906 B
906 B
Build, build! Clear a way! Remove all the stumbling blocks from the path of my people
Yahweh is emphatic and urgent that a clear and level road be available for the people to return to him. Basically he is referring to their lives being rid of idols. This echoes Isaiah 40:3. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
For this is what the high and lofty One says, who lives eternally, whose name is holy
See the way you translated something similar in 6:1, 33:10, and 52:13.
to revive the spirit of the humble ones, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones
This is saying the same thing in two ways for emphasis. Yahweh will greatly encourage the humble. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
spirit…heart
Here these refer to a person's thoughts and emotions, not the spirit and heart literally. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)