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Isaiah 49:1
New English Translation
Isaiah 49:1
New English Translation
Delivery of the Exiles
49 Listen to me, you coastlands![a]
Pay attention, you people who live far away!
The Lord summoned me from birth;[b]
he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.[c]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:1 tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”sn The Lord’s special servant, introduced in chap. 42, speaks here of his commission.
- Isaiah 49:1 tn Heb “called me from the womb.”
- Isaiah 49:1 tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”
Isaiah 49:12
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Isaiah 49:12
New English Translation
12 Look, they come from far away!
Look, some come from the north and west,
and others from the land of Sinim.[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:12 tc The MT reads “Sinim” here; the Dead Sea Scrolls read “Syene,” a location in Egypt associated with modern Aswan. A number of recent translations adopt this reading: “Syene” (NAB, NRSV); “Aswan” (NIV); “Egypt” (NLT).sn The precise location of the land of Sinim is uncertain, but since the north and west are mentioned in the previous line, it was a probably located in the distant east or south.
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