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!

23 And he shall give. the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the increase of the ground, and - it shall be rich and fat: in that day shall thy cattle feed in a broad pasture.

24 And the oxen and. the young asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25 And there shall be, upon every high mountain, and on every uplifted hill, channels and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.

26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of its wound.

27 Behold, the Name of the LORD cometh from far; burning his anger, and denseness of rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue like devouring ﬁre.

28 And his breath is as an overflowing stream, dividing even to the neck, to shake the nations in the shaking sieve of vanity; and a bridle that leadeth astray shall be in the jaws of peoples.

29 Your song shall be like the night When a feast is kept holy; and joy of heart, like his that marcheth with the ﬂute, to go into the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

[*](22. ‘molten’ undistinguishable from word rendered ‘covering in ver. 1.)[*](27. ‘denseness,’ lit. ‘heaviness’: akin to usual word for ‘weight,’ ‘glory,’ ‘rising’ ’ word near akin to ‘burden’ =oracle, utterance, as xiii. i c.)

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30 And the Lord shall cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and the lighting down of his arm to be seen, with fury of anger, and ﬂame of devouring ﬁre; scattering, rainstorm, and hailstone. . ’

31 For at the voice of the Lord shall Asshur be affrighted ; with the rod shall he smite.

32 every passing of the staff of destiny, which the Lord shall make to light on him, shall be with tabrets and harps; and with waving wars shall he ﬁght against her. ’

33 For a burning place is made ready from yesterday; even it is prepared for the king; he hath made it deep, and hath made it broad; its pile ﬁre and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, bumeth against it.

XXXI. 1 Ah, they that go down to Egypt for help; and. they stay on horses, and trust in chariots, for they are many, and in horsemen, for they are very strong; and they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither. inquire of the Lord!

2 And he also is wise; and bringeth evil, and removeth not his words; and he riseth up against the house of evil doers, and against the help of them that work naughtiness.