Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting and destruction are in their highways.

[*](13. ‘as to..' is perhaps equivalent to ‘from doing': cf. lvi. 2, c., and second part of this verse.)[*](1. Lit. ‘shortened from saving': some render, ‘too short to save' similarly the second clause.)[*](4. ‘sueth’ : or, ‘proclaimeth’: ‘in (or, with))[*](6. Or, ‘neither shall any’ (indef.) cover themselves,' c)

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8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their tracks; they have made them their paths crooked; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.

9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness,—we walk in

10 We grope along the wall like blind men, and we grope as men without eyes; we have stumbled at noonday as in the dusk; among the vigorous as the dead.

11 We all groan like bears, and moan piteously like doves; we wait for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, it is far off from us.

12 For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our rebellions are with us, and our iniquities, we know them:

13 Rebelling and denying the LORD, and drawing back from following our God: speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14 And judgment is driven backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth hath stumbled in the broad place, and uprightness cannot enter.

15 And truth is (found) missing, and he that removeth from evil maketh himself a prey; and the LORD saw it, and it was evil in his eyes that there was no judgment.

16 And he saw that there was no man, and was amazed that there was none that interposed; therefore his own arm wrought salvation for him, and his righteousness, it upheld him.

17 And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in jealousy as a cloke.

[*](10. ‘vigorous’: dubious: some take the word as literally=fat, lusty: some render ‘in fruitful places,' others, ‘in dark places ’ (in caliginosis, Vulg.).)[*](11. Heb. intersifies by repeating the verb 'moan.)[*](12. ‘testify’: verb in singular: ‘are a witness,' or possibly ‘(each) testify...)[*](13. 'revolt,' lit. departure: ‘uttering,’ or 'muttering,' as ver. 3.)[*](14. Or, ‘thrust backward.)[*](15. ‘maketh...a prey’: or, ‘giveth himself to be)[*](16. Or, ‘his own arm saved for him.)

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18 According to their deeds, accordingly will he requite, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the isles he will requite recompense.