Yesaya 49:18

49:18 Look all around you! ¹ 

All of them gather to you.

As surely as I live,” says the Lord,

“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;

you will put them on as if you were a bride.

Yesaya 61:10

61:10 I ²  will greatly rejoice ³  in the Lord;

I will be overjoyed because of my God. ⁴ 

For he clothes me in garments of deliverance;

he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. ⁵ 

I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would;

I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry. ⁶ 

[49:18]  ¹ tn Heb “Lift up around your eyes and see.”

[61:10]  ² sn The speaker in vv. 10-11 is not identified, but it is likely that the personified nation (or perhaps Zion) responds here to the Lord’s promise of restoration.

[61:10]  ³ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[61:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “my being is happy in my God”; NAB “in my God is the joy of my soul.”

[61:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “robe of vindication”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “robe of righteousness.”

[61:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “like a bridegroom [who] acts like a priest [by wearing] a turban, and like a bride [who] wears her jewelry.” The words “I look” are supplied for stylistic reasons and clarification.