22:25 “At that time,” 1 says the Lord who commands armies, “the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.” 2 Indeed, 3 the Lord has spoken.
25:8 he will swallow up death permanently. 4
The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face,
and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth.
Indeed, the Lord has announced it! 5
45:18 For this is what the Lord says,
the one who created the sky –
he is the true God, 6
the one who formed the earth and made it;
he established it,
he did not create it without order, 7
he formed it to be inhabited –
“I am the Lord, I have no peer.
1 tn Or “In that day” (KJV).
2 sn Eliakim’s authority, though seemingly secure, will eventually be removed, and with it his family’s prominence.
3 tn Or “for” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
4 sn The image of the Lord “swallowing” death would be especially powerful, for death was viewed in Canaanite mythology and culture as a hungry enemy that swallows its victims. See the note at 5:14.
5 tn Heb “has spoken” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
6 tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.
7 tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.