Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

6 The foot shall trample on it, the feet Of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.

7 The way for the righteous is straightness; thou levellest straight the path of the righteous.

8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee 3 the desire of our soul is for thy Name and thy memorial.

9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night: yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early ; for when thy judgments are upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, he learneth not righteousness ; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not look upon the majesty of the Lord

11 Lord, thy hand is lifted up, they will not see ; they shall see, and be ashamed at the jealousy for a people ; yea, ﬁre shall devour thine enemies.

12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us ; for all our works also hast thou wrought for us.

13 O Lord our God, otherllords beside thee have had dominion over us 3 through thee only will we make mention of thy name.

[*](7. or, ‘Thou, Upright (lit. straight) One, ponderest the path of the righteous.’)[*](8. ‘memorial’: or, remembrance.)[*](10. ‘uprightness,’ or, ‘straightforward ’; “rectitude ” Cheyne.)[*](11. Possibly, ‘of a ’)[*](12. Lit. ‘place’: so ‘stablish,’ or perh. ‘give’ peace.)

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14 Dead, they shall not live; shades, they shall not rise; therefore hast thou visited ahd destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

15 Thou hast increased, the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation; thou hast gotten thee glory; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 Lord, in trouble have they inquired for thee; they uttered a whisper]; thy correction was upon them.

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