Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

21 For the Lord shall rise up as (in) mount Perazim, he shall be disquieted as (in) the valley of Gibeon, to do his deed— strange is his deed: and to work his work—alien is his work.

22 And now deal ye not scoffingly, lest your bonds grow strong; for a destruction and a decision have I heard from the Lord God of Hosts, upon the whole earth.

23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my speech.

24 Is the ploughman always ploughing, to sow? (always) opening and harrowing his ground?

25 Doth he not, when he hath made plain the face thereof, cast abroad fennel, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and barley in the appointed place, and spelt in the border thereof?

26 And he instructeth him according to judgment; his God teacheth him.

27 For fennel is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled upon cummin; for fennel is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.

28 Bread (corn) is crushed ; for not for ever is he threshing it, and driving his cart wheel and his horses; he doth not crush it.

[*](18. disannulled,’ lit. ‘smeared over,’ obliterated.)[*](19. Or, ‘utter terror (agitation) to discern the message’ (lit. hearing), cf. ver. 9.)[*](25 fin. Or, ‘as the border thereof.’)[*](26. Or, ‘correcteth’ it according to...’)[*](27. Or, ‘but fennel is beaten...’)[*](28. Or, ‘Is bread corn crushed? Nay, not for ever so...’)

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29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts; he maketh counsel wonderful, he maketh wisdom great.

XXIX. 1 Ah, Ariel, Ariel, city (where) David camped! add ye year to year; let the feasts go round.

2 And I will distress Ariel, and there shall be lamentation and lament; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

3 And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay ’ siege against thee with a mound, and raise siege works against thee :

4 And thou shalt be brought down, out of the earth shalt thou speak, and thy speech shall come low from the dust; and thy voice shall be as that of a ghost from the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.

5 And the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones like passing chaff; and it shall be in a moment suddenly.

6 From the LORD of Hosts shall she be visited with thunder, and earthquake, and great noise; whirlwind, and tempest, and ﬂame of devouring ﬁre.

7 And as a dream, a vision of the night, shall the multitude of all the nations be, that are arrayed against Ariel, even all that are arrayed against her and her fortress, and distress her.

8 And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth ; and he awaketh, and his SOul is empty; and as a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth; so shall all the multitude of the nations be, that are arrayed against mount Zion.

[*](29. i.e. he showeth wonderful counsel, great wisdom.)[*](1. ‘ ’ i.e. prob. ‘lion of ’ or ‘(altar) hearth of ’)[*](2. ‘there shall be moaning and ’ (Cheyne). Heb. words are from same root.)[*](3. ‘round ’: lit. ‘like a ’: differs from ‘like ’ only by ABBREVand ABBREV(and points).)[*](5. ‘multitude’: word sometimes rendered ‘uproar.’)

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9 Astonish yourselves, and be astonished; blind yourselves, and be blind: they are drunken, and not with wine; they reel, and not with strong drink.

10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and bath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

11 And the vision of it all is become unto you as the words of the sealed writing, which they give ’ to one that knoweth writing, saying, Read this, pray: and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.