Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

4 For a day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed ones is come.

[*](12. Or, ‘And men (indef.) shall call them...)[*](1. ‘glorious,’ lit., swelling: perh. of ﬂowing robes. Cf. Ps. civ. r; of swelling, rising ground, ch. xlv. 2.)[*](3. The tenses are imperfect, with max not conversive: the past tense may be iterative: or else the points require alteration for this rendering: and so ver. 6. ‘life blood,’ literally juice or sap. ‘have stained’: the tense form (Hiph. perf.?) is exceptional.)

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5 And I looked, and there was none that helped; and I was amazed, and there was none that supported; and mine own arm wrought salvation for me, and my fury, it supported me.