Yesaya 60:13

60:13 The splendor of Lebanon will come to you,

its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together,

to beautify my palace; ¹ 

I will bestow honor on my throne room. ² 

Yehezkiel 34:25-26

34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely ³  in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. ⁴  34:26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. ⁵ 

Amos 9:13-15

9:13 “Be sure of this, ⁶  the time is ⁷  coming,” says the Lord,

“when the plowman will catch up to the reaper ⁸ 

and the one who stomps the grapes ⁹  will overtake ¹⁰  the planter. ¹¹ 

Juice will run down the slopes, ¹² 

it will flow down all the hillsides. ¹³ 

9:14 I will bring back my people, Israel; ¹⁴ 

they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble ¹⁵  and settle down. ¹⁶ 

They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; ¹⁷ 

they will grow orchards ¹⁸  and eat the fruit they produce. ¹⁹ 

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the ²⁰  land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

Mikha 7:14-15

7:14 Shepherd your people with your shepherd’s rod, ²¹ 

the flock that belongs to you, ²² 

the one that lives alone in a thicket,

in the midst of a pastureland. ²³ 

Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, ²⁴ 

as they did in the old days. ²⁵ 

7:15 “As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt,

I will show you ²⁶  miraculous deeds.” ²⁷ 

Zefanya 3:19-20

3:19 Look, at that time I will deal with those who mistreated you.

I will rescue the lame sheep ²⁸ 

and gather together the scattered sheep.

I will take away their humiliation

and make the whole earth admire and respect them. ²⁹ 

3:20 At that time I will lead you –

at the time I gather you together. ³⁰ 

Be sure of this! ³¹  I will make all the nations of the earth respect and admire you ³² 

when you see me restore you,” ³³  says the Lord.

Zakharia 14:20-21

14:20 On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple ³⁴  will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar. ³⁵  14:21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite ³⁶  in the house of the Lord who rules over all.

Kisah Para Rasul 4:32-33

Conditions Among the Early Believers

4:32 The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, ³⁷  and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common. ³⁸  4:33 With ³⁹  great power the apostles were giving testimony ⁴⁰  to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.

[60:13]  ¹ tn Or “holy place, sanctuary.”

[60:13]  ² tn Heb “the place of my feet.” See Ezek 43:7, where the Lord’s throne is called the “place of the soles of my feet.”

[34:25]  ³ tn The phrase “live securely” occurs in Ezek 28:26; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26 as an expression of freedom from fear. It is a promised blessing resulting from obedience (see Lev 26:5-6).

[34:25]  ⁴ sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).

[34:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “showers of blessing.” Abundant rain, which in turn produces fruit and crops (v. 27), is a covenantal blessing for obedience (Lev 26:4).

[9:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

[9:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “the days are.”

[9:13]  ⁸ sn The plowman will catch up to the reaper. Plowing occurred in October-November, and harvesting in April-May (see P. King, Amos, Hosea, Micah, 109.) But in the future age of restored divine blessing, there will be so many crops the reapers will take all summer to harvest them, and it will be time for plowing again before the harvest is finished.

[9:13]  ⁹ sn When the grapes had been harvested, they were placed in a press where workers would stomp on them with their feet and squeeze out the juice. For a discussion of grape harvesting technique, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110-12.

[9:13]  ¹⁰ tn The verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation from the parallel line.

[9:13]  ¹¹ sn The grape harvest occurred in August-September, planting in November-December (see P. King, Amos, Hosea, Micah, 109). But in the future age described here there will be so many grapes the workers who stomp them will still be working when the next planting season arrives.

[9:13]  ¹² tn Or “hills,” where the vineyards were planted.

[9:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “and all the hills will melt.”

[9:14]  ¹⁴ tn This line can also be translated “I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel” and is a common idiom (e.g., Deut 30:3; Jer 30:3; Hos 6:11; Zeph 3:20). This rendering is followed by several modern English versions (e.g., NEB, NRSV, NJPS).

[9:14]  ¹⁵ tn Or “the ruined [or “desolate”] cities.”

[9:14]  ¹⁶ tn Or “and live [in them].”

[9:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “drink their wine.”

[9:14]  ¹⁸ tn Or “gardens.”

[9:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “eat their fruit.”

[9:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:14]  ²¹ tn Or “with your scepter” (the Hebrew term can mean either “rod” or “scepter”).

[7:14]  ²² tn Heb “the flock of your inheritance.”

[7:14]  ²³ tn Or “in the midst of Carmel.” The Hebrew term translated “pastureland” may be a place name.

[7:14]  sn The point seems to be that Israel is in a vulnerable position, like sheep in a thicket populated by predators, while rich pastureland (their homeland and God’s blessings) is in view.

[7:14]  ²⁴ sn The regions of Bashan and Gilead, located in Transjordan, were noted for their rich grazing lands.

[7:14]  ²⁵ tn Heb “as in the days of antiquity.”

[7:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “him.” This probably refers to Israel in a collective sense. Because the switch from direct address to the third person is awkward, some prefer to emend the suffix to a second person form. In any case, it is necessary to employ a second person pronoun in the translation to maintain the connection for the English reader.

[7:15]  ²⁷ sn I will show you miraculous deeds. In this verse the Lord responds to the petition of v. 14 with a brief promise of deliverance.

[3:19]  ²⁸ tn The word “sheep” is supplied for clarification. As in Mic 4:6-7, the exiles are here pictured as injured and scattered sheep whom the divine shepherd rescues from danger.

[3:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “I will make them into praise and a name, in all the earth, their shame.” The present translation assumes that “their shame” specifies “them” and that “name” stands here for a good reputation.

[3:20]  ³⁰ tn In this line the second person pronoun is masculine plural, indicating that the exiles are addressed.

[3:20]  ³¹ tn Or “for.”

[3:20]  ³² tn Heb “I will make you into a name and praise among all the peoples of the earth.” Here the word “name” carries the nuance of “good reputation.”

[3:20]  ³³ tn Heb “when I restore your fortunes to your eyes.” See the note on the phrase “restore them” in 2:7.

[14:20]  ³⁴ tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).

[14:20]  ³⁵ sn In the glory of the messianic age there will be no differences between the sacred (the bowls before the altar) and the profane (the cooking pots in the Lord’s temple) – all will be dedicated to his use.

[14:21]  ³⁶ tn Or “merchant”; “trader” (because Canaanites, especially Phoenicians, were merchants and traders; cf. BDB 489 s.v. I and II כְּנַעֲנִי). English versions have rendered the term as “Canaanite” (KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV), “trader” (RSV, NEB), “traders” (NRSV, NLT), or “merchant” (NAB), although frequently a note is given explaining the other option. Cf. also John 2:16.

[14:21]  sn This is not to preclude the Canaanite (or anyone else) from worship; the point is that in the messianic age all such ethnic and religious distinctions will be erased and all people will be eligible to worship the Lord.

[4:32]  ³⁷ tn Grk “soul.”

[4:32]  ³⁸ tn Grk “but all things were to them in common.”

[4:32]  sn Everything was held in common. The remark is not a reflection of political philosophy, but of the extent of their spontaneous commitment to one another. Such a response does not have the function of a command, but is reflective of an attitude that Luke commends as evidence of their identification with one another.

[4:33]  ³⁹ tn Grk “And with.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[4:33]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “were witnessing.”