Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

17 Behold, for peace it was bitter to me, bitter; and thou hast ’ loved my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For hell cannot give thee thanks, death praise thee; they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

19 The living, the living, he shall give thee thanks, as I do this day; the father shall. make the sons to know concerning thy truth.

20 The LORD (was ready) to save me; and we will play on my stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

21 And Isaiah said, They shall take a cake of ﬁgs, and apply it to the boil, and he shall live.

22 And Hezekiah said, What sign is there, that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? ’

XXXIX. 1 At that time Merodach Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; and he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

[*](13. ‘I, quieted ‘: or, ‘I ’ (lit. laid). Many would ‘ cried ’: this involves altering a letter (ABBREV) for ABBREV))[*](15. ‘spoken:...done ’ i.e. prob. promised and performed. ‘softly’: or, ‘at ’ or, ‘solemnly’ (Ps. xlii. 4). ‘because ’: or, ‘in spite ’: lit. ‘upon the bitterness.)[*](17. Not meaning instead qf peace, but rather ‘to give ’ ‘Loved,’ i.e. so as to deliver ‘from the ’: some read (ABBREV) thou hast kept back for (ABBREV) (pronounced somewhat alike).)[*](19. ‘truth’: or, ‘faithfulness.)[*](21. Or, ‘rub it on the ’ [Some commentators consider that W. τι, 22 should stand after ver. 6, cf. the parallel passage in 2 Kings.])

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2 And Hezekiah was glad because of them, and shewed them his treasure-house, the silver and the gold, and the spices, and the ﬁne oil, and all his armoury, and all that was found among his treasures; there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

3 Isaiah the prophet came unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said men, and whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country unto me, from Babylon.

4 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah said, All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

5 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts:

6 Behold, the days are coming, and all that is in thine house, and that thy fathers have stored up until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the Lord