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Isaiah 65:15-17
New English Translation
Isaiah 65:15-17
New English Translation
15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones.[a]
The Sovereign Lord will kill you,
but he will give his servants another name.
16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth[b]
will do so in the name of the faithful God;[c]
whoever makes an oath in the earth
will do so in the name of the faithful God.[d]
For past problems will be forgotten;
I will no longer think about them.[e]
17 For look, I am ready to create
new heavens and a new earth![f]
The former ones[g] will not be remembered;
no one will think about them anymore.[h]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:15 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.
- Isaiah 65:16 tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.
- Isaiah 65:16 tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”
- Isaiah 65:16 tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”
- Isaiah 65:16 tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”
- Isaiah 65:17 sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.
- Isaiah 65:17 tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”
- Isaiah 65:17 tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”
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