30:19 For people will live in Zion;
in Jerusalem 1 you will weep no more. 2
When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy;
when he hears it, he will respond to you. 3
41:17 The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched from thirst.
I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; 4
I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.
58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;
you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’
You must 5 remove the burdensome yoke from among you
and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.
1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
2 tn Heb “For people in Zion will live, in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.” The phrase “in Jerusalem” could be taken with what precedes. Some prefer to emend יֵשֵׁב (yeshev, “will live,” a Qal imperfect) to יֹשֵׁב (yoshev, a Qal active participle) and translate “For [you] people in Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.”
3 tn Heb “he will indeed show you mercy at the sound of your crying out; when he hears, he will answer you.”
4 tn Heb “will answer them” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
5 tn Heb “if you.” In the Hebrew text vv. 9b-10 are one long conditional sentence. The protasis (“if” clauses appear in vv. 9b-10a), with the apodosis (“then” clause) appearing in v. 10b.