Isaiah 51:14

51:14 The one who suffers ¹  will soon be released;

he will not die in prison, ² 

he will not go hungry. ³ 

Isaiah 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ⁴ 

You delivered me ⁵  from the pit of oblivion. ⁶ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ⁷ 

[51:14]  ¹ tn Heb “who is stooped over” (under a burden).

[51:14]  ² tn Heb “the pit” (so KJV); ASV, NAB “die and go down into the pit”; NASB, NIV “dungeon”; NCV “prison.”

[51:14]  ³ tn Heb “he will not lack his bread.”

[38:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”