Keluaran 16:7

16:7 and in the morning you will see ¹  the glory of the Lord, because he has heard ²  your murmurings against the Lord. As for us, what are we, ³  that you should murmur against us?”

Imamat 10:3

10:3 Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke: ‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, ⁴  and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” ⁵  So Aaron kept silent.

Yesaya 4:2

The Branch of the Lord

4:2 At that time ⁶ 

the crops given by the Lord will bring admiration and honor; ⁷ 

the produce of the land will be a source of pride and delight

to those who remain in Israel. ⁸ 

Yesaya 43:7

43:7 everyone who belongs to me, ⁹ 

whom I created for my glory,

whom I formed – yes, whom I made!

Yesaya 46:13

46:13 I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away;

I am bringing my salvation near, ¹⁰  it does not wait.

I will save Zion; ¹¹ 

I will adorn Israel with my splendor.” ¹² 

Yesaya 49:3

49:3 He said to me, “You are my servant,

Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.” ¹³ 

Yesaya 52:1

52:1 Wake up! Wake up!

Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!

Put on your beautiful clothes,

O Jerusalem, ¹⁴  holy city!

For uncircumcised and unclean pagans

will no longer invade you.

Yesaya 55:5

55:5 Look, you will summon nations ¹⁵  you did not previously know;

nations ¹⁶  that did not previously know you will run to you,

because of the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel, ¹⁷ 

for he bestows honor on you.

Yesaya 60:9

60:9 Indeed, the coastlands ¹⁸  look eagerly for me,

the large ships ¹⁹  are in the lead,

bringing your sons from far away,

along with their silver and gold,

to honor the Lord your God, ²⁰ 

the Holy One of Israel, ²¹  for he has bestowed honor on you.

Yesaya 60:21

60:21 All of your people will be godly; ²² 

they will possess the land permanently.

I will plant them like a shoot;

they will be the product of my labor,

through whom I reveal my splendor. ²³ 

Yesaya 61:3

61:3 to strengthen those who mourn in Zion,

by giving them a turban, instead of ashes,

oil symbolizing joy, ²⁴  instead of mourning,

a garment symbolizing praise, ²⁵  instead of discouragement. ²⁶ 

They will be called oaks of righteousness, ²⁷ 

trees planted by the Lord to reveal his splendor. ²⁸ 

Yeremia 30:19

30:19 Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving ²⁹ 

and the sounds of laughter and merriment.

I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. ³⁰ 

I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

[16:7]  ¹ tn Heb “morning, and you will see.”

[16:7]  ² tn The form is a Qal infinitive construct with a preposition and a suffix. It forms an adverbial clause, usually of time, but here a causal clause.

[16:7]  ³ tn The words “as for us” attempt to convey the force of the Hebrew word order, which puts emphasis on the pronoun: “and we – what?” The implied answer to the question is that Moses and Aaron are nothing, merely the messengers. The next verse repeats the question to further press the seriousness of what the Israelites are doing.

[10:3]  ⁴ tn The Niphal verb of the Hebrew root קָדַשׁ (qadash) can mean either “to be treated as holy” (so here, e.g., BDB 873 s.v. קָּדַשׁ, LXX, NASB, and NEB) or “to show oneself holy” (so here, e.g., HALOT 1073 s.v. קדשׁnif.1, NIV, NRSV, NLT; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:595, 601-3; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 133-34). The latter rendering seems more likely here since, in the immediate context, the Lord himself had indeed shown himself to be holy by the way he responded to the illegitimate incense offering of Nadab and Abihu. They had not treated the Lord as holy, so the Lord acted on his own behalf to show that he was indeed holy.

[10:3]  ⁵ tn In this context the Niphal of the Hebrew root כָּבֵד (kaved) can mean “to be honored” (e.g., NASB and NIV here), “be glorified” (ASV, NRSV and NLT here), or “glorify oneself, show one’s glory” (cf. NAB; e.g., specifically in this verse HALOT 455 s.v. כבדnif.3; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:595, 603-4; and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 126, 134). Comparing this clause with the previous one (see the note above), the point may be that when the Lord shows himself to be holy as he has done in 10:1-2, this results in him being honored (i.e., reverenced, feared, treated with respect) among the people. This suggests the passive rendering. It is possible, however, that one should use the reflexive rendering here as in the previous clause. If so, the passage means that the Lord showed both his holiness and his glory in one outbreak against Nadab and Abihu.

[4:2]  ⁶ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[4:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the vegetation of the Lord will become beauty and honor.” Many English versions understand the phrase צֶמַח יְהוָה (tsemakh yÿhvah) as a messianic reference and render it, “the Branch of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT, and others). Though צֶמַח (tsemakh) is used by later prophets of a royal descendant (Jer 23;5; 33:15; Zech 3:8; 6:12), those passages contain clear contextual indicators that a human ruler is in view and that the word is being used in a metaphorical way of offspring. However, in Isa 4:2 there are no such contextual indicators. To the contrary, in the parallel structure of the verse צֶמַח יְהוָה corresponds to “produce of the land,” a phrase that refers elsewhere exclusively to literal agricultural produce (see Num 13:20, 26; Deut 1:25). In the majority of its uses צֶמַח refers to literal crops or vegetation (in Ps 65:10 the Lord is the source of this vegetation). A reference to the Lord restoring crops would make excellent sense in Isa 4 and the prophets frequently included this theme in their visions of the future age (see Isa 30:23-24; 32:20; Jer 31:12; Ezek 34:26-29; and Amos 9:13-14).

[4:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the fruit of the land will become pride and beauty for the remnant of Israel.”

[43:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “everyone who is called by my name” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[46:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “my salvation.” The verb “I am bringing near” is understood by ellipsis (note the previous line).

[46:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will place in Zion salvation”; NASB “I will grant salvation in Zion.”

[46:13]  ¹² tn Heb “to Israel my splendor”; KJV, ASV “for Israel my glory.”

[49:3]  ¹³ sn This verse identifies the servant as Israel. This seems to refer to the exiled nation (cf. 41:8-9; 44:1-2, 21; 45:4; 48:20), but in vv. 5-6 this servant says he has been commissioned to reconcile Israel to God, so he must be distinct from the exiled nation. This servant is an ideal “Israel” who, like Moses of old, mediates a covenant for the nation (see v. 8), leads them out of bondage (v. 9a), and carries out God’s original plan for Israel by positively impacting the pagan nations (see v. 6b). By living according to God’s law, Israel was to be a model of God’s standards of justice to the surrounding nations (Deut 4:6-8). The sinful nation failed, but the servant, the ideal “Israel,” will succeed by establishing justice throughout the earth.

[52:1]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[55:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “a nation,” but the singular is collective here, as the plural verbs in the next line indicate (note that both “know” and “run” are third plural forms).

[55:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a nation,” but the singular is collective here, as the plural verbs that follow indicate.

[55:5]  ¹⁷ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[60:9]  ¹⁸ tn Or “islands” (NIV); CEV “distant islands”; TEV “distant lands.”

[60:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish.” See the note at 2:16.

[60:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to the name of the Lord your God.”

[60:9]  ²¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[60:21]  ²² tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”

[60:21]  ²³ tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”

[61:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “oil of joy” (KJV, ASV); NASB, NIV, NRSV “the oil of gladness.”

[61:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “garment of praise.”

[61:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “a faint spirit” (so NRSV); KJV, ASV “the spirit of heaviness”; NASB “a spirit of fainting.”

[61:3]  ²⁷ tn Rather than referring to the character of the people, צֶדֶק (tsedeq) may carry the nuance “vindication” here, suggesting that God’s restored people are a testimony to his justice. See v. 2, which alludes to the fact that God will take vengeance against the enemies of his people. Cf. NAB “oaks of justice.”

[61:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “a planting of the Lord to reveal splendor.”

[30:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Out of them will come thanksgiving and a sound of those who are playful.”

[30:19]  ³⁰ sn Compare Jer 29:6.