Biblical Hebrew Forum

[John Barach <jbarach AT telusplanet.net>]

My apologies if any of you receive this twice.  I haven't seen it in my
box once yet.  In fact, I don't seem to be receiving *any* B-Hebrew
posts, which is odd.

In Isa. 40:10, YHWH is presented as coming with his reward (sakar) and
his recompense (pe'ulla).  I've often taken those words to indicate that
YHWH will be giving everyone his due.  Others, however, argue that the
reward isn't going from YHWH to other people but is rather the reward
that YHWH himself receives (namely, the flock mentioned in verse 11).

Alec Motyer writes:

   Where reward ... is used with a pronoun (as here) the pronoun 
   is the person receiving the 'wage' (cf. Ezk 29:18f. where it 
   is used of the victor getting the fruits of his victory).  So 
   here, the Lord has received the fruits of his victory, and the
   recompense which accompanies him/ 'is before him,' 'in his 
   presence' is the flock of his people which his victory has won
   (The Prophecy of Isaiah, p. 302).

I'd be interested in your evaluation of his grammatical claim about
"reward" with a pronoun.  He doesn't provide examples.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

John


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