Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

22 Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord, and thy God, that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thine hand the cup of bewilderment, the bowl of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

23 And I will putit into the hand of thy tormentors; which said to thy soul, Bow down, and we will pass over; and thou didst set thy back as the earth, and as the street, to them that passed over.

LII. 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion! Put on thy garments of beauty, O Jerusalem, holy city: for there shall no more come into thee again the uncircumcised and the unclean.

[*](19. ‘how . . . ’ literally, ‘who?’ (meaning doubtful). ‘In what character? Cheyne: others, ‘By whom?’ ‘who but I,’)[*](20. Or, literally, ‘Thy sons are shrouded.)

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2 Shake thyself from the dust: arise, sit, Jerusalem! the bands of thy neck are loosed, O Captive daughter of Zion‘. ’

3 For thus saith the LORD, .Ye were sold for nought; and not with silver shall ye be redeemed.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down into Egypt at the ﬁrst to sojourn there; and Asshur oppressed them without cause.

5 And now, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my peopl is taken away for nought? they that rule over him howl, saith the LORD ; and my name continually all the day is despised.

6 I‘herefore my people shall know my name; therefore (they shall know) in that day that I am he that doth speak: Here am L

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that causeth peace to be heard ; that bringeth glad tidings of good, that causeth salvation to be heard; that saith unto Zion, Thy God doth reign

8 The voice of thy watchmen! they liﬂ: up the voice, they - sing together; for they shall see eye to eye, at the LoitD’s return to Zion. ·

9 Break forth, sing together, y’e wastes of .Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of. ’ all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye. out from thence, touch not. what is unclean; goye out of the midst of her; purify your- - selves, ye that bear the vessels of the LORD.

[*](2. ‘the hands...loosed’: so Heb. text. Margin, most generally followed, ‘loose thyself from the bands of thy neck.’)[*](” 3. ‘for nought’: i.e. gratis (so Vulg.). Cf. ver. 5.)[*](7. ‘ beautiful’: perhaps, ‘Jeemly,’ or ‘ timely’: cf. Greek.)[*](11. ‘ ye that bear...’ or, ‘ye armour-bearers of the LORD ’ (regular phrase for armour-bearer): perhaps both meanings are conveyed.)

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12 For ye shall not go out in haste, nor go in ﬂight: for the Lord goeth before you, and the God of Israel is your rereward.

13 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be high, and lifted up, and exalted exceedingly.

14 Like as many were appalled at thee; his sightliness was so marred from (that of) a man, and his form from (that of) the sons of men: ’

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; kingsshall shut their mouths because of him; for that which was not recounted to them shall they see, and that which they heard not shall they discern.

LIII. 1 Who hath believed our message? and the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?

2 And he grew up before him as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground: he had no form nor majesty; and we saw him, and there was no sightliness, that we should desire him.

3 Despised and avoided of men; a man of pains, and one that knew sickness; and as one from whom faces are hid despised, and we esteemed him not.