Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

12 They shall give honour to the Lord, and tell his praise among the isles.

13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall rouse up zeal like a man of war: he shall shout, yea, roar; he shall do mightily against his enemies.

14 I have been silent from of old: I have been still, and refrained myself; (now) will I cry like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; and I will turn rivers to islands, and I will dry up pools.

16 And I will make the blind walk by a way that they knew not; I will make them tread in paths they knew not; I will turn darkness to light before them, and uneven places into a plain. These are the things, I will do them, and will not abandon them.

17 They are turned back; they shall be ashamed, that trust in the graven images, that say to the molten image, Ye are our gods.

18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant, and deaf, but my messenger whom I (shall) send? who is blind as the surrendered one, and blind as the Lord's servant?

20 Thou hast seen many things, but thou observest Inot: opening the ears, and he heareth not.

[*](11. ‘Sela’: or, ‘the rock.)[*](14. Tenses are doubtful as to rendering. ‘gasp and pant’: or, and swallow.)
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21 The Lord was pleased for his righteousness’ sake: he make the law great, and make it glorious.

22 And it is a people spoiled and robbed: snared in holes all of them, and hidden in houses of confinement; they are for a spoil, and there is none that delivereth; a prey, and none that saith, Restore.