Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and inscribe it in a book, and let it be for an after day, for ever and ever:

9 For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that will not hear the law of the LORD:

10 Which say to the seers, Ye shall not see, and to them that have vision, Have visions not of right things, speak unto us smooth things, see delusive visions.

11 Remove you out of the way, turn aside out of the path; make to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.

12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and crookedness, and stay thereon;

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as afalling breach, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometb suddenly, in a moment.

[*](4. Or, ‘ When his princes shall be at Z..' c)[*](7. Lit. ‘ in vain and emptily will they help.')[*](8. ‘ before them ’: or, ‘among (lit. with) them.)[*](9. ‘lying,’ or, ‘ renegade sons,' cf. lix. 13.)[*](11. ‘ cease': word means ‘ to sit still,' as ver. 7.)
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14 And he shall break it as a ’s jar is broken, shivering it unsparingly; and there shall not be found a sherd among the shivered fragments thereof, to take fire. from the hearth, or to draw water from a cistern.

15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved: in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye were unwilling.

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.

25 And there shall be, upon every high mountain, and on every uplifted hill, channels and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.

26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of its wound.

27 Behold, the Name of the LORD cometh from far; burning his anger, and denseness of rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue like devouring fire.