The Essenes in
Qumran who copied this scroll approximately 100 BCE are not to be considered
the protectors of an accurate text identical with the Tanach which would have
been revered by the Rabbis. They were actually far from the main stream and it
is clear that the Q text of Isaiah is a "dialect" of Hebrew. It is not a
translation, but is characterized by modifications in spelling and personal
pronouns to match the then current Aramaic dialect that the Essenes would have
spoken. It was much like changing "ye," "thee" and "thou" to "you" and "thine"
to "yours" would be to us. Thus the preservation of an identical letter for
letter received text was not at all a part of their motivation in their use of
the scriptures. The Qumran texts that I have translated (1QaIsa) and (1QpHab)
are dialects of Hebrew and not the Hebrew of the Tanach. Preservation of the
original Hebrew letter for letter text was the role played by the Rabbis of
the "main stream" in Jerusalem and Babylon (Sura, Nahardea and Pumbidita) and
they had a special class, an office called Scribes, who carefully copied
manuscripts then kept the new and destroyed the old. The Essenes were not and
did not claim to be copyists of the same genre.
With this fact in
mind, (that the Qumran scribes used their own discretion to alter the text to
fit their own dialect), then the correspondence between the text of the Great
Isaiah Scroll and the Masoretic text of Isaiah is all the more remarkable.
In the following
translation I am only changing word order within some lines but not between
lines; for instance the Hebrew word order in line 6 of page 44 is "ground dry"
and I am changing it to "dry ground." In English, adjectives usually precede
nouns and in Hebrew they follow after the noun they modify. If one is able to
make sense out of the word order even though it is clumsy in English I am
leaving it as it is in a word for word order where possible. I am making as
nearly as possible a word for word translation and using the person and number
of verbs and number and gender of nouns and pronouns that are in the Q text.
If the person number or gender of nouns, pronouns or verbs differs from the M
text in this translation you can be fairly certain that the Q text contains
that reading. There are idioms that are difficult to translate word for word.
For instance "he has healed us" on page 44 in verse 5 in line 11 is a possible
rendering of the text. Most translators have chosen "with his stripes we are
(or were) healed" The word for word Hebrew is idiomatic and hard to translate
word for word. It is "in the wounds of him we are healed to us." (Heb. "u-va-chavuratiyv
nirp'a lanu)
Words that are
implied but not in the actual text I have placed in italics. I am certain that
the rendering below is accurate but as it is possible for humans to make
mistakes I would appreciate it if you find one to point it out to me.
Relative to the time
of a verb: as to it being past or present time: Hebrew verbs are not time
defined. Only the context can determine the time (past, present, or future)
Thus in the translation it is legitimate for you to change the tense of the
verb to suit what you believe to be the case. For instance line 8 of page 44
it would be just as accurate to write "he is despised and we do not esteem
him. Surely our griefs he bore" as would be "he was despised and we did not
esteem him. Surely he is bearing our griefs."
I have not corrected
idioms but left them word for word: for instance in line 15 of page 44 at the
end of verse 8 I have left the literal words "a wound was to him" instead of
smoothing it out to "he had a wound" or "he was wounded."
Paragraphs which are
part of the Q text are shown by adding (PP) to the end of the paragraph and
leaving a blank line between the numbered lines.
In the translation
of the Great Isaiah Scroll which follows: The Column numbers and the line
numbers correspond to the pages and the corresponding lines in the scroll. All
the corresponding words are found on the same numbered line in the scroll
without exception. The numerals in parentheses mark the verses. Chapter
divisions are marked within the text or if a space is left for the chapter
division in the scroll this is noted. The presence or non presence of articles
and conjunctions will be followed as consistently as possible. If a
conjunction is called for in English but does not appear in the Hebrew text it
will remain left out or be in italics. Since therefore, as much as is
possible, this is a word for word translation, the attempt is made to also use
corresponding parts of speech. And since, a word for word translation is being
used so that the lines have the corresponding words on them, this will
necessarily make for a more "clumsy" translation. The translation therefore
will not be smooth, but it will be accurate and the beginning Hebrew student
should be able to easily find the place in the text of the word, or words, he
may be interested in..
Paragraphs marked in
the Q text will have a blank line between them in the translation even though
that is not the case in the Q text.
Symbols in the
translated text:
(1) Verses are
marked with parentheses.
(PP). Paragraphs are marked with (PP).
[+text+] These Brackets [ ]are placed around added words in Q not found in the
M text.
{} These Brackets {} mark words found in M that differ from Q.
[m..text] and [m+text+] words found in M that do not appear in Q. (Not all are
marked)
Added words by the translator to smooth the translation are in italics.
[{ }] Words assumed to be in a lacuna are marked [{ }] thus.
[....] This symbol [....] marks an omission found in the M text that is not in
the Q scroll text.
{&text&} This symbol {&...&} indicates text written above the line
[...text...] Text dotted by the scribe or editor to show it was written
mistakenly
(text) some words have been crossed out or scribbled over by the
original scribe to correct his own mistake.
[s-text-s] marks a different spelling.
[*] indicates a scribal mark in the margin
Column I
Isaiah Chapter 1:1-26
1. (1) The
vision of Isaiah, {&yod&} son of Amots which he envisioned about Judah and
Jerusalem {&yod&} in the days {&waw&} of Uzziah,
2. Yotham, Achaz, {&Ye&}hizkiah kings of Judah (2) Hear O heavens and give ear
O earth
3. because YHWH declares: I have raised and matured sons and they have
transgressed against me. (3) The ox knows his purchaser
4. and the ass the feeding trough of his owner. Israel does not know and my
people do not consider. (4) Woe sinning nation!
5. a people burdened with faults, a seed of evil ones, perverted sons, they
have abandoned YHWH, they have spurned
6. the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged backward. (5) Why are you yet
being struck, you add rebellion, the whole head is sick
7. every heart is faint. (6) From the sole of the foot even to the head, there
is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and new sores
8. they are not closed up nor bandaged, nor softened with oil. (7) Your land
is desolate, your cities burned
9. with fire, your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and his
desolation is upon her, as the overthrowing of strangers.
10. (8) and the daughter of Zion is left behind as a shed in a vineyard, and
like a hut in a cucumber field, like a
Nazarene
city. (9) Unless YHWH
11. of Hosts had caused a very small remnant of us to remain we would be like
Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.. (PP)
12. (10) Hear the word of YHWH princes of Sodom and give ear to the Torah of
our God people of Gomorrah. (11) What are they to me,
13. your multiplied sacrifices, says YHWH, I am sated with holocausts of rams
and the fat of fatlings, and in the blood
14. of bulls and lambs and goats I have no delight. (12) When you come to see
my face to make this request
15. from your hands treading my courtyard. (13) Do not continue to bring empty
gifts, Incense is an abomination
16. to me, new moon and sabbaths, calling of reading meetings, I am not able
to endure even the sacred assembly. (14) Your new moons and seasonal feasts
17. my soul hates, they are a burden to me, I am tired of bearing them.
(15) And when you spread your hands I will hide my eyes
18. from you, also when you multiply prayer I will not listen, your hands are
full of blood. [+and your fingers+] [Aramaic]
19. [+of iniquity+] (16) Wash and make yourselves clean and turn away the evil
of your habitual practices from before my eyes, stop doing evil. (17) Learn
20. to do well, pursue judgement, bless the oppressed, judge the orphan,
contend for the widow. (PP)
21. Please come and
let us reason together says YHWH, if your sins are like scarlet they shall
be white as snow
22. if they be as red as crimson they shall be as wool. (19) If you are
obedient and you give heed then of the good of the Land [{you shall
eat.}]
23. (20) But if you refuse and you rebel you will be devoured by the sword
because the mouth of YHWH has said it.
24. (21) How is the faithful city become like a harlot, it was full of
justice, righteousness lodged [{in her and now}]
25. murderers. (22) Your silver is like dross and your liquor is diluted with
water. (23) Your princes [{are rebels}]
26. and friends of thieves, all of them love a bribe, and are pursuing graft,
the fatherless you do [{not judge and contending for the}]
27. widow does not come to them. (24) Therefore says the lord, YHWH of hosts
[{the Mighty One of Israel}]
28. It will be I will be comforted about my foes and I will be avenged on my
enemies. (25) And my hand will be turned upon you and I [{will purge with
lye}]
29. your dross and I will remove all of your tin. (26) And I will restore your
judges as at the first and [{your advisors }]
Column II
Isaiah 1:26 to 2:21
1. (1:26
cont.) as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the Righteous City,
the Faithful City. (27) Zion with judgement
2. shall be redeemed and her repenters with justice. (28) And the
transgressors and sinners shall be broken together and those who abandon
3. YHWH shall be terminated. (29) Because you shall be ashamed of the oak
idols which you have longed for and you will be confused by the gardens
4. which you have chosen. (30) because you shall become like a fading oak leaf
on it and like a garden which has no water.
5. (31) And the strong [+your+] shall be like lint and the fashioner [+your+]
of it like a spark and both of them shall burn together
6. and no one shall extinguish them. (PP)
7.
(Chapter 2:1) The word which Isaiah the son of Amots envisioned about Judah
and Jerusalem. (2) And it shall be
8. in the last days that the mountain of the house of YHWH shall be
established in the top of the mountains and shall be lifted up
9. above the hills and all nations shall flow into it. (3) And many people
shall come and shall say
10. Come, let us go up [.....] to the house of the God of Jacob and He will
instruct us in his ways and we will walk in his paths,
11. because the Torah shall go out from Zion, the word of YHWH from Jerusalem
(4) and He will judge among the nations
12. and he will cause rebuke [+among+] many peoples and they shall beat
[+eth+] their swords to plows and their spears to
13. scythes, and nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they will
not learn war anymore.
14 (5) O come house of Jacob and we will walk in the light of YHWH (6) Because
you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob
15. because they are filled with eastern ways and conjure like the
Philistines and they applaud the children of strangers.
16. (7) Their land is full of silver and gold and there is no end to their
wealth, also their land is full of horses
17. and there is no end to their chariots. (8) And their land is full of
idols, the work of their hands, they worship that which
18. their own fingers have made (9) and humanity bows down and man.is abased [...Q
omits the last 3 words of vs 9 and all of vs 10...] (11) The haughty eyes
of man
19. shall [+be made to+] fall down and the highness of men shall be abased and
YHWH only shall be exalted in that day
[*] 20. (12) Because the day of YHWH of Hosts shall be on all the proud and
mighty and exalted and they shall be brought down (13) And on all the cedars
21. of Lebanon, the mighty and the exalted and on all the oaks of Bashan. (14)
and on all the mountains of
22. [{ mighti}]ness and on all the exalted hills. (15) and upon every strong
tower and upon
23. [{every walled f}]ortress (16) and on all the ships of Tarshish and on
every desirable craft. (17) And shall be brought low
24. [{the haughtiness of}] man and the highness of men shall be brought down
and YHWH only shall be exalted in that day.
25. (18) [{And the ido}]ls shall be completely abolished. (19) and they shall
go into rock caves and into caverns of dust from the presence of
26. [{the fear of YH]}WH and from His glorious majesty when He arises to
terrify the earth.(PP)
27. (20) [{In that
day}] shall humanity cast away the idols of silver and the idols of gold which
28. [{they made for themselves}] [with their fingers] to worship to the moles
and to the bats. (21) to go into the crevices
29. [{of the rocks and into the high}] parts of the crags from the presence of
the fear of YHWH and from the glory of his majesty.
Column III
Isaiah 2:21 to 3:24
1. (2:21
cont.) when he arises to terrify the earth. (22) Stop depending on
humanity whose life
2. is in his nostrils because of what account is he? (PP)
3.
(chapter 3:1) Because behold the Lord YHWH is taking away from Jerusalem and
from Judah
4. the stay and the staff, the complete stay of bread and the complete stay of
water (2) the mighty man and the man
5. of war, the judge, the prophet, the sophist, and the elder, (3) the captain
of 50, the exhorter,
6. the wise craftsman, and enchanting speaker. (4) And I will give youths for
their leaders [+..+]
7. and capricious children shall rule over them. (5) And the people shall be
oppressed by each other and each man by his neighbor.
8. And the youth shall act arrogantly against the elder, and the lowly against
the honorable, (6) Then a man will grasp his brother
9. of the house of his father, and say you have clothes, you shall be
our ruler and this overthrow
10. shall be under your hand. (7) [+And+] he will raise up in that day and say
I will not be governor
11. for in my house there is no bread and there are no clothes, do not make me
a ruler of the people. (8) because overthrown
12. is Jerusalem and Judah is fallen. Because their tongue and their habits
are against YHWH to embitter
13. the eyes of his glory. (9) The appearance of their faces witness against
them and they tell their sins like Sodom.
14. They do not conceal it. Woe to their souls because they have repaid evil
to themselves. (10) Say to the righteous
15. that it will be well because they will eat of the fruit of their habits.
(11) Woe to the evil wicked because
16. he returns to himself the recompense of his own hands. (12) Foolish
children are the oppressors of my people and women rule over them , O my
people
17. your leaders lead you astray and [{they swallow up}] the ways of
your paths. (PP)
18. (13) YHWH stands
up to contend , He stands to judge the people. (14) YHWH goes into judgement
with
19. the elders of his people and his princes for you have consumed the
vineyard and the loot of the poor is in {&your&} houses.
20. (15) What is it to you that you beat my people and you crush the faces of
the poor says the {&Lord&} YHWH
21. of Hosts. (PP)
22. (16)
And YHWH said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with
outstretched
23. necks and wanton eyes, walking delicately as they walk and with their feet
they
24. rattle bangles. (17) And the
[..Lord..]
{&YHWH&}will strike with a scab the scalp of the daughters of Zion and the
Lord their secret parts
25. will lay bare. (18) In that day [..YHWH..] {&adonay&} will turn aside the
beauty of their bangles and tiaras {&mem&}
26. and the woven hair pieces and the turbans (19) [and] the pendants and the
bracelets and the veils.
27. (20) [and] the bonnets and the anklets and [..the..] sashes and the
perfumes and the charms.
28. [+and+] the rings and the nose jewels, (22) [+and+] the stately robes and
the coats [m...mitpachoth...] and the purses
29. (23) and the mirrors and the linen shifts and the diadems and the
mantillas. (24) and it shall be.
Column IV
Isaiah 3:24 to 5:14
1.
(Chapter 3:24 cont.) a stink there instead of spice and instead of a girdle a
rope and instead of well set hair
2. baldness and instead of a sash a girding of sack cloth, because
[...burning...] instead of beauty there is shame (25) Your males shall
fall by the sword
3. and your mighty men {&oth&} in war. (26) And her portals shall lament and
mourn and being cut off she shall sit on the ground. (PP)
4.
(Chapter 4:1) And seven women shall seize one man in that day saying we will
eat our own bread and our own garments
5. we will wear, only let your name be called upon us to take away our
reproach. (2) In that day shall the branch of YHWH
6. be as beauty and as glory and the fruit of the earth as majesty and pride
for the escaped of Israel. [and Judah].
7. (3) And it shall be that the remnant in Zion and those remaining in
Jerusalem shall be called holy; all the ones written
8. among the living in Jerusalem. ( 4) When the Lord has washed the excrement
of the daughters of Zion and the blood of
9. Jerusalem he has cleansed from her midst by the spirit of judgement and the
spirit of burning. (5) And YHWH will create upon
10. every establishment of Mount Zion and upon her congregations a daily cloud
[....omission
of 14 words in vss 5 and 6...] from the heat for a refuge
11. from storm and from rain. (PP)
12.
(Chapter 5:1) Now let me sing a song to my beloved of his vineyard. My beloved
had a vineyard in a fruitful hill, (literally "in a horn of oil.")
13. (2) And he fenced it and cast out the stones and he planted choice grapes
and he built a tower in the midst of it and also laid out a winepress
14. in it. and he hoped it would make grapes and it made worthless grapes. (3)
And now you dwellers in Jerusalem
15. and men of Judah judge you between me and my vineyard. (4) What more is
to be done for my vineyard that I have not
16. done to it. Why when I hoped to produce grapes did there come up
wild grapes? (5) And now let me tell
17. you what I am going to do to my vineyard. I will remove its fence and it
shall be for burning and dividing up its wall
18. and it shall be for treading down. (6) And I will appoint it a waste and
it shall not be trimmed nor cultivated and briers and thorns shall come up
19. and to the clouds I will command them from raining rain upon it.(7)
Because the vineyard of YHWH of Hosts is the house of Israel
20. and the men of Judah are his delightful plant. When He hoped for judgement
He beheld spilling of blood and for righteousness He beheld
21. a cry. (PP).
22 (8) Woe
to those joining house to house and field to field. They accumulate them until
there is no place and they
[+exalt+]
themselves
23. in the midst of the land. (9) YHWH of Hosts said in my ears, Surely
many houses shall be desolate
24. Great and fine shall be without inhabitant. (10) Because ten acres of
vineyard shall produce one bath 9 gallons
25. [{and the seed of an homer will m]}ake an ephah (PP)
26. (11) [{Woe to
those rising early in]} the morning that they may pursue strong drink,
lingering till the spirit of wine lights them up. (12) And there are
27. [{the harp and the viol and the tambourine and w]}ine are in their feasts
but the labors of YHWH they do not consider nor the works
28. [{of His hands do they see. (13) Therefore they are taken captive}] my
people, because of lack of knowledge and the glory of their males is
starvation and their masses
29. [{are dried up with thirst. (14) Therefore}] Sheol has widened her soul
and gaped her mouth without limit and they go down
Column V
Isaiah 5:14 to 6:7
1.
(Continue 5:14) and her splendor and their masses and her pomp and the o[{ne
rejoici}]ng go down into it.(15) And humanity shall be brought down and
mankind shall be humbled and the eyes of
2. the high ones shall be humbled. (16) But YHWH of Hosts shall be exalted in
judgement and the Holy God shall be sanctified
3. in righteousness. (17) And the lambs shall feed as usual while sojourners
shall eat the waste places of the fatlings.(PP)
4. (18) Woe to
{&the&} ones dragging evil with ropes of vanity and sin with a cart rope. (19)
Those saying, let him speed
5. and hasten his work {&yod&} so that we may see and let the advice of the
Holy One of Israel draw near and come
6. and we will know it. (20) Woe to those who call evil good {&and&}
good evil, putting darkness for light
7. and light for darkness, putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. (21)
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes {&ayin&}
8. and understanding before their own faces (22) Woe to those who are mighty
to drink wine and men of might to mix
9. strong drink. (23) Those who justify the wicked for the sake of a bribe
while they take away the justice of the righteous from him. (24) Therefore
10. as a flame eats the stubble and the flaming fire consumes the chaff, their
root shall be as rottenness and their fruit
11. shall become dust because they have rejected the Torah of YHWH of Hosts
and the word of the Holy One
12. of Israel they have despised. (25) Therefore the anger of YHWH burns
against His people and He has stretched out His hand on them and he has struck
them
13. and the mountains trembled and their carcasses were as torn in the midst
of the highways. For all this
14. His anger is not turned away but His hand is still outstretched. (26) And
he will lift up an ensign to the nations and He will whistle
15. to them from the end of the earth and behold they will come with speed
swiftly. (27) None shall be tired and none shall stumble, and neither
16. shall they slumber nor sleep neither shall their waistband of their loins
be loosened nor the thong of their shoes be broken. (28) Whose
17. arrows are sharp and all their bows are bent and the hooves of their
horses are esteemed as flint
18. and their wheels like a whirlwind. (29) Their roaring is like a lion, they
roar like a young lions and they shall growl and seize {&aleph&}
19. [there are dots above the line here but the do not seem necessary] the
prey and flee but none shall deliver it. (30) And they shall roar against them
like the roaring of the sea and if one looks
20. to the earth and he will behold darkness and sorrow and the light will be
dark in the mists of it. (PP)
21.
(Chapter 6:1) In the year of the death of King Uzziah I saw the Lord sitting
on a throne, high and lifted up
22. and His train filled the Temple. (2) Seraphim stood above Him. They had
six wings
23. each, with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their
feet, and with two they flew.
24. (3) And they called to each other, Holy Holy is YHWH of Hosts, The whole
earth is full of His Glory.
25. (4) And the pillars of the threshold shook at the voice of the one crying
and the house was filled with smoke.(5) And I said
26. Woe is me because I am cut off Because I am a man of unclean lips and in
the midst of a people of unclean
27. lips I am dwelling. because my eyes have seen the King YHWH of Hosts.
28. (6) And there flew to me one of the Seraphim and in his hand a live coal
taken with tongs
29. [{from upon the altar. (7) and he touched it to my mouth}] and he said
behold this has touched your lips and it has been turned
Column VI
Isa 6:7 to 7:15
1.
(Continue 6:7) your iniquity away and your sins have been forgiven. (8) And I
heard he voice of the Lord saying, Whom
2. shall I send and who will go for Us and I said here am I send me. (9) and
He said, Go and say
3. to this people You surely hear but you do not understand and you surely see
but you do not perceive. (10) The name
4. of the heart of this people and their ears are heavy and their eyes are
blinded lest they might see with their eyes
5. and with their ears they might hear and understand with their hearts and
repent and be healed by it (11) And I said, How long
6. YHWH [m. adonay]. And He said to me, until the cities lie wasted without
inhabitants and the houses
7. without man and the land be wasted desolate. (12) And YHWH has removed man
afar
8. and there is a great abandoning in the midst of the land. (13) Yet in it
shall be a tenth and it shall return and it shall be
9. for burning as an elm and as an oak whose memorial pillar is in itself ,
the holy seed is
10. her memorial.(PP)
[*]
11.
(Chapter 7:1) It came to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of
Uzziah, King of Judah that Rezin came up
12. king of Syria and Pekah son of Remeliah king of Israel to Jerusalem to
make war against it.
13. And they were not able to capture it. (2) And it was told to the house of
David saying Syria is allied with
14. Ephraim and the hearts of the people were shaken as the trees of [+the+]
forest are shaken in the presence of [+the+] a wind. (PP)
15. (3) And YHWH
said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shearyashuv
16. your son to the end of the watercourse of the upper pool to the road of
the field of the launderer. (4) and you shall say
17. to him Listen and be quiet and do not be afraid and do not let your heart
fail from the two tails
18. of these smoking firebrands. because of the hot anger of Rezin and Syria
and the son of 19. Remaliah. (5) Because Syrian has counselled evil against
you with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:
20. (6) Let us go up against Judah and we will distress her and divide her for
ourselves and we will crown a king in her midst
21. even the son of Tabeal. (7) Thus says the Lord YHWH it will not be
established and it will not happen
22. (8) Because the head of Syria is Damascus and the head of Damascus is
Rezin and within sixty
23. [{five ye}]ars Ephraim shall be broken and not be a people. (9) And the
head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of
24. [{Samaria is the son of}] Remaliah, if you do not have faith you will not
be trusted. (PP)
25. (10) [{And
continuing YHW}]H spoke to Ahaz saying, (11) Ask for yourself a sign from YHWH
your God
26. [{from the deep ask}] it or from the height above. (12) And Ahaz said I
will nor ask and I will not
27. [{tempt}] YHWH. (13) And He said, Hear now Oh House of David, is it a
small thing for you
28. [{to wear}]y men, will you also weary God, (14) therefore [+YHWH+] [m..adonay]
himself will give to you [{a sign}]
29.[{Behold}] the virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son and he shall
call his name Immanuel. (15) Butter [{and honey}]
Column VII
Isaiah 7:15 to 8:8
1.
(Continue 7:15) shall he eat so that he will know to refuse evil and choose
good. (16) because {&be&}fore the youth shall know
2. to refuse the evil and to choose [&waw&} the good, the land that you
despise. shall be separated [&.waw.&} from presence of
3. the two kings (17) And YHWH will bring upon you and upon your people and
upon the house of your fathers days
4. which have not come since the turning away of Ephraim from Judah, even the
king of Assyria.
5. (18) It will come to pass in that day that YHWH will whistle for the fly
which is at the ends of the streams of
6. Egypt and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria (19) and they shall
come and rest, all of them in the stream [&waw&}
7. beds and in the holes of the rock cliffs and on all the thorns and all
shrubbery
8. (20) In that day the Lord will shave with a hired razor, with those over
the River, with the king of
9. Assyria, the head and the hair of {&the&} feet and also it will consume [+ethah+]
the beard.(PP)
10.[*] (21) And it
will come to pass in that day that a man will raise a heifer calf and two
sheep. (22) And it shall be
11. because of the produce of much milk he shall eat butter, because butter
and honey they shall be eating, all
12. those who are left in the midst of the land.(PP)
13. (23) And it
shall be [&[*]&} in that day in the place where there were a thousand vines
14. at the cost of a thousand silver coins it shall become briars and
thorns. (24) With arrows and bows they shall come
15. there the whole land shall become briers and thorns. (25) but on all the
hills
16. that are cultivated with the hoe, the fear of briers and thorns shall not
come there
17. {&yod&}bethwaw it shall be for sending oxen and the treading of
sheep.(PP)
18.
(Chapter 8:1) And YHWH said to me take to yourself a large scroll and write in
it {&with&} a pen
19. of man for Maher shalal hash baz. (2) and I caused to testify for me
faithful witnesses,
20. Uriah the priest and Zachariah son of Jeberekiah . (3) And I drew near to
21. the prophetess and she conceived and bore a son. And YHWH said to me
22. call his name Maher shalal hash baz. (4) because before the youth shall
know to call
23. his father and his mother; It shall be taken away, the wealth of Damascus
and the spoil of Samaria
24. by the king of Assyria. (PP)
25. (5) And YHWH
continued to speak to me saying: (6) because this people despises
26. the waters of Shiloh which go lightly and rejoice in Rezin and the son of
27. [{Remaliah, (7) Therefore behold}] YHWH {&adonay&} is bringing up on you
the waters of the River Euphrates
28. [{strong and with multitudes, even the k}]ing of Assyria.and all his glory
and he shall go up
29. [{over all his channels and over all}] his river banks. (8) and he shall
go through Judah overflowing
Column
VIII Isa 8:8 to 9:11
1.
(Continue 8:8) and pass over and shall reach Tsor and he shall stretch out his
wings filling the wideness of your land O Immanuel.
2.[*] (9) Join together peoples but you shall be broken, and {&give&} ear to
all far off lands, and prepare yourselves but you shall be broken.
3.(10) Counsel advice but it shall be annulled, make speeches but it will not
stand for Immanuel has spoken.(PP)
4.[*] (11) For thus
said YHWH to me; with a strong hand he corrected me from walking in the way of
this people, saying,
5. (12) Say ye not, a conspiracy, to all this people who say a conspiracy and
do not fear their fear
6. nor shall you be in dread of YHWH of Hosts (13) And He is a sanctuary , and
He is your fear and he is
7. your dread (14) and for sanctification but for a rock of stumbling and he
is a rock cliff of offence to both houses of Israel
8. for a snare and for a trap to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (15) And many
among them shall stumble and they shall fall and they shall be broken, snared
9.[R*] and captured. (16) Make strait the testimony and seal up the Torah
among the learner. 17) And I will wait for YHWH
10.[*] who is hiding {&.eth&} his face from the house of Jacob and I will hope
for him. (18) Look I and the children whom
11. YHWH has given to me are for a sign and wonders in Israel, from YHWH of
Hosts who is dwelling in Mount Zion.(PP)
12.[*]
(19) And in that they say to you, pursue the fathers [&waw&} wizards
and to the ones having unnatural knowledge and those making peeping
sounds
13. and the moaners, should not a people pursue their God for answers
(for the living, not the dead) (20) from the Torah
14. and the testimony (20 ought to begin here) If they are not speaking
according to this word in which there is no darkness (21) Then they shall pass
through it in hardness
15. and hunger. And it shall be when they shall hunger that they will be
wrathful and curse their king and against God and turn from above (22) and to
16. the earth they will look and behold sorrow and darkness dimness and
anguish and they shall be driven into gloom. (23) (English chapter 9:1 begins
here) Yet [&waw&} the dimness
17. shall not be like that which was her anguish when at the first time
he lightly caused anguish to the land of Zebulan and to the land of
Naphtali and afterward
18. more heavily caused anguish by way of the sea beyond Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles. (English Chapter 9:2) (1) The people walking in
darkness
19. have seen a great light. Those dwelling in the land of the shadow of
death, light has shined upon them (2) You have increased
20.[*] the nation but you have not enlarged the joy. They rejoice
before you as those who rejoice in harvest and as when they are happy [*]
21. in the division of spoil. (3) Because the yoke of his burden and the staff
of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor you have broken
22. as in the day of Midian. (4) Because every war of a warrior is with noise
and clothes rolled in blood but this one
23. with burning consuming fire. (5) Because a child shall be born to us and a
son is given to us and the government shall be upon
24. his shoulders and he shall be called wonderful, counsellor, mighty God,
everlasting father the prince of peace. (6) Of the increase
25. of his government [&waw&} and his peace there shall be no end. upon the
throne of David and over his kingdom to order it and to establish it
26. in judgement and in righteousness from and until eternity, The zeal of
YHWH of Hosts will perform this.
27. (7) The Lord sent a word upon Jacob [&ayin&} and it fell in Israel. (8)
And the people know, all of them, Ephraim and the inhabitants of
28. Samaria in the pride and largeness of heart saying: (9) The bricks are
fallen but with hewn stones we will build. The fig trees
29. are cut down but we will change them to cedars. (10) And [{YHWH}] will set
on high the enemies of Rezin against him and his foes
30. He will gather together. (11) Syrians from the east and the Philistines
behind and they shall eat up Israel with open mouth [&yod&}
Column IX
Isaiah 9:11 to 10:14
1.
(Continue 9:11) [+And+] For all this {&waw&} His anger is not recalled but His
hand is still outstretched.(12)And the people do not return to the one
striking them
2. and YHWH of Hosts they do not pursue. (PP)
3. (13) And YHWH
will cut off from Israel head and tail branch and bulrush in one day (14) The
elder and the exalted of
4. face, he is the head {&waw&} and the prophet teaching lies he is the
tail.(15) And the leaders of
5. this people are causing them to err and those led are being destroyed. (16)
And He will not pity {&waw&} his chosen ones
6. even the Lord and on the orphan and the widow he will not have mercy
because they are all profane and do evil
7. and every mouth speaks foolishness. For all this His anger is not recalled
but His hand is still outstretched.
8. (17) For wickedness burns as a fire brier and thorn shall be eaten up {&waw&}
and they shall set alight the thickets of the forest
9. and they shall billow like the raging of smoke. (18) From the fury of YHWH
of Hosts is the land scorched and they shall be
10. even the people shall be fuel for the fire, no man shall pity his
brother. (19) And he will cut off on the right hand and be hungry
11. and he shall eat on the left and not be satisfied, each man shall eat the
flesh of his own arm. (20) Manasseh
12. against Ephraim and Ephraim against Manasseh and they
together against Judah For all this
13. His anger is not recalled but His hand is still outstretched. (PP)
14. (Begin
Chapter 10:1) Woe to those who decree unjust statutes recording trouble which
they have written. (2) To turn away from the court
15. the poor, and to tear off judgement from the needy of my people so that
widows are their spoil and that the orphans.
16. they may rob (3) And what will you do in the day of the visit and of the
holocaust which shall come from afar to whom will you flee
17. for help, Look! where will you leave your glory. (4) Without me they shall
bow under imprisonment and under those murdered
18. they shall fall For all this His anger is not recalled but His hand is
still outstretched. PP)
19. (5) Woe to
Assyria, the rod of my anger and the staff in his hand is my rage. (6) I will
send him against a profane nation
20. and against the people of my wrath. I commanded him to take spoils and to
steal the plunder to make them a treading place like mire in the streets.
21. (7) But he thinks not thus and in his heart he does not consider it
because to destroy is in his heart and to cut off
22. not just a few nations. (8) Because he says, Are not my princes
altogether kings? (9) Is not like Carchemish
23. Calno, is not Hamath like Arphad, is not Samaria like Damascus. (10) Just
as my hand has found
24. the kingdoms of the idol which were better than the statues of Jerusalem
and Samaria (11) shall I not as I have done
25. to Samaria and her idols shall I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols.
(12) [m..+and it shall be+] Because the Lord will finish
26. all His work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. I will visit the fruit of the
great heart
27. of the king of Assyria and be against the splendor of his high mindedness.
(13) Because he says by the strength of my hand I have done it and by my
wisdom
28. [{because}] I am cunning I have removed {&yod&} national boundaries and I
have plundered their treasuries and I have pulled down
29 [{like mighty men the inhab}]itants. (14) And my hand has found the riches
of the people as a nest and as one gathers eggs
30. [{that are left, all the ea}]rth I have gathered and there was none that
fluttered a wing or opened their mouth
Column X
Isa 10:14 to 11:12
1.
(Continue Isa 10:14) or chirped. (15) Shall the axe exalt itself above the one
chopping with it or the saw make itself greater than the one moving it as
though it shook itself
2. a rod or make itself greater than the one lifting it up as if it could lift
itself as though it were not wood. (PP)
3. (16) Therefore
the Lord YHWH of Hosts shall send among his fatlings leanness and instead of
His glory he shall light a flame like the burning of a fire.
4. (17) And the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his Holy One for a
flame and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
5. (18) And the Glory of His forests and His fields of produce both spirit and
flesh shall be consumed. And they shall be as the melting of a standard
bearer. and the remnant of the number of the trees of His forest
6. can be written by a youth. (PP)
7. And it shall be
in that day that the remnant of Israel will no longer lean on the one who
caused his wounds and the escaped of the house of Jacob
8. but shall be supported by YHWH the Holy one of Israel in truth The remnant
shall return, the remnant of Jacob to the Mighty God (22) Although
9. your people Israel shall be as the sand of the sea a remnant shall return
to it. The completion determined will overflow with righteousness. (23)
Because a completion and that determined
10. shall the Lord YHWH of Hosts make in the midst of the whole earth.(PP)
11. (24) Therefore
thus says the Lord YHWH of Hosts my people who dwell in Zion do not fear the
Assyrian. He will strike you with a rod and his staff
12. he will lift against you in the manner of Egypt. (25) For yet a very
little while and the rage will cease and my anger will result in their
destruction (26) He shall raise up for
13. even YHWH of Hosts a whip like the wounding of Midian at the Rock
of Horeb
and as His rod was upon the sea so shall he raise it up as in the way of
Egypt. (PP)
14. (27) And it will
be in that day that the burden shall be taken from your shoulder and his yoke
from off your neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the presence of
the anointing oil (PP)
15. (28) He is come
to Aiyath {&tau&} he passes over to Migron at Michmash he reviews his
materials. (29) They have gone over the pass, Geba is our lodging place, Ramah
trembles,
16. Gibeah of Saul takes flight. (30) Let your voice cry out O Daughter of
Captivities, cause it to be heard in Laish O poor of Anathoth. (31) Madmemah
has fled
17. the inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge. (32) Yet today he will stand at Nob,
he will shake his hand at the Mountain of the Daughter of Zion, the hill of
Jerusalem. (PP)
18. (33) Behold the
Lord YHWH of Hosts is lopping the branch with terror and the {&he&}high
standing ones shall be chopped down and the high ones
19. shall be brought low. (34) And he shall peal off the thickets of the
forest with iron and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.(PP)
20. (Begin
Chapter 11:1) And there shall come a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch
(nazar)
from his roots will bear fruit. (2) And the spirit of YHWH will rest upon him
and the spirit of wisdom and understanding
21. the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might, the spirit of knowledge and
the fear of YHWH. (3) And he shall have an air of the fear of YHWH and
according to appearances he will not make
22. judgement and he will not rebuke according to the hearing of his ears. (4)
But he shall judge the poor with righteousness and he will rebuke with
uprightness the lowly of the earth and He will strike
23. the earth {&with&} the rod of His mouth and {:He will put to death the
wicked:] and with the spirit of his lips he will slay the wicked.(5) And
righteousness shall be the girdle of His hips and faithfulness
24. the girdle of His loins. (6) And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and
the fatling together and a young child shall lead
25. them (7) and the cow and the bear shall feed together and their young ones
lie down and the lion shall eat straw like cattle. (8) And the infant shall
play
26. on the hole of an adder and the toddler shall put his hand on the viper's
den. (9) they shall not do evil and they shall not destroy in my holy
mountain.
27. Because the earth shall be full of the knowledge of YHWH as the waters
cover the sea. (PP)
28. (10) There shall
be in that day a root of Jesse who shall stand as an ensign of the people to
Him shall the Gentiles pursue and His resting place
29. shall be glory. (11) And it will come to pass in that day that the Lord
will move his hand the second time to redeem {&.eth&} the remnant of His
people who remained
30. from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam
and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea (12) And He
shall raise up an ensign
Column XI
Isaiah 11:12 to 14:1
1.
(Continue 11:12) to the Gentiles and He shall gather the outcasts of Israel
and he shall gather the scattered ones of Judah from the corners of the earth.
(13) And it shall be turned away
2. even the jealousy of Ephraim and the enemies of Judah shall be cut
off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah and Judah will not provoke Ephraim
3. (14) And they will fly on the shoulders of the Philistines toward the sea
together. And they will spoil the sons of the east and they shall place their
hand on Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon
4. shall obey them. (15) And YHWH will destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt
and He will shake His hand over the River with the power of His Spirit and he
will strike it
5. into seven streams and He will make it a way to go over dry shod. (16) And
there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people who are left from
Assyria according as
6. it was to Israel in the day when he came up from the land of Egypt. (PP)
7.
(Chapter 12:1) And you shall say in that day I thank YHWH because you were
angry with me. He has turned away his anger and He has given me rest. (2)
Behold God, God, is my salvation
8. I will trust and not be afraid because my strength and my song is {&the&}
YHWH. He is to me for Salvation. (3) And you shall draw water with joy from
the springs of
9. Salvation. (4) And you will say in that day give thanks to YHWH call on His
name make known among the people His actions and make mention
10. that his name is exalted. {&shin&}. (5) Sing to YHWH because He has done
great things This is known in all the earth. (6) Cry out and shout O
(-daughter-) {&inhabitant&} of Zion
11. because great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel. (PP)
12. (Begin
Chapter 13:1) The Oracle of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amots saw as a
vision. (2) Lift up an ensign upon the bared mountain, raise your voice to
them, shake the hand
13. that they may go into the doors of the nobles. (3) I have commanded my
holy ones I have also called my mighty ones in my anger, those who are
jubilant at my majesty. (4) The voice of a multitude
14. on the mountains like a great people the voice of the noise of the
kingdoms of the Gentiles gathered together. YHWH is visiting the Hosts of the
war.
15. (5) They are coming from far lands and from the end of the heavens YHWH
with His equipment of indignation to destroy the earth. (6) Howl because near
is the day of
16. YHWH It shall come as devastation from the Devastator. (7) Therefore all
hands shall faint and every heart of man shall melt. (8) And they shall be
afraid, troubles
17. and woes shall seize them, they shall writhe as one bearing a child, they
shall be amazed at one another, their faces shall be faces of flames. (9)
Behold the day of
18. YHWH is coming, cruel and wrath and fierce anger, to appoint the earth a
desolation and He will destroy sinners from it.
19. (10) Because the stars and their constellations shall not light their
light. The sun shall be dark in its going out and the moon will not shine
[...its light...].
20. (11) And I will visit evil upon the world-system and iniquity upon the
wicked and I will stop the arrogantly proud and I will humble the high
mindedness of the ruthless. (12) and I will cause to be more prized
21. a man than fine gold, even a human than the pure gold of Ophir. (13)
Therefore I will shake the heavens and the earth shall tremble out of its
place by the wrath of YHWH of
22. Hosts and in the day of his fierce anger. (14) And it shall be as a
banished gazelle and as a sheep with no one shepherding them and each man
shall turn to his own people and each man
23. shall flee to his own land. (15) Everyone found shall be stabbed and the
ones gathered shall fall by the sword. (16) Their infants shall be dashed to
pieces before their eyes.
24. Their houses plundered and their wives raped. (PP)
25. (17)
Behold I will awaken the Medes against them who shall not consider silver and
as for gold they will not desire it. (18) With their bows the youths
26. they shall dash to pieces and they will have no mercy on the fruit of the
womb and their eye will not pity children. (19) And it shall come to pass that
Babel most glorious kingdom
27. the excellent wonder of the Chaldeans will be as when God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah. (20) It shall never be inhabited and it shall not
28. be dwelt in from generation to generation and the Arab shall not pitch his
ten there, neither shall the shepherd bed down his fold there. (21) And desert
creatures shall lie down there
29. and their houses shall be filled with jackals and relatives of the owl
shall dwell there and wild goats shall dance there (22) and island [-&yod&}
hyenas shall cry in widows' houses
30. and serpents in their pleasant halls, [...and...] her time is near to come
and her days shall not be drawn out. (Chapter 14:1 Because YHWH will have
mercy on Jacob
Column XII
Isaiah 14:1 to 29
1.
(Continue Chapter 14:1) and he shall yet choose Israel and he will settle them
in their own land and sojourners will be placed with them and they shall join
2. the house of Jacob. (2) And the people shall take multitudes and bring them
to their place
3. and the house of Israel shall inherit them in the land of YHWH for servants
and handmaids and they shall become captives
4. even their captors and they shall have dominion over their
oppressors. (PP)
5. (3) And
it shall come to pass in that day the YHWH will give you rest from your sorrow
and from your trouble and from your hard labor in which
6. was your toil. (4) Lift up this proverb against the king of Babylon and you
shall say How has ceased
7. the oppressor, and how has the
fury
ceased. (5) YHWH has shattered the rod of the wicked and the staff of the
governors. (6) He struck the people
8. in wrath, striking without turning aside. He who dominated the nations in
anger is persecuted without restraint. (7) In quiet rest,
9: is the whole earth, they break out in singing. (8) The fir trees also
rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon say Since you have sat down
10. no axe man has arisen against us. (9) Sheol from beneath is moved to meet
your arrival, stirring up for you
11. the spirits of the dead, and all the goats of the earth, it
Sheol has raised up all the kings of the Gentiles. (10) All of them shall
speak
12. and say to you, have you also become sick like us are you now
compared to us. (11) Brought down to Sheol
13. is your pride also the sound of your harps, worms are spread under
you and maggots cover you. (12) How are you fallen
14. from the heavens shining one, son of the dawn you are hewn down to the
earth O waster of nations. (13) For you have said
15 in your heart I will go up to heaven above the stars of God I will set my
throne on high, I [{will sit}] on the mountain
16. of the meeting in the coasts of the north. (14) I will go up to the high
places of the clouds, I will be like the highest. (15) But to Sheol
17. you shall be brought down to the borders of the pit. (16) Those seeing you
shall stare at you and considering shall say, Is this the man
18. making {&the&} earth tremble and shaking kingdoms. (17) Who put the world
system as a desert and his prisoners
19. he did not open their houses. (18) All the kings of the Gentiles lie in
their own glory each in his own house. (19) But you are sent out of
20. your grave
[like] a hated [N]azarene
as the clothes of those killed, pierced with the sword, the ones going down
{&to the stones&} of the pit, or as a trampled down carcass.
21. (20) You will not be together with them in the grave, because you have
ruined your land and {&the &} people of your own you have killed; they will [{no}]t
be proclaimed forever
22. this seed of evil doers. (21) Prepare a butchering for his sons on
account of the iniquity of their fathers, they shall not rise nor inherit the
land
23. nor fill the world system with cities. (22) And I will rise up
against him says YHWH of Hosts and I will cut off
24. to Babylon name, remnant, posterity, and progeny says YHWH. (23) And I
will set it as a possession of the hedgehog and standing marshy
25. water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction says YHWH of
Hosts. (24) And He is under oath even YHWH
26. of Hosts saying, will it not be: just as I compared thus will it be? and
just as I have determined so shall it rise up?
27. (25.) To shatter Assyria in my land and upon my mountains and I will tread
him down and turn his yoke from upon you and his burden
28, I will turn away from upon your shoulders. (26) This is the purpose that
is determined upon all the earth and this is the hand
29. that is stretched {&yod&} out on all the Gentiles. (27) Because YHWH of
Hosts has determined it and who shall annul and His hand is stretched
out
28. and who shall cause it to return. (PP)
29. (28) In the year
that king {&large Kaph&} Achaz died this oracle came: (29) Do not rejoice
Philistia
Column
XIII Isaiah 14:29 to 16:14
1.
(Continue 14:29) all of you because the rod of him who struck you is broken;
because from his root a serpent will come out and a viper and his fruit shall
be a fiery serpent
2. flying. (30) And the firstborn of the poor shall feed and the needy shall
lie down with confidence and I will kill with hunger
3. your root and your remnant I {he} will slay your remnant. (31) Howl O gate
cry out O city Philistia is dissolved, all of you,
4. because out of the north a smoke is coming and no one will be isolated in
that season. (32) And what answer shall be given to the Gentile messengers?
That YHWH
5. will establish Zion and the poor of His people will flee into it. (PP)
6.
(Chapter 15:1) The Oracle of Moab. Because in the night the city {Ar} of Moab
is devastated and cut off, because in the night is devastated the city {Kir}
of
7. Moab and cut off. (2) He has gone up to the temple and to the high
places {&aleph&}of Dibon to weep. Upon Nebo and upon Madebah
8. Moab shall howl; on every head shall be baldness and every beard cut off.
(3) In her outskirts
9. they shall gird themselves with sackcloth on the roofs and in the streets
they shall all be howling collapsing in weeping.
10. (4) And Heshbon shall cry and from Elealeh as far as Yachad their
voice will be heard. Therefore the pioneers of Moab shall shout
11. because their lives will be evil to them. (5) My heart cries out
for Moab in her troubled flight to Zoar like a three year old heifer
12. because in going up to Luchith they shall go up to it with weeping.
because in the way to Horanaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
13. (6) Because the waters of Nimriym shall be desolate and the hay is dried
up and grass is consumed and greenness
14. is gone. (7) Therefore the wealth made and their stores will be carried
away to the Arabian River. (8) because
15. the cry is gone around the border of Moab and her howling as far as Eglaim
and as far as Beer Eyliym
16. her howling. (9) Because the waters of Dimon are full of blood and I will
put additional things upon Dimon, on those fleeing
17 Moab, lions, and on the remnant of that land. (Chapter 16:1) Send a saddle
to the ruler of the land, from Sela Petra to the desert,
18. to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. (2) For it shall be as a
wandering bird is cast out of the nest so shall the daughters of Moab
19. be at the passing over of the Arnon. (3) Take counsel, make decisions, put
your shadow as the night in the midst of noon time (PP) (Q has a paragraph
break in the middle of verse 16:3)
20. (Continue 16:3)
Hide the outcasts, do not betray the wanderer, (4) Let my outcasts sojourn
with you O Moab be a hiding place
21. for them from the face of the spoilers for the extortioner is no more the
spoiler is stopped and the trampler is consumed out of the land. (5) And it
shall be established
22. in mercy even the throne. And He shall sit on it in the tent {&waw&}
of David judging and pursuing judgement
23. and speeding righteousness. (6) We have heard of the pride of Moab,
excessively proud
24. and wrathful but his boasting shall not come to pass. (7) Therefore Moab
shall [not] howl for Moab everyone shall howl for the foundations of
25. Kir Harosheth, they shall mourn like those stricken. (8) Because the
fields of Heshbon will wilt and the vineyards of
26. Sibmah {here Q omits the rest of verse 8 or 13 words and a further 7 words
in verse 9) (9) I will bathe you with my tears O Heshbon and Elealeh because
of the summer fruits and your harvest
27. the cheering is fallen. (10) and happiness is taken away {&aleph&} and joy
from the orchard and there is no singing in the vineyards nor
28. triumphal shouting. The treader shall tread out no wine in the wine
presses I have caused the cheering to cease (11) Therefore my stomach
29. shall roar like a harp for Moab and my inward parts for Kir Harosheth.
(12) And it shall be when he is wearied that
30. Moab shall come to the high place and come to his sanctuary {&yod&} to
pray and he shall not be able. (PP)
31. (13) This is the
word which YHWH has spoken to Moab from then. (14) But now YHWH speaks
Column XIV
Isaiah 16:14 to 18:7
1.
(Continue Isa 16:14) saying within three years like the years of a hired man
shall the glory of Moab become base in all
2. the mighty crowd and the remnant shall be a very small with no glory
(feeble}. (PP)
3.
(Chapter 17:1) The Oracle of Damascus: Behold Damascus is changed from being a
city to a ruined heap.
4. (2) The cities of Aroer are abandoned, they shall be for flocks and they
shall lie down and not be afraid. (PP)
5. (3) The fortress
shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of
Syria shall as the glory
6. of the sons of Israel become, say YHWH of Hosts. (PP)
7. (4) And it shall
be in that day that the glory of Jacob shall be base and his fatness shall
grow lean. (5) And it shall be
8. as the harvester gathering grain and his arm reaps the sheaves and it shall
be like gleaning sheaves
9. in the valley of Rephaim. (6) And left in it gleaning grapes like the
shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries
10. in the top bow, four or five in the top fruitful branches says YHWH
the God of
11. Israel. (7) In that day shall a man give regard for his Maker and his eyes
12. to the Holy One of Israel shall look. (8) He shall not give regard to the
altars the works of him {his hands}
13. that which his fingers have made and he will not look to the groves or the
idols.(PP)
14. (9) In
that day his strong cities shall be like an abandoned limb or the top most bow
which
15. they abandoned from the presence of the sons of Israel and it shall be a
desolation. (10) Because you forgot the God of
16. your salvation and the rock of your strength you did not remember,
therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and twigs
17 of strangeness you shall sow. (11) And in the day of your planting you
shall make it grow and in the morning you shall make your seed sprout out
See note.
18. but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and sick
anguish. (PP)
19. (12) Woe to the
multitude of many people like the sound of waters like the sound of nations
20. as the sound of waters they make a din. (13) Nations like many crashing
waters shall make a din
21. and he shall rebuke them and they shall flee afar off and they shall be
pursued like the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like a rolling
thing before
22. a whirlwind (14) And behold at evening time terror, and before morning it
is not, this is the share of those who plunder us
23. and the lot of those who rob us. (PP)
24.
(Chapter 18:1) Woe to the land of shadows of wings which is beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia. (2) Who send ambassadors by sea
25. in vessels of papyrus reeds upon the face of the waters saying Go
swift messengers to a nation drawn {&waw&}
26. and polished to a terrible people from here and beyond, a nation measured
and subjugated which the rivers have looted.
27. its land. (3) All you who dwell in the world system and inhababitors of
the earth behold when he lifts up and ensign on the mountains and when he
blows
28. the shopher, give heed. (4) Because thus says YHWH to me: I will rest
quietly and consider
29. in my shekina dwelling place like dazzling heat of rising light,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. (5) Because before harvest
30. when the sprouts are entirely completed and the grape is ripening it shall
be a flower and he shall cut off the sprigs with pruning tools
31. and the branches he will turn aside and cut down. (6) And they shall be
abandoned together to the fowls of the mountains and to the beasts of the
32. earth. And the fowls shall summer upon them and the all the beasts of the
earth shall winter upon them. (7) In the season
Column XV
Isaiah 18:7 to 19:23
1.
(Continue chapter 18:7) even that one a present shall be carried to
YHWH of hosts of a people drawn out and polished and from a people terrible
from here
2. and beyond a nation measured and subjugated which land the rivers have
looted to the place of the name of YHWH of Hosts
3. even Mount Zion. (PP)
4.
(Chapter 19:1) The Oracle of Egypt: Behold YHWH rides on a swift cloud and
coming to Egypt the idols of Egypt are moved
5. before him and the heart of Egypt is melted {&qof&} within him. (2) And I
will shut in {&kaph&} the Egyptians against the Egyptians and they shall war
6. each man against his brother and each man against his neighbor and city
against city and kingdom against kingdom. (3) And the spirit of Egypt shall be
emptied out
7. in the midst of it and I will swallow up their counsellors and they shall
seek to their idols and to their enchanters and to their necromancers
8. and to their seance holders (4) And I will deliver the Egyptians into the
hand of a cruel lord and a powerful king and they shall rule
9. over them says the Lord YHWH of Hosts. (5) And the waters of the sea shall
be dried up and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.
10. (6) And they shall turn away from the rivers and the streams of Matsor
shall be emptied and dried up, {&waw&} the canes and the reeds shall wither.
(7) The papyrus
11. on the steams and on the mouth of the streams and everything cultivated by
the streams shall dry up, be driven away and nothing in it. (8) And the fish
{fishermen}
12. shall mourn and all who cast hooks into the stream shall lament and those
who spread out nets on the face of the waters shall diminish. (9) And they
shall be ashamed
13. even the workers in combed linen as well as the weavers of white
lace. (10) And their goals shall be broken
14. even all those making wages from ponds of living creatures. (11)
The princes of Tsoan are absolute fools, the wise counsellors of Pharoah
15. even their counsel is burned up. How do you say to Pharoah I am the
son of wise men, I am the son of the Kings of the East. (12) Whence
16. and from where are your wise men, let them tell you please, let them make
known what YHWH of {&Hosts&} has counselled about Egypt. (13) They have become
fools
17. even the princes of Tsoan, the princes of Noph are deceived, they
have led Egypt astray, even the cornerstone of her tribes. (14) YHWH
18. has mingled a warped spirit within her and they have led Egypt astray in
all her work as he staggers
19. even a drunkard in his vomit. (15) And there shall not be work for
Egypt which they can do, head or tail,
20 branch or reed. (16) In that day Egypt shall be like women, and she shall
tremble and be afraid
21. of the presence of the waving of the hand of YHWH of Hosts which He is
waving over them. (17) And it will be that
22. the land of Judah shall be for a terror for Egypt, everyone who recalls it
for himself 23. will be afraid of the presence of the counsel of YHWH of Hosts
which He has
determined against it.
24. (18) In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking
the language of
25. Canaan and swearing to YHWH of Hosts; one city shall be called Haheres or
destruction or
Heliopolis
(19) In the day
26. even that one, there shall be an altar to YHWH in the midst of the land of
Egypt and a memorial next to her border
27. for YHWH. (20) And it shall be for a sign and a witness to YHWH of Hosts
in the land of Egypt because they shall cry out
28. to YHWH in the presence of the ones oppressing and He will send to them a
savior and a great one a Rab and he will deliver them. (21) And He will
be known
29. even YHWH to Egypt and the Egyptians shall know YHWH and it shall
be in that day that they will offer sacrifices
30. and offerings and they shall vow a vow to YHWH and make peace offerings.
(22) And YHWH will strike Egypt, He will strike but he will heal
31. and they shall return to YHWH and he shall be entreated by them and heal
them. (23) In that day there shall be a highway
32. from Egypt to Assyria and the Assyrians shall come into Egypt and the
Egyptians into Assyria and they shall serve
Column XVI
Isaiah 19:23 to 21:15
1:
Continue 19:23) Assyria. (24) In that day Israel shall be third with Egypt
2. and with Assyria a blessing in the midst of the land. (25) To whom, even,
YHWH of Hosts they have blessed saying,
3. blessed are my people Egypt and the works of my hands Assyria and my
inheritance Israel. (PP)
[*]
4.
(Chapter 20:1) In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod when Saigon King of
Assyria sent him, he fought
5. against Ashdod and conquered it. (2) At that same time YHWH spoke by the
hand of Isaiah the son of Amots
6. saying go and loosen the {&sackcloth&} from your thighs and remove your
shoes from your feet. And he did
7. thus walking naked and barefoot. (3) And YHWH said just as my servant
Isaiah has walked
8. naked and barefoot three years as a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and
upon Ethiopia. (4) Thus shall lead
9. the king of Assyria the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians to captivity
young and old naked
10. and barefoot and the buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt. (5) And
they shall be dismayed and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope (expectation}
11. and of Egypt their splendor. (6) And {&those dwelling&} in this island
shall say in that day behold
12. thus is our expectation to which we fled there for help to be delivered
from the presence of the king of Assyria
13. and how shall we then escape. (PP)
14.
(Chapter 21:1) The Oracle of the Desert of the Sea Babylon As
whirlwinds pass through the Negev it comes from the desert the east
from a {&terrible&}(--desert--) land
15. (2) A hard vision is told to me, the traitor is treacherous, the spoiler
is spoiling. Go up 16. Elam raise a seige Media, I have stopped all her
mourning. (3) Therefore my loins are full of pain
17. sorrows seize me as the sorrows of childbirth, I was bowed down at the
news, I was I was troubled
18. at the sight. (4) My heart wandered, the horror terrified me, my evening's
desire, He has changed for me
19. to fear. (5) Set the table and the watch of the watch tower, eat,
drink, rise up, Let the princes
20. anoint the shield. (6) Because thus said the Lord to me. go and cause a
watchman to stand watch that which
21. he sees let him tell. (7) and he saw a chariot with {+a man+] a
team of horses, and a chariot of asses
22. and a chariot of camels, and he listened carefully, exceedingly carefully.
(8) And he called out, [a lion], upon the watchtower
23. my Lord, I am continuously standing daily, and upon my watch I am standing
24. every night. (9) and behold there it comes, a man with a team of horses
and he answered and said
25. it is fallen, Babylon is fallen! and all the idols of her gods are
shattered to the earth. (10) O my threshed grain and produce
26. of my walled enclosure. That which I have heard from YHWH of Hosts the God
of Israel I have told
27. to you. (PP)
28. (11). The Oracle
of Dumah: He called to me from Seir, Watchman what of the night? Watchman what
of the night?.
29. (12) The watchman said the morning comes and also the night, if you will
enquire, enquire, return, come. (PP)
[*]
30. (13) The Oracle
of Arabia of the Forest: you shall lodge in Arabia O caravans of Duodenum.
(14) To meet
31. the thirsty the inhabitants of the land of Texan brought water, with their
bread they anticipated the wanderer. (15) Because
32. from the presence of {&the&} multitude [sword] they wandered abroad, from
the presence of the [drawn] {&tech-waw&} sword and from the presence of the
bent bow and from the presence of
Column
XVII Isaiah 21:15 to 22:24
1.
(Continue 21:15) the heavy burden of war. (16) Because thus said YHWH to me in
yet [m..three] [*O] years [one year] as the years of
2. a hired man all the glory of Kedar will be ended. (17) And the remnant of
the number of archers of the mighty men of {&the sons&} of Kedar shall be
diminished.
3. because YHWH the God of Israel has spoken. (PP)
4.
(Chapter 22:1) The Oracle of the Valley of The Vision of [+the kings of Aephoa+]
[m..What is with you now?] because all of you have gone up to the roofs (2) a
city full of noise, a city
5. of tumult, a city of glee, your slain are not slain of the sword nor your
dead of war. (3) All
6. your rulers have wandered off together, they are constrained by the
archers, all those found within you are constrained together, far away
7. they have fled. (4) Therefore I said look away from me for I am bitter in
my weeping do not hasten to comfort me concerning
8. the destruction of the daughter my people. (5) [{Because it is a day}] of
trouble, treading down and confusion to the Lord YHWH
9. of Hosts in the valley of vision of His holy place upon the mountain [m..breaking
down walls and sanctifying [crying out to] the mountains.] (6) and Elam lifted
{&yod&} up the quiver
10. with chariots of mankind and horsemen and Qir uncovered the shield. (7)
And it shall be that your choicest valleys shall be full of
11. chariots and the horsemen shall surely place themselves at the gate. (8)
And you shall roll aside the curtain of Judah and you shall look
12. in that day to the armory of the house of the forest. (9) You have seen
the breaches of the city of David
13. that they are great and you have gathered together the waters of the lower
blessing or pool (10) And the houses of Jerusalem
14. you have counted and you have broken the houses down to fortify the wall.
(11) and you made a channel between the two walls
15. for the waters of the old blessing or pool and neither did you look
to its maker nor the one who fashioned it long ago
16. did you see. (PP)
17. (12) And in that
day will the Lord YHWH of Hosts call for crying and for mourning and for
baldness
18. and for the girding of sack cloth. (13) and behold joy and gladness and
killing of cattle and slaughter of sheep and eating of
19 flesh and drinking wine, Eat and drink for tomorrow we die. (14) And he
disclosed in my ears evenYHWH
20. of Hosts, in no way will this iniquity be atoned for you until you die
says the Lord
21. YHWH of Hosts. (PP)
22. (15) Thus said
the Lord YHWH of Hosts, go, arrive to this steward, even Shebna
23. who is over the household. and say (16) What is yours here and who
is yours here that you have hewn out here a tomb for yourself
24. hewing out on high his tomb, engraving in the rock cliff a habitation for
himself. (17) Behold YHWH will hurl you away
25. with a mighty exile and will surely cover you up. (18) With a great
rolling {&yod&} he will roll you like a ball to
26. a land of wide spaces, there shall you die and there shall the chariots of
your glory be the shame of the house
27. of your lord. (19) And I will drive you from your fortress and from your
office shall He throw you down. (PP)
28. And it will be
in that day that I will call to my servant to Eliakim, son of Hilkiah (21) And
I will cause him to be dressed {&tau&}
29. in your tunic and will strengthen him with your girdle and I will give
your government into his hand and he shall be
30. as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
(22) And I will give him the key of the house of David
31. upon his shoulder and he will open and no one shall shut and shut and no
one will open. (23) And I will drive him as a nail in an
32. established place and he shall be for a throne of glory for his father's
house. (24) And they shall hang upon him all the glory of
Column
XVIII Isaiah 22:24 to 24:4
1.
(Continue 22:24) the house of his father, and all the offspring {&aleph&} and
the produce of all the vessels, from the small vessels as basins
2. to all containers like pitchers. (25) In that day says YHWH of Hosts He
shall remove
3. the peg that is fastened in a secure place and it shall be chopped down and
fall and the burden shall be cut off
4. that was upon it because YHWH has spoken. (PP)
5,
(Chapter 23:1) The Oracle of Tyre: Howl ships of Carthage because it is so
devastated that there is no house, no entrance, from the land of
6. Kittiym
[the
Romans?
or Cyprus]
it is uncovered for you. (2) Be silent inhabitants {&waw&} of the island the
merchants of Sidon who pass over the sea [+your messengers+] [m..fill you up.]
7. (3) And by great waters the harvest of the Nile-canals is her produce and
she is merchant
8. to the Gentiles (4) Be ashamed Sidon for the sea says, the sea speaks from
her strength, I do not
9. labor in childbirth nor bring up children neither do I raise young men nor
bring up virgins.
10. (5)As it was when you heard {&about&} Egypt so shall they travail when you
hear about Tyre. (6) Pass over to Carthage {&resh&}, Howl
11. O inhabitants of the island. (7) Is this joy for you? You were ancient in
olden days
12. Her feet shall carry her far away to sojourn. (8) Who has devised this
against Tyre the giver of crowns
13. whose {&merchants&} are princes and her traders are the glorified one of
the earth. (9) YHWH of Hosts has devised it
14. to profane the pride of all beauty and to make light of all the glorified
ones of the earth. (10) Pass over your land like a stream
15. O daughter of Carthage there is no longer a restraint. (11) He stretches
out his hand over the sea He shakes up kingdoms
16. YHWH has commanded to Canaan {&to&} destroy her fortresses. (12) And he
said you shall continue
17. no more to rejoice O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. To Kittiym
arise and pass over
18. there, also there will be no rest for you. (PP)
19. (13)
Behold the land of the Chaldeans this people did not exist, Assyria
established it as a
wilderness
20. they set up {&her&} siege towers, they stripped away her palaces, they
placed it as a ruin {&pe&}. (14) Howl
21. ships of Carthage because your fortress is spoiled (15) And it shall be in
that day that to Tyre
[10
words of verse 15
are omitted at this point]
22. will be like the
song of a harlot. (16) Take a harp, go round the city forgotten harlot, make
23. a nice song, multiply music so that you might be remembered. (17) And it
shall be at the end of seventy years
24. that YHWH will visit Tyre and she will return to her prostitution and she
will fornicate (with all} the kingdoms of
25. the earth upon the face of the ground. (18) And her merchandise and her
prostitution shall be holiness
26. to YHWH it shall not be treasured nor stored because for those dwelling in
the presence of YHWH
27. it shall be their merchandise to consume, to satisfy and for fine clothes.
(PP)
28.
(Chapter 24:1) Behold YHWH will empty the earth and make it a waste and twist
in reverse its face and scatter
29. its inhabitants. (2) And it shall be as it is with the people so with the
priest and as to the servant so to the lord, as to the hand maid
30. so to the mistress and as the buyer so the seller and as the lender so the
borrower and as the receiver of interest so to the one who pays
31. to him. (3) The land shall be completely emptied and altogether plundered,
because YHWH has spoken
32. this word. (4) The earth mourns and fades away the world system droops and
fades away
Column XIX
Isaiah 24:4 to 25:3
1.
(Continue 24:4) The highminded {&people&} of the earth wilt. (5) And the earth
is polluted by those who inhabitant it. because
2. they have transgressed the Torah and have altered the statutes and have
violated the eternal covenant. (6) Therefore His oath has devoured
3. [m..+the earth] and those dwelling in it as the offenders, on this account
the inhabitants of the earth are scorched and there is a remnant of men
4. a very small. (7) The fresh pressed grape juice mourns and the vines wilt,
all the joyful hearts sigh. (8) It ceases
5. even the mirth of tambourines, the noise of joy stops, the mirth of
the harp ceases. (9) with a song
6. they shall not drink wine and strong drink will be bitter to those who
drink it. (10) The disoriented city is shattered, barred are
7. all the houses from entering. (11) A cry for wine in the outskirts, all joy
is darkened,
8. mirth is rolled away from the land. (12) Desolation only
remains in the city and destruction strikes
9. the gate. (13) Because thus shall it be in the midst of the land in the
middle of the people it shall be like the shaking of an olive tree
10. like gleaning when the vintage is finished. (14) They shall life up their
voice, they shall sing about the majesty of
11. YHWH, [Q end verse here] They shall cry out from the sea. (15)
Therefore glorify YHWH in the valleys and in the isles of the sea
12. the name of YHWH God of Israel. (PP)
13. (16) From the
corners of the earth we have heard songs, Beauty shall be to the
righteous, I am thin. I am very thin,
14. woe is me the traitors betray and the clothing of the betrayers is their
treachery (17) Fear and the pit
15. and the snare are upon you O inhabitant of the earth. (18) and it shall be
that the one fleeing from the sound of the fear shall fall
16. into the pit, and the one coming up out of the pit shall be captured by
the snare because the windows
17. from the highest are opened and the foundations of the earth quake. (19)
It is altogether broken up
18. even the earth. The earth is split wide open and is repeatedly
shaken. (20) The staggering
19. of the earth shall be like the reeling of a drunkard and the shaking of a
shed and her transgressions shall be a weight upon her
20. and she shall fall and shall not rise again. (PP)
21. (21) And it will
be in that day that YHWH will visit the host of the highest in the highest
places
22. and upon the kings of the earth who are upon the earth. (22) They shall be
gathered together [m..prisoners] in the pit and they shall be shut up
23. in the dungeon. But this visitation will be after many days. (23) And the
moon shall be embarrassed and she will be ashamed
24.
the sun because YHWH will reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
25. before his elders in Glory. (PP)
26.
(Chapter 25:1) YHWH you are my God, I will extol you, {&yod&} I will give
thanks to your name, you have done wonders,
27. your counsels from afar are steadfast faithfulness. (2) Because you
change a city into a mound, a fortress city
28. into a ruin
{&pe&}
a palace of aliens from being a city at all it shall never be built.
(3) Therefore they shall glorify You
29. even strong peoples, terrifying cities of the Gentiles shall fear
you. (4) Because you have been a refuge for the poor
30. a refuge for the needy in his sorrows, a shelter from the downpour, a
shadow from parching heat, because the wind of the ruthless
31. is as a downpour against the wall (5) As parching heat in a dry place you
shall bring down the tumult of aliens, the parching heat in the shadow of a
cloud
32. The song of the terrible ones is answered. (PP)
Column XX
Isaiah 25:6 to 26:18
1.
(Chapter 25:6) And YHWH of Hosts shall make to all this people in this
mountain a feast of fatlings,
2. and a feast of mature wine of marrowed fatlings and refined mature wine.
(7) And He will swallow up in this mountain
3. even this one the presence of the covering which covered over all
the people and the veil spread over
4. all the Gentiles. (8) He will swallow up death perpetually and the Lord
YHWH shall wipe away tears
5. from upon all faces and the shame of his people he shall turn away from all
the earth because YHWH
6. has spoken. (PP)
7. (9) And you [it]
shall say in that day Behold YHWH, this is our God, we have waited for Him and
he saves us
8. this is YHWH we have waited for him we are glad and rejoice in his
salvation. (10) Because, it shall rest the hand
9. of YHWH in this mountain and He shall tread down Moab under Him as straw is
trodden down in
10. a dunghill. (11) And He shall spread out His hands in the midst of them as
he who swims spreads out to swim,
11. and He shall bring down their pride with the spoils of their hands. (12)
And the fortress of the tower of your walls
12. He shall prostrate them, bringing them down and bringing them to the earth
to dust. (PP)
13.
(Chapter 26:1) In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah, we
have a strong city
14. He has put Yeshuah (salvation) for walls and ramparts. (2) Open
your gates that the righteous nation will enter who keeps
15. the truth. (3) The
sustained
mind is held in great peace because it trusts in You (4)
[{trust in}]
in YHWH
16 for ages {&yod&} of ages because in Yah YHWH is a rock of ages. (5) because
He sets [brings down] those who dwell on high, the city
17. that is exalted He causes it to fall to the earth, He causes it to fall to
the dust. (6) they shall trample it with the feet of
18. the poor
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) B
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