40:1 “Comfort, comfort my people,”
says your 1 God.
50:6 I offered my back to those who attacked, 2
my jaws to those who tore out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from insults and spitting.
1 tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine plural. The identity of the addressee is uncertain: (1) God’s people may be addressed, or (2) the unidentified heralds commanded to comfort Jerusalem.
2 tn Or perhaps, “who beat [me].”