Isaiah 51:19

51:19 These double disasters confronted you.

But who feels sorry for you?

Destruction and devastation,

famine and sword.

But who consoles you? ¹ 

Isaiah 65:14

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ² 

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ³ 

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ⁴ 

[51:19]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text has אֲנַחֲמֵךְ (’anakhamekh), a first person form, but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly יִנַחֲמֵךְ (yinakhamekh), a third person form.

[65:14]  ² tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14]  ³ tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”