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Isaiah 66:17-19
Contemporary English Version
Isaiah 66:17-19
Contemporary English Version
A Threat and a Promise
17 Some of you get yourselves ready and go to a garden to worship a foreign goddess.[a] You eat the meat of pigs, lizards, and mice. But I, the Lord, will destroy you for this.
18 I know everything you do and think! The time has now come[b] to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory 19 by proving what I can do.[c] I will send the survivors to Tarshish, Pul,[d] Lud, Meshech,[e] Tubal, Javan,[f] and to the distant islands. I will send them to announce my wonderful glory to nations that have never heard about me.
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- 66.17 Some … goddess: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 66.18 I … come: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 66.19 by … do: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
- 66.19 Pul: Hebrew; one ancient translation “Put,” a country in Africa, but neither the location of Pul or Put is known for certain.
- 66.19 Meshech: One ancient translation; Hebrew “those who use bows and arrows.”
- 66.19 Tarshish … Javan: Tarshish may have been a Phoenician city in Spain; Put (see note on Pul) and Lud were African people; Meshech and Tubal were regions south or southeast of the Black Sea; the Javan were people of Asia Minor and the Greek islands.
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