Isaiah 52:11

52:11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there!

Don’t touch anything unclean!

Get out of it!

Stay pure, you who carry the Lord’s holy items! ¹ 

Isaiah 65:20

65:20 Never again will one of her infants live just a few days ² 

or an old man die before his time. ³ 

Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, ⁴ 

anyone who fails to reach ⁵  the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.

[52:11]  ¹ tn Heb “the vessels of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB).

[65:20]  ² tn Heb “and there will not be from there again a nursing infant of days,” i.e., one that lives just a few days.

[65:20]  ³ tn Heb “or an old [man] who does not fill out his days.”

[65:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “for the child as a son of one hundred years will die.” The point seems to be that those who die at the age of a hundred will be considered children, for the average life span will be much longer than that. The category “child” will be redefined in light of the expanded life spans that will characterize this new era.

[65:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the one who misses.” חָטָא (khata’) is used here in its basic sense of “miss the mark.” See HALOT 305 s.v. חטא. Another option is to translate, “and the sinner who reaches the age of a hundred will be cursed.”