43:5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
From the east I will bring your descendants;
from the west I will gather you.
45:6 I do this 1 so people 2 will recognize from east to west
that there is no God but me;
I am the Lord, I have no peer.
49:12 Look, they come from far away!
Look, some come from the north and west,
and others from the land of Sinim! 3
1 tn The words “I do this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “they” (so KJV, ASV); TEV, CEV “everyone”; NLT “all the world.”
3 tc The MT reads “Sinim” here; the Dead Sea Scrolls read “Syene,” a location in Egypt associated with modern Aswan. A number of recent translations adopt this reading: “Syene” (NAB, NRSV); “Aswan” (NIV); “Egypt” (NLT).
sn The precise location of the land of Sinim is uncertain, but since the north and west are mentioned in the previous line, it was a probably located in the distant east or south.