33:17 You will see a king in his splendor; 1
you will see a wide land. 2
49:3 He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.” 3
60:1 “Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!
The splendor 4 of the Lord shines on you!
35:2 Let it richly bloom; 5
let it rejoice and shout with delight! 6
It is given the grandeur 7 of Lebanon,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the grandeur of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.
1 tn Heb “your eyes will see a king in his beauty”; NIV, NRSV “the king.”
2 tn Heb “a land of distances,” i.e., an extensive land.
3 sn This verse identifies the servant as Israel. This seems to refer to the exiled nation (cf. 41:8-9; 44:1-2, 21; 45:4; 48:20), but in vv. 5-6 this servant says he has been commissioned to reconcile Israel to God, so he must be distinct from the exiled nation. This servant is an ideal “Israel” who, like Moses of old, mediates a covenant for the nation (see v. 8), leads them out of bondage (v. 9a), and carries out God’s original plan for Israel by positively impacting the pagan nations (see v. 6b). By living according to God’s law, Israel was to be a model of God’s standards of justice to the surrounding nations (Deut 4:6-8). The sinful nation failed, but the servant, the ideal “Israel,” will succeed by establishing justice throughout the earth.
4 tn Or “glory” (so most English versions).
5 tn The ambiguous verb form תִּפְרַח (tifrakh) is translated as a jussive because it is parallel to the jussive form תָגֵל (tagel).
6 tn Heb “and let it rejoice, yes [with] rejoicing and shouting.” גִּילַת (gilat) may be an archaic feminine nominal form (see GKC 421 §130.b).
7 tn Or “glory” (KJV, NIV, NRSV); also a second time later in this verse.