Isaiah 65:6-9

65:6 Look, I have decreed: ¹ 

I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;

I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, ² 

65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” ³  says the Lord.

“Because they burned incense on the mountains

and offended ⁴  me on the hills,

I will punish them in full measure.” ⁵ 

65:8 This is what the Lord says:

“When ⁶  juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,

someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ ⁷ 

So I will do for the sake of my servants –

I will not destroy everyone. ⁸ 

65:9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,

and from Judah people to take possession of my mountains.

My chosen ones will take possession of the land; ⁹ 

my servants will live there.

[65:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”

[65:6]  ² tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”

[65:7]  ³ tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”

[65:7]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”

[65:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.

[65:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “just as.” In the Hebrew text the statement is one long sentence, “Just as…, so I will do….”

[65:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “for a blessing is in it.”

[65:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “by not destroying everyone.”

[65:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix probably refers to the land which contains the aforementioned mountains.