Isaiah 6:7

6:7 He touched my mouth with it and said, “Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.” ¹ 

Isaiah 12:1

12:1 At that time ²  you will say:

“I praise you, O Lord,

for even though you were angry with me,

your anger subsided, and you consoled me.

Isaiah 54:7-10

54:7 “For a short time I abandoned ³  you,

but with great compassion I will gather you.

54:8 In a burst ⁴  of anger I rejected you ⁵  momentarily,

but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,”

says your protector, ⁶  the Lord.

54:9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, ⁷ 

when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood ⁸  would never again cover the earth.

In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

54:10 Even if the mountains are removed

and the hills displaced,

my devotion will not be removed from you,

nor will my covenant of friendship ⁹  be displaced,”

says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.

John 1:29

1:29 On the next day John ¹⁰  saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God ¹¹  who takes away the sin of the world!

[6:7]  ¹ tn Or “ritually cleansed,” or “atoned for” (NIV).

[12:1]  ² tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[54:7]  ³ tn Or “forsook” (NASB).

[54:8]  ⁴ tn According to BDB 1009 s.v. שֶׁטֶף the noun שֶׁצֶף here is an alternate form of שֶׁטֶף (shetef, “flood”). Some relate the word to an alleged Akkadian cognate meaning “strength.”

[54:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “I hid my face from you.”

[54:8]  ⁶ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[54:9]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “For [or “indeed”] the waters of Noah [is] this to me.” כִּי־מֵי (ki-me, “for the waters of”) should be emended to כְּמֵי (kÿmey, “like the days of”), which is supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and all the ancient versions except LXX.

[54:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “the waters of Noah” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[54:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “peace” (so many English versions); NLT “of blessing.”

[1:29]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[1:29]  ¹¹ sn Gen 22:8 is an important passage in the background of the title Lamb of God as applied to Jesus. In Jewish thought this was held to be a supremely important sacrifice. G. Vermès stated: “For the Palestinian Jew, all lamb sacrifice, and especially the Passover lamb and the Tamid offering, was a memorial of the Akedah with its effects of deliverance, forgiveness of sin and messianic salvation” (Scripture and Tradition in Judaism [StPB], 225).