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)
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13. (11.). But you are those abandoning YHWH, those who
forget my holy mountain,
14. who prepare a table for a demon, and who fill up mixed wine for Meni. (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.