Isaiah 6:12

6:12 and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place,

and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned. ¹ 

Isaiah 41:5

41:5 The coastlands ²  see and are afraid;

the whole earth ³  trembles;

they approach and come.

[6:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and great is the abandonment in the midst of the land.”

[41:5]  ² tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”

[41:5]  ³ tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.