Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

29 His roar is like a ’; he shall roar like young lions; and he growleth, and seizeth the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

30 And in that day he shall growl over him, as the growling of the sea; and if one look unto the earth, behold darkness, distress, and light; it groweth dark in the heavens thereof.

VI. 1 In the year that king Uzziah died saw I the Lord sitting ’upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

2 Seraphim stood above him; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

3 And one kept crying unto another, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of his glory.

4 And the bases of the thresholds were shaken at the voice (of him) that cried, and the house began to fill with smoke.

5 And I said, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.

6 And there flew one of the seraphim unto me, and in his ’ hand a live coal, which. he had taken with the tongs from OH the altar;

[*](2. Lit. ‘six wings, six wings to one.’ ‘did fly,’ Imperfect tense.)[*](5. ‘undone’: the word might perhaps mean ‘silenced.’)
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7 And he made it touch my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin atoned for.

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I, send me.

9 And. he-said, Go, and say to this people, Certainly hear ye, but understand not; and see ye, but perceive not.

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and makeitheir ears heavy, and smear over their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and one heal them.

11 And I said, Until when, Lord? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

12 And the LORD removed men far away, and great be the forsaken (tract) in the midst of the land.

13 And still in it (there is) a tenth, and it shall turn again, and be for consuming: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock is in them when they are felled: a holy seed is the stock thereof.

VII. 1 And it came to pass the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uaziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but succeeded not in warring against it.

2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram rested

[*](7. ’is taken away,’ or, ‘shall shall pass away.’)[*](8 fin. Pronoun ‘me’ not emphatic.)[*](9. Or, ‘hear ye (and similarly, see ye) still, continually’: verb of each phrase repeated in infinitive.)[*](2. ‘rested upon,’ i.e. perhaps, ‘settled,’ ‘encamped’: or the phrase be used of close alliance.)
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upon Ephraim. And his heart was shaken, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are shaken with the wind.

3 And the LORD said unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for these two tails of smoking firebrands. for the fierce anger of Rezin with Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

5 Because Aram hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,