Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

11 And evil shall come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof; and ruin shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to avert it: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, (which) thou shalt not know.

12 Stand forth, I pray, with thy spells, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth: peradventure thou wilt be able to profit, peradventure thou wilt strike terror.

13 Thou art wearied with the multitude of thy counsels: let them, I pray thee, stand forth and save thee—they who the heavens, who gaze on the stars, who make known at the new moons—from what shall come upon

14 Behold, they are become as stubble, ﬁre hath burned them; they shall not deliver their soul from the hand of the ﬂame; it is no coal to be warm, ﬁre to sit before.

15 Thus are the things to thee wherein thou hast laboured: thy traffickers from thy youth go astray everyone his own way: there is none that saveth thee.

XLVIII. 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, and not in righteousness.

2 For they are called of the holy city, and lean upon the God of Israel: the Lord of Hosts is his name.

3 I have declared the ﬁrst things from that time; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I wrought suddenly, and they came to pass.

4 Because I knew that thou art hard, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass:

[*](11. ‘the dawning thereof’: or, ‘how to charm it away’: cf. (Margoliouth). ‘avert,’ lit. ‘atone,’ ‘cover.’)[*](12 init. Or, ‘Persist, I pray, in thy...’)[*](13. Or, ‘make known . . . of what shall,’)[*](14. ‘their soul,’ i.e. themselves, their life: ‘hand,’ i.e.)[*](15. I ‘laboured’: or, ‘wearied thyself’ (as ver. 12, but not 13).)[*](1. ‘are called,’ or, ‘call yourselves’: and similarly ver. 3.)

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5 Therefore I have from that time declared it to thee 3 before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

6 Thou hast heard 3 see it all: and ye, will not ye declare it? I have caused thee to hear new things from now, and things reserved, and thou didst not know them. ‘

7 They are created now, and not from that time 3 and before to-day, and thou heardest them not 3 lest thou shouldest say,- Behold, I knew them.

8 Nay, thou hast not heard 3 nay, thou hast not known 3 nay, from that. time thine ear opened not 3 for I knew that thou gigs; (33:1 very treacherously, and wast‘ called a rebel from the womb.

9 For my name’s sake I defer mine anger, and for my praise do I refrain it for thee, that I cut thee not off.

10 Behold, I have reﬁned thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do (it) 3 for how is it profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.

12 Hearken unto me, Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he, I am the ﬁrst, I also am the last.

13 Mine hand also laid the foundation of the earth, and my ’ right hand spread out the heavens; I call unto them, they will stand up together. ·

14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do lgiausre on Babylon, and his arm (shall be) on the Chaldaeans.

[*](5. ‘ Therefore,’ Heb. ‘ And,’ marking principal clause.)[*](8‘. “didst deal’: or, ‘wouldst deal.’ -)[*](9.· ‘defer,’ ‘ refrain ’: lit. ‘ prolong...muzzle.’)[*](10. ‘ chosen ’: or, ‘ tried.’)[*](11. ‘how is it... ?’ or, ‘ how shall it be profaned?’)[*](13. ‘ spread,’ or, ‘ spanned out the heavens.’)[*](14. ‘among them’: some MSS. read, ‘among you.’ i.e. ‘he whom the LORD hath loved will do....’ The end of the verse is djﬁicult and rather uncertain. Some make ‘his arm’ object to ‘ will do,’ parallel to ‘pleasure’ = will, purpose.)

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15 I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.