15:13 By your loyal love you will lead 1 the people whom 2 you have redeemed;
you will guide 3 them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.
15:17 You will bring them in 4 and plant them in the mountain 5 of your inheritance,
in the place you made 6 for your residence, O Lord,
the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.
1 tn The verbs in the next two verses are perfect tenses, but can be interpreted as a prophetic perfect, looking to the future.
2 tn The particle זוּ (zu) is a relative pronoun, subordinating the next verb to the preceding.
3 tn This verb seems to mean “to guide to a watering-place” (See Ps 23:2).
4 tn The verb is imperfect.
5 sn The “mountain” and the “place” would be wherever Yahweh met with his people. It here refers to Canaan, the land promised to the patriarchs.
6 tn The verb is perfect tense, referring to Yahweh’s previous choice of the holy place.