Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall be consumed;

[*](7. Or, ‘and should he see...let him hearken,’ continuing the Word for ‘troop’ means also ‘a rider.)[*](11. Or, ‘what (cometh out) of the Right?)[*](13. ‘ upon ’ ‘in ’ Less prob. ‘in the ’)[*](15. ‘drawn,’ or ‘brandished’: ‘weight,’ i.e. pressure.)
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17 And the remnant of the number of bows, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

XXII. The burden of the valley of vision.

1 What aileth thee, then, that thou art gone up, all of thee, to the house tops?

2 She is filled with tumult, an uproarious city, a jubilant town; thy smitten ones are not smitten with the sword, nor dead in battle.

3 All thy rulers are fled together; without the bow they are made captive; all that are found of thee are made captive, they fled afar off

4 Therefore I said, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; press not to comfort me, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

5 For the Lord God of Hosts hath a day of discomfiture, and treading down, and perplexity, in the valley of vision; digging down the wall, and a cry (goeth) to the mountain.

6 And Elam bare a quiver, with troops of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

7 And it cometh to pass, thy choice valleys are full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

8 And he removed the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.