Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and bath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

11 And the vision of it all is become unto you as the words of the sealed writing, which they give ’ to one that knoweth writing, saying, Read this, pray: and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.

12 And the writing is given unto one that knoweth not writing, saying, Read this, pray; and he saith, I know not writing.

13 And the Lord said, F orasmuch as this people draweth near, honoureth me with its mouth and with its lips; and hath removed its heart away from me; and their fear of me is a precept of men, that is taught:

14 Therefore, behold, I am he that will again deal wonderquy with this people, wonderfully and a wonder; and the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, andthe discernment of its discerning men shall hide itself.

15 Ah, they that go deep from the Lord to hide counsel and their-works are in darkness, and they say, Who seeth us? and Who knoweth us?

16 The perverseness of you! shall the potter be reckoned as clay? that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not! and the thing formed of him that formed it, ’ discerneth not!

17 Is it not yet but a very little while, and Lebanon shall turn to garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest?

[*](9. If the verbs are not identical, but of different meaning and similar roots, we must render, ‘Tarry. and be astonished : take your pleasure, and be blind!)[*](10. ‘poured poured ’: or, ‘spread over ’: cf. xxv. 7, xxx.)[*](11. Or, ‘ the vision throughout is ’)[*](16. Or. ‘ for the thing made saith...’ ‘of,’ or, ‘to him that...’ formed of him that formed ’: or, ‘pot of the ’: same word as earlier in verse.)[*](17. ‘ garden ’ same word as ‘Carmel.)

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18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a writing, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and out of darkness.