Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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.