Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

31 And the escaped of the house of Judah that are left, shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion; the jealousy of the LORD of Hosts shall do this.

33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast up a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

35 And I will protect this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant ’s sake.

36 And the. angel ’the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of Assyria an hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and (men) arose earl in the morning, and behold, they were all dead corpses.

37 And Sennacherib king of Assyria broke up, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

38 And it came ’pass, as he was worshipping in the house of - Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote ’ him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

XXXVIII. 1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Give orders to thine house; for thou diest, and shalt not live.

[*](30 Perhaps. ‘they ye ’ (verb is infin.): ‘that which groweth... ’: some render, ‘fallow growth...root ’ See Levit. xxv. 5. The verse is somewhat obscure.)[*](38. Or, ‘And he was worshipping...and A. and ’ ‘Nisroch‘: name unknown from other sources, and considered doubtful. ‘escaped’: lit. ‘saved themselves.)[*](1. Or, ‘concerning thine house.)

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2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

3 And said, Ah LORD, remember, I pray thee, how that I have walked before thee in truth and with whole heart, and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept, a great weeping.

4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I am adding to thy days ﬁfteen years.

6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the grasp of the king of Assyria, and I will protect this city.

7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from the Lord, that the LORD will do this thing which he hath spoken

8 Behold, I am turning the shadow of the steps, which it has gone down on the steps. of Ahaz by the sun, ten steps back- ward. And the sun returned ten steps, on the steps whereon it was gone down.

9 Α writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick, and come to life from his sickness:

10 I said, In the stillness of my days I shall go into the gates of hell; I am deprived of the residue of my years.

11 I said, I shall not see Jah, Jab in the land of the living; Ι shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of ceasing.

12 My habitation is plucked up, and carried away from me like a ’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he ’ cutteth me off from the thrum; from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

[*](6, ‘grasp,’ lit lit. ‘palm of the hand.)[*](7. ‘thing,’ or ‘word,’)[*](8. i.e. probably, the shadow on the steps.)[*](10. ‘stillness,’ i.e. the noontide pause: cf. ‘solstice.)[*](11. ‘of ’ or almost ‘of ’ i.e. of this transitory life or world. Some would transpose two letters, giving HLD the world, as in Ps. xlix. 1, or rather time, duration, for HDL ceasing.)[*](12. ‘habitation’: or, ‘generation’: ‘rolled ’: or, ‘cut off.)

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13 I quieted myself till morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones; from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.