Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

8 And now hear this, thou given to pleasure, that sittest securely, that sayest in thine heart, I and none else beside: I shall not sit a widow. neither shall I know bereavement.

9 And these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, bereavement, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in full measure, for the multitude of thy ’orceries, for the exceeding number of thy spells.

10 And thou hast been secure in thine evil: thou hast said, There is none that seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath turned thee aside; and thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none else beside.

[*](2. ‘take off,’ lit. ‘uncover thyveil’: same word as in ‘uncover the)[*](3. ‘meet,’ i.e. ‘make terms with man’: or possibly, ‘spare)[*](8. ‘given to pleasure’: ‘voluptuous ’ Alex., Cheyne: ‘securely,’ ‘confidently,’ and so vet. 19: ‘bereavement,’ or ‘childlessness,’ and so ver. 9)[*](9 ‘for’: (twice) perhaps, ‘in spite of...’ (for all): or simply,)

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11 And evil shall come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof; and ruin shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to avert it: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, (which) thou shalt not know.

12 Stand forth, I pray, with thy spells, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth: peradventure thou wilt be able to profit, peradventure thou wilt strike terror.