Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

5 The Lord GOD hath opened me an ear, and I resisted not,.I drew not back.

6 I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked 96 the hair; I hid not my face from ignominies and spitting. θ .

7 And the Lord GOD will help ‘me; therefore I am not confounded ; therefore have I set my face like a ﬂint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

8 Near is he that justiﬁeth me: who will contend with me? let us stand forth together ; who is the master of my judgment? let him come near to me.

9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? 10, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.

10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that hearkeneth‘ to the voice of his servant? He that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Loan, and lean ἶ upon his God.

[*](2. ‘utterly shortened,’ Heb. repeats verb. ‘1 will dry up ": or. ‘1 dry up...I make, (3) I clothe.’ Some render, ‘ I can dry up,’ c.)[*](8. i.e. ‘sheweth me righteous.’ ‘the master,’ c. meaning apparently, ‘ mine adversary.)

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11 Behold, all ye that kindle a ﬁre, that gird yourselves with ﬁrebrands; walk amid the light of your ﬁre, and amid the brands that ye have kindled. From my hand is this for you; ye shall lie down in pain.

LI. 1 Hearken to me, ye that pursue righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for I called him, being one, and blessed him, and increased him.

3 For the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of song.

4 Listen unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation; for a law shall go forth from me, and I will settle my judgment for a light of the peoples.

5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall, judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die as in like manner; but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be dismayed.

7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, ’a people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of (weak) men, and be ye not dismayed at their revilings.

[*](11. ‘gird yourselves with...’: Pesh. has ‘set a light to’: followed (Seeker, Hitz., Ew.). ‘walk amid...’ or, ‘begone into the ﬂame into..’)[*](4. ‘from ’: lit. ‘from by ’: cf. Greek, παρ’ ἐμοῦ. ‘settle’: lit. ‘make to rest.’)[*](6. So (deictic phrase) = ‘like ’ Del.: ‘like a gnat’ (singular form word rendered ‘lice’ in Exod. viii. 12) many comm.: but this prob. requires slight emendation.)

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8 For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.