Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I (can) discern: and I have removed the bounds of peoples, and robbed their treasures, and brought down, like a mighty one, them that ’enthroned:

14 And my hand hath reached, as a nest, the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there. was none that fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or peeped.

15 Shall the axe glory against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that plieth it? as if a rod should ply them that lift it up, as if a staff should lift up what is not wood.

16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall burn a burning like the burning of fire.

17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

[*](16. ‘the Lord, the ’ acc. to many MSS. and editions [i.e. Ha-Adon, Jahveh Sabaoth, more usual (as in Isai. i. 24 &c.) than Ha-Adon, Sabaoth, not found elsewhere. ADON is itself very rare, exc. in Isai. Mal. iii. 1; Exod. xxiii. 17, ’xiv. 23. So Kay, in chap. i. 24].)
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18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his garden-land, from soul and even to. flesh; and it shall be as when a sick ’man pinetb away.

19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, and a child may write them.

20 And it shall be in that day, the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the Mighty God.

22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant (only) of it shall return; destruction is decided, overflowing in righteousness.

23 For a destruction and a decision shall the Lord GOD of Hosts make, in the midst of all the earth.

24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Hosts, Be not afraid, my people that dwellest in Zion, of Asshur; though he smite thee with a rod, and lift up his staff against thee, in the way of Egypt.

25 For yet a very little while, and indignation shall be at an end, and mine anger shall be to their destruction.

26 And the LORD of Hosts shall stir up a scourge against him like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb ; and his rod is upon the sea, and he lifteth it up, in the way of Egypt.

27 And it shall be in that day, his burden shall remove from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from of? thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.

28 He is come upon Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;

[*](18 fin. ‘as when a standard bearer fainteth,’ Kay, A.V., R.V. text (W. E. Barnes nearly). Heb. word for ‘bear a standard’ (P) occurs again, lix. 19, but is uncertain.)[*](27 fin. Or, ‘destroyed from before the anointing.’)
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29 They pass through the pass: in Geba they make their lodging; Ramah trembleth: Gibeah of Saul fleeth.

30 Cry out with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: listen, Laishah; O thou poor Anathoth!

31 Madmenah wandereth away; the inhabitants of Gebim gather (their goods) to flee.

32 Within this very day he halteth at Nob, waving his hand (at) the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.