¹ tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”

¹ tn Heb “his praise.” The phrase stands parallel to “new song” in the previous line.

¹ tn Heb “who.” A new sentence was started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “and he placed in my mouth a new song, praise to our God.”

¹ tn Heb “and Ahijah grabbed the new robe that was on him.”

³ tn The temporal indicator וַיְהִי (vay^ehi, “and it was”) here introduces a new scene.

⁵ tn Heb “thus destroying.” For stylistic reasons the translation begins a new sentence here.

³ tn Heb “and to be.” A new sentence was started here for stylistic reasons.

⁴ sn See L. R. Fisher, “New Ritual Calendar from Ugarit,” HTR 63 (1970): 485-501.

¹⁰ tn Heb “saying.” A new sentence was started here in the English translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “and old from the presence of new you will bring out.”

¹ tn Heb “and.” Here KJV, ASV use a semicolon; NASB begins a new sentence with “Now.”

¹ tn The disjunctive clause signals the beginning of a new episode in the story.

¹ tn The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) introduces a new episode in the ongoing narrative.

⁴ sn Heb “create.” This word is always used with God as the subject and refers to the production of something new or unique, like the creation of the world and the first man and woman (Gen 1:1; 2:3; 1:27; 5:1), the creation of a new heavens and a new earth in a new age (Isa 65:17), or the bringing about of new and unique circumstances (Num 16:30). Here reference is made contextually to the new exodus, that marvelous deliverance which will be so great that the old will pale in comparison (see the first note on v. 9).

³ sn Jesus’ death established the forgiveness promised in the new covenant of Jer 31:31. Jesus is reinterpreting the symbolism of the Passover meal, indicating the presence of a new era.

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic. In addition, because the Greek sentence is rather long and complex, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

² sn Jesus’ death established the forgiveness promised in the new covenant of Jer 31:31. Jesus is reinterpreting the symbolism of the Passover meal, indicating the presence of a new era.

² sn Jesus’ death established the forgiveness promised in the new covenant of Jer 31:31. Jesus is reinterpreting the symbolism of the Passover meal, indicating the presence of a new era.

² tn Grk “in it”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.