Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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.

22 And ye shall defile the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the overlaying of thy molten images of gold; thou shalt scatter them as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Begone!