Yesaya 10:7

10:7 But he does not agree with this,

his mind does not reason this way, ¹ 

for his goal is to destroy,

and to eliminate many nations. ² 

Yesaya 48:7

48:7 Now they come into being, ³  not in the past;

before today you did not hear about them,

so you could not say,

‘Yes, ⁴  I know about them.’

Yesaya 48:10

48:10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;

I have purified you ⁵  in the furnace of misery.

[10:7]  ¹ tn Heb “but he, not so does he intend, and his heart, not so does it think.”

[10:7]  ² tn Heb “for to destroy [is] in his heart, and to cut off nations, not a few.”

[48:7]  ³ tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”

[48:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”

[48:10]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text has בְּחַרְתִּיךָ (bÿkhartikha, “I have chosen you”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly בחנתיכה (“I have tested you”). The metallurgical background of the imagery suggests that purification through testing is the idea.