Yesaya 48:5-11

48:5 I announced them to you beforehand;

before they happened, I predicted them for you,

so you could never say,

‘My image did these things,

my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’

48:6 You have heard; now look at all the evidence! ¹ 

Will you not admit that what I say is true? ² 

From this point on I am announcing to you new events

that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about. ³ 

48:7 Now they come into being, ⁴  not in the past;

before today you did not hear about them,

so you could not say,

‘Yes, ⁵  I know about them.’

48:8 You did not hear,

you do not know,

you were not told beforehand. ⁶ 

For I know that you are very deceitful; ⁷ 

you were labeled ⁸  a rebel from birth.

48:9 For the sake of my reputation ⁹  I hold back my anger;

for the sake of my prestige ¹⁰  I restrain myself from destroying you. ¹¹ 

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

I have purified you ¹²  in the furnace of misery.

48:11 For my sake alone ¹³  I will act,

for how can I allow my name to be defiled? ¹⁴ 

I will not share my glory with anyone else! ¹⁵ 

Yesaya 48:17

48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, ¹⁶  says,

the Holy One of Israel: ¹⁷ 

“I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you how to succeed,

who leads you in the way you should go.

[48:6]  ¹ tn Heb “gaze [at] all of it”; KJV “see all this.”

[48:6]  ² tn Heb “[as for] you, will you not declare?”

[48:6]  ³ tn Heb “and hidden things, and you do not know them.”

[48:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “are created” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “They are brand new.”

[48:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “look”; KJV, NASB “Behold.”

[48:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “beforehand your ear did not open.”

[48:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “deceiving, you deceive.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[48:8]  ⁸ tn Or “called” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[48:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “for the sake of my name” (so NAB, NASB); NLT “for my own sake.”

[48:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and my praise.” לְמַעַן (lÿma’an, “for the sake of”) is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[48:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I restrain [myself] concerning you not to cut you off.”

[48:10]  ¹² 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.

[48:11]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text repeats לְמַעֲנִי (lÿma’ani, “for my sake”) for emphasis.

[48:11]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “for how can it be defiled?” The subject of the verb is probably “name” (v. 9).

[48:11]  ¹⁵ sn See 42:8.

[48:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[48:17]  ¹⁷ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.