Isaiah 35:8 New English Translation
8 A thoroughfare will be there—
it will be called the Way of Holiness.[a]
The unclean will not travel on it;
it is reserved for those authorized to use it[b]—
fools[c] will not stray into it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 35:8 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and there will be there a road and a way, and the Way of Holiness it will be called.” וְדֶרֶךְ (vederekh, “and a/the way”) is accidentally duplicated; the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa does not reflect the repetition of the phrase.
- Isaiah 35:8 tn The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. The text reads literally “and it is for them, the one who walks [on the] way.” In this context those authorized to use the Way of Holiness would be morally upright people who are the recipients of God’s deliverance, in contrast to the morally impure and foolish who are excluded from the new covenant community.
- Isaiah 35:8 tn In this context “fools” are those who are morally corrupt, not those with limited intellectual capacity.
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