Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

15 For thus saith he. that is high and lifted up, that dwelleth for ever, and. holy 15 ms name ; I dwell in the high andholy place, and with him that is crushed and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the crushed ones.

16 For I will not contend forever, and not always I be, wroth; for the spirit would fail from before me, and the souls which I have made.

[*](8. Very doubtful: for ‘looked on,' ‘perhaps ‘chosen’; and ‘hand’ may =place, monument, as in. lvi. 5.)[*](10. ‘strength,’ lit. ‘hang.’)[*](12. Some propose to emend to ‘my righteousness.)[*](13 init. Lit. ‘In (or at) thy crying.’)[*](15. ‘that dwelleth for ever,' or. ‘dwelleth in eternity': ‘I dwell in the high...' or, ‘in the height and in holiness.')[*](16. 'soulds. ’ lit. ‘breaths.’)

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17 For the iniquity of his gain was I wroth, and smote him I hid myself and was ’wroth, and he wenton perversely in the way of his heart.

18 I have seen his ways, and I will heal him; and I will lead him, and requite with comfort him and his mourners;

19 Creating fruit of the lips, Peace, peace, to the far off and the near, saith the LORD, and I will heal him.

20 And the wicked are like the stirred up sea; for it cannot. rest, and its waters stir up mire and

21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

LVIII. 1 Cry with the throat, withhold not, raise thy voice like a trumpet, and tell my people their rebellion, and the house of Jacob their sins. ’

2 And (yet) they inquire of me day by day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my, ways; as a nation that hath done righteousness, and not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask of me the judgments of righteousness; they take pleasure in drawing near to God.

3 Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not? afflited our soul, and thou knowest not? Behold, in the day of your fast ye ﬁnd pleasure, and exact all your tasks.

4 Behold, ye fast for contention and quarrel, and to smite with the ﬁst of wickedness; ye shall not fast as to-day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

5 Shall such be the fast I will choose? a day of man's afflicting his soul? is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and spread out sackcloth and ashes (as a bed)? Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the-LORD?

[*](17. ‘smote,’ imperf. ; perhaps, ‘kept smiting.)[*](19. ‘Creating’: participle, construction doubtful.)[*](21. ‘saith the Lord,' several MSS)[*](3. 'pleasure ’: or, 'will,' ‘bent’: according to some, ‘business.’ Cf. Some render the last clause, ‘and oppress all your labourers.)[*](4. Or, ‘ye do not fast to-day so as to make your voice heard...)[*](5. 'acceptable,' lit. ‘ of acceptance.’)

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6 Is not this the fast that I will choose? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and that ye should break every yoke?