Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

13 I have roused him up in righteousness, and I will level all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall send forthl my captivity, not for hire, and not for a present, saith the Lord of hosts.

14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over unto thee, and becOme thine; they shall go after thee, in chains shall they pass over, and they shall bow down to thee, they shall pray unto thee: Only in thee is God, and there is none else, no God at all.

15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, Saviour.

16 They are ashamed and also confounded, all of them; the craftsmen of idols are gone into confusion together.

17 Israel is saved in the Lord with everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity.

18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; (he is God:) that formed the earth, and made it: he set it in order; he created it not a waste, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none else.

[*](11. ﬁn. Perhaps, ‘leave in my charge the work,’ c. (very doubtful passage).)[*](13. ‘present’: or, ‘bribe.’)[*](14. ‘labour’: perhaps=wealth, as the reward of labour: ‘merchandise’: or, ‘gain,’ ‘earnings.’)[*](17, ‘in,’ or, ‘through the Lord’: (lit.) ‘with salvation of)[*](18. ‘set it in order’: or, ‘established it.)

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19 I have not, spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness 3 I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me, (as in) a waste: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

20 Assemble yourselves, and come; draw near together, ye escaped of the nations; they know not, that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a God that cannot save.