58:10 You must 1 actively help the hungry
and feed the oppressed. 2
Then your light will dispel the darkness, 3
and your darkness will be transformed into noonday. 4
66:11 For 5 you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; 6
you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts. 7
1 tn Heb “if you.” See the note on “you must” in v. 9b.
2 tn Heb “If you furnish for the hungry [with] your being, and the appetite of the oppressed you satisfy.”
3 tn Heb “will rise in the darkness.”
4 tn Heb “and your darkness [will be] like noonday.”
5 tn Or “in order that”; ASV, NRSV “that.”
6 tn Heb “you will suck and be satisfied, from her comforting breast.”
7 tn Heb “you will slurp and refresh yourselves from her heavy breast.”
sn Zion’s residents will benefit from and enjoy her great material prosperity. See v. 12.