3:10 Tell the innocent 1 it will go well with them, 2
for they will be rewarded for what they have done. 3
21:6 For this is what the sovereign master 4 has told me:
“Go, post a guard!
He must report what he sees.
37:34 He will go back the way he came –
he will not enter this city,’ says the Lord.
45:2 “I will go before you
and level mountains. 5
Bronze doors I will shatter
and iron bars 6 I will hack through.
51:14 The one who suffers 7 will soon be released;
he will not die in prison, 8
he will not go hungry. 9
1 tn Or “the righteous” (KJV, NASB, NIV, TEV); NLT “those who are godly.”
2 tn Heb “that it is good.”
3 tn Heb “for the fruit of their deeds they will eat.”
4 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 16 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
5 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”).
6 tn That is, on the gates. Cf. CEV “break the iron bars on bronze gates.”
7 tn Heb “who is stooped over” (under a burden).
8 tn Heb “the pit” (so KJV); ASV, NAB “die and go down into the pit”; NASB, NIV “dungeon”; NCV “prison.”
9 tn Heb “he will not lack his bread.”