Discovery BoxIsaiah 65:13-16 
Context65:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says:
“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!
Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!
Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! 1
But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; 2
you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. 3
65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. 4
The sovereign Lord will kill you,
but he will give his servants another name.
65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth 5
will do so in the name of the faithful God; 6
whoever makes an oath in the earth
will do so in the name of the faithful God. 7
For past problems will be forgotten;
I will no longer think about them. 8
1 tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”
2 tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”
3 tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”
4 tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”
sn For an example of such a curse formula see Jer 29:22.
5 tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.
6 tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”
7 tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”
8 tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”
