Isaiah 54:7

54:7 “For a short time I abandoned ¹  you,

but with great compassion I will gather you.

Isaiah 11:6

11:6 A wolf will reside ²  with a lamb,

and a leopard will lie down with a young goat;

an ox and a young lion will graze together, ³ 

as a small child leads them along.

[54:7]  ¹ tn Or “forsook” (NASB).

[11:6]  ² tn The verb גּוּר (gur) normally refers to living as a dependent, resident alien in another society.

[11:6]  ³ tc The Hebrew text reads, “and an ox, and a young lion, and a fatling together.” Since the preceding lines refer to two animals and include a verb, many emend וּמְרִיא (umÿri’, “and the fatling”) to an otherwise unattested verb יִמְרְאוּ (yimrÿ’u, “they will graze”); cf. NAB, TEV, CEV. One of the Qumran copies of Isaiah confirms this suggestion (1QIsa^a). The present translation assumes this change.