Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as afalling breach, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometb suddenly, in a moment.

[*](4. Or, ‘ When his princes shall be at Z..' c)[*](7. Lit. ‘ in vain and emptily will they help.')[*](8. ‘ before them ’: or, ‘among (lit. with) them.)[*](9. ‘lying,’ or, ‘ renegade sons,' cf. lix. 13.)[*](11. ‘ cease': word means ‘ to sit still,' as ver. 7.)

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14 And he shall break it as a ’s jar is broken, shivering it unsparingly; and there shall not be found a sherd among the shivered fragments thereof, to take fire. from the hearth, or to draw water from a cistern.

15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved: in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye were unwilling.

16 And ye said, No: for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee; and. We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

17 one thousand from before the rebuke of one, before the rebuke of ﬁve shall ye ﬂee, till ye be left as a mast upon the top of a mountain, and like the ensign on the hill.

18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you ; for the LORD is a God of judgment; happy are all that wait for him.

19 For a people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thdu shalt weep no mOre; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; as he heareth it, he answereth thee.

20 And the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction, and water of oppression; and thy teachers shall not withdraw any more, and thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

[*](18. Some read, with a few MSS.: ‘ be silent ’ ((?) for (?)) for ‘be exalted.)[*](19. Some render, ‘For, O people that dwellest,...': 'surely be gracious, verb repeated.)[*](20. Many render, ‘ Though the Lord give...yet thy teachers,' c. Ewald, Kay, Wellhausen, Rob. Smith, with Vulg., talie ‘teachers’ as a rare form of the singular (verb, which however precedes, is singular). ‘Bread of affliction, c. Some interpret as=in short, scant measure: panem arctum, aquam brevem Vulg.)

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21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it: when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.