Hebrew Grammar-Syntax, 70-80; Polan, In the Ways of Justice, 207. Cf. Because of its function as an equivalent to the imperative, the LXX renders the absolute infinitives as imperative (lu/e, dia, lue, avpo,stel le).
98Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 40-66, 503; Childs, Isaiah, 478. For example, xt;P' occurs in 22:22; 35:5; 41:18; 45:1; 48:8; 50:5; 51:14; 52:2. xl;v' in 42:19; 43:14; 45:13; 50:1; 61:1. #c;r' in 42:2, 4.
99Young mentions the function of the emphatic za'Û. “The introductory then is of tremendous significance, for it points to the time when the glorious change will have occurred and God’s people will do those things just described.” Young, The Book of Isaiah, 167 …show more content…
The term ^q,êd>ci in v. 8c is significant in the process of thematic development within chapters 56-58. On the one hand, it implies the nuance of salvation because it is paralleled by hw"ßhy> dAbïK. in the following line (v. 8d).100 This kind of semantic structure is also similar to 56:1c-d where `tAl)G"hil. ytiÞq'd>ciw> parallelswithaAbêl'‘yti['Wv)y.> Moreover,thereisalsoathematiccorrespondencewith54:17d, where ~t2q' 'd>ci (your vindication) collocates with hw"ôhy> yd’be .[; ûtl;x]n.: On the other hand, the use of hq'd'c. with the semantic nuance of the righteous behavior (56:1b) and God’s salvation (56:1d) concurs with a similar pattern in 58:2c-e (the ethical behavior) and 58:8c (God’s salvation) by way of distant lexical parallelism. Accordingly, 58:8 seems to continue the theme of the promise of God’s salvation to the servants in the previous chapters. There are thematic and lexical correspondences between 52:12 c-d (`lae(r"f.yI yheîl{a/ ~k,Þp.Sia;m.W hw"ëhy> ‘~k,ynEp.li %lEÜho-yK)i( and 58:8d (`^p refers to the self in vv.