Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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.