Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

9 Saying tothe captives, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights is their feeding place.

[*](4. ‘laboured’: or. wearied myself. Usual word, mishpat, for ‘judgment’: meaning here. ‘my ’ or ‘my rightful reward.’)[*](5. ‘and that Israel...’: Heb. margin, ‘and that Israel be gathered him ’—doubt between readings ‘not’ and ‘to him,’ as in ix. 3 alike).)[*](6 ﬁn. Or, ‘to be my salvation to . . . earth.)[*](9 init. Or, ‘To say to the captives . . .)

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10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; and the burning sand and sun shall not smite them; for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, and by springs of water shall he guide them.

11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

12 Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the sea; and these from the land of Sinim.

13 Sing, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth; and break forth into, singing, ye mountains; for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

14 And Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

15 Will a woman forget her suckling, not to have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, and I will not forget thee.

16 Behold, upon both palms have I engraved thee; thy walls are continually before me.

17 Thy sons make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; they all are gathered together, they come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird them on (thee) like a bride.

19 For (as for) thy ruins and thy waste places, and the land of thy destruction, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

29 The sons of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me, and I will dwell.

[*](10. ‘burning sand.’ See xxxv. 7. ‘by’ or ‘to springs...’)[*](12 fin. Or, ‘The Sinites’ (unknown, possibly China: authorities think not identical with Sinites of Gen. x. 17; 1 Chr. i. 15).)[*](17. ‘sons’: ‘builders,’ the Babylonian MS., some ancient versions and commentators.)[*](20. ‘give place’: i.e. ‘make room for me’: lit.)

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21 And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, and I was bereaved and barren, an exile, and outcast? and who hath nourished up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand toward the nations, and set up my standard to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in the bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried on the shoulder,

23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nursing mothers: they shall bow themselves to thee face to the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, on whom they that wait shall not be ashamed.