Yesaya 34:4

34:4 All the stars in the sky will fade away, ¹ 

the sky will roll up like a scroll;

all its stars will wither,

like a leaf withers and falls from a vine

or a fig withers and falls from a tree. ² 

Yesaya 51:6

51:6 Look up at the sky!

Look at the earth below!

For the sky will dissipate ³  like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like clothes;

its residents will die like gnats.

But the deliverance I give ⁴  is permanent;

the vindication I provide ⁵  will not disappear. ⁶ 

[34:4]  ¹ tc Heb “and all the host of heaven will rot.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a inserts “and the valleys will be split open,” but this reading may be influenced by Mic 1:4. On the other hand, the statement, if original, could have been omitted by homoioarcton, a scribe’s eye jumping from the conjunction prefixed to “the valleys” to the conjunction prefixed to the verb “rot.”

[34:4]  ² tn Heb “like the withering of a leaf from a vine, and like the withering from a fig tree.”

[51:6]  ³ tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.

[51:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”

[51:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”

[51:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”