Psalms 14:7

14:7 I wish the deliverance ¹  of Israel would come from Zion!

When the Lord restores the well-being of his people, ² 

may Jacob rejoice, ³ 

may Israel be happy! ⁴ 

Psalms 53:6

53:6 I wish the deliverance ⁵  of Israel would come from Zion!

When God restores the well-being of his people, ⁶ 

may Jacob rejoice, ⁷ 

may Israel be happy! ⁸ 

Psalms 106:47-48

106:47 Deliver us, O Lord, our God!

Gather us from among the nations!

Then we will give thanks ⁹  to your holy name,

and boast about your praiseworthy deeds. ¹⁰ 

106:48 The Lord God of Israel deserves praise, ¹¹ 

in the future and forevermore. ¹² 

Let all the people say, “We agree! ¹³  Praise the Lord!” ¹⁴ 

Ezra 3:11

3:11 With antiphonal response they sang, ¹⁵  praising and glorifying the Lord:

“For he is good;

his loyal love toward Israel is forever.”

All the people gave a loud ¹⁶  shout as they praised the Lord when the temple of the Lord was established.

Job 8:21

8:21 He will yet ¹⁷  fill your mouth with laughter, ¹⁸ 

and your lips with gladness.

Isaiah 35:10

35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. ¹⁹ 

They will enter Zion with a happy shout.

Unending joy will crown them, ²⁰ 

happiness and joy will overwhelm ²¹  them;

grief and suffering will disappear. ²² 

Isaiah 49:9-13

49:9 You will say ²³  to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’

and to those who are in dark dungeons, ²⁴  ‘Emerge.’ ²⁵ 

They will graze beside the roads;

on all the slopes they will find pasture.

49:10 They will not be hungry or thirsty;

the sun’s oppressive heat will not beat down on them, ²⁶ 

for one who has compassion on them will guide them;

he will lead them to springs of water.

49:11 I will make all my mountains into a road;

I will construct my roadways.”

49:12 Look, they come from far away!

Look, some come from the north and west,

and others from the land of Sinim! ²⁷ 

49:13 Shout for joy, O sky! ²⁸ 

Rejoice, O earth!

Let the mountains give a joyful shout!

For the Lord consoles his people

and shows compassion to the ²⁹  oppressed.

Jeremiah 31:12-13

31:12 They will come and shout for joy on Mount Zion.

They will be radiant with joy ³⁰  over the good things the Lord provides,

the grain, the fresh wine, the olive oil,

the young sheep and calves he has given to them.

They will be like a well-watered garden

and will not grow faint or weary any more.

31:13 The Lord says, ³¹  “At that time young women will dance and be glad.

Young men and old men will rejoice. ³² 

I will turn their grief into gladness.

I will give them comfort and joy in place of their sorrow.

Jeremiah 33:11

33:11 Once again there will be sounds ³³  of joy and gladness and the glad celebrations of brides and grooms. ³⁴  Once again people will bring their thank offerings to the temple of the Lord and will say, “Give thanks to the Lord who rules over all. For the Lord is good and his unfailing love lasts forever.” ³⁵  For I, the Lord, affirm ³⁶  that I will restore the land to what it was ³⁷  in days of old.’ ³⁸ 

Revelation 11:15-17

The Seventh Trumpet

11:15 Then ³⁹  the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying:

“The kingdom of the world

has become the kingdom of our Lord

and of his Christ, ⁴⁰ 

and he will reign for ever and ever.”

11:16 Then ⁴¹  the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground ⁴²  and worshiped God 11:17 with these words: ⁴³ 

“We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful, ⁴⁴ 

the one who is and who was,

because you have taken your great power

and begun to reign. ⁴⁵ 

[14:7]  ¹ sn The deliverance of Israel. This refers metonymically to God, the one who lives in Zion and provides deliverance for Israel.

[14:7]  ² tn Heb “turns with a turning [toward] his people.” The Hebrew term שְׁבוּת (shÿvut) is apparently a cognate accusative of שׁוּב (shuv).

[14:7]  ³ tn The verb form is jussive.

[14:7]  ⁴ tn Because the parallel verb is jussive, this verb, which is ambiguous in form, should be taken as a jussive as well.

[53:6]  ⁵ tn This refers metonymically to God, the one who lives in Zion and provides deliverance for Israel.

[53:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “turns with a turning [toward] his people.” The Hebrew term שְׁבוּת (shÿvut) is apparently a cognate accusative of שׁוּב (shuv).

[53:6]  ⁷ tn The verb form is jussive.

[53:6]  ⁸ tn Because the parallel verb is jussive, this verb, which is ambiguous in form, should be taken as a jussive as well.

[106:47]  ⁹ tn Heb “to give thanks.” The infinitive construct indicates result after the imperative.

[106:47]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to boast in your praise.”

[106:48]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[be] blessed.” See Pss 18:46; 28:6; 31:21.

[106:48]  ¹² tn Heb “from everlasting to everlasting.”

[106:48]  ¹³ tn Heb “surely” (אָמֵן, ’amen), traditionally transliterated “amen.”

[106:48]  ¹⁴ sn The final verse (v. 48) is a conclusion to this fourth “book” (or major editorial division) of the Psalter. Similar statements appear at or near the end of each of the first, second and third “books” of the Psalter (see Pss 41:13; 72:18-19; 89:52, respectively).

[3:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they answered.”

[3:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “great.”

[8:21]  ¹⁷ tn The word עַד (’ad, “until”) would give the reading “until he fills your mouth with laughter,” subordinating the verse to the preceding with some difficulty in interpretation. It would be saying that God will not reject the blameless man until he filled Job with joy. Almost all commentators and modern versions change the pointing to עוֹד (’od, “yet”), forming a hope for the future blessing of joy for Job.

[8:21]  ¹⁸ sn “Laughter” (and likewise “gladness”) will here be metonymies of effect or adjunct, being put in place of the reason for the joy – restoration.

[35:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”

[35:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.

[35:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”

[35:10]  ²² tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

[49:9]  ²³ tn Heb “to say.” In the Hebrew text the infinitive construct is subordinated to what precedes.

[49:9]  ²⁴ tn Heb “in darkness” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “the prisoners of darkness.”

[49:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “show yourselves” (so ASV, NAB, NASB).

[49:10]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and the heat and the sun will not strike them.” In Isa 35:7, its only other occurrence in the OT, שָׁרָב (sharav) stands parallel to “parched ground” and in contrast to “pool.” In later Hebrew and Aramaic it refers to “dry heat, heat of the sun” (Jastrow 1627 s.v.). Here it likely has this nuance and forms a hendiadys with “sun.”

[49:12]  ²⁷ tc The MT reads “Sinim” here; the Dead Sea Scrolls read “Syene,” a location in Egypt associated with modern Aswan. A number of recent translations adopt this reading: “Syene” (NAB, NRSV); “Aswan” (NIV); “Egypt” (NLT).

[49:13]  ²⁸ tn Or “O heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

[49:13]  ²⁹ tn Heb “his” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[31:12]  ³⁰ tn Reading a Qal perfect from the root II נָהַר (nahar; so KBL 509 s.v. and HALOT 639 s.v.) rather than I נָהַר (so BDB 625 s.v.).

[31:13]  ³¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.” This phrase has been brought up to the beginning of v. 13 from the end of v. 14 to introduce the transition from third person description by Jeremiah to first person address by the Lord.

[31:13]  ³² tc The translation follows the reading of the LXX (Greek version). The Hebrew reads “will dance and be glad, young men and old men together.” The Greek version presupposes a Qal imperfect of a rare verb (יַחְדּוּ [yakhdu] from the verb חָדָה [khadah]; see BDB 292 s.v. II חָדָה Qal) as opposed to the Hebrew text which reads a common adverb יַחְדָּו (yakhdav). The consonantal text is the same but the vocalization is different. There are no other examples of the syntax of the adverb used this way (i.e., of a compound subject added to a third subject) and the vocalization of the Hebrew text can be explained on the basis of a scribe misvocalizing the text based on his greater familiarity with the adverb.

[33:11]  ³³ tn Heb “33:10 Thus says the Lord, ‘There will again be heard in this place of which you are saying [masc. pl.], “It is a ruin without people and without animals,” [that is] in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem which are desolate without people and without inhabitants and without animals 33:11 the sound of….” The long run-on sentence in Hebrew has been broken down to better conform with contemporary English style.

[33:11]  ³⁴ sn What is predicted here is a reversal of the decimation caused by the Babylonian conquest that had been threatened in 7:34; 16:9; 25:10.

[33:11]  ³⁵ sn This is a common hymnic introduction to both individual songs of thanksgiving (e.g., Ps 118:1) and communal songs of thanksgiving (e.g., Ps 136 where it is a liturgical refrain accompanying a recital of Israel’s early history and of the Lord’s continuing providence).

[33:11]  ³⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[33:11]  ³⁷ tn Or “I will restore the fortunes of the land.”

[33:11]  ³⁸ tn This phrase simply means “as formerly” (BDB 911 s.v. רִאשׁוֹן 3.a). The reference to the “as formerly” must be established from the context. See the usage in Judg 20:32; 1 Kgs 13:6; Isa 1:26.

[11:15]  ³⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[11:15]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[11:16]  ⁴¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[11:16]  ⁴² tn Grk “they fell down on their faces.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

[11:17]  ⁴³ tn Grk “saying.”

[11:17]  ⁴⁴ tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…(ὁ) κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π. …Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22.”

[11:17]  ⁴⁵ tn The aorist verb ἐβασίλευσας (ebasileusa") has been translated ingressively.