Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; a fenced town to be a ruin; a castle of strangers to be no city; it shall not be built, for ever.

3 Therefore shall a strong people honour thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

4 For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat; for the blast of the terrible (ones) is as a (rain)storm upon a wall.

[*](23. ‘moon.’ ‘sun.’ poetic words, meaning ‘white’ and ‘hot’: ‘brick’ differs from ‘moon’ in vowel-points (same root), and ‘wall’ from ‘sun’ by a letter.)[*](3. ‘strong’: or, ‘harsh,’ ‘ﬁerce.’)[*](4. ‘poor’ or ‘weak,’ freq. of sufferers. ‘upon,’ lit. of a wall.)

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5 Thou shalt subdue the uproar of strangers, like heat in a parched land 3 (as) heat by the shadow of a cloud 3 the song of the terrible shall be brought low.

6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined

7 And he will swallow up in this mountain the face of the veil that veileth all peoples, and the covering that covereth all nations.