Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

13 That caused them to go through the deeps, like a horse in the wilderness, without stumbling?

[*](5. Or, ‘arm saved for me,’ as lix. 16.)[*](6. Many 5155., editions, and other authorities read 'shattered' (3 for D) for ‘made drunk,’)[*](9 init. So Heb. margin ἧι) to him for ℵABBREVnot). Heb. text, ‘In all their adversity he was not an adversary... (?))[*](11. Or. ‘And his people remembered the days of old. of Moses.' Or, (omit ‘with’) ‘the shepherd' (obj. to ‘brought up,' or possibly to ‘remembered.’) Many MSS. c. read)[*](13. 'wilderness,' prob. meaning ‘open country’: cf. Psal. cvi. 9.)

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14 As a beast goeth down ’the valley, the Spirit of the LORD brought him to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a name of beauty.

15 Look from heaven, and see from the habitation of thy holiness and thy beauty: where is thy jealousy, and thy mighty acts? the sounding of thy bowels and thy mercies are restrained towards me.

16 For thou art our father; for Abraham knoweth us not, Israel doth not recognize us: thy name is Our Redeemer from of old.

17 Why dost thou make us stray, O LORD, from thy ways, and harden our heart from fearing thee? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 Thy holy people have possessed for a little while; our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, upon whom thy name was not called.

LXIV. 1 O that thou hadst rent the heavens, that thou hadst come down, that the mountains had quaked at thy Presence!

2 As when kindleth brushwood, (as) ﬁre maketh water boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, (that) nations should tremble at thy presence,

3 While thou didst terrible things (which) we hoped not for; that thou hadst come down, the mountains had quaked at thy presence!

4 And from old they have not heard, have not perceived by the ear, eye hath not seen a God beside thee, who will work for him that waiteth for him.

[*](14. Ancient versions c. ‘the Spirit...led him’ (slight difference of)[*](15 ﬁn. Lit. ‘have restrained themselves.')[*](18. Doubtful, but no other translation seems preferable.)[*](1. Or, ‘that thou wouldest rend,' c.: and so in ver.)[*](2. ‘(that) nations should...' or, ‘nations shall tremble...)[*](4. Or, ‘eye hath not seen, beside thee, Ο God, what he will do for him,' c.)

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5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness in thy ways they will remember thee; behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned; in them (have we been) long time, and shall we be saved?