Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

14 For the palace is forsaken: the uproar of the city deserted; hill and watchtower serve for caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of ﬂocks:

[*](4 ﬁn. Lit. ‘to speak clearuesses.’)[*](7 ‘means‘: or, instruments’: but Heb. has an apparent play on words. ‘judgment,’ i.e. right.)[*](10 init. Lit. ‘Days upon a year...’ )[*](12. ‘smite upon,’ or, ‘lament for...’ ‘breasts’: perhaps a play on words with ‘ﬁelds.’)[*](13 ﬁn.‘Or, ‘of the ex. city.’)[*](14 ‘uproar...deserted’: or, ‘multitude of the city a solitude.’)

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15 Until a spirit be poured out upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a garden-land, and the garden-land be counted for a forest.

16 And judgment shall rest in the wilderness, and righteousness. dwell in the garden-land. -

17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and conﬁdence for ever.

18 And my people shall abide in a home of peace, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

19 And it shall hail at the downfall of the forest; and the city shall lie low in lowliness.

20 Happy are ye, that sow beside all waters; that send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.

XXXIII. 1 Ah, thou that spoilest, and thyself art not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they have not dealt treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt have succeeded in dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited fOr thee; be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

3 At the voice of the uproar the’peoples ﬂee; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.

4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts run to and fro, shall they run upon it.

[*](15. ‘poured out’: lit. emptied, cf. liii. 12; ‘garden-land,’ Heb. Carmel.)[*](16. ‘rest,’ or, ‘abide in.’)[*](17. ‘effect’: lit. labour, service.)[*](19. ‘low in lowliness’: i.e. ‘utterly low‘ in humiliation: or. ‘low in a low place.’)[*](20. Or. upon all waters.’)[*](1. ‘succeeded’: or, ‘ﬁnished’: some propose to get this meaning by reading verb with ABBREV for ABBREV.)[*](4. ‘caterpillar’: lit. ‘consumer,’ ‘devourer’: prob. a name for a locust in some form (cf. Joel i. 4). ‘shall they...’ verb is singular, with indeﬁnite subj.)

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5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwelleth in the height; he hath ﬁlled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

6 And there shall be faithfulness in thy times; power of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord, that is his treasure. ’

7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the mesSengers of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man is ceased; he hath broken the covenant, despised cities, not man.

9 The earth mourneth, languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, withereth; Sharon becometh like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off (their leaves).

10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I exalt myself; now will I lift up myself.

11 Ye shall conceive hay, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is ﬁre which shall devour you.

12 And peoples shall become burnings of lime; thorns cut up, they shall burn in the ﬁre.

13 Hear, ye that are far, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.