32:20 He said, “I will reject them, 1
I will see what will happen to them;
for they are a perverse generation,
children 2 who show no loyalty.
1:15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I look the other way; 3
when you offer your many prayers,
I do not listen,
because your hands are covered with blood. 4
45:15 Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden,
O God of Israel, deliverer!
53:3 He was despised and rejected by people, 5
one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness;
people hid their faces from him; 6
he was despised, and we considered him insignificant. 7
54:8 In a burst 8 of anger I rejected you 9 momentarily,
but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,”
says your protector, 10 the Lord.
1 tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”
2 tn Heb “sons” (so NAB, NASB); TEV “unfaithful people.”
3 tn Heb “I close my eyes from you.”
4 sn This does not just refer to the blood of sacrificial animals, but also the blood, as it were, of their innocent victims. By depriving the poor and destitute of proper legal recourse and adequate access to the economic system, the oppressors have, for all intents and purposes, “killed” their victims.
5 tn Heb “lacking of men.” If the genitive is taken as specifying (“lacking with respect to men”), then the idea is that he lacked company because he was rejected by people. Another option is to take the genitive as indicating genus or larger class (i.e., “one lacking among men”). In this case one could translate, “he was a transient” (cf. the use of חָדֵל [khadel] in Ps 39:5 HT [39:4 ET]).
6 tn Heb “like a hiding of the face from him,” i.e., “like one before whom the face is hidden” (see BDB 712 s.v. מַסְתֵּר).
7 sn The servant is likened to a seriously ill person who is shunned by others because of his horrible disease.
8 tn According to BDB 1009 s.v. שֶׁטֶף the noun שֶׁצֶף here is an alternate form of שֶׁטֶף (shetef, “flood”). Some relate the word to an alleged Akkadian cognate meaning “strength.”
9 tn Heb “I hid my face from you.”
10 tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.