45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! 1
Let them consult with one another!
Who predicted this in the past?
Who announced it beforehand?
Was it not I, the Lord?
I have no peer, there is no God but me,
a God who vindicates and delivers; 2
there is none but me.
65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth 3
will do so in the name of the faithful God; 4
whoever makes an oath in the earth
will do so in the name of the faithful God. 5
For past problems will be forgotten;
I will no longer think about them. 6
1 tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.
2 tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”
3 tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.
4 tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”
5 tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”
6 tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”