both the Hebrew and in the Greek. But I am inclined to take 59:19c as the “spirit of the rather than mighty in that case. Lord” “a wind” So there is this ambiguity here—yes, and we have one other ambiguity: the phrase lift up a The word for "banner" occurs only once in the “to banner.” Old Testament. The word is very common, and to make a verb “banner,” “nays,” from it would not be all that unusual in Hebrew. So it could well mean to up “lift the but there is another word which is similar to "nays," that banner,” “noose,” means "to flee." So where they say, wind of the Lord they are taking “the drives,” this word, which means which is used in the causative here, and can be “to flee,” translated, the wind of the Lord makes to Now, you usually speak of “which flee.” people fleeing; you do not speak of water fleeing as in the rushing of a stream. So it does not seem to be impossible to make the translation from but “noose” (flee), it seems more likely to come from to lift. It is a word that occurs only “nays,” once. And then when you notice this parallel in 62:11, there it seems to me an added argument for thinking the King James translation is right in this case. But in either case, you have sovereign interposition to overthrow his God’s adversaries beginning this long picture and ending it. And the beginning is followed by the declaration of the redeemer coming to Zion, and at the end of the passage it is preceded by the account of a redeemer coming to Zion, whether there is a banner raised or not. have to stop now. We’ll Read and edited by Perry Phillips Amanda Ayers: Editor; Kristen Ablamsky: Outliner Transcribers: Gabriel Paternos, Cassandra West, Tia Brookens, Chrissy Bongiorni, Nichole Moore, Karen Siddiqui, Sara Edwards, Erika Sandwick, Luke Prochnow, Zach Fisher, Adam Quinn
both the Hebrew and in the Greek. But I am inclined to take 59:19c as the “spirit of the Lord” rather than “a mighty wind” in that case. So there is this ambiguity here—yes, and we have one other ambiguity: the phrase “to lift up a banner.” The word for "banner" occurs only once in the Old Testament. The word “banner,” “nays,” is very common, and to make a verb from it would not be all that unusual in Hebrew. So it could well mean to “lift up the banner,” but there is another word “noose,” which is similar to "nays," that means "to flee." So where they say, “the wind of the Lord drives,” they are taking this word, which means “to flee,” which is used in the causative here, and can be translated, “which the wind of the Lord makes to flee.” Now, you usually speak of people fleeing; you do not speak of water fleeing as in the rushing of a stream. So it does not seem to be impossible to make the translation from “noose” (flee), but it seems more likely to come from “nays,” to lift. It is a word that occurs only once. And then when you notice this parallel in 62:11, there it seems to me an added argument for thinking the King James translation is right in this case. But in either case, you have God’s sovereign interposition to overthrow his adversaries beginning this long picture and ending it. And the beginning is followed by the declaration of the redeemer coming to Zion, and at the end of the passage it is preceded by the account of a redeemer coming to Zion, whether there is a banner raised or not. We’ll have to stop now. Read and edited by Perry Phillips Amanda Ayers: Editor; Kristen Ablamsky: Outliner Transcribers: Gabriel Paternos, Cassandra West, Tia Brookens, Chrissy Bongiorni, Nichole Moore, Karen Siddiqui, Sara Edwards, Erika Sandwick, Luke Prochnow, Zach Fisher, Adam Quinn