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14 Consider the ramparts, examine its citadels,
    that you may tell future generations:(A)
15 That this is God,
    our God for ever and ever.[a]
    He will lead us until death.

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Footnotes

  1. 48:15 Our God for ever and ever: Israel’s God is like Zion in being eternal and invincible. The holy city is therefore a kind of “sacrament” of God.

18 Now that I am old and gray,(A)
    do not forsake me, God,
That I may proclaim your might
    to all generations yet to come,(B)
Your power

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That the next generation might come to know,
    children yet to be born.(A)
In turn they were to recount them to their children,

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19 Let this be written for the next generation,
    for a people not yet born,
    that they may praise the Lord:(A)

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10 But it was the Lord’s will to crush him with pain.
By making his life as a reparation offering,[a]
    he shall see his offspring, shall lengthen his days,
    and the Lord’s will shall be accomplished through him.

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Footnotes

  1. 53:10–11 Reparation offering: the Hebrew term ’asham is used of a particular kind of sacrifice, one that is intended as compensation for that which is due because of guilt. See Lv 5:14–26 and note. Justify: the verb means “to be acquitted,” “declared innocent,” but since the servant bears “their iniquity,” an effective rather than simply legal action is suggested.