Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, doth writhe, crieth out in her pangs; so were we at thy presence, O Loan.

18 We were with child, we writhed, we brought forth as it were wind; we wrought not salvation (for) the earth, neither have inhabitants of the earth fallen.

19 Thy dead ones shall live, my dead body shall arise: Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast forth shades.

20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be passed by.

21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him; and the earth shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.

XXVII. 1 In that day the lord with his hard and great and strong sword will visit (upon) leviathan the ﬂeeing serpent, and leviathan the coiled serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

[*](14. i.e. ‘to this end hast thou...)[*](15. Or, ‘added to the ’)[*](16. ‘inquired’: word usu. rendered ‘visit.’)[*](19. ‘body,’ generally taken as collective = ‘bodies.’ ‘lights’: or, ‘herbs,’ cf. xviii. 4. ‘cast ’: causal of ‘fall,’ as in ver. 18.)[*](20. ‘about ’: or, ‘behind ’)[*](21. ‘bloodshed’; lit. ‘bloods,’)[*](1. Or, ‘lev. the ﬂeet serpent, and lev. the crooked serpent.)

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2 In that day, a vineyard of foaming wine ; sing ye to it ;

3 I the LORD am its keeper 3 every moment I water it; lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.

4 Wrath have I none; who will set briers and thorns against me in battle? I would march against it, I would burn it all tothether

5 Or else let him lay hold of my stronghold, make peace with me: let him make peace with me.

6 As to what cometh, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall ﬁll the face of the earth with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him according to thesmiting of those that smote him 3 or is he slain according to the slaying of his slain?

8 In exact measure, by sending her away, thou contendest with her; he driveth her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.