Mazmur 27:9

27:9 Do not reject me! ¹ 

Do not push your servant away in anger!

You are my deliverer! ² 

Do not forsake or abandon me,

O God who vindicates me!

Yesaya 42:16

42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; ³ 

I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. ⁴ 

I will turn the darkness in front of them into light,

and level out the rough ground. ⁵ 

This is what I will do for them.

I will not abandon them.

Yesaya 54:6

54:6 “Indeed, the Lord will call you back

like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, ⁶ 

like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.

[27:9]  ¹ tn Heb “do not hide your face from me.” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

[27:9]  ² tn Or “[source of] help.”

[42:16]  ³ tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”

[42:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”

[42:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the rough ground into a level place.”

[54:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “like a woman abandoned and grieved in spirit.”