DI now expresses this new and astonishing truth in another fine poetic line. In it he brings to a head his promise to tell us about the ‘new thing’ that God was going to do in and through his servant people. Literally he says ‘From the travail of his soul, his nephesh, he shall see—he shall be satisfied’. The LXX and the DSSI both help us here. They have both preserved the word ‘light’ after ‘see’. Thus they have given us a still greater insight into the meaning of the new thing. Right in the
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