Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him; and the earth shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.

XXVII. 1 In that day the lord with his hard and great and strong sword will visit (upon) leviathan the ﬂeeing serpent, and leviathan the coiled serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

[*](14. i.e. ‘to this end hast thou...)[*](15. Or, ‘added to the ’)[*](16. ‘inquired’: word usu. rendered ‘visit.’)[*](19. ‘body,’ generally taken as collective = ‘bodies.’ ‘lights’: or, ‘herbs,’ cf. xviii. 4. ‘cast ’: causal of ‘fall,’ as in ver. 18.)[*](20. ‘about ’: or, ‘behind ’)[*](21. ‘bloodshed’; lit. ‘bloods,’)[*](1. Or, ‘lev. the ﬂeet serpent, and lev. the crooked serpent.)

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2 In that day, a vineyard of foaming wine ; sing ye to it ;

3 I the LORD am its keeper 3 every moment I water it; lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.

4 Wrath have I none; who will set briers and thorns against me in battle? I would march against it, I would burn it all tothether

5 Or else let him lay hold of my stronghold, make peace with me: let him make peace with me.

6 As to what cometh, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall ﬁll the face of the earth with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him according to thesmiting of those that smote him 3 or is he slain according to the slaying of his slain?

8 In exact measure, by sending her away, thou contendest with her; he driveth her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 Therefore by this shall the guilt of Jacob be expiated; and this is all the fruit, taking away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar like chalkstones dashed in pieces, the Asherim and sun-pillars arise no more.