Yesaya 27:3

27:3 I, the Lord, protect it; ¹ 

I water it regularly. ² 

I guard it night and day,

so no one can harm it. ³ 

Yeremia 23:4

23:4 I will install rulers ⁴  over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. ⁵  I, the Lord, promise it! ⁶ 

Yohanes 10:28

10:28 I give ⁷  them eternal life, and they will never perish; ⁸  no one will snatch ⁹  them from my hand.

[27:3]  ¹ tn Heb “her.” Apparently “vineyard” is the antecedent, though normally this noun is understood as masculine (see Lev 25:3, however).

[27:3]  ² tn Or perhaps, “constantly.” Heb “by moments.”

[27:3]  ³ tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.”

[23:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “shepherds.”

[23:4]  ⁵ tn There are various nuances of the word פָּקַד (paqad) represented in vv. 2, 4. See Ps 8:4 (8:5 HT) and Zech 10:3 for “care for/take care of” (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Qal.A.1.a). See Exod 20:5; Amos 3:2; Jer 9:24; 11:22 for “punish” (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Qal.A.3). See 1 Kgs 20:39 and 2 Kgs 10:19 for “be missing” (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Niph.1).

[23:4]  sn There is an extended play on the Hebrew word פָּקַד which is a word with rather broad English equivalents. Here the word refers to the fault of the shepherds/rulers who have not “taken care” of the sheep/people (v. 2), the “punishment” for the evil they have done in not taking care of them (v. 2), and the fact that after the Lord assigns new shepherds/rulers over them they will be cared for in such a way that none of them “will turn up missing” (v. 4).

[23:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[10:28]  ⁷ tn Grk “And I give.”

[10:28]  ⁸ tn Or “will never die” or “will never be lost.”

[10:28]  ⁹ tn Or “no one will seize.”