Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

13 Nations are tumultuous like the tumult of many waters; and (one) rebuketh him, and he ﬂeeth afar off, and is chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as whirling dust before the tempest.

[*](5. Or, ‘and with his arm...)[*](6. Or, perhaps, ‘four or ﬁve in its fruit-bearing ’)[*](7, 8. ‘gaze ’ i. e. with regard or respect.)[*](9. Heb. ‘of the HORESH and the AMIR’; not, unlike ‘Hivite and in some scripts: Lagarde emends accordingly. (Cf. Greek, note inverse order.))[*](10. Lit. ‘plants of pleasant ones’ (‘plants of Adonis,’)[*](11. Or, ‘the harvest ﬂeeth away in the day of’... ‘pain’ has been by some for a different word, meaning (expected) ‘possession.’)

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14 At eventide, and behold terror; before the morning, he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

XVIII. 1 Ah, land of the rustling of wings, whichart beyond the rivers of Cush !

2 That sendest envoys on the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the face of the waters: Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and polished, to a people terrible since it was and onward, a nation of line, line, and treading down, whose land the rivers divide.

3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a standard is lifted up on (the) mountains, see ye: and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye.