Yesaya 48:15-22
Konteks48:15 I, I have spoken –
yes, I have summoned him;
I lead him and he will succeed. 1
48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!
From the very first I have not spoken in secret;
when it happens, 2 I am there.”
So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. 3
48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, 4 says,
the Holy One of Israel: 5
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.
48:18 If only you had obeyed my 6 commandments,
prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, 7
deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. 8
48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, 9
and your children 10 like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence. 11
48:20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Babylonians!
Announce it with a shout of joy!
Make this known!
Proclaim it throughout the earth! 12
Say, ‘The Lord protects 13 his servant Jacob.
48:21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions;
he makes water flow out of a rock for them;
he splits open a rock and water flows out.’ 14
48:22 There will be no prosperity for the wicked,” says the Lord.
[48:15] 1 tn Heb “and his way will be prosperous.”
[48:16] 2 tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”
[48:16] 3 sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.
[48:17] 4 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
[48:17] 5 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
[48:18] 6 tn Heb “paid attention to” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “had listened to.”
[48:18] 7 tn Heb “like a river your peace would have been.” שָׁלוֹם (shalom) probably refers here to the peace and prosperity which God promised in return for obedience to the covenant.
[48:18] 8 tn Heb “and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah) probably refers here to divine deliverance from enemies. See v. 19.
[48:19] 9 tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”
[48:19] 10 tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”
[48:19] 11 tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”
[48:20] 12 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).
[48:20] 13 tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
[48:21] 14 sn The translation above (present tense) assumes that this verse describes God’s provision for returning Babylonian exiles (see v. 20; 35:6; 49:10) in terms reminiscent of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exod 17:6).
