Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

LIV. 1 Sing, Ο barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

[*](7. ‘opened,’ imperfect tense.)[*](8. ‘from,’ perhaps = ‘because of’: but cf. lvii. x, where verb however different. ‘and as for his generation’: or, ‘and his life who will for he was.’ c.)[*](9. ‘appoint,’ lit. ‘gave . . . ’ ‘Because,’ or ‘although . . . ’ ‘death’ is here plural in Heb.)[*](10. Or, ‘if thou shouldst make his soul a . . .)

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2 Widen the place of. thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation; withhold not; lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes:

3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; ’thy seed shall possess nations, and make desolate. nations to be inhabited.

4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; and be not confounded, for thou shalt not blush; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

5 For thy husband is thy Maker; the LORD of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

6 For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when she is rejected, saith ᾖ thy God.

7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great - mercies I gather thee.

8 In a gush of wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; and with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee; saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

9 For this is the waters of Noah unto me; as I have sworn i that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be wrbth with thee, nor re? buke thee

10 For the mountains shall remove, and the hills totter; yet my lovingkindness shall not remove from thee, nor my covenant of peace totter, saith he that hath mercy on thee, the Lord.

[*](3. ‘break forth,’ or ‘through.)[*](9 init. Some 1133., Pesh., Vulg., Targ. and some commentators read ‘as in the days of N.’ (vowel points. and division)[*](10. ‘shall,’ or ‘may remove’: or, ‘Though the mountains remove...)

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11 Ο thou afficted, tossed with tempest, not comforted ; behold I lay thy stones in antimony, and thy foundations with sapphires.

12 And I will make thy battlements rubies, and thy gates. to be ﬁery stones, and all thy border stones of pleasure.

13 And all thy sons shall be disciples of the LORD, andgreat shallbe the peace of thy sons.

14 In righteousness shalt thou be established; be thou far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear, and from destruction, for it shall not come near thee.

15 Behold, they surely gather together; it is not of me; who gathereth against thee? he shall fall because of thee.

16 Behold, I have created the craftsman, that bloweth on the ﬁre of coals, and that bringeth forth a weapon for its work; and Ι have created the waster to destroy.

17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue (that) shall rise up against thee in judgment thou shalt convict. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness from me, saith the Lord.