Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man is ceased; he hath broken the covenant, despised cities, not man.

9 The earth mourneth, languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, withereth; Sharon becometh like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off (their leaves).

10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I exalt myself; now will I lift up myself.

11 Ye shall conceive hay, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is ﬁre which shall devour you.

12 And peoples shall become burnings of lime; thorns cut up, they shall burn in the ﬁre.

13 Hear, ye that are far, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

14 The sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling hath seized the impious. Who among us can sojourn with deVOuring ﬁre? who among us can sojourn with everlasting burnings?

15 He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh upright- ness; that rejecteth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold on a bribe, that stoppeth his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and closeth his eyes from seeing evil:

[*](5. ‘exalted’: or, ‘secure’ (which sense at any rate underlies the word).)[*](7. ‘their valiant ’: doubtful. and the vowel-points must be altered to give this sense. Heb. text. as printed, suggests some form of a verb. Some render ‘the ’: i.e. ‘lions of ’ cf. xxix. 1)[*](15. ‘bloodshed,’ lit. ‘bloods.)

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16 He shall inhabit heights, fortresses of rocks (are) his high place; his bread is given him, his water is sure.

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.