Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

LIV. 1 Sing, Ο barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

[*](7. ‘opened,’ imperfect tense.)[*](8. ‘from,’ perhaps = ‘because of’: but cf. lvii. x, where verb however different. ‘and as for his generation’: or, ‘and his life who will for he was.’ c.)[*](9. ‘appoint,’ lit. ‘gave . . . ’ ‘Because,’ or ‘although . . . ’ ‘death’ is here plural in Heb.)[*](10. Or, ‘if thou shouldst make his soul a . . .)

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2 Widen the place of. thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation; withhold not; lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes:

3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; ’thy seed shall possess nations, and make desolate. nations to be inhabited.

4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; and be not confounded, for thou shalt not blush; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

5 For thy husband is thy Maker; the LORD of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

6 For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when she is rejected, saith ᾖ thy God.

7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great - mercies I gather thee.

8 In a gush of wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; and with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee; saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

9 For this is the waters of Noah unto me; as I have sworn i that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be wrbth with thee, nor re? buke thee

10 For the mountains shall remove, and the hills totter; yet my lovingkindness shall not remove from thee, nor my covenant of peace totter, saith he that hath mercy on thee, the Lord.

[*](3. ‘break forth,’ or ‘through.)[*](9 init. Some 1133., Pesh., Vulg., Targ. and some commentators read ‘as in the days of N.’ (vowel points. and division)[*](10. ‘shall,’ or ‘may remove’: or, ‘Though the mountains remove...)

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11 Ο thou afficted, tossed with tempest, not comforted ; behold I lay thy stones in antimony, and thy foundations with sapphires.

12 And I will make thy battlements rubies, and thy gates. to be ﬁery stones, and all thy border stones of pleasure.