Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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

7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the kings of Babylon.

8. And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

XL. 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is filled, that her guilt is satisfied; for she hath received of the ’s hand double fOr all her sins.

[*](8. ‘truth’: or, ‘steadfastness’: cf. xxxviii. 19.)
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3 A voice of one crying: In the wilderness clear ye the way of the LORD, make level in the desert a highway for our God.

4 Every ’valley shall ’ exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the rugged shall become a level, and the rough places a plain: