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Look up at the sky.
Look at the earth below.
For the sky will dissipate[a] like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like clothes;
its residents will die like gnats.
But the deliverance I give[b] is permanent;
the vindication I provide[c] will not disappear.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:6 tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.
  2. Isaiah 51:6 tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”
  3. Isaiah 51:6 tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”
  4. Isaiah 51:6 tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”

(A)Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look on the earth beneath.
For (B)the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
(C)The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be (D)forever,
And My righteousness will not be [a]abolished.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:6 broken

Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
    look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,(A)
    the earth will wear out like a garment(B)
    and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation(C) will last forever,(D)
    my righteousness will never fail.(E)

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