Isaiah 51:23

51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ¹ 

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.”

Isaiah 61:11

61:11 For just as the ground produces its crops

and a garden yields its produce,

so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance ²  to grow,

and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations. ³ 

[51:23]  ¹ tn That is, to make them drink it.

[61:11]  ² tn Or perhaps, “righteousness,” but the context seems to emphasize deliverance and restoration (see v. 10 and 62:1).

[61:11]  ³ tn Heb “and praise before all the nations.”