47:12 Persist 1 in trusting 2 your amulets
and your many incantations,
which you have faithfully recited 3 since your youth!
Maybe you will be successful 4 –
maybe you will scare away disaster. 5
65:23 They will not work in vain,
or give birth to children that will experience disaster. 6
For the Lord will bless their children
and their descendants. 7
1 tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”
2 tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.
3 tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”
4 tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”
5 tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.
6 tn Heb “and they will not give birth to horror.”
7 tn Heb “for offspring blessed by the Lord they [will be], and their descendants along with them.”