translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ISA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “guard”; KJV “Keep”; NAB “Observe”; NASB “Preserve”; NIV, NRSV “Maintain.”


text: Heb “for near is my deliverance to enter, and my vindication [or “righteousness”] to be revealed.”


text: Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”


text: Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”


text: Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”


text: Heb “who attaches himself to.”


text: The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.


text: Heb “and take hold of” (so KJV); NASB “hold fast.”


text: Heb “a hand and a name.” For other examples where יָד ( yad ) refers to a monument, see HALOT 388 s.v.


text: Heb “name” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).


text: Heb “who attach themselves to.”


text: Heb “and take hold of”; NAB “hold to”; NIV, NRSV “hold fast.”


text: Heb “in the house of my prayer.”


text: Heb “for my house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”


text: The meaning of the statement is unclear. The text reads literally, “Still I will gather upon him to his gathered ones.” Perhaps the preposition - לְ ( lamed ) before “gathered ones” introduces the object of the verb, as in Jer 49:5 . The third masculine singular suffix on both עָלָיו (’ alayv ) and נִקְבָּצָיו ( niqbatsayv ) probably refers to “Israel.” In this case one can translate literally, “Still I will gather to him his gathered ones.”


text: Heb “they do not know”; KJV “they are all ignorant”; NIV “they all lack knowledge.”


text: has חזים (“seers”) here. In this case the “watchmen” are directly identified as prophets and depicted as lazy.


text: Heb “for his gain from his end.”


text: The words “each one says” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “great, [in] abundance, very much,” i.e., “very great indeed.” See HALOT 452 s.v. יֶתֶר .