51:6 Look up at the sky!
Look at the earth below!
For the sky will dissipate 1 like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give 2 is permanent;
the vindication I provide 3 will not disappear. 4
1 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
2 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
3 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
4 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”