Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

13 I have roused him up in righteousness, and I will level all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall send forthl my captivity, not for hire, and not for a present, saith the Lord of hosts.

14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over unto thee, and becOme thine; they shall go after thee, in chains shall they pass over, and they shall bow down to thee, they shall pray unto thee: Only in thee is God, and there is none else, no God at all.

15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, Saviour.

16 They are ashamed and also confounded, all of them; the craftsmen of idols are gone into confusion together.

17 Israel is saved in the Lord with everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity.

18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; (he is God:) that formed the earth, and made it: he set it in order; he created it not a waste, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none else.

[*](11. ﬁn. Perhaps, ‘leave in my charge the work,’ c. (very doubtful passage).)[*](13. ‘present’: or, ‘bribe.’)[*](14. ‘labour’: perhaps=wealth, as the reward of labour: ‘merchandise’: or, ‘gain,’ ‘earnings.’)[*](17, ‘in,’ or, ‘through the Lord’: (lit.) ‘with salvation of)[*](18. ‘set it in order’: or, ‘established it.)

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19 I have not, spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness 3 I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me, (as in) a waste: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

20 Assemble yourselves, and come; draw near together, ye escaped of the nations; they know not, that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a God that cannot save.

21 Declare ye, and bring near: yea, let them take counsel together; who hath caused this to be heard from of old, hath declared it from that time? Is it not I, the Lord? and there is no God else beside me: a righteous God and a Saviour; there is none except me.

22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth for I am God, and there is none else.

23 I have sworn by myself, a word is gone forth from a mouth of righteousness, and it shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

24 Only in the Lord, saith one, have I righteousness and strength; unto him shall one come, and all that were inflamed against him shall be ashamed.

25 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be held righteous, and boast themselves.

XLVI. 1 Bel croucheth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are for beast and cattle; the things ye carried are borne heavily, a burden to the weary.

[*](23. ‘a word, c.’: or, ‘Righteousness is gone forth from my mouth, a and it shall not,’)[*](24. Or, ‘Only in the Lord, saith one to me, is there righteousness,’)

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2 They stoop, they crouch together; they cannot deliver the burden, their soul is gone into captivity.

3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel: which are heavily borne from the womb, which are carried from the bosom:

4 And to old age I am he, and to grey hairs I will support; I have made, and I will carry; and I will support, and will deliver you.

5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, and we shall be like?

6 They that pour forth gold from the bag, and weigh silver with the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they bow themselves.