Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

6 Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and the inhabitants of it are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

[*](18. ‘sufficiently’: or, ’)[*](1. ‘earth’: or, ‘land,’ according to many, and so throughout the chapter, to ver. 17. 3, 4. Heb. verbs repeated, for emphasis.)[*](5. Or, ‘changed the ’)[*](6. Or, ‘parched,’ ‘ scorched, and)[*](7. Or, ‘The grapes of the vintage mourn.)

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8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the uproar of the jubilant endeth, the of the harp ceaseth.