Luke 19:42

19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day, ¹  even you, the things that make for peace! ²  But now they are hidden ³  from your eyes.

Leviticus 25:8-13

Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release

25:8 “‘You must count off ⁴  seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, ⁵  and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. ⁶  25:9 You must sound loud horn blasts ⁷  – in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement – you must sound the horn in your entire land. 25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ⁸  and you must proclaim a release ⁹  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ¹⁰  each one of you must return ¹¹  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan. 25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. ¹²  25:12 Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce ¹³  from the field.

Release of Landed Property

25:13 “‘In this year of jubilee you must each return ¹⁴  to your property.

Leviticus 25:50-54

25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years ¹⁵  from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him. ¹⁶  25:51 If there are still many years, in keeping with them ¹⁷  he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption, 25:52 but if only a few years remain ¹⁸  until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption. 25:53 He must be with the one who bought him ¹⁹  like a yearly hired worker. ²⁰  The one who bought him ²¹  must not rule over him harshly in your sight. 25:54 If, however, ²²  he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free ²³  in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

Numbers 36:4

36:4 And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, ²⁴  their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.” ²⁵ 

Isaiah 61:2

61:2 to announce the year when the Lord will show his favor,

the day when our God will seek vengeance, ²⁶ 

to console all who mourn,

Isaiah 63:4

63:4 For I looked forward to the day of vengeance,

and then payback time arrived. ²⁷ 

Isaiah 63:2

63:2 Why are your clothes red?

Why do you look like someone who has stomped on grapes in a vat? ²⁸ 

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ²⁹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

[19:42]  ¹ sn On this day. They had missed the time of Messiah’s coming; see v. 44.

[19:42]  ² tn Grk “the things toward peace.” This expression seems to mean “the things that would ‘lead to,’ ‘bring about,’ or ‘make for’ peace.”

[19:42]  ³ sn But now they are hidden from your eyes. This becomes an oracle of doom in the classic OT sense; see Luke 13:31-35; 11:49-51; Jer 9:2; 13:7; 14:7. They are now blind and under judgment (Jer 15:5; Ps 122:6).

[25:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”

[25:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “seven years seven times.”

[25:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they shall be for you, the days of the seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years.”

[25:9]  ⁷ sn On the “loud horn blasts” see the note on Lev 23:24, but unlike the language there, the Hebrew term for “horn” (שׁוֹפָר, shofar) actually appears here in this verse (twice).

[25:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

[25:10]  ⁹ tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.

[25:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).

[25:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”

[25:11]  ¹² tn Heb “you shall not sow and you shall not…and you shall not….”

[25:12]  ¹³ tn That is, the produce of the land (fem.; cf. v. 7 above).

[25:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”

[25:50]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the years.”

[25:50]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 358-59.

[25:51]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to the mouth of them.”

[25:52]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “but if a little remains in the years.”

[25:53]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “be with him”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:53]  ²⁰ tn Heb “As a hired worker year in year.”

[25:53]  ²¹ tn Heb “He”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:54]  ²² tn Heb “And if.”

[25:54]  ²³ tn Heb “go out.”

[36:4]  ²⁴ tn The verb הָיָה (hayah) is most often translated “to be,” but it can also mean “to happen, to take place, to come to pass,” etc.

[36:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the tribe of our fathers.”

[61:2]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to announce the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of our God’s vengeance.

[63:4]  ²⁷ tn Heb “for the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my revenge came.” The term גְּאוּלַי (gÿ’ulai) is sometimes translated here “my redemption,” for the verbal root גאל often means “deliver, buy back.” A גֹּאֵל (go’el, “kinsman-redeemer”) was responsible for protecting the extended family’s interests, often by redeeming property that had been sold outside the family. However, the responsibilities of a גֹּאֵל extended beyond financial concerns. He was also responsible for avenging the shed blood of a family member (see Num 35:19-27; Deut 19:6-12). In Isa 63:4, where vengeance is a prominent theme (note the previous line), it is probably this function of the family protector that is in view. The Lord pictures himself as a blood avenger who waits for the day of vengeance to arrive and then springs into action.

[63:2]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and your garments like one who treads in a vat?”

[1:1]  ²⁹ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.