Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

15 For they are fugitives from the face of the swords, from the face of the drawn sword, and of the bent bow, and of the weight of war.

16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall be consumed;

[*](7. Or, ‘and should he see...let him hearken,’ continuing the Word for ‘troop’ means also ‘a rider.)[*](11. Or, ‘what (cometh out) of the Right?)[*](13. ‘ upon ’ ‘in ’ Less prob. ‘in the ’)[*](15. ‘drawn,’ or ‘brandished’: ‘weight,’ i.e. pressure.)

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17 And the remnant of the number of bows, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

XXII. The burden of the valley of vision.

1 What aileth thee, then, that thou art gone up, all of thee, to the house tops?