Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye. out from thence, touch not. what is unclean; goye out of the midst of her; purify your- - selves, ye that bear the vessels of the LORD.

[*](2. ‘the hands...loosed’: so Heb. text. Margin, most generally followed, ‘loose thyself from the bands of thy neck.’)[*](” 3. ‘for nought’: i.e. gratis (so Vulg.). Cf. ver. 5.)[*](7. ‘ beautiful’: perhaps, ‘Jeemly,’ or ‘ timely’: cf. Greek.)[*](11. ‘ ye that bear...’ or, ‘ye armour-bearers of the LORD ’ (regular phrase for armour-bearer): perhaps both meanings are conveyed.)

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12 For ye shall not go out in haste, nor go in ﬂight: for the Lord goeth before you, and the God of Israel is your rereward.

13 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be high, and lifted up, and exalted exceedingly.

14 Like as many were appalled at thee; his sightliness was so marred from (that of) a man, and his form from (that of) the sons of men: ’

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; kingsshall shut their mouths because of him; for that which was not recounted to them shall they see, and that which they heard not shall they discern.

LIII. 1 Who hath believed our message? and the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?

2 And he grew up before him as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground: he had no form nor majesty; and we saw him, and there was no sightliness, that we should desire him.

3 Despised and avoided of men; a man of pains, and one that knew sickness; and as one from whom faces are hid despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he bore- our sicknesses; and our pains, he supported them; and we, (on our part,) did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 And he was pierced for our rebellions, bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and in his stripes was there healing for us.

6 All we like sheep did go astray; we turned every one to his own way; and the lord made to fall upon him the iniquity of us all.

[*](13. ‘My servant shall prosper,’ Targ. and various)[*](14. Or, ‘marred more than (any) man . . . more than the sons of men.)[*](15. ‘sprinkle’: or, ‘scatter’: or, ‘startle’: objections are raised to the text-rendering.)[*](1. Or, ‘upon whom was it . . . ?)[*](2. Or, ‘nor majesty that we should look on him.)[*](3. Or, ‘Despised and ceasing to be of men.’)[*](5. ‘for,’ i.e. ‘became of our ‘rebellions.’ ‘of,’ i.e. ‘belonging to,’ to our peace.’)

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7 He was oppressed, and he humbled himself, and opened not his mouth; as a lamb (that) is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep (that) is dumb before her shearers; and he opened not his mouth.

8 From restraint and from judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considereth, that he was cut off out of the land of the living? for the rebellion of my people was he stricken.

9 And one appointed his grave with wicked men, and with a rich man in his death; because he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10 And the LORD was pleased to bruise him; he laid sickness on him; if his soul should make a guilt-offering, he should see a seed, he should prolong days, and the pleasure of the Lord should prosper in his hand.

11 Out of the travail of his. soul he shall see, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant make many righteous; for he will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore will I give him part among the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the rebellious; and himself bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the rebellious.