Yesaya 46:8-11

46:8 Remember this, so you can be brave! ¹ 

Think about it, you rebels! ² 

46:9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! ³ 

Truly I am God, I have no peer; ⁴ 

I am God, and there is none like me,

46:10 who announces the end from the beginning

and reveals beforehand ⁵  what has not yet occurred,

who says, ‘My plan will be realized,

I will accomplish what I desire,’

46:11 who summons an eagle ⁶  from the east,

from a distant land, one who carries out my plan.

Yes, I have decreed, ⁷ 

yes, I will bring it to pass;

I have formulated a plan,

yes, I will carry it out.

[46:8]  ¹ tn The meaning of the verb אָשַׁשׁ (’ashash, which appears here in the Hitpolel stem) is uncertain. BDB 84 s.v. אשׁשׁ relates it to a root meaning “found, establish” in Arabic; HALOT 100 s.v. II אשׁשׁ gives the meaning “pluck up courage.” The imperative with vav (ו) may indicate purpose following the preceding imperative.

[46:8]  ² tn Heb “return [it], rebels, to heart”; NRSV “recall it to mind, you transgressors.”

[46:9]  ³ tn Heb “remember the former things, from antiquity”; KJV, ASV “the former things of old.”

[46:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “and there is no other” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[46:10]  ⁵ tn Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”

[46:11]  ⁶ tn Or, more generally, “a bird of prey” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV; see 18:6).

[46:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “spoken”; KJV “I have spoken it.”