Mazmur 66:5

66:5 Come and witness ¹  God’s exploits! ² 

His acts on behalf of people are awesome! ³ 

Yesaya 19:21

19:21 The Lord will reveal himself to the Egyptians, and they ⁴  will acknowledge the Lord’s authority ⁵  at that time. ⁶  They will present sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and fulfill them.

Yesaya 27:13

27:13 At that time ⁷  a large ⁸  trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost ⁹  in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in ¹⁰  the land of Egypt. They will worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. ¹¹ 

Yesaya 49:7

49:7 This is what the Lord,

the protector ¹²  of Israel, their Holy One, ¹³  says

to the one who is despised ¹⁴  and rejected ¹⁵  by nations, ¹⁶ 

a servant of rulers:

“Kings will see and rise in respect, ¹⁷ 

princes will bow down,

because of the faithful Lord,

the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”

Zakharia 8:20-22

8:20 The Lord who rules over all says, ‘It will someday come to pass that people – residents of many cities – will come. 8:21 The inhabitants of one will go to another and say, “Let’s go up at once to ask the favor of the Lord, to seek the Lord who rules over all. Indeed, I’ll go with you.”’ 8:22 Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord who rules over all and to ask his favor.

Zakharia 14:16

14:16 Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁸ 

Zakharia 1:4

1:4 “Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, ‘The Lord who rules over all says, “Turn now from your evil wickedness,”’ but they would by no means obey me,” says the Lord.

[66:5]  ¹ tn Or “see.”

[66:5]  ² tn Or “acts” (see Ps 46:8).

[66:5]  ³ tn Heb “awesome [is] an act toward the sons of man.” It is unclear how the prepositional phrase relates to what precedes. If collocated with “act,” it may mean “on behalf of” or “toward.” If taken with “awesome” (see 1 Chr 16:25; Pss 89:7; 96:4; Zeph 2:11), one might translate “his awesome acts are beyond human comprehension” or “his awesome acts are superior to anything men can do.”

[19:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “Egypt.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the present translation uses the pronoun (“they”) here.

[19:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “will know the Lord.”

[19:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of vv. 23 and 24.

[27:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it will be in that day.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[27:13]  ⁸ tn Traditionally, “great” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT); CEV “loud.”

[27:13]  ⁹ tn Or “the ones perishing.”

[27:13]  ¹⁰ tn Or “the ones driven into.”

[27:13]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[49:7]  ¹² tn Heb “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:7]  ¹³ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[49:7]  ¹⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads literally “to [one who] despises life.” It is preferable to read with the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a לבזוי, which should be vocalized as a passive participle, לִבְזוּי (livzuy, “to the one despised with respect to life” [נֶפֶשׁ is a genitive of specification]). The consonantal sequence וי was probably misread as ה in the MT tradition. The contextual argument favors the 1QIsa^a reading. As J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 2:294) points out, the three terse phrases “convey a picture of lowliness, worthlessness, and helplessness.”

[49:7]  ¹⁵ tn MT’s Piel participle (“to the one who rejects”) does not fit contextually. The form should be revocalized as a Pual, “to the one rejected.”

[49:7]  ¹⁶ tn Parallelism (see “rulers,” “kings,” “princes”) suggests that the singular גּוֹי (goy) be emended to a plural or understood in a collective sense (see 55:5).

[49:7]  ¹⁷ tn For this sense of קוּם (qum), see Gen 19:1; 23:7; 33:10; Lev 19:32; 1 Sam 20:41; 25:41; 1 Kgs 2:19; Job 29:8.

[14:16]  ¹⁸ sn Having imposed his sovereignty over the earth following the Battle of Armageddon, the Lord will receive homage and tribute from all who survive from all the nations. The Feast of Tabernacles was especially associated with covenant institution and renewal so it will be appropriate for all people to acknowledge that they are vassals to the Lord at that time (cf. Deut 31:9-13; Neh 8:12-18; 9:1-38).