Isaiah 58:10

58:10 You must ¹  actively help the hungry

and feed the oppressed. ² 

Then your light will dispel the darkness, ³ 

and your darkness will be transformed into noonday. ⁴ 

Isaiah 53:7

53:7 He was treated harshly and afflicted, ⁵ 

but he did not even open his mouth.

Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block,

like a sheep silent before her shearers,

he did not even open his mouth. ⁶ 

[58:10]  ¹ tn Heb “if you.” See the note on “you must” in v. 9b.

[58:10]  ² tn Heb “If you furnish for the hungry [with] your being, and the appetite of the oppressed you satisfy.”

[58:10]  ³ tn Heb “will rise in the darkness.”

[58:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and your darkness [will be] like noonday.”

[53:7]  ⁵ tn The translation assumes the Niphal is passive; another option is take the clause (note the subject + verb pattern) as concessive and the Niphal as reflexive, “though he humbled himself.”

[53:7]  ⁶ sn This verse emphasizes the servant’s silent submission. The comparison to a sheep does not necessarily suggest a sacrificial metaphor. Sheep were slaughtered for food as well as for sacrificial rituals, and טֶבַח (tevakh) need not refer to sacrificial slaughter (see Gen 43:16; Prov 7:22; 9:2; Jer 50:27; note also the use of the related verb in Exod 21:37; Deut 28:31; 1 Sam 25:11).