Isaiah 51:6

Look up at the sky! Look at the earth below! For the sky will dissipate ¹  like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothes; its residents will die like gnats. But the deliverance I give ²  is permanent; the vindication I provide ³  will not disappear. ⁴ 

De 4:19; Ps 8:3,4; Ps 102:26; Ps 103:17; Isa 34:4; Isa 40:26; Isa 45:17; Isa 50:9; Isa 51:8; Da 9:24; Mt 24:35; Joh 3:15,16; Joh 5:24; Joh 10:27-29; 2Th 2:16; Heb 1:11,12; Heb 5:9; Heb 9:12,15; 2Pe 3:10-12; Re 6:12-14; Re 20:11

¹ tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.

² tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”

³ tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”

⁴ tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”