Yesaya 33:20

33:20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!

You ¹  will see Jerusalem, ² 

a peaceful settlement,

a tent that stays put; ³ 

its stakes will never be pulled up;

none of its ropes will snap in two.

Yesaya 49:19-20

49:19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;

it is desolate and devastated. ⁴ 

But now you will be too small to hold your residents,

and those who devoured you will be far away.

49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement

will say within your hearing,

‘This place is too cramped for us, ⁵ 

make room for us so we can live here.’ ⁶ 

Yeremia 10:20

10:20 But our tents have been destroyed.

The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. ⁷ 

Our children are gone and are not coming back. ⁸ 

There is no survivor to put our tents back up,

no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

[33:20]  ¹ tn Heb “your eyes” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[33:20]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[33:20]  ³ tn Or “that does not travel”; NASB “which shall not be folded.”

[49:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete.

[49:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.

[49:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”

[10:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “My tent has been destroyed and my tent cords have been ripped apart.” For a very similar identification of Jeremiah’s plight with the plight of the personified community see 4:20 and the notes there.

[10:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “my children have gone from me and are no more.”

[10:20]  sn What is being referred to is the exile of the people of the land. This passage could refer to the exiles of 605 b.c., 597 b.c., or more probably be anticipatory of the exile of 588 b.c. since the “tent,” (i.e., the city) is pictured as torn down. The picture of devastation and desolation here should be contrasted with that in Isa 54:2-3.