Kejadian 50:20

50:20 As for you, you meant to harm me, ¹  but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day. ² 

Yesaya 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ³ 

You delivered me ⁴  from the pit of oblivion. ⁵ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ⁶ 

Yeremia 29:11

29:11 For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. ⁷  ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you ⁸  a future filled with hope. ⁹ 

[50:20]  ¹ tn Heb “you devised against me evil.”

[50:20]  ² tn Heb “God devised it for good in order to do, like this day, to preserve alive a great nation.”

[38:17]  ³ tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).

[38:17]  ⁵ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”

[29:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[29:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “I know the plans that I am planning for you, oracle of the Lord, plans of well-being and not for harm to give to you….”

[29:11]  ⁹ tn Or “the future you hope for”; Heb “a future and a hope.” This is a good example of hendiadys where two formally coordinated nouns (adjectives, verbs) convey a single idea where one of the terms functions as a qualifier of the other. For this figure see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 658-72. This example is discussed on p. 661.