20

49:19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;

it is desolate and devastated. ⁴ 

But now you will be too small to hold your residents,

and those who devoured you will be far away.

49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement

will say within your hearing,

‘This place is too cramped for us, ⁵ 

make room for us so we can live here.’ ⁶ 

Jeremiah 10:20

10:20 But our tents have been destroyed.

The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. ⁷ 

Our children are gone and are not coming back. ⁸ 

There is no survivor to put our tents back up,

no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

[33:20]  ¹ tn Heb “your eyes” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[33:20]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[33:20]  ³ tn Or “that does not travel”; NASB “which shall not be folded.”

[49:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete.

[49:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.

[49:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”

[10:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “My tent has been destroyed and my tent cords have been ripped apart.” For a very similar identification of Jeremiah’s plight with the plight of the personified community see 4:20 and the notes there.

[10:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “my children have gone from me and are no more.”