10:16 For this reason 1 the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. 2 His majestic glory will go up in smoke. 3
13:3 I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; 4
I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, 5
my boasting, arrogant ones. 6
28:28 Grain is crushed,
though one certainly does not thresh it forever.
The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,
but his horses do not crush it.
32:10 In a year’s time 7
you carefree ones will shake with fear,
for the grape 8 harvest will fail,
and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
62:12 They will be called, “The Holy People,
the Ones Protected 9 by the Lord.”
You will be called, “Sought After,
City Not Abandoned.”
65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. 10
The sovereign Lord will kill you,
but he will give his servants another name.
65:17 For look, I am ready to create
new heavens and a new earth! 11
The former ones 12 will not be remembered;
no one will think about them anymore. 13
1 sn The irrational arrogance of the Assyrians (v. 15) will prompt the judgment about to be described.
2 tn Heb “will send leanness against his healthy ones”; NASB, NIV “will send a wasting disease.”
3 tc Heb “and in the place of his glory burning will burn, like the burning of fire.” The highly repetitive text (יֵקַד יְקֹד כִּיקוֹד אֵשׁ, yeqad yiqod kiqod ’esh) may be dittographic; if the second consonantal sequence יקד is omitted, the text would read “and in the place of his glory, it will burn like the burning of fire.”
4 tn Heb “my consecrated ones,” i.e., those who have been set apart by God for the special task of carrying out his judgment.
5 tn Heb “my warriors with respect to my anger.”
6 tn Heb “the boasting ones of my pride”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV “my proudly exulting ones.”
7 tn Heb “days upon a year.”
8 tn Or perhaps, “olive.” See 24:13.
9 tn Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).
10 tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”
sn For an example of such a curse formula see Jer 29:22.
11 sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.
12 tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”
13 tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”