Yesaya 49:16

49:16 Look, I have inscribed your name ¹  on my palms;

your walls are constantly before me.

Yesaya 49:24

49:24 Can spoils be taken from a warrior,

or captives be rescued from a conqueror? ² 

Yesaya 52:2

52:2 Shake off the dirt! ³ 

Get up, captive ⁴  Jerusalem!

Take off the iron chains around your neck,

O captive daughter Zion!

[49:16]  ¹ tn Heb “you.” Here the pronoun is put by metonymy for the person’s name.

[49:24]  ² tc The Hebrew text has צָדִיק (tsadiq, “a righteous [one]”), but this makes no sense in the parallelism. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly עריץ (“violent [one], tyrant”; see v. 25).

[52:2]  ³ tn Heb “Shake yourself free from the dirt.”

[52:2]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text has שְּׂבִי (shÿvi), which some understand as a feminine singular imperative from יָשַׁב (yashav, “sit”). The LXX, Vulgate, Syriac, and the Targum support the MT reading (the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a does indirectly). Some interpret this to mean “take your throne”: The Lord exhorts Jerusalem to get up from the dirt and sit, probably with the idea of sitting in a place of honor (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 2:361). However, the form is likely a corruption of שְׁבִיָּה (shÿviyyah, “captive”), which appears in the parallel line.