Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

27 And their inhabitants were short of hand, they were dis- mayed and ashamed: they were (as) grass of the ﬁeld, and green ’algke, grass of the hoUse tops, and a cornfield before it stands in stalk

28 And thy down-sitting, and thy going out and thy coming in I know, andthy rage, against me.

29 Because thy rage against me and. thy recklessness is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

[*](24. ‘fir-trees’: or, ‘cypresses’: ‘border,’ i.e. limit: hence perhaps ‘his furthest ’)[*](25. Mazor, see xix. 6.)[*](26. ‘destined’: or, ‘an ’ or, ‘able,’ to be supplied: some take it as 3rd pers.: ‘and it shall ’)[*](28. ‘rage,’ lit. ‘enraging of ’)[*](29. ‘recklessness,’ or, ‘(careless) ‘: as in xxxii. 9.)

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30 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.