Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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.

8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man is ceased; he hath broken the covenant, despised cities, not man.

9 The earth mourneth, languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, withereth; Sharon becometh like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off (their leaves).

10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I exalt myself; now will I lift up myself.

11 Ye shall conceive hay, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is ﬁre which shall devour you.

12 And peoples shall become burnings of lime; thorns cut up, they shall burn in the ﬁre.

13 Hear, ye that are far, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

14 The sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling hath seized the impious. Who among us can sojourn with deVOuring ﬁre? who among us can sojourn with everlasting burnings?

15 He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh upright- ness; that rejecteth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold on a bribe, that stoppeth his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and closeth his eyes from seeing evil:

[*](5. ‘exalted’: or, ‘secure’ (which sense at any rate underlies the word).)[*](7. ‘their valiant ’: doubtful. and the vowel-points must be altered to give this sense. Heb. text. as printed, suggests some form of a verb. Some render ‘the ’: i.e. ‘lions of ’ cf. xxix. 1)[*](15. ‘bloodshed,’ lit. ‘bloods.)

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16 He shall inhabit heights, fortresses of rocks (are) his high place; his bread is given him, his water is sure.

17 Thine eyes shall see a king in his beauty; they shall behold a land of distances.

18 Thine heart shall meditate on terror. Where is he that counted? Where he that weighed? where he that counted the towers?

19 Thou shalt not see the stubborn people, a people too deep of language to be heard; of a stammering tongue, there is no discerning.

20 Look upon. Zion, the city of our appointed assembly; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a habitation of security, a tent that shall not be removed; its stakes shall not be plucked up for ever, and all its cords are unbroken.