The text of Isa. 40:21 (môseḏôṯ hāʾāreṣ) is
undoubtedly corrupt (mērōʾš as a
parallel term; ʾereṣ with an article;
môseḏôṯ used in a concrete
sense). The emendation miyyesuḏaṯ
or mîsuḏaṯ hāʾāreṣ is often proposed,
but runs against the familiar metonymous usage of yesûḏâ/yesôḏôṯ. A possible reading is (halōʾ haḇînōṯem) mimmûsaḏ hāʾāreṣ, “from the foundation
of the earth,” assuming haplography of one of the three adjacent mems and assimilation of mûsāḏ, read as môsāḏ, to the otherwise common plural. (R. Mosis, “יָסַד,”
in Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, ed. G. Johannes Botterweck and
Helmer Ringgren, 17 vols. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990], 6:114.)
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