Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

17 Thine eyes shall see a king in his beauty; they shall behold a land of distances.

18 Thine heart shall meditate on terror. Where is he that counted? Where he that weighed? where he that counted the towers?

19 Thou shalt not see the stubborn people, a people too deep of language to be heard; of a stammering tongue, there is no discerning.

20 Look upon. Zion, the city of our appointed assembly; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a habitation of security, a tent that shall not be removed; its stakes shall not be plucked up for ever, and all its cords are unbroken.

21 But there in majesty the Lord will be for us a place of rivers, of canals wide stretching; thereon shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

23 Thy cords are loosed, they cannot ﬁrmly ﬁx their pole; they have not spread out the banner; then was divided the prey of plunder in abundance; lame men do spoil spoil.

24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwelleth therein is forgiven (its) iniquity.

[*](16. ‘high place’: or, ‘refuge,’ ‘stronghold.’)[*](17 ﬁn. Many comm. transl. ‘a far-stretching land’: but in Isai. xxxix. 3 Jer. viii. 19, a ‘land of distance,’ sing. almost certainly means ‘a distant land.’ Cf. xlvi. 11)[*](20. Or, ‘[estal,’ ‘solemn assembly,’ ‘be removed’: or, ‘wander.’)[*](21. ‘canals,’ lit. Niles, Nile-arms, as in ch. xix. ‘gallant’: or, ‘majestic’: same epithet as ‘in majesty’ preceding.)[*](22. ‘lawgiver,’ lit. inscriber: ‘governors,’ Judg. v. 9.)[*](23. Usually taken not of a tent. as ver. 20: so however Kay, W. E. Barnes: but of a ship, in which case ’pole’=‘mast,’ and ‘banner’ (but doubtfully) stands for ‘sail.’ ‘firmly,’ or, ‘upright’: many take it as noun =the socket of the pole.)[*](24. i.e. ‘no inhabitant shall say,’ &c.)

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XXXIV. 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all that come forth of it.