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Isaiah 29:20-22
New English Translation
Isaiah 29:20-22
New English Translation
20 For tyrants will disappear,
those who taunt will vanish,
and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated[a]—
21 those who bear false testimony against a person,[b]
who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate[c]
and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.[d]
22 So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, has said to the family of Jacob:[e]
“Jacob will no longer be ashamed;
their faces will no longer show their embarrassment.[f]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 29:20 tn Heb “and all the watchers of wrong will be cut off.”
- Isaiah 29:21 tn Heb “the ones who make a man a sinner with a word.” The Hiphil of חָטָא (khataʾ) here has a delocutive sense: “declare a man sinful/guilty.”
- Isaiah 29:21 sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.
- Isaiah 29:21 tn Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”
- Isaiah 29:22 tn Heb “So this is what the Lord has said to the house of Jacob, the one who ransomed Abraham.” The relative pronoun must refer back to “the Lord.” It is uncertain to what event in Abraham’s experience this refers. Perhaps the name “Abraham” stands here by metonymy for his descendants through Jacob. If so, the Exodus is in view.
- Isaiah 29:22 tn Heb “and his face will no longer be pale.”
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