Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

LXV. 1 I was to be inquired of by them that asked not, have let myself be found by them that sought me not; I said, Here am I, Here am I, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a refractory people, which walk in a way which is not good, after their own thoughts.

[*](5 fin Very dubious. Some render, ‘in them (thy ways) is continuance (or eternity), and we shall be saved.)[*](7. ‘and melted us’: Seeker. Lowth, Cheyne, c. with Pesh. Targ. propose to read ‘delivered us into the hand of' [ root ABBREVfor ABBREVPerhaps ‘into’ is right.)[*](8. ‘potter': or ‘fashioner,’ xxix. 16, xlv. 9.)[*](9. ‘to the uttermost,' or, ‘to excess.)

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3 The people that irritate me continually to my face; which sacrifice in the gardens, and burn incense upon the bricks:

4 Which sit in the graves, and lodge in guarded places, which eat swine's ﬂesh, and broth of abominations is in their vessels:

5 Which say, Keep to thyself, come not near to me; for I am holy to thee. These are a smoke in my nose, a ﬁre that burneth all the day.