Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

5 This one shall say, I am the ’s; and this shall call on the name of Jacob; and this shall write with his hand, The Lord's and entitle, In the name of Israel.

6 Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer, the Lord of Hosts; I am the first, and I, am the last; and beside me there is no God.

7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall tell it, and state it in order for me? since I set up the people of old time? and things which are coming, and things which shall come, let them tell it to them.

8 Shudder not, and fear not: have I not caused thee to hear, from that time, and told it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? and there is no Rock: I know not (any).

9 They that form a graven image are all of them waste; and their desirable things shall not profit; and their witnesses, they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

10 Who hath formed a god, and molten a graven, image, to no profit?

11 Behold, all his company shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen, they are of men; they shall all be gathered together, they shall stand up; they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.

[*](5. ‘call on . . . ,’ or, ‘proclaim, In the name of Jacob.’ ‘write with . . . ’: or, ‘inscribe on his hand, To the Lord.’ ‘entitle’: or, ‘call in honour.)[*](7. Some render, ‘let him tell it, and . . . ‘to them’; or, ‘on their part’ (ethic dat.).)
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12 The craftsman in iron (hath) an adze, and worketh in the coals, and formeth it with hammers, with the arm of his strehgth moreover he is hungry, and there is no strength: he drinketh no water, and is faint.