He touched my mouth(A) with it and said:

Now that this has touched your lips,
your iniquity is removed
and your sin is atoned for.(B)

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With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(A) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(B)

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16 I have put my words in your mouth,(A)
and covered you in the shadow of my hand,(B)
in order to plant[a] the heavens,
to found the earth,
and to say to Zion, “You are my people.”

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Footnotes

  1. 51:16 Syr reads to stretch out

16 I have put my words in your mouth(A)
    and covered you with the shadow of my hand(B)
I who set the heavens in place,
    who laid the foundations of the earth,(C)
    and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.(D)’”

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21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,”(A) says the Lord: “My Spirit who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth,(B) will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forever,” says the Lord.

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21 “As for me, this is my covenant(A) with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit,(B) who is on you, will not depart from you,(C) and my words that I have put in your mouth(D) will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.

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15 Therefore, through him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.(A)

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15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice(A) of praise—the fruit of lips(B) that openly profess his name.

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