60:6 Camel caravans will cover your roads, 1
young camels from Midian and Ephah.
All the merchants of Sheba 2 will come,
bringing gold and incense
and singing praises to the Lord. 3
65:17 For look, I am ready to create
new heavens and a new earth! 4
The former ones 5 will not be remembered;
no one will think about them anymore. 6
1 tn Heb “an abundance of camels will cover you.”
2 tn Heb “all of them, from Sheba.”
3 tn Heb “and they will announce the praises of the Lord.”
4 sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.
5 tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”
6 tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”