Mazmur 109:12

109:12 May no one show him kindness! ¹ 

May no one have compassion ²  on his fatherless children!

Yesaya 9:16

9:16 The leaders of this nation were misleading people,

and the people being led were destroyed. ³ 

Yesaya 9:1

9:1 (8:23) ⁴  The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious. ⁵ 

In earlier times he ⁶  humiliated

the land of Zebulun,

and the land of Naphtali; ⁷ 

but now he brings honor ⁸ 

to the way of the sea,

the region beyond the Jordan,

and Galilee of the nations. ⁹ 

Yohanes 2:1

Turning Water into Wine

2:1 Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana ¹⁰  in Galilee. ¹¹  Jesus’ mother ¹²  was there,

[109:12]  ¹ tn Heb “may there not be for him one who extends loyal love.”

[109:12]  ² tn Perhaps this refers to being generous (see Ps 37:21).

[9:16]  ³ tn Heb “and the ones being led were swallowed up.” Instead of taking מְבֻלָּעִים (mÿbulla’im) from בָּלַע (bala’, “to swallow”), HALOT 134 s.v. בלע proposes a rare homonymic root בלע (“confuse”) here.

[9:1]  ⁴ sn In the Hebrew text (BHS) the chapter division comes one verse later than in the English Bible; 9:1 (8:23 HT). Thus 9:2-21 in the English Bible = 9:1-20 in the Hebrew text. Beginning with 10:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible are again the same.

[9:1]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads, “Indeed there is no gloom for the one to whom there was anxiety for her.” The feminine singular pronominal suffix “her” must refer to the land (cf. vv. 22a, 23b). So one could translate, “Indeed there will be no gloom for the land which was anxious.” In this case the statement introduces the positive message to follow. Some assume an emendation of לֹא (lo’, “no”) to לוֹ (lo, “to him”) and of לָהּ (lah, “to her”) to לוֹ (lo, “to him”), yielding this literal reading: “indeed there is gloom for him, for the one to whom there was anxiety for him.” In this case the statement concludes the preceding description of judgment.

[9:1]  ⁶ tn The Lord must be understood as the subject of the two verbs in this verse.

[9:1]  ⁷ sn The statement probably alludes to the Assyrian conquest of Israel in ca. 734-733 b.c., when Tiglath-pileser III annexed much of Israel’s territory and reduced Samaria to a puppet state.

[9:1]  ⁸ tn Heb Just as in earlier times he humiliated…, [in] the latter times he has brought honor.” The main verbs in vv. 1b-4 are Hebrew perfects. The prophet takes his rhetorical stance in the future age of restoration and describes future events as if they have already occurred. To capture the dramatic effect of the original text, the translation uses the English present or present perfect.

[9:1]  ⁹ sn These three geographical designations may refer to provinces established by the Assyrians in 734-733 b.c. The “way of the sea” is the province of Dor, along the Mediterranean coast, the “region beyond the Jordan” is the province of Gilead in Transjordan, and “Galilee of the nations” (a title that alludes to how the territory had been overrun by foreigners) is the province of Megiddo located west of the Sea of Galilee. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 374.

[2:1]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map1 C3; Map2 D2; Map3 C5.

[2:1]  ¹¹ sn Cana in Galilee was not a very well-known place. It is mentioned only here, in 4:46, and 21:2, and nowhere else in the NT. Josephus (Life 16 [86]) says he once had his quarters there. The probable location is present day Khirbet Cana, 8 mi (14 km) north of Nazareth, or Khirbet Kenna, 4 mi (7 km) northeast of Nazareth.

[2:1]  ¹² tn Grk “in Galilee, and Jesus’ mother.”