Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

15 Ah, they that go deep from the Lord to hide counsel and their-works are in darkness, and they say, Who seeth us? and Who knoweth us?

16 The perverseness of you! shall the potter be reckoned as clay? that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not! and the thing formed of him that formed it, ’ discerneth not!

17 Is it not yet but a very little while, and Lebanon shall turn to garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest?

[*](9. If the verbs are not identical, but of different meaning and similar roots, we must render, ‘Tarry. and be astonished : take your pleasure, and be blind!)[*](10. ‘poured poured ’: or, ‘spread over ’: cf. xxv. 7, xxx.)[*](11. Or, ‘ the vision throughout is ’)[*](16. Or. ‘ for the thing made saith...’ ‘of,’ or, ‘to him that...’ formed of him that formed ’: or, ‘pot of the ’: same word as earlier in verse.)[*](17. ‘ garden ’ same word as ‘Carmel.)

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18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a writing, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and out of darkness.