27:9 Do not reject me! 1
Do not push your servant away in anger!
You are my deliverer! 2
Do not forsake or abandon me,
O God who vindicates me!
42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; 3
I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. 4
I will turn the darkness in front of them into light,
and level out the rough ground. 5
This is what I will do for them.
I will not abandon them.
54:6 “Indeed, the Lord will call you back
like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, 6
like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.
1 tn Heb “do not hide your face from me.” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).
2 tn Or “[source of] help.”
3 tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”
4 tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”
5 tn Heb “and the rough ground into a level place.”
6 tn Heb “like a woman abandoned and grieved in spirit.”