Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

9, Ah, he that. striveth with him that formed him ! a potsherd among potsherds of the ground. Shall the clay say to the potter, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands!

[*](4. ‘therefore,’ Heb. ‘and,’ marking principal clause.)[*](7. ‘evil,’ here explained as calamity.)[*](9. ‘him that formed.’ Same word as ‘potter,’ cf. xxix.)
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10 Ah, he that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, Wherewith travailest thou?

11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy one of Israel, and he that formed him; Ask me of coming things concerning my sons, and command me concerning the work of my hands.

12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

13 I have roused him up in righteousness, and I will level all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall send forthl my captivity, not for hire, and not for a present, saith the Lord of hosts.

14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over unto thee, and becOme thine; they shall go after thee, in chains shall they pass over, and they shall bow down to thee, they shall pray unto thee: Only in thee is God, and there is none else, no God at all.

15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, Saviour.

16 They are ashamed and also confounded, all of them; the craftsmen of idols are gone into confusion together.

17 Israel is saved in the Lord with everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity.

18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; (he is God:) that formed the earth, and made it: he set it in order; he created it not a waste, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none else.

[*](11. fin. Perhaps, ‘leave in my charge the work,’ c. (very doubtful passage).)[*](13. ‘present’: or, ‘bribe.’)[*](14. ‘labour’: perhaps=wealth, as the reward of labour: ‘merchandise’: or, ‘gain,’ ‘earnings.’)[*](17, ‘in,’ or, ‘through the Lord’: (lit.) ‘with salvation of)[*](18. ‘set it in order’: or, ‘established it.)
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19 I have not, spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness 3 I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me, (as in) a waste: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

20 Assemble yourselves, and come; draw near together, ye escaped of the nations; they know not, that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a God that cannot save.

21 Declare ye, and bring near: yea, let them take counsel together; who hath caused this to be heard from of old, hath declared it from that time? Is it not I, the Lord? and there is no God else beside me: a righteous God and a Saviour; there is none except me.

22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth for I am God, and there is none else.

23 I have sworn by myself, a word is gone forth from a mouth of righteousness, and it shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.