Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

16 And ye said, No: for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee; and. We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

17 one thousand from before the rebuke of one, before the rebuke of five shall ye flee, till ye be left as a mast upon the top of a mountain, and like the ensign on the hill.

18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you ; for the LORD is a God of judgment; happy are all that wait for him.

19 For a people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thdu shalt weep no mOre; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; as he heareth it, he answereth thee.

20 And the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction, and water of oppression; and thy teachers shall not withdraw any more, and thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

[*](18. Some read, with a few MSS.: ‘ be silent ’ ((?) for (?)) for ‘be exalted.)[*](19. Some render, ‘For, O people that dwellest,...': 'surely be gracious, verb repeated.)[*](20. Many render, ‘ Though the Lord give...yet thy teachers,' c. Ewald, Kay, Wellhausen, Rob. Smith, with Vulg., talie ‘teachers’ as a rare form of the singular (verb, which however precedes, is singular). ‘Bread of affliction, c. Some interpret as=in short, scant measure: panem arctum, aquam brevem Vulg.)
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21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it: when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

22 And ye shall defile the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the overlaying of thy molten images of gold; thou shalt scatter them as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Begone!

23 And he shall give. the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the increase of the ground, and - it shall be rich and fat: in that day shall thy cattle feed in a broad pasture.

24 And the oxen and. the young asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.