Isaiah 50:6

50:6 I offered my back to those who attacked, ¹ 

my jaws to those who tore out my beard;

I did not hide my face

from insults and spitting.

Isaiah 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ² 

You delivered me ³  from the pit of oblivion. ⁴ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ⁵ 

Isaiah 51:23

51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ⁶ 

who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’

You made your back like the ground,

and like the street for those who walked over you.”

[50:6]  ¹ tn Or perhaps, “who beat [me].”

[38:17]  ² tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ³ tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).

[38:17]  ⁴ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”

[51:23]  ³ tn That is, to make them drink it.