49:21 Then you will think to yourself, 1
‘Who bore these children for me?
I was bereaved and barren,
dismissed and divorced. 2
Who raised these children?
Look, I was left all alone;
where did these children come from?’”
57:11 Whom are you worried about?
Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully
and not remember me
or think about me? 3
Because I have been silent for so long, 4
you are not afraid of me. 5
1 tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”
2 tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”
3 tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”
4 tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”
5 sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.