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Isaiah 66:17-19
Contemporary English Version
Isaiah 66:17-19
Contemporary English Version
A Threat and a Promise
17 Some of you get yourselves ready and go to a garden to worship a foreign goddess.[a] You eat the meat of pigs, lizards, and mice. But I, the Lord, will destroy you for this.
18 I know everything you do and think! The time has now come[b] to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory 19 by proving what I can do.[c] I will send the survivors to Tarshish, Pul,[d] Lud, Meshech,[e] Tubal, Javan,[f] and to the distant islands. I will send them to announce my wonderful glory to nations that have never heard about me.
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- 66.17 Some … goddess: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 66.18 I … come: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 66.19 by … do: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 66.19 Pul: Hebrew; one ancient translation “Put,” a country in Africa, but neither the location of Pul or Put is known for certain.
- 66.19 Meshech: One ancient translation; Hebrew “those who use bows and arrows.”
- 66.19 Tarshish … Javan: Tarshish may have been a Phoenician city in Spain; Put (see note on Pul) and Lud were African people; Meshech and Tubal were regions south or southeast of the Black Sea; the Javan were people of Asia Minor and the Greek islands.
Isaiah 66:17-19
New International Version
Isaiah 66:17-19
New International Version
17 “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens,(A) following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs,(B) rats(C) and other unclean things—they will meet their end(D) together with the one they follow,” declares the Lord.
18 “And I, because of what they have planned and done,(E) am about to come[a] and gather the people of all nations(F) and languages, and they will come and see my glory.(G)
19 “I will set a sign(H) among them, and I will send some of those who survive(I) to the nations—to Tarshish,(J) to the Libyans[b] and Lydians(K) (famous as archers), to Tubal(L) and Greece,(M) and to the distant islands(N) that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory.(O) They will proclaim my glory among the nations.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 66:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
- Isaiah 66:19 Some Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul
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