11:12 He will lift a signal flag for the nations;
he will gather Israel’s dispersed people 1
and assemble Judah’s scattered people
from the four corners of the earth.
48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, 2
and your children 3 like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence. 4
51:5 I am ready to vindicate, 5
I am ready to deliver, 6
I will establish justice among the nations. 7
The coastlands 8 wait patiently for me;
they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power. 9
59:18 He repays them for what they have done,
dispensing angry judgment to his adversaries
and punishing his enemies. 10
He repays the coastlands. 11
63:12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, 12
who divided the water before them,
gaining for himself a lasting reputation, 13
1 tn Or “the banished of Israel,” i.e., the exiles.
2 tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”
3 tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”
4 tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”
5 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”] is near.”
6 tn Heb “my deliverance goes forth.”
7 tn Heb “and my arms will judge [on behalf of] nations.”
8 tn Or “islands” (NIV); TEV “Distant lands.”
9 tn Heb “for my arm” (so NIV, NRSV).
10 tn Heb “in accordance with deeds, so he repays, anger to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies.”
11 tn Or “islands” (KJV, NIV).
12 tn Heb “who caused to go at the right hand of Moses the arm of his splendor.”
13 tn Heb “making for himself a lasting name.”