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Yeshayahu
Isaiah
Introduction
Introduction to the Book of Yeshayahu (Isaiah)
Within the Framework of The Ivri Heritage Bible
The text presented here is an authentic, meticulous rendering of the Book of Yeshayahu (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ), structurally restored within the multi-volume architecture of The Ivri Heritage Bible. Far from a standard translation, this edition represents a definitive Hebraic Messianic Netzarim alignment, translated directly from the ancient manuscript lineages of the Septuagint (LXX) while preserving the authentic covenantal names and Hebrew legal titles.
By prioritizing the Septuagint lineage, this volume recovers vital messianic variants, ancient geographical understandings, and prophetic readings often obscured in later texts. It stands as a profound literary monument tracking the overarching covenant history of Yisra'el—from severe structural degradation to the final cosmic manifestation of the New Heavens and the New Earth.
Textual Methodology: Restoring the Covenant Language
In exact alignment with the editorial vision of The Ivri Heritage Bible, this edition strips away centuries of Westernized, Hellenistic vocabulary to uncover the uncompromised Hebraic realities of the text:
• The Tetragammaton: The ultimate, set-apart Name of the Creator is restored as Yahuah (יהוה), alongside the correct descriptive titles Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) and Adonai (אֲדֹנָי). • The Messianic Title: The Greek-derived "Christ" is completely rejected in favor of Mashiach (מָשִׁיחַ), returning the prophetic weight to the anointed vessel of Yahuah. • Covenantal Lexicon: Functional terminology is preserved throughout the text, including titles like Kadosh (קָדוֹשׁ) for the Holy One, Torah (תּוֹרָה) for parental instruction/law, and Beriyt (בְּרִית) for the binding, everlasting covenant. • Sacrificial Definitions: Specific offerings are given their exact Hebraic definitions, differentiating between the Olah (עוֹלָה, burnt offering) and the Minchah (מִמְחָה, grain offering).
Prophetic Architecture and Critical Themes
The Book of Yeshayahu operates as a breathtaking, 66-chapter tapestry of judgment, separation, and ultimate redemption. When viewed through its original Hebraic framework, the text divides into distinct ideological and architectural movements:
1. The Indictment of the Vineyard and Legal Contestation (Chapters 1–5)
The text opens with a sweeping cosmos-wide legal brief against the kingdoms of Yehudah and Yerushalayim. Yahuah enters into structural judgment with the princes, elders, and daughters of Tziyon, exposing their spiritual harlotry, empty ritualism, and institutional bribery. The text brilliantly employs the metaphor of the Vineyard on a fertile hill, demonstrating that while Yahuah fortified it with a protective hedge and planted choice vines, it brought forth only thorns, lawlessness, and a cry of the oppressed.
2. The Thrice-Holy Commission and Prophetic Signs (Chapters 6–12)
The cosmic authority of Yeshayahu's commission is anchored in a grand vision within the heavenly palace, where the six-winged Serafim (שְׂרָפִים) cry out in perpetual rotation: "Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh is Yahuah Tzeva'ot!". From this high altar, the prophet is dispatched to a dull-eared generation and given staggering messianic blueprints. This includes the clear sign of Immanu'el (עִמָּנוּ אֵל) born of a virgin, and the manifestation of a Rod out of the root of Yishai (Jesse) who will govern in absolute righteousness and fill the earth with the knowledge of Yahuah.
3. The Burden of the Nations and Cosmic Doom (Chapters 13–35)
Yeshayahu shifts his sight outward, detailing the systematic execution of wrath against the arrogant global powers that oppressed the chosen seed. It outlines the total structural collapse of Bavel (Babylon), mocking its prideful ruler—Heilel (הֵילֵל, Morning Star)—who attempted to exalt his throne above the stars of Elohim only to be cast down to the depths of Sheol. Parallel judgments sweep across Moav, Damesek, Mitzrayim (Egypt), and Ashur, highlighting the vanity of human alliances and pagan sorcery.
4. Historical Interlude and the Trial of Chizkiyahu (Chapters 36–39)
The historical core of the book captures the military crisis under King Chizkiyahu (Hezekiah) during the brutal siege of Yerushalayim by the Assyrian general Rav-Shakeh. This section serves as an enduring structural lesson on covenantal defense: when the king humbles himself in sackcloth and lays the enemy's threatening letters before Yahuah, the Malakh (messenger) of Yahuah strikes down 185,000 in the Assyrian camp in a single night. It also records Chizkiyahu's miraculous healing—gaining an additional fifteen years—and the sobering prophecy of the future Babylonian captivity following his prideful display of the royal treasuries.
5. Comfort, the Suffering Servant, and the Reconstituted Remnant (Chapters 40–55) Transitioning into a key of profound consolation, the text speaks to the heart of the exiled, proclaiming that her warfare is accomplished. The centerpiece of this section is the unmatched prophetic portrait of the Suffering Servant in Chapter 53. Here, the Mashiach is revealed not in worldly majesty, but as an ignoble root out of dry ground, bruised for our iniquities, led silently as a lamb to the slaughter, and bearing the sins of many so that by His wounds the assembly might be structurally healed.
6. True Fasting, the Shabbat Eternal, and the New Creation (Chapters 56–66)
The final movement sets forth the unyielding ethical and liturgical standards required of the She'erit (remnant). It redefines true fasting not as external affliction, but as breaking the bonds of wickedness and feeding the hungry. Ultimate status is promised to the strangers and eunuchs who steadfastly guard the Shabbat (שַׁבָּת) from profanation. The book reaches its climax in a cosmic reset: the total destruction of unrepentant idolaters and the creation of a New Heaven and a New Earth, where all flesh will gather cycle after cycle to worship before Yahuah in eternal Shalom.
A Call to Textual Reverence
The Book of Yeshayahu within The Ivri Heritage Bible is not merely historical literature; it is a live covenant document addressed to the sealed remnant of Yisra'el. As you engage with this highly detailed Septuagint rendering, allow its restored vocabulary and sharp prophetic warnings to dismantle modern theological errors, aligning your walk with the unquenchable light of Tziyon.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 1
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1The vision of Yeshayahu (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Isaiah) son of Amotz (אָמוֹץ, Amoz), which he saw concerning Yehudah (יְהוּדָה,Judah) and concerning Yerushalayim (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם,Jerusalem), in the reign of Uzziyahu (עֻזִּיָּהוּ,Uzziah), and Yotam (יוֹתָם, Jotham), and Achaz (אָחָז, Ahaz), and Chizkiyahu (חִזְקִיָּהוּ, Hezekiah), who reigned over Yehudah.2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for Yahuah (יהוה) has spoken: I have begotten sons and raised them up[1], but they have rebelled against Me.3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib; but Yisra'el (יִשְׂרָאֵל, Israel) does not know Me, and My people has not regarded Me.4Ah, sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children! You have forsaken Yahuah, and provoked the Kadosh (קָדוֹשׁ, Holy One) of Yisra'el to anger.5Why should you be struck any more, adding to your transgression? The whole head is in pain, and the whole heart is faint.6From the feet to the head there is no soundness in them — neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering sore can be bound up, nor soothed with oil, nor with bandages.7Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your land — strangers devour it before your face, and it is made desolate, overthrown by foreign peoples.8The daughter of Tziyon (צִיּוֹן, Zion) shall be left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.9And had Yahuah Tzeva'ot (יהוה צְבָאוֹת, Yahuah of hosts) not left us a seed[2], we would have become like S'dom (סְדֹם,Sodom), and been made like Amorah (עֲמֹרָה,Gomorrah).10Hear the word of Yahuah, you rulers of S'dom; give ear to the Torah (תּוֹרָה, law / instruction) of Elohim (אֱלֹהִים, God), you people of Amorah.11What to Me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says Yahuah. I am full of the Olah (עוֹלָה, burnt offering) of rams, and I take no delight in the fat of lambs, nor in the blood of bulls and goats.12Neither shall you come to appear before Me; for who has required this from your hands? You shall no longer tread My courts.13Though you bring fine flour for a Minchah (מִנְחָה,grain offering), it is vain; incense is an abomination to Me. Your Rosh Chodesh (רֹאשׁ חֹדֶשׁ, new moon), and your Shabbat (שַׁבָּת, Sabbath), and the great day I cannot bear —14your fasting, and rest from labour, your new moons also, and your Mo'edim (מוֹעֲדִים, appointed feasts) My soul hates. You have become loathsome to Me; I will no longer pardon your sins.15When you stretch out your hands, I will turn My eyes away from you; and though you multiply your supplications, I will not listen — for your hands are full of blood.16Wash yourselves, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before My eyes; cease from your iniquities;17learn to do good; diligently seek justice; deliver the one who is wronged; plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.18And come, let us reason together, says Yahuah: though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.19And if you are willing and listen to Me, you shall eat the good of the land;20but if you are not willing, nor listen to Me, a sword shall devour you — for the mouth of Yahuah has spoken this.21How has the faithful city Tziyon, once full of justice, become a harlot! Righteousness lodged in her, but now — murderers.22Your silver is worthless; your wine merchants mix the wine with water.23Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, chasing after rewards; they do not plead for the orphan, nor attend to the cause of the widow.24Therefore thus says the Sovereign, Yahuah Tzeva'ot: Woe to the mighty men of Yisra'el! For My wrath shall not cease against My adversaries, and I will execute judgment upon My enemies.25And I will turn My hand against you, and purge you to purity, and I will destroy the rebellious, and take away from you all transgressors.26And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning; and afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city Tziyon.27For her captives shall be saved with justice, and with mercy.28And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and those who forsake Yahuah shall be utterly consumed.29For they shall be ashamed of their idols in which they delighted, and put to shame because of the gardens which they coveted.30For they shall be like a terebinth that has shed its leaves, and like a garden that has no water.31And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks; and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burned up together, and there shall be none to quench them.
Footnotes
[1] 1:2 — Septuagint: "I have begotten (egennesa) sons." The Masoretic Hebrew reads "I reared children." | [2] 1:9 — "a seed" (sperma), quoted in this Septuagint form by Sha'ul in Romans 9:29.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 2
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1The word that came to Yeshayahu son of Amotz concerning Yehudah and concerning Yerushalayim.2For in the last days the mountain of Yahuah shall be made manifest, and the house of Elohim shall be set on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all the nations shall come to it.3And many nations shall go and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahuah, and to the house of the Elohim of Ya'akov (יַעֲקֹב, Jacob); and He will declare to us His way, and we will walk in it. For out of Tziyon shall go forth the Torah, and the word of Yahuah out of Yerushalayim.4And He shall judge among the nations, and rebuke many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.5And now, O house of Ya'akov, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahuah.6For He has forsaken His people, the house of Yisra'el; because their land is filled, as at the beginning, with divinations, like the land of the P'lishtim (פְּלִשְׁתִּים, Philistines), and many foreign children were born to them.7For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no end to their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no end to their chariots.8And the land is filled with abominations, the works of their hands; and they have worshipped that which their own fingers made.9And the lowly man bowed down, and the great man was humbled; and I will not pardon them.10Now therefore enter into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, from before the fear of Yahuah, and from the glory of His might, when He arises to strike the earth with terror.11For the eyes of Yahuah are lofty, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and Yahuah alone shall be exalted in that day.12For the day of Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall come upon everyone that is proud and haughty, and upon everyone that is high and lifted up, and they shall be brought down;13and upon every cedar of Levanon (לְבָנוֹן,Lebanon), the high and lofty, and upon every oak of Bashan (בָּשָׁן, Bashan),14and upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,15and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,16and upon every ship of the sea, and upon every display of fine ships.17And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall; and Yahuah alone shall be exalted in that day.18And they shall hide all idols made with hands,19carrying them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, from before the fear of Yahuah, and from the glory of His might, when He arises to strike the earth with terror.20For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made to worship — to the vanities and to the bats —21to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, from before the fear of Yahuah, and from the glory of His might, when He arises to strike the earth with terror.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 3
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1Behold now, the Sovereign, Yahuah Tzeva'ot, will take away from Yerushalayim and from Yehudah the mighty man and the mighty woman, the supply of bread and the supply of water;2the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, the prophet and the counsellor and the elder;3the captain of fifty also, and the honourable counsellor, and the skilled craftsman, and the discerning listener.4And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall rule over them.5And the people shall fall, man against man, and each against his neighbour; the child shall insult the elder, and the base the honourable.6For a man shall take hold of his brother, of one of his father's household, saying, You have a garment, be our ruler, and let my food be under your hand.7And in that day he shall answer and say, I will not be your ruler, for in my house there is neither bread nor garment; I will not be the ruler of this people.8For Yerushalayim is ruined, and Yehudah has fallen, and their tongues have spoken with iniquity, disobedient toward Yahuah.9Therefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their faces has risen up as a witness against them; and they have proclaimed their sin like S'dom, and made it known.10Woe to their soul! For they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves: Let us bind the Righteous One[3], for he is burdensome to us. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their works.11Woe to the lawless one! Evils shall befall him according to the works of his hands.12O My people, your oppressors strip you bare, and extortioners rule over you. O My people, those who pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and confuse the path of your feet.13But now Yahuah will stand up for judgment, and will enter into judgment with His people.14Yahuah Himself shall enter into judgment with the elders of the people and with their rulers: But you — why have you burned up the vineyard, and why is the spoil of the poor in your houses?15Why do you wrong My people, and shame the faces of the poor?16Thus says Yahuah: Because the daughters of Tziyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and with winking of the eyes, and with mincing of the feet, drawing their garments in trains, and sporting with their feet —17therefore Yahuah will humble the chief daughters of Tziyon, and Yahuah will lay bare their form in that day.18In that day Yahuah will take away the glory of their finery: the curls, and the fringes, and the crescents,19and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,20and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the woven work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand, and the earrings,21and the garments with scarlet borders, and the garments with purple grounds,22and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the sheer Spartan dresses,23and the garments of fine linen, and the purple ones, and the scarlet ones, and the fine linen interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.24And it shall come to pass that instead of a sweet fragrance there shall be dust; and instead of a girdle, you shall gird yourself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, you shall have baldness because of your works; and instead of a tunic of scarlet, you shall gird yourself with sackcloth.25And your most beautiful son, whom you love, shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.26And the storehouses of your ornaments shall mourn, and you shall be left alone, and shall be levelled to the ground.
Footnotes
[3] 3:10 — Septuagint: "Let us bind the Righteous One, for he is burdensome to us." The Masoretic reads "Say of the righteous that it shall be well." Read messianically already in the Epistle of Barnabas 6:7; cf. Wisdom 2:12.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 4
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1And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing; only let your name be called upon us, and take away our reproach.2And in that day Elohim shall shine gloriously in counsel[4] upon the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Yisra'el.3And it shall be that the remnant left in Tziyon, and the remnant left in Yerushalayim — all who are appointed to life in Yerushalayim — shall be called holy.4For Yahuah shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Tziyon, and shall purge out the blood from their midst, with the Ruach (רוּחַ, Spirit / wind) of judgment and the Ruach of burning.5And He shall come, and it shall be that over every place of Mount Tziyon, and over all the region round about it, a cloud shall overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night; and upon all the glory shall be a covering.6And it shall be for a shade from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from storm and from rain.
Footnotes
[4] 4:2 — Septuagint: "Elohim shall shine gloriously in counsel." The Masoretic reads "the Branch (Tzemach) of Yahuah," a messianic title (cf. Jer 23:5; Zech 3:8; 6:12).
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 5
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1Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved had a vineyard on a high hill[5], in a fertile place.2And I put a hedge around it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in its midst, and dug out a winepress in it; and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth thorns.3And now, you who dwell in Yerushalayim, and every man of Yehudah, judge between me and my vineyard.4What more shall I do to my vineyard that I have not done to it? For I waited for it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth thorns.5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for plunder; and I will pull down its wall, and it shall be left to be trampled down.6And I will forsake my vineyard; it shall not be pruned nor dug, and thorns shall come up on it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.7For the vineyard of Yahuah Tzeva'ot is the house of Yisra'el, and the men of Yehudah are His beloved planting. I waited for it to bring forth judgment, but it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.8Woe to those who join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbour's. Will you dwell alone upon the land?9For these things have reached the ears of Yahuah Tzeva'ot: though many houses be built, the many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.10For where ten yoke of oxen plough, the land shall yield one jar-full; and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.11Woe to those who rise early in the morning and pursue strong drink, who tarry late into the evening, for the wine shall inflame them.12For they drink wine with harp and lyre and drums and pipes, but they do not regard the works of Yahuah, nor consider the works of His hands.13Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they did not know Yahuah; and a multitude have died of hunger and thirst for water.14Therefore Sheol (שְׁאוֹל, the grave / realm of the dead)[6] has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing; and her glorious and great ones, and her rich and her riotous ones, shall go down into it.15And the lowly man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.16But Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy Elohim shall be glorified in righteousness.17And those who were plundered shall be fed like bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of those who are taken away.18Woe to those who draw their sins to themselves as with a long rope, and their iniquities as with a heifer's yoke-strap;19who say, Let Him quickly hasten what He will do, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Kadosh of Yisra'el draw near and come, that we may know it.20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and knowing in their own sight.22Woe to the strong ones among you who drink wine, and the mighty ones who mix strong drink;23who justify the ungodly for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.24Therefore, as stubble is burned by a coal of fire and consumed by a fierce flame, so their root shall be as chaff, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they rejected the Torah of Yahuah Tzeva'ot, and insulted the word of the Kadosh of Yisra'el.25Therefore Yahuah Tzeva'ot was greatly angered against His people, and He stretched out His hand against them and struck them; and the mountains were troubled, and their corpses were as dung in the midst of the road. Yet for all this His anger has not been turned away, but His hand is still raised.26Therefore He shall lift up a signal to the nations far off, and shall whistle for them from the end of the earth; and behold, they come very swiftly.27They shall not hunger nor grow weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; nor shall the belts of their loins be loosed, nor the thongs of their sandals be broken.28Their arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are reckoned as solid rock, and their chariot-wheels as a storm.29They rage like lions, and draw near like a lion's whelps; he shall seize, and roar like a wild beast, and cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver.30And he shall roar over them in that day like the sound of the surging sea; and they shall look to the land, and behold, thick darkness in their perplexity.
Footnotes
[5] 5:1 — the Greek reads literally "on a horn (keras)," an idiom for a high ridge; smoothed to "high hill." | [6] 5:14 — "Sheol" renders Greek Hades (Brenton "hell"): the realm of the dead, not a fiery hell.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 6
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1And it came to pass in the year in which king Uzziyahu died, that I saw Yahuah sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of His Kavod (כָּבוֹד, glory).2And Serafim (שְׂרָפִים, seraphim, burning ones) stood round about Him: each one had six wings; and with two they covered their face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.3And one cried to the other, and they said: Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh is Yahuah Tzeva'ot; the whole earth is full of His glory.4And the lintel shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke.5And I said: Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart[7]; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with my eyes the King, Yahuah Tzeva'ot.6And there was sent to me one of the Serafim, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs;7and he touched my mouth, and said: Behold, this has touched your lips, and will take away your iniquities, and will purge off your sins.8And I heard the voice of Yahuah, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said: Behold, here am I (Hineni (הִנֵּנִי, Here am I)); send me. And He said: Go, and say to this people,9You shall hear indeed, but you shall not understand; and you shall see indeed, but you shall not perceive[8].10For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.11And I said: How long, O Yahuah? And He said: Until the cities be deserted for lack of inhabitants, and the houses for lack of men, and the land shall be left desolate.12And after this Elohim shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.13And yet there shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, like a terebinth, and like an acorn when it falls out of its husk[9].
Footnotes
[7] 6:5 — Septuagint: "I am pricked to the heart" (katanenugmai). The Masoretic reads "I am undone / cut off" (nidmeti). | [8] 6:9–10 — quoted of Messiah's generation in Matt 13:14–15; John 12:40; Acts 28:26–27, following the Septuagint wording. | [9] 6:13 — In this Septuagint text the verse ends "like an acorn when it falls out of its husk." The Masoretic adds a further clause, "the holy seed is its stump"; it is absent here, so it is not inserted.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 7
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1And it came to pass in the days of Achaz son of Yotam, the son of Uzziyahu, king of Yehudah, there came up Retzin (רְצִין,Rezin) king of Aram (אֲרָם, Aram / Syria), and Pekach (פֶּקַח, Pekah) son of Remalyahu (רְמַלְיָהוּ, Remaliah), king of Yisra'el, against Yerushalayim to war against it, but they could not take it.2And a message was brought to the house of David (דָּוִד), saying: Aram has conspired with Efrayim (אֶפְרַיִם,Ephraim). And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as a tree of the wood is moved by the wind.3And Yahuah said to Yeshayahu: Go forth to meet Achaz, you and your son Yashuv (יָשׁוּב, who shall return) who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field;4and you shall say to him: Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let your soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands; for when My fierce anger is over, I will heal again.5And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Remalyahu, because they have devised an evil counsel, saying:6We will go up against Yehudah, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tab'el king of it —7thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot: This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.8But the head of Aram is Damesek (דַּמֶשֶׂק,Damascus), and the head of Damesek is Retzin; and yet within sixty-five years the kingdom of Efrayim shall cease from being a people.9And the head of Efrayim is Shomron (שֹׁמְרוֹן,Samaria), and the head of Shomron is the son of Remalyahu; but if you will not believe, neither will you at all understand.10And Yahuah again spoke to Achaz, saying:11Ask for yourself a sign of Yahuah your Elohim, in the depth or in the height.12And Achaz said: I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahuah.13And he said: Hear now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? And how do you contend against Yahuah?14Therefore Yahuah Himself shall give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Immanu'el (עִמָּנוּ אֵל, God with us)[10].15Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil, or choose the good.16For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which you are afraid of because of the two kings.17But Elohim shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon the house of your father, days such as have never come, from the day that Efrayim took away from Yehudah — even the king of Ashur (אַשּׁוּר, Assyria).18And it shall come to pass in that day that Yahuah shall hiss for the flies, which shall rule over a part of the river of Mitzrayim (מִצְרַיִם, Egypt), and for the bee which is in the land of Ashur.19And they shall all come and rest in the clefts of the land, and in the holes of the rocks, and in the caves, and in every ravine.20In that day Yahuah shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Ashur, beyond the river, the head and the hairs of the feet, and shall remove the beard also.21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer and two sheep;22and it shall come to pass, from their drinking an abundance of milk, that everyone left on the land shall eat butter and honey.23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand shekels shall become barren land and thorns.24Men shall enter there with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns.25And every mountain shall be surely ploughed; and no fear shall come there: for from among the barren ground and thorns shall be that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen tread.
Footnotes
[10] 7:14 — The Septuagint reads parthenos, "virgin"; the Masoretic has almah, "young woman." This Septuagint reading is cited in Matt 1:23. The classic Septuagint-over-Masoretic prophecy.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 8
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1And Yahuah said to me: Take to yourself a volume of a great new book, and write in it with a man's pen concerning the making of a rapid plunder of spoils; for it is near at hand.2And make Me witnesses of faithful men: Uriyah, and Zecharyah the son of Berechyahu.3And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And Yahuah said to me: Call his name Spoil-Quickly-Plunder-Speedily[11].4For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take the power of Damesek and the spoils of Shomron before the king of Ashur.5And Yahuah spoke to me yet again, saying:6Because this people chooses not the water of Shiloach (שִׁלֹחַ,Siloam) that goes softly, but wills to have Retzin and the son of Remalyahu to be king over you;7therefore, behold, Yahuah brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of Ashur, and all his glory; and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours;8and he shall take away from Yehudah every man who shall be able to lift up his head, and every one able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of your land, O God-with-us, Immanu'el[12].9Know, you Goyim (גּוֹיִם, nations / gentiles), and be conquered; give ear, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after you have strengthened yourselves; for even if you should again strengthen yourselves, you shall again be conquered.10And whatever counsel you shall take, Yahuah shall bring it to nought; and whatever word you shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for Elohim is with us.11Thus says Yahuah: With a strong hand they revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying:12Let them not say, It is hard, for whatever this people says is hard; but fear not their fear, neither be dismayed.13Set apart Yahuah Himself as holy; and He shall be your fear.14And if you shall trust in Him, He shall be to you for a sanctuary; and you shall not come against Him as against a stumbling-stone, nor as against the falling of a rock; but the houses of Ya'akov are in a snare, and the dwellers in Yerushalayim in a pit[13].15Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw near, and men shall be taken securely.16Then shall those who seal themselves, that they may not learn the Torah, be made manifest.17And one shall say: I will wait for Elohim, who has turned away His face from the house of Ya'akov, and I will trust in Him.18Behold, I and the children which Elohim has given me; and they shall be for signs and wonders in the house of Yisra'el from Yahuah Tzeva'ot, who dwells in Mount Tziyon.19And if they should say to you: Seek those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly — shall not a nation diligently seek to their Elohim? Why do they seek to the dead concerning the living?20For He has given the Torah for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.21And famine shall come sorely upon you; and it shall come to pass, that when you shall be hungry, you shall be grieved, and you shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances; and they shall look up to heaven above,22and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.23Drink this first. Act quickly, O land of Zevulun (זְבוּלוּן,Zebulun), land of Naftali (נַפְתָּלִי,Naphtali), and the rest inhabiting the seacoast, and the land beyond the Yarden (יַרְדֵּן, Jordan), Galil (גָּלִיל, Galilee) of the Goyim[14].
Footnotes
[11] 8:3 — the Septuagint gives the child's name by its meaning, "Spoil-Quickly, Plunder-Speedily." The underlying Hebrew name is Maher-Shalal-Chash-Baz (מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָּשׁ בַּז). | [12] 8:8 — Septuagint flow: "he shall take away from Yehudah every man able to lift up his head … and his camp shall fill the breadth of thy land, O God-with-us." The Masoretic differs: "he shall reach even to the neck … and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanu'el." | [13] 8:14 — Septuagint: "He shall be to you a sanctuary; you shall not come against Him as against a stumbling-stone." The Masoretic reads "a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to both houses of Israel." Cited in Romans 9:33 and 1 Peter 2:8. | [14] 8:23 — In the Septuagint this is 8:23; Masoretic/English versions number it 9:1, and the Septuagint runs one verse ahead from here. "Galil of the nations … a light" is quoted in Matt 4:15–16.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 9
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1O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: you that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.2The multitude of the people which You have brought down in Your joy, they shall even rejoice before You as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.3Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck; for He has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Midyan (מִדְיָן, Midian).4For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and all raiment with restitution; and they shall be willing, even if they were burnt with fire.5For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder; and his name is called the Messenger of Great Counsel[15]: for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him.6His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and for ever. The zeal of Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall perform this.7Yahuah has sent death upon Ya'akov, and it has come upon Yisra'el.8And all the people of Efrayim, and they that dwelt in Shomron shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart:9The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.10And Elohim shall dash down them that rise up against Him on Mount Tziyon, and shall scatter His enemies;11even Aram from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Yisra'el with open mouth. For all this His anger is not turned away, but still His hand is exalted.12But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not Yahuah.13So Yahuah took away from Yisra'el the head and tail, great and small, in one day:14the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.15And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.16Therefore Yahuah shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall He have pity on their orphans or on their widows; for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is yet exalted.17And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass; and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.18The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of Yahuah, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.19But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.20For Menasheh (מְנַשֶּׁה, Manasseh) shall eat the flesh of Efrayim, and Efrayim the flesh of Menasheh; for they shall besiege Yehudah together. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is yet exalted.
Footnotes
[15] 9:5 — The Septuagint reads "the Messenger (Angel) of Great Counsel" (megales boules angelos). The Masoretic has the fuller titles "Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." A major divergence; given here as the Septuagint reads. (Masoretic/English number this verse 9:6.)
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 10
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1Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness,2perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of My people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.3And what will they do in the day of visitation? For affliction shall come to you from afar; and to whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory,4that you may not fall into captivity? For all this His wrath is not turned away, but His hand is yet exalted.5Woe to Ashur, the rod of My wrath; and anger is in their hands.6I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.7But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul; but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.8And if they should say to him, You alone are ruler;9then shall he say: Have I not taken the country above Bavel (בָּבֶל, Babylon) and Chalanes, where the tower was built? And have I not taken Arabia, and Damesek, and Shomron?10As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, you idols in Yerushalayim, and in Shomron!11For as I did to Shomron and her idols, so will I do also to Yerushalayim and her idols.12And it shall come to pass, when Yahuah shall have finished doing all things on Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of Ashur, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.13For he said: I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.14And I will shake the inhabited cities; and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest; and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.15Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? Or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it? As if one should lift a rod or staff — but it shall not be so;16but Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall send dishonour upon your honour, and burning fire shall be kindled upon your glory.17And the light of Yisra'el shall be for a fire, and He shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.18In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and fire shall devour both soul and body; and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from a burning flame.19And they that are left of them shall be a small number, and a child shall write them.20And it shall come to pass in that day, that the She'erit (שְׁאֵרִית, remnant) of Yisra'el shall no more join themselves to, and the saved of Ya'akov shall no more trust in, them that injured them; but they shall trust in the Holy One, the Elohim of Yisra'el, in truth.21And the remnant of Ya'akov shall trust on the mighty Elohim.22And though the people of Yisra'el be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved[16].23He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness; because Yahuah will make a short work in all the world.24Therefore thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot: Be not afraid, My people who dwell in Tziyon, of Ashur, because he shall smite you with a rod; for I am bringing a stroke upon you, that you may see the way of Mitzrayim.25For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease; but My wrath shall be against their council.26And Elohim shall stir up enemies against them, according to the stroke of Midyan in the place of affliction[17]; and His wrath shall be by the way of the sea, even to the way that leads to Mitzrayim.27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his yoke shall be taken away from your shoulder, and his fear from you, and the yoke shall be destroyed from off your shoulders.28For he shall arrive at the city of Angai, and shall pass on to Maggedo, and shall lay up his stores in Machmas.29And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Angai; fear shall seize upon Rama, the city of Shaul.30The daughter of Gallim shall flee; Laisa shall hear; one shall hear in Anathoth.31Madebena also is amazed, and the inhabitants of Gibbir.32Exhort them today to remain in the way; exhort, beckoning with the hand, the mountain, the daughter of Tziyon, even you hills that are in Yerushalayim[18].33Behold, the Sovereign, Yahuah Tzeva'ot, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low;34and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and Levanon shall fall with his lofty ones.
Footnotes
[16] 10:22–23 — "a remnant shall be saved," quoted in this Septuagint form by Sha'ul in Romans 9:27–28. | [17] 10:26 — Septuagint: "according to the stroke of Midyan in the place of affliction." The Masoretic reads "as the slaughter of Midyan at the rock of Oreb." | [18] 10:28–32 — the Septuagint place-names (Angai, Maggedo, Machmas, Laisa, Anathoth, Madebena, Gibbir) and verse 32 ("Exhort them today to remain in the way …") differ markedly from the Masoretic itinerary (Ai, Migron, Michmash … "he halts at Nob, he shakes his fist"). Retained here as the Septuagint reads.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 11
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1And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Yishai (יִשַׁי, Jesse), and a blossom shall come up from his root[19]:2and the Ruach of Elohim shall rest upon him — the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him[20];3the spirit of the fear of Elohim. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report;4but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.5And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.6And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.7And the ox and bear shall feed together, and their young shall be together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.8And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.9And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on My holy mountain; for the whole world is filled with the knowledge of Yahuah, as much water covers the seas.10And in that day there shall be a root of Yishai, and he that shall arise to rule over the Goyim; in him shall the Goyim trust, and his rest shall be glorious[21].11And it shall be in that day, that Yahuah shall again show His hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people — which shall be left from Ashur, and from Mitzrayim, and from the country of Bavel, and from Kush (כּוּשׁ, Ethiopia / Cush), and from Elam (עֵילָם, Elam), and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.12And He shall lift up a standard for the nations, and He shall gather the lost ones of Yisra'el, and He shall gather the dispersed of Yehudah from the four corners of the earth.13And the envy of Efrayim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Yehudah shall perish; Efrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah shall not afflict Efrayim.14And they shall fly in the ships of the P'lishtim; they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them that come from the east, and Edom (אֱדוֹם, Edom / Idumea); and they shall lay their hands on Moav (מוֹאָב, Moab) first, but the children of Ammon (עַמּוֹן,Ammon) shall first obey them.15And Yahuah shall make desolate the sea of Mitzrayim; and He shall lay His hand on the river with a strong wind, and He shall smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.16And there shall be a passage for My people that is left in Mitzrayim; and it shall be to Yisra'el as the day when he came forth out of the land of Mitzrayim.
Footnotes
[19] 11:1 — "a blossom shall come up from his root." The Hebrew reads "a netzer (נֵצֶר, branch/shoot) shall grow from his roots." Netzer is the root behind "Netzarim / Nazarene" (cf. Matt 2:23). The Septuagint renders the word as "a blossom." | [20] 11:2 — the Septuagint pairs "knowledge and godliness (eusebeia)" and then names separately "the spirit of the fear of Elohim," yielding the sevenfold Spirit (cf. Rev 1:4; 4:5; 5:6). The Masoretic has "knowledge and the fear of YHWH" without the distinct "godliness." | [21] 11:10 — Septuagint: "he that shall arise to rule over the nations; in him shall the nations hope." Quoted in this form by Sha'ul in Romans 15:12. The Masoretic reads "the root of Yishai, who shall stand as a signal to the peoples."
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 12
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1And in that day you shall say: I will bless You, O Yahuah; for You were angry with me, but You have turned aside Your wrath, and have pitied me.2Behold, my Elohim is my Saviour; I will trust in Him, and not be afraid: for Yahuah is my glory and my praise, and has become my Yeshu'ah (יְשׁוּעָה, salvation)[22].3Therefore draw water with joy out of the wells of Yeshu'ah.4And in that day you shall say: Sing to Yahuah, call aloud upon His name, proclaim His glorious deeds among the Goyim; make mention that His name is exalted.5Sing praise to the name of Yahuah; for He has done great things: declare this in all the earth.6Exalt and rejoice, you that dwell in Tziyon; for the Kadosh of Yisra'el is exalted in the midst of her.
Footnotes
[22] 12:2–3 — "Yeshu'ah" (יְשׁוּעָה, salvation) is from the same root as the name Yeshua: "you shall draw water from the wells of Yeshu'ah."
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 13
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1The vision which Yeshayahu son of Amotz saw against Bavel.2Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open the gates, you rulers.3I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil My wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.4A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: Yahuah Tzeva'ot has given command to a warlike nation,5to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; Yahuah and His warriors are coming to destroy all the world.6Howl, for the day of Yahuah is near, and destruction from Elohim shall arrive.7Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.8The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail; and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.9For behold, the day of Yahuah is coming which cannot be escaped — a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.10For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.11And I will command evils for the whole world, and will visit their sins on the ungodly; and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.12And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.13For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of Yahuah Tzeva'ot, in the day in which His wrath shall come on.14And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them; so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.15For whoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.16And they shall dash their children before their eyes, and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.17Behold, I will stir up against you the Madai (מָדַי,the Medes), who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.18They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children, nor shall their eyes spare your children.19And Bavel, which is called glorious by the king of the Kasdim (כַשְׂדִּים, Chaldeans), shall be as when Elohim overthrew S'dom and Amorah.20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations; neither shall the Arabians pass through it, nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.21But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there,22and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not tarry.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 14
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1And Yahuah will have mercy on Ya'akov, and will yet choose Yisra'el, and they shall rest on their land; and the stranger shall be added to them, yea, shall be added to the house of Ya'akov.2And the Goyim shall take them, and bring them into their place; and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens; and they that took them captive shall become captives to them, and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule.3And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yahuah shall give you rest from your sorrow and vexation, and from your hard servitude wherein you served them.4And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Bavel: How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!5Yahuah has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.6Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague which spared them not, he rested in quiet.7All the earth cries aloud with joy;8the trees also of Levanon rejoice against you, and the cedar of Levanon, saying: Since you have been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.9Sheol from beneath is provoked to meet you; all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.10All shall answer and say to you: You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered amongst us.11Your glory has come down to Sheol, and your great mirth; under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering.12How has Heilel (הֵילֵל, Morning Star / Lucifer), that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven[23]! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.13But you said in your heart: I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven; I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north:14I will go up above the clouds; I will be like Elyon (עֶלְיוֹן, Most High).15But now you shall go down to Sheol, even to the foundations of the earth.16They that see you shall wonder at you, and say: This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;17that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.18All the kings of the nations lie in honour, every man in his house;19but you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.20As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shall you be pure; because you have destroyed My land, and have slain My people: you shall not endure for ever — you, an evil seed.21Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father, that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.22And I will rise up against them, says Yahuah Tzeva'ot, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus says Yahuah.23And I will make the region of Bavel a desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing; and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.24Thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot: As I have said, so it shall be; and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain:25even to destroy Ashur upon My land, and upon My mountains; and they shall be for trampling, and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.26This is the purpose which Yahuah has purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.27For what the Holy Elohim has purposed, who shall frustrate? And who shall turn back His uplifted hand?28In the year in which king Achaz died this word came.29Rejoice not, all you P'lishtim, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken; for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young of asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents.30And the poor shall be fed by Him, and poor men shall rest in peace; but He shall destroy your seed with hunger, and shall destroy your remnant.31Howl, you gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry, even all the P'lishtim; for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no possibility of living.32And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That Yahuah has founded Tziyon, and by Him the poor of the people shall be saved.
Footnotes
[23] 14:12 — "Heilel": the Septuagint reads Heōsphoros, "morning star"; the Hebrew is Heilel ben Shachar, "shining one, son of the dawn"; the Latin Vulgate gave "Lucifer."
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 15
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1The word against the land of Moav. By night the land of Moav shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moav shall be destroyed.2Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed: there you shall go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moav. Howl: baldness shall be on every head, and all arms shall be wounded.3Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets, and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl, all of you, with weeping.4For Esebon and Eleale have cried; their voice was heard to Jassa; therefore the loins of the region of Moav cry aloud; her soul shall know.5The heart of the region of Moav cries within her to Segor; for it is as a heifer of three years old; and on the ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping by the way of Aroniim: she cries, Destruction and trembling.6The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail; for there shall be no green grass.7Shall Moav even thus be delivered? For I will bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.8For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moav, even of Agalim; and her howling has gone as far as the well of Ælim.9And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood; for I will bring Arabians upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moav, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adama.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 16
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1I will send as it were reptiles on the land: is not the mount of the daughter of Tziyon a desolate rock?2For you shall be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown: even so shall you be, daughter of Moav. And then, O Arnon,3take farther counsel, and continually make a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at midday; they are amazed; be not led captive.4The fugitives of Moav shall sojourn with you; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer; for your alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.5And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hastening righteousness[24].6We have heard of the pride of Moav; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: your prophecy shall not be thus, no, not thus.7Moav shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moav; but you shall care for them that dwell in Seth, and you shall not be ashamed.8The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample her vines, even to Jazer; you shall not come together; wander in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.9Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama; Esebon and Eleale have cast down your trees; for I will trample on your harvest and on your vintages, and all your plants shall fall.10And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not rejoice at all in your vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats, for the vintage has ceased.11Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moav, and you have repaired my inward parts as a wall.12And it shall be to your shame (for Moav is wearied at the altars) that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him.13This is the word which Yahuah spoke against Moav, when He spoke.14And now I say: In three years, of the years of a hireling, the glory of Moav shall be dishonoured with all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honoured.
Footnotes
[24] 16:5 — "a throne established with mercy … in the tent of David, judging and hastening righteousness": a Davidic, messianic promise set within the oracle against Moav.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 17
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1The word against Damesek. Behold, Damesek shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;2abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.3And she shall no longer be a strong place for Efrayim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damesek, or a remnant of Aram; for you are no better than the children of Yisra'el, even than their glory: thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot.4There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Ya'akov, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.5And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;6and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches: thus says Yahuah, the Elohim of Yisra'el.7In that day a man shall trust in Him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Kadosh of Yisra'el.8And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.9In that day your cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted theirs because of the children of Yisra'el; and they shall be desolate.10Because you have forsaken Elohim your Saviour, and have not been mindful of Yahuah your helper; therefore you shall plant a false plant, and a false seed.11In the day wherein you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.12Woe to the multitude of many nations! As the swelling sea, so shall you be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water.13Many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently; and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.14Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 18
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1Woe to you, you wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Kush.2He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water; for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? A nation not looked for, and trodden down.3Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.4For thus said Yahuah to me: There shall be security in My city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.5Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall He take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;6and He shall leave them together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.7In that time shall presents be brought to Yahuah Tzeva'ot from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and yet trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of Yahuah Tzeva'ot, the Mount Tziyon.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 19
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1The vision of Mitzrayim. Behold, Yahuah sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Mitzrayim; and the idols of Mitzrayim shall be moved at His presence, and their heart shall faint within them.2And the Mitzrim (מִצְרִים, Egyptians) shall be stirred up against the Mitzrim; and a man shall fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbour, city against city, and law against law.3And the spirit of the Mitzrim shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel; and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.4And I will deliver Mitzrayim into the hands of men, of cruel lords; and cruel kings shall rule over them: thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot.5And the Mitzrim shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.6And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.7And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.8And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers, shall mourn.9And shame shall come upon them that work fine flax, and them that make fine linen.10And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall be grieved, and be pained in their souls.11And the princes of Tanis shall be fools; as for the king's wise counsellors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?12Where now are your wise men? Let them declare to you, and say, What has Yahuah Tzeva'ot purposed upon Mitzrayim?13The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up with pride, and they shall cause Mitzrayim to wander by tribes.14For Yahuah has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Mitzrayim to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.15And there shall be no work to the Mitzrim which shall make head or tail, or beginning or end.16But in that day the Mitzrim shall be as women, in fear and in trembling because of the hand of Yahuah Tzeva'ot, which He shall bring upon them.17And the land of Yehudah shall be for a terror to the Mitzrim: whoever shall name it to them, they shall fear, because of the counsel which Yahuah Tzeva'ot has purposed concerning it.18In that day there shall be five cities in Mitzrayim speaking the language of Kena'an (כְּנַעַן, Canaan), and swearing by the name of Yahuah Tzeva'ot; one city shall be called the city of Asedec[25].19In that day there shall be an altar to Yahuah in the land of the Mitzrim, and a pillar to Yahuah by its border.20And it shall be for a sign to Yahuah for ever in the land of Mitzrayim; for they shall presently cry to Yahuah by reason of them that afflict them, and He shall send them a man who shall save them; he shall judge and save them.21And Yahuah shall be known to the Mitzrim, and the Mitzrim shall know Yahuah in that day; and they shall offer sacrifices, and shall vow vows to Yahuah, and pay them.22And Yahuah shall smite the Mitzrim with a stroke, and shall completely heal them; and they shall return to Yahuah, and He shall hear them, and thoroughly heal them.23In that day there shall be a way from Mitzrayim to Ashur, and Ashur shall enter into Mitzrayim, and the Mitzrim shall go to Ashur, and the Mitzrim shall serve Ashur.24In that day shall Yisra'el be third with the Mitzrim and Ashur, blessed in the land which Yahuah Tzeva'ot has blessed,25saying: Blessed be My people that is in Mitzrayim, and that is among Ashur, and Yisra'el Mine inheritance.
Footnotes
[25] 19:18 — "city of Asedec" transliterates Hebrew 'ir ha-tzedek, "city of righteousness." Some manuscripts read "city of the sun" (Heliopolis).
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 20
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1In the year when Tanathan came to Azotus, when he was sent by Arna king of Ashur, and warred against Azotus, and took it[26];2then Yahuah spoke to Yeshayahu the son of Amotz, saying: Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and loose your sandals from off your feet. And he did so, going naked and barefoot.3And Yahuah said: As My servant Yeshayahu has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders upon Mitzrayim and Kush;4for thus shall the king of Ashur lead away the captivity of Mitzrayim and Kush, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Mitzrayim exposed.5And the Mitzrim, being defeated, shall be ashamed of Kush, in whom they had trusted; for they were their glory.6And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day: Behold, we trusted to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of Ashur; and how shall we be saved?
Footnotes
[26] 20:1 — "Tanathan … Arna king of Ashur" are the Septuagint forms; the Masoretic names them Tartan (a title) and Sargon.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 21
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1The vision of the desert. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land,2so a fearful and grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elam are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Paras (פָּרַס,Persia / the Persians) come against me; now will I groan and comfort myself.3Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman; I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear, I hastened that I might not see.4My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.5Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and prepare your shields.6For thus said Yahuah to me: Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare whatever you shall see.7And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.8Hearken with great attention, and call Uriyah to the watch-tower: Yahuah has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all the night;9and behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair; and he answered and said: Bavel is fallen, is fallen[27]; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.10Hear, you that are left, and you that are in pain; hear what things I have heard of Yahuah Tzeva'ot, which the Elohim of Yisra'el has declared to us.11The vision of Edom. Call to me out of Se'ir (שֵׂעִיר,Seir); guard the bulwarks.12I watch in the morning and the night: if you would enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.13You may lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Dedan (דְּדָן, Dedan).14You that dwell in the country of Teman (תֵּימָן,Teman), bring water to meet him that is thirsty;15meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.16For thus said Yahuah to me: Yet a year, as the year of a hireling, and the glory of the sons of Kedar (קֵדָר, Kedar) shall fail;17and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small; for Yahuah, the Elohim of Yisra'el, has spoken it.
Footnotes
[27] 21:9 — "Bavel is fallen, is fallen" — this cry is taken up in Revelation 14:8 and 18:2.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 22
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1The word of the valley of Tziyon. What has happened to you, that now you are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?2The city is filled with shouting men; your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.3All your princes have fled, and your captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in you have fled far away.4Therefore I said: Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labour not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.5For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from Yahuah Tzeva'ot: they wander in the valley of Tziyon; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.6And the Elam took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there was a gathering for battle.7And it shall be that your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.8And they shall uncover the gates of Yehudah, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.9And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David; and they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into the city;10and that they had pulled down the houses of Yerushalayim, to fortify the wall of the city.11And you procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool; but you looked not to Him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not Him that created it.12And the Sovereign, Yahuah Tzeva'ot, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;13but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh and drink wine, saying: Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.14And these things are revealed in the ears of Yahuah Tzeva'ot: for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until you die.15Thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot: Go into the chamber, to Shevna (שֶׁבְנָא, the steward; LXX Somnas) the treasurer, and say to him: Why are you here?16And what have you to do here, that you have hewn yourself a sepulchre here, and made yourself a sepulchre on high, and graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?17Behold now, Yahuah Tzeva'ot casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,18and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die; and He will bring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden down.19And you shall be removed from your stewardship, and from your place.20And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call My servant Elyakim (אֶלְיָקִים, Eliakim) the son of Chilkiyahu (חִלְקִיָּהוּ, Hilkiah; LXX Chelcias);21and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I will give your stewardship into his hands; and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Yerushalayim, and to them that dwell in Yehudah.22And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him; and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open[28].23And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne of his father's house.24And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.25Thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot: The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed: for Yahuah has spoken it.
Footnotes
[28] 22:22 — "the key of the house of David … he shall open, and none shall shut" is applied to Messiah Yeshua in Revelation 3:7.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 23
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1The word concerning Tzor (צֹר, Tyre). Howl, you ships of Carthage[29]; for she has perished, and men no longer arrive from the land of the Citians: she is led captive.2To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea3in great waters, a generation of merchants? As when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations.4Be ashamed, O Tzidon (צִידוֹן, Sidon): the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said: I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.5Moreover when it shall be heard in Mitzrayim, sorrow shall seize them for Tzor.6Depart to Carthage; howl, you that dwell in this island.7Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?8Who has devised this counsel against Tzor? Is she inferior? Or has she no strength? Her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.9Yahuah Tzeva'ot has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.10Till your land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.11And your hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings: Yahuah Tzeva'ot has given a command concerning Kena'an, to destroy the strength thereof.12And men shall say: You shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Tzidon; and if you depart to the Citians, neither there shall you have rest.13And if you depart to the land of the Kasdim, this also is laid waste by Ashur, for her wall is fallen.14Howl, you ships of Carthage; for your strong hold is destroyed.15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tzor shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man; and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tzor shall be as the song of a harlot.16Take a harp, go about, O city, you harlot that have been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.17And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that Elohim will visit Tzor, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state; and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.18And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to Yahuah: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before Yahuah, even all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant and a memorial before Yahuah.
Footnotes
[29] 23:1 — the Septuagint reads "Carthage" (Karchedon) and "the Citians" where the Masoretic has "Tarshish" and "Kittim"; the Greek translator updated the trading-place names to his own world.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 24
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1Behold, Yahuah is about to lay waste the Olam (עוֹלָם,world / age / for ever)[30], and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.2And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.3The Eretz (אֶרֶץ, earth / land) shall be completely laid waste, and the Eretz shall be utterly spoiled; for the mouth of Yahuah has spoken these things.4The Eretz mourns, and the Olam is ruined; the lofty ones of the Eretz are mourning.5And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torah, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting Beriyt (בְּרִית, covenant).6Therefore a curse shall consume the Eretz, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned; therefore the dwellers in the Eretz shall be poor, and few men shall be left.7The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.8The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.9They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.10All the city has become desolate; one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.11There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the Eretz has ceased, all the mirth of the Eretz has departed.12And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.13All this shall be in the Eretz in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,14these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the Eretz shall rejoice together in the glory of Yahuah; the water of the sea shall be troubled.15Therefore shall the glory of Yahuah be in the isles of the sea; the name of Yahuah shall be glorious.16O Yahuah Elohim of Yisra'el, from the ends of the Eretz we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly; but they shall say: Woe to the despisers, that despise the Torah.17Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the Eretz.18And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare; for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the Eretz shall be shaken,19the Eretz shall be utterly confounded, and the Eretz shall be completely perplexed.20It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the Eretz shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.21And Elohim shall bring His hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the Eretz.22And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold; after many generations they shall be visited.23And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for Yahuah shall reign from out of Tziyon, and out of Yerushalayim, and shall be glorified before His elders.
Footnotes
[30] 24:1 — per request, Brenton's "world" is rendered Olam (עוֹלָם, world/age) and "earth/land" as Eretz (אֶרֶץ) where it stands alone. The Septuagint here uses oikoumene, the inhabited world.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 25
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1O Yahuah my Elohim, I will glorify You, I will sing to Your name; for You have done wonderful things, even an ancient and faithful counsel. So be it.2For You have made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall; the city of ungodly men shall not be built for Olam.3Therefore shall the poor people bless You, and cities of injured men shall bless You.4For You have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty; You shall deliver them from wicked men; You have been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.5We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Tziyon, by reason of ungodly men to whom You delivered us.6And Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall make a feast for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine;7they shall anoint themselves with ointment on this mountain. Impart all these things to the nations; for this is Elohim's counsel upon all the nations.8Death has prevailed and swallowed men up; but again Yahuah Elohim has taken away every tear from every face[31]. He has taken away the reproach of His people from all the Eretz; for the mouth of Yahuah has spoken it.9And in that day they shall say: Behold our Elohim, in whom we have trusted, and He shall save us; this is Yahuah; we have waited for Him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our Yeshu'ah.10Elohim will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moav shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with waggons.11And He shall spread forth His hands, even as He also brings down man to destroy him; and He shall bring low his pride in regard to the thing on which he has laid his hands.12And He shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.
Footnotes
[31] 25:8 — "Death has prevailed and swallowed men up … He has taken away every tear." Echoed in 1 Cor 15:54 ("death is swallowed up in victory") and Rev 21:4 ("wipe away every tear"); the Septuagint wording differs from the Masoretic "He will swallow up death."
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 26
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1In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Yehudah: Behold a strong city; and He shall make Yeshu'ah its wall and bulwark.2Open the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps truth,3supporting truth, and keeping Shalom (שָׁלוֹם, peace); for on You, O Yahuah,4they have trusted with confidence for Olam, the great, the eternal Elohim;5who have humbled and brought down them that dwell on high; You shall cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.6And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.7The way of the godly is made straight; the way of the godly is also prepared.8For the way of Yahuah is judgment; we have hoped in Your name, and on the remembrance of You,9which our soul longs for; my spirit seeks You very early in the morning, O Elohim, for Your commandments are a light on the Eretz; learn righteousness, you that dwell upon the Eretz.10For the ungodly one is put down; no one who will not learn righteousness on the Eretz shall be able to do the truth; let the ungodly be taken away, that he see not the glory of Yahuah.11O Yahuah, Your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not; but when they know they shall be ashamed; jealousy shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.12O Yahuah our Elohim, give us Shalom; for You have rendered to us all things.13O Yahuah our Elohim, take possession of us; O Yahuah, we know not any other beside You; we name Your name.14But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise them up; therefore You have brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Yahuah;15bring more evils on the glorious ones of the Eretz.16O Yahuah, in affliction I remembered You; Your chastening was to us with small affliction.17And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain, so have we been to Your beloved.18We have conceived, O Yahuah, because of Your fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of Your Yeshu'ah, which we have wrought upon the Eretz; we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.19The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the Eretz shall rejoice[32]; for the dew from You is healing to them; but the land of the ungodly shall perish.20Go, My people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of Yahuah have passed away.21For behold, Yahuah is bringing wrath from His holy place upon the dwellers on the Eretz; the Eretz also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.
Footnotes
[32] 26:19 — "The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised": an explicit resurrection hope, given as the Septuagint reads.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 27
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1In that day Elohim shall bring His holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent; He shall destroy the dragon.2In that day there shall be a fair vineyard, and a desire to commence a song concerning it.3I am a strong city, a city in a siege; in vain shall I water it, for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.4There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? Because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account Yahuah has done all that He appointed.5I am burnt up; they that dwell in her shall cry: Let us make Shalom with Him, let us make Shalom,6they that are coming are the children of Ya'akov. Yisra'el shall bud and blossom, and the Olam shall be filled with his fruit.7Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? And as he slew, shall he be thus slain?8Fighting and reproaching He will dismiss them; did You not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?9Therefore shall the iniquity of Ya'akov be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.10The flock that dwelt there shall be left, as a deserted flock; and the ground shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest.11And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, you women that come from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them shall have no pity upon them, and He that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.12And it shall come to pass in that day, that Elohim shall fence men off from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but you shall gather one by one the children of Yisra'el.13And it shall come to pass in that day, that they shall blow the great Shofar (שׁוֹפָר, trumpet / ram's-horn)[33], and the lost ones in the land of Ashur shall come, and the lost ones in Mitzrayim, and shall worship Yahuah on the holy mountain in Yerushalayim.
Footnotes
[33] 27:13 — "the great Shofar" (Heb. shofar gadol), the great ram's-horn trumpet; cf. Matt 24:31 and 1 Cor 15:52.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 28
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1Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Efrayim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.2Behold, the anger of Yahuah is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, He shall make rest for the land.3The crown of pride, the hirelings of Efrayim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.4And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.5In that day Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall be the crown of hope, the woven crown of glory, to the remnant of the people.6They shall be left in the Ruach of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.7For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.8A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.9To whom have we reported evils? And to whom have we reported a message? Even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.10Expect affliction on affliction, hope upon hope; yet a little, and yet a little,11by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language; for they shall speak to this people, saying to them[34]:12This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity; but they would not hear.13Therefore the oracle of Elohim shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed, and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.14Therefore hear the word of Yahuah, you afflicted men, and you princes of this people that is in Yerushalayim.15Because you have said: We have made a Beriyt with Sheol, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us; we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:16therefore thus says Adonai Yahuah (אֲדֹנָי יהוה,the Sovereign Lord): Behold, I lay for the foundations of Tziyon a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious stone, for its foundations; and he that believes on Him shall by no means be ashamed[35].17And I will cause judgment to be for hope, and My compassion shall be for just measures; and you that trust vainly in falsehood shall fall; for the storm shall by no means pass by you,18except it also take away your Beriyt of death; and your trust in Sheol shall by no means stand; if the rushing storm should come upon you, you shall be beaten down by it.19Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,20you that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.21Yahuah shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Giv'on (גִבְעוֹן, Gibeon); He shall perform His works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and His wrath shall deal strangely, and His destruction shall be strange.22Therefore do not rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by Yahuah Tzeva'ot, which He will execute upon all the Eretz.23Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.24Will the ploughman plough all the day? Or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?25Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in your borders?26So you shall be chastened by the judgment of your Elohim, and shall rejoice.27For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a waggon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;28for I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of My anger crush you.29And these signs came forth from Yahuah Tzeva'ot. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.
Footnotes
[34] 28:11 — "by the contemptuous lips and another language" is quoted by Sha'ul in 1 Cor 14:21, following the Septuagint. | [35] 28:16 — "Behold, I lay in Tziyon … a corner-stone … he that believes on Him shall by no means be ashamed." The Septuagint reads "shall not be ashamed" where the Masoretic has "shall not make haste." Quoted in Rom 9:33; 10:11; 1 Pet 2:6.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 29
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1Alas for the city Ari'el (אֲרִיאֵל, Ariel; 'lion of El' — Jerusalem), which David besieged. Gather fruits year by year; eat, for you shall eat with Moav.2For I will grievously afflict Ari'el; and her strength and her wealth shall be Mine.3And I will compass you about like David, and will raise a mound about you, and set up towers round you.4And your words shall be brought down to the Eretz, and your words shall sink down to the Eretz; and your voice shall be as they that speak out of the Eretz, and your voice shall be lowered to the ground.5But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress you as flying chaff; and it shall be suddenly as a moment,6from Yahuah Tzeva'ot; for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.7And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against Ari'el, and all they that war against Yerushalayim, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night.8And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain; and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain; so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the Mount Tziyon.9Faint, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink nor with wine.10For Yahuah has made you to drink a Ruach of deep sleep; and He shall close their eyes, and the eyes of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.11And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which if they shall give to a learned man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I cannot read it, for it is sealed.12And this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and one shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I am not learned.13And Yahuah has said: This people draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and they honour Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; but in vain do they worship Me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men[36].14Therefore behold, I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them; and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent[37].15Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by Yahuah; woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works are in darkness, and they say: Who has seen us? And who shall know us, or what we do?16Shall you not be counted as clay of the potter? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, You did not form me? Or the work to the maker, You have not made me wisely?17Is it not yet a little while, and Levanon shall be changed as the mountain of Karmel (כַּרְמֶל, Carmel), and Karmel shall be reckoned as a forest?18And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and they that are in darkness, and they that are in mist; the eyes of the blind shall see,19and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of Yahuah, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.20The lawless man has come to nought, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed;21and they that cause men to sin by a word; and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offence, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.22Therefore thus says Yahuah concerning the house of Ya'akov, whom He set apart from Avraham (אַבְרָהָם, Abraham): Ya'akov shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change countenance.23But when their children shall have seen My works, they shall sanctify My name for My sake, and they shall sanctify the Kadosh of Ya'akov, and shall fear the Elohim of Yisra'el.24And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak Shalom.
Footnotes
[36] 29:13 — "This people honour Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; in vain do they worship Me, teaching the commandments of men." Quoted by Yeshua in Matt 15:8–9 and Mark 7:6–7, following the Septuagint. | [37] 29:14 — "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and hide the understanding of the prudent" is quoted by Sha'ul in 1 Cor 1:19.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 30
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1Woe to the apostate children, says Yahuah; you have framed counsel, not by Me, and covenants not by My Ruach, to add sins to sins;2even they that proceed to go down into Mitzrayim, but they have not enquired of Me, that they might be helped by Par'oh (פַּרְעֹה,Pharaoh), and protected by the Mitzrim.3For the protection of Par'oh shall be to you a disgrace, and there shall be a reproach to them that trust in Mitzrayim.4For there are princes in Tanis, evil messengers.5In vain shall they labour in seeking to a people which shall not profit them for help, but shall be for a shame and reproach.6The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp? Thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps; there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.7The Mitzrim shall help you utterly in vain; tell them, This your consolation is vain.8Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shall be for many long days, and even for Olam.9For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the Torah of Elohim;10who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions, Speak them not to us, but speak and report to us another error;11and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Yisra'el.12Therefore thus says the Kadosh of Yisra'el: Because you have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood, and because you have murmured, and been confident in this respect:13therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.14And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, as small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.15Thus says Yahuah, the Kadosh of Yisra'el: When you shall turn and mourn, then you shall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you trusted in vanities; then your strength became vain, yet you would not hearken:16but you said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee; and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.17A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on account of the voice of five; until you be left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one bearing an ensign upon a hill.18And Yahuah will again wait, that He may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that He may have mercy upon you; because Yahuah your Elohim is a judge; blessed are they that stay themselves upon Him.19For the holy people shall dwell in Tziyon; and whereas Yerushalayim has wept bitterly, saying, Pity me; He shall pity you; when He perceived the voice of your cry, He hearkened to you.20And though Yahuah shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that cause you to err shall no more at all draw nigh to you; for your eyes shall see those that cause you to err,21and your ears shall hear the words of them that went after you to lead you astray, who say, This is the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left.22And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the gilt ones, and shall scatter them as the water of a removed woman, and you shall thrust them forth as dung.23Then shall there be rain to the seed of your land; and the bread of the fruit of your land shall be plenteous and rich; and your cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place.24Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed barley.25And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.26And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, in the day when Yahuah shall heal the breach of His people, and shall heal the pain of your wound.27Behold, the name of Yahuah comes after a long time, burning wrath; the word of His lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of His wrath shall devour as fire.28And His breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue them, and overtake them.29Must you always rejoice, and go into My holy places continually, as they that keep a Chag (חַג, festival / pilgrim-feast)? And must you go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of Yahuah, to the Elohim of Yisra'el?30And Yahuah shall make His glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of His arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame; He shall lighten terribly, and His wrath shall be as water and violent hail.31For by the voice of Yahuah Ashur shall be overcome, even by the stroke wherewith He shall smite them.32And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.33For you shall be required before your time; has it been prepared for you also to reign? Nay, Elohim has prepared for you a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood; the wrath of Yahuah shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 31
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1Woe to them that go down to Mitzrayim for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many, and in horsemen, which are a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Kadosh of Yisra'el, and have not sought Yahuah.2Therefore He has wisely brought evils upon them, and His word shall not be frustrated; and He shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,3even one of Mitzrayim — a man, and not Elohim; the flesh of horses, and there is no help in them; but Yahuah shall bring His hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.4For thus said Yahuah to me: As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the animals are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath; so Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall descend to fight upon the Mount Tziyon, even upon her mountains.5As birds flying, so shall Yahuah Tzeva'ot defend; He shall defend Yerushalayim, and He shall rescue, and save, and deliver.6Turn, you children of Yisra'el, who devise a deep and sinful counsel.7For in that day men shall renounce their silver idols and their golden idols, which their hands made.8And Ashur shall fall: not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword; but the young men shall be overthrown:9for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus says Yahuah: Blessed is he that has a seed in Tziyon, and household friends in Yerushalayim.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 32
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1For behold, a righteous king shall reign, and princes shall govern with judgment.2And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Tziyon as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.3And they shall no more trust in men, but they shall incline their ears to hear.4And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues shall soon learn to speak Shalom.5And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and your servants shall no more at all say, Be silent.6For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds, and to speak error against Yahuah, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.7For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.8But the godly have devised wise measures, and this counsel shall stand.9Rise up, you rich women, and hear my voice; you confident daughters, hearken to my words.10Remember for a full year in pain, yet with hope; the vintage has been cut off, it has ceased, it shall by no means come again.11Be amazed, be pained, you confident ones; strip you, bare yourselves, gird your loins;12and beat on your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine.13As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.14As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses; and the villages shall be caves for Olam, the joy of wild asses, shepherds' pastures;15until the Ruach shall come upon you from on high, and Karmel shall be desert, and Karmel shall be counted for a forest.16Then judgment shall abide in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Karmel.17And the works of righteousness shall be Shalom; and righteousness shall ensure rest, and the righteous shall be confident for Olam.18And His people shall inhabit a city of Shalom, and dwell in it in confidence, and they shall rest with wealth.19And if the hail should come down, it shall not come upon you; and they that dwell in the forests shall be in confidence, as those in the plain country.20Blessed are they that sow by every water, where the ox and ass tread.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 33
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1Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable; and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously; they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.2O Yahuah, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in You; the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.3By reason of the terrible sound the nations were dismayed for fear of You, and the heathen were scattered.4And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered; as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock you.5The Elohim who dwells on high is holy; Tziyon is filled with judgment and righteousness.6They shall be delivered up to the Torah; our Yeshu'ah is our treasure; there are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward Yahuah; these are the treasures of righteousness.7Behold now, these shall be terrified with fear of you; those whom you feared shall cry out because of you; messengers shall be sent, bitterly weeping, entreating for Shalom.8For the ways of these shall be made desolate; the terror of the nations has been made to cease, and the Beriyt with these is taken away, and you shall by no means deem them men.9The land mourns; Levanon is ashamed; Sharon (שָׁרוֹן,Sharon; LXX Saron) is become marshes; Galil shall be laid bare, and Karmel.10Now will I arise, says Yahuah; now will I be glorified; now will I be exalted.11Now shall you see, now shall you perceive; the strength of your breath shall be vain; fire shall devour you.12And the nations shall be burnt up, as a thorn in the field cast out and burnt up.13They that are afar off shall hear what I have done; they that draw nigh shall know My strength.14The sinners in Tziyon have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?15He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice;16he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock; bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.17You shall see a king with glory; your eyes shall behold a land from afar.18Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? Where are the counsellors? Where is he that numbers them that are growing up,19even the small and great people? With whom he took not counsel, neither did he understand a people of deep speech, so that a despised people should not hear, and there is no understanding to him that hears.20Behold the city Tziyon, our refuge; your eyes shall behold Yerushalayim, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for Olam, neither shall her cords be at all broken;21for the name of Yahuah is great to you; you shall have a place, even rivers and wide and spacious channels; you shall not go this way, neither a vessel with oars go thereby.22For my Elohim is great; Yahuah our judge shall not pass me by; Yahuah is our prince, Yahuah is our king; Yahuah, He shall save us.23Your cords are broken, for they had no strength; your mast has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.24And the people dwelling among them shall by no means say, I am in pain; for their sin shall be forgiven them.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 34
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1Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the Eretz hear, and they that are in it; the Olam, and the people that are therein.2For the wrath of Yahuah is upon all nations, and His anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.3And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.4And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll; and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree[38].5My sword has been made drunk in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.6The sword of Yahuah is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams; for Yahuah has a sacrifice in Botzrah (בָּצְרָה,Bozrah; LXX Bosor), and a great slaughter in Edom.7And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.8For it is the day of the judgment of Yahuah, and the year of the recompence of Tziyon in judgment.9And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;10and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up; it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,11and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it; and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.12Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.13And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds; and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court for ostriches.14And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other; there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.15There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young; there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.16They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished; they sought not one another; for Yahuah commanded them, and His Ruach gathered them.17And He shall cast lots for them, and His hand has portioned out their pasture, saying: You shall inherit the land for Olam; they shall rest on it through all generations.
Footnotes
[38] 34:4 — "the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all the stars shall fall" — echoed by Yeshua in Matt 24:29 and in Rev 6:13–14.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 35
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1Be glad, you thirsty desert; let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily.2And the desert places of the Yarden shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Levanon has been given to it, and the honour of Karmel; and my people shall see the glory of Yahuah, and the majesty of Elohim.3Be strong, you relaxed hands and palsied knees.4Comfort one another, you faint-hearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our Elohim renders judgment, and He will render it; He will come and save us.5Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear.6Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly[39]; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.7And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.8There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.9And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on Yahuah's behalf shall walk in it,10and shall return, and come to Tziyon with joy, and everlasting joy shall be over their head; for on their head shall be praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them; sorrow and pain, and groaning, have fled away.
Footnotes
[39] 35:5–6 — "the eyes of the blind opened, the ears of the deaf … the lame leap as a hart": the very signs Yeshua names to Yochanan's disciples in Matt 11:5 and Luke 7:22.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 36
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1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Chizkiyahu, that Sancheriv (סַנְחֵרִיב, Sennacherib; LXX Sennacherim) king of Ashur came up against the strong cities of Yehudah, and took them.2And the king of Ashur sent Rav-Shakeh (רַב־שָׁקֵה,the Rabshakeh, chief officer; LXX Rabsaces) out of Lachish (לָכִישׁ, Lachish) to Yerushalayim to king Chizkiyahu with a large force; and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.3And there went forth to him Elyakim the steward, the son of Chilkiyahu, and Shevna the scribe, and Yoach (יוֹאָח,Joah) the son of Asaf (אָסָף, Asaph), the recorder.4And Rav-Shakeh said to them: Say to Chizkiyahu, Thus says the great king, the king of Ashur, Why are you secure?5Is war carried on with counsel and mere words of the lips? And now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?6Behold, you trust on this bruised staff of reed, on Mitzrayim; as soon as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Par'oh king of Mitzrayim, and all that trust in him.7But if you say, We trust in Yahuah our Elohim:8yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of Ashur, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you shall be able to set riders upon them.9And how can you then turn to the face of the satraps? They that trust on the Mitzrim for horse and rider are our servants.10And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without Yahuah? Yahuah said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.11Then Elyakim and Shevna and Yoach said to him: Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and speak not to us in the language of Yehudah; and wherefore do you speak in the ears of the men on the wall?12And Rav-Shakeh said to them: Has my lord sent me to your lord or to you, to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink their water together with you?13And Rav-Shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the language of Yehudah, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of Ashur:14thus says the king, Let not Chizkiyahu deceive you with words; he will not be able to deliver you.15And let not Chizkiyahu say to you, That Elohim will deliver you, and this city will not at all be delivered into the hand of the king of Ashur.16Hearken not to Chizkiyahu; thus says the king of Ashur, If you wish to be blessed, come out to me; and you shall eat every one of his vine and his fig-trees, and you shall drink water out of your own cisterns;17until I come and take you to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards.18Let not Chizkiyahu deceive you, saying, Elohim will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of Ashur?19Where is the god of Hamath (חֲמָת, Hamath; LXX Emath), and Arpad (אַרְפָּד, Arpad; LXX Arphath)? And where is the god of Sepharvaim (סְפַרְוַיִם, Sepharvaim; LXX Eppharuaim)? Have they been able to deliver Shomron out of my hand?20Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of my hand, that Elohim should deliver Yerushalayim out of my hand?21And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had commanded that none should answer.22And Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu, the steward, and Shevna the military scribe, and Yoach the son of Asaf, the recorder, came in to Chizkiyahu, having their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rav-Shakeh.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 37
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1And it came to pass, when king Chizkiyahu heard it, that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of Yahuah.2And he sent Elyakim the steward, and Shevna the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the son of Amotz, the prophet. And they said to him: Thus says Chizkiyahu,3Today is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger; for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman, but she has not strength to bring forth.4May Yahuah your Elohim hear the words of Rav-Shakeh, which the king of Ashur has sent, to reproach the living Elohim, even to reproach with the words which Yahuah your Elohim has heard; therefore you shall pray to your Yahuah for these that are left.5So the servants of king Chizkiyahu came to Yeshayahu.6And Yeshayahu said to them: Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says Yahuah, Be not afraid at the words which you have heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of Ashur have reproached Me.7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.8So Rav-Shakeh returned, and found the king of Ashur besieging Livnah (לִבְנָה, Libnah; LXX Lobna); for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.9And Tirhakah (תִּרְהָקָה, Tirhakah; LXX Tharaca) king of Kush went forth to attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Chizkiyahu, saying:10Thus shall you say to Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah, Let not your Elohim, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Yerushalayim shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Ashur.11Have you not heard what the kings of Ashur have done, how they have destroyed the whole Eretz? And shall you be delivered?12Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them — both Gozan (גּוֹזָן, Gozan), and Charan (חָרָן, Haran; LXX Charrhan), and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath?13Where are the kings of Hamath? And where is the king of Arpad? And where is the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Anagugana?14And Chizkiyahu received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of Yahuah, and opened it before Yahuah.15And Chizkiyahu prayed to Yahuah, saying:16O Yahuah Tzeva'ot, Elohim of Yisra'el, who sits upon the Keruvim (כְּרוּבִים, cherubim), You alone are the Elohim of every kingdom of the Olam; You have made heaven and earth.17Incline Your ear, O Yahuah, hearken; O Yahuah, open Your eyes; O Yahuah, look, and behold the words of Sancheriv, which he has sent to reproach the living Elohim.18For of a truth, O Yahuah, the kings of Ashur have laid waste the whole Olam, and the countries thereof,19and have cast their idols into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.20But now, O Yahuah our Elohim, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the Eretz may know that You are Elohim alone.21And Yeshayahu the son of Amotz was sent to Chizkiyahu, and said to him: Thus says Yahuah, the Elohim of Yisra'el, I have heard your prayer to Me concerning Sancheriv king of Ashur.22This is the word which Elohim has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Tziyon has despised you, and mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head at you.23Whom have you reproached and provoked? And against whom have you lifted up your voice? And have you not lifted up your eyes on high against the Kadosh of Yisra'el?24For you have reproached Yahuah by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Levanon; and I have cropped the height of his cedars, and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region;25and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.26Have you not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed them from ancient times; but now have I manifested My purpose of desolating nations in their strongholds, and them that dwell in strong cities.27I weakened their hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the housetops, and as grass.28But now I know your rest, and your going out, and your coming in.29And your wrath wherewith you have been enraged, and your rancour has come up to Me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and will turn you back by the way by which you came.30And this shall be a sign to you: Eat this year what you have sown; and the second year that which is left; and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.31And they that are left in Yehudah shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward;32for out of Yerushalayim there shall be a remnant, and the saved ones out of Mount Tziyon; the zeal of Yahuah Tzeva'ot shall perform this.33Therefore thus says Yahuah concerning the king of Ashur: He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart round it.34But by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city; thus says Yahuah.35I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.36And the Malakh (מַלְאָך, messenger / angel) of Yahuah went forth, and slew out of the camp of Ashur a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and they arose in the morning, and found all these bodies dead.37And Sancheriv king of Ashur turned and departed, and dwelt in Ninveh (נִינְוֵה, Nineveh; LXX Nineve).38And while he was worshipping Nisroch (נִסְרֹך,Nisroch; LXX Nasarach) his country's god in the house, Adrammelech (אַדְרַמֶּלֶך, Adrammelech) and Sar'etzer (שַׂרְאֶצֶר, Sharezer; LXX Sarasar) his sons smote him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia (אֲרָרָט, Armenia; LXX for Ararat)[40]; and Esar-Haddon (אֵסַר־חַדֹּן, Esarhaddon; LXX Asordan) his son reigned in his stead.
Footnotes
[40] 37:38 — "Armenia" is the Septuagint form here; the Masoretic reads "the land of Ararat."
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 38
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1And it came to pass at that time, that Chizkiyahu was sick even to death. And Yeshayahu the prophet, the son of Amotz, came to him, and said to him: Thus says Yahuah, Give orders concerning your house; for you shall die, and not live.2And Chizkiyahu turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahuah, saying:3Remember, O Yahuah, how I have walked before You in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in Your sight. And Chizkiyahu wept bitterly.4And the word of Yahuah came to Yeshayahu, saying: Go, and say to Chizkiyahu,5Thus says Yahuah, the Elohim of David your father, I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears; behold, I will add to your time chamesh-esreh shanah (חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה, fifteen years).6And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Ashur; and I will defend this city.7And this shall be a sign to you from Yahuah, that Elohim will do this thing;8behold, I will turn back the shadow of the ma'alot (מַעֲלוֹת,steps / degrees of the dial) of the dial by which the sun has gone down ten ma'alot on the house of your father — I will turn back the sun the ten ma'alot; so the sun went back the ten ma'alot by which the shadow had gone down.9The prayer of Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah, when he had been sick, and was recovered from his sickness.10I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I shall part with the remainder of my years.11I said, I shall no more at all see the Yeshu'ah of Elohim in the land of the living; I shall no more at all see the Yeshu'ah of Yisra'el on the Eretz; I shall no more at all see man.12My life has failed from among my kindred; I have parted with the remainder of my life; it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again; my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.13In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning; so has He broken all my bones; for I was so given up from day even to night.14As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn; for my eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to Yahuah, who has delivered me,15and removed the sorrow of my soul.16Yea, O Yahuah, for it was told You concerning this; and You have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.17For You have chosen my soul, that it should not perish; and You have cast all my sins behind me.18For they that are in the grave shall not praise You, neither shall the dead bless You, neither shall they that are in Sheol hope for Your mercy.19The living shall bless You, as I also do; for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare Your righteousness,20O Elohim of my Yeshu'ah; and I will not cease blessing You with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of Elohim.21Now Yeshayahu had said to Chizkiyahu: Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaister, and you shall be well.22And Chizkiyahu said: This is a sign to Chizkiyahu, that I shall go up to the house of Elohim.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 39
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1At that time Merodach-Baladan (מְרֹדַך־בַּלְאֲדָן,Merodach-Baladan), the son of Baladan (בַּלְאֲדָן,Baladan), the king of Bavel, sent letters and ambassadors and gifts to Chizkiyahu; for he had heard that he had been sick even to death, and was recovered.2And Chizkiyahu was glad of their coming, and he showed them the house of his spices, and of silver, and gold, and myrrh, and incense, and ointment, and all the houses of his treasures, and all that he had in his stores; and there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, which Chizkiyahu did not show.3And Yeshayahu the prophet came to king Chizkiyahu, and said to him: What say these men? And whence came they to you? And Chizkiyahu said: They are come to me from a land afar off, from Bavel.4And Yeshayahu said: What have they seen in your house? And Chizkiyahu said: They have seen everything in my house; and there is nothing in my house which they have not seen; yea, also the possessions in my treasuries.5And Yeshayahu said to him: Hear the word of Yahuah Tzeva'ot:6Behold, the days come, when they shall take all the things that are in your house, and all that your fathers have gathered until this day, shall go to Bavel; and they shall not leave anything at all; and Elohim has said,7that they shall take also of your children whom you shall beget; and they shall make them eunuchs in the house of the king of Bavel.8And Chizkiyahu said to Yeshayahu: Good is the word of Yahuah, which He has spoken; let there, I pray, be Shalom and righteousness in my days.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 40
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1Comfort, comfort My people, says Elohim.2Speak, you priests, to the heart of Yerushalayim; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away; for she has received of Yahuah's hand double the amount of her sins.3The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of Yahuah, make straight the paths of our Elohim.4Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.5And the glory of Yahuah shall appear, and all flesh shall see the Yeshu'ah of Elohim; for Yahuah has spoken it[41].6The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.7The grass withers, and the flower fades;8but the word of our Elohim abides for Olam[42].9O you that bring glad tidings to Tziyon, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Yerushalayim; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Yehudah, Behold your Elohim!10Behold Yahuah! Yahuah is coming with strength, and His arm is with power; behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.11He shall tend His flock as a shepherd, and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.12Who has measured the water in His hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the Eretz in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?13Who has known the mind of Yahuah? And who has been His counsellor, to instruct Him[43]?14Or with whom has He taken counsel, and he has instructed Him? Or who has taught Him judgment? Or who has taught Him the way of understanding?15Since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle.16And Levanon is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for an Olah.17And all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.18To whom have you compared Yahuah? And with what likeness have you compared Him?19Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith, having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude?20For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved.21Will you not know? Will you not hear? Has it not been told you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the Eretz?22It is He that comprehends the circle of the Eretz, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in;23He that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the Eretz as nothing.24For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground; He has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.25Now then to whom have you compared Me, that I may be exalted? says the Kadosh.26Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? Even He that brings forth His host by number; He shall call them all by name by means of His great glory, and by the power of His might; nothing has escaped you.27For say not, O Ya'akov, and why have you spoken, O Yisra'el, saying, My way is hid from Elohim, and my Elohim has taken away my judgment, and has departed?28And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal Elohim, the Elohim that formed the ends of the Eretz, shall not hunger, nor be weary; and there is no searching of His understanding.29He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.30For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless;31but they that wait on Elohim shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.
Footnotes
[41] 40:3–5 — "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of Yahuah … all flesh shall see the Yeshu'ah of Elohim." Quoted in all four Gospels in this Septuagint form (Matt 3:3; Mark 1:3; Luke 3:4–6; John 1:23); the Septuagint joins 'in the wilderness' to the crier, where the Masoretic joins it to the preparing. | [42] 40:6–8 — "All flesh is grass … but the word of our Elohim abides for Olam." Quoted in 1 Peter 1:24–25, following the Septuagint. | [43] 40:13 — "Who has known the mind of Yahuah? who has been His counsellor?" Quoted by Sha'ul in Romans 11:34 and 1 Cor 2:16, following the Septuagint.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 41
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1Hold a feast to Me, you islands; for the princes shall renew their strength; let them draw nigh and speak together; then let them declare judgment.2Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to His feet, so that it should go? He shall appoint it an adversary of Goyim, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?3And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in Shalom.4Who has wrought and done these things? He has called it who called it from the generations of old; I, Elohim, the first, and to all futurity, I AM.5The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the Eretz drew nigh, and came together,6every one judging for his neighbour, and that to assist his brother; and one will say,7The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also; sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined; they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.8But you, Yisra'el, are My servant Ya'akov, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Avraham, whom I have loved;9whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the Eretz, and from the high places of it I have called you, and said to you, You are My servant; I have chosen you, and I have not forsaken you.10Fear not; for I am with you; wander not; for I am your Elohim, who have strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with My just right hand.11Behold, all your adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not; and all your opponents shall perish.12You shall seek them, and you shall not find the men who shall insolently rage against you; for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against you shall not be.13For I am your Elohim, who holds your right hand, who says to you,14Fear not, Ya'akov, and you Yisra'el few in number; I have helped you, says your Elohim, He that redeems you, O Yisra'el.15Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff;16and you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them; but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Yisra'el.17And the poor and the needy shall exult; for when they shall seek water, and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I, Yahuah Elohim, I the Elohim of Yisra'el, will hear, and will not forsake them;18but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains; I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.19I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar;20that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of Yahuah has wrought these works, and the Kadosh of Yisra'el has displayed them.21Your judgment draws nigh, says Yahuah Elohim; your counsels have drawn nigh, says the King of Ya'akov.22Let them draw nigh, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell us what things were of old, and we will apply our understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things;23tell us, declare to us the things that are coming on at the last time, and we shall know that you are gods; do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time24whence you are, and whence is your work; they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.25But I have raised up him that comes from the north, and him that comes from the rising of the sun; they shall be called by My name; let the princes come, and as potter's clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall you be trodden down.26For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also the former things, and we will say that they are true? There is no one that speaks beforehand, nor any one that hears your words.27I will give dominion to Tziyon, and will comfort Yerushalayim by the way.28For from among the nations, behold, there was no one; and of their idols there was none to declare anything; and if I should ask them, Whence are you? they could not answer me.29For these are your makers, as you think, and they that cause you to err in vain.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 42
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1Ya'akov is My servant, I will help him; Yisra'el is My chosen, My soul has accepted him; I have put My Ruach upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Goyim.2He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor shall his voice be heard without.3A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.4He shall shine out, and shall not be discouraged, until he have set judgment on the Eretz; and in his name shall the Goyim trust[44].5Thus says Yahuah Elohim, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and Ruach to them that tread on it:6I, Yahuah Elohim, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will strengthen you; and I have given you for the Beriyt of a race, for a light of the Goyim[45];7to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison-house.8I am Yahuah Elohim; that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, nor My praises to graven images.9Behold, the ancient things have come to pass, and so will the new things which I tell you; yea, before I tell them they are made known to you.10Sing a new hymn to Yahuah; you who are His dominion, glorify His name from the end of the Eretz; you that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.11Rejoice, you wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers in Kedar; the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.12They shall give glory to Elohim, and shall proclaim His praises in the islands.13Yahuah Elohim of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war; He shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout mightily against His enemies.14I have been silent; shall I also always be silent and forbear? I have endured like a travailing woman; I will now amaze and wither at once.15I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known; I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.17But they are turned back; be utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, You are our gods.18Hear, you deaf, and look up, you blind, to see.19And who is blind, but My servants? And deaf, but they that rule over them? Yea, the servants of Elohim have been made blind.20You have often seen, and have not taken heed; your ears have been opened, and you have not heard.21Yahuah Elohim has taken counsel, that He might be justified, and might magnify His praise.22And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered; for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them; they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.23Who is there among you that will give ear to these things? Hearken to the things which are coming to pass.24For what did He give Ya'akov up to spoil, and Yisra'el to them that plundered him? Did not Elohim do it, against whom they sinned? And they would not walk in His ways, nor hearken to His Torah.25So He brought upon them the fury of His wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew it, neither did they lay it to heart.
Footnotes
[44] 42:1–4 — the first Servant Song. The Septuagint names the servant outright — 'Ya'akov … Yisra'el' (v1) — where the Hebrew leaves him unnamed; quoted of Yeshua in Matt 12:18–21. | [45] 42:6 — 'a light of the Goyim' (repeated at 49:6): taken up by Shim'on in Luke 2:32 and by Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba in Acts 13:47.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 43
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1And now thus says Yahuah Elohim that made you, O Ya'akov, and formed you, O Yisra'el: Fear not; for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are Mine.2And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow you; and if you go through fire, you shall not be burned; the flame shall not burn you.3For I am Yahuah your Elohim, the Kadosh of Yisra'el, that saves you; I have made Mitzrayim and Kush your ransom, and given Soene for you.4Since you became precious in My sight, you have become glorious, and I have loved you; and I will give men for you, and princes for your life.5Fear not; for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east, and will gather you from the west.6I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring My sons from the land afar off, and My daughters from the ends of the Eretz;7even all who are called by My name; for I have prepared him for My glory, and I have formed him, and have made him;8and I have brought forth the blind people; for their eyes are alike blind, and they that have ears are deaf.9All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them; who will declare these things? Or who will declare to you things from the beginning? Let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.10Be My witnesses, and I too am a witness, says Yahuah Elohim, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know, and believe, and understand that I am He; before Me there was no other Elohim, and after Me there shall be none.11I am Elohim; and beside Me there is no Saviour.12I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange god among you; you are My witnesses, and I am Yahuah Elohim,13even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of My hands; I will work, and who shall turn it back?14Thus says Yahuah Elohim that redeems you, the Kadosh of Yisra'el: For your sakes I will send to Bavel, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Kasdim shall be bound in ships.15I am Yahuah Elohim, your Kadosh, who have appointed for Yisra'el your king.16Thus says Yahuah, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty water;17who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude; but they have lain down, and shall not rise; they are extinct, as quenched flax.18Remember not the former things, and consider not the ancient things.19Behold, I will do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and you shall know them; and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land.20The beasts of the field shall bless Me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to My chosen race,21even My people whom I have preserved to tell forth My praises.22I have not now called you, O Ya'akov; neither have I made you weary, O Yisra'el.23You have not brought Me the sheep of your whole-burnt-offering; neither have you glorified Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with sacrifices, neither have I wearied you with frankincense.24Neither have you purchased for Me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of your sacrifices; but you stood before Me in your sins, and in your iniquities.25I, even I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and your sins; and I will not remember them.26But remember, and let us plead together; first confess your transgressions, that you may be justified.27Your fathers first, and your princes, have transgressed against Me.28And the princes have defiled My sanctuaries; so I gave Ya'akov to enemies to destroy, and Yisra'el to reproach.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 44
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1But now hear, Ya'akov My servant; and Yisra'el, whom I have chosen.2Thus says Yahuah Elohim that made you, and He that formed you from the womb: You shall yet be helped; fear not, My servant Ya'akov; and beloved Yisra'el, whom I have chosen.3For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land; I will put My Ruach upon your seed, and My blessings upon your children;4and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on the banks of running water.5One shall say, I am Elohim's; and another shall call himself by the name of Ya'akov; and another shall write with his hand, I am Elohim's, and shall call himself by the name of Yisra'el.6Thus says Elohim the King of Yisra'el, and the Elohim of hosts that delivered him: I am the first, and I am hereafter; beside Me there is no Elohim.7Who is like Me? Let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for Me, from the time that I made man for Olam; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.8Hide not yourselves, nor go astray; have you not heard from the beginning, and have I not told you? You are witnesses if there is an Elohim beside Me.9But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them; but they shall be ashamed10that form a god, and all that grave worthless things;11and all by whom they were made are withered; yea, let all the deaf be gathered from among men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together:12For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm; and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.13The artificer, having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.14He cuts wood out of the forest, which Yahuah planted, even a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,15that it might be for men to burn; and having taken part of it he warms himself; yea, they burn part of it, and bake loaves thereon; and of the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.16Half thereof he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied; and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.17And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my god.18They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.19And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burnt up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof, and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.20Know that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul; see, you will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.21Remember these things, O Ya'akov and Yisra'el; for you are My servant; I have formed you to be My servant; and you, Yisra'el, do not forget Me.22For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud your transgressions, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.23Rejoice, you heavens; for Elohim has had mercy upon Yisra'el; sound the Shofar, you foundations of the earth; you mountains, shout with joy, you hills, and all the trees therein; for Elohim has redeemed Ya'akov, and Yisra'el shall be glorified.24Thus says Yahuah that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb: I am Yahuah that performs all things; I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.25Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of man? Turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;26and confirming the word of His servant, and verifying the counsel of His messengers; who says to Yerushalayim, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Edom, You shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth;27who says to the deep, You shall be dried up, and I will dry up your rivers;28who bids Koresh (כּוֹרֶשׁ, Cyrus) be wise, and he shall perform all My will; who says to Yerushalayim, You shall be built, and I will lay the foundation of My holy house.
Footnotes
[46] 44:28–45:1 — Koresh (Cyrus) is named generations before his birth, and in 45:1 is called Yahuah's Mashiach ('anointed') — the only gentile king so titled in Scripture.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 45
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1Thus says Yahuah Elohim to My Mashiach (מָשִׁיחַ, anointed one; Messiah), Koresh, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed[46].2I will go before you, and will level mountains; I will break to pieces brazen doors, and will burst iron bars.3And I will give you the treasures of darkness, I will open to you hidden, unseen treasures, that you may know that I, Yahuah your Elohim, that call you by name, am the Elohim of Yisra'el.4For the sake of My servant Ya'akov, and Yisra'el My elect, I will call you by your name, and accept you; but you have not known Me.5For I am Yahuah Elohim, and there is no other Elohim beside Me; I strengthened you, and you have not known Me;6that they that come from the east, and they that come from the west, may know that there is no Elohim but Me. I am Yahuah Elohim, and there is none beside.7I am He that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make Shalom, and create evil; I am Yahuah Elohim, that does all these things.8Let the heaven rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness; let the earth bring forth, and blossom with mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise; I am Yahuah that created you.9What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all day? Shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing, that you do not work, nor have hands? Shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?10As though one should say to his father, What will you beget me? And to his mother, What are you bringing forth?11For thus says Yahuah Elohim, the Kadosh of Yisra'el, who has formed the things that are to come: Enquire of Me concerning My sons, and concerning the works of My hands command Me.12I have made the earth, and man upon it; I with My hand have established the heaven; I have given commandment to all the stars.13I have raised him up to be a king with righteousness, and all his ways are right; he shall build My city, and shall turn the captivity of My people, not for ransoms, nor for rewards, says Yahuah Tzeva'ot.14Thus says Yahuah Tzeva'ot: Mitzrayim has laboured for you; and the merchandise of Kush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to you, and shall be your servants; and they shall follow after you bound in fetters, and shall pass over to you, and shall do obeisance to you, and make supplication to you; because Elohim is in you; and there is no Elohim beside you, O Yahuah.15For You are Elohim, yet we knew it not, the Elohim of Yisra'el, the Saviour.16All that are opposed to him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame; you isles, keep a feast to Me.17Yisra'el is saved by Yahuah with an everlasting Yeshu'ah; they shall not be ashamed nor confounded for evermore.18Thus says Yahuah that made the heaven, this Elohim that created the earth, and made it; He marked it out, He made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahuah, and there is none beside.19I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth; I said not to the seed of Ya'akov, Seek vanity; I, even I, am Yahuah, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.20Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you that escape of the nations; they that set up wood, even their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.21If they will declare, let them draw nigh, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning; then was it told you. I am Elohim, and there is not another beside Me; a just Elohim and a Saviour; there is none but Me.22Turn to Me, and you shall be saved, you that come from the end of the Eretz; I am Elohim, and there is none other.23By Myself I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of My mouth; My words shall not be frustrated; that to Me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall swear by Elohim[47],24saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to Him; and all that remove them from their borders shall be ashamed.25By Yahuah shall they be justified, and in Elohim shall all the seed of the children of Yisra'el be glorified.
Footnotes
[47] 45:23 — 'to Me every knee shall bend, and every tongue confess.' Quoted by Sha'ul in Rom 14:11 and echoed in Phil 2:10–11.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 46
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1Bel (בֵּל, Bel, the god of Bavel) has fallen, Nevo (נְבוֹ, Nebo, the god of Bavel; LXX Nabo) is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle; you take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and at the same time helpless man[48];2who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led away captive.3Hear Me, O house of Ya'akov, and all the remnant of Yisra'el, who are borne by Me from the womb, and taught by Me from infancy, even to old age:4I am He; and until you shall have grown old, I am He; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.5To whom have you compared Me? See, consider, you that go astray.6They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.7They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.8Remember these things, and groan; repent, you that have gone astray, return in your heart;9and remember the former things that were of old; for I am Elohim, and there is none other beside Me,10telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together; and I said, All My counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned;11calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned; I have spoken, and brought him; I have created and made him; I have brought him, and prospered his way.12Hearken to Me, you senseless ones, that are far from righteousness;13I have brought near My righteousness, and I will not be slow with the Yeshu'ah that is from Me; I have given Yeshu'ah in Tziyon to Yisra'el for glory.
Footnotes
[48] 46:1 — Bel and Nevo, the chief gods of Bavel, are shown toppling; the same fall-of-Bavel theme returns in Rev 14:8 and 18:2.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 47
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1Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Bavel; sit on the ground, O daughter of the Kasdim; for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious.2Take a millstone, grind meal; remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.3Your shame shall be uncovered, your reproaches shall be brought to light; I will exact of you due vengeance, I will no longer deliver you to men.4Your deliverer is Yahuah Tzeva'ot, the Kadosh of Yisra'el is His name.5Sit down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Kasdim; for you shall no more be called the strength of a kingdom.6I have been provoked with My people; you have defiled Mine inheritance; I gave them into your hand, but you did not extend mercy to them; you made the yoke of the aged man very heavy,7and said, I shall be a princess for Olam; you did not perceive these things in your heart, nor did you remember the latter end.8But now hear these words, you luxurious one, who is the one that sits at ease, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.9But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,10for your trusting in wickedness; for you said, I am, and there is not another; know that the understanding of these things and your harlotry shall be your shame; for you said in your heart, I am, and there is not another.11And destruction shall come upon you, and you shall not be aware; there shall be a pit, and you shall fall into it; and grief shall come upon you, and you shall not be able to be clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon you, and you shall not know.12Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.13You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.14Behold, they all shall be burnt up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit upon them;15these shall be your help. You have wearied yourself with traffic from your youth; every man has wandered to his own home, but you shall have no deliverance.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 48
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1Hear these words, you house of Ya'akov, who are called by the name of Yisra'el, and have come forth out of Yehudah, who swear by the name of Yahuah Elohim of Yisra'el, making mention of it, but not with truth, nor with righteousness;2maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the Elohim of Yisra'el; Yahuah Tzeva'ot is His name. The former things I have already declared;3and they have proceeded out of My mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and the events came to pass.4I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead brazen.5And I told you of old what should be before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say, My idols have done it for me; and should say, My graven and molten images have commanded me.6You have heard all this, but you have not known; yet I have made known to you the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and you said not,7Now they come to pass, and not formerly; and you heard not of them in former days; say not, Yea, I know them.8You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears; for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.9For My own sake will I show you My wrath, and will bring before you My glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.10Behold, I have sold you, but not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.11For My own sake I will do this for you, because My name is profaned; and I will not give My glory to another.12Hear Me, O Ya'akov, and Yisra'el whom I call; I am the first, and I endure for Olam.13My hand also has founded the earth, and My right hand has fixed the sky; I will call them, and they shall stand together.14And all shall be gathered, and shall hear; who has told them these things? Out of love to you I have fulfilled your desire on Bavel, to abolish the seed of the Kasdim.15I have spoken, I have called, I have brought him, and made his way prosperous.16Draw nigh to Me, and hear these words; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; when it took place, there was I; and now Adonai Yahuah, and His Ruach, has sent me.17Thus says Yahuah that delivered you, the Kadosh of Yisra'el: I am your Elohim; I have shown you how you should find the way wherein you should walk.18And if you had hearkened to My commandments, then would your Shalom have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.19Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground; neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish before Me.20Go forth of Bavel, you that flee from the Kasdim; utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the Eretz; say, Yahuah has delivered His servant Ya'akov.21And if they shall thirst, He shall lead them through the desert; He shall bring forth water to them out of the rock; the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and My people shall drink.22There is no joy, says Yahuah, to the ungodly.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 49
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1Hearken to me, you islands; and attend, you Goyim; after a long time it shall come to pass, says Yahuah; from my mother's womb He has called my name;2and He has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and He has hid me under the shadow of His hand; He has made me as a choice shaft, and He has hid me in His quiver;3and said to me, You are My servant, O Yisra'el, and in you I will be glorified.4Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing; therefore is my judgment with Yahuah, and my labour before my Elohim.5And now, thus says Yahuah that formed me from the womb to be His own servant, to gather Ya'akov to Him and Yisra'el. I shall be gathered and glorified before Yahuah, and my Elohim shall be my strength.6And He said to me, It is a great thing for you to be called My servant, to establish the tribes of Ya'akov, and to recover the dispersion of Yisra'el; behold, I have given you for the Beriyt of a race, for a light of the Goyim, that you should be for Yeshu'ah to the end of the Eretz.7Thus says Yahuah that delivered you, the Elohim of Yisra'el: Sanctify Him that despises His life, Him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes; kings shall behold Him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship Him, for Yahuah's sake; for the Kadosh of Yisra'el is faithful, and I have chosen you.8Thus says Yahuah: In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of Yeshu'ah have I succoured you[49]; and I have formed you, and given you for a Beriyt of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages;9saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.10They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; but He that has mercy on them shall comfort them, and by fountains of waters shall He lead them.11And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them.12Behold, these shall come from far; and these from the north and the west, and others from the land of Paras.13Rejoice, you heavens; and let the earth be glad; let the mountains break forth with joy; for Yahuah has had mercy on His people, and has comforted the lowly ones of His people.14But Tziyon said, Yahuah has forsaken me, and, Yahuah has forgotten me.15Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? But if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget you, says Yahuah.16Behold, I have painted your walls on My hands, and you are continually before Me.17And you shall soon be built by those by whom you were destroyed, and they that made you desolate shall go forth of you.18Lift up your eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and are come to you. As I live, says Yahuah, you shall clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on as a bride her attire.19For your desert and marred and ruined places shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured you shall be removed far from you.20For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell.21And you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these? Whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? And I was left alone; but whence came these to me?22Thus says Adonai Yahuah: Behold, I lift up Mine hand to the nations, and I will lift up My signal to the islands; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and shall bear your daughters on their shoulders.23And kings shall be your nursing-fathers, and their princesses your nurses; they shall bow down to you on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahuah, and they that wait on Me shall not be ashamed.24Will any one take spoils from a giant? And if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?25For thus says Yahuah: If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils; and he who takes them from a mighty man shall be delivered; for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children.26And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken; and all flesh shall perceive that I am Yahuah that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Ya'akov.
Footnotes
[49] 49:8 — 'In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of Yeshu'ah I helped you.' Quoted by Sha'ul in 2 Cor 6:2.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 50
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1Thus says Yahuah: Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? Or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.2Why did I come, and there was no man? Why did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.3I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.4Adonai Yahuah gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word; He has appointed for me early, He has given me an ear to hear;5and the instruction of Adonai Yahuah opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.6I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting[50];7but Yahuah Elohim became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,8for He that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? Let him stand up against me at the same time; yea, who is he that pleads with me? Let him draw nigh to me.9Behold, Adonai Yahuah will help me; who will hurt me? Behold, all of you shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.10Who is among you that fears Yahuah? Let him hearken to the voice of His servant; you that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of Yahuah, and stay upon Elohim.11Behold, you all kindle a fire, and feed a flame; walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which you have kindled. This has happened to you for My sake; you shall lie down in sorrow.
Footnotes
[50] 50:6 — 'I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows … the shame of spitting': the Servant's suffering, recounted of Yeshua's passion in Matt 26:67; 27:26,30; Mark 14:65.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 51
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1Hearken to me, you that follow after righteousness, and seek Yahuah; look to the solid rock, which you have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which you have dug.2Look to Avraham your father, and to Sarah (שָׂרָה,Sarah; LXX Sarrha) that bore you; for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.3And now I will comfort you, O Tziyon; and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of Yahuah; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.4Hear me, hear me, My people; and you kings, hearken to me; for a Torah shall proceed from Me, and My judgment shall be for a light of the nations.5My righteousness speedily draws nigh, and My Yeshu'ah shall go forth as light, and on Mine arm shall the Goyim trust; the isles shall wait for Me, and on Mine arm shall they trust.6Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath; for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner; but My righteousness shall not fail.7Hear me, you that know judgment, the people in whose heart is My Torah; fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.8For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, so shall they be consumed; but My righteousness shall be for Olam (forever), and My Yeshu'ah for all generations.9Awake, awake, O Yerushalayim, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.10Are you not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?11For by the help of Yahuah they shall return, and come to Tziyon with joy and everlasting exultation; for praise and joy shall come upon their head; pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.12I, even I, am He that comforts you; consider who you are, that you were afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who are withered as grass.13And you have forgotten Elohim who made you, who made the sky and founded the earth; and you were continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted you; for whereas he counselled to take you away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted you?14For in your deliverance He shall not halt, nor tarry;15for I am your Elohim, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar; Yahuah Tzeva'ot is My name.16I will put My words into your mouth, and I will shelter you under the shadow of Mine hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth; and Yahuah shall say to Tziyon, You are My people.17Awake, awake, stand up, O Yerushalayim, that have drunk at the hand of Yahuah the cup of His fury; for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath;18and there was none to comfort you of all the children whom you bore; and there was none to take hold of your hand, not even of all the children whom you have reared.19Wherefore these things are against you; who shall sympathise with you in your grief? Downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword; who shall comfort you?20Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of Yahuah, caused to faint by Yahuah Elohim.21Therefore hear, you afflicted one, and drunken, but not with wine;22thus says Yahuah Elohim that judges His people: Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of calamity, the cup of My wrath; and you shall not drink it any more.23And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you levelled your body with the ground to them passing by without.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 52
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1Awake, awake, Tziyon; put on your strength, O Tziyon; and put on your glory, Yerushalayim the holy city; there shall no more pass through you the uncircumcised and unclean.2Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Yerushalayim; put off the band of your neck, captive daughter of Tziyon.3For thus says Yahuah: You have been sold for nought; and you shall not be ransomed with silver.4Thus says Yahuah: My people went down before to Mitzrayim to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to Ashur.5And now why are you here? Thus says Yahuah: Because My people was taken for nothing, wonder and howl. Thus says Yahuah: On account of you My name is continually blasphemed among the Goyim.6Therefore shall My people know My name in that day, for I am He that speaks; I am present,7as a season of beauty upon the mountains, as the feet of one preaching glad tidings of Shalom, as one preaching good news; for I will publish your Yeshu'ah, saying, O Tziyon, your Elohim shall reign[51].8For the voice of them that guard you is exalted, and with the voice together they shall rejoice; for eyes shall look to eyes, when Yahuah shall have mercy upon Tziyon.9Let the waste places of Yerushalayim break forth in joy together, because Yahuah has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Yerushalayim.10And Yahuah shall reveal His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and all the ends of the Eretz shall see the Yeshu'ah that comes from our Elohim.11Depart, depart, go out from thence, and touch not the unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; separate yourselves, you that bear the vessels of Yahuah[52].12For you shall not go forth with tumult, neither go by flight; for Yahuah shall go first in advance of you; and the Elohim of Yisra'el shall be He that brings up your rear.13Behold, My servant shall understand, and be exalted, and glorified exceedingly[53].14As many shall be amazed at you, so shall your face be without glory from men, and your glory shall not be honoured by the sons of men.15Thus shall many nations wonder at him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut; for they to whom no report was brought concerning him shall see, and they who have not heard shall consider[54].
Footnotes
[51] 52:7 — 'the feet of one preaching glad tidings of Shalom … your Elohim shall reign.' Quoted by Sha'ul in Rom 10:15. | [52] 52:11 — 'Depart, go out from thence, touch not the unclean thing.' Quoted by Sha'ul in 2 Cor 6:17. | [53] 52:13 — the fourth Servant Song begins. The Septuagint reads 'My servant shall understand' (synesei) where the Hebrew has 'deal wisely / prosper.' | [54] 52:15 — 'they to whom no report was brought shall see, and they who have not heard shall consider.' Quoted by Sha'ul in Rom 15:21.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 53
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1O Yahuah, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Yahuah been revealed[55]?2We brought a report as of a child before Him; He is as a root in a thirsty land; He has no form nor comeliness; and we saw Him, but He had no form nor beauty.3But His form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; He was a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness; for His face is turned from us; He was dishonoured, and not esteemed.4He bears our sins, and is pained for us; yet we accounted Him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction[56].5But He was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our Shalom was upon Him, and by His bruises we were healed.6All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and Yahuah gave Him up for our sins.7And He, because of His affliction, opens not His mouth; He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so He opens not His mouth[57].8In His humiliation His judgment was taken away; who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken away from the earth; because of the iniquities of My people He was led to death.9And I will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; for He practised no iniquity, nor craft with His mouth[58].10Yahuah also is pleased to purge Him from His stroke. If you can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed;11Yahuah also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form Him with understanding; to justify the Just One who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.12Therefore He shall inherit many, and He shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because His soul was delivered to death, and He was numbered among the transgressors; and He bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities[59].
Footnotes
[55] 53:1 — 'who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of Yahuah been revealed?' Quoted in John 12:38 and Rom 10:16. | [56] 53:4 — 'He bears our sins, and is pained for us': applied to Yeshua's healings in Matt 8:17. | [57] 53:7–8 — 'led as a sheep to the slaughter … in His humiliation His judgment was taken away.' This is the very passage the Kushite official was reading in Acts 8:32–33, quoted there word-for-word from the Septuagint. | [58] 53:9 — 'He practised no iniquity, nor craft (guile) with His mouth.' Quoted by Kefa in 1 Pet 2:22. | [59] 53:12 — 'He was numbered among the transgressors' (cited by Yeshua of Himself, Luke 22:37) and 'He bore the sins of many' (cf. Heb 9:28).
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 54
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1Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that do not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband; for Yahuah has said,2Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains; fix the pins, spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;3spread forth your tent yet to the right and the left; for your seed shall inherit the Goyim, and you shall make the desolate cities to be inhabited.4Fear not, because you have been put to shame, neither be confounded, because you were reproached; for you shall forget your former shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood.5For it is Yahuah that made you; Yahuah Tzeva'ot is His name; and He that delivered you, He is the Elohim of Yisra'el, and shall be called so by the whole Eretz.6Yahuah has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth, says your Elohim.7For a little while I left you; but with great mercy will I have compassion upon you.8In a little wrath I turned away My face from you; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon you, says Yahuah that delivers you.9From the time of the water of Noach (נֹחַ,Noah; LXX Noe) this is My purpose; as I swore to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be wroth with you, neither when you are threatened,10shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed; so neither shall My mercy fail you, nor shall the Beriyt of your Shalom be at all removed; for Yahuah who is gracious to you has spoken it.11Afflicted and outcast, you have not been comforted; behold, I will prepare carbuncle for your stones, and sapphire for your foundations;12and I will make your buttresses jasper, and your gates crystal, and your border precious stones.13And I will cause all your sons to be taught of Elohim, and your children to be in great Shalom[60].14And you shall be built in righteousness; abstain from injustice, and you shall not fear; and trembling shall not come nigh you.15Behold, strangers shall come to you by Me, and shall sojourn with you, and shall run to you for refuge.16Behold, I have created you, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel fit for work; but I have created you, not for ruin, that I should destroy you.17I will not suffer any weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be condemned thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve Yahuah, and you shall be righteous before Me, says Yahuah.
Footnotes
[60] 54:13 — 'all your sons shall be taught of Elohim.' Quoted by Yeshua in John 6:45.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 55
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1You that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price.2Wherefore do you value at the price of money, and give your labour for that which will not satisfy? Hearken to Me, and you shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.3Give heed with your ears, and follow My ways; hearken to Me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting Beriyt, the sure mercies of David[61].4Behold, I have made him a testimony among the Goyim, a prince and commander to the Goyim.5Nations which know you not shall call upon you, and peoples which are not acquainted with you shall flee to you for refuge, for the sake of Yahuah your Elohim, the Kadosh of Yisra'el; for He has glorified you.6Seek Yahuah, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He shall draw nigh to you,7let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to Yahuah, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.8For My counsels are not as your counsels, nor are My ways as your ways, says Yahuah.9But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is My way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from My mind.10For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until it have saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and give seed to the sower, and bread for food;11so shall My word be, whatever shall proceed out of My mouth; it shall by no means turn back, until all the things which I willed shall have been accomplished; and I will make your ways prosperous, and will effect My commands.12For you shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness; for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.13And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and Yahuah shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.
Footnotes
[61] 55:3 — 'the sure mercies of David.' Quoted by Sha'ul at Antioch in Acts 13:34.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 56
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1Thus says Yahuah: Keep judgment, and do justice; for My Yeshu'ah is near to come, and My mercy to be revealed.2Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the Shabbatot (שַׁבָּתוֹת, Sabbaths) from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.3Let not the stranger who attaches himself to Yahuah say, Surely Yahuah will separate me from His people; and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.4Thus says Yahuah to the eunuchs, as many as shall keep My Shabbatot, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of My Beriyt:5I will give to them in My house and within My walls an honourable place, better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.6And I will give it to the strangers that attach themselves to Yahuah, to serve Him, and to love the name of Yahuah, to be to Him servants and handmaids; and as for all that keep My Shabbatot from profaning them, and that take hold of My Beriyt:7I will bring them to My holy mountain, and gladden them in My house of prayer; their whole-burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon Mine altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations[62],8says Yahuah that gathers the dispersed of Yisra'el; for I will gather to him a congregation.9All you beasts of the field, come, devour, all you beasts of the forest.10See how they are all blinded; they have not known; they are dumb dogs that will not bark, dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.11Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled; and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his own will.
Footnotes
[62] 56:7 — "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Quoted by Yeshua at the Temple in Matt 21:13; Mark 11:17; Luke 19:46.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 57
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1See how the just man has perished, and no one lays it to heart; and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers; for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.2His burial shall be in Shalom; he has been removed out of the way.3But draw near hither, you lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.4Wherein have you been rioting? And against whom have you opened your mouth, and against whom have you loosed your tongue? Are you not children of perdition? A lawless seed?5who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying your children in the valleys among the rocks?6That is your portion, this is your lot; and to them have you poured forth drink-offerings, and to these have you offered meat-offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?7On a lofty and high mountain, there is your bed, and thither you carried up your meat-offerings;8and behind the posts of your door you placed your memorials. Did you think that if you should depart from Me, you would gain? You have loved those that lay with you;9and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased even to Sheol.10You have wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease to strengthen myself; for you have done these things; therefore you have not supplicated Me.11Through dread of whom have you feared, and lied against Me, and have not remembered, nor considered Me, nor regarded Me? Yea, though when I see you I pass you by, yet you have not feared Me.12And I will declare your righteousness, and your sins, which shall not profit you.13When you cry out, let them deliver you in your affliction; for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry them away; but they that cleave to Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit My holy mountain.14And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of My people.15Thus says the Elyon, who dwells on high for Olam, Holy in the holies is His name, the Elyon resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:16I will not take vengeance on you for Olam, neither will I be always angry with you; for My Ruach shall go forth from Me, and I have created all breath.17On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and smote him, and turned away My face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.18I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;19Shalom upon Shalom to them that are far off, and to them that are nigh; and Yahuah has said, I will heal them.20But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest.21There is no joy to the ungodly, said Elohim.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 58
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1Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice as with a Shofar, and declare to My people their sins, and to the house of Ya'akov their iniquities.2They seek Me day by day, and desire to know My ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their Elohim; they now ask of Me righteous judgment, and desire to draw nigh to Elohim,3saying, Why have we fasted, and You regard not? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you wound.4If you fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly with your fists, wherefore do you fast to Me as you do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?5I have not chosen this fast, nor such a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though you should bend down your neck as a ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you call a fast acceptable.6I have not chosen such a fast, says Yahuah; but loose every burden of iniquity, untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account.7Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe him, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.8Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth; and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of Elohim shall compass you.9Then shall you cry, and Elohim shall hearken to you; while you are yet speaking He will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;10and if you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness shall be as noon-day;11and your Elohim shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain from which the water has not failed.12And your old waste desert places shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in Shalom.13If you turn away your foot from the Shabbat, so as not to do your pleasure on the holy days, and shall call the Shabbatot delightful, holy to Elohim; if you shall not lift up your foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth,14then shall you trust on Yahuah; and He shall bring you up to the good places of the land, and feed you with the heritage of Ya'akov your father; for the mouth of Yahuah has spoken this.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 59
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1Has the hand of Yahuah no power to save? Or has He made His ear heavy, so that He should not hear?2Nay, your iniquities separate between you and Elohim, and because of your sins has He turned away His face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you.3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.4None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.5They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web; and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.6Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.7And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;8and the way of Shalom they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not Shalom.9Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them; while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.10They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes; and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.11They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove; we have waited for judgment, and there is no Yeshu'ah, it is gone far from us.12For our iniquity is great before You, and our sins have risen up against us; for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.13We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our Elohim; we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.14And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off; for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight path.15And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside their mind from understanding. And Yahuah saw it, and it pleased Him not that there was no judgment.16And He looked, and there was no man; and He observed, and there was none to help; so He defended them with His arm, and established them with His mercy.17And He put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of Yeshu'ah on His head; and He clothed Himself with the garment of vengeance, and with His cloak,18as one about to render a recompence, even reproach to His adversaries.19So shall they of the west fear the name of Yahuah, and they that come from the rising of the sun His glorious name; for the wrath of Yahuah shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.20And the deliverer shall come for Tziyon's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Ya'akov.21And this shall be My Beriyt with them, said Yahuah: My Ruach which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed; for Yahuah has spoken it, henceforth and for Olam[63].
Footnotes
[63] 59:20–21 — "the deliverer shall come for Tziyon's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Ya'akov." Quoted by Sha'ul in Rom 11:26–27.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 60
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1Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Yerushalayim, for your light is come, and the glory of Yahuah is risen upon you.2Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and there shall be gross darkness on the nations; but Yahuah shall appear upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you.3And kings shall walk in your light, and nations in your brightness.4Lift up your eyes round about, and behold your children gathered; all your sons have come from far, and your daughters shall be borne on men's shoulders.5Then shall you see, and fear, and be amazed in your heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to you, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to you,6and the camels of Midyan and Eifah (עֵיפָה,Ephah; LXX Gaepha) shall cover you; all from Sheva (שְׁבָא, Sheba; LXX Saba) shall come bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall publish the Yeshu'ah of Yahuah.7And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nevayot (נְבָיוֹת, Nebaioth; LXX Nabaioth) shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on My altar, and My house of prayer shall be glorified.8Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to Me?9The isles have waited for Me, and the ships of Tarshish (תַּרְשִׁישׁ, Tarshish; LXX Tharsis) among the first, to bring your children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and that for the sake of the holy name of Yahuah, and because the Kadosh of Yisra'el is glorified.10And strangers shall build your walls, and their kings shall wait upon you; for by reason of My wrath I smote you, and by reason of mercy I loved you.11And your gates shall be opened continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; to bring in to you the power of the Goyim, and their kings as captives.12For the nations and the kings which will not serve you shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.13And the glory of Levanon shall come to you, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify My holy place.14And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you in fear; and you shall be called Tziyon, the city of the Kadosh of Yisra'el.15Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.16And you shall suck the milk of the Goyim, and shall eat the wealth of kings; and shall know that I am Yahuah that saves you and delivers you, the Kadosh of Yisra'el.17And for brass I will bring you gold, and for iron I will bring you silver, and instead of wood I will bring you brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make your princes peaceable, and your overseers righteous.18And injustice shall no more be heard in your land, nor destruction nor misery in your coasts; but your walls shall be called Yeshu'ah, and your gates Sculptured Work.19And you shall no more have the sun for a light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten your night; but Yahuah shall be your everlasting light, and Elohim your glory.20For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for Yahuah shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be completed.21Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for Olam, preserving that which they have planted, even the works of their hands, for glory.22The little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I, Yahuah, will gather them in due time.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 61
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1The Ruach of Yahuah is upon Me, because He has anointed Me; He has sent Me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind[64];2to declare the acceptable year of Yahuah, and the day of recompence; to comfort all that mourn;3that there should be given to them that mourn in Tziyon glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of Yahuah for glory.4And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, even those that had been desolate for many generations.5And strangers shall come and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your ploughmen and vine-dressers.6But you shall be called priests of Yahuah, the ministers of Elohim; you shall eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.7Thus shall they inherit the land a second time, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.8For I am Yahuah who love righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labour to the just, and will make an everlasting Beriyt with them.9And their seed shall be known among the Goyim, and their offspring in the midst of peoples; every one that sees them shall take notice of them, that they are a seed blessed of Elohim;10and they shall greatly rejoice in Yahuah. Let my soul rejoice in Yahuah; for He has clothed me with the robe of Yeshu'ah, and the garment of joy; He has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.11And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed, so shall Adonai Yahuah cause righteousness to spring forth, and exultation before all nations.
Footnotes
[64] 61:1–2 — "The Ruach of Yahuah is upon Me, because He has anointed Me … to declare the acceptable year of Yahuah." Read by Yeshua in the synagogue at Natzeret, Luke 4:18–19; the clause "recovery of sight to the blind" follows the Septuagint.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 62
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1For Tziyon's sake I will not hold My peace, and for Yerushalayim's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and My Yeshu'ah burn as a torch.2And the Goyim shall see your righteousness, and kings your glory; and one shall call you by a new name, which Yahuah shall name.3And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahuah, and a royal diadem in the hand of your Elohim.4And you shall no more be called Forsaken; and your land shall no more be called Desert; for you shall be called My Pleasure, and your land Inhabited; for Yahuah has taken pleasure in you, and your land shall be inhabited.5And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall your sons dwell in you; and it shall come to pass that as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will Yahuah rejoice over you.6And on your walls, O Yerushalayim, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of Yahuah.7For there is none like You, when He shall have established, and made Yerushalayim a praise on the Eretz.8For Yahuah has sworn by His glory, and by the might of His arm: I will no more give your corn and your provisions to your enemies, nor shall strangers any more drink your wine, for which you have laboured.9But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise Yahuah; and they that have gathered the grapes shall drink thereof in My holy courts.10Go through My gates, and make a way for My people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Goyim.11For behold, Yahuah has proclaimed to the end of the Eretz: say to the daughter of Tziyon, Behold, your Saviour has come to you, having His reward and His work before His face.12And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of Yahuah; and you shall be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 63
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1Who is this that is come from Edom, with red garments from Botzrah? Thus fair in His apparel, with mighty strength? I speak of righteousness and saving judgment.2Wherefore are Your garments red, and Your raiment as if fresh from a trodden wine-press?3I am full of trodden grape, and of the nations there is not a man with Me; and I trampled them in My fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.4For the day of recompence has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.5And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld; therefore My arm delivered them, and Mine anger drew nigh.6And I trampled them in Mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.7I remembered the mercy of Yahuah, the praises of Yahuah in all things wherein He recompenses us. Yahuah is a good judge to the house of Yisra'el; He deals with us according to His mercy, and according to the abundance of His righteousness.8And He said, Is it not My people? The children surely will not be rebellious; and He became to them deliverance9out of all their affliction; not an ambassador, nor a Malakh, but Himself saved them, because He loved them and spared them; He Himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.10But they disobeyed, and provoked His Ruach ha-Kodesh (רוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ, the Holy Spirit); so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them[65].11Then He remembered the ancient days, saying, Where is He that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? Where is He that put His Ruach ha-Kodesh in them?12who led Moshe (מֹשֶׁה, Moses) with His right hand, the arm of His glory? He forced the water to separate from before him, to make Himself an everlasting name.13He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,14and as cattle through a plain; the Ruach came down from Yahuah, and guided them; thus You led Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.15Turn from heaven, and look from Your holy habitation and from Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength? Where is the abundance of Your mercy and of Your compassions, that You have withholden Yourself from us?16For You are our Father; for though Avraham knew us not, and Yisra'el did not acknowledge us, yet do You, O Yahuah, our Father, deliver us; Your name has been upon us from the beginning.17Why have You caused us to err, O Yahuah, from Your way? And hardened our hearts, that we should not fear You? Return for Your servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of Your inheritance,18that we may inherit a small part of Your holy mountain.19We are become as at the beginning, when You did not rule over us, and Your name was not called upon us.
Footnotes
[65] 63:10 — "they … provoked His Ruach ha-Kodesh": one of the few places the Hebrew Scriptures name the Holy Spirit outright; cf. Eph 4:30.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 64
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1If You would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from You, and they shall melt, as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and Your name shall be manifest among the adversaries; at Your presence the nations shall be troubled,2whenever You shall work gloriously; trembling from You shall take hold upon the mountains.3From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen an Elohim beside You, and Your works which You will perform to them that wait for mercy[66].4For these blessings shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember Your ways; behold, You were angry, and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,5and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag; and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us away.6And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold on You; for You have turned Your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.7And now, O Yahuah, You are our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of Your hands.8Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins for Olam; but now look on us, for we are all Your people.9The city of Your holiness has become desolate, Tziyon has become as a wilderness, Yerushalayim a curse.10The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire; and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.11And for all these things You, O Yahuah, have withholden Yourself, and been silent, and have brought us very low.
Footnotes
[66] 64:3–4 — "things which no eye has seen … which You will perform to them that wait for mercy." Taken up by Sha'ul in 1 Cor 2:9. (This chapter's opening verse continues the last line of chapter 63 in the Septuagint versification.)
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 65
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1I became manifest to them that asked not for Me; I was found of them that sought Me not; I said, Behold, I am here, to a nation who called not on My name.2I have stretched forth My hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins[67].3This is the people that provokes Me continually in My presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.4They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, even they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of their sacrifices; all their vessels are defiled;5who say, Depart from me, draw not nigh to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of My wrath, a fire burns with it continually.6Behold, it is written before Me; I will not be silent until I have recompensed into their bosom,7their sins and the sins of their fathers, says Yahuah, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached Me on the hills; I will recompense their works into their bosom.8Thus says Yahuah: As a grape-stone shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for the sake of him that serves Me, for his sake I will not destroy them all.9And I will lead forth the seed that came of Ya'akov and of Yehudah, and they shall inherit My holy mountain; and Mine elect and My servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.10And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor (עָכוֹר, Achor, a valley near Yericho) shall be for a resting-place of herds for My people, who have sought Me.11But you are they that have left Me, and forget My holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill up the drink-offering to Fortune.12I will deliver you up to the sword, you shall all fall by slaughter; for I called you, and you hearkened not; I spoke, and you refused to hear; and you did evil in My sight, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.13Therefore thus says Yahuah: Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall hunger; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall thirst; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed;14behold, My servants shall exult with joy, but you shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.15For you shall leave your name for a loathing to My chosen, and Yahuah shall destroy you; but My servants shall be called by a new name,16which shall be blessed on the Eretz; for they shall bless the true Elohim; and they that swear upon the Eretz shall swear by the true Elohim; for they shall forget the former affliction, and it shall not come into their mind.17For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind[68].18But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for behold, I make Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and My people a joy.19And I will rejoice in Yerushalayim, and will be glad in My people; and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.20Neither shall there be there any more a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time; for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed;21and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof.22They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat; for as the days of the Etz Chaim (עֵץ חַיִּים, tree of life) shall be the days of My people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labours.23My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of Elohim, and their offspring with them.24And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?25Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in My holy mountain, says Yahuah.
Footnotes
[67] 65:1–2 — "I became manifest to them that asked not for Me … I stretched forth My hands all day to a disobedient people." Quoted by Sha'ul in Rom 10:20–21, the first verse of the calling of the nations. | [68] 65:17 — "a new heaven and a new earth" (repeated 66:22): cf. 2 Pet 3:13 and Rev 21:1; the joy that follows is echoed in Rev 21:4.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)—Chapter 66
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1Thus says Yahuah: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; what kind of a house will you build Me? And of what kind is to be the place of My rest[69]?2For all these things are Mine, says Yahuah; and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the man that trembles at My words?3But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to Me is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.4I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to Me; I spoke, and they heard not; and they did evil before Me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.5Hear the words of Yahuah, you that tremble at His word; speak, our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of Yahuah may be glorified, and may appear their joy; but they shall be ashamed.6A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahuah rendering recompence to His adversaries.7Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped it, and brought forth a male.8Who has heard such a thing? And who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? Or has even a nation been born at once, that Tziyon has travailed, and brought forth her children?9But I have raised this expectation, yet you have not remembered Me, says Yahuah; behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? says your Elohim.10Rejoice, O Yerushalayim, and all you that love her hold in her a general assembly; rejoice greatly with her, all that now mourn over her;11that you may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that you may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.12For thus says Yahuah: Behold, I turn toward them as a river of Shalom, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Goyim; their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.13As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Yerushalayim.14And you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall thrive like grass; and the hand of Yahuah shall be known to them that fear Him, and He shall threaten the disobedient.15For behold, Yahuah will come as fire, and His chariots as a storm, to render His vengeance with wrath, and His rebuke with a flame of fire.16For with the fire of Yahuah all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with His sword; many shall be slain by Yahuah.17They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says Yahuah.18And I know their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see My glory.19And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations — to Tarshish, and Phud, and Lud (לוּד, Lud), and Meshech (מֶשֶׁך, Meshech; LXX Mosoch), and Tuval (תֻבָל, Tubal; LXX Thobel), and Yavan (יָוָן, Javan / Greece; LXX Hellas), and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard My name, nor seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Goyim.20And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to Yahuah, with horses, and chariots, in litters drawn by mules with awnings, to the holy city Yerushalayim, said Yahuah, as though the children of Yisra'el should bring their sacrifices to Me with psalms into the house of Yahuah.21And I will take of them for priests and Levi'im (לְוִיִּם,Levites), says Yahuah.22For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before Me, says Yahuah, so shall your seed and your name continue.23And it shall come to pass, from chodesh (חֹדֶשׁ,month / new moon) to chodesh, and from Shabbat to Shabbat, that all flesh shall come to worship before Me in Yerushalayim, says Yahuah.24And they shall go forth, and see the carcases of the men that have transgressed against Me; for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh[70].
Footnotes
[69] 66:1–2 — "Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; what house will you build Me?" Quoted by Stephanos before the council in Acts 7:49–50. | [70] 66:24 — "their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched." The closing words of the book; quoted by Yeshua in Mark 9:48.