Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease: be disquieted, ye conﬁdent ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird (sackcloth) upon your loins.

12 They shall smite upon the breasts, for the pleasant ﬁelds, for the fruitful vine.

13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all houses of joy the exultant city.

14 For the palace is forsaken: the uproar of the city deserted; hill and watchtower serve for caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of ﬂocks:

[*](4 ﬁn. Lit. ‘to speak clearuesses.’)[*](7 ‘means‘: or, instruments’: but Heb. has an apparent play on words. ‘judgment,’ i.e. right.)[*](10 init. Lit. ‘Days upon a year...’ )[*](12. ‘smite upon,’ or, ‘lament for...’ ‘breasts’: perhaps a play on words with ‘ﬁelds.’)[*](13 ﬁn.‘Or, ‘of the ex. city.’)[*](14 ‘uproar...deserted’: or, ‘multitude of the city a solitude.’)

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15 Until a spirit be poured out upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a garden-land, and the garden-land be counted for a forest.

16 And judgment shall rest in the wilderness, and righteousness. dwell in the garden-land. -

17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and conﬁdence for ever.

18 And my people shall abide in a home of peace, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

19 And it shall hail at the downfall of the forest; and the city shall lie low in lowliness.

20 Happy are ye, that sow beside all waters; that send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.

XXXIII. 1 Ah, thou that spoilest, and thyself art not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they have not dealt treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt have succeeded in dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited fOr thee; be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

3 At the voice of the uproar the’peoples ﬂee; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.

4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts run to and fro, shall they run upon it.

[*](15. ‘poured out’: lit. emptied, cf. liii. 12; ‘garden-land,’ Heb. Carmel.)[*](16. ‘rest,’ or, ‘abide in.’)[*](17. ‘effect’: lit. labour, service.)[*](19. ‘low in lowliness’: i.e. ‘utterly low‘ in humiliation: or. ‘low in a low place.’)[*](20. Or. upon all waters.’)[*](1. ‘succeeded’: or, ‘ﬁnished’: some propose to get this meaning by reading verb with ABBREV for ABBREV.)[*](4. ‘caterpillar’: lit. ‘consumer,’ ‘devourer’: prob. a name for a locust in some form (cf. Joel i. 4). ‘shall they...’ verb is singular, with indeﬁnite subj.)

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5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwelleth in the height; he hath ﬁlled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

6 And there shall be faithfulness in thy times; power of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord, that is his treasure. ’

7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the mesSengers of peace weep bitterly.