the steps of the lowly. (7) The way of the righteous is
straightness, You weigh the straight path of the righteous.
19. (8) Even
in the way of your judgements YHWH, I have waited for your name [+and your Torah+] and
our soul longing is for your [m..memory.]
20. (9) with soul-desire
my soul has desired you in the night, even with my spirit within me I
will seek you early because when your judgements
21. are in the
earth the inhabitants of the world-system learn righteousness. ( 10) If the
wicked finds mercy he will not learn righteousness, in the land of
22.
candid truth he will do evil and will not see the majesty of YHWH. (PP)
23. (11) YHWH, Your hand is lifted, but they can not perceive, They will
perceive and then be ashamed, jealousy of the people even,
24. the fire of
your enemies shall consume them. (12) YHWH you will ordain peace for us
because also all our deeds
25 you have worked for us. (13) YHWH our God,
other lords have mastered us
26. to you only will we make mention of your
name. (14) They are dead ones, they shall not live, they are dead spirits,
they shall not rise, therefore
27. you visited them and you destroyed them
and you turned aside [+made perish+] all remembrance of them. (15) You have
added to the nation YHWH
28. You have added to the nation, you are
glorified, You have placed far off all the ends of the earth. (PP)
29. (16) YHWH, they visited you in sorrow, they poured out their whispered
prayer, your correction was on them. (17) Like a pregnant woman the time
30. to bear draws near and in pain she cries out in her woes so have we
been in your presence O YHWH. (18) We have been with child, we have been in
pain
31. in a sense we have borne wind, we have not worked [+your+]
salvation in the earth, neither have the residents of the world system fallen.
Column XXI Isaiah 26:19 to 28:2
1. (19) But your dead ones shall live with my dead body they
shall arise. They shall awake and sing O inhabitants of the dust.
2.
because your dew is as the dew of light and the earth shall cast out the
departed. (PP)
3. (20) Go my people, come into your abodes and shut your doors in your
moment and hide for a little while
4. until the indignation will pass
over. (21) Because {m+behold} YHWH will go out from his place to visit
with evil the inhabitants of
5. the earth upon them, and the earth
will reveal her blood sheds and she will not cover over any more
6. her
murders. (PP)
7. (Chapter 27:1) In that day YWHW will visit with his sword his
mighty and great and
8. and strong upon Leviathan the fugitive serpent,
and upon Leviathan the crooked serpent and he shall kill
9. the
sea-monster who is in the sea. (PP)
10. (2) In that day a vineyard of red wine, sing to it. (3) I YHWH will
keep (lit. I will nazar
it) it moment by moment,
11. I will give her drink lest anyone will
punish her, night and day I will guard (lit. I will nazar) her (4) Wrath is
not
12. in me, who will give me briars and thorns in war? I will step on
them,
13. I will burn them together, (5) Or let him seize on my refuge
and let him make peace with me
14. Peace he will make with me. (6)
He will cause those of Jacob who come to be rooted and they will blossom
15. and Israel will bear fruit and fill up the face of the world-system
with her produce. (7) Is the striking of his striking like
16. he struck
him or is the slaughter of his slaying like he slew them (8) By driving
them out and by sending them out you argued with them
17. He drove them
out with his strong wind in the day of the east wind (PP)
18.(9) Therefore by this shall the evil of Jacob be covered and this will
be the completed fruit of the turning away of his sins
19. when he puts
all the stones of the altar as the stones of his sojourn shattered, they will
not be raised up
20. as asheriym nor incense altars. (10) Because
the fortress city shall be desolate and the meadow shall be left and abandoned
21. like a wilderness, There shall the calf feed and there shall he lie
down and consume all her branches. (11) when their harvest is withered. (PP)
22. Women break them off {&coming&} setting them on fire because it
is a non-understanding people. There-
23. fore he who made them will have
no mercy on them and He who formed them will not be gracious to them. (PP)
24. (12) And it will be in that day the YHWH will beat out from the
fruitful flow of the river as far as the stream of
25. Egypt and you shall
be reaped one by one even the children of Israel. (PP)
26. (13) And it shall be in that day that a great shopher shall be blown
and they shall come, those perishing in the land
27. of Assyria and those
banished in the land of Egypt and they shall bow down to YHWH in the Holy
Mountain
28. in Jerusalem. (PP)
29. (Chapter 28:1) Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of
Ephraim whose glorious beauty is a fading blossom
30. which are at the
tops of the rich valleys of those who are struck down by wine. (2) Behold
{&in&} strength He shows power
31. even YHWH {le adonay} as
a downpour of hail and a destroying storm as a downpour of powerful
waters overflowing
Column XXII Isaiah 28:2 to 28:24
1. (Continue Chapter 28:2) [and] it shall be laid to rest nearby (3)
They shall be trampled under feet even the crown of pride of the
drunkards of
2. Ephraim. (4) And their glorious beauty shall be a fading
blossom which is at the tops of the valleys
3. of fatness as her first
fruits before summer which when he looks and seeing it
4. being yet
in his hand it is swallowed up. (PP)
5. (5) In that Day YHWH of Hosts shall be for a crown of beauty and for a
diadem
6. of splendor to the remnant of his people (6) and for the spirit
of judgement for those sitting upon the judgement seat and for power
7.
for those returning the warfare {to the) gate. (7) And they also went astray
by wine and wandered about by strong drink, the priest
8. and the prophet
have gone astray by strong drink, they are swallowed by the wine they have
wandered about from strong drink they go astray as seers
9. and they
totter in decisions (8) Because all tables are filled with vomit and excrement
without space. (PP)
[*]see note for this unusual
mark
10. (9) Whom shall He teach knowledge and whom shall he cause to understand
what is heard, those who are weaned from milk, those grown too old
11.
from the breasts (10) For it is command to command, command to command,
line to line, line to line, a bit here and a bit there.
12. (11) Because
with stammering lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people.
(12) This is that which he says
13. to them This is the rest that you must
lay before the weary and this is the repose but you were not
14. willing
{to} listen. (13) and the word of YHWH was to them command to command, command
to command, line to line, line
15. to line, a bit here and a bit there so
that they might go and stumble backward to be broken and to be trapped
16.
and be captured. (PP)
17. (14) Therefore hear the word of YHWH scornful men who are rulers of
this people who are in Jerusalem.
18. (15) Because you say we have cut a
covenant with death and with Sheol we have made a vision, the scourge
19.
is overflowing because it will pass over [Q lacks - ayin] it will not come to
us because we have put a lie for our shelter and in deception have we hid
ourselves.
20. (16) Therefore thus says {+&adonay&} YHWH Behold I
make a stone foundation in Zion, a tried corner stone
21. precious, and
exceedingly strong foundation, and the one believing shall not be careless.
(17) And I will put justice to the line
22. and righteousness to the plumb
line and hail shall sweep away the covering of lies and water shall engulf the
hiding place.
23. (18) And your covenant with death shall be covered over
also your vision [+with+] Sheol shall not stand
24. The overflowing
scourge that is passing over and you shall be to it for treading down. (19)
From the time of its passing over it shall take
25. you because every
morning it shall pass over in the morning and in the night [and it shall be] a
terror just
26. to understand the sound. (20) Because the bed is shorter
than one might stretch himself and the covering [m..+narrow] as a cover
27. than he can cover himself with. (21) Because as in Mount Peraziym YHWH
will rise up in the valley of Gibeon
28. He will rage to do His work, his
strange work, and to toil in his labor his alien labor.
29. (22) And now
do not make light lest your bindings be strengthened because an end has been
determined,
30. I have heard from the [m..+Lord] YHWH of Hosts concerning
the whole earth. (PP)
31. (23){&H&} Listen and hear my voice, draw near and hear what I
am saying. (24) All day
Column XXIII Isaiah 28:24 to 29:21
1. (Continue 28:24) does the plowman plow to sow? Does he open and
harrow {&yod&} his ground. (25) Is it not when he levels the face of
it and scatters
2. fitches and spreads cumin and puts in rows of wheat and
choice barley and the rye of its border.
3. (26) And his God disciplines
him for judgement and teaches him. (27) because fitches are not threshed with
a sharp pointed instrument neither is a cart wheel on the cumin
4. turned,
because fitches are beaten out with a rod and cumin with a branch. (28)
[m..Bread] It is crushed because he will not always be working at threshing it
5. or crush it with the {&wheel&} of his wagon nor will his
horsemen stamp on it. (29) This also proceeds from YHWH of Hosts
6.
marvelous counsel and grand efficiency (PP)
7. (Chapter 29:1) Woe to Ariel the Lion of God, The Lion of
God, the city of David's encampment, add year to year and encompass the
sacrificial feasts. (2) I will make oppression
8. to Ariel and there shall
be heaviness and sorrow and it shall be to me as to Ariel. (3) And I will
encamp surrounding about against you
9. and I will lay siege against you
with a palisade and I will raise up fortresses against you. (4) And you shall
fall and speak from the earth and from dust it shall be bowed
10.
even your speech and your voice shall be as an obia-wizard from the
ground and from the dust your speech shall whisper. (5) And they shall be as
fine powder the multitude
11. of your strangers and as chaff passing over
is the multitude of terrorists and it shall happen in an instant suddenly. (6)
From YHWH of hosts with
12. you shall be visited with thunder and with
earthquake and with a great voice, great storm and whirlwind and flames of
devouring fire (7) And they shall be
13. like the dream of a night vision
even all the nations who wage war against Ariel and all those fighting
her
14. and their arms and those causing distress to her. (8) And it shall
be as when the hungry dreams and behold he is eating
15. and he awakens
and his soul is empty or as when the thirsty dreams and behold he drinks and
awakens and behold he is tired
16. and his soul is anxious, so shall be
the multitude of all the nations who make war against Zion. (PP)
17. (9) Wait and marvel and be awe struck {&tau&} and cry out, they
are drunk but not [from] wine They stagger but not from strong drink. (10)
Because
18. YHWH has poured out on you the spirit of a deep sleep and He
has strongly shut your eyes, The prophets and the rulers
19. and the seers
of visions he has covered over. (11) And the whole vision has become for you
like the words of a book that is sealed which they give
20. to one who
knows how to read {&"H"&} saying read this please, and he says I am
not able because it is sealed. (12) and it is given,
21. the book, to one
who does not know how to read saying read this please and he says I do not
know how to read. (PP)
[*]
22. (13) And the Lord said on account of this people drawing near to my
presence with their mouth and glorifying me with their lips while their heart
23. is far from me and their awe of me by commandments of men is taught.
(14) Therefore behold I will again
24. do a marvel among this people, a
marvel and a wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall vanish and the
understanding of their discerning
[*]
25. shall be hidden. (PP)
(Actually an extra large spatium) (15). Woe to those acting profoundly to keep
their counsel secret from YHWH and
26. their works are in darkness and
they say, who sees {&waw&} us and who knows us. (16) Your perversity
is as if the former's clay
27. shall be thought of (as the same
thing) for the work says {&waw&} to the maker you did not make me
or the formed clay to the one forming him he does not understand. (17) Is it
not
28. yet only a little while and Lebanon shall be returned to being a
grove land and the grove land shall be thought of as a forrest. (18) And they
shall hear in the day
29. even that one, the deaf, the words of the
book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of
darkness. (19) And they shall increase
30. even the humble, joy in
YHWH and the needy ones of mankind shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
(20) Because the tyrant is null
31. and the scorner is finished and all
the watchmen of evil are cut off. (21) The ones causing sins of mankind in
speech and for the one laying a snare in the gate
Column XXIV Isaiah 29:21 to 30:20
1. (Continue Isa 29:21) for the one reproving and perverting the
righteous for that which is unreal. (PP)
[*]
2. (22) Therefore thus says YHWH, who redeemed Abraham, to the house of
Jacob. Not now
3. shall Jacob be ashamed and his face shall not now grow
pale. (23) Because when he sees his children the work of my hands in his midst
4. they shall sanctify my name and cause sanctification to the Holy one of
Jacob and to the God of Israel they will be struck with awe.
5. (24) And
the erring spirits shall know understanding and the backbiters shall learn
doctrine. (PP)
[*]
6. (Chapter 30:1) Woe to the rebelling children says YHWH for making
counsel but not from me and for covering with a cover
7. but not of my
Spirit for the purpose of adding sin to sin. (2) To the ones walking to go
down {&tau&} to Egypt and of my mouth
8. they have not asked
but for strengthening in the strength of Pharoah and to seek refuge in
the shadow of Egypt. (3) And the strength of Pharoah shall be to you
9.
for a shame and for you the trust in the shadow of Egypt [m..a disgrace]. (4)
Because his princes were at Zoan and his messengers arrived at Chanes.
10.
(5) All are ashamed of a people who could not aid them nor help nor profit but
for a shame
11. and also a reproach. (PP)
12. (6) The Oracle of the beasts of the Negev in the land of sorrow and
[exodus] and distress, old lions, young lions [and there is no water]
13.
viper, flying seraph. They will carry away on the backs of asses the wealth
and their treasures on the humps of camels
14. to a people who shall not
profit. (7) For the Egyptian's helping is vain and empty therefore I called
this one Rahab, they
15. sit and do nothing. (8) And now go write
{&waw&} it on a tablet before them and engrave it upon a book that it
may be for the latter day
16. and the times of the ages. (9) Because this
is a rebellious people, deceitful children, children who do not want to hear
the Torah of
17. YHWH. (10) who say to the seers, see not and to the seers
of visions see no more visions for us of right things, speak
18.
flatteries to us and see visions of deceits (11) Turn aside from the way, move
away from the path, cause to cease from our presence
19. the Holy One of
Israel. (PP)
20. (12) Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, because of your
rejection in this word and you trust in oppression
21. and deviousness and
you depend on it (13) Therefore this evil ["he"] {&yod
waw&} shall be an outburst for you, falling, bulging in a wall
22.
of great height whose shattering will come suddenly in an instant. (14) and he
shall shatter it like potters breaking a pitcher in pieces
23. he shall
not spare {&waw&} and there shall not be found in its shattering a
shard for taking fire from the hearth or to draw water
24. from the
cistern. (PP)
25. (15) Because thus says YHWH {&adonay&} the Holy One of Israel
in repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness and trust
26. shall
be your might but you did not will them. (16) But you say, no but upon horses
we will flee, therefore you shall flee,
27. and you say upon the
swift we will ride, therefore the ones pursuing you shall be swift. (17) One
thousand at the rebuke of one, and from the presence [m..of the rebuke]
28. of five you shall flee until your remainder is as a beacon on the top
of the mountain and as an ensign upon a hill. (18) and therefore
29. YHWH
will wait to be merciful to you therefore he is on high for the showing of
your mercy because YHWH is a God of judgement
30. blessed are all those
who wait for him. (19) Because people shall dwell in Zion and in Jerusalem,
you shall never weep
31 again, He [YHWH] will be exceedingly gracious to
you, to the voice of your cry when He shall hear it he will answer you. (20)
When the Lord gives to you
Column XXV Isaiah 30:20 to 31:4
1. (Continue 30:20) bread of sorrows and water of affliction yet
your teachers shall not be put in a corner any more but your eyes
2. will
be seeing your teachers (21) and your ears shall hear a word from behind you
saying this
3. is the way, walk in it that you might go to the right and
that you might go to the left. (22) and you shall defile the overlay
4. of
your silver idols and the garments of your gold molten images, you shall
dispose of them like a menstruous cloth, you will say get out!
5. to it.
(23) And He shall give you rain for the seed with which you sow the
{&H&} earth and bread of the produce of the earth
6. and it shall
be stalwart and fat and [+seeded+], your cattle
in that day shall be in enlarged pastures. (24)The oxen
7. and the
asses that serve the ground shall eat clean fodder that has been winnowed with
a shovel
8. and pitch fork (25) and there shall be on every high mountain
and every lifted hill streams
9. channels of water in the day
{&waw&}of the exalted slaughter when the towers fall. (26) And the
light of the moon shall be
10. like the light of the sun and the light of
the sun shall be seven times as the light of seven
11. days in the day
that YHWH binds up the scattering of His people and heals the strike of her
wound. (PP)
[*]
12. (27) Behold the name of YHWH comes from afar His face burning with a
heavy burden, his lips full of
13. indignation and His tongue as a
devouring fire. (28) and His breath like a stream overflowing to dividing the
neck to sift
14. the nations with the sieve of vanity and there shall be a
bridle on their cheeks {&yod&} causing people to err. (29) You shall
have a song
15. in the night of a sanctified feast and joy of heart as
when you go with a flute to the mountain of YHWH,
16. to the rock of
Israel. (30) And YHWH will cause his voice of glory to be heard and the
quieting
17. of His arm he will show with the indignation of his anger and
the flame of a devouring fire with scattering, driving storm and hail stones.
18. (31) Because with the voice of YHWH shall the He beat down Assyria who
struck with the rod.. (32) And every passing over of the staff which is
19. appointed which YHWH will cause to lay upon him shall be with
tambourines and harps and in battles of shaking to and fro
20. [see variations] will he
fight against them. (33) Because Tophet has been prearranged from long ago, it
is [+completely+] established also for the king,
21. He has made it deep
and wide, the pyre in it is fire and there is much wood and the breath
(nishmah) of YHWH
22. [ like] a river of brimstone sets it alight.
(PP)
23. (Chapter 31:1) Woe to those going down to Egypt for help and
they lean on horses and they trust
24. on chariots because they are many
and upon horsemen because they are extremely strong and they do not lean upon
the Holy one
25. of Israel and they do not pursue YHWH. (2) And also He is
wise and he will bring the evil
26. and not turn away his words and he
will rise against the house of the evil doers and against the help of the
workers of iniquity.
27. (3) And the Egyptians are men and not God and
their horses are flesh and not spirit.
28. and YHWH will stretch out his
hand and the helper shall fall and he who is helped shall fall down and all of
them together will be consumed. (PP)
29. (4) Because thus has YHWH spoken to me Like as when {&the&} the
lion and the lion cub roar on the prey
30. when a contingent of shepherds
{&waw&} are called against him he will not be afraid of their voices,
or from their crowd noise will not
31. [+be afraid+] [m..humble
himself,] so shall YHWH of Hosts come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon
her hill.
Column XXVI Isaiah 31:5 to 33:1
1. (Chapter 31:5) As birds flying so will YHWH of Hosts defend on
Jerusalem, defending
2. and delivering and passing over (pesach) and
bringing escape. (6) Return to him to whom they have been in profound revolt
3. even the children of Israel. (PP)
4. (7) For in that day each man shall reject the idols of silver and his
idols of gold
5. which their hands have made for them as a sin. (8) Then
shall Assyria fall, not of a person's sword
6. nor of a {&aleph&}
man's sword IT shall devour him and he shall flee from the sword and
his chosen youths, they, forced laborers
7. will become (9) and he shall
pass over to his Rock out of fear and his princes shall be afraid of the
ensign says YHWH
8. whose own flame is in Zion and whose own furnace is in
Jerusalem. (PP)
9. (Chapter 32:1) Behold a king ought to reign in righteousness and
it is for princes to govern with justice. (2) and then a man
10. would be
a hiding place from wind and a shelter from the tempest as streams of water in
a dry place (Zion) as the shadow of a huge rock
11. in a weary land. (3)
And the eyes of those seeing shall not turn his gaze away and the ears of the
ones hearing
12. shall listen (4) and the hearts of the hasty ones shall
understand knowledge but the tongue of the stammerer shall hasten
13. to
speak clearly. (5) No longer will they call a foolish person noble, nor
14. will they call a scoundrel generous (6) Because the senseless will
speak nonsense and with his heart he will make wickedness to work hypocrisy
15. and to speak against YHWH to make the soul of the hungry empty and the
drink of the thirsty he will cause to diminish.
16. (7) The implements of
the scoundrel are wickedness he proposes wicked plans to obligate the poor
with speeches
17. of deceitfulness, even when the needy speak of justice.
(8) But the noble proposes noble things and he
18. by his nobility shall
stand. (PP)
19. (9) Let the women who have security {&aleph&} stand up. Hear my
voice O trusting daughters and give ear {&waw&}
20. to my speech.
(10) Days upon years you shall be terrorized O trusting ones because the
vintage will be finished and the harvest
21. will never come. (11) Be
afraid O secure ones and have terror O trusting ones, strip off and become
nude and put a girdle
22. [and saphadnah see qum page on your loins
(12) They shall bewail for the breasts, for the beautiful fields
23. and
for the fruitful vine, (13) Upon the land of my people briars and thorns shall
come up because it shall be on all the houses of
24. joy in the city of
gladness. (14) because the palace shall be forsaken and the multitude of the
city abandoned, Ophel, and the watchtower
25. shall be even for dens
forever, a joy for wild asses, a pasture for herds
26. (15) Until the
Spirit be poured out upon us from the highest until the desert be as a garden
spot and the garden spot, a forest
27. is esteemed as. (16) Then shall
judgement inhabit the desert and justice will dwell in the garden spot. (17)
And
28. the work of righteousness shall be peace and the service of
righteousness shall be quietness and security
29. forever. (18) And my
people shall dwell in habitations of peace and in secure neighborhoods
30.
and in resting places of quietness. (19) And if it hail coming down in the
forest and the forest [m.. city] be brought very low. (PP)
(30) Blessed are you who are sowing beside all waters sending out the feet
of the ox and the ass.
31. (Chapter 33:1) Woe to the one spoiling
and you were not spoiled and to the traitor and you were not betrayed, when
you cease
Column XXVII Isaiah 233:1 to 33:24
1. (Continue Chapter 33:1) spoiling you shall be spoiled, when you
make an end of treachery they shall be treacherous against you. (PP)
2. (2) O YHWH be gracious to us, we have waited for you, be their arms for
the mornings, even
3. our salvation in the time of sorrows. (3) The people
retreated from the voice of the multitude, from the exaltation of yourself
they are shattered
4. even the Gentiles. (4) And your spoil will be
gathered like the gathering of the locust, as the rushing of the locust shall
he run to and fro on it. (5) Exalted is
5. YHWH because He is the Shokeyn
(masc form of Shekina) in the highest, He fills Zion with justice and
righteousness. (6) And the faithfulness of
6. of your times is strength;
and the fear of YHWH is salvation, wisdom and knowledge, that is his treasure.
(PP)
7.[*] (7) Behold I
see the raging of them [m ..crying] in the out skirts, the messengers of
peace will weep bitterly (8) The highways are become desolate
8. the one
passing on the path desists, he has [made known] {broken} the covenant, he has
despised the times {cities} he does not take thought of men. (9) It mourns
9. and grows feeble even {&the&} earth, Lebanon [waw
+ dot] is confounded and withered, Sharon is like a desolate plain, and they
shake off their produce
10. Carmel and Bashan. (PP)
11. (10) Now will I arise says YHWH, now will I be exalted, now will I be
lifted up. (11) You shall conceive
12. chaff and bring out stubble, your
own breath as fire shall devour you. (12) and the peoples shall be burnings
13. of bones, as thorns cut down shall they be set alight in the fire.
(13) Hear distant ones that which I am doing
14. and know my power in your
midst. (14) The sinners in Zion are afraid, fear has taken hold
15. of the
godless. Who among us will live with devouring fire, who among us will live
with eternal burnings. (15) The one who walks {&waw&}
16. in
righteousness, and who speaks straightly, the one who hates the unjust gain of
the extortioner, the one shaking his hand from holding
17. a bribe, the
one closing his ears from hearing of blood and the one shutting his eyes from
seeing
18. evil. (16) He shall inhabit fortresses of rocks in the highest
as his refuge, his bread shall be given to him
19. and his water is
assured. (17) The king in his beauty your eyes shall see in a vision your eyes
shall see the land
20. that is far off. (18) Your heart will ponder
terror, where is the writer, where is the one who weighs, where is the one who
numbers
21. {&the&} towers . (19) You shall not see
{&waw&} a barbarous people, a people of a deep speech
incomprehensible,
22. of a stammering tongue which can't be understood.
(20) Envision Zion the city of our congregating, your eyes
23. shall see
Jerusalem a habitation at ease, a tent that will not remove, and they shall
not ever travel
24. even those of its tent pins and none of its
ropes shall ever be pulled apart. (21) Because even there Majestic YHWH
25. is for us a place of doubly wide rivers and streams, neither in them
will go any oared naval ship
26. nor shall a majestic ship pass by us.
(22) Because YHWH is the one judging us and YHWH is the one governing us
27. YHWH is our king, He will save us. (23) Your ropes are cast off they
can not hold fast because [m surely}
28. with their masts they
could not spread the sail, then the time of dividing the abundant spoil, the
lame will loot the booty.
29. (24) And he who dwells there will not say, I
am sick, The people, the ones who dwell in her, the wickedness shall be
carried away. (PP)
Column XXVIII Isaiah 34:1 to 36:2
1. (Chapter 34:1) Draw near O Gentiles to hear and listen O peoples,
let the earth hear and all her fullness, the world system and all that
proceeds from it.
2. (2) Because the wrath of YHWH is upon all the
Gentiles and His anger is on all their hosts, he has completely destroyed
them, He has given them for slaughtering. (3) And their slain ones
3. are
sent out and their dead bodies send upward their stench, and the mountains are
melted with their blood. (4) The valleys shall be broken up [m..dissolved] and
all the hosts of
4. the heavens [shall fall] and the heavens shall be
rolled up like a book and all their hosts shall fall down like a leaf falls
from a vine and as one falling from
5. a fig tree. (5) because [you shall
see] my sword be drenched in heaven, behold it shall come down upon Edom and
on the people of my curse for judgement. (6) The sword
6. of YHWH is full
of blood, it is made fat from the choicest parts, from the blood of lambs,
from the fat of the inward parts of rams because
7. there is a sacrifice
to YHWH in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. (7) and the wild
bulls shall come down with them and the oxen with
8. the bulls and their
land shall be drenched with blood and their dust made fat. (8) Because it is
the day of the vengeance of YHWH and the year
9. of retribution for the
dispute of Zion. (9) and her rivers will be turned into pitch and her dust
into brimstone and her land shall be pitch
10. burning. (10) Night and day
it shall not be put out forever, her smoke shall go up from generation to
generation and it shall be waste forever infinitely,
11. and no one shall
pass over it. (11) And the cormorant and the hedgehog shall possess it and the
owl and the raven shall inhabit it and He shall stretch out over it
12. a
line of indistinctness and shapeless stones. (12) They shall call her nobles
to the kingdom but there will be no one there, and all of her princes shall be
[..as..] nothing. (13) and there shall come up
13. in her palaces,
{&waw&} thorns, nettles and briars in her fortresses and it shall be a
dwelling for monsters and the abode of owls.
14. (14) And the wild beasts
of the deserts and the islands shall join together there and the wild goats
and they shall call to each other, even there the screech owl will alight and
find
15. a rest for themselves. (15) There shall the great owl make her
nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shadow , even there shall be
gathered
16. vultures each to her neighbor. (PP)
17. see (16) Seek
you out of the book of YHWH and read: for not one doctrine will lack her mate
because his own mouth has commanded and his own spirit has gathered them.
18. and his spirit will gather them. (17) And He has cast the lot for them
and His hand has divided it by line to [..them..] {&nun . &} forever
{&they shall possess it&}.[*]
19. from generation to generation
they shall dwell in it. (chapter 35:1.) The wilderness and the desert
will rejoice for them and the plain shall be glad and blossom like the rose
(2) And it shall blossom profusely, and rejoice even with joy and singing the
glory of Lebanon
20. is given to her, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon,
they shall see the glory of YHWH. the [..majesty..] of our God. (PP)
21. (3) Make strong the weak hands, and firm up the tottering knees. (4)
Say to the hasty of heart be strong and do not be afraid behold
22. your
God comes with vengeance, with recommence God himself comes and He will save
you. (5) Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened
23. and the ears of
the deaf shall be opened., (6) Then the lame shall leap like a deer and the
tongue of the dumb shall sing, because of the breaking out in the wilderness
24. of water and streams in abundance [m..the plain] [+shall go out+]. (7)
and the dry ground will change to a muddy pool and the thirsty ground
to springs of water. In the habitation of serpents
25. where they lie down
shall be vegetation for reeds and papyrus. (8) And a highway shall be
there [there redundant] [m..and a way] and it shall be called the way of
holiness, they shall not pass over it {&waw&} the unclean [in margin]
26. But [.. it shall be..] for them [see dots] who are walking
the way, even fools shall not wander astray. (9) There shall not be a lion or
a violent beast there, they shall not
27. go up upon it they will
not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there (10) And the
ransomed of YHWH shall return and come to Zion with singing and joy
28.
everlasting upon their heads and they shall [add. beth he] obtain
gladness and joy and grief and sighing shall flee. (PP)
See [*]
29. (11) Chapter 36:1) And it was in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah that Sennacherib
king of Assyria came up against all the cities of Judah,
30. the fortified
ones and seized them (2) And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakah from Lachish
to Jerusalem to the king
31. Hezekiah with a [very] great army and they
stood at the ascent of the upper spring in the highway of the launderer's
field.
Column XXIX Isaiah 36:3 to 36:20
1. (36:3) And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the household
went out to him and Shevnah the scribe
2. and Joach the son of Asaph the
recorder. (4) And Rabshakah said to them, speak please
3. to Hezekiah
[...king of Judah...] the great king, the king of Assyria says What
4. is
this trust where with you are trusting. (5) I am saying (you say) -- but they
are lip-service words --
5. I have counsel and might for war. Now
upon whom do you trust that you rebel against me. (6) Behold
6. you are
trusting in the support of this broken cane, upon Egypt which should he lean
7. a man on it and it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharoah
king of Egypt to all who are trusting
8. in him. (7) And if you shall say
to me we trust in YHWH our God, Is it not He of Whom
9. Hezekiah has taken
away his high places and [...His altars...] and said to Judah and to Jerusalem
10. before this altar you shall worship [...in Jerusalem...and not in M ]?
(8) And now please give hostages to my lord
11. the king of Assyria and I
will give to you two thousand horses if you are able for yourself to put
riders
12. upon them (9) and how will you turn away the face of one of the
smallest of the captains from the servants of my lord
13. and you trust
for yourself on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen (10) And now have I come
up with out YHWH
14. against this land to cause its destruction, YHWH said
to me Go up to this land
15. to destroy it. (11) Then said Eliakim and
Shevnah and Joach to Rabshakah, please speak to your servants
16. [margin:
with us] in Aramaic because we understand it and do not speak these words* in
the ears of *[m adds "in Jewish"]
17. the men [m..people] [who are
dwelling] on the wall. (12) And Rabshakah said, is it to you and upon
18.
your lord that my lord has sent me to speak these words? Is it not to these
men
19. the ones dwelling on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink
their own urine [m..water of the feet]
20. with you. (13) The Rabshakah
stood {&waw&} and cried with a great voice in Jewish and he said
21. Hear the words of the great king the king of Assyria (14) Thus says
the king of Assyria Do not let him deceive
22. you, even Hezekiah
because he is not able to deliver you. (15) And do let Hezekiah cause you to
trust
23. in YHWH saying, , YHWH will most certainly deliver us and this
city will not be given into the hand of
24. the king of Assyria. (16) Do
not listen to Hezekiah because thus says the king of Assyria make with me
25. a bribe and come out to me and eat you each man of his own vine and
each man of his own fig tree and drink each man the waters of
26. his own
well. (17) until I come and take you to a land like your own land to a land of
corn
27. and new wine a land of bread and vineyards. (18) Watch
lest Hezekiah incite you saying
28. YHWH will deliver us, has any of the
gods of the nations delivered to a man his land out of the hand of the king of
Assyria
29. (19) Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad, where are the
gods of Sephervaim and when {&have&} they delivered
30. Samaria
from my hand? (20) Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their
land
Column XXX Isaiah 36:30 to 37:24
1. (Continue 36:20) from my hand that YHWH should deliver Jerusalem
from my hand? (21) But they were silent and answered him not a word because
the commandment of
2. the king was this, saying: do not answer him. (PP)
3. (22) And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the household and
Shevnah the scribe and Joach son of Asaph the recorder came to
4. Hezekiah
with torn clothes and they told him the words of Rabshakah. (Chapter
37:1) and it was when Hezekiah the king heard it
5. he tore his
clothes and he covered himself in sack cloth and he went to the house of YHWH.
(2) and he sent Eliakim who was over the household
6. and Shevnah the
scribe and the father of [m..eth.] the elders of the priests covered in sack
cloth to Isaiah the son of Amots the prophet
7. (3) And they said to him,
Thus says Hezekiah today is a day of sorrow trouble and blasphemy because
children have come
8. to the place of breaking forth and there is
no strength to bear. (4) Perhaps YHWH your God will hear the words
{&mem&}of Rabshakah whom he sent
9. even the king of
Assyria his lord to reproach the living God and He will rebuke on the words
which YHWH your God has heard so you will lift up {&tah&}
10. a
prayer for the sake of the remnant of what is still found here
[+in this city+]. (5) and the servants of the king {&kaph&} Hezekiah
came to Isaiah
[Lines 11-13 are
written in tiny letters]
11. (6) And Isaiah said to them thus shall you say to your lord, Thus says
YHWH do not be afraid at the presence of the words
12. which you have
heard with which the youths of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me (7)
Behold I will send a spirit in him and he shall hear a report and shall return
to his own land [in margin: and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
own land.]
13. (8) And Rabshakah returned and he found the king of Assyria
fighting against Libnah because he heard that he had traveled from Lachish.
(9) and he heard
14. about Tirhakah king of Ethiopia saying: he is coming out to fight with
you and he heard and he returned and he sent messengers to
15. Hezekiah
saying (10) Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah saying, do not let
your God deceive you
16. who you trust in Him saying Jerusalem shall not
be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. (11) Behold you have heard
17. that which the kings of Assyria did to the lands to destroy them and
then shall you be delivered? (12) Have the gods delivered them
18.
the nations which my fathers destroyed like Gozen or Charan or Rezep or the
children of Eden who were in Telesar? (13) Where
19. is the king of Hamath
or the king of Arphad or the king of the city of Sephervaim, Hena and Ivah
[+and Samaria+]. (PP)
20. (14) And Hezekiah took the writings from the hand of the messengers and
he read them [m..it] and he went up to the house of YHWH and he spread them
21. {&Hezekiah&} before YHWH. (15) And Hezekiah prayed to YHWH
saying (16) YHWH of Hosts God of Israel who dwells
22. by the cherubim You
are He the only God for all the kingdoms of the earth, you have made the
heavens
23. and the earth (17) Stretch out your ear YHWH and hear open
your eyes YHWH and see and hear all the words
24. of Sennacherib which he
sends to reproach the living God. (18) Surely YHWH the kings of Assyrian have
made desolate all
25. the countries [..m+ and their lands+] (19) and they
[m..he] have given their gods into the fire because they are no gods except
the works of the hands of
26. man, wood and stone and they destroyed them.
(20) And now YHWH our God save us from his hand and they shall know all
27. the kingdoms of the earth alone you are YHWH [+God+]. (PP)
28. (21) And Isaiah the son of Amots sent unto Hezekiah saying Thus says
YHWH the God of Israel of that which
29. you prayed to him [m..me] about
Sennacherib king of Assyria, (22) this is the word that YHWH is speaking about
him: She has despised you
30. and mocked after you even the virgin
daughter of Zion, the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
Who have you reproached
31. and blasphemed and against whom have you
exalted your voice and lifted up on high? against God the Holy One of Israel.
(24) By the hand of
Column XXXI Isaiah 37:24 to 38:8
1. (Continue 37:24) your servants you have reproached my Lord and
you said by the multitude of my chariots I will go up to the highest mountains
to the sides of
2. Lebanon and I will cut down the high cedars from the
choicest fir trees and I will go to the highest end of his Carmel. (25) I
3. have read [m..dug] and I have drunk [foreign] water and I have dried up
with the sole of my feet all of the rivers of the fortresses. (26) Have you
not heard
4. from afar that I have done it, from ancient days that I have
formed it and now I have brought it to pass that you should make
desolate
5. fortress cities into Nazarene [m..stripped
off] heaps (27) Therefore their inhabitants were of shortened hands,, they
were dismayed and the inhabitants [m..ashamed], were as grass of the field
6. and as green vegetation and the grass on roofs like fields scorched
anciently {&waw&} before your standing up. [m.. blasted before they
are grown up.] (28) and your dwelling and your going out and your coming in
7. I know and your rage against me (29) Because your rage against me and
your arrogance {&aleph&} is come up into my ears, and I will put my
hook into your nose and my bit
8. into your lips and I will cause you to
return in the same way in which you came. (30) And this is a sign for you, you
shall eat
9. this year of after growth and in the second year volunteer
grain and in the third year you shall sow and you shall reap and you shall
plant
10. vineyards and eat the fruit. (31) And {&those escaped of the
house of Judah&} and the thing found [m..remnant] shall again take root
downward and make fruit upward (32) because
11. From Zion [m..Jerusalem]
the remnant shall go out and the escapees from Jerusalem [m..mount Zion] The
zeal of YHWH of Hosts will do this. (PP)
12. (33) Therefore thus says YHWH to the king of Assyria, He will not come
into this city, and he will not
13. pour out a mound upon it nor shoot an
arrow there, nor come in front of it with shields. (34) By the way which he
came
14. in it he shall return and into this city he shall not come says
YHWH. (35) And I will defend this city
15. to save it for my own sake and
for the sake of David my servant. (PP)
16. (36) And the angel of YHWH went out and struck in the camp of the
Assyrians, one hundred and eighty five thousand, and they rose up in the
morning
17. and behold all of them were dead corpses. (37) And Sennacherib
king of Assyria he returned and he dwelled at Nineveh.
18. And he was
worshipping in the house of Nisrok his god and Adrammelek and Sharezer his
sons struck him with the sword
19. and they escaped into the land of
Ararat and Essarhaden his son reigned in his place.. (PP)
20. (Chapter 38:1) And in those days Hezekiah was deathly sick and
Isaiah son of Amots the prophet came to him and he said
21. to him Thus
says YHWH command your house you shall die and you shall not live (2) And
Hezekiah turned
22. his face to the wall and he prayed to YHWH (3) and he
said, I pray O YHWH please remember how I have walked before you
23. in
truth and with a perfect heart and the good in your eyes I have done and
Hezekiah wept a great weeping
24. (4) And the word of YHWH came to Isaiah
saying: (5) Go and you shall say to Hezekiah, Thus says YHWH
25. the God
of David your father, I have heard your prayer and I see your tears behold I
am adding to
26. your days fifteen years. (6) And from the hand of the
king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city and I will defend
27.
upon this city [for my own sake and for the sake of David my servant]. (7) And
this is to you the sign from YHWH that he will do
28. even YHWH,
this thing which he has spoken. (8) Behold I will cause the shadow to return
of the degrees which have gone down in the sundial
29. upon Achaz by the
sun backward ten degrees and the sun returned ten degrees in the degrees
Column XXXII Isaiah 38:8 to 40:2
1. (Continue 38:8) by which it had gone down. (9) The letter of
Hezekiah king of Judah during his sickness and he revived from his sickness.
2. (10) I myself said in the cessation of my {&waw&} days I have
gone to the gates of Sheol I have been visited from the remainder of my years.
(11) I said I shall not
3. see Yah in the land of the living and I will
not behold mankind anymore with the dwellers of the world-system (12) My
generation has departed
4. and it is consumed [m..rolled up] from me like
a shepherds tent, I am writing like one weaving, my life like pining he has
cut me off from day till night you will make an end of me.
5. (13) I
babbled [m..compared] till morning, as a lion, so will he break all my bones:
from day till night you will make an end of me.
6. (14.) Like a horse
or a swallow, thus I chirped: I mourned like a dove: my eyes hang down
from on high. O Lord I have oppression;
7. carry me over. (15.) What shall
I say? he spoke to me, and He himself has done it: [+ to me+] I shall
go softly all my years upon the bitterness
8. of soul. (16.) O Lord, upon
these they live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit: and will you
take the sickness from me, and cause me to live.
9. (17.) Behold, instead
of peace it was very bitter to me: but you loved my soul from the pit of
nothingness because you have cast
10. behind your back all my sins. (18.)
For the grave can not thank you, death can not praise you: they can not hope
11. who go down into the pit, for your truth. (19.) The living, the
living, he shall thank you, as I do today: the father to the sons is will
cause knowledge
12. to your truth. (20.) YHWH was for saving me: [+ the
living the living thank you as I do today the father to the sons
13. will
cause knowledge to them to your truth, YHWH was for saving me+] and we will
sing my songs with the stringed instruments all the days of
14. our life
in the house of YHWH (21.) For Isaiah said, a cake of figs, and rub it on the
boil, {the rest of this line is written in the margin} [and he shall live.
(22.) Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of
the LORD?]
15. (Chapter 39:1.) At that time Merodachbaladan, the
son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent books and a present to
16. Hezekiah:
for he had heard that he had was sick, and had lived [m..regained strength].
(2.) And Hezekiah rejoiced for them, and showed them
17. all the house of
his treasures, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good oil,
18. and all the house of his implements, and all that was found in his
treasures: there was not a thing that he did not
19. show them even
Hezekiah, {&waw&} in his house and in all his government. (PP)
20. (3.) And Isaiah the prophet came to the {&H&} king Hezekiah,
and said to him, What did they say the men
21. these ones. and from where
did they come to you. And Hezekiah said, from a far land they came to me, from
Babylon.
22. (4.) And he said What did they see in your house. and
Hezekiah said they saw all that is in my house there is not
23. a thing
that I did not show them in my treasures. (PP)
24. (5.) And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of YHWH of hosts (6.)
Behold, the days are coming,
25. that all that is in your house shall be
carried away, (and that which your fathers have treasured up until this day)
to Babylon [+and they shall come+]:
26. and not a thing shall be left,
says YHWH. (7.) And of your sons who shall go out from you, who shall be born
to you they shall take
27. and they shall be eunuchs in the palace
of the king of Babylon. (8.) And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good
28. [*] is
the word of YHWH which you have spoken, he explained, Because there shall be
peace and truth in my days. (PP)
29. (Chapter 40:1.) Be comforted, be comforted my people, and your
God says. (2.) Speak with the heart to Jerusalem, and call to her,
Column XXXIII Isaiah 40:2 to 40:28
1. (Continue Chapter 40:2) that her warfare is completed because her
iniquity is pardoned: for she received from the hand of YHWH two handfuls for
all
2. her sins (3.) A voice crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of
the YHWH, make straight in the desert
3. a highway for our God. (4.) Every
valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low,
and the sly shall be straightened,
4. and the rough places as a valley.
(5.) And the glory of YHWH shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together: because the mouth of
5. YHWH has spoken. (PP)
6. (6.) The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all the pleasantness of it is as the flower of
7. the field:
(7.) The grass dries, the flower droops: [*because the spirit of YHWH blows on
it:*] The text is confused here see explanation in
comments [..he speaks..] [our God will stand forever] surely the people is
grass. [the rest is in the margin] (8.) The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God
8. (9.) upon a high hill go, go up, with good news
O Zion, raise up your voice in strength with good news; O Jerusalem,
9.
lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the cities {&waw&} of Judah,
Behold your God. (10.) Behold, the Lord YHWH
10. will come in strength,
and his arm shall govern for him behold, his reward is with him, and his work
before him. (11.) Like a shepherd
11. his flock He shall feed: in his arm
he shall gather the lambs and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently
lead those who are nursing.(PP)
12. (12.) Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the waters [+of the
sea+], and balanced the heavens with [+his+] span and contained the dust of
the earth in third part, and weighed
13. in scales the mountains, and the
hills in encampments [m..a balance] (13.) Who measured out the Spirit of YHWH
or what man being his counsellor brought him knowledge. (14.)
And
14. who was His counsellor, or who brought Him understanding, or
taught him in the path of judgment, or taught him knowledge, and the way of
understanding caused Him to know.
15. (15.) Behold, the Gentiles are as a
drop from a bucket, and are thought as the fine dust of the balances, behold,
he takes up the islands as a little thing. (16.) And Lebanon
16. has not
enough to burn, and its beasts are not enough for a burnt offering. (PP)
17. (17.) All the Gentiles are as nothing before him; and as nonexistent
they are accounted to him, and a void. (18.) And to whom will you compare God.
18. and to what comparison will you compare to me [m..him] (19.) The
craftsman [+makes+] a melting of an idol, and the smelter overlays it with
gold, and chains
19. of silver he casts. (20.) The one being too
poor for an offering a non - rotting tree he chooses, he seeks for
himself a wise craftsman to prepare an idol,
20 that will not be shaken.
(21.) Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told from the
start to you? have you not understood
21. from the foundations of the
earth? (22.) He is the one sitting on the circle of the earth, and its
inhabitants are as grasshoppers; He is the one stretching out as a curtain
22. the heavens, and He spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.
(23.) He is placing commanders as nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as
a void.
23. (24.) Yet, they shall not be planted; yet, they shall not be
sown: yet, their stem shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also
([..blow..]see
explanation) on them, and they shall dry up,
24. and the whirlwind
shall bear them away like chaff. (PP)
25. (25.) To whom will you liken me, or shall I be compared? says the Holy
One. (26.) Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created
26. these
things, the one who brings out by number their host: he calls them all by
names by exalted power and might and strength;
27. not one is made to
fail. (PP)
28. (27.) Why does Jacob speak and Israel say, My way is hidden from YHWH
and from my God my judgment
29. is passed over (28.) Have you not known?
have you not heard, that the everlasting God, YHWH, the Creator of the ends of
the earth,
Column XXXIV Isaiah 40:29 to 41:23
1. (Continue Chapter 40:28) is not tired nor weary? there is no
search for his understanding. 29 He gives strength to the tired; and to those
having no vigor, might.
2. He increases. (30.) Youths become weary, and
the choice ones shall completely stumble. (31.) But the ones who wait upon
YHWH shall renew their strength; they shall go up
3. winged as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.(PP)
4. (Chapter 41:1.) Be speechless before me, O islands; and let the
people renew strength: let them come near; then they will speak, together for
judgment.we will draw near. (PP)
[*]
5. (2.) Who raises up the
righteous man from the east, called him to his feet, gave the Gentiles before
him, and caused him to dominate kings? he gave
6. them as the dust
for his sword, and as chaff being driven by his bow. (3.) He pursued
them, and passed in peace; the way his feet did not understand. see note (4.)
Who
7. has worked and done it, calling the generations from the start? I
YHWH am the first, and the last; I am he. (PP)
[*]
8. (5.) The islands saw it, and they were afraid; the ends of the earth
[together] [m...trembled] drew near, and arrived. (6.) each man helped his
neighbor; {&waw&}
9. to his brother he said, Be strong. (7.) And
the craftsman strengthened the smelter, and the one smoothing with hammer him
who strikes the anvil, and he says
10. It is good for soldering: and he
makes it firm with nails, so it does not move. (PP) [*]
11. (8.) But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob I have chosen you, the seed
of Abraham my friend. (9.) I have strengthened you
12. from the ends of
the earth, and from her chief men I have called you, and I said
{&waw&} to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and have not
13. rejected you. (10.) Do not be afraid; for I am with you: do not be
dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you;
14. yet, I will help
you; yet, I will support you with the right hand of my righteousness. (11.)
[+Behold,+] they shall be ashamed and humiliated all who are incensed against
you and they shall perish [m+ they shall be as nothing]
15. all the men
striving with you. (PP)
.. A blank line See
note.[*]
16 (12.) [Q omits You shall seek them, and shall not find them,} the men
of your strife: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and finished.
(13.) Because I YHWH your God
17. will hold your right hand, saying to
you, Fear not; I will help you. (14.) Do not be afraid O worm Jacob
18.
and friends of Israel; I will help you, says YHWH, and your Redeemer, the Holy
One of Israel. (15.) Behold, I will put you
19. as a new sharp threshing
tool owning teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and crush them, and shall
make the hills like chaff. (16.) You shall winnow them, and the wind
20.
shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them and you shall
rejoice in YHWH, in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
21. (17.) When
the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue in thirst
is parched, I YHWH will hear them,
22. The God of Israel will not abandon
them. (18.) I will open rivers in high places, and in the midst of valleys
fountains:
23. I will make the wilderness as a pool of water, and blighted
land as springs of water. (19.) I will give in the wilderness cedar, the
acacia tree,
24. and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will put in the
desert plain the fir tree, and the pine, together: [m..+the box tree] (20.) So
that they may see,
25. and know, and understand, {&.consider.&}
and comprehend together, that the hand of YHWH has done this, and the Holy One
of Israel
26.[*] has created it ........... (21.) Draw near your argument,
says YHWH; bring out your strongest,
27. says the King of Jacob. (22.) Let
them bring them out, and tell us that which is going to happen: let them show
the first things, as they were,
28. let them tell them that we may set
them in our hearts, and know then the latter end; or things to come. declare
to us. (23.) Tell us
Column XXXV Isaiah 41:23 to 42:17
1. (Continue Chapter 41:23 )the symbols of the latter days, that we
may know that you are gods: indeed, make either a good thing or an evil thing,
2. and we will hear [m..that we may be amazed,] and behold it together.
(24.) Behold, you are from nothing, and your work {m+..is worthless:] and an
abomination. is he who chooses
3. you (25.) I have awakened one
from the north, and they shall arrive from [*] eastward to the sun and he
shall call upon my name: and they shall come
4. to governors as to
mortar, and as the potter treads clay. (26.) Who has told from the beginning,
that we may know?
5. and before, that we may say, He is righteous?
yet, there is none telling, yet, there is none announcing, yet, there is none
hearing
6. your words. (PP)
7. (27.) Behold the first of Zion, behold them: and to Jerusalem I will
give one who brings good tidings. (28.) And I looked, and there was no man
among them,
8. and there was no counsellor, and I asked of them, and they
returned not a word. (29.) Behold, they are nothing and worthless their works
are wind [m..+behold all of them are vanity, their works are nothing]
9.
and their idols are emptiness.{&yod&} (PP)
10. (Chapter 42:1) Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen,
in whom my soul delights; I put my spirit upon him: and his judgement
11. will go out to the Gentiles. (2.) He shall not cry, nor shout, nor
cause his voice to be heard in the outskirts. (3.) A bruised reed
12. he
shall not break, and the smoking flax he shall not quench: for truth he shall
bring out judgement. (4.) He shall not falter nor be
13. discouraged,
until he puts judgement in the earth: and the islands shall inherit his Torah.
(PP)
14. (5.). Thus says The God (ha-el) and God (elohiym) [m=YHWH,] the creator
of the heavens, (and stretched them out in the firmament) and the
earth,
15. and that which comes out of it; the Giver of breath (neshamah)
to the people upon it, and spirit to those walking in it: (6.) I [m..+YHWH]
have called you. [*] It is well worth inserting here a note referring to
the most interesting notations or symbols above the last word in this
line. See the notes
here.
16. in righteousness, and I will hold your hand, and will keep
you, [a nazarene
word] and I will give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of
the Gentiles;
17. (7.) To open the blind eyes, to bring out from prison
the prisoners, and from the house of confinement those who sit in darkness.
18. (8.) I am YHWH that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to idols. (9.) The first things, I told and
19. behold, they have come to pass, and new things I tell: before they
spring up I tell you of them.
20. (10.) Sing to YHWH a new song, and his
praise from the end of the earth, the ones going down to the sea, and the
fullness of the islands,
21. and the inhabitants of them. (11.) Let
wilderness and her cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar
inhabits: let the inhabitants of Sela (Petra) sing,
22. let them
roar [m...cry] from the top of the mountains. (12.) Let them set glory to YHWH
and let them tell his praise in the islands. (PP)
See notes[*]
23. (13). YHWH shall go out as a mighty man, like a man of war: he shall
awaken jealousy he shall know [m...cry] even, roar;
24. against his
enemies he shall prevail. (14.) I have kept silent [+even+] from long ago; I
have been speechless and restrained myself:, like one in childbirth;
25. I
will scream, I will groan and pant together. (15.) I will lay waste mountains
and hills, and all their vegetation
26. I will dry up; and I will set the
rivers as islands, and I will dry up the pools. (16.) And I will cause the
blind to walk in a way
27. that they did not know; in paths that they did
not know I will lead them: I will make darkness light before them,
28. and
crooked things straight. These things will I do to them, and will not abandon
them. (17.) They shall be turned around backward and greatly
29. ashamed
who trust in idols, who say to the molten images, you are our gods. (PP)
Column XXXVI Isaiah 42:18 to 43:20
1. (Chapter 42:18) Let the deaf hear; and cause the blind to look,
to see. (19.) Who is blind, except but my servant or as deaf as my messenger
2. whom I sent? who is as blind as the self-confident, and as blind as
YHWH's servant? (20.) You see many things, but you observe not; he opens
3. [*X] the ears, but he does not hear. (21.) YHWH is pleased for his
righteousness' sake; and he magnifies and makes honorable the law.
(22.) But this is
4. a people robbed and plundered; all of them are
trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are for loot, and
no one is delivering;
5. for plundering, and no one says, return (23.) Who
among you will listen to this? who will draw near and hear of the latter
things? (24.) Who
6. gave Jacob for plundering, and Israel to the robbers?
did not YHWH, he against whom we have sinned? for they were not willing
7.
walk in his ways, nor would they obey His Torah. (25.) And He poured on him
His furious anger, and the strength of war: and it has set him on fire
8.
round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he did not take it to
heart. (PP)
9. (Chapter 43:1) But now thus says YHWH your creator,{&yod}
Jacob, and the one who formed {&yod&} you, O Israel, Do not be afraid:
for I have redeemed you,
10. I have called you by your name; you are mine.
{&aleph&} (2.) When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you:
11. when you walk
through the fire, you shall not be scorched nor shall the flame burn you. (PP)
12. (3.) For I am YHWH your God, the Holy One of Israel, {&your
redeemer&} [m.. your Savior:] I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and
Sheba instead of you.
13. (4.) Because you were precious in my sight, you
have been glorified, and I have loved you: therefore I give the {&H&}
men for you, and people instead
14. for your soul. (5.) Do not be afraid:
for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from
the west; (6.) I will say
15. to the north, Give up; and to the south,
Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the
earth; (7.) Everyone
16. who is called by my name: for I have created him
for my glory, I formed him; yes, I have made him. (8.). Bring him with the
blind
17. who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. (9.) Let all the
Gentiles be gathered together, and let the people be assembled:
18. who
among them can tell this, and proclaim to us first things? let them give their
witnesses, and they will be justified: or let them hear,
19. and let them
say, this is truth. (10.) You are my witnesses, says YHWH, and my servant whom
I have chosen: so that you may know and believe
20. me, and understand
that I am he: before me there was no God formed, nor after me will there be.
(PP)
21. (11.) I, even I, am YHWH; and beside me there is no savior.
(12.) I have told, and have saved, and I have declared, when there was no
22. alien god among you: and you are my witnesses, says YHWH, that
I am God.
(13.) also before the day was I am He; and there is none who can
deliver out of my hand:
23. I work, and who shall return it? (PP)
24. 14. Thus says YHWH LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For
your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down their nobles,
25.
all of them, and the Chaldeans, whose song is in the ships. (15) I am the
LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. (PP)
[*]
26 (16.) Thus says YHWH, who makes a roadway in the sea, and a pathways in
the mighty waters; (17.) Who brings out the chariot and horse,
27. the
army and the might together; they shall lie down they shall not rise up: they
are quenched, they are put out like a wick. (18.) Do not cause to remember the
first things,
28. nor consider the ancient things. <19.) Behold, I make
a new thing; now it shall spring up; shall you not know it? Yes
29. I will
make a roadway in the wilderness, and rivers in the Jeshimon. (20.) The beast
of the field shall glorify me, the sea monster and the owls:
Column XXXVII Isaiah 43:20 to 44:23
1. (Continue Chapter 43:20) because I give waters in the wilderness,
and rivers in Jeshimon, to give drink to my people, and my chosen. (21.) This
people have I formed for myself; they shall speak my praise. (PP)
2. (22.) But you did not call me, Jacob; because you were weary of me,
Israel. (23.) You did not bring me a sheep for a burnt offering; and with your
sacrifices
3. you did not glorify me. [+and you did not make me a
present+] [m..I have not caused you to serve] and I have not wearied you with
incense. (24.) You did not buy for me with silver sweet cane
4. nor with
the fat of your sacrifices have you filled me, but you have made me to serve
with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities. (25.) I, even
I,
5. am He, the one blotting out your transgressions for my own sake, and
I will remember your sins no longer (26.) Cause me to remember, let us judge
together: explain in what manner [*]
6. you are justified. (27.) Your
first father sinned, and your leaders transgressed against me.
(28) and I
have cursed the princes of holiness, and gave Jacob to the curse,
7. and
Israel to reproaches. [*] (Chapter 44:1) Yet now hear, O Jacob my
servant; and Israel, my chosen [come, or: in it]: (PP)
[*]
8.(2.) Thus says YHWH the one who made you, and the one who formed you from
the womb, the one helping you; Do not be afraid Jacob, my servant; and you,
Jeshurun, my chosen [come or to it].
9. (3.) because I will pour water on
the thirsty, and floods on the dry land: {&thus&} I will pour my
spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon your offspring: (4.) And they
shall spring up as among
10. the grass, as willows by the streams of
water. (5.) This one will say, I am YHWH's; and this one shall call on the
name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand
11. to YHWH and on
the name of Israel he shall be titled (PP)
12. (6.) Thus says YHWH the King of Israel, and his Redeemer YHWH of hosts
[+is his name]; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no
God.
13. (7.) And who is like me, who can call, and tell, and explain for
myself since I placed the people of antiquity; The things that have
happened.let them say, the things that are coming the things to come in future
Let them tell
14. to us. (8.) Do not fear, nor be afraid: have I not from
then spoken of it to you, and have told it? you are my witnesses. Is there a
God beside me? There is no god of
15. stone that I know..(9.) The
makers an idol all of them are empty; and their coveted things without profit;
and their own witnesses {&they are&} they do not see and they do not
know; so that
16. they may be ashamed. (10.) Who forms a god, or casts an
idol for no profit? (11.) Behold, all his friends shall be ashamed for the
workmen are from mankind; They are gathered together
17. all of them and
they stand up they are afraid and they are ashamed together. (12.) The iron
worker works with tongs in the coals, and fashions {&yod&} it with
hammers, and works it
18. with the strength of his arms: also he is
hungry, and he has no strength: he drinks no water, and is tired. (13.) The
craftsman{&yod&}of wood stretches out his ruler; he marks it
out with a line;
19. he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the
compass, and makes it in the shape of a man, according to human excellence, to
abide in the house, (14.) for hewing down
20. for himself cedars, and
taking the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the
trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain makes it grow. (15.) Then
it shall blaze [m..be] for man for burning: and he will take
21. from
them, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he labors it
a god, and worships it; he makes an idol, and falls down to it. (16.) Half he
burns in
22. the fire; {&and with&} half of it he
eats flesh; he kindles and he warms himself he roasts meat, and is
satisfied: he warms himself, and says to his brother, I am warm, I am
before the light [m..fire:] (17.) And with the remains he makes a god,
23.
from a tree trunk {m...even his graven image:] and he falls down to it and
worships and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god. (18.) They
do not know nor understand
24. for he has plastered their eyes, from
seeing; and their hearts, from understanding. (19.) And none returns to
his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say [+to say+],
25.
I have burned part of it in the fire; yes I have baked bread upon the coals; I
have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and the rest I shall make an abomination?
shall I fall down to the trunk
26. of a tree? (20) He feeds on dust a
deceived heart has stretched him out, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor
say, There is falsehood in my right hand. (PP)
27. (21.) Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I
have formed you my servant: Israel, I shall not forget you. (22.) I have
blotted out, as a cloud,
28. your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your
sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you. (PP)
29. (23.) Sing, O heavens; for YHWH has done it: shout, under parts of the
earth: break out into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree there:
because YHWH has redeemed
Column XXXVIII Isaiah 44:23 to 45:21
1. (Continue Chapter 44:23) [*] Jacob, and has done wonders in
Israel. Thus says YHWH, your redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb,
2. I am YHWH maker of all things; stretching out the heavens alone;
spreading abroad the earth by myself; (25.) Frustrating the symbols of
the{& liars&}, and making those doing divination
3. to
rant; turning around the {&wise men&} backward, and making their
knowledge foolish; (26.) confirming the word of his servant, and He rewards
the counsel of his messengers; the one saying
4. to Jerusalem, You shall
be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, you shall be built, and your wasted
places I will raise them up: 27 saying to the deep, Be dry,
5. and I will
dry up your rivers: (28.) saying of Cyrus, he is my shepherd, and all my
desires he will complete: and saying to Jerusalem, you shall be built;
6.
[*] and to the temple, your {&yod&}foundation shall be laid. ...
(Chapter 45:1) Thus says YHWH to his messiah, to Cyrus, whose right
hand I have held,
7. to bring down Gentiles before him; and I will loose
the loins of kings, to open before him the two doored gates; and the
gates shall not be shut; (2.) I
8. will go before you, and make straight:
the crooked places I will shatter the gates of brass, and chop up the bars of
iron: (3.) And I will give
9. to you the treasures of darkness, and riches
of secret places, so that you will know that I YHWH, the One calling you by
your name,
10. am the God of Israel. (4.) For the sake of Jacob my
servant, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your {&yod&} name:
[m..+I have surnamed you,] and neither
11. did you know me. (5.) I am
YHWH, and there is no one else, and beside me there is no God I girded you,
and you did not know me: (6.) So that they will know
12. from the rising
of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am YHWH, and
there is no one else. (7.) I am the former of the light, and creator of
darkness:
13. making good {m..peace..m), and creating evil: I YHWH am
doing all these things. (PP)
14. (8.) [m..+ Drop down,] you heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour
out righteousness, speak to the earth and let it sprout salvation, let
righteousness be made to spring out [the rest of verse 8 is not in Q "I am
YHWH I created it"] (PP)
15. [ SPACE] (9.) Woe to him who argues with the One making him. as the
potsherd argues with the potsherds of the earth. [+Woe+] to the one
saying
16. to the One forming it, What are you making? or: your work, it
has no [+human+] hands? (10.) Woe to him who says to his father, What did you
beget? or to the woman,
17. [{What}] have you brought forth? (11.). Thus
says YHWH {&the Holy One of Israel,&} and his Maker, Ask me of future
signs concerning my sons, and concerning the work of
18. [{my hands.}]
Command me! (12.) I made the earth, and man upon it I created: I, even my
hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all
19. [{their host]|} have I
commanded. (13.) I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will straighten
all his ways: he shall build
20. [{my city, and the ca}]ptive he shall
send out, not for price nor reward, says YHWH of hosts. (PP)
21. (14.) [{ Thus says)] YHWH, The toil of Egypt, and merchandise of
Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, they shall pass over to you, and
they shall be yours:
22. [{behind they shall c}]ome in fetters; they shall
pass over, and they shall fall down and worship you, and to you they shall
pray, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is no other,
23. [{and there
is no other G}]od. (15.) Therefore you are a God of hidden places, O
God of Israel, the Savior. (16.) They shall be ashamed, and also humiliated,
all of them:
24. {[together}] shall go to humiliation who are
craftsmen of stone idols. (17.) Israel shall be saved by YHWH with an
everlasting salvation:
25. you shall not be ashamed nor humiliated for
ever and ever. (PP)
26. (18.) For thus says YHWH creator of the heavens; He is the God and He
formed the earth and made it; and he
27. prepared it, He did not create it
void, he formed it to be inhabited: I am YHWH; and there is no one else. (19)
I did not speak in secret,
28. in a dark place of the earth: I did not say
to the seed of Jacob in vain, Seek me; I YHWH speak
29. righteousness,
telling things that are straight. (20.) Assemble yourselves and come; draw
near [m..+together], and with him who is escaped from the Gentiles: Neither
30. do the ones setting up the wood of their idols know, that they pray to
a god that cannot save. (21.) Let them tell, and bring them near;
Column XXXIX Isaiah 45:21 to 47:11
1. (Continue chapter 45:21) yes, let them take counsel together: who
has announced this from antiquity? who has told it from then? Is it not I
YHWH? and there is no other
2. God beside me; a righteous God and a
Savior; there is none beside me. (22.) Turn to me, and be saved, all the ends
of the earth: because
3. I am God, and there is no other. 23 By myself I
have sworn, the word of righteousness is gone out of my mouth, and shall not
return [m...+ empty,] That to me shall bow,
4. every knee and every tongue
shall swear. (24.) even by YHWH he shall say to me,
righteousness and
strength: and to him shall they come; and they shall be ashamed
5. all who
are infuriated against him. (25.) In YHWH all the seed of Israel shall be
justified, and shall glorify. (Chapter 46:1) Baal bows down, Nebo
stoops,
6. their idols on beasts, and on the cattle: your load was a heavy
burden [Q+ according to their report] (2.) They stoop, they bow down
7.
together; they were not able deliver the burden, but their souls are gone into
captivity. (PP)
8. (3.) Hear me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of
Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, who are carried by me
9. in
mercies. (4.) until your old age I am He; and until to grey hairs I will carry
you: I have made, and I will bear; and I
10. will carry, and will save
you. (5.) To whom will you liken me, and make me agree, and compare me, that I
may be likened?
11. (6.) They pour out gold out of the bag, and weigh
silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall
down, yes, they worship it.
12. (7) They bear it upon their shoulder, they
carry it, and set it under it, and it stands; it shall not move from its
place: yes, one shall cry
13. to it, and it will not answer, and out of
his trouble will not save him [Q+weakness] (8.) Remember this, and be manly: O
transgressors take it
14. to heart, (9.) Remember the first things of
ancient time: for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is
no one like me, (10.) Telling
15. the end from the beginning, and from
antiquity the things that are not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I
will do all my pleasure:
16. (11.) Calling a bird of prey from the east
the man of my counsel from afar yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it
to pass; I have formed it,
17. Yes I will do it. (PP)
18. (12.) Listen to me, you bullheaded, who are far from righteousness:
(13.) I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation
19. shall not lag behind: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my
glory. (PP)
20. (Chapter 47:1) Come down, and sit upon the dust, O virgin
daughter of Babylon, sit on the earth: there is no throne, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for
21. you shall no longer be called soft and dainty. (2.)
Take the millstones, and grind meal: roll back the veils, make bare
22.
the skirt, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. (3.) Your nakedness shall
be uncovered, your reproach also shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and
neither
23. will I meet you as a man. (4.) Our Redeemer, YHWH of
hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. (5.) Sit mute, and go
{&waw&}
24. into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you
shall no more be called, The Mistress of Kingdoms. (6.) I was angry with my
people,
25. and I have polluted my inheritance, and gave them into your
hand: you showed them no mercy; on the elderly you heavily laid your yoke ( See
9:2 for the importance of this word.)
26. greatly. (7.). And you said, I
shall be a heroine forever: you did not take these things to your heart,
neither did you remember
27. the latter end of it. (8.) And now hear this,
O voluptuous, who dwells securely, who says in your heart, I am, and there is
no one
28. else; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I see
[m...know] bereavement:{&waw&} (9.) But these two things shall come to
you in a moment in one day,
29. bereavement and widowhood: in their
completeness they shall come upon you for the multitude of your witchcraft,
and for the great abundance of your enchantments. 10 For you have trusted
30. in your wickedness: you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and
your knowledge has turned you around; and you have said in your heart, I am,
31. and there is no one else beside me. (11.) And evil shall come upon
you; you shall not know from her origin, and disaster shall fall upon you; you
shall not be able to cover it
Column XL Isaiah 47:11 to 49:4
1. (Continue Chapter 47:11) and holocaust shall come upon you
suddenly, and you shall not know. (12.) Stand {&waw&} please with your
enchantments, and with the multitude of your witchcraft, in which you toiled
2. from your youth; [+until today+] [Q omits
the rest "if it be that you shall be able to profit, if it be that you may
prevail."] (13.) [not in Q "you are wearied"] in the multitude of your
counsels. Let them stand please, and let them save you, the astrologers, those
seeing visions in stars,
3. the predictors of monthly knowledge, from
these things that shall come on you. (14.) Behold, they shall be like chaff;
the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver their souls
4. from the
hand of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm them, nor a light
to sit opposite it. (15.) Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored
your merchants from your youth:
5. each man to his passing, they shall
wander astray; none shall save you. (PP)
6. (Chapter 48:1) Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the
name of Israel, and of the waters of Judah you came out , who swear by the
name of
7. YHWH and in the God of Israel you remember, not in truth, nor
in righteousness. (2.) because from the holy city they are called, and upon
8. the God of Israel they lean; YHWH of Hosts is his name. (3.) The
beginning things from then I have told them and from my mouth they have gone
out,
9. and I declared them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
(4.) On account of that {&.....&} I knew
that you are hard, and your neck is an iron sinew, [+h]
10. and your brow
brass; (5.) I told you, from then, before it came I declared it to you: lest
you should say, My idol has done them,
11. and my graven image, and my
molten image, commanded them. (6.) You heard, all of this and have you not
told them ? I have caused you to hear new things from this time,
12. even
Nazareth, which you
did not know. (7.) They are created now, and not from then; and before the day
you did not hear of them; lest you should say, Behold,
13. I
already knew them. (8.) And also, you did not hear; also, you did not
know; also your ear was not open from then: for I knew that
14. you would
be very treacherous and were called a transgressor from the womb. (9.). For
the sake of my name I will put afar off my anger, and I will restrain my
praise for you, so as not to
15. cut you off. (10.) Behold, I have refined
you, but not with silver; [Q when I showed mercy to
you] [m I have chosen you] in the furnace of affliction. (11.) For my
own sake, even for my own sake,
16. I will do it:
{&because&} how can I profane it [m..+name]? and I will not give my
glory to another. (PP)
17. (12.) Listen to this, Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the
first, even I am the last. (13.) Yes. My hand also has laid the foundation of
18. the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: I call to them,
they stand up together. (14.) All of them gather together and they hear;
19. who is among them and has declared these things? YHWH loved him: he
will do my desires on {&waw&} Babylon, and his arm shall be on
the Chaldeans. (15.) I, even I,
20. have spoken; yes, I have called
him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. (16.)
Draw near to me, [+erasure+] hear this;
21. I have not spoken in secret
from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there: and now the Lord
YHWH, and his Spirit, has sent me. [Read my comments on this
important verse](PP)
[*]
22. (17) Thus says YHWH your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am YHWH
your God your teacher for profit,
23. [Aramaic] the
One who leads you by the way that you should go in it. (18.) And you did not
listen to my commandments! then would your peace be as a river, and your
righteousness
24. as the waves of the sea: (19.) Your seed also would have
been as the sand, and the offspring like the gravel of it; their name should
not have been cut off nor destroyed.from before me. (PP)
[*]
25. (20.) Go out of Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of
singing declare it, tell this [m..+let it go out+] to
the end of the earth;
26. say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.
(21.) And they did not thirst in the deserts when he led them : he
caused the waters [Q= to gush out] [m.. to flow out] from the rock for them:
27. he split the rock, and the waters gushed out. (22.) There is no peace,
says YHWH, for the wicked. (PP)
[*]
28. (Chapter 49:1) Hear me, O islands, and listen peoples, from
afar; YHWH called me from the womb; from my mother's belly
29. He caused
my name to be remembered. (2.) And he has put my mouth {&as&} a sharp
sword; in the shadow of his hand He hid me, and made me [+a lamed-kaph
overwrite+] as a polished arrow; [partial erased
"be'ash"]
30. in his quiver he hid me; (3.) And He said to me, You are
my servant Israel, in whom I will be glorified. (PP)
[*]
31. (4.) Then I said, for emptiness I have toiled, my strength for a void
and a vapor I have spent surely my judgment is with YHWH and my work
Column XLI Isaiah 49:4 to 50:1
1.[*] (Continue Chapter 49:4) with my God. (5.) And now, says YHWH
who formed you from the womb to serve him, to return Jacob to him,
2. and
to gather Israel to him, and I shall be glorious in the eyes of YHWH, and my
God shall be my strength. (6.) And he said, Is it a light thing from your
being to me
3. a servant to {&waw&} raise up the tribes of
Israel [m,,Jacob,] and to restore the Nazarenes of Jacob
[m..Israel]: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, to be
4. my
salvation {Yeshua] to the end of the earth. (PP)
5. [*] (7.). Thus says the Lord YHWH your Redeemer of Israel, and
his Holy One, to those despising his soul, to him who the nation counts
an abomination, to a servant of rulers,
6. Kings shall see and arise,
princes shall worship, for the sake of YHWH who is faithful, the Holy One of
Israel, shall choose you. (PP)
[*]
7. (8.) Thus says YHWH, In an
excellent time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation [Yeshua] I helped
you: and I will {&dot&} preserve [make Nazarene] you,
and I will give you for a covenant of
8. the people, to raise up the
earth, to cause them to inherit heritages of desolation; (9.) saying to the
prisoners, Go out; to those who are in darkness, reveal yourselves.
9.
upon [+all+] the mountains [m..roadways] they shall feed, and in all the high
places of their pastures. (10.) They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither
shall it strike them the heat
10. nor the sun : for he has mercy on them
shall lead them, and onto the springs of water he guides them. (11.) And I
will set all my mountains as a roadway [+u-mes a redundancy],
11. and my
highways shall be exalted. (12.) Behold, these shall come from far: and
behold, these from the north and west; and these from the land
12. of
China [m..Sinim].
(13.). Sing, O heavens; and rejoice, O earth; and break out into singing, O
mountains: because YHWH has comforted his people,
13. and on the afflicted
He will have mercy. (PP)
14. (14.) But Zion said, YHWH has forsaken me, and my Lord {&my
God&} has forgotten me. (15.) Can a woman forget her sucking child, from
having mercy on the son of her womb?
15. also they can forget, but I will
not forget. (16.) Behold, I have inscribed you upon the hands; your walls
16. are before me continually. (17.) Your sons shall hurry; your
destroyers and your desolators shall go out from you. (18.) [Lift up -
misspelled] your eyes round about,
17. and see all of them are gathered
together, and come to you. As I live, says YHWH, all of them as an ornament
you shall wear
18. and bind them on as like a bride (19.) because your
waste and your desolate places, and your destroyed earth, even now shall be
too narrow
19. for the inhabitants, and they will be far off the ones who
swallowed you (20.) Yet they shall say in your ears even the children
of your bereavement, The place is too narrow for me: bring
20. to me a
place where I may dwell. (21.) Then shall you say in your heart, Who has
borne me these, seeing I am bereaved and I am barren, a captive,
21.
turned aside and who raised these? Behold, I was left a remnant by myself;
these, where were they? (PP)
22. (22.) because YHWH [m..+Lord God+] [+commands+] saying , Behold, I will
lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and to the nations I will raise up my ensign:
and they shall bring
23. your sons in their bosom, and your daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders. (23.) And there shall be kings as your
guardians, and their queens your nurses:
24. they shall worship you with
their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know
that I am YHWH: for they shall not be ashamed
25.[*] who wait for me.
(24.) Shall that which is taken be taken from the mighty, or the terrorist's captive
be delivered? (25.) Because thus says YHWH,
26. Also that taken by the
mighty shall be taken, and the captives of the terrorist shall be delivered:
for I will strive with him who strives{&yod&} with you, and
27. I
will save your sons. (26.) And I will feed those oppressing you with their
flesh; and as in fresh grape juice they shall be drunk with their blood
and they shall know
28. even all flesh that I YHWH am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (PP)
[*]
(Chapter 50:1) Thus says YHWH, Where is the book of your mother's
divorce-covenant, whom I have sent away? or who is it from my creditors whom
Column XLII Isaiah 50:1 to 51:13
1. (Continue Chapter 50:1) I have sold you to him? Behold, for your
iniquities you have been sold, and for your transgressions is your mother sent
{&waw&} away. (2.) Wherefore,
2. when I came, was there no man?
when I called, there was no one to answer? Is my hand extremely shortened from
ransom or is there no strength in me
3. to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I
dry up the sea, I set rivers as a wilderness: their fish smell bad, from lack
of water
4. and they die of thirst (3.) I dress the heavens with darkness,
and I make sackcloth as their covering. (PP)
5. (4.). The Lord YHWH gave me the tongue of the learned, to know to help
the weary with words: he wakens me morning by morning, he wakens
6. my ear
to hear as the learned. (5.) The Lord [+God+] [m..YHWH] has opened my ear, and
I did not rebel backward neither
7. did I turn away. (6.) I gave my back
to the strikers, and my cheeks to those [+beating with iron+]
my face [m..plucking hair] I did not hide from disgraces and spitting.
(7.) For the Lord
8. YHWH will help me; therefore I am not humiliated:
therefore have I set my face like flints, and I know I shall not be ashamed.
(8) He is near
9. the one justifying me; who will strive with me? let us
stand together: who is the lord of my judgement let him draw near to me. (9.)
Behold, the Lord YHWH
10. will help me; who is he who shall do evil to me?
behold, all of them shall wear out as a garment; a moth shall eat them. (10.).
Who is among you who fears YHWH,
11. who hears the voice of his servant,
who walks in darkness, and has no brightness to him? he trusts in the name of
YHWH, and leans upon his God.
12. (11.) Behold, all you kindlers of fire,
surrounders with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks
that you have lit. from my hand this is
13. that which is for you:
to sorrow you shall lie down. (PP)
14. (Chapter 51:1) Listen to me, pursuers of righteousness, seekers
of YHWH: look to the rock from which you are hewn, and to the hole of
the pit from which you were dug.
15. (2 ) Look to Abraham your
father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him singly, and [+made him
fruitful], [m..I blessed him] and multiplied him.
16. (3.) For YHWH shall
comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will set her
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of YHWH; joy
17. and
gladness shall be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of music. [+and
sorrow and mourning shall flee+]. (PP)
18. (4.). Draw near to me, my people; and to me, my nation give ear: for a
Torah shall go out from me, and I will stir up my judgment for a light of the
people.
19. (5.). My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone out, and
my arms shall judge the nations; the islands shall wait for me, and on my arm
they shall hope. (6.) Lift up to the heavens,
20. your eyes and look upon
the earth beneath {+and see who created this+] [these following words
in the M text do not appear in Q "for the heavens shall vanish away like
smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment,"] (PP)
21. and her inhabitants like this shall die and my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be cast down. (PP)
[*]
22. (7.) Hear me, you knowers of righteousness, people in whose heart is my
Torah; fear not the reproach of men, and from their revilings {&mem&}
do not be downcast. (8.) because like a garment
23. a moth shall eat them,
and the worm shall eat them like wool: and my righteousness shall be for ever,
and my salvation from generation to generations. (PP)
24. (9.). Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YHWH; awake, as in the
days of antiquity, in the generations of the ages; are you not the one who
chopped up
25. the monster-Rahab, and wounded the sea monster? (10.) Are
you not he who dried the sea, the waters of the great abyss; the one who put
[+in+] the depths of the sea
26 a way for the [+dispersed+] [m..redeemed]
to pass over? [+a word erased+] (11.) Therefore the ransomed of YHWH
shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon
their heads
27. they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing
shall flee. (PP)
28. (12.) I, even I, am he who comforts you:{&scratch
out&} who are you, that you should be afraid of a man who will shall
die, and of the son of man who shall be given as grass; (13.) And you forget
29. [+eth+] YHWH your maker, who has stretched out the heavens, and He
founded the earth; and you fear continually every day from the face of the
fury of the oppressor,
Column XLIII Isaiah 51:13 to 52:12
1. (Continue Chapter 51:13) as if he is preparing to destroy; and
where is the fury of the oppressor? (PP)
2. (14.) The [+sorrowing one+] [m..captive] is anxious to be loosed, so as
not to die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. (PP)
3. (15.) I am YHWH your God, who divided the sea, whose waves roared: YHWH
of hosts is his name. (16.) And I have put
4. my words in your mouth, and
I covered you in the shadow of my hand, so I may plant the heavens, and found
the earth, and say to Zion, my people
5. you are. (PP)
[*]
6. (17.). Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, who has drunk from the hand of
YHWH the cup of his fury;
7. the dregs of the cup of trembling you drank,
and wrung them out. (18.) There is no guide for you from all the sons she
bore;
8. nor is there any who takes her by the hand of all the sons whom
she has brought up. (19.) These two things are called to you who will be sorry
for you?
9. desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the
{&the&} sword: who shall comfort you? (20.) Your sons have fainted,
they lie at the head of all
10. the out skirts, as a wild bull in a
net:{&waw&} full of the fury of YHWH, the rebuke of your God. (21.)
Therefore hear please
11. this, O afflicted, drunk, but not with wine:
(22.) Thus says your Lord YHWH, your God who strives for his people,
12.
Behold, [yod] I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even
the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall not anymore
13. drink of it
again. (23.) But I put it into the hand of those afflicting you [+and those
making you bow down+]; who said to your soul, Bow down,
14. and we will
walk over you: and you put as the ground your back, and as the street to those
padding over. (Chapter 52:1) Awake, awake; dress in
15. your
strength, {&O Zion;&} dress in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,
the holy city: for no more he will come
16. into you the uncircumcised and
the unclean. (2.) Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O
Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bands of
17. your neck, O captive
daughter of Zion. (3.) For thus says YHWH, you have sold yourselves for
nothing; and not
18. with silver will you be redeemed (4.) For thus says
[m..+the Lord] YHWH My people went down in the beginning into Egypt to sojourn
19. there; and the Assyrian oppressed without cause. (5.) And now , what
is there to me here, says YHWH, that my people are taken
20. freely they
rule over them and they howl says [?] [m=YHWH] and my name is blasphemed
continually every day. Therefore my people shall know
21. my name in that
day that I am he who speaks: behold, it is I. (PP)
[*]
22. (7.) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings
good tidings, who brings good tidings of peace; who publishes good, who
publishes
23. salvation; the one saying to Zion, Your God reigns! (8.) The
sound, your watchmen shall lift up the voice; together they shall sing:
24. for they shall see eye to eye, when YHWH shall restore Zion [+in
mercies+]. (9.) Break out, sing together,
25. waste places of Jerusalem:
because YHWH has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. (10.) YHWH
has made bare
26. his holy arm in the eyes of all the Gentiles; and all
the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of
27. our God. (11.) Turn
away, turn away, go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out of the
midst of her;
28, be clean, you who bear the vessels of YHWH. (12.) For
you shall not go out hurriedly, nor go by flight:
29. for YHWH will go
before you; and your gatherer is the God of Israel. [+The God of
30. all
the earth He shall be called.+]
Column XLIV Isaiah 52:13 to 54:4
1. (Chapter 52:13.) Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he
shall be exalted and lifted up, and be very high (14.) as those who were
astonished
2. at him are many; because his visage was marred more than any
man, and his form more than the sons of men:
3. (15.) So shall he startle
many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which
4.
was not told to them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall
they consider. (PP)
[*]
5. (Chapter 53:1) Who has believed our report and the arm of YHWH to
whom has it been revealed (2) And he shall come up like a suckling before us
6. and as a root from dry ground there is no form to him and no
beauty to him and in his being seen and there is no appearance
7. that we should desire him. (3) He is despised and rejected of men, a
man of sorrows and knowing grief
8. and as though hiding faces from him he
was despised and we did not esteem him. (4) Surely our griefs he
9. is
bearing and our sorrows he carried them and we esteemed him beaten and struck
by God
[There is a scribal thumb print
over lines 10 to 12.]
10. and afflicted. (5) and he is wounded for our
transgressions, and crushed for our iniquities, the correction
11. of our
peace was upon him and by his wounds he has healed us. (6) All of us
like sheep have wandered each man to his own way
12. we have turned and
YHWH has caused to light on him the iniquity of all of us (7) He was oppressed
and he was afflicted and he did not
13. open his mouth, as a lamb
to the slaughter he is brought and as a ewe before her shearers is made dumb
he did not open
14. his mouth. (8) From prison and from judgement he was
taken and his generation who shall discuss it because he was cut off
from the land of
15. the living. Because from the transgressions of his
people a wound was to him (PP)
16. (9) And they gave wicked ones to be his grave and [a scribbled
word probably accusative sign "eth"] rich ones in his death
17. although
he worked no violence neither deceit in his mouth (10) And YHWH was pleased to
crush him and He has caused him grief. (PP)
18. If you will appoint his soul a sin offering he will see his seed
and he will lengthen his days and the pleasure of YHWH {&yod?&]
19. in his hand will advance. (11) Of the toil of his soul he shall see
{+light+} and he shall be satisfied and by his knowledge shall he make
righteous
20. even my righteous servant for many and their
iniquities he will bear. (12) Therefore I will apportion to him among the
great ones
21. and with the mighty ones he shall divide the spoil because
he laid bare to death his soul and with the transgressors
22. he was
numbered, and he, the sins of many, he bore, and for their transgressions he
entreated.(PP)
23. (Chapter 54:1) Sing, O barren, and you who did not bear; break
out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail for more
24. are
the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married wife, says YHWH. (2.)
Enlarge the place of your tent,
25. and the curtains of your habitations
let them stretch out: spare not, lengthen your cords, and your stakes;
26.
strengthen (3.) For on the right hand and on the left you shall break out; and
your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and the cities
27. made desolate
cities shall be inhabited. (4.) Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: and
{&waw&}do not be confounded; for you shall not
28. be
{&yod&}embarrassed for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and
the reproach of your widowhood you shall not remember
Column XLV Isaiah 54:4 to 55:8
1. (Continue Chapter 54:4) any more. (5.) For your husband is your
Maker; YHWH of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of
2.
Israel; He shall be called The God of the whole earth. (6.) because as a woman
forsaken and grieved
3. in spirit, YHWH has called you, and a wife of
youth, because you were refused, says [+YHWH+] your God.
4. (7.) For a
small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
(8.) In overflowing wrath
5. I hid my face from you for a moment; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says your Redeemer.
6. YHWH
(9.) this is as the waters of Noah to me: which I have sworn that the waters
of Noah go over no more
7. the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be
wrathful with you any more, nor rebuke you. (10.) For the mountains
8.
shall depart, and the hills {&H&} be shaken; but my kindness shall not
depart from you, neither shall the covenant of
9. my peace be removed,
says he who has mercy on you YHWH.(PP)
10. (11.). O afflicted, tossed
with a whirlwind, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with
colors, and {&your&} foundations [*]
11. with sapphires. (12.) And
I will set your window lights of agates, <$waw&} and your gates
of gem {&waw&} stones, and all
12. your borders of desirable
stones. (13.) And all your sons shall be taught of YHWH; and great shall be
the peace of your sons {&waw&}.
13. (14.) In righteousness shall
you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear:
and from terror; for
14. it shall not come near you. (15.) Behold, they
shall surely be gathered, with no help from me: whosoever shall gather
together against you
15. shall fall. (16.) Behold, I have created
{&aleph&} the craftsman who blows the coals in the fire, and who
brings out {&waw&} an implement [*]
16. for his work; and I have
created the waster to destroy. (17.) No weapon that is formed against you
17. shall succeed; (PP) (Q omits the following)[M..+and every tongue that
shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn.]
18. This is the heritage of the servants of YHWH, and their righteousness
is from me, says YHWH. (Chapter 55:1) Ho,
19. every one thirsting,
come you to the water, and he who has no money; come, buy, without silver
20. [m..+and eat;+] and without price wine and milk. (2.) Why do you spend
money and it is not bread and your labor
21. for that which does
not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat the good, and let your soul be
pampered in fatness.
22. (3.) Extend your ear, and come to me: hear, and
your soul shall live; and I will make with you
23. an everlasting
covenant, the faithful mercies of David. (4.) Behold, I have given him for a
witness to the people, [*]
24. a leader and commander to the people. (5.)
Behold, a nation that you do not know you shall call, and a nation that you
have not known
25. shall run to you because of YHWH your God, and
{&for&} the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you. (PP)
26. (6.). Seek YHWH while he may be found, call upon him while he is near:
(7.) Let the wicked abandon his way,
27. and the evil man his thoughts:
and let him return to YHWH, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God,
28. for he will excuse greatly. (8.) For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, nor are your ways
Column XLVI Isaiah 55:8 to 57:2
1. (Continue Chapter 55:8) my ways, says YHWH. (9.) For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so they are higher, my ways
2. than
your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (10.) For as it comes down,
3. the rain and the snow from heaven, and there does not return, but
drenches
4. the earth, and causes it to grow and sprout, that it may give
seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
5. (11.) So shall my word be
that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do
6. that which I please, and it shall succeed in that which I sent it.
(12.) For with joy
7. you shall go out, you shall walk in peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break out before you singing,
8. and all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands. (13.) Instead of the thorn shall
come up the fir tree, and instead of
9. the brier shall come up the myrtle
tree: and it shall be to YHWH for a sign, [m..name] for an everlasting name
[m..sign] that shall not be cut off. (PP)
[*}
10. (Chapter 56:1) [+Because+] thus says YHWH, Keep judgment, and do
justice: for my salvation is near
11. to come, and my righteousness to be
revealed. (2.) Blessed is the man who does this, 12. and the son of man who
seizes it; who keeps the sabbath from corrupting it, and keeps his hand from
doing all evil.(PP)
13. (3.) Neither shall the son of an alien, who has joined himself to YHWH
say YHWH has completely separated me from
14. his people: neither let the
eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. (4.) Because thus says YHWH
15. to
the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and
take hold of
16. my covenant; (5.) And I will give to them in my house and
within my walls [yad va-shem] a place and a name better than of sons and of
daughters:
17. I will give them an everlasting name, that will not be cut
off. (6.) Also the sons of the alien, who join themselves to YHWH,
18. to
be his servants and to [+bless+] [m..love] keeping the sabbath from corrupting
it,
19. and seizes my covenant; (7.) and I will bring them to my holy
mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
20. prayer: their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices they will offer willingly on my altar; for my
house a house
21. of prayer shall be called for all the nations. (8.)
Thus says the Lord YHWH who gathers the outcasts of Israel, Yet
22.
will I gather others to him, to those who are now gathered to him.
(9.). All you beasts of the field with him, eat, and all you beasts in the
forest. (PP)
[*]
23. (10.) His watchmen are blind: all of them do not know, they are all
dumb dogs, they are not able to bark; they
24. sleeping, lying down,
loving to slumber. (11.) and they are dogs of evil souls who do not know to be
sated,
25. and they are shepherds who do not know to understand: they all
turn to their own way, each man for his own profit, from his end.
26.
(12.) Come you, we will take wine, and we will be sated with strong drink; and
tomorrow shall be like this day, and very much {&greater&}. (PP)
27. (Chapter 57:1) The righteous perishes, and no man takes it to
heart: and merciful men are gathered away, no one understands
28. that
from the presence of evil the righteous is gathered away. (2.) He shall go
into peace: they shall rest on their beds,
Column XLVII Isaiah 57:2 to 57:6
1. (Continue Chapter 57:2) walking in their uprightness. (PP)
2. (3.) But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the
adulterer and the one whoring. (4.) Against whom do you go softly? against
whom do you make a wide
3. mouth, and lengthen the tongue? are you not
children {&waw&} of transgression, a seed of falsehood, (5.) Heating
yourselves with idols under every
4. green tree, slaughtering the children
in the streams, under the [sp. cliffs] of the rocks (6.) In those portions of
the river they are your portion [+there,+]
5. they are your lot: even to
them you poured a drink offering, you have offered a burnt offering on an
altar. Am I comforted in these? (7.) Upon a mountain
6. high and and
lifted up you set your bed: even there you went up to sacrifice sacrifices.
(8.) Behind the doors and the door posts
7. you set up your memorial: for
you revealed yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged
your bed, and you made a covenant [+for yourself from them+] {m..with them;]
8. loving their bed by means of a vision. (9.) and you went to the king
with oil, and increased your perfumes, and you sent your envoys
9. far
off, and you lowered yourself as far as Sheol. (10.) in the greatness of your
way you are wearied; But you did not say so, having no hope in the life
you found by your own hand; [*]
10. therefore you were not weakened. (11.)
And who worries you and you fear me because you have lied, and have not
remembered me, nor set
11. these things to your heart? have I not been
mute for ages, and you fear me not? (12.) I will tell your righteousness,
12. and your works; for your {+group+} they shall not profit you. (13.).
When you cry, let your group deliver you; but the wind shall carry all of them
{M ends vs 12 here]
13. and they shall be taken as a vapor. (13.). but he
who puts his trust in me shall inherit the land, and shall possess my holy
mountain; (PP)
14. (14.) And he shall say, Cast up, cast up, [+the thing cast up+] prepare
the way, raise up the stumblingblock from the way of my people. (15.) because
thus
15. says the Father of exaltation and the lifted up One who inhabits
eternity, whose name is Holy; He inhabits the high and holy place, with the
contrite and lowly
16. spirit, to make alive the spirit of the lowly, and
to make alive the heart of the contrite. (16) For I will not strive for ever,
nor will I everlastingly be angry because
17. the spirit will faint before
me, and the lives [neshemah] I made. (17.) Because of the evil of his
covetousness I was wrathful and I struck him and I hid myself, and was angry,
18. and he went on stubbornly in the way of his heart. (18.) I have seen
his ways, but will heal him: and make peace and comforts to him and to his
mourners.
19. (19.) I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, to him who is
far off, and to him who is near, says YHWH; and I will heal him. (20.) But the
wicked are as the sea,
20. driven because it is not able to be
quiet, and they drive out from its waters mire and clay. (21.) There is no
peace, says
21. my God, to the wicked. (PP)
22. (Chapter 58:1) Call with your throat, do not hold back, lift up
your voice like a trumpet, and tell my people their transgression, and to the
house of Jacob
23. their sins. (2.) They seek me daily, and delight to
know my ways, as a nation who was doing righteousness,
24. and judgement
they did not abandon their God they ask of me my righteous judgements they
desire nearness to God. (3.). Why have we fasted,
25. and you do not see
we afflicted our soul, and you did not know it. Behold, in the day of your
fast you find pleasure, and all your labors.
26. you press on. (4.)
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of
wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day to have heard on high
27. your voice. (5.) Is it like this the fast that I have chosen. a day
for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
28. and to spread sackcloth and dust? will you call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to YHWH? (6.) Is not this the fast which
29. I have chosen?
to open the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy yokes, and to set the
oppressed free, {&yod&} and every
Column XLVIII Isaiah 58:6 to 59:17
1. (Continue Chapter 58:6) yoke you will tear away. (7.) Is it not
to divide your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the refugee poor
{&yod&} into your house? when you see the naked,
2. that you cover
him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh? (8.). Then shall
your light break out as the dawn, and your health shall spring out speedily,
3. and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of YHWH shall be
gathered. (9.) Then shall you call, and YHWH shall answer; you shall shout,
and he shall say,
4. Here I am. If you turn aside from the midst of you
the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking evil; (10.) And if you
bring out your soul to the hungry, and the soul
5. of the afflicted you
satisfy; your light shall rise in darkness, and your gloom will be as
the noontime: (11.) And YHWH shall guide you continually, and satisfy
6.
your soul in drought, and {&H&} deliver bones: and you shall be like a
drenched garden, and like a spring of water, they do not lie.
7.
even those waters. And those from you shall build the waste places of
the ages: the foundations of generation after generations you shall raise them
up; and they shall call you the mason of the breach, The restorer of
8.
paths to dwell in. (PP)
[*]
9. (13.). If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, so as not to
do your desires in my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy
{&waw&} of
10. YHWH, a glory; and shall glorify him, by not
doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own
words: (14 .) Then shall you delight yourself with YHWH;
11. and I will
cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you the heritage
of Jacob your father: for the mouth of YHWH has spoken. (PP)
[*]
12. (Chapter 59:1) Behold, YHWH'S hand is not shortened, from
saving; nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (2.) However your iniquities
they are
13. as separations between you and between your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you, from hearing (3.) because
14. your hands
are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; [Q omits your lips
have spoken lies,] your tongue has uttered injustice. (4.) None calls for
justice,
15. no one judges in faithfulness: they trust on a void, and
speak in vain; they conceive mischief, and bring out iniquity. (5.) The eggs
of an adder
16. they break open, and the spider's web they weave: the one
eating their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
(6.) Their webs
17. shall not become garments, nor cover themselves with
their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the deed of violence is in
their hands.
18. (7.) Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed
innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of evil; wasting
19. and
destruction [+and violence+] are in their roadways. (8.) The way of peace they
know not; and there is no judgment in their track: their paths
20. they
made crooked: to them all who travel in them shall not know peace. (9.).
Therefore is judgment far from us, and it does not reach us
21. even
justice we wait for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but in
gloom we walk. (10.) We grope for the wall as blind, and not having
22.
eyes we grope we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we are desolate as dead
men. (11.) We roar all of us like bears,
23. and like doves mourn
extremely: we wait for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is
far from us. (12.) For our transgressions are multiplied
24. in your
presence, and our sins answer against us: because our transgressions are with
us; and our iniquities, we know them; (13.) They are: transgressing
{&waw&} and lying
25. against YHWH, and departing away from our
God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart
words of falsehood. (14.)And turned away
26. backward is judgement, and
righteousness stands far off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity is
not able to enter.
27. (15.) And the truth shall be left lacking and the
one turning from evil makes himself a spoil. (PP)
28. and YHWH saw it, and it was evil in His eyes because there was no
judgment. (16.) And he saw that there was no man, and was stunned that there
was no intercessor:
29. and his own arm saved him; and his
righteousness [q+m.she] sustains him. (17.) and
he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his
head;
Column XLIX Isaiah 59:17 to 61:4
1. (Continue Chapter 59:17) and he put on the garments of vengeance
for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a coat. (18.) According to their
deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his foes recompense to his enemies;
2. to the islands he will repay recompense. (19.) So from the west they
shall fear the name of YHWH , and from the rising of the sun his glory.
Because the enemy shall come like a river,
3. and the Spirit of YHWH shall
lift up a standard {&waw&} against him. (20.) And the Redeemer shall
come to Zion, and to those who repent of transgression in Jacob, says YHWH.
(21.)And I, [m..As for me] this is my covenant
4. with them, says YHWH; My
spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall
not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed,
5. nor
out of the mouth of your seed's seed, from now and for ever.(PP)
[*]
6. (Chapter 60:1) Rise, shine; for your light is come, the glory of
YHWH is risen upon you. (2 .) For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
and thick darkness the nations but He shall arise
7. even YHWH will
shine on you, and his glory upon you shall be seen. (3.) And the Gentiles
shall come to your light, and kings to the [+announcement+] [m..brightness] of
your rising. (4.) Lift up your eyes round about, and see:
8. all of them
are gathered, they come to you: your sons come from far, and your daughters
shall be nursed at your side. (5 .) Then you shall see, and your heart will
flow and be widened because
9. because the mass of the sea shall be change
for you, the army of the Gentiles shall come to you. (6.) A multitude of
camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all of them from
Sheba
10. shall come: gold and incense they shall bear and they shall
preach forth the praises of YHWH. (7.) All the sheep of Kedar shall be
gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve you: they shall come up
11. willingly to my altar, and the house of my splendor I will glorify.
(8.) Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their chimney?
(9.). because for me
12.. the islands will wait, and the ships of Carthage
first, to bring my sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to
the name of YHWH your God,
13. and to the Holy One of Israel, because he
glorified you. (10.) And the sons of the alien shall build your walls, and
their kings shall minister to you: because in my wrath I caused you to be
stricken,
14. but in my will, I had mercy on you. (11.) and your gates
shall be open continually; day nor night they shall not be shut to bring to
you armies of the Gentiles, and their kings
15. will be led to you.
(12.) For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; and
those nations {&waw&} will be completely ruined. (13.) The glory of
Lebanon [+will be given to you+]
16. and to you will come the fir, the
pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and
the place of my feet I will glorify. (14.)And they will come
17. to you
bowing down even [+all+] the sons [scratch out word]of
those who afflicted you shall worship you the soles of your feet; all those
who despised you and they shall call you, The city of YHWH,
18. The Zion
of the Holy One of Israel. (15.). Instead of your being abandoned and hated,
{&waw&} and none passed over, I will set you an eternal exaltation, a
joy from generation to generation.
19. (16.) You shall also nurse the milk
of the Gentiles, and shall nurse the breast of kings: and you shall know that
I am YHWH your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
20.
(17.) Instead of brass I bring gold, and instead of iron I bring silver, and
instead of {&H&} wood brass, and instead of stones iron:
21. and I
will make your officers peace, and your oppressors righteousness. (18.) no
more violence be heard in your land, wasting nor destruction within your
borders; but you shall call
22. your walls Salvation, and your gates
Praise. (19.) The sun shall no longer be your light by day; and for brightness
[+in the night+] the moon
23. will not give light for you: YHWH shall
be an everlasting light, and your God your glory. (20.) Your sun shall not
depart nor your moon be gathered away
24. because YHWH shall be an
everlasting light for you, and the days of your mourning will be completed.
(21.) and your people shall all of them be righteous: they shall inherit the
land for ever, the Nazar
25. of the
planting of {+YHWH+], the work of my hands, for glory. (22.) A little one
shall become a thousand, and a young one a mighty nation: I am YHWH in its
time
26. I will hurry it. (Chapter 61:1) The Spirit of the Lord GOD
is upon me; because YHWH has anointed me to preach good tidings to the weak;
{& he has sent me&} to bind up the brokenhearted, to call to the
captives
27. liberty, and to the imprisoned the opening of prison. (2.) To
announce the favorable year of YHWH, and the day of vengeance for our God; to
comfort all who mourn; (3.) To appoint
28. to the mourners in Zion, to
give to them beauty instead of dust, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the
garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness; and they shall call
29. to them oaks of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, for glory. (4.).
And they shall build the ancient ruins, the desolations of the beginning shall
they raise, and they shall renew
Column L Isaiah 61:4 to 63:4
1. (Continue Chapter 61:4) the ruined cities, the desolations of
generation to generation. [+they shall raise them up+] (5.) And strangers
shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien
2. shall be
your farmers and your vinedressers. (6.) and you shall be named the Priests of
YHWH: and the Ministers of our God they shall say of you
3. you shall eat
the wealth of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.
(7.) In stead of your shame a double portion; and in stead of
disgrace they shall sing
4. of their portions therefore in their land
they shall possess the double portion: everlasting joy shall be to you.
(8.) because I am YHWH
5. who loves judgment, I hate robbery for burnt
offering; and I will give their work in truth, and an everlasting covenant I
will engrave for you.
6. (9.) And their seed shall be known among the
Gentiles, and their offspring among the nations: all who see them shall
respect them,
7. because they are the seed which YHWH blesses. (PP)
[*]
8. (10.). I will greatly rejoice in YHWH, my soul shall be joyful in my
God; because he clothed me with the garments of salvation, with the
robe of righteousness
9. he wrapped me, as a bridegroom beautifies
himself like a priest, and as a bride puts on her jewels. (11.) because
as the earth puts out her branch, and as the garden
10. causes her seeds
to spring up; so the YHWH God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up
in the presence of all the Gentiles. (Chapter 62;1) For the sake of
11. Zion I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be
quiet, until her righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation
12. as a burning torch. (2.) And the Gentiles shall see my [m..your]
righteousness, and all kings your glory: and they shall call you by a new
name, which
13. the mouth of YHWH shall name. (3.) You shall also be a
beautiful crown in the hand of YHWH, and a royal diadem in the hand of your
God.
14. (4.) You shall no more be termed abandoned; neither shall your
land any more be termed Desolate: because you shall be called Hephzi
15.
bah, my desire is in her and your land Beulah: married because
YHWH desires you, and your land shall be married. (5.) because as a chosen
youth marries
16. a virgin, your sons will marry you: and as the bride
groom rejoices over the bride, your God will rejoice over you. (6.). upon your
walls
17. O Jerusalem I appointed watchers, all night and all day
{m+continually+m] they will not be silent. you who remember
18. YHWH, do
not have silence in you, (7.) And give Him no rest, until he establishes,
until he establishes,
[sic] and until He places
19. Jerusalem {&yod&} a praise in
the earth. (8.) YHWH has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
strength, that I will not again give your corn to be food
20. for
your enemies; nor will sons of an alien drink your new wine, for which you
have labored: (9.) Because the one gathering it
21. shall eat it, and
praise [+the name of+] YHWH; and the ones gathering shall drink it in the
courts of my holiness [+says
22. your God+]. (PP)
[*]
23. (10.). [+Pass over+] the gates; prepare the way of the people; cast up,
cast up the highway; take out the stones; [m..lift up a
standard for] [a different reading] [q "the stroke (which) they speak
24. against the people q] (11.) Behold, YHWH has announced to the end of
the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes;
25.
behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. (12.) And they shall
call them, The holy people, The redeemed of YHWH: and to you
26. shall be
called, Sought after, A city not abandoned. (PP)
27. (Chapter 63:1) Who is this who comes from Edom, with red dyed
garments from Bozrah? this one who is glorious in his apparel, travelling in
his great strength,
28. It is I, who speaks in righteousness, mighty to
save. (2.) Why are your clothes red, and your clothing like him who treads in
a [+troop+] [m..winepress]?
29. (3.) I trod the winepress alone; (next section in M omitted
in Q) [and there was none with me of the peoples: for I will tread on
them in my anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments,] and I will stain all my
clothing. (4.) because the day of vengeance is in my heart,
Column LI Isaiah 63:4 to 65:4
1. (Continue Chapter 63:4) and the year of my redeemed is come. (5.)
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I was astonished that there was
none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my fury,
2. it supported me. (6.) And I will tread down the people in my anger, and
make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
(PP)
[*]
3. (7.).the kindnesses of YHWH I will remember , and the praises of YHWH,
according to all that YHWH has recompensed and the great good to the house of
Israel,
4. which he recompensed on them according to his mercies, and
according to the multitude of his kindnesses (8.) For he said,
{&resh&} surely they are my people, children who will not lie: so he
was to them
5. for a savior. (9.) In all their sorrow he had sorrow, and
the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he
5.
redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them from ancient days (10.) and
they
6. rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was changed
7. from them to be their enemy, and he fought against them. (11.) and he
remembered the ancient days; Moses; his people; Where is he who brought them
up from the sea with the shepherd of
8. his flock {&waw&}? where
is the one putting within him the spirit of his holiness? (12.) and Who led
them by the right hand of Moses His glorious arm dividing the water
9.
before them, to make an everlasting name? (13.) leading them through the
abyss, as a horse in the wilderness, {&daleth&} that they should not
stumble? (14.) As animals in the valley
10. go down, the Spirit of YHWH
caused us to rest: so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious
name. (15.). Look down from heaven,
11. and see from the exaltation of
your holiness and glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the roar of
your inward parts and your mercies to me?
12. are they restrained? (16.)
because you are our father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel
does not recognize us: you, are He
13. O YHWH, our father, our redeemer;
your name is from eternity. (17.) why YHWH have you made us to wander from
your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear?
14. Restore for your
servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. (18.) The people of your
holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden
down your sanctuary. (19.) We are yours:
15. from antiquity you never bore
rule over them; they were not called by your name. (in English Chapter
64:1). Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, at
your presence
16. the mountains might shake. {The rest of this line is
much different from M}(2.) (As when a brush fire blazes and the fire
causes the waters to boil,)to burn a fire necessary to make your name known to
your adversaries, so that at your presence
17. the nations might tremble
(3.) When you did terrible things we waited You came down; the mountains
flowed down at your presence. (4.) from eternity men have not heard,
18.
nor envisioned, nor has seen, O God except you, what you have made for him who
waits for him. (5.) You meet with the one rejoicing and working
19.
righteousness, in your ways they remember you Behold you are angry we have
sinned against them from ancient time and we are saved: (6.) And we are as an
unclean thing,
20. all of us, and as a menstrual cloth is all our
righteousness and all of us fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away. (7.) And no one calls
21. on your name, or awakens to
take hold of you: because you hide your face from us, and you are depleting us
at the hand of our iniquities. (8.) and you
22. YHWH, you are our father;
we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. (9
) Do not be angry, O YHWH,
23. for ages do not remember iniquity Behold,
Look, please we are all your people. (10.) Your holy cities are a wilderness,
24. Zion is like a wilderness, Jerusalem is a desolation. (11.) Our holy
{&waw&} and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you,
25.
they are burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. (12.)
Will you hold yourself back for these things, O YHWH, will you keep silence
and humble us
26. for ever?
[*]
27. (Chapter 65:1) I am sought of those who asked not for me; I am
found of those who did not seek me, I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation
who was not called by my name.
28. (2.) I have spread out my hands all the
day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their
own thoughts; (3.) the people
29. [Aramaic] [+and
they pour out an offering [with their] hands upon the stones+] [m..that cause
me to be angry continually to my face;] they sacrifice in gardens, and burn
incense on bricks (4.) Who are dwelling
Column LII Isaiah 65:4 to 65:18.
.1. (Continue Chapter 65:4) among the graves, and lodge among Nazarenes, who eat
swine's flesh, and broth
2. of abominable things is [+in+] their vessels;
(5.) saying, stay by yourself, don't touch [m..come near] me,
3.
[m..because] I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
is kindled all day. (6.) Behold,
4. it is written before me: I will not
keep silent, except that I will recompense, even recompense into your bosom,
5. your iniquities with the iniquities of your father together. (7.) Says
YHWH, who have burned incense
6. upon the mountains, and reproached me on
the hills: and I will measure their first
7. work into their bosom. (PP)
8. (8.). Thus says YHWH, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they
say [m..one says,]
9. do not destroy it; because a blessing is in it: thus
I will do for the sake of my servants so as not to
10. destroy them all.
(9.) And I will bring out from Jacob a seed, and out of Judah an inheritor of
my mountains:
11. and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall
inhabit there. (10.) And Sharon shall be
12. an abode of flocks, and the
valley of Achor [+for+] a resting place for the cattle, for my people who have
sought me. (PP)
[*]
13. (11.). But you are those abandoning YHWH, those who forget my holy
mountain,
14. who prepare a table for a troop, and who fill up the measure
of the mixed wine. (12.) and I will assign
15. you to the sword, and all
of you to slaughter will bow down: because I called,
16. and you did not
answer; I spoke, you did not listen; and you did evil
17. in my eyes, and
in that which I do not {&desire&} you chose them. (PP)
18. (13.) Therefore thus says {&the Lord&} YHWH, Behold, my
servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: [*]
19. behold, my servants
shall drink, and you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice,
20.[*] and you shall be ashamed: (14.) Behold, my servants shall sing
[m..from] in a good heart, and you
21. shall cry for sorrow of heart, and
from a broken spirit you shall howl. (15.) And you shall leave
22. your
name for a oath to my chosen: for He shall cause you to die the Lord YHWH
23. [+?continually?+] ( omission not in the Q text "and call his
servants by another name")
There is a large gap in line 23 indicating
the scribe understood there was text missing For the missing text:
see comments. (16.) And
it shall be that he who is sworn [m blesses]
24. [ not in Q= in the
earth shall bless himself in the God of truth;] by his God and the one
swearing by the earth shall swear by the God of truth because
25. the
former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes. (PP)
26. (17.). because behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and
neither
27. will the first be remembered, nor come up in your heart..
(18.) except there will be gladness
28. and rejoicing for ever and ever in
that which I create: (PP)
29. for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Column LIII Isaiah 65:19 to 66:14
1. (Chapter 65:19) And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my
people: and shall be no more heard in her the voice of weeping , [+nor+] the
voice of crying.
2. (20.) There shall be no more there a suckling of days
who dies, nor an old man who has not filled his days: because
3.
the youth shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being only a hundred
years old will have been cursed. (21.) And they shall build houses, and
inhabit
4. and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit from them.
(22.) They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another
5. eat: because as are the days of a tree so will be
the days of my people, and my chosen will enjoy the full use of the work of
their hands. (23.) They shall not labor
6. in vain, nor bring forth
children for trouble; because the seed of the blessed of YHWH they are, and
their offspring with them.
7. (24.) And it shall be, that before they
call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, and I will hear. (25.)
The wolf
8. and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion like the ox
shall eat straw : and dust shall be the serpent's bread. They shall not do
evil
9. nor destroy in all my holy {&waw&} mountain, says YHWH.
(PP)
10. (Chapter 66:1) Thus says YHWH, The heaven is my throne, and the
{&the&} earth is the stool for my feet, where is the house that you
build to me?
11. and where is the place of my rest? (2.) and all those
things has my hand made, and all those things shall be, says YHWH: and to
12. this will I look, to the poor and to the contrite of spirit, and the
one trembling at my word. (3.) He who kills the {&the&} ox is [+as+]
if he struck a man;
13. he who sacrifices a lamb, as one
breaking a dog's neck; one offering a gift as if he offered swine's blood; one
burning incense, as if he blessed evil. Also
14.they choose their own
ways, and in their abominations their soul desires. (4.) I also will choose
15. their whims, and [+in+] their terrors I will bring on them; because I
called, and no one answered; I spoke,
16. and they did not hear: and they
did evil in my eyes, and that which I did not desire they chose. (PP)
[*]
17.[X] (5.). Hear the word of YHWH, you who tremble at his word; they say,
your brothers who hated you, who exclude you
18, for my name's sake: Let
YHWH be glorified: but he shall be seen in your joy, and they shall be
ashamed. (PP)
19. (6.) A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice
of YHWH rendering recompense to his enemies. (7.) Before she travailed,
20. she bore a child; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male.
(8.) Who has heard such as this who has seen
21. such things? Shall the
earth be made to bear in one day? or shall a nation be born at one time
because travailing she also brought forth
22. even Zion, her
children. (9.) {&Shall&} I break water, and not cause a birth?
says YHWH: shall I cause a birth
23. and shut the womb? says your
God. (PP)
24. (10.) Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all who love her:
rejoice with her for joy, all you mourning
25. for her: (11.) That you may
nurse, and be satisfied with the breasts of her comforts; that you may drain
out, and be delighted
26. with the abundance of her glory. (PP)
27. (12.) [m..because] thus says YHWH, Behold, I will spread out to her
like a river, peace, and like a flowing river the glory of the Gentiles
28. [{and you shall n}]urse, on her side you shall be carried, and upon
her knees caressed (13.) As a man whom his mother
29. [{comforts,}] so
will I comfort you; and in Jerusalem you shall be comforted. (14.) And when
you see this, your heart shall rejoice,
Column LIV Isaiah 66:14 to 66:24
1. (Continue 66:14) and your bones shall blossom like grass: and the
hand of YHWH shall be known to his servants, and his indignation to his
enemies. (PP)
[*]
2. (15.). For, behold, YHWH comes with fire, and with his chariots like a
whirlwind, to return in fury his anger
3. [+ his anger,+] and his rebuke
with flames of fire. (16.) For by fire YHWH [+will bring to judgement+]
[m..plead] and with his sword
4. all flesh: and the slain shall be many.
(17.) those who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens
behind one plant
5. in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the
abomination, and the mouse, together [m...shall be
ended,] says Y[{HW}]H. (18.) And I
6. know their works and their
thoughts: The gathering is coming of all nations and tongues; and they shall
{&yod&} come,
7. and see my glory. (19.) And I will set a sign
among them, and I will send from those who escape to the Gentiles,
8. to
Carthage, Pul, and Lud, Mesh[{ech)] Qeshet of Tubal, and Greece. to the isles
afar off, who have not heard of
9. my message, nor seen my glory; and they
shall tell my glory among the Gentiles. (20.) And they shall bring all
10.
[+all+] your brothers {&from all&} Gentiles an offering to YHWH upon
horses, and {*in chariots,&} and wagons,
11. and upon mules, and upon
dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says YHWH, (PP)
12. just as the children of Israel bring a gift without corruption
to the house of YHWH. (21.) Also from them
13. I will take
[m..them] [+to me+] for priests and for Levites, says YHWH. (PP)
14. (22.) Because just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall stand
15. before me, says YHWH, so they shall stand your seed
and your name. (23.) And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to
another,
16. and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
worship before me, says YHWH. (24.) And they shall go out
17. and see the
carcasses of the men who have transgressed against me: because their worm does
not die, [{their fire}]
18, will not be quenched; and they shall be an
abhorrence to all flesh.