Isa 41:5 | NET2full | STEP | The coastlands see and are afraid ; the whole earth trembles ; they approach and come .

‏ Isaiah 41:5

5 The coastlands ^{▼▼tn Or “islands” (NIV, CEV); NCV “faraway places”; NLT “lands beyond the sea.”} see and are afraid;
the whole earth ^{▼▼tn Heb “the ends of the earth,” but this is a merism, where the earth’s extremities stand for its entirety, i.e., the extremities and everything in between them.} trembles;
they approach and come.