1:25 I will attack you; 1
I will purify your metal with flux. 2
I will remove all your slag. 3
33:10 “Now I will rise up,” says the Lord.
“Now I will exalt myself;
now I will magnify myself. 4
43:7 everyone who belongs to me, 5
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed – yes, whom I made!
43:25 I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake;
your sins I do not remember.
45:2 “I will go before you
and level mountains. 6
Bronze doors I will shatter
and iron bars 7 I will hack through.
48:3 “I announced events beforehand, 8
I issued the decrees and made the predictions; 9
suddenly I acted and they came to pass.
63:6 I trampled nations in my anger,
I made them drunk 10 in my rage,
I splashed their blood on the ground.” 11
1 tn Heb “turn my hand against you.” The second person pronouns in vv. 25-26 are feminine singular. Personified Jerusalem is addressed. The idiom “turn the hand against” has the nuance of “strike with the hand, attack,” in Ps 81:15 HT (81:14 ET); Ezek 38:12; Am 1:8; Zech 13:7. In Jer 6:9 it is used of gleaning grapes.
2 tn Heb “I will purify your dross as [with] flux.” “Flux” refers here to minerals added to the metals in a furnace to prevent oxides from forming. For this interpretation of II בֹּר (bor), see HALOT 153 s.v. II בֹּר and 750 s.v. סִיג.
3 sn The metaphor comes from metallurgy; slag is the substance left over after the metallic ore has been refined.
4 tn Or “lift myself up” (KJV); NLT “show my power and might.”
5 tn Heb “everyone who is called by my name” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
6 tc The form הֲדוּרִים (hadurim) makes little, if any, sense here. It is probably a corruption of an original הָרָרִים (hararim, “mountains”), the reduplicated form of הָר (har, “mountain”).
7 tn That is, on the gates. Cf. CEV “break the iron bars on bronze gates.”
8 tn Heb “the former things beforehand I declared.”
9 tn Heb “and from my mouth they came forth and I caused them to be heard.”
10 sn See Isa 49:26 and 51:23 for similar imagery.
11 tn Heb “and I brought down to the ground their juice.” “Juice” refers to their blood (see v. 3).