Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

15 He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh upright- ness; that rejecteth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold on a bribe, that stoppeth his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and closeth his eyes from seeing evil:

[*](5. ‘exalted’: or, ‘secure’ (which sense at any rate underlies the word).)[*](7. ‘their valiant ’: doubtful. and the vowel-points must be altered to give this sense. Heb. text. as printed, suggests some form of a verb. Some render ‘the ’: i.e. ‘lions of ’ cf. xxix. 1)[*](15. ‘bloodshed,’ lit. ‘bloods.)

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16 He shall inhabit heights, fortresses of rocks (are) his high place; his bread is given him, his water is sure.

17 Thine eyes shall see a king in his beauty; they shall behold a land of distances.

18 Thine heart shall meditate on terror. Where is he that counted? Where he that weighed? where he that counted the towers?

19 Thou shalt not see the stubborn people, a people too deep of language to be heard; of a stammering tongue, there is no discerning.

20 Look upon. Zion, the city of our appointed assembly; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a habitation of security, a tent that shall not be removed; its stakes shall not be plucked up for ever, and all its cords are unbroken.

21 But there in majesty the Lord will be for us a place of rivers, of canals wide stretching; thereon shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

23 Thy cords are loosed, they cannot ﬁrmly ﬁx their pole; they have not spread out the banner; then was divided the prey of plunder in abundance; lame men do spoil spoil.

24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwelleth therein is forgiven (its) iniquity.

[*](16. ‘high place’: or, ‘refuge,’ ‘stronghold.’)[*](17 ﬁn. Many comm. transl. ‘a far-stretching land’: but in Isai. xxxix. 3 Jer. viii. 19, a ‘land of distance,’ sing. almost certainly means ‘a distant land.’ Cf. xlvi. 11)[*](20. Or, ‘[estal,’ ‘solemn assembly,’ ‘be removed’: or, ‘wander.’)[*](21. ‘canals,’ lit. Niles, Nile-arms, as in ch. xix. ‘gallant’: or, ‘majestic’: same epithet as ‘in majesty’ preceding.)[*](22. ‘lawgiver,’ lit. inscriber: ‘governors,’ Judg. v. 9.)[*](23. Usually taken not of a tent. as ver. 20: so however Kay, W. E. Barnes: but of a ship, in which case ’pole’=‘mast,’ and ‘banner’ (but doubtfully) stands for ‘sail.’ ‘firmly,’ or, ‘upright’: many take it as noun =the socket of the pole.)[*](24. i.e. ‘no inhabitant shall say,’ &c.)

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XXXIV. 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all that come forth of it.

2 For the LORD hath indignation against all nations, and fury against all their host; he hath laid them under the ban, he hath given them to slaughter.

3 And their smitten shall be cast out, and their carcases, their stink shall go up, and mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4 And all the host of heaven shall waste away, and the heavens shall be rolled up as a scroll, and all their host shall fade, as a leaf fadeth from a vine, and as a fading (leaf) from a ﬁg tree.

5 For my sword hath drenched itself in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment.

6 The LORD hath a sword, it is ﬁlled with blood, it is made rich with fat, with the blood of lambs and he goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the ’LORD bath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter ’the land of Edom.

7 And ’ oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made rich with fat.

8 For the Lord hatha day of vengeance, and a year of recompense for the quarrel of Zion.

9 And her streams shall be turned into pitch, and her dust into brimstone; and the land thereof shall become pitch that burneth.

10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; for ever its smoke shall go up; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; for ever and ever there shall be none passing through it.