THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 2 THE Vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 1 Or, made exalted See Ezek. great and xxxi. 4. 2 Or, Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have 'nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled 3 against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, 4 my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward. 5 'Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? 'the whole head is sick, and 6 'the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and 'festering sores they have not been closed, neither stripes bound up, neither mollified with oil. Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, 'as overthrown by Or, as the 8 strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the revolt &c. 5 Or, fresh overthrow of strangers 1 1 Or, judges 3 Or, as otherwise read, to see my face 4 Heb. an oblation of vanity. LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small II Hear the word of the LORD, ye 'rulers of 10 2 Or, teaching Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is 11 the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. When ye come to appear before 12 me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? Bring no more 'vain obla- 13 tions; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed 14 feasts my soul hateth: they are a 'trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye 15 spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil 16 of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil: learn to do well; seek judgement, 're- 17 lieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Or, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting 6 Or, cumbrance 7 Or, set right the oppressor 5 Come now, and let us reason together, saith 18 How is the faithful city become an harlot! she 21 23 dross, thy wine mixed with water. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine. 25 enemies and I will 'turn my hand upon thee, and throughly purge away thy dross, and will 26 take away all thy 'tin: and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgement, and 28 'her converts with righteousness. But the Or, they that 5 Heb. 'destruction of the transgressors and the sinners return of her shall be together, and they that forsake the breaking. 29 LORD shall be consumed. For they shall be terebinth ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, Or, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that terebinths 30 ye have chosen. For ye shall be as 'an oak Or, a whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no 31 water. And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. 2 I The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 8 9 See Micah Or, at the head And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be iv. 1-3. established 'in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations 3 shall flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from instruction 10 Or. 1 Or, among 2 Or, decide concerning 8 Or, boweth down himself Jerusalem. And he shall judge 'between the Q house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk 5 of hosts hath a day 6 Or, watch-towers 11 18 exalted in that day. And the idols shall utterly 19 pass away. And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the 'earth, from 1 Heb. dust. before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake 20 mightily the earth. In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to 21 the moles and to the bats; to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when 22 he ariseth to shake mightily the earth. 3 I 3 omits this Cease The Sept. ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? verse. 3 4 5 childishness For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the 2 whole stay of water; the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the ancient; the captain of 3 Or, elder fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning 'artificer, and the skilful Or, charmer 4 enchanter. And I will give children to be their 5 princes, and "babes shall rule over them. And Or, with the people shall be oppressed, every one by shall they rule another, and every one by his neighbour: the over them child shall behave himself proudly against the 'ancient, and the base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our 'ruler, and let this ruin beOr, judge 7 under thy hand: in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be 'an healer; for in my Heb. a house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not 8 make me ruler of the people. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, 7 binder up. |