54:15 If anyone dares to 1 challenge you, it will not be my doing!
Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated. 2
50:8 The one who vindicates me is close by.
Who dares to argue with me? Let us confront each other! 3
Who is my accuser? 4 Let him challenge me! 5
50:9 Look, the sovereign Lord helps me.
Who dares to condemn me?
Look, all of them will wear out like clothes;
a moth will eat away at them.
1 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb here for emphasis.
2 tn Heb “will fall over you.” The expression נָפַל עַל (nafal ’al) can mean “attack,” but here it means “fall over to,” i.e., “surrender to.”
3 tn Heb “Let us stand together!”
4 tn Heb “Who is the master of my judgment?”
5 tn Heb “let him approach me”; NAB, NIV “Let him confront me.”