Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

15 Thou hast increased, the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation; thou hast gotten thee glory; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 Lord, in trouble have they inquired for thee; they uttered a whisper]; thy correction was upon them.

17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, doth writhe, crieth out in her pangs; so were we at thy presence, O Loan.

18 We were with child, we writhed, we brought forth as it were wind; we wrought not salvation (for) the earth, neither have inhabitants of the earth fallen.

19 Thy dead ones shall live, my dead body shall arise: Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast forth shades.

20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be passed by.

21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him; and the earth shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.

XXVII. 1 In that day the lord with his hard and great and strong sword will visit (upon) leviathan the ﬂeeing serpent, and leviathan the coiled serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

[*](14. i.e. ‘to this end hast thou...)[*](15. Or, ‘added to the ’)[*](16. ‘inquired’: word usu. rendered ‘visit.’)[*](19. ‘body,’ generally taken as collective = ‘bodies.’ ‘lights’: or, ‘herbs,’ cf. xviii. 4. ‘cast ’: causal of ‘fall,’ as in ver. 18.)[*](20. ‘about ’: or, ‘behind ’)[*](21. ‘bloodshed’; lit. ‘bloods,’)[*](1. Or, ‘lev. the ﬂeet serpent, and lev. the crooked serpent.)

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2 In that day, a vineyard of foaming wine ; sing ye to it ;

3 I the LORD am its keeper 3 every moment I water it; lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.

4 Wrath have I none; who will set briers and thorns against me in battle? I would march against it, I would burn it all tothether

5 Or else let him lay hold of my stronghold, make peace with me: let him make peace with me.

6 As to what cometh, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall ﬁll the face of the earth with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him according to thesmiting of those that smote him 3 or is he slain according to the slaying of his slain?

8 In exact measure, by sending her away, thou contendest with her; he driveth her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 Therefore by this shall the guilt of Jacob be expiated; and this is all the fruit, taking away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar like chalkstones dashed in pieces, the Asherim and sun-pillars arise no more.

10 For the defenced city is solitary, an habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness ; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume her branches. ’

11 In the ’withering of her boughs they shall be broken off 3 women cOme, and set them on ﬁre ; for it is not a people of discernment: therefore he that made them hath no compassion on them, and he that formed them sheweth them no favour.

[*](2. ‘of foaming ’ so Heb. text. ‘Of’ some MSS. (Targ.?) and several editors.)[*](3. ‘hurt ’: or, ‘intrude (lit. visit) upon it.)[*](4. Many, altering vowel points, read ‘ I have no ’ (said by the vinegard). i.e. prob., ‘if only one would set briers, ’)[*](7 tin. Perhaps, altering vowel points, ‘the slaying of the slagers.)[*](8. Or, ‘he sigheth with his rough ’)[*](9. Or, ‘fruit of taking away his sin.’)

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12 And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall beat out (corn) from the stream of the River, unto the brook of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, Ο ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall be in that day, a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come which were lost in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.