Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am he that hath founded in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-, stone of sure foundation; he that believeth shall not be in haste.

17 And I will set judgment for a line, and righteousness for a, plummet ; and hail sweepeth the refuge of lies, and waters shall overflow the hiding place.

[*](9. ‘ ’: lit. hearing.)[*](12 init. Or, ‘Inasmuch as he ’ ‘refreshing’: or, ‘quiet.)[*](15. ‘an ’ lit. a vision (an interview ?). ‘overflowing’: or, ‘sweeping’: so ver. 18.)[*](16. Generally held to be the strict rendering of the pointed Hebrew: in which case A.V. ‘I ’ requires diff. pointing. ‘a tried ’ lit. a stone of proof. ‘of ’ Heb. ‘of founded ’)

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18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; the overﬂowing scourge, when it passeth through, ye shall be for it to tread down.

19 As oft as it passeth through, it shall take you away; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be sheer vexation to discern the message.