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Isaiah 54:15-17
New English Translation
Isaiah 54:15-17
New English Translation
15 If anyone dares to[a] challenge you, it will not be my doing!
Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated.[b]
16 Look, I create the craftsman,
who fans the coals into a fire
and forges a weapon.[c]
I create the destroyer so he might devastate.
17 No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed;
you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you.[d]
This is what the Lord will do for his servants—
I will vindicate them,”[e]
says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 54:15 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb here for emphasis.
- Isaiah 54:15 tn Heb “will fall over you.” The expression נָפַל עַל (nafal ʿal) can mean “attack,” but here it means “fall over to,” i.e., “surrender to.”
- Isaiah 54:16 tn Heb “who brings out an implement for his work.”
- Isaiah 54:17 tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”
- Isaiah 54:17 tn Heb “this is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication from me.”
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