Yesaya 42:1
Konteks42:1 1 “Here is my servant whom I support,
my chosen one in whom I take pleasure.
I have placed my spirit on him;
he will make just decrees 2 for the nations. 3
Yesaya 48:1
Konteks48:1 Listen to this, O family of Jacob, 4
you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’
and are descended from Judah, 5
who take oaths in the name of the Lord,
and invoke 6 the God of Israel –
but not in an honest and just manner. 7
Yesaya 57:17
Konteks57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;
I attacked them and angrily rejected them, 8
yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. 9
[42:1] 1 sn Verses 1-7 contain the first of Isaiah’s “servant songs,” which describe the ministry of a special, ideal servant who accomplishes God’s purposes for Israel and the nations. This song depicts the servant as a just king who brings justice to the earth and relief for the oppressed. The other songs appear in 49:1-13; 50:4-11; and 52:13-53:12.
[42:1] 2 tn Heb “he will bring out justice” (cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV).
[42:1] 3 sn Like the ideal king portrayed in Isa 11:1-9, the servant is energized by the divine spirit and establishes justice on the earth.
[48:1] 4 tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV, CEV “people of Israel.”
[48:1] 5 tc The Hebrew text reads literally “and from the waters of Judah came out.” מִמֵּי (mimme) could be a corruption of מִמְּעֵי (mimmÿ’e, “from the inner parts of”; cf. NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV) as suggested in the above translation. Some translations (ESV, NKJV) retain the MT reading because the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa, which corrects a similar form to “from inner parts of” in 39:7, does not do it here.
[48:1] 6 tn Heb “cause to remember”; KJV, ASV “make mention of.”
[48:1] 7 tn Heb “not in truth and not in righteousness.”
[57:17] 8 tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”
[57:17] 9 tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”