# bible

book: Song
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<verse num="3">The sentinels who go about in the city found me. "Have you seen the one whom my {heart}<note>Literally "soul"</note> loves?"</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="4">{Scarcely had I passed}<note>Literally "As little that I passed"</note> by them when I found him whom my {heart}<note>Literally "soul"</note> loves. I held him and I would not let him go until I brought him to the house of my mother, into the bedroom chamber of she who conceived me.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="5">I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem},<note>Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem"</note> by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!<note>Or "Do not stir up or awaken the love until it is willing," or "Do not disturb or interrupt <transChange type="added">our</transChange> love-making until it is satisfied"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="6">What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?</verse>


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<verse num="7">Look! <transChange type="added">It is</transChange> Solomon's {portable couch}!<note>Literally "couch" or "portable sedan chair"</note> Sixty mighty men surround {it},<note>Literally "her"</note> the mighty men of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="8">All of them {wield swords};<note>Literally "holders of sword"</note> <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> {trained in warfare},<note>Literally "learnt of war"</note> each with his sword at his thigh <transChange type="added">to guard</transChange> {against terror}<note>Literally "because of the fear"</note> in the night.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="9">{King Solomon}<note>Literally "The king, Solomon"</note> made for himself a sedan chair from the wood of Lebanon.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="10">He made its column of silver, its back<note>Or "its support," "its base," "its headrest," "its litter," "its cover"</note> of gold, its seat of purple; its interior is inlaid <transChange type="added">with</transChange> leather<note>Or "love." The Hebrew term here translated "leather" is spelled the same as the term for "love." Most likely this is an example of a word play that puns on the intentional ambiguity: "Its interior was inlaid with leather//love by the maidens of Jerusalem"</note> by {the maidens of Jerusalem}.<note>Literally "by the daughters of Jerusalem"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="11">Come out and look, {O maidens of Zion},<note>Literally "O daughters of Zion"</note> at {King Solomon},<note>Literally "the king, Solomon"</note> at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the joy of his heart!</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="1">{Oh my}!<note>Literally "Behold!" Or "Look!"</note> You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> beautiful, my beloved! {Oh my}!<note>Literally "Behold!" Or "Look!"</note> You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> beautiful! Your eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doves from behind your veil. Your hair <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="2">Your teeth <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="3">Your lips <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like a thread of crimson, and your mouth <transChange type="added">is</transChange> lovely. Your temple <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like pomegranate from behind your veil.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="4">Your neck <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand {ornaments}<note>Literally "shields"</note> are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="5">Your two breasts <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like two fawns, twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="6">Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of the myrrh, to the hill of the frankincense.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="7">You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> completely beautiful, my beloved! {You are flawless}!<note>Literally "There is no flaw in you!"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="8">Come<note>Or "You must come"</note> with me from Lebanon, my bride! Come with me<note>Or "With me"</note> from Lebanon! Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the dwelling places of the lions, from the mountains of leopard.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="9">You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride! You have stolen <transChange type="added">my</transChange> heart with one <transChange type="added">glance</transChange> from your eyes, with one ornament from your necklaces.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="10">How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="11">Your lips drip nectar, <transChange type="added">my</transChange> bride; honey and milk <transChange type="added">are</transChange> under your lips; the scent of your garments <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the scent of Lebanon.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="12">A garden locked <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sister bride, a spring enclosed,<note>Or "a source locked"</note> a fountain sealed.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="13">Your shoots<note>Or "your channel"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> an orchard of pomegranates with {choice fruit},<note>Literally "fruit of choice things"</note> henna with nard;</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="14">nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon spice with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes with all chief spices.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="16">Awake, O north wind! Come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden! Let its fragrances<note>Or "perfumes"</note> waft forth!<note>Or "His perfumes can waft down"</note> Let my beloved come to his garden, let him eat his choice fruit!</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="1">I have come to my garden, my sister bride, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk! Eat, O friends! {Drink and become drunk <transChange type="added">with</transChange> love}!<note>Or "Drink and become drunk, O lovers!"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="2">I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> asleep but<note>Or "and"</note> my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved knocking!<note>Or "The sound of my beloved knocking!"</note> "Open to me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is full of dew, {my hair drenched from the moist night air}."<note>Literally "my locks with drops of night"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="3">I have taken off my tunic, {must I put it on}?<note>Literally "How will I put it on?"</note> I have bathed my feet, {must I soil them}?<note>Literally "How will I soil them?"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="5">I myself arose to open to my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh upon the handles of the bolt.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="6">I opened myself to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone;<note>Or "my beloved had left; he was gone"</note> my heart sank<note>Or "my soul left"</note> when he turned away.<note>Or "when he was speaking." Translations equivocate on how to translate this verb, since there are two terms in Hebrew spelled identically: "to speak" and "to turn aside" (HALOT 1:210). The context suggests the latter</note> I sought him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="7">The sentinels making rounds in the city found me; they beat me, they wounded me; they took my cloak<note>Or "mantle"</note> away from me-- {those sentinels on the walls}!<note>Literally "the sentinels of the walls"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="8">I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem},<note>Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem"</note> if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? <transChange type="added">Tell him</transChange> that I am {lovesick}!<note>Literally "sick <transChange type="added">with</transChange> love"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="9">{How is your beloved better than another lover},<note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your beloved more than <transChange type="added">another</transChange> beloved ...?"</note> O most beautiful among women? {How is your beloved better than another lover}, <note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your beloved more than <transChange type="added">another</transChange> beloved ...?"</note> that you adjure us thus?</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="10">My beloved <transChange type="added">is</transChange> radiant and {ruddy},<note>Literally "red"</note> distinguished {among}<note>Literally "more than"</note> ten thousand.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="11">His head <transChange type="added">is</transChange> gold, refined gold; his locks <transChange type="added">are</transChange> wavy, black as a raven.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="12">His eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like doves beside springs<note>Or "streams"</note> of water, bathed in milk, {set like mounted jewels}.<note>Literally "dwelling in a setting"</note><note>Or "seated at a <transChange type="added">suitable</transChange> mounting"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="13">His cheeks <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips <transChange type="added">are</transChange> lilies dripping liquid myrrh.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="14">His arms <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {rods}<note>Literally "cylinders"</note><note>Or "rings"</note> of gold {engraved with}<note>Literally "filled with"</note> jewels; his belly<note>Or "body"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> polished ivory covered with sapphires.<note>Or "works of ivory set with sapphire"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="15">His legs <transChange type="added">are</transChange> columns of alabaster,<note>Or "marble"</note> set on bases of gold; his appearance <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like Lebanon, choice as {its cedars}.<note>Literally "the cedars"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="16">{His mouth}<note>Or "his palate"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my beloved; this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my friend, {O young women of Jerusalem}.<note>Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="1">Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned that we may seek him with you?</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="2">My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the garden bed of the spice, to pasture his flock and to gather lilies in the garden.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="3">{I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me};<note>Literally "I for my beloved and he for me"</note> he pastures his flock among the lilies.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="4">You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, {overwhelming as an army with banners}.<note>Literally "terrible as the bannered ones"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="5">Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="6">Your teeth <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like a flock of the ewes that have come up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="7">Your cheeks {behind}<note>Literally "from behind"</note> your veil <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like halves of a pomegranate.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="8">Sixty queens there <transChange type="added">are</transChange>, eighty concubines, and maidens beyond number.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="9">My dove, {she is the one};<note>Literally "she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> one"</note><note>The term "one" functions here as an adjective of quality: "unique, singular, the only one"</note> my perfect, {she is the only one};<note>Literally "she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> one"</note><note>Or "the only daughter of her mother." Although the latter option is permissible, the term is used elsewhere of the heir as the favored child (e.g., Gen 22:2; Prov 4:3). This nuance is supported by the parallel term "favorite"</note> she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {the favorite of}<note>Or "she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the pure one." Since there are two Hebrew terms spelled the same way, some relate this to the adjective that means "pure." Others relate it to the verb that means "to choose, select." The parallelism favors the latter</note><note>Literally "the favorite for"</note> her mother who bore her. Maidens see her and consider her fortunate;<note>Or "call her happy" or "call her blessed" or "bless her"</note> queens and concubines praise her:</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="10">"Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, {bright as the sun},<note>Literally "pure as the glow"</note><note>Or "bright as the heat of the sun." The Hebrew term "glow" poetically refers to the bright rays of the sun (Psa 19:7; Isa 24:23; 30:26)</note> {overwhelming as an army with banners}?"<note>Literally "terrible as the bannered ones"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="11">I went down to the orchard of the walnut trees to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see <transChange type="added">whether</transChange> the vine<transChange type="added">s</transChange> have sprouted, <transChange type="added">whether</transChange> the pomegranates have blossomed.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="12">I did not know my {heart}<note>Literally "soul"</note> set me <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a chariot of my princely people.<note>Or "Before I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib" (KJV, ASV) or "Before I knew it, my desire set me mid the chariots of Ammi-nadib" (JPS) or "Before I was aware, my soul set me over the chariots of my noble people" (NASB) or "Before I realized it, my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people" (NIV) or "... among the chariots of Amminadab" (NIV margin) or "... among the chariots of the people of the prince" (NIV margin)</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="13"><note>Song of Songs 6:13-7:13 in the English Bible is 7:1-14 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Turn, turn,<note>Or "Return, return ...!"</note> O Shulammite!<note>Or "O perfect one," "O peaceful one," "O bride." Many interpreters take this moniker as suggesting the maiden was from the village of Shulem (alternately called Shunem)</note> Turn, turn<note>Or "Return, return ...!"</note> so that we may look upon you! Why do you look upon the Shulammite as <transChange type="added">at</transChange> a dance of the two armies?</verse>


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<verse num="1">How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O royal princess!<note>Or "O daughter of leader"</note> The curves of your {thighs}<note>Literally "thigh"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like {jewels},<note>Literally "ornaments"</note> the work of the hands of a craftsman.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Your navel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {a round wine-mixing bowl}<note>Literally "a bowl of the roundness"</note> that does not lack mixed<note>Or "blended"</note> wine! Your belly <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a heap of wheat encircled with lilies.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="3">Your two breasts <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Your neck <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a tower of ivory; your eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim. Your nose <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the tower of Lebanon {looking out over Damascus}.<note>Literally "looking out over the face of Damascus"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="5">{Your head crowns you like Carmel};<note>Literally "Your head <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on you like the Carmel"</note><note>Because of its height and fertility, Mount Carmel is often associated with royalty</note> the flowing locks of your head <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like {purple tapestry};<note>Literally "the purple"</note> a king is held captive in the tresses!</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="7">{Your stature}<note>Literally "this your height"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the palm tree, and your breasts <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like clusters.</verse>


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<verse num="8">I say, "I will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters." Let your breasts <transChange type="added">be pleasing</transChange> like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="9">Your palate <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.<note>Or "over lips of sleepers." One Hebrew textual tradition preserves the reading "lips of those who sleep" (MT). Another Hebrew tradition reads "my lips and my teeth," as reflected by the ancient versions (LXX, Latin Vulgate, Aramaic Targum, Syriac Peshitta). The latter is adopted here since it makes the most sense poetically</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="10">{I belong to my beloved},<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> for my beloved"</note> {and he desires me}!<note>Literally "and his desire <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for me." Or "and his desire belongs to me"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="11">Come, my beloved, let us {go out to the countryside};<note>Literally "go forth into the field"</note> let us spend the night<note>Or "lodge"</note> in the villages.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="12">Let us rise early <transChange type="added">to go</transChange><note>Or "let us go"</note> to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded,<note>Or "sprouted"</note> <transChange type="added">whether</transChange> the grape blossom has opened, and <transChange type="added">whether</transChange> the pomegranates {are in bloom};<note>Literally "have bloomed"</note> there I will give my love to you.</verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="13">The mandrakes give <transChange type="added">off their</transChange> fragrance, and {over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit};<note>Or "over our doorways all choice <transChange type="added">things</transChange>"</note> both {fresh and dried fruit I have stored up}<note>Literally "new also old I have laid up"</note> for you, O my beloved.</verse>


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<verse num="1">{How I wish that you were my little brother},<note>Literally "O that he would give you like a brother to me"</note><note>The Hebrew construction (which is somewhat misleading if rendered in a woodenly literal sense) is an idiom expressing one's fanciful wish</note> <transChange type="added">who</transChange> nursed {upon my mother's breasts}!<note>Literally "at the breast of my mother"</note> <transChange type="added">If</transChange> {I met you outside},<note>Literally "I will find you in the street"</note> I would kiss you, {and no one would despise me}!<note>Literally "also they would not despise me"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">{I would surely bring you}<note>Literally "I would lead you and I would bring you"</note><note>The combination of the two verbs creates a hendiadys which may be rendered more cogently as "I would surely bring you ..."</note> to the house of my mother, {who would surely teach me};<note>Literally "she will teach me"</note> {I would give you spiced wine to drink},<note>Literally "I would give you to drink from the wine of the spice"</note> the {sweet wine}<note>Or "juice"</note> of my pomegranates.<note>The traditional Hebrew reads the singular "my pomegranate." However, the plural reading "my pomegranates" is attested in numerous medieval Hebrew manuscripts and is reflected in the ancient versions (Greek Septuagint, Aramaic Targum, Syriac Peshitta). The latter makes the most sense in this context as a euphemistic description of the maiden's delights</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">His left <transChange type="added">hand is</transChange> under my head, and his right <transChange type="added">hand</transChange> embraces<note>Or "embraced"</note> me.</verse>


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<verse num="4">I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem},<note>Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem"</note> do not<note>Or "Why must you ... before it pleases?"</note> arouse or awaken love until it pleases!<note>Or "Do not stir up or awaken the love until it is willing," or "Do not disturb or interrupt <transChange type="added">our</transChange> lovemaking until it is satisfied"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother {conceived you};<note>Literally "was in labor with you"</note> there she who was in labor gave birth to you.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> strong as death; passion <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fierce as Sheol; its flashes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> flashes of fire; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> a blazing flame.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.<note>Or "and rivers cannot engulf it"</note> If a man were to give all the wealth of his house {for love},<note>Literally "in the love"</note> he would be utterly scorned.<note>Literally "they will utterly scorn him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">{We have a little sister},<note>Literally "a little sister for us"</note> {and she does not yet have any breasts}.<note>Literally "and there is no breast for her"</note> What should we do for our sister {on the day when she is betrothed}?<note>Literally "on the day when it is spoken of her"</note><note>Or "on the day when she is spoken for"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">If she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a wall, {we will adorn her with a turret of silver};<note>Literally "we will build upon her a camp of silver"</note><note>The term translated "turret" refers to the decorative parapet adorning the top of a building. This image is likely figurative for a silver tiara set upon the head</note> but if she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar.<note>Or "we will enclose her"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a wall, and my breasts <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like the towers, {so <transChange type="added">my betrothed</transChange> viewed me with great delight}.<note>Literally "then I was in his eyes as <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> finds peace"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">{Solomon had a vineyard}<note>Literally "A vineyard was for Solomon"</note> at Baal-hamon; {he entrusted his vineyard to the keepers};<note>Literally "he gave the vineyard to the keepers"</note> {people paid a thousand silver <transChange type="added">pieces</transChange> for its fruit}.<note>Literally "each one brought a thousand silver <transChange type="added">pieces</transChange> for his fruit"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">{My own "vineyard" belongs to me};<note>Literally "My vineyard that for me before my face"</note> the "thousand" are for you, O Solomon, {and "two hundred" for those who tend its fruit}.<note>Literally "and two hundred for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> keepers <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his fruit"</note></verse>


book: Song
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<verse num="13">O you who dwell in the garden, <transChange type="added">my</transChange> companions are listening to your voice. Let me hear <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!</verse>


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<verse num="14">Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle}<note>Literally "and be like for you to a gazelle"</note> or {a young stag}<note>Literally "to the fawn of the stag"</note> upon {the perfumed mountains}!<note>Literally "the mountains of spices"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Hezekiah, kings of Judah. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: "I reared children and I brought <transChange type="added">them</transChange> up, but they rebelled against me.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy <transChange type="added">with</transChange> iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged <transChange type="added">and gone</transChange> backward.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue <transChange type="added">in</transChange> rebellion. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> whole of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sick, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> whole of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> faint.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">From the sole of the foot and up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">Your country <transChange type="added">is</transChange> desolate, your cities <transChange type="added">are</transChange> burned <transChange type="added">with</transChange> fire; <transChange type="added">As for</transChange> your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> desolate, like devastation <transChange type="added">by</transChange> foreigners.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged.<note>Or "preserved"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors,<note>Hebrew "survivor"</note> we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Hear the word of Yahweh, rulers of Sodom! Listen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">What <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough <transChange type="added">of</transChange> burnt offerings of rams and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fat <transChange type="added">of</transChange> fattened animals and I do not delight in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">When you come to appear before me, who asked for this from your hand: you trampling my courts?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">You must not {continue}<note>Literally "increase" or "add to"</note> to bring offerings<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> of futility, incense--it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> calling of a convocation-- I cannot endure iniquity with <transChange type="added">solemn</transChange> assembly.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> burden, I am not able to bear <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers,<note>Hebrew "prayer"</note> I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Learn to do good! Seek justice! Rescue <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressed! Defend <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan! Plead for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">"Come now, and let us argue," says Yahweh. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">If you are willing and you are obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">But if you refuse and you rebel, you shall be devoured <transChange type="added">by the</transChange> sword.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">Your silver has become <transChange type="added">as</transChange> dross; Your wine <transChange type="added">is</transChange> diluted with waters.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">Your princes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> legal dispute of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow does not come before them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your tin.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">And I will restore your judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. After this {you will be called}<note>Literally "it will be called for you"</note> the city of righteousness, faithful city.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="27">Zion will be redeemed by justice, and those of her who repent, by righteousness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="28">But <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destruction <transChange type="added">of</transChange> rebels and sinners <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> together, and those who forsake Yahweh will perish.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="29">For you<note>Literally "they," but a few manuscripts read "you," which fits the context better</note> will be ashamed of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oaks <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="30">For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="31">And the strong <transChange type="added">man</transChange> shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench <transChange type="added">them</transChange>."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And it shall happen in the future of the days the mountain of the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of Yahweh <transChange type="added">shall</transChange> be established; it will be among the highest<note>Literally "head"</note> of the mountains, and it shall be raised from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills. All <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the nations shall travel to him;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">many peoples shall come. And they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of the God of Jacob, and may he teach us part of his ways, and let us walk in his paths." For instruction shall go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">He shall judge between the nations and he shall arbitrate for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. A nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation, and they shall not learn war again.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full<note>Possibly "of diviners" was part of the original text here</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east, and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> soothsayers like the Philistines, and {they make alliances}<note>Literally "they clap <transChange type="added">hands</transChange>"</note> with the offspring of foreigners.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And its land is filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> silver and gold, and there is no end to its treasures; and its land is filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> horses, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no end to its chariots.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Its land is filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> idols; they bow down to the work of their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> hands, to what they made <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> fingers.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">The {haughty eyes}<note>Literally "eyes of the haughtiness"</note> of humanity will<note>The Hebrew is singular</note> be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">For <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> proud and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble,<note>Or "it will be humbled"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">and against all the lofty and lifted up cedars of Lebanon, and against all the large trees of Bashan,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">and against every kind of high tower, and against every kind of fortified wall,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">and they will enter into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> caves of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rocks and into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ground from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty {when he rises}<note>Literally "in his rising"</note> to terrify the earth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents<note>Or "moles"</note> and to the bats--</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">to enter into the crevices of the rocks and into the clefts of the crags from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty, {when he rises}<note>Literally "in his rising"</note> to terrify the earth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">Turn away from humanity, who <transChange type="added">has</transChange> breath in its nostrils,<note>Hebrew "nostril"</note> for by<note>Or "in"</note> what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> it esteemed?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> removing {every source of support}<note>Literally "supplies and supplies"</note> from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> supplies of bread and all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> supplies of water,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And the people will be oppressed {by each other}<note>Literally "man by man"</note> and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Indeed, a man will seize his brother <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of his father: "{You have a cloak};<note>Literally "a cloak for you"</note> you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> under your hand!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">He will lift up <transChange type="added">his voice</transChange> on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me <transChange type="added">the</transChange> leader of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds <transChange type="added">are</transChange> against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Tell <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent<note>Singular</note> that <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Woe to the wicked!<note>Singular</note> <transChange type="added">It is</transChange> bad! For what is done <transChange type="added">by</transChange> his hands will be done to him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading <transChange type="added">you</transChange>, and they confuse the course of your paths.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your houses!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">{Why}<note>Literally "What to you"</note> do you crush my people and grind <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor?"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">And Yahweh said: "Because<note>There are two Hebrew words for "because" here</note> the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk <transChange type="added">with</transChange> outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances <transChange type="added">with their</transChange> eyes, {mincing along as they go},<note>Literally "they go walking and mincing along"</note> and {with their feet they rattle their bangles},<note>Literally "they tinkle with their feet"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">the Lord will make the heads<note>Hebrew "head"</note> of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the {perfume boxes}<note>Literally "houses of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breath"</note> and the amulets,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">And this shall happen: There will be a stench instead of perfume, and a rope instead of a sash, and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo, and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe, branding instead of beauty.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">And her<note>That is, Jerusalem's</note> gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">And seven women shall grasp at one man on that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and we will wear our own clothing; only {let us be called by your name}!<note>Literally "let your name be called upon us"</note> Take away our disgrace!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">On that day the branch of Yahweh shall become beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land <transChange type="added">shall become the</transChange> pride and glory of the survivors<note>Hebrew "survivor"</note> of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And this shall happen: He who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone written for life in Jerusalem,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Then Yahweh will create over all of the site<note>Or "place"</note> of {Mount Zion}<note>Literally "the mountain of Zion"</note> and over her assembly a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of flaming fire <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night. Indeed, over all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> glory <transChange type="added">there will be</transChange> a canopy,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">and it will be a shelter for shade from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heat by day, and a refuge and a hiding place from rainstorm and from rain.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: {My beloved had a vineyard}<note>Literally "A vineyard was for my beloved"</note> on {a fertile hill}.<note>Literally "a horn of a son of olive oil." The Hebrew for horn, qeren, sounds like the Hebrew for vineyard, kerem</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> choice vines,<note>Hebrew "vine"</note> and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited for <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to yield grapes-- but it yielded wild grapes.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">What more <transChange type="added">was there</transChange> to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why did I hope for <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown <transChange type="added">with</transChange> briers<note>Hebrew "brier"</note> and thornbushes.<note>Hebrew "thornbush"</note> And concerning the clouds, I will command {them not to send}<note>Literally "from sending"</note> rain down upon it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the house of Israel, and the man<note>Or "people"</note> of Judah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the plantation of his delight. <transChange type="added">And</transChange> he waited for justice,<note>The Hebrew word, mishpat, sounds like mishpakh in the next line</note> but look! Bloodshed!<note>The Hebrew word, mishpakh, sounds like mishpat in the previous line</note> For righteousness,<note>The Hebrew word, tsedaqah, sounds like tsa`aqah in the next line</note> but look! A cry of distress!<note>The Hebrew word, tsa`aqah, sounds like tsedaqah in the previous line</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Ah! Those who {join}<note>Literally "touch"</note> house with house, they join field together with field until {there is no place}<note>Literally "an end of place"</note> and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,<note>A bath is a liquid measure</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seed of a homer will yield an ephah.<note>An ephah is a dry measure equal to one-tenth of a homer</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">there</transChange> will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine <transChange type="added">at</transChange> their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds<note>Hebrew "deed"</note> of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> their<note>Hebrew "its"</note> nobles<note>Hebrew "noble"</note> <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> men of hunger, and their<note>Hebrew "its"</note> multitude <transChange type="added">is</transChange> parched <transChange type="added">with</transChange> thirst.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her<note>That is, Jerusalem's</note> nobles<note>Hebrew "noble"</note> will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">And humankind is bowed down, and man is brought low, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> haughty are humiliated.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice, and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">And then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lambs will graze as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> their pasture, and {fatlings, kids<note>Following the Septuagint, which reads the Hebrew grym (resident aliens) as gdym (young goats/sheep)</note> will eat among the sites of ruins.}<note>Literally "and ruins, fatlings, resident aliens, will eat"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">those who say, "Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">Ah! <transChange type="added">Those who are</transChange> wise in their own eyes and have understanding {in their view}!<note>Literally "before their faces"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove <transChange type="added">the</transChange> justice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent from him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> flame, so their root will become like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stench, and their blossom will go up like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">Therefore {Yahweh's wrath was kindled}<note>Literally "the anger of Yahweh became hot"</note> against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them<note>Hebrew "it"</note> and struck them,<note>Hebrew "it"</note> and the mountains quaked, and their corpses<note>Hebrew "corpse"</note> were like refuse in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> middle of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">And he will raise a signal for a nation<note>The Hebrew is plural, but the following verses refer to the nation as singular</note> from afar, and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth. And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="27">None <transChange type="added">is</transChange> weary, and none among him stumbles; none slumbers and none sleeps. And no loincloth on his waist is opened, and no thong of his sandals is drawn away.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="28">Whose arrows are sharp, and all of his bows are bent. The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint, and his wheels like the storm wind.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="29">His roaring <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the lion, and he roars like young lions. And he growls and seizes his prey, and he carries <transChange type="added">it</transChange> off, and not one can rescue <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="30">And he will roar over him on that day like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roaring of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light grows dark with its<note>Presumably the land's</note> clouds.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe <transChange type="added">was</transChange> filling the temple.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Seraphs <transChange type="added">were</transChange> standing above him. {Each had six wings}:<note>Literally "six wings six wings for one"</note> with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the house<note>Or "temple"</note> was filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> smoke. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed!<note>Or "silenced"</note> For I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a man {of unclean lips},<note>Literally "unclean of lips"</note> and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> living among<note>With an emphatic sense: "in the very heart and midst of"</note> a people {of unclean lips},<note>Literally "unclean of lips"</note> for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!" </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Then I heard <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of the Lord saying, </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend <transChange type="added">with</transChange> its mind and turn back, and it may be healed <transChange type="added">for</transChange> him."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">and Yahweh sends the people far away, and the abandonment is great in the midst of the land.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">And {even if only a tenth part remain},<note>Literally "still in her a tenth"</note> {again she will be destroyed}<note>Literally "and she will again and she will be to burn"</note> like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> terebinth or like <transChange type="added">an</transChange> oak, which although felled, a tree stump <transChange type="added">remains</transChange> in them. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> seed of holiness <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> her tree stump."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">This happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah. Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went<note>The Hebrew is singular</note> up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem for warfare against it,<note>Literally "her"</note> but he was not able to fight against it.<note>Literally "her"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">When it was reported to the house of David, saying "Aram stands by Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> forest because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> highway of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> washer's field.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And you must say to him, 'Take heed and be quiet! You must not fear, and your heart must not be faint because of these two stumps of smoldering firebrands, {because of the fierce anger of}<note>Literally "because of the fierceness of the anger of"</note> Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">Because Aram has plotted evil against you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">"Let us go up against Judah and let us tear her apart, {and let us lay it open and so bring it unto ourselves},<note>Literally "and let us break through her to us"</note> and let us install the son of Tabeel <transChange type="added">as</transChange> king in her midst."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">For the head of Aram <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Damascus, and the head of Damascus <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And the head of Ephraim <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Samaria, and the head of Samaria <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure." '" </verse>


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<verse num="11">"Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make <transChange type="added">it</transChange> deep <transChange type="added">as</transChange> Sheol or make <transChange type="added">it</transChange> high as above."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">Then he said, "Hear, house of David! <transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">Therefore the Lord himself will give you<note>The Hebrew is plural</note> a sign. Look! the virgin<note>Or "young woman"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with child and she is about to give birth <transChange type="added">to</transChange> a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.'</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">He shall eat curds and honey until he knows to reject the evil and to choose the good.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}<note>Literally "the land which you dread will be abandoned because of the face of her two kings"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="17">"Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> days that have not come since <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria."</verse>


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<verse num="18">And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land of Assyria.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And all of them will come and settle in the rivers of the cliffs and in the clefts of the rocks and on all of the thornbushes and watering places.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond <transChange type="added">the</transChange> river--with the king of Assyria--and it will even take off the beard.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> herd and two sheep alive.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="22">And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="23">And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines<note>Hebrew "vine"</note> for a thousand silver <transChange type="added">pieces</transChange> will become briers,<note>Hebrew "brier"</note> and it will be thornbushes.<note>Hebrew "thornbush"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers<note>Hebrew "brier"</note> and thornbushes.<note>Hebrew "thornbush"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> fear of briers<note>Hebrew "brier"</note> and thornbushes.<note>Hebrew "thornbush"</note> And it will become like pastureland <transChange type="added">for</transChange> cattle and overtrodden land <transChange type="added">for</transChange> sheep. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">Then Yahweh said to me, "Take yourself a large tablet and write on it with a common stylus pen: Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">And I approached the prophetess, and she conceived, and she gave birth to a son. And Yahweh said to me, "Call his name Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' <transChange type="added">one</transChange> will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria." </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">"Because this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices <transChange type="added">over</transChange> Rezin and the son of Remaliah,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">therefore look! The Lord <transChange type="added">is</transChange> bringing up the waters of the great and mighty river against them, the king of Assyria and all his glory. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And he will sweep into Judah; he will overflow and he will flood up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> neck. He will reach, and {he will spread his wings out over your entire land},<note>Literally "the outspreading of his wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land"</note> God with us."</verse>


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<verse num="9">Be broken, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> peoples, and be dismayed. And listen, all distant <transChange type="added">parts of the</transChange> earth; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">{Make a plan},<note>Literally "Plan counsel"</note> but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!</verse>


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<verse num="11">For Yahweh said this to me {while his hand weighed heavily on me},<note>Literally "with the strength of the hand"</note> and he {warned me not to walk}<note>Literally "instructed me from walking"</note> in the way of this people, saying,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">"You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and you must not {share its fear},<note>Literally "fear its fear"</note> and you must not be in dread.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy, and he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your<note>The Hebrew is plural</note> fear, and he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your dread.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel, like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">And many shall stumble among them, and they shall fall and they shall be broken, and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">Bind up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> testimony; seal <transChange type="added">the</transChange> teaching among my disciples.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">Now if they tell you, "Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they <transChange type="added">who</transChange> speak like this have no dawn}.<note>Literally "if not, they say like this word that there is no dawn for him," which could also mean "if not, let them say a word like this: that there is no dawn for him"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="21">And it<note>That is, the nation</note> will pass through it<note>That is, the land</note> distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods,<note>Or "God"</note> and it will face upwar</verse>


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<verse num="22">or look to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth. But look! Distress and darkness, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gloom of affliction! And <transChange type="added">it will be</transChange> thrust <transChange type="added">into</transChange> darkness! </verse>


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<verse num="1"><note>Isaiah 9:1-21 in the English Bible is 8:23-9:20 in the Hebrew Bible</note> {But there will be no gloom for those who were in distress}.<note>Literally "Indeed there is no gloom for the one to whom there was anxiety for her"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="2">The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.</verse>


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<verse num="3">You have made the nation numerous; you have not<note>The written text (Kethib) is "not," but the reading tradition (Qere) is "for it"</note> made the joy great. They rejoice in your presence as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> joy at the harvest, as they rejoice when they divide plunder.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">For you have shattered the yoke of its burden and the stick of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, on<note>Hebrew "like"; the Hebrew letters for "like" and "on" look alike</note> the day of Midian.</verse>


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<verse num="5">For every boot {that marches and shakes the earth}<note>Literally "marching with shaking," which might mean "marching <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with shaking"</note> and garment rolled in blood {will}<note>Literally "and it will"</note> be for burning--fire fuel.</verse>


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<verse num="6">For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.</verse>


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<verse num="7">{His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end}<note>Literally "There is no end to the increase of the dominion and to peace"</note> on<note>Or "for"</note> the throne of David and over<note>Or "for"</note> his kingdom, to establish it<note>That is, the kingdom</note> and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">"<transChange type="added">The</transChange> bricks have fallen, but we will build <transChange type="added">with</transChange> dressed stone. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace <transChange type="added">them with</transChange> cedars."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">So Yahweh strengthened {the adversaries of Rezin}<note>Or "his adversaries" if a copyist added "of Rezin" in error</note> against him, and he provoked his enemies--</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">Aram from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east and Philistines<note>Hebrew "Philistine"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west-- and they devoured Israel with the whole mouth. He has not turned away his anger in all of this, and his hand is still stretched out.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">And the people did not turn to the one who struck it,<note>That is, the people</note> and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> one day.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">Elders<note>Hebrew "Elder"</note> and {the respectable}<note>Literally "one lifted up of face"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the head, and prophets<note>Hebrew "prophet"</note> who teach lies<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the tail.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">And the leaders of this people were misleading <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and those who were led <transChange type="added">were</transChange> confused.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone <transChange type="added">was</transChange> godless and an evildoer, and every mouth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> stretched out.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a column of smoke.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. {People had no compassion toward each other}.<note>Literally "A man does not have compassion toward his brother"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">They devoured on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> right but <transChange type="added">still</transChange> were hungry and devoured on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> left but they were not satisfied. Each one devoured the flesh of his arm,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="21">Manasseh <transChange type="added">devoured</transChange> Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> against Judah. In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> stretched out.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">to guide <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy away from legal claims,<note>Hebrew "claim"</note> and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">And what will you do at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of punishment, and at calamity? It comes from afar! To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,</verse>


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<verse num="4">{save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain}?<note>Literally "except he will bow down under a prisoner and under slain they will fall"; "under" could also mean "in the place of"</note> In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> stretched out.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> a trampling place, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clay of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets.</verse>


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<verse num="7">But he does not think this,<note>Or "so"</note> and his heart does not plan this. For <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">For he says, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> not my commanders altogether kings?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not Calno like Carchemish? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not Hamath like Arpad? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not Samaria like Damascus?</verse>


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<verse num="10">As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols<note>Hebrew "idol"</note> --and their images were {greater than those of}<note>Literally "from"</note> Jerusalem and Samaria--</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against {Mount Zion}<note>Literally "the mountain of Zion"</note> and Jerusalem, "I will punish the {arrogance}<note>Literally "fruit of the greatness of the heart"</note> of the king of Assyria and {his haughtiness}."<note>Literally "the pride of the height of his eyes"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">And my hand has found, like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who moves it to and fro? {As if a rod should move the one who lifts it}!<note>Literally "As a rod waving even the one who lifts it up"</note> {As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood}!<note>Literally "As a staff lifting up not wood"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> burning of fire will burn under his glory.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns<note>Hebrew "thorn"</note> and briers<note>Hebrew "brier"</note> in one day.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard {completely},<note>Literally "from soul and to body"</note> and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">And the rest of the trees<note>Hebrew "tree"</note> of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them <transChange type="added">down</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">And this shall happen: on that day, the remnant of Israel and the survivors<note>Hebrew "survivor"</note> of the house of Jacob will not continue to lean on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who struck it but will lean on Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, in truth.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="21">A remnant will return-- the remnant of Jacob--to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty God.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="22">For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, <transChange type="added">only</transChange> a remnant of it will return. Annihilation <transChange type="added">is</transChange> determined, overflowing <transChange type="added">with</transChange> righteousness.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="23">For the Lord Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25"><transChange type="added">My</transChange> indignation will come to an end {in just a very little while},<note>Literally "for still a little a trifle"</note> and my anger <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> directed to their destruction."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="26">And Yahweh of hosts is going to swing a whip against him, as when Midian was defeated at the rock of Oreb; and his staff <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> over the sea, and he will lift him up {as he did in Egypt}.<note>Literally "in the way of Egypt"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="28">He has come to Aiath, he has passed through Migron; at Micmash he deposited his baggage.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="29">They crossed over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pass; Geba <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a place of overnight lodging for us. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="30">Daughter of Gallim, cry out <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your voice; Laishah, listen! {Anathoth is poor}.<note>Or with different vocalization, "Answer her, Anathoth!" which fits the parallelism better</note></verse>


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<verse num="32">{This day}<note>Literally "Yet today"</note> {taking a stand}<note>Literally "to stand"</note> at Nob, he will shake his fist <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the mountain of the daughter<note>Following the reading tradition (Qere); the consonantal text has "house"</note> of Zion, <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the hill of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="33">Look! The Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to lop off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> branches<note>Hebrew "branch"</note> with great power, and {the towering trees}<note>Literally "the haughty of the height"</note> will be felled, and the {tall trees}<note>Literally "height"</note> will be brought low.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="34">And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with the axe, and Lebanon will fall by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty <transChange type="added">one</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">And a shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from its roots will bear fruit.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him-- a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">And his {breath}<note>Hebrew "smelling," perhaps metaphorically as "delight" as in Amos 5:14; perhaps this line was accidentally copied twice from the preceding line</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the fear of Yahweh. And he shall judge not by his eyesight, and he shall rebuke not by {what he hears with}<note>Literally "the rumors of"</note> his ears.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">But he shall judge <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth with rectitude. And he shall strike <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked person with the breath of his lips.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">And righteousness shall be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his loins.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">And a wolf shall {stay}<note>Literally "dwell as an alien"</note> with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together {as a small boy leads}<note>Literally "and a small boy leading"</note> them.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And {an infant}<note>Literally "one nursing"</note> shall play over a serpent's hole, and {a toddler}<note>Literally "one who is weaned"</note> shall put his hand on a viper's hole.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">They will not injure and they will not destroy on all of my {holy mountain},<note>Literally "mountain of holiness"</note> for the earth will be full <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> knowledge <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">and he will raise a signal for the nations. And he will gather the outcasts of Israel, and he will gather the scattered ones of Judah together from the four {corners}<note>Literally "wings"</note> of the earth.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and the enemies of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not be jealous <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Judah, and Judah shall not be an enemy <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Ephraim.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">But they shall {swoop}<note>Literally "fly"</note> upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistine shoulder,<note>That is, the hill country west of Judah</note> {westward}.<note>Literally "sea"</note> Together they shall plunder <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sons of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east. Edom and Moab {will be under their command},<note>Literally "the stretching of their hand"</note> and the sons of Ammon <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> their subjugated people.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">And Yahweh will divide<note>Or "utterly destroy"</note> the tongue<note>Probably the "gulf"</note> of the sea of Egypt,<note>That is, the Red Sea</note> and he will wave his hand over the river<note>That is, the Euphrates River</note> with his scorching wind; and he will strike it into seven streams, and he will {make it passable by foot}.<note>Literally "cause to walk with the sandal"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">So there shall be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people that remains, as there was for Israel {when}<note>Literally "in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day"</note> it went up from the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">Look! God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Sing praises <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Yahweh, for he has done a glorious thing; this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> known in all the earth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great in your midst."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up <transChange type="added">your</transChange> voice to them; wave <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand and may they enter <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gateways of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> noblemen.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the {ones who exalt over}<note>Literally "exultant of"</note> my majesty.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">A sound, a noise <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the mountains, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> likeness <transChange type="added">of</transChange> many people! A sound of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roar of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mustering an army for battle.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">They are</transChange> coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy {the whole earth}.<note>Literally "all of the land/earth"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Wail, for the day of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!<note>Often translated "the Almighty"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize <transChange type="added">them</transChange>; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. {They will stare at one another},<note>Literally "A man will stare at his neighbor"</note> {their faces flushing}.<note>Literally "faces of flames"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Look! The day of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming, cruel and wrath and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> burning <transChange type="added">of</transChange> anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moon will not cause its light to shine.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">And I will punish <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world <transChange type="added">for its</transChange> evil and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked <transChange type="added">for</transChange> their iniquity. And I will put an end to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pride of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arrogant, and I will bring <transChange type="added">the</transChange> haughtiness of tyrants low.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Therefore I will make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens tremble, and the earth will quake from its place because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day his anger burns.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.<note>The reading tradition (Qere) softens this to "slept with"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">And <transChange type="added">their</transChange> bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fruit of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">And Babylon, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like {when God overthrew}<note>Literally "the overthrow by God of"</note> Sodom and Gomorrah. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in {forever};<note>Literally "until generation and generation"</note> and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow <transChange type="added">their flocks</transChange> to lie down there.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full <transChange type="added">of</transChange> howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches<note>Hebrew "ostrich"</note> will live there, and goats will dance there.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time {is coming soon},<note>Literally "close to come"</note> and its days will not be prolonged.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">But Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and he will again choose Israel and set them on their land, and the immigrant will join himself to them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will take possession of them<note>That is, the nations</note> in the land of Yahweh as slaves and female slaves.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which {you had to perform},<note>Literally "was worked by you"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressor has ceased! <transChange type="added">his</transChange> insolence<note>The meaning of the word is uncertain; others translate it as "fury," "hostility," or even "golden city"</note> has ceased.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Yahweh has broken <transChange type="added">the</transChange> staff of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> scepter of rulers,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">that struck <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing, that ruled <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations in anger {with unrestrained persecution}.<note>Literally "persecution without withholding"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">All of the earth rests <transChange type="added">and</transChange> is quiet; they break forth <transChange type="added">into</transChange> singing.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Even <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since you were laid down, no <transChange type="added">wood</transChange> cutter comes up against us.'</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet {you when you come};<note>Literally "your entrance"</note> it arouses <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dead spirits for you, all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> leaders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth. It raises all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kings of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations from their thrones.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!'</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Your pride is brought down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Sheol, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the sound of your harps; maggots<note>Hebrew "maggot"</note> are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.<note>Hebrew "worm"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">I will ascend to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> high places of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds,<note>Hebrew "cloud"</note> I will make myself like the Most High.'</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">But you are brought down to Sheol, to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> depths of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: '<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">who made <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world like the desert and destroyed its cities, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> would not let his prisoners go home?'</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">All <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kings of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations, all of them, lie in glory, each one in his house.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">But <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, you are thrown away from your grave, like an abhorrent shoot, clothed with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> slain, those pierced <transChange type="added">by the</transChange> sword, those who go down to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stones of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit, like a corpse that is trodden down.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the sin of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> Let them not rise and take possession of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth or fill up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world <transChange type="added">with</transChange> cities."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">"And I will make her a possession of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep her away with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> broom of destruction,"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">to break Assyria in my land, and I will trample him down on my mountains; and he shall remove his yoke from them, and he shall remove his burden from his<note>That is, their</note> shoulders."<note>Hebrew "shoulder"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth; and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the hand that is stretched out over all of the nations.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="27">For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate <transChange type="added">it</transChange>? And his hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> stretched out, and who will turn it back?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="29">You must not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for a viper will come forth from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> root of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> snake, and its fruit <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> a flying serpent.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="30">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor will graze, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy will lie down in security; but I will cause your root to die in famine, and it will kill your remnant.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="31">Wail, gate! Cry, city! Melt,<note>With fear or despair</note> Philistia, all of you! For smoke <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="32">And what will one answer <transChange type="added">the</transChange> messengers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nation? </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">It has gone up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house,<note>Or "temple"</note> and Dibon <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the high places for weeping over Nebo, and Moab wails over Medeba. {Every head is bald},<note>Literally "On all its heads baldness"</note> every beard <transChange type="added">is</transChange> shaved.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">They gird themselves <transChange type="added">with</transChange> sackcloth in its streets; on its roofs and public squares everyone wails, going down in weeping.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">And Heshbon and Elealeh cry<note>The Hebrew is singular</note> out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed ones of Moab cry out; its soul quivers<note>The Hebrew words for "cry out" and "quiver" are similar</note> for him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives <transChange type="added">flee</transChange> up to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the ascent of Luhith it goes up it with weeping; for <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grass has withered, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vegetation has vanished, <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no greenness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Therefore they carry <transChange type="added">the</transChange> abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">For <transChange type="added">a</transChange> cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab, her wailing <transChange type="added">is heard</transChange> as far as Eglaim, and her wailing <transChange type="added">as far as</transChange> Beer Elim.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">For the waters of Dimon<note>One of the Dead Sea Scrolls reads "Dibon" here</note> are full <transChange type="added">of</transChange> blood; but I will place added things upon Dimon: a lion for the survivors<note>Hebrew "survivor"</note> of Moab and for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> remnant of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Send a ram<note>Possibly "rams" if a scribe accidentally omitted the Hebrew plural ending because the next word begins with that same letter</note> <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> ruler <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> land, from Sela <transChange type="added">across the</transChange> desert to the mountain of {daughter Zion}.<note>Literally "the daughter of Zion"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">"Bring counsel, make a decision; make your shade like the night in the middle of noonday. Hide <transChange type="added">the</transChange> outcasts; you must not betray the fugitive.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Let my outcasts <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> presence of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destroyer." When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {one who tramples has}<note>Literally "one who tramples have," with mismatched singular and plural</note> disappeared from the land,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">then a throne shall be established in steadfast love, and one shall sit on it in faithfulness, in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and zealous for righteousness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">We have heard <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the pride of Moab--exceedingly proud-- <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his arrogance, pride, and insolence; {his boasting is not true}.<note>Literally "not so his boasting"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Therefore Moab wails; all of it wails for Moab, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you moan, {utterly devastated}.<note>Literally "surely destroyed"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah; rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils, they reached up to Jazer, they wandered <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> desert; her shoots spread abroad, they crossed over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the vine of Sibmah. I drench you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> my tears,<note>Hebrew "tear"</note> Heshbon and Elealeh, for a jubilant shout has fallen over your summer fruit and harvest.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">And joy and gladness are<note>The Hebrew is singular</note> taken away from the fruitful land, and in the vineyards no one exults, no one shouts for joy; no treader treads wine in the presses; I have put to an end to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> jubilant shout.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Therefore my {heart moans}<note>Literally "intestines moan,"; in Hebrew, the "intestines" are the seat of the emotions, which would correspond to the "heart" in English</note> like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> harp for Moab and my inner parts for Kir-heres.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab {in the past}.<note>Literally "from then"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "In three years, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will become contemptible, with all of the great multitude, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> remnant <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> a few, small, not strong. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">The cities of Aroer will be deserted;<note>These words in Hebrew (and "flocks" in the next line) all begin with the same letter, Ayin</note> they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and {no one will frighten}<note>Literally "there is not one who frightens"</note> <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And it shall be as {when a reaper gathers}<note>Literally "a gathering of a reaper of"</note> standing grain and he reaps grain <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his arm, and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And gleanings will be left over in it, as {when an olive tree is beaten},<note>Literally "beating of an olive tree"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">On that day, mankind will look to its maker, and its eyes will look to the holy one of Israel;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">it will not look to the altars, the work of its hands, and it will not see what its fingers made and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">On that day, {its fortified cities}<note>Literally "the cities of his fortress"</note> will be like the {abandonment of the wooded place and the summit},<note>Perhaps this difficult phrase originally read "abandonment of the wooded heights of the Amorites"</note> which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge; therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, and you {plant}<note>Literally "plant it"</note> a vine of a foreigner.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">On your planting day you make <transChange type="added">them</transChange> grow, and in the morning <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your sowing you bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> into bloom, <transChange type="added">yet</transChange> the harvest will flee<note>Reading the same consonants as a verb, nad, rather than the noun ned, which would mean "a heap <transChange type="added">of</transChange><transChange type="added">the</transChange> harvest"</note> in a day <transChange type="added">of</transChange> sickness and incurable pain.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Ah! <transChange type="added">The</transChange> noise of many peoples, they make a noise like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> noise of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas! And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roar of nations, they roar like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roar of mighty waters!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> nations roar like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roar of many waters, but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away. And they are chased like chaff of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind and like tumbleweed before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> storm.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">At <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of evening, and look, terror! Before morning he is no more. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the fate of those who plunder us and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lot of those who plunder us.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Ah! land <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> whirring of wings, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beyond the rivers of Cush,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> surface of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters! Go, swift messengers, to a {tall}<note>Literally "stretched out"</note> and {smooth}<note>Literally "peeled," "wiped clean," or "hairless"</note> nation, to a people feared {near and far},<note>Literally "from this and beyond"</note> a {mighty, mighty}<note>Perhaps this is a gibberish phrase in Hebrew, qaw-qaw</note> and trampling<note>Meaning uncertain</note> nation, whose land rivers divide.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">All <transChange type="added">you</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world and dwellers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, {when a signal is raised on the}<note>Literally "as a raising of a signal"</note> mountains, you must look, and {when a trumpet is blown},<note>Literally "as a blowing of a trumpet"</note> you must listen!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">For before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harvest, {when the blossom is complete}<note>Literally "as a completion of a blossom"</note> and a blossom becomes ripening fruit, and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and one removes, tears away the tendrils.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">They shall {all be left}<note>Literally "be left together"</note> for birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of prey of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains and for the animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> of the earth. And the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of prey will pass the summer on it, and every animal of the earth will winter on it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">At that time, a gift<note>Perhaps tribute is meant</note> will be brought to Yahweh of hosts </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">"And I will stir up {Egyptians}<note>Literally "Egypt"</note> against {Egyptians},<note>Literally "Egypt"</note> and each one will fight against his brother and each one against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And the spirit of {the Egyptians}<note>Literally "Egypt"</note> will be disturbed in his midst, and I will {confuse}<note>Literally "engulf"</note> his plans,<note>Hebrew "plan"</note> and they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, and the ghosts and the spiritists.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">And I will hand over {the Egyptians}<note>Literally "Egypt"</note> into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of a hard master, and a powerful king will rule over them," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> the Lord Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters will be dried up from the sea, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> river will be parched and dry.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Bare places by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Nile will be dried up, by the edge of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Nile and all the sown land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Nile; it will be driven about, and {it will be no more}.<note>Literally "there is none of it"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">And the fishers will mourn, and all of those who cast fishhooks<note>Hebrew "fishhook"</note> in the Nile will lament, and those who spread out fishing nets<note>Hebrew "net"</note> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {surface}<note>Literally "face"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> water will languish.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> workers of combed flax will be ashamed, and those who weave white linen.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">And her weavers will be crushed; all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {hired workers}<note>Literally "workers of wage"</note> <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> grieved of heart.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Surely the princes of Zoan <transChange type="added">are</transChange> foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh <transChange type="added">give</transChange> senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I myself <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a son of sages, a {descendant}<note>Literally "son"</note> of ancient kings"?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your sages then? Now, let them tell you, and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has planned against Egypt.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">The princes of Zoan have become foolish; the princes of Memphis are deceived; the leaders of her tribes have led Egypt astray.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Yahweh has mixed a spirit of confusion into her midst, and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all of its doings, as {when a drunkard staggers}<note>Literally "the staggering of a drunkard"</note> in his vomit.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">And {there will be nothing for Egypt to do},<note>Literally "not it will be for Egypt a deed which he can do"</note> head or tail, palm branch or reed.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">On that day, Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be afraid before the waving hand of Yahweh of hosts that he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> waving against it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt, everyone <transChange type="added">to</transChange> whom one mentions it will be afraid in himself because of the plan of Yahweh of hosts that he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> planning against him. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">On that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the {language}<note>Literally "lip"</note> of Canaan and swear an oath to Yahweh of hosts. One will be called "City of the Sun." </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">On that day, there will be an altar for Yahweh <transChange type="added">in</transChange> in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a stone pillar for Yahweh at her border.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">And it will be a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry out to Yahweh because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and a {defender},<note>Literally "contender"</note> and he will deliver them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">And Yahweh will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know Yahweh on that day, and they will worship <transChange type="added">with</transChange> sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows<note>Hebrew "vow"</note> to Yahweh, and they will fulfill <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing; and they will return to Yahweh, and he will respond to their prayer, and he will heal them. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">On that day, there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt will worship together with Assyria. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">On that day, Israel will be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">whom Yahweh of hosts blessed, saying, "May Egypt my people be blessed, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and my inheritance, Israel." </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> year {the commander-in-chief came}<note>Literally "of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coming of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> commander in chief"</note> to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and he took it,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">so shall the king of Assyria lead the captives<note>Hebrew "captive"</note> of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, {with bared buttocks},<note>Literally "and bare of buttocks"</note> the shame of Egypt. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And they shall be dismayed, and they shall be ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their pride.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitant<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the coastland will say this on that day: </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">The oracle of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wilderness of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea: </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore my loins are filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> anguish; pangs have seized me, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pangs of a woman giving birth. I am {too bent to hear},<note>Literally "bent from hearing," which could also mean "bent because of what I heard"</note> I am {too dismayed to see}.<note>Literally "dismayed from seeing," which could also mean "dismayed because of what I saw"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">My {mind}<note>Literally "heart"</note> staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight {I desired}<note>Literally "of my desire"</note> {brought}<note>Literally "put"</note> me fear.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs!<note>Hebrew "rug"</note> Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear<note>That is, prepare with oil</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shield!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">When<note>Or "And"</note> he sees riders,<note>Hebrew "rider"</note> a pair of horsemen, riders<note>Hebrew "rider"</note> of donkeys,<note>Hebrew "donkey"</note> riders<note>Hebrew "rider"</note> of camels,<note>Hebrew "camel"</note> {then}<note>Or "and"</note> he must listen attentively, paying attention, paying {special}<note>Literally "much"</note> attention."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Then<note>Or "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {watchman}<note>Literally "lion"</note> called, </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">And look <transChange type="added">at</transChange> this! A man's a chariot <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming, a pair of horsemen!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">{When you happen to meet}<note>Literally "Toward encountering"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirsty, bring water. Inhabitants of the land of Tema came to meet <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fugitive with his bread.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">For they have fled from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> swords, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> drawn sword and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bent bow, and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heaviness of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> battle.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">And the remainder of the number of the bows<note>Hebrew "bow"</note> of the warriors of the sons of Kedar will be few."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> oracle of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> valley of vision: </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">{noisy},<note>Literally "full of noises"</note> tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not slain by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, nor <transChange type="added">are they</transChange> dead from battle.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of {you who were found}<note>Literally "your found ones"</note> were captured. They were captured together; they had fled far away.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion<note>These three Hebrew words are alliterative: mehûmâûmeḇûsâûmeḇûḵâ</note> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> valley of vision, <transChange type="added">a</transChange> tearing down of walls<note>Hebrew "wall"</note> and a cry for help to the mountains.<note>Hebrew "mountain"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And Elam lifted up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> quiver, with chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> <transChange type="added">of</transChange> men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> cavalry. And Kir uncovered <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shield.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weapons<note>Hebrew "weapon"</note> of the House of the Forest,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">And you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool, but you did not look to its maker, and you did not see {the one who created it long ago}.<note>Literally "its creator from far away"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxen<note>Hebrew "ox"</note> and the slaughtering of sheep, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine! "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">And it was revealed in my ears <transChange type="added">by</transChange> Yahweh of hosts: </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">'What {business do you have}<note>Literally "to you"</note> here, and who {do you have}<note>Literally "to you"</note> here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Look! Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to {really hurl}<note>Literally "hurl a hurling"</note> you, man! And he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to grasp you firmly;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">he will wind a winding tightly around you like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> ball, to a {wide land}.<note>Literally "land broad of sides"</note> There you shall die, and there the chariots of your splendor <transChange type="added">will be</transChange>, disgrace to your master's house!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">And I will push you from your office, and he will throw you down from your position.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">and I will clothe him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your tunic, and I will bind your sash firmly about him, and I will put your authority into his hand, and he shall be like a father to the inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder, and he shall open and no one <transChange type="added">will be able to</transChange> shut; and he shall shut and no one <transChange type="added">will be able to</transChange> open.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">And I will drive him in <transChange type="added">like</transChange> a peg into a secure place, and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">And they will hang all of the heaviness of his father's house on him, the offspring and the offshoot, all of the small vessels, from the {bowls to the jars}.<note>Literally "vessels of the bowls to all of the vessels of the jars"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">On that day, {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.'" </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Be still, inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coast, merchant of Sidon, who travels over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, they filled you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great waters <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its produce, and she was <transChange type="added">the</transChange> merchandise of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Be ashamed, Sidon, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, the fortress of the sea said, saying, "I was not in labor, and I have not given birth, and I have not reared young men, brought<note>Or "I have brought"</note> up young women."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> report <transChange type="added">comes</transChange> to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report {about}<note>Literally "of"</note> Tyre.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Cross over <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Tarshish! Wail, inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coast!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">{Is this your exultant one},<note>Literally "this to you, exultant"</note> her origin from the days of long ago? Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,<note>Hebrew "crown"</note> whose merchants <transChange type="added">were</transChange> princes, her traders <transChange type="added">the</transChange> honored ones of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Yahweh of hosts has planned it: to defile <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pride of all glory, to humble all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> honored ones of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Cross over your <transChange type="added">own</transChange> land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.<note>Hebrew "waistband" is emended to "harbor" by transposing two consonants</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">He has stretched his hand out over the sea; he has made kingdoms shake. Yahweh has commanded concerning Canaan to destroy her fortresses.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Look <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the land of the Chaldeans! {This people no longer exists. Assyria destined}<note>Literally "this people was not Assyria destined," which could be translated "It was this people! It was not Assyria. They destined"</note> it for wild animals. They erected its siege towers; they demolished its citadel fortresses. It made her like a ruin.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">And this will happen on that day: And Tyre <transChange type="added">will</transChange> be forgotten seventy years,<note>Hebrew "year"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">"Take a harp, go around <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city, forgotten prostitute! Do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> well, playing a stringed instrument! Make numerous songs,<note>Hebrew "song"</note> that you may be remembered."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Look! Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to lay the earth waste and <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And it shall be as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the people, so <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the priest; as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the slave, so <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his master; as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the female slave, so <transChange type="added">with</transChange> her mistress; as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the buyer, so <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the seller; as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the lender, so <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the borrower; as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the creditor, so <transChange type="added">with</transChange> <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> to whom he lends.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">The earth dries up, it withers; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes;<note>Hebrew "statute"</note> they have broken <transChange type="added">the</transChange> everlasting covenant.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Therefore a curse devours <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth burn, and {few men are left}.<note>Literally "he is left a man of smallness"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> new wine dries up; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vine languishes. All <transChange type="added">the</transChange> merry of heart sigh;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">the</transChange> joy of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tambourine has stopped. The noise of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> jubilant has ceased; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> joy of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lyre has stopped.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut {so that no one can enter};<note>Literally "from entering"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">there is</transChange> an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into {darkness};<note>Literally "evening"</note> the joy of the earth disappears.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Desolation is left in the city; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gate is crushed <transChange type="added">into</transChange> a state of ruin.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth, among the nations, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beating of an olive tree, like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">They lift up their voices;<note>Hebrew "voice"</note> they sing for joy; they shout out from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west over the majesty of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, the name of Yahweh the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">We hear songs from the {edge}<note>Literally "wing"</note> of the earth: "Glory to the righteous <transChange type="added">one</transChange>!" But I say, "Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! <transChange type="added">The</transChange> treacherous ones deal treacherously, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> treacherous ones deal treacherously <transChange type="added">with</transChange> treachery!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Terror and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> snare <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon you, inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of the earth! </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">The earth is utterly broken; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth is torn asunder; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth is shaken violently.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard, and it sways like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> hut, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it falls and does not rise again.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">And they will be gathered <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a gathering, <transChange type="added">like</transChange> a prisoner {in}<note>Literally "on"</note> a pit. And they will be shut {in}<note>Literally "on"</note> a prison and be punished {after}<note>Literally "from"</note> many days.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">And the full moon will be ashamed and the sun will be ashamed, for Yahweh of hosts will rule on {Mount Zion}<note>Literally "the mountain of Zion"</note> and in Jerusalem, and before his elders <transChange type="added">in</transChange> glory.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things,<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> plans<note>Hebrew "plan"</note> {of old},<note>Literally "from far away "</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> faithfulness, trustworthiness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">For you have {made}<note>Literally "placed"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city <transChange type="added">a</transChange> heap, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortified city a ruin, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> palace of foreigners {is no longer}<note>Literally "from"</note> a city; it will {never}<note>Literally "to eternity not"</note> be rebuilt.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; a city of ruthless nations, they will fear you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in his distress, a shelter from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rainstorm, a shade from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heat. For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breath of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ruthless <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like a rainstorm against a wall,<note>The same consonants with different vowels can be translated "winter rainstorm"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">the</transChange> noise of foreigners like heat in a dry land. You subdued <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heat with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shade of a cloud; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> song of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ruthless was silenced.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And on this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a {rich feast},<note>Literally "feast of fat"</note> a feast of aged wines, fat filled with marrow, filtered aged wine.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And on this mountain he will {destroy}<note>Literally "engulf"</note> the face of the shroud, the shroud over all peoples, and the woven covering over all nations.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">He will {destroy}<note>Literally "engulf"</note> death forever, and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tears from all faces, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down under him as {a heap of straw is trampled down}<note>Literally "the trampling down of a heap of straw"</note> in {waters of}<note>These words are in the written Hebrew text, but not in the reading tradition (Qere)</note> a dung heap.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">And it<note>Moab</note> will spread out its hands in the midst of it, just as the swimmer spreads out to swim, and its pride will be brought low with the movement<note>Meaning uncertain</note> of its hands.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls; he will bring <transChange type="added">it</transChange> low; he will {send it}<note>Literally "cause <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to touch"</note> to the ground, to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Open <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gates {so that}<note>Or "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous nation who keeps faithfulness may enter! </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">You will protect a firm inclination <transChange type="added">in</transChange> peace, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> peace because he trusts in you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Trust in Yahweh forever, for in Yah, Yahweh <transChange type="added">you have</transChange> an everlasting rock.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">For he has thrown down <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> height, he lays low <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lofty city. He lays it low to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ground; he throws her to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> foot tramples it, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> feet of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> steps of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> way of the righteous <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a straight path; {you clear the level path of the righteous}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> level path of the righteous you make level"; the meaning of this phrase is uncertain</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Surely we wait for you <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the path of your judgments, Yahweh, for your name and renown <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> desire of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> soul.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">I desire you <transChange type="added">with all</transChange> my soul in the night; also I seek you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> my spirit within me, for when your judgments <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {upon}<note>Literally "to"</note> the earth, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world learn righteousness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">Though the</transChange> wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Yahweh, <transChange type="added">though</transChange> your hand reaches high, they do not see <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Yahweh, you will establish peace for us, for you have done even all of our works for us.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Yahweh, our God, lords besides you ruled over us, {but we praise your name alone}.<note>Literally "alone in you we praise name you"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">You have added to the nation, Yahweh. You have added to the nation; you are honored. You have extended all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">Yahweh, in distress they have visited you; they poured out an {incantation};<note>Literally "whispering"</note> your discipline <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on them.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">Like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes; she cries in her labor pains.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth <transChange type="added">to</transChange> wind. We cannot bring about deliverance <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> earth, and no inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world are born.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">Your dead shall live; {their corpses}<note>Literally "my corpse;" some manuscripts propose an emendation to the suffix to change it to third person masculine plural ("their corpses"), which makes better sense</note> shall rise. Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust, for your dew <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {celestial dew},<note>Literally "dew of light"</note> and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.<note>Or "you make the land of Rephaim fall"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors<note>The reading tradition (Qere) is singular</note> behind you; hide for {a very little}<note>Literally "a little a little"</note> while, until <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wrath has passed over.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="21">For look! Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover her slain.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">On that day, Yahweh will punish with his cruel, great and strong sword Leviathan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fleeing serpent, and Leviathan, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the sea. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">I, Yahweh, <transChange type="added">am</transChange> her keeper; I water it {again and again}.<note>Literally "by moments"</note> Lest one afflict <transChange type="added">harm</transChange> on it, I guard it night and day;</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">{I have no wrath}.<note>Literally "There is no wrath for me"</note> Whatever gives me thorns <transChange type="added">and</transChange> briers, I will step forth against in battle. I will set it on fire altogether.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">Or let it grasp at my protection; let it make peace with me; peace let it make with me."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">{Days are coming},<note>Literally "The coming ones"</note> let Jacob take root; Israel will blossom and send out shoots, and they will fill <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world <transChange type="added">with</transChange> fruit.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">Does he strike him {as he struck down those who struck him}?<note>Literally "like the striking of one striking him"</note> Or is he killed {as those who killed him were killed}?<note>Literally "like the killing of his killed ones"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">By expelling<note>Meaning uncertain, derived from the following parallel expression</note> her, by her sending away, you argue with her. He removed <transChange type="added">them</transChange> with his strong wind, in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east wind.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">Therefore by this he will make atonement <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the guilt of Jacob, and this <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fruit <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the removal of his sin: {when he makes}<note>Literally "in his setting"</note> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stones of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> altar like crushed stones of chalk, no poles of Asherah worship or incense altars will stand.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortified city <transChange type="added">is</transChange> solitary, a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> calf grazes there, lies down there and destroys its branches.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">{When its branches are dry},<note>Literally "In her branch being dry"</note> they are broken; women <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming <transChange type="added">and</transChange> setting light to it.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> withering flower of the glory of his beauty, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head of {the rich valley},<note>Literally "a valley of fat"</note> {ones overcome}<note>Literally "ones struck"</note> with wine!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">Look! The Lord has <transChange type="added">a</transChange> mighty and strong <transChange type="added">one</transChange>, like a rainstorm of hail, a wind storm of destruction, like a rainstorm of mighty overflowing waters, he will put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to the earth with <transChange type="added">his</transChange> hand.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled<note>The Hebrew is plural</note> by feet,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> withering flower of the glory of its beauty which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head of {the rich valley}<note>Literally "a valley of fat"</note> will be like its early fig before summer, {which the one who sees it swallows}<note>Literally "Which, when the one who sees it sees it, he swallows it"</note> while it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> still in his hand.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">In that day, Yahweh of hosts will become a garland of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment, and strength <transChange type="added">to</transChange> those who turn back <transChange type="added">the</transChange> battle <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> gate.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused<note>Or "swallowed"</note> because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> rendering of a decision,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">for all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tables are full <transChange type="added">of</transChange> disgusting vomit, {with no place left}.<note>Literally "without a place"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">To</transChange> whom will he teach knowledge, and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> whom will he explain <transChange type="added">the</transChange> message? Those who are weaned from milk, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> taken from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breast?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">For <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah,<note>In this context, the Hebrew expressions tsaw-tsaw and qaw-qaw are likely meant to sound like baby talk, but they could mean "command upon command" and "rule upon rule"</note> a little here, a little there.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">For he will speak with {stammering}<note>Literally "stammer of lip"</note> and another tongue to this people,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem:</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">And I will make justice <transChange type="added">the</transChange> measuring line, and righteousness <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plumb line; and hail will sweep away <transChange type="added">the</transChange> refuge of lies,<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> and waters will flood over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hiding place.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">{As often as it passes through},<note>Literally "From enough his passing through"</note> it will take you, for {morning by morning}<note>Literally "in the morning in the morning"</note> it will pass through, in the day and in the night,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">For the bed is too short {to stretch out on},<note>Literally "from stretching oneself"</note> and the covering is <transChange type="added">too</transChange> narrow when wrapping oneself.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="21">For Yahweh will rise up as <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mount Perazim; he will rave as <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> valley at Gibeon to do his deed--his deed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> strange-- and to work his work--his work <transChange type="added">is</transChange> alien!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="24">Is it all day <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="25">When he has leveled its {surface},<note>Literally "face"</note> does he not scatter dill, and sow cumin seed, and {plant}<note>Literally "place"</note> wheat <transChange type="added">in</transChange> planted rows,<note>Hebrew "row"</note> and barley <transChange type="added">in</transChange> an appointed place, and spelt grain <transChange type="added">as</transChange> its border?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="26">And his God instructs him about the prescription;<note>That is, "the proper way"</note> he teaches him.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="27">For dill is not threshed with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a utility cart {rolled}<note>Literally "turned"</note> over cumin, but dill is beaten out with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> stick, and cumin with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> rod.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="28">Grain is crushed fine, but certainly one does not thresh it forever; and one drives the wheel of his cart, but his horses do not crush it.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">Ah! Ariel, Ariel, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city <transChange type="added">where</transChange> David encamped! </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">Yet<note>Or "And"</note> I will inflict Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.<note>Hebrew "Ariel," which might mean "altar hearth"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">And I will encamp {in a circle}<note>The Hebrew text literally reads "like the ball"; the LXX supports an emendation to "David"</note> against you, and I will lay siege to you <transChange type="added">with</transChange> towers<note>Hebrew "tower"</note> and I will raise up siegeworks against you.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">Then<note>Or "And"</note> you shall be low; you shall speak from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and your words<note>Hebrew "word"</note> will be low, from dust. And your voice will be from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, like a ghost, and your word will whisper from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">But<note>Or "And"</note> the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, all those who fight <transChange type="added">against</transChange> her and her stronghold, and those who inflict her shall be like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> dream, a vision of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And it shall be as when the hungry person dreams--look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> eating! And he wakes up and his inner self <transChange type="added">is</transChange> empty. Or<note>Or "And"</note> as when the thirsty person dreams--look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> drinking! And he wakes up and look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> faint, and his inner self <transChange type="added">is</transChange> longing for water. So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">Be astonished and be amazed! Blind yourselves and be blinded! They are drunk but<note>Or "and"</note> not <transChange type="added">from</transChange> wine; they stagger but<note>Or "and"</note> not <transChange type="added">from</transChange> strong drink.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and he has covered your heads, the seers.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">And the vision of all this has become for you like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> words of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "a" instead of "the"</note> document, saying, "{Read}<note>Literally "Call"</note> this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sealed."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">if</transChange> the document is given to <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who does not {know how to read},<note>Literally "know a document"</note> saying, "{Read}<note>Literally "Call"</note> this now!" he says, "I do not {know how to read}."<note>Literally "know a document"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from Yahweh, and their deeds are<note>The Hebrew is singular</note> in a dark place. And they say, "Who sees us? And who knows us?"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">Your perversity! As if {a potter}<note>Literally "of the one who creates"</note> shall be regarded as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clay! That <transChange type="added">the</transChange> product of its maker <transChange type="added">says</transChange>, "He did not make me," and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thing made into shape says of its {potter},<note>Literally "one who creates"</note> "He has no understanding."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">{In a very little while}<note>Literally "Not still a trifling <transChange type="added">of time</transChange>"</note> shall not Lebanon change into <transChange type="added">a</transChange> fruitful land, and the fruitful land be regarded as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> forest?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">And on that day, the deaf shall hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> words of a scroll, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blind shall see out of gloom and darkness.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> meek {have joy after joy}<note>Literally "shall add joy"</note> in Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tyrant shall be no more, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> scoffer shall come to an end. And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off;</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="21">those who mislead a person into sin with a word and set a trap for the {arbitrator}<note>Literally "one who argues"</note> in the gate and guide away <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous by emptiness.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="23">For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will treat my name as holy, and they will treat the holy one of Jacob as holy, and they will stand in awe <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the God of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="24">And those who err <transChange type="added">in</transChange> spirit will {acquire}<note>Literally "know"</note> understanding, and those who grumble will learn instruction.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">"Oh rebellious children!" {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">Who go to go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt, but<note>Or "and"</note> they do not ask <transChange type="added">of</transChange> my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Everyone will start to stink because of a people <transChange type="added">that</transChange> cannot profit them, </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">For<note>Or "And"</note> {Egyptians}<note>Literally "Egypt"</note> help <transChange type="added">with</transChange> vanity and emptiness, therefore I have called this one "Rahab, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sitting."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">Now go, write it on a tablet with them, and inscribe it on a scroll, {that}<note>Or "and"</note> it may be {for the time to come},<note>Literally "for last day"</note> forever, forever.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">For it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">who say to those who do see, "You must not see!" and to the seers, "You must not see truth for us; speak smooth things to us, see illusions,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">turn aside from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way, turn aside from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> path, put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks}<note>Literally "whose breaking comes"</note> suddenly, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> an instant.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">And he breaks it like a vessel of {a potter}<note>Literally "someone who forms"</note> breaks, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> is crushed; he has no compassion, and no potsherd is found among its fragments<note>Hebrew "fragment"</note> {to take fire}<note>Literally "for the taking away of fire"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hearth, or {to skim}<note>Literally "for the skimming off of"</note> water from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cistern."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">One thousand {because of}<note>Literally "from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of"</note> a threat of one, {because}<note>Literally "from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face"</note> of a threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> flagstaff on {top}<note>Literally "head"</note> of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> mountain, and like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> signal on <transChange type="added">a</transChange> hill.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a God of justice; blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all those who wait for him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem, you will surely not weep. Surely he will be gracious to you; when he hears the sound of your cry, he will answer you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">And the Lord will give you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bread <transChange type="added">of</transChange> distress and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> water <transChange type="added">of</transChange> oppression, but<note>Or "and"</note> your teachers will not hide themselves<note>Hebrew "himself"</note> any longer. And your eyes {shall see}<note>Literally "be seeing"</note> your teachers.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="21">And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="22">And you will defile the plating of your silver idols and the covering of your gold image. You will scatter them like contaminated things;<note>Hebrew "contaminated thing"</note> you will say to it, "Filth!"<note>Or "Get out!"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="23">And he will give rain for your seed <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and {fertile}.<note>Literally "fat"</note> On that day, your cattle will graze <transChange type="added">in</transChange> broad pastures;<note>Hebrew "pasture"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="24">and the oxen and the donkeys that till<note>Or "tilling"</note> the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that <transChange type="added">has</transChange> been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill, watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people, and he heals the wound of his blow.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="27">Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full <transChange type="added">of</transChange> indignation, and his tongue <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a devouring fire.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="28">And his breath <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like an overflowing river; it reaches up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> neck to shake <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sieve of worthlessness; and a bridle that leads astray <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> jawbones of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="29">{You shall have a song}<note>Literally "There shall be a song for you"</note> as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="30">And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones<note>Hebrew "stone"</note> of hail.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="31">Indeed, Assyria will be shattered by the voice of Yahweh; he strikes with the rod.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="32">And every stroke of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> staff of foundation<note>Some translations emend this to "discipline"</note> that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres, and he will fight against it<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "them"</note> with battles of brandishing.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="33">For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday; indeed, it is made ready for the king. He makes its pile of wood deep and wide; he makes fire and wood {abundant}.<note>Literally "numerous"</note> The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Ah! Those who go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt for help! </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And indeed, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wise, and he brings disaster, and he does not remove his words, and he will rise against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of evildoers and against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> help of workers of iniquity.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And the Egyptians <transChange type="added">are</transChange> human and not God, and their horses <transChange type="added">are</transChange> flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> helper will stumble, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.<note>Or "perish"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Like birds flying <transChange type="added">overhead</transChange>, so Yahweh of hosts will protect Jerusalem; </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Turn back to <transChange type="added">the one against</transChange> whom the sons of Israel have made deep rebellion. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">For on that day, each one will reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold which your hands have made <transChange type="added">in</transChange> sin for you.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And Assyria shall fall by a sword not <transChange type="added">of</transChange> a man, and a sword not <transChange type="added">of</transChange> a human shall devour him; and he shall flee from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, and his young men shall be <transChange type="added">put</transChange> to forced labor.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">And his rock will pass over because of terror, and his officers will be terrified because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flag," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, who has a fire in Zion and has a furnace in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">See, a king will rule according to righteousness, and princes will rule according to justice.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">And each one will be like a hiding place from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind and a covering from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rainstorm, like streams of water in a dry region, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shade of a large rock in a weary land.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes of those who see will not gaze,<note>The same consonants with different vowels would be translated "be blinded," which fits the context better</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ears of those who hear will listen.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {minds}<note>Literally "heart"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rash will understand {knowledge},<note>Literally "to know"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tongues<note>Hebrew "tongue"</note> of stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">A fool will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> eminent.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">For a fool speaks folly, and his {mind}<note>Literally "heart"</note> does iniquity: to {behave wickedly},<note>Literally "do ungodliness"</note> and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave <transChange type="added">the</transChange> throat of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hungry empty, and he deprives <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirsty <transChange type="added">of</transChange> drink.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">And a scoundrel, his weapons <transChange type="added">are</transChange> evil; he plans evil devices to ruin <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor with words of deception even<note>Or "and"</note> when the speech of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy <transChange type="added">is</transChange> right.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">But<note>Or "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nobleman plans noble things, and he stands upon noble things.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">Women <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my word!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">{In a year}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">In</transChange> days upon a year"</note> you will tremble, carefree ones, </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">Tremble, <transChange type="added">you who are</transChange> at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on <transChange type="added">your</transChange> loins,<note>Although the carefree and at ease addressees in this verse are feminine plural ("you women"), the commands are masculine singular in form</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fruitful vine,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">over the soil of my people. It goes up <transChange type="added">in</transChange> thorns<note>Hebrew "thorn"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> briers,<note>Hebrew "brier"</note> indeed over all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> houses of joy <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> jubilant city.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> palace will be forsaken, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {crowded city}<note>Literally "crowd of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city"</note> deserted; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hill and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> watchtower will become<note>The Hebrew text has "for the benefit of" following "become"</note> a cave forever, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> joy of wild asses, a pasture {for}<note>Literally "of"</note> flocks.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">Then<note>Or "And"</note> justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">And it hails when {the forest comes down},<note>Literally "the coming down of the forest"</note> and the city will become low in humiliation.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">Happy <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him!<note>Many manuscripts suggest "you" rather than "him"</note> When you {cease}<note>Literally "finishing"</note> destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you. Be our<note>Hebrew "their"</note> arm in the mornings, indeed our salvation in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of trouble.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">At <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of tumult, peoples fled; because of your exaltation, nations scattered.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">And your spoil is gathered, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> the gathering of the locust, as a swarm of locusts storming on it.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> exalted, for <transChange type="added">he</transChange> dwells <transChange type="added">on</transChange> high; he filled Zion <transChange type="added">with</transChange> justice and righteousness,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">and he will be the security of your times, an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">Look! Their heroes cry out <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> street; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> messengers of peace weep bitterly.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">Highways are deserted; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> traveler <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> road ceases. One breaks a treaty, he rejects <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cities,<note>A Dead Sea Scroll reads "witnesses"</note> he does not hold man in high regard.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> land mourns; it languishes. Lebanon feels abashed; it withers. Sharon is like the desert, and Bashan and Carmel {are losing their leaves}.<note>Literally "shaking off"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">"Now I will arise," says Yahweh. "Now I will lift myself up proudly; now I will raise myself.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble; your breath <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a fire; it will consume you.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples will be burning <transChange type="added">to</transChange> lime-- they are burned <transChange type="added">like</transChange> thorns <transChange type="added">that have been</transChange> cut down in the fire.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">You who are</transChange> far away, hear what I have done; and <transChange type="added">you who are</transChange> near, know my might!"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">Sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling has seized <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless: "Who of us can {live}<note>Literally "dwell as an alien"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> devouring fire? Who of us can {live}<note>Literally "dwell as an alien"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> everlasting consuming hearths?"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">He who walks <transChange type="added">in</transChange> righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gain of extortion, who {refuses}<note>Literally "shakes his hand from the taking of"</note> <transChange type="added">a</transChange> bribe, who stops up his ears<note>Hebrew "ear"</note> from hearing {bloodshed}<note>Literally "blood"</note> and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">That one will live <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> heights; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortresses of rocks <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> his refuge. His food <transChange type="added">will</transChange> be given; his waters<note>Hebrew "water"</note> <transChange type="added">will</transChange> endure.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">Your eyes will see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king in his beauty; they will see a {distant land}.<note>Literally "land of distance"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">Your {mind}<note>Literally "heart"</note> will meditate <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> terror: "Where <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> one who counted? Where <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> one who weighed out? Where <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> one who counted the towers?"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">You will not see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> insolent people, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people {whose language is too obscure to understand},<note>Literally "obscure of lip than to hear"</note> <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> stammering of tongue {cannot be understood}.<note>Literally "there is no understanding"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">Look <transChange type="added">on</transChange> Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed settlement, a tent {that is not moved}.<note>Literally "not he is loaded"</note> No one will ever pull out its tent pegs, and none of its ropes will be torn in two.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="21">Rather, there Yahweh <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> mighty for us, a place of rivers <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {broad streams},<note>Literally "streams broad of hands"</note> a galley ship with<note>Or "of"</note> oars<note>Hebrew "oar"</note> cannot go in it, and a mighty ship cannot pass through it.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="22">For Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our judge; Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our lawgiver. Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our king; he <transChange type="added">is the one who</transChange> will save us.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="23">Your riggings hang slack; they do not hold the base of their mast firm, they do not spread out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sail. Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prey of spoil <transChange type="added">in</transChange> abundance will be divided; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lame will take plunder.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="24">And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who live in it, <transChange type="added">their</transChange> iniquity <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> taken away.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">Come near, nations, to hear; and peoples, listen attentively! Let the earth hear, and that which fills it; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world and all its offspring.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> anger of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against all the nations, and <transChange type="added">his</transChange> wrath <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against all their armies; he has put them under a ban, he has given them up for slaughter.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">And their slain shall be cast out; as for<note>Or "and"</note> their corpses, their stench shall go up. And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains shall melt with<note>Or "from"</note> their blood,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">and all the host of heaven shall rot. And the skies shall roll up like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> scroll, and all their host shall wither like the withering of a leaf from a vine, or<note>Or "and"</note> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> withering from a fig tree.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">And wild oxen shall go down with them, and steers with strong bulls. And their land shall be drenched with<note>Or "from"</note> blood, and their soil shall be fattened with<note>Or "from"</note> fat.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">For {Yahweh has a day of vengeance},<note>Literally "a day of vengeance for Yahweh"</note> a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur, and its land shall become like burning pitch.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall be in ruins; forever and ever there will be no one who passes through her.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">But<note>Or "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> large bird and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hedgehog shall take possession of it, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> owl and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch <transChange type="added">the</transChange> measuring line of confusion out over it, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plumb line of emptiness.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">Its nobles--but no kingdom is there--shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds<note>Hebrew "weed"</note> and thistle plants<note>Hebrew "thistle plant"</note> in her fortresses; and it shall be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> settlement of jackals, green grass for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> daughters of an ostrich.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas, and a goat-demon shall call to his neighbor; surely there Lilith<note>Hebrew transliteration; possibly a proper name for a Mesopotamian night-demon</note> shall repose, and she shall find a resting place for herself.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">There <transChange type="added">the</transChange> owl shall nest and lay and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow; surely there <transChange type="added">the</transChange> birds of prey shall be gathered, each one <transChange type="added">with</transChange> her mate.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">And he {is the one that}<note>Literally "he"</note> has cast <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lot for them, and his hand has apportioned it to them with the measuring line; they shall take possession of it forever, they shall live in it {from generation to generation}.<note>Literally "to generation and generation"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">Wilderness and dry land shall be glad,<note>The Hebrew has an extra "them," probably from an accidental of the first letter of the next word</note> and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.</verse>


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<verse num="2">It shall blossom abundantly, and it shall rejoice indeed with rejoicing and exulting. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. {They are the ones who}<note>Literally "they"</note> shall see the glory of Yahweh, the majesty of our God.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">Strengthen <transChange type="added">the</transChange> weak hands and make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> staggering knees firm.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blind shall be opened, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ears of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deaf shall be opened.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lame shall leap like the deer, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tongue of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">And the parched ground shall become <transChange type="added">a</transChange> pool, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirsty ground springs of water. Her resting place <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in a settlement of jackals; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grass <transChange type="added">shall become</transChange> like reeds<note>Hebrew "reed"</note> and rushes.<note>Hebrew "rush"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> unclean shall not travel through it, but<note>Or "and"</note> it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for them, he who walks <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> way; and fools shall not wander about.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">No lion shall be there, and no ferocious wild beast shall go up it. It shall not be found there, but<note>Or "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> redeemed shall walk <transChange type="added">there</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and sorrow and sighing shall flee.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">And this happened: In {the fourteenth year}<note>Literally "four ten year"</note> of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he captured them.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh<note>Rabshekah is the title of a high Assyrian official</note> from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a large army, and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> highway of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> washer.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who {was in charge of the palace},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the house"</note> came out to him, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">And Rabshakeh said to them, "Now say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this confidence <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which you trust?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">I said, 'Only a word of lips! {War has power and a plan}!'<note>The Hebrew here is awkward; literally "Plan and power for war"</note> Now, in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which <transChange type="added">if</transChange> a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">And if you say to me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' <transChange type="added">was it</transChange> not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? And he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall bow down in the {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> of this altar.'"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And now please make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, <transChange type="added">that is,</transChange> if you are able {put}<note>Literally "give"</note> riders for yourself on them!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">But how can you drive back {one governor among the least of my master's servants},<note>Literally "the face of the governor of the one of the insignificant servants of my master"</note> when<note>Or "and"</note> you trust in Egypt for chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and horsemen?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">And now was it without Yahweh that I have come up against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land and destroy it!" '" </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">And Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we can understand<note>Or "hear"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and you must not speak to us in Judean in the {hearing}<note>Literally "ear"</note> of the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the wall." </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">But<note>Or "And"</note> Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your masters and you? <transChange type="added">Was it</transChange> not for the people who sit on the wall, to eat their dung and drink their urine<note>So Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib); the reading tradition (Qere) has "feet-water"</note> with you?" </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Rabshakeh stood and called in a great voice in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Thus says the king: '<transChange type="added">Do</transChange> not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">And <transChange type="added">do</transChange> not let Hezekiah make you rely on Yahweh, saying, "Surely Yahweh will deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">You must not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: "Make a blessing<note>That is, a gesture of surrender</note> with me, and come out to me, and each one will eat <transChange type="added">from</transChange> his vine and <transChange type="added">from</transChange> his fig tree and drink water from<note>Or "of"</note> his cistern,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">until {I come}<note>Literally "my coming"</note> and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, 'Yahweh will save us!' Did the gods of the nations each save his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, <transChange type="added">have</transChange> they delivered Samaria from my hand?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">Who <transChange type="added">are there</transChange> among all the gods of these countries who have saved their land from my hand, that Yahweh should save Jerusalem from my hand?" '" </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">But<note>Or "And"</note> they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the {palace},<note>Literally "house"</note> Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder, came to Hezekiah <transChange type="added">with</transChange> torn garments and told him the words of Rabshakeh. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">And this happened: When King Hezekiah heard, he tore his garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And he sent Eliakim, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {in charge of}<note>Literally "over"</note> the palace,<note>Or "house"</note> and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the priests {covered}<note>Literally "covering themselves"</note> with sackcloth to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Maybe Yahweh your God heard <transChange type="added">the</transChange> words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living God, and he will rebuke the words that Yahweh your God hears. And you must lift up a prayer for the benefit of the remnant that is found.'" </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Isaiah said to them, "You must say this to your master: 'Thus says Yahweh: "You must not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to {put}<note>Literally "give"</note> a spirit in him {so that}<note>Or "and"</note> he shall hear a rumor and he shall return to his land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '" </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">And Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had left from Lachish.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Now<note>Or "And"</note> he<note>That is, the king</note> heard concerning Tirhakah the king of Cush, saying, "He has set out to fight against<note>Or "with"</note> you." </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">"You shall say this to Hezekiah, king of Judah: '<transChange type="added">Do</transChange> not let your God in whom you trust in him deceive you by saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Look! you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands to destroy them, and you--shall you be delivered?</verse>


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<verse num="12">Did the gods of the nations that my {predecessors}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> destroyed deliver them--Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Telassar?</verse>


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<verse num="13">Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or<note>Or "and"</note> Ivvah?'" </verse>


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<verse num="14">And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and he read<note>Or "called"</note> it. Then<note>Or "And"</note> he went up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before the {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="16">"Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel {who is enthroned on}<note>Literally "sitting"</note> the cherubim, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the one, God by yourself, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you are the one who made the heavens and the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Yahweh, extend your ear and hear! Yahweh, open your eyes and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt the living God!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands<note>The parallel text in 2 Kings has "nations"</note> and their land,</verse>


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<verse num="19">to {set}<note>Literally "give"</note> their gods in the fire, for they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not gods, but <transChange type="added">the</transChange> work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them.</verse>


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<verse num="20">So<note>Or "And"</note> now, Yahweh, our God, save us from his hand so that<note>Or "and"</note> all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Yahweh, you alone!" </verse>


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<verse num="21">And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'Because you have prayed to me {concerning}<note>Literally "to"</note> Sennacherib, king of Assyria,</verse>


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<verse num="22">this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="23">Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up <transChange type="added">your</transChange> voice and lifted your eyes upward?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="24">By the hand of your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said, "With my many chariots,<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> I myself have gone up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> height of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the remote areas of Lebanon. And I cut off {its tall cedars},<note>Literally "the height of its cedars"</note> the choicest of its junipers. And I came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the height of its limit, the forest of its orchard.<note>Or "Carmel"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="25">I myself dug and drank waters, and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet."</verse>


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<verse num="26">Have you not heard from {a long time ago}?<note>Literally "distant"</note> I have made it from days of primeval time, and I formed it. Now I have brought it <transChange type="added">about</transChange>, and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And their inhabitants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {weak};<note>Literally "short of hand"</note> they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become <transChange type="added">like</transChange> plants<note>Hebrew "plant"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field, and <transChange type="added">like</transChange> greens of grass, <transChange type="added">like</transChange> grass on<note>Or "of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roofs and a cultivated field {before}<note>Literally "before the face of"</note> the standing grain.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="28">And I know your sitting down and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging {against}<note>Literally "to"</note> me.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="29">Because you were enraged {against}<note>Literally "to"</note> me, and your noise<note>Or "complacency"</note> has come up to<note>Literally "in"</note> my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle on your lips, and I will turn you back on the way <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which you came.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And this <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> the sign for you: the eating of volunteer plants<note>Hebrew "plant"</note> this<note>Literally "the"</note> year, and in the second year self-seeded plants,<note>Hebrew "plant"</note> and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And the remnant of the house of Judah that remain shall {grow}<note>Literally "add"</note> roots<note>Hebrew "root"</note> downwards and make fruit upwards. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="32">For a remnant shall go out from Jerusalem and survivors<note>Hebrew "survivor"</note> from mountain Zion.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="33">Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning<note>Or "to"</note> the king of Assyria: </verse>


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<verse num="34">He shall return by the way that he came, and he shall not come to this city,'</verse>


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<verse num="35">'And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.'" </verse>


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<verse num="36">And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When<note>Or "And"</note> they rose in the morning, look! All of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> dead corpses.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="37">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Sennacherib king of Assyria left, went, and returned and lived at Nineveh.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="38">And this happened: he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> bowing in worship <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword. And they themselves escaped <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of Ararat, and Esar-haddon his son reigned as king in his place. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> about to die, and you shall not recover.'"</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,</verse>


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<verse num="3">and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how<note>Or "that"</note> I have walked before your {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept <transChange type="added">with</transChange> great weeping. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">Then<note>Or "And"</note> the word of Yahweh came<note>Or "was"</note> to Isaiah, saying,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor:<note>Or "father"</note> "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. {Look, I am going to}<note>Literally, "Behold me; he will add," but in this context it makes better sense to change the "he" to "I"; most translations follow this emendation</note> add fifteen years to your days.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city." ' </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">And this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken:</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">Look! I will cause <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to turn backwards ten steps." And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps which it had gone down. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">A writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he was sick and had recovered from his sickness: </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the rest of my years."</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">I said, "I shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> weaver. He cuts me off from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">I lie down<note>Or "cry out"</note> until morning; like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">What can I say? For<note>Or "And"</note> he has spoken to me, and he himself has done <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">Lord, they live by them, and the life of my spirit belongs to all among them. And restore me to health and keep me alive!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who loved<note>Or possibly "kept back," which sounds similar in Hebrew</note> my life from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">For Sheol cannot praise you; death <transChange type="added">cannot</transChange> praise you. Those who go down <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> living, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">Yahweh, save me, and we will play my music <transChange type="added">on</transChange> stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Isaiah said, "Let them {take}<note>Literally "lift up"</note> a lump of figs, and let them rub <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the boil {so that}<note>Or "and"</note> he may recover."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">And Hezekiah said, "What <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> sign that I shall go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Yahweh?" </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">At that time, Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for<note>Or "and"</note> he heard that he had been sick and recovered.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Hezekiah rejoiced over them and showed them his house of aromatic gum, the silver, gold, spices, good oil, all the house of his weapons, and all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing that Hezekiah had not shown them in his house or in all his dominion.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?" And Hezekiah {answered},<note>Literally "said"</note> "They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon."</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he<note>That is, Isaiah</note> said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezekiah {answered},<note>Literally "said"</note> "They have seen all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in my house. There is nothing that I have not shown them in my storehouses." </verse>


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<verse num="6">'Look! days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming, and all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your house and that which your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have stored up to this day shall be carried off <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon. Nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">'And some of your sons who go out from you, whom you fathered, shall be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh that you have spoken <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good," for<note>Or "and"</note> he {thought},<note>Literally "said"</note> "Surely there will be peace and security in my days." </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">A voice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> calling in the wilderness, "Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall become low, And the rough ground shall be like a plain, and the rugged ground like a valley-plain.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">And the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all {humankind}<note>Literally "flesh"</note> together shall see <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">A voice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind}<note>Literally "flesh"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> grass, and all his loyalty <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the flowers of the field.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Grass withers; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> grass.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">Grass withers; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flower withers, but<note>Or "and"</note> the word of our God will stand forever.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">{Get yourself}<note>Literally "Go for you"</note> up to a high mountain, Zion, bringer of good news! Lift up your voice with strength, Jerusalem, bringer of good news! Lift <transChange type="added">it</transChange> up; you must not fear! Say to the cities of Judah, "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your God!"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">Look! The Lord Yahweh comes with {strength},<note>Literally "strong"</note> and his arm rules for him. Look! His reward <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with him, and his recompense {in his presence}.<note>Literally "before his face"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lambs in his arm, and he will carry <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="12">Who has measured <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> span, comprehended the dust of the earth in <transChange type="added">a</transChange> third of a measure and weighed out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains in the scales,<note>Hebrew "scale"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills in a balance?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Who has measured up the spirit of Yahweh or informed him <transChange type="added">as</transChange> {his counselor}<note>Literally "the man of his counsel"</note>?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">With whom has he consulted, that<note>Or "and"</note> he enlightened him<note>Or "made him understand"</note> and taught him <transChange type="added">the</transChange> path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and made <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way of understanding known to him?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">Look! <transChange type="added">The</transChange> nations <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like a drop from a bucket, and they are counted like dust of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> balances! Look! He weighs <transChange type="added">the</transChange> islands like a thin covering.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">And Lebanon <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not enough to light a fire, and its animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> not enough for a burnt offering.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">All the nations <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like nothing before him; they are counted by him as<note>Or "from"</note> nothing and emptiness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">A craftsman pours out the idol, and a {goldsmith}<note>Literally "refiner"</note> overlays it with gold, and <transChange type="added">he</transChange> smelts chains of silver.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The one who is <transChange type="added">too</transChange> impoverished <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a gift chooses wood <transChange type="added">that</transChange> will not rot; he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image <transChange type="added">that</transChange> will not be knocked over.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {beginning}?<note>Literally "head"</note> Have you not understood <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the foundation of the earth?</verse>


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<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">He is</transChange> the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens like a veil and spreads them out like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> tent to live <transChange type="added">in</transChange>,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="23">the one who brings<note>Or "gives"</note> princes to nothing; he makes rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth like nothing.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">Indeed, hardly are they planted; indeed, hardly <transChange type="added">are they</transChange> sown; indeed, hardly has their shoot taken root in the earth when<note>Or "also"</note> he blows on them and they wither, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tempest carries them like stubble.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">"And to whom you will compare me, and am I equal?" says <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy one. </verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="26">Lift your eyes up <transChange type="added">on</transChange> high, and see! Who created these? The one who brings out their host by number. He calls all them by name. Because <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> great of power and mighty of power, no man is missing.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="27">{Why}<note>Literally "To what"</note> do you say, Jacob, and you speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my judgment is passed over by my God?"</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="28">Have you not known, or have you not heard? Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the God of eternity, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> creator <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the ends of the earth! He is not faint, and he does not grow weary! There is no searching his understanding.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> gives power to the weary, and he increases power for {the powerless}.<note>Literally "not power"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="30">Even<note>Or "And"</note> young people will be faint and grow weary, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young will stumble, exhausted.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="31">But<note>Or "And"</note> those who wait for Yahweh shall renew <transChange type="added">their</transChange> strength. They shall go up <transChange type="added">with</transChange> wings<note>Hebrew "wing"</note> like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Listen to me in silence, coastlands, and let nations renew <transChange type="added">their</transChange> strength. Let them approach, then let them speak; let us draw near together for judgment.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Who has roused salvation from the east, summoned<note>Or "called"</note> him to his foot, gives nations {in his presence},<note>Literally "before his face"</note> and subjugates kings? He makes<note>Or "gives"</note> <transChange type="added">them</transChange> like the dust <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his sword, like scattered stubble <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his bow.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">He pursues them <transChange type="added">and</transChange> passes on <transChange type="added">in</transChange> peace; he does not enter <transChange type="added">the</transChange> path with his feet.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Who has accomplished and done <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, calling the generations from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {beginning}?<note>Literally "head"</note> I, Yahweh, <transChange type="added">am</transChange> first; and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the one with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> last.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble. They have drawn near, and they have come.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">Each one helps<note>Hebrew "help"</note> his neighbor; he says to his brother, "Take courage!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> artisan encourages <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {goldsmith},<note>Literally "refiner"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who makes smooth with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hammer <transChange type="added">encourages the</transChange> one who strikes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> anvil, saying of the soldering, "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good!" And they strengthen it with nails <transChange type="added">so</transChange> it cannot be knocked over.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">But<note>Or "And"</note> you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the {offspring}<note>Literally "seed"</note> of Abraham my {friend},<note>Literally "beloved"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">you whom I grasped from the ends of the earth and called from its remotest parts and told, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my servant; I have chosen you and I have not rejected you."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">You must not fear, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you; you must not be afraid, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the right hand of my salvation.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated; {your opponents}<note>Literally "the men of your strife"</note> shall be like nothing and shall become lost.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">You shall seek them, but<note>Or "and"</note> you shall not find them; {your opponents}<note>Literally "the men of your strife"</note> shall be like nothing, and the men of your war like nothing.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="13">For I, Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">am</transChange> grasping your right hand; {it is I who say}<note>Literally "the sayer"</note> to you, "You must not fear; I myself, I will help you.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">You must not fear, O worm of Jacob; people of Israel, I myself, I will help you," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and your redeemer <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the holy one of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="15">Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge, {with}<note>Literally "owner of"</note> sharp edges. You shall thresh and crush <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains, and you shall make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills like chaff.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="16">You shall winnow them and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind shall carry them, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tempest shall scatter them. And you yourself shall rejoice in Yahweh; you shall boast in the holy one of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="17">The poor and the needy <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeking water and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">I will open rivers on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barren heights and fountains in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> midst of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> valleys. I will make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wilderness like a pool of water and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of dryness like springs of water.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">I will {put}<note>Literally "give"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive oil tree in the wilderness; I will set <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cypress, elm, and box tree together in the desert</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">so that they may see and know, and take to heart and understand together that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the holy one of Israel has created it."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">"Present your legal case," says Yahweh. "Bring your evidence," says the king of Jacob.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">Let them bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and let them tell us what will happen. Tell us what the former things <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {so that}<note>Or "And"</note> we may take <transChange type="added">them to</transChange> our heart and know their outcome.<note>Or "end"</note> Declare to us the things to come;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">tell <transChange type="added">us</transChange> the things coming {hereafter},<note>Literally "later"</note> that<note>Or "and"</note> we may know that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> gods. Indeed, do good or<note>Or "and"</note> do evil, that<note>Or "and"</note> we may be afraid and see<note>Following the reading tradition (Qere); the written text (Kethib) has "fear"</note> together.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">Look! you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> nothing, and your work <transChange type="added">is</transChange> something worthless; whoever chooses you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an abomination.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">I stirred up <transChange type="added">one</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and he has come from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rising of the sun.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">Who declared <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {beginning}<note>Literally "head"</note> {so that}<note>Or "and"</note> we might know, and {beforehand}<note>Literally "from before faces"</note> {so that}<note>Or "and"</note> we might say, "<transChange type="added">He is</transChange> {right}!"<note>Literally "righteous"</note> Indeed, there was no one who declared <transChange type="added">it</transChange>; Indeed, there was no one who proclaimed <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. Indeed there was no one who heard your words.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="28">But<note>Or "And"</note> I look and there is no man, and <transChange type="added">I look</transChange> among these and there is no counselor, that<note>Or "and"</note> I might ask them and they might answer a word.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="29">Look! All of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> deception; their works <transChange type="added">are</transChange> nothing; their images <transChange type="added">are</transChange> wind and emptiness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Look! <transChange type="added">here is</transChange> my servant; I hold him, my chosen one, <transChange type="added">in whom</transChange> my soul delights. I have {put}<note>Literally "given"</note> my spirit on him; he will bring justice forth to the nations.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">He will not break a broken reed, and he not will extinguish a dim wick. He will bring justice forth in<note>Or "to"</note> faithfulness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coastlands wait for his teaching.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Thus says the God, Yahweh, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">"I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh; I have called you in righteousness, and I have grasped your hand and watched over you; and I have given you as a covenant of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people, as a light of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">to open <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blind eyes, to bring <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prisoner out from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dungeon, those who sit <transChange type="added">in</transChange> darkness from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of imprisonment.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh; that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my name, </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Look! the former things have come, and I declare new things. I {announce}<note>Literally "cause to hear"</note> <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to you before they sprout up."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Sing a new song to Yahweh; praise him from the end of the earth, you<note>Or "those"</note> who go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the sea and that which fills it, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coastlands and their inhabitants.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert and its towns lift up their voice, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> villages <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy; let them shout loudly from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {top}<note>Literally "head"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Let them give<note>Or "establish"</note> glory to Yahweh and declare his praise in the coastlands.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Yahweh goes forth like a mighty warrior; he stirs up zeal like a man of war. He raises the war cry, indeed he raises the battle shout; he prevails against his foes.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">I have been silent for a long time; I have kept silent; I have restrained myself like one giving birth; I will moan, pant, and gasp together.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">I will cause mountains and hills to dry up, and I will cause all their herbage to wither; and I will make rivers like islands, and I will cause pools to dry up.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; I will cause <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to tread on paths they have not known. I will make darkness {in their presence}<note>Literally "before their face"</note> into light and rough places into level ground. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">They shall turn back; they shall be {greatly ashamed},<note>Literally "ashamed with shame"</note> those who trust in an image, who say to a cast image, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our gods."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> blind but my servant or<note>Or "and"</note> deaf like my messenger <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> I sent? Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> blind like the one who is repaid or<note>Or "and"</note> blind like the servant of Yahweh?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">You see many <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, but<note>Or "and"</note> you do not observe. <transChange type="added">His</transChange> ears are open, but<note>Or "and"</note> he does not hear.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness; he showed <transChange type="added">his</transChange> teaching to be great and proved <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to be glorious.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">But<note>Or "And"</note> this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes, and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment. They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves; <transChange type="added">like</transChange> booty, and there is no one who says, "Restore!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">Who among you will heed this, will listen attentively and listen, for {the time to come}?<note>Literally "later"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">Who gave Jacob to a plunderer<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "as plunder"</note> and Israel to those who plunder?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">So<note>Or "and"</note> he poured <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wrath <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his anger upon him and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but<note>Or "and"</note> he did not understand;<note>Or "did not know"</note> and it burned him, but<note>Or "and"</note> he did not take <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to heart.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">When you pass through the waters, I <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flame shall not scorch<note>Or "burn"</note> you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">For I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, your God, the holy one of Israel, your savior. I give you Egypt <transChange type="added">as</transChange> ransom, Cush and Seba in place of you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I myself love you, and I give people in place of you, and nations in place of your life.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">You must not fear, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you. I will bring your {offspring}<note>Literally "seed"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east, and I will gather you from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">I will say to the north, 'Give!' and to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south, 'You must not withhold!' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the end of the earth--</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">everyone who is called by my name, and whom I created for my glory, whom I formed, indeed whom I made."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Bring out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people blind yet<note>Or "and"</note> with eyes, and deaf, though<note>Or "and"</note> they have ears.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Let all the nations gather together, and let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples assemble. Who among them has declared this, and {declared}<note>Literally "caused to hear"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> former things to us? Let them bring<note>Or "give"</note> their witnesses, that<note>Or "and"</note> they may be in the right, and let them hear and say, "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> true!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">"You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my witnesses," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe {in}<note>Literally "to"</note> me and understand that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> he. No god was formed before {me}<note>Literally "my face"</note>, and none shall be after me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">I myself <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">I myself declared and saved, and I {proclaimed}.<note>Literally "caused to hear"</note> And there was no {strange god}<note>Literally "stranger"</note> among you. And you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my witnesses," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> God.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Indeed, from <transChange type="added">this</transChange> day I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the one, and no one can deliver from my hand. I perform,<note>Or "make"</note> and who can {cancel it}?"<note>Literally "bring it back"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "For your sake I will send <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon, and I will cause all of them to fall down <transChange type="added">as</transChange> fugitives, and {the Chaldeans},<note>Literally "Chaldea"</note> their rejoicing on the ships.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your king."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">Thus says Yahweh, who {makes}<note>Literally "gives"</note> a way in the sea and a path in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty waters,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">who brings out chariot and horse, army and mighty one. Together they lie down; they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> wick.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">"You must not remember <transChange type="added">the</transChange> former things, and you not must consider <transChange type="added">the</transChange> former things.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive<note>Or "know"</note> it? Indeed, I will {make}<note>Literally "put"</note> a way in the wilderness, rivers in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">The animals of the field will honor me, jackals and daughters of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ostrich, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert, to give a drink <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my chosen people,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">this people whom I formed for myself, so they might {make known}<note>Literally "count out"</note> my praise.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">But<note>Or "And"</note> you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering nor<note>Or "and"</note> honored me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your sacrifice. I have not made you serve with offerings,<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> nor have I made you weary with frankincense.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">You have not bought me spice reed with money or<note>Or "and"</note> satisfied me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">Take me to court; let us enter into judgment together. You, {make an account}<note>Literally "count up"</note> so that you may be in the right.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="27">Your first ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> sinned, and your {representatives}<note>Literally "scoffers" or "spokesmen"</note> transgressed against me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="28">And I profaned <transChange type="added">the</transChange> princes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sanctuary, and I gave Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Thus says Yahweh, who made you, and who formed you in<note>Or "from"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb and will help you: you must not fear, my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I have chosen.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">For I will pour out water on a thirsty <transChange type="added">land</transChange> and streams on dry ground. I will pour my spirit out on your descendants<note>Hebrew "descendant"</note> and my blessing on your offspring.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">And they shall sprout {among}<note>Literally "in between"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grass like willows by a watercourse of water.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">This <transChange type="added">one</transChange> will say, 'I belong to Yahweh!' And that <transChange type="added">one</transChange> will be called by the name of Jacob, and another will write <transChange type="added">on</transChange> his hand 'Yahweh's' and {take the name}<note>Literally "he will be titled by the name"</note> of Israel."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Thus says Yahweh, the king of Israel, and its redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: "I <transChange type="added">am the</transChange> first, and I <transChange type="added">am the</transChange> last, and there is no god besides me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like me? Let him proclaim<note>Or "call"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange>! And let him declare it and set it in order for me {since I established an eternal people}<note>Literally "from my placing a people of eternity"</note> and things that are to come, and let them tell them <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that are coming.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">You must not tremble,<note>Or "be startled"</note> and you must not be paralyzed with fear. Have I not made you hear from of old<note>Or "then"</note> and declared <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my witnesses? Is there a god besides me? And there is no rock! I know none!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">All those who form an idol <transChange type="added">are</transChange> nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Who would form a god and cast an image of <transChange type="added">which</transChange> he cannot profit?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Look! all his companions shall be ashamed, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> artisans <transChange type="added">are</transChange> human! Let all of them assemble; let them stand up. They shall tremble;<note>Or "be startled"</note> they shall be ashamed together.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> {ironsmith}<note>Literally "craftsman of iron"</note> works in the coals <transChange type="added">with his</transChange> tool and forms it with hammers. And he makes it with {his strong arm};<note>Literally "the arm of his strength"</note> indeed, he becomes hungry, and {he lacks}<note>Literally "there is no"</note> strength; he does not drink water, and he is faint.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> {woodworker}<note>Literally "craftsman of wood"</note> stretches out a line; he makes an outline <transChange type="added">of</transChange> it with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> marker. He makes it with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> knife and makes an outline <transChange type="added">of</transChange> it with <transChange type="added">a</transChange> compass. He makes it like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> image of a man, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beauty of a human, to dwell <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a temple.<note>Or "house"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Cutting down cedars for himself, he {chooses}<note>Literally "takes"</note> a holm tree and an oak, and he lets it grow strong for him among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trees of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> forest. He plants a cedar, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rain makes <transChange type="added">it</transChange> grow.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">And it {becomes fuel for a human},<note>Literally "will become for a man as burning"</note> and he takes some of it and grows warm; also, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also, he makes a god and bows in worship; he makes himself an image and bows down to it!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">He burns half of it in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fire; he eats meat over half of it; he roasts a roast and is satisfied. Also he grows warm and says, "Ah! I am warm! I see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fire!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">And he makes the remainder of it into a god! He bows down to his idol, and he bows in worship and prays to him, and he says, "Save me, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my god!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> besmeared {so that they cannot see},<note>Literally "from seeing"</note> their {minds}<note>Literally "hearts"</note> {so that they have no insight}.<note>Literally "from having insight"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">And {no one takes it to heart},<note>Literally "he does not bring back to his heart"</note> and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no knowledge and no understanding to say, "I burned half of it in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> feeds <transChange type="added">on</transChange> ashes; a {deceived mind}<note>Literally "heart deceived"</note> misleads him. And he cannot save {himself},<note>Literally "his soul"</note> and he cannot say, "Is <transChange type="added">this</transChange> not an illusion in my right hand?"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">"Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my servant: I formed you; you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my servant; Israel, you will not be forgotten by me!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">I have wiped your transgressions out like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">Sing for joy, heavens, for Yahweh has done <transChange type="added">it</transChange>! Shout, depths of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth! Break forth, mountains, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> rejoicing, forest and every tree in it, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and he will show his glory in Israel!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, and he who formed you in<note>Or "from"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb: "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, who made everything, who stretched out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens alone, who spread out the earth--who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with me?--</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">who frustrates<note>Or "breaks"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">who keeps<note>Or "erects"</note> the word of his servant and carries out the plan of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited,' and of the cities of Judah, 'They shall be rebuilt, and I will restore its ruins';</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="28">who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd,' and he shall carry out all my wishes<note>Hebrew "wish"</note>; and saying of Jerusalem, 'It shall be rebuilt,' and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> temple, 'It shall be founded.'"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subjugate nations before him, and I uncover<note>Or "let loose"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> loins of kings to open doors before him, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gates shall not be shut:</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">"I myself will go before you, and I will level <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {mountains}.<note>Literally "swells"</note> I will break <transChange type="added">the</transChange> doors of bronze and cut through<transChange type="added">the</transChange> bars of iron.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And I will give you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> treasures of darkness and treasures of secret places so that you may know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, the one who calls <transChange type="added">you</transChange> by your name, the God of Israel,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">for the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one. And I call you by your name; I give you a name of honor, though<note>Or "and"</note> you do not know me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, and there is none besides <transChange type="added">me</transChange>; besides me there is no god. I gird you though<note>Or "and"</note> you do not know me,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">so that they may know from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rising of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west that <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> none besides me; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh and there is none besides <transChange type="added">me</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">I</transChange> form light and <transChange type="added">I</transChange> create darkness; <transChange type="added">I</transChange> make peace and <transChange type="added">I</transChange> create evil; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh; <transChange type="added">I</transChange> do all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Trickle, O heavens, from above, and let clouds trickle <transChange type="added">with</transChange> righteousness; let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth open so that<note>Or "and"</note> salvation may be fruitful, and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it.<note>Or "together"</note> I myself, Yahweh, have created it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Woe <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> one who strives with his {maker},<note>Literally "one who forms"</note> a potsherd among<note>Or "with"</note> potsherds of earth! Does <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Woe <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> one who says to a father, 'What you are begetting?' or<note>Or "and"</note> to a woman, '<transChange type="added">With</transChange> what are you in labor?'"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its {maker}:<note>Literally "one who forms"</note> "Ask me of the things to come {about}<note>Literally "over"</note> my children, and you command me about the work of my hands.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">I myself made <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and I created humankind upon it. I, my hands, stretched out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens, and I commanded all their host.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">I myself have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his paths smooth. He himself shall build my city, and he shall set my exiles free,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Thus says Yahweh: "The acquisition of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, tall men, shall pass over to you; they shall be yours, and they shall walk behind you. They shall pass over in chains, and they shall bow down to you; they will pray to you: 'Surely God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you, and there is no <transChange type="added">other</transChange>. Besides <transChange type="added">him</transChange> <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no God.'"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">Surely you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a God who keeps yourself hidden, God of Israel, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> savior.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> craftsmen of idols go together in insult.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Israel is saved by Yahweh <transChange type="added">with</transChange> everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed, and you shall not be humiliated {to all eternity}.<note>Literally "for eternity, forever"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">For thus says Yahweh, {who created}<note>Literally "creating"</note> the heavens, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God, {who formed}<note>Literally "forming"</note> the earth and {who made}<note>Literally "making"</note> it. He himself established it; he did not create it <transChange type="added">as</transChange> emptiness-- he formed it for inhabiting.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, 'Seek me {in vain}!'<note>Literally "in emptiness," as in verse 18</note> I, Yahweh, <transChange type="added">am</transChange> speaking righteousness, declaring uprightness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols}<note>Literally "the wood of their idol"</note> and pray to a god who cannot save.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">Declare and present <transChange type="added">your case</transChange>, also let them consult together! Who {made this known}<note>Literally "caused to hear this"</note> from {former times},<note>Literally "before"</note> declared it from {of old}?<note>Literally "then"</note> <transChange type="added">Was it</transChange> not I, Yahweh? And there is no <transChange type="added">other</transChange> god besides <transChange type="added">me</transChange>, a righteous God besides me, and no savior besides me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">Turn to me and be saved, all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> God and there is none besides <transChange type="added">me</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">I have sworn by myself; a word that<note>Or "and"</note> shall not return has gone forth from my mouth <transChange type="added">in</transChange> righteousness: 'Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.'</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">'Only in Yahweh,' one shall say to me, '<transChange type="added">are</transChange> righteousness and strength.' He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25">In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right, and they shall boast."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Bel bows down; Nebo <transChange type="added">is</transChange> stooping. Their idols are {on}<note>Literally "to"</note> animals<note>Hebrew "animal"</note> and {on}<note>Literally "to"</note> cattle; your {cargo}<note>Literally "things that are carried"</note> is carried <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a burden {on}<note>Literally "to"</note> weary <transChange type="added">animals</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">They stoop; they bow down together. They are not able to save <transChange type="added">the</transChange> burden, but<note>Or "and"</note> {they themselves go}<note>Literally "their inner self goes"</note> in captivity.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> belly, who have been carried from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb:</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Even<note>Or "And"</note> to <transChange type="added">your</transChange> old age I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> he; even<note>Or "And"</note> to <transChange type="added">your</transChange> advanced age I myself will support <transChange type="added">you</transChange>. I myself have made <transChange type="added">you</transChange>, and I myself will carry <transChange type="added">you</transChange>, and I myself will support <transChange type="added">you</transChange>, and I will save <transChange type="added">you</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as though<note>Or "and"</note> we were alike?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Those who lavish gold from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire {a goldsmith}<note>Literally "one who smelts"</note> and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">They carry it on <transChange type="added">their</transChange> shoulder; they support it and they set it <transChange type="added">in</transChange> its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even <transChange type="added">when</transChange> he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Remember this and pluck up courage! Call to {mind},<note>Literally "heart"</note> <transChange type="added">you</transChange> transgressors!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Remember <transChange type="added">the</transChange> former things from {a long time ago},<note>Literally "forever"</note> for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> God and there is none besides <transChange type="added">me</transChange>, God and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> none like me,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">who from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beginning declares <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end, and from before, <transChange type="added">things</transChange> that have not been done, who says, 'My plan shall stand,' and, 'I will accomplish<note>Or "do"</note> all my wishes,'<note>Hebrew "wish"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">who calls a bird of prey from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east, the man of his<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "my"</note> plan from a country from afar. Indeed I have spoken; indeed I will bring it <transChange type="added">to being</transChange>. I have formed <transChange type="added">it</transChange>; indeed I will do it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">I bring my righteousness near; <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not far. And my salvation will not delay; and I will put<note>Or "give"</note> salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Come down and sit on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust, virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Chaldea! For {they shall no longer call}<note>Literally "you shall not add they shall call to"</note> you tender and delicate.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Take <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off <transChange type="added">your</transChange> skirt, uncover <transChange type="added">your</transChange> thigh, pass through <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rivers!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">Your nakedness shall be exposed; indeed, your shame shall become visible. I will take vengeance and I will not {spare}<note>Literally "plead with"</note> a person.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Our redeemer, Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name, the holy one of Israel. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for {they shall no longer call}<note>Literally "you shall not add they shall call to"</note> you mistress of kingdoms.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not {give}<note>Literally "set up"</note> them mercy; on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> aged you made your yoke very heavy.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And you said, "I shall be an eternal mistress forever!" You did not set these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> upon your heart; you did not remember its end.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Therefore now hear this, luxuriant <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who sits<note>Or "sitting"</note> in security, who says<note>Or "saying"</note> in her heart, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>, and besides me <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no one. I shall not sit <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a widow, and I shall not know <transChange type="added">the</transChange> loss of children."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">And these two shall come to you <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a moment, in one day: <transChange type="added">the</transChange> loss of children and widowhood shall come on you {completely},<note>Literally "as their fullness"</note> in spite of your many sorceries, in spite of the power of your great enchantments.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, "{No one}<note>Literally "none"</note> sees<note>Or "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> seeing"</note> me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>, and besides me <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no one."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">And evil shall come upon you, you will not know; it will be on the lookout for her. And disaster shall fall upon you; you will not be able to {avert}<note>Literally "make amends"</note> it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly; you do not know.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may {scare away}.<note>Literally "terrify"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">You struggle with your many consultations;<note>Or "advice"</note> let them stand, now, and save you-- those who see the stars, divide <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {celestial sphere},<note>Literally "heavens," that is, for astrology</note> who inform by new moons-- from <transChange type="added">those things</transChange> that are coming upon you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Look! They are like stubble; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fire burns them completely. They cannot deliver {themselves}<note>Literally "their lives"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {power}<note>Literally "hand"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flame; there is no coal {for warming oneself},<note>Literally "to grow warm"</note> <transChange type="added">no</transChange> fire before which to sit.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">So are to you <transChange type="added">those with</transChange> whom you have labored, your traders from your youth. They wander, each to his side; there is no one who can save you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and {invoke}<note>Literally "cause to remember"</note> the God of Israel, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> not in truth and not in righteousness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">For they call themselves {after the holy city},<note>Literally "from the city of the holiness"</note> and they lean on the God of Israel-- Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">"I declared the former things from {of old},<note>Literally "then"</note> and they went out from my mouth. And I {announced}<note>Literally "caused to hear"</note> them suddenly; I acted,<note>Or "did"</note> and they came <transChange type="added">to pass</transChange>,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">because {I know}<note>Literally "knowing me"</note> that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> obstinate, and your neck an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And I declared <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to you from of old; I { announced}<note>Literally "caused to hear"</note> <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to you before they came <transChange type="added">to pass</transChange> so that you would not say, 'My idol did them, and my image and my cast image commanded them.'</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">You have heard; see it all. And will you not declare <transChange type="added">it</transChange>? I {announce}<note>Literally "cause to hear"</note> new things to you from this time and hidden things that<note>Or "and"</note> you have not known.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Now they are created, and not from {of old},<note>Literally "then"</note> and before today, and you have not heard them so that you could not say, "Look! I knew them."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Neither have you heard, nor have you known, nor from {of old}<note>Literally "then"</note> has your ear been opened. For I knew you would deal treacherously, very treacherously, and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> called a rebel from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">For the sake of my name I {refrain from}<note>Literally "make long"</note> my anger, and <transChange type="added">for</transChange> my praise I restrain <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for you <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> not to cut you off.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Look! I have refined you, but<note>Or "and"</note> not like<note>Or "with"</note> silver; I have chosen you in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> furnace of misery.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">For my own sake, for my own sake I do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>; for why should it<note>That is, my name</note> be defiled? And I will not give my glory to another."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">"Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, {whom I called}:<note>Literally "who was called by me"</note> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> he. I <transChange type="added">am the</transChange> first; also I <transChange type="added">am the</transChange> last.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Indeed, my hand founded <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and my right hand spread out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens; <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I summon<note>Or "calling"</note> them, they stand in position together.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them declared these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>? Yahweh loves him; he shall perform<note>Or "do"</note> his wish against Babylon and his arm <transChange type="added">against</transChange> {the Chaldeans}.<note>Literally "Chaldea"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">I, I myself, I have spoken! Indeed, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will be successful <transChange type="added">in</transChange> his way.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">Draw near to me; hear this! I have not spoken in secrecy from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {beginning};<note>Literally "head"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time {it came to be},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">of</transChange> becoming it"</note> there I <transChange type="added">have been</transChange>; And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your {body}<note>Literally "intestines"</note> like its grains.<note>Hebrew "grain"</note> It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">Go out from Babylon! Flee from Chaldea! Proclaim<note>Or "announce"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with a shout<note>Or "sound"</note> of rejoicing; proclaim<note>Or "cause to hear"</note> this! {Send it forth}<note>Literally "Cause it to go out"</note> to the end of the earth; say, "Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange> he led them through the deserts, they were not thirsty; he made water flow from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock for them, and he split <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> water gushed out.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Listen to me, coastlands, and listen attentively, peoples from far away! Yahweh called me from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb; from the {body}<note>Literally "intestines"</note> of my mother he made my name known.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And he {made}<note>Literally "put"</note> my mouth like a sharp sword; he hid me in the shadow of his hand, and he {made}<note>Literally "put"</note> me like an sharpened arrow; he hid me in his quiver.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And he said to me, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my servant, Israel, in whom I will show my glory."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">But<note>Or "And"</note> I myself said, "I have labored in<note>Or "for"</note> vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with Yahweh, and my reward <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with my God."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And now Yahweh says, who formed me from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb as a servant for him, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might not<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "to him"</note> be gathered, for<note>Or "and"</note> I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And he says, "It is trivial {for you to be}<note>Literally "from being you"</note> a servant for me, </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">saying to the {prisoners},<note>Literally "captured ones"</note> "Come out!" to those who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in darkness, "Show yourselves!" they shall feed {along}<note>Literally "on"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ways, and their pasturage <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> on all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barren heights.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">They shall not be hungry or thirsty, and heat and sun shall not strike them, for he who takes pity on them will lead them, and he will guide them to springs of water.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">And I will {make}<note>Literally "put"</note> all my mountains like a road, and my highways shall lead up.<note>Or "be high"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Look! These shall come from afar, And look! These from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west and these from the land of Sinim."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth <transChange type="added">in</transChange> rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">But<note>Or "And"</note> Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">Can a woman forget her suckling, <transChange type="added">refrain</transChange> from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but<note>Or "and"</note> I, I will not forget you!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of <transChange type="added">my</transChange> hands; your walls <transChange type="added">are</transChange> continually before me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Your children hasten; your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart<note>Or "move away"</note> from you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">Lift your eyes up all around and see; all of them gather; they come to you. {As surely as I live},<note>Literally "Life I"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, surely you shall put on all of them like <transChange type="added">an</transChange> ornament, and you shall bind them on like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> bride.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">Surely your sites of ruins and desolate <transChange type="added">places</transChange> and land of ruins,<note>Hebrew "ruin"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">Yet the children {born when you were bereaved}<note>Literally "of your bereavement"</note> will say in your {hearing},<note>Literally "ears"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">And kings shall be your {guardians},<note>Literally "those who nurture"</note> and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, {faces}<note>Literally "noses"</note> <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then<note>Or "And"</note> you will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">Can war-booty be taken from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty? or can a captive of a righteous<note>The Dead Sea Scroll has "violent"</note> <transChange type="added">person</transChange> be rescued?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="26">And I will feed your oppressors their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> flesh, and they shall be drunk <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their blood as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> wine. Then<note>Or "And"</note> all flesh shall know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, your savior and redeemer, the strong <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of Jacob."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Why was there no man when I came, no one who answered when I called? {Do I lack the strength to save}?<note>Literally "short is short my hand from redemption"</note> Or <transChange type="added">is there</transChange> no power in me to deliver? Look! by my rebuke I dry up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea; I {make}<note>Literally "put"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rivers a desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and they<note>Hebrew "she"</note> die because of thirst.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">I clothe <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens <transChange type="added">with</transChange> darkness, and I {make}<note>Literally "put"</note> their covering sackcloth."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">The Lord Yahweh has given me <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tongue of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> pupil, to know how to help <transChange type="added">the</transChange> weary <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a word. He awakens {morning by morning},<note>Literally "in the morning in the morning"</note> awakens an ear for me to listen as <transChange type="added">do</transChange> the pupils.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">The Lord Yahweh has opened an ear for me, and I, I was not rebellious. I did not turn backwards;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">I gave my back to those who struck <transChange type="added">me</transChange>, and my cheeks to those who pulled out my {beard};<note>Literally "face"</note> I did not hide my face from insults and spittle.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">he who obtains rights for me <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the master of my judgment? Let him approach me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moth will eat them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Who among you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in fear of Yahweh, obeys<note>Or "listens"</note> the voice of his servant? Who walks <transChange type="added">in</transChange> darkness and has no light, trusts in the name of Yahweh and depends on his God?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Look! All of you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> kindlers of fire, who gird yourselves with flaming arrows. Walk in the light of your fire, and among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flaming arrows you have kindled! You shall have this from my hand: you shall lie down in<note>Or "to"</note> a place of torment.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh. Look to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock <transChange type="added">from which</transChange> you were hewn, and to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> excavation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit <transChange type="added">from which</transChange> you were quarried.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought you forth. For I called him {alone},<note>Literally "one"</note> but<note>Or "and"</note> I blessed him and made him numerous."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will {make}<note>Literally "put"</note> its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {sound}<note>Literally "voice"</note> of song.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">"Listen attentively to me, my people, and my nation, listen to me! For a teaching will go out from me, and I will cause my justice to rest for a light to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">My righteousness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near; my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they wait.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But<note>Or "And"</note> my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people <transChange type="added">who have</transChange> my teaching in their heart; you must not fear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour<note>Or "eat"</note> them like wool, but<note>Or "and"</note> my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}.<note>Literally "generation of generations"</note>"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Awake! Awake; put on strength, O arm of Yahweh! Awake as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> days of long ago, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> generations of a long time back! <transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you not the one who cut Rahab in pieces, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who pierced <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea-dragon?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Are you not the one who dried up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great deep, the one who {made}<note>Literally "placed"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> depths of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea a way for those who are redeemed to cross over?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">So<note>Or "And"</note> the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Zion with singing, and everlasting joy <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> on their heads.<note>Hebrew "head"</note> Joy and gladness shall {appear};<note>Literally "reach"</note> sorrow and sighing shall flee away!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">"I, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> he who comforts you; who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you that<note>Or "and"</note> you are afraid of man? He dies! And of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> son of humankind? He is {sacrificed}<note>Literally "given"</note> <transChange type="added">as</transChange> grass!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">And you have forgotten Yahweh, your maker, who stretched out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens, and founded <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth. And you tremble continually, all day, because of the wrath of the oppressor when he {takes aim}<note>Literally "sets up"</note> to destroy. But<note>Or "And"</note> where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the wrath of the oppressor?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> fettered one shall make haste to be freed. And he shall not die in<note>Or "to"</note> the pit, and he shall not lack his bread.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">For<note>Or "And"</note> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, your God, who stirs up<note>Or "stirring up"</note> the sea, {so that}<note>Or "and"</note> its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, to plant <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens and to found <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, saying to Zion, 'You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my people.'"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Stand up, Jerusalem, who have drunk from the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunk the goblet, the cup of staggering; you have drained <transChange type="added">it</transChange> out.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">There is no one who guides her among<note>Or "from"</note> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children she has borne, and there is no one who grasps her by the hand among<note>Or "from"</note> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children she raised.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">Two <transChange type="added">things</transChange> here <transChange type="added">have</transChange> happened to you--who will {show sympathy}<note>Literally "wander"</note> for you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword--who will comfort you?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">Your children have fainted; they lie at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head of all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets, like an antelope in<note>Or "of"</note> a snare, those who are full <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">Therefore hear now this afflicted <transChange type="added">one</transChange> and drunken <transChange type="added">one</transChange> but<note>Or "and"</note> not from wine.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">Thus says your Lord, Yahweh, and your God pleads the cause <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his people: "Look! I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering. You shall not {continue}<note>Literally "do again"</note> to drink the goblet, the cup of my wrath, any longer.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters, who have said to {you},<note>Literally "your inner self"</note> 'Bow down that<note>Or "and"</note> we may {pass}<note>Or "stride"</note> over <transChange type="added">you</transChange>!' And you have {made}<note>Literally "placed"</note> your back like the ground, and like the street for those who {pass}<note>Or "stride"</note> over <transChange type="added">you</transChange>."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Awake! Awake; put on your strength, Zion! Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem, {holy city}!<note>Literally "city of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holiness"</note> For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> uncircumcised and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> unclean shall not {continue to}<note>Literally "do again he shall"</note> enter you any longer.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Shake yourself free from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem! Free yourselves <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And now what do I have here?"{declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh--"and my name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> reviled continually, all day.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the one who speaks. {Here am I}."<note>Literally "Look at me"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns as a king."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">The voices<note>Hebrew "voice"</note> of your watchmen! They lift up <transChange type="added">their</transChange> voices;<note>Hebrew "voice"</note> together they sing for joy; for they {clearly}<note>Literally "eye in eye "</note> see Yahweh's return <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Zion.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Break forth, sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem, for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Yahweh has bared {his holy arm}<note>Literally "the arm of his holiness"</note> to the eyes of all the nations, and all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends<note>Hebrew "end"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth shall see the salvation of our God.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing. Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going before you, and your rear guard <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the God of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Look, my servant shall achieve success; he shall be exalted, and he shall be lifted up, and he shall be very high.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Just as many were appalled at you-- such <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his appearance beyond human disfigurement, and his form beyond the sons of mankind--</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.<note>Hebrew "mouth"</note> For they shall see what has not been told them, and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">For<note>Or "And"</note> he went<note>Or "grew"</note> up like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> shoot before him, and like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> root from dry ground. He had no form and no majesty that<note>Or "and"</note> we should see him, and no appearance that<note>Or "and"</note> we should take pleasure in him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">He was</transChange> despised and rejected <transChange type="added">by</transChange> men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with<note>Or "knowledgeable of"</note> sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces},<note>Literally "hiding of face from him"</note> <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet<note>Or "and"</note> we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down <transChange type="added">by</transChange> God and afflicted.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">But<note>Or "And"</note> he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> pierced<note>Or "wounded"</note> because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for<note>Or "of"</note> our peace<note>Or "healing"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> upon him, and by his wounds<note>Hebrew "wound"</note> {we were healed}.<note>Literally "it was healed for us"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">He was oppressed and afflicted, yet<note>Or "and"</note> he did not open his mouth; he was brought like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> lamb to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so<note>Or "and"</note> he did not open his mouth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">He was taken by restraint of justice, and who concerned himself with his generation? For he was cut off from the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living; he <transChange type="added">received a</transChange> blow because of the transgression of my people.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">He made<note>Or "gave"</note> his grave with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked, and with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rich in his death, although he had done no violence, and <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> no deceit in his mouth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Yet<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he {made him sick}.<note>Literally "he made sick"</note> If she<note>Or "you"</note> places<note>Or "makes"</note> his life a guilt offering,<note>Or "compensation"</note> he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">From the trouble of his life<note>Or "soul"</note> he will see;<note>Dead Sea Scrolls add "light"</note> he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous <transChange type="added">one</transChange>, my servant, shall declare many righteous,<note>Or "right"</note> and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Therefore, I will divide to him <transChange type="added">a portion</transChange> among the many,<note>Or "great"</note> and with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> strong ones he will divide bounty, {because}<note>Literally "Instead of that"</note> he poured his life out to death and was counted with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> transgressors; and<note>Or "yet"</note> he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">"Sing for joy, barren <transChange type="added">woman</transChange>; <transChange type="added">who</transChange> has not borne! Burst forth <transChange type="added">into</transChange> rejoicing and rejoice, <transChange type="added">she who</transChange> has not been in labor! For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desolate woman <transChange type="added">are</transChange> more than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> married woman," says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">"Enlarge the site of your tent, and let them stretch out the tent curtains of your dwelling place. You must not spare; make your tent cords long and strengthen your pegs,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">for you will spread out <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> right and <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> left. And your descendants<note>Hebrew "descendant"</note> will be heir <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> nations, and they will inhabit desolate towns.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">You must not fear, for you will not be ashamed, and you must not be confounded, for you will not feel abashed, for you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">For your husband<note>The Hebrew is plural</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your maker,<note>The Hebrew is plural</note> his name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh of hosts; and your redeemer <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the holy one of Israel, he is called the God of all of the earth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, like<note>Or "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">I abandoned you {for a short}<note>Literally "in a small"</note> moment, but<note>Or "and"</note> I will gather you with great compassion.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">I hid my face from you <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a moment, in the flowing of anger, but<note>Or "and"</note> I will have compassion on you with everlasting faithfulness" says your redeemer, Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">"For this <transChange type="added">is like</transChange> the waters of Noah to me, when I swore {that the waters of Noah would never again pass}<note>Literally "from the passing over of the waters of Noah again"</note> over the earth, so I swore {that I would not be}<note>Literally "from being "</note> angry at you and rebuke you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but<note>Or "and"</note> my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway," says Yahweh, who has compassion on you,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">"O afflicted <transChange type="added">one</transChange>, driven away, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> is not consoled. Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">And I will {make}<note>Literally "place"</note> your battlements of ruby, and your gates of stones of beryl, and all your wall of precious stones.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">And all your children <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> pupils of Yahweh, and the peace of your children <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> great.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">If indeed one attacks, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not from me; whoever attacks you shall fall because of you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">Look! I myself have created <transChange type="added">the</transChange> craftsman who blows<note>Or "blowing"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fire <transChange type="added">of</transChange> coals, and who produces<note>Or "producing"</note> a weapon for his work; also<note>Or "and"</note> I myself have created <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destroyer to destroy.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue <transChange type="added">that</transChange> rises against you for judgment. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, and their {legal right}<note>Literally "justice"</note> from me,"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">"Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters! And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat, and come, buy without money, wine and milk without price!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Why do you weigh out money for <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}?<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">what is</transChange> not for satiation"</note> Listen carefully to me, and eat <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich}<note>Literally "fatty"</note> food.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that<note>Or "and"</note> your soul may live, and I will {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> an everlasting covenant with<note>or "for"</note> you, the enduring proofs of {the mercies shown to}<note>Literally "mercy of"</note> David.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Look! I made<note>Or "gave"</note> him a witness to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples, a leader and a commander <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> peoples.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Look! You shall call a nation <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you do not know, and a nation <transChange type="added">that</transChange> does not know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Seek Yahweh {while he lets himself be found};<note>Literally "in his letting himself be found"</note> call him {while he is}<note>Literally "in his being"</note> near.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked forsake his way, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that<note>Or "and"</note> he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will {forgive manifold}.<note>Literally "make numerous to"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">"For my thoughts <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not your thoughts, and your ways <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not my ways,"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">"For <transChange type="added">as</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens are {higher}<note>Literally "high"</note> than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, so my ways are {higher}<note>Literally "high"</note> than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they do not return there except they have watered the earth thoroughly and cause it to bring forth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me without success, but shall accomplish<note>Or "do"</note> what I desire and be successful <transChange type="added">in the thing for</transChange> which I sent it.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">For you shall go out in joy, and you shall be led in peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing and all the trees of the field shall clap hands.<note>Hebrew "hand"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">Instead of the thorn bush, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> juniper shall go up; instead of the brier, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> myrtle shall go up, and it shall serve as a memorial to Yahweh, for an everlasting sign <transChange type="added">that</transChange> shall not be cut off."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Happy <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> man <transChange type="added">who</transChange> does this, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> son of humankind <transChange type="added">who</transChange> keeps hold of it, who keeps <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sabbath {so as not to profane}<note>Literally "from profaning"</note> it, and who keeps his hand from doing any<note>Or "all"</note> evil."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And do not let the {foreigner}<note>Literally "son of the foreign country"</note> <transChange type="added">who</transChange> joins himself to Yahweh say, "Surely Yahweh will separate me from his people." And do not let the eunuch say, "Look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a dry tree!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose that in which I delight, and who keep hold of my covenant.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And I will give them a monument and a name in my house and within my walls, better than sons and daughters; I will give him an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And the {foreigners}<note>Literally "sons of the foreign country"</note> <transChange type="added">who</transChange> join themselves to Yahweh to serve him and to love the name of Yahweh, to become his servants, every one who keeps <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sabbath, {so as not to profane}<note>Literally "from profaning"</note> it, and those who keep hold of my covenant,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">I will bring them to {my holy mountain};<note>Literally "the mountain of my holiness"</note> I will make them merry in my house of prayer. their burnt offerings and their sacrifices {will be accepted}<note>Literally "for acceptance"</note> on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">{declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> the Lord Yahweh, who gathers<note>Or "gathering"</note> the scattered ones of Israel (still I will gather to<note>Or "upon"</note> him, to his gathered ones). </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">All wild animals <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> field, come, to devour,<note>Or "eat"</note> all wild animals in the forest!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">His watchmen <transChange type="added">are</transChange> blind, none of them know. They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">And the dogs {have a greedy appetite};<note>Literally "are strong of soul"</note> they {are never satisfied}.<note>Literally "do not know satiation"</note> And they are <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shepherds! They do not have<note>Or "know"</note> understanding. They all turn to their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> way, each one for his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> gain, {every one of them}.<note>Literally "from his end "</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">"Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse <transChange type="added">with</transChange> intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, {very great indeed}."<note>Literally "excessively"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">The righteous <transChange type="added">one</transChange> perishes, and there is no one who takes<note>Or "sets"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to heart. And men of faithfulness <transChange type="added">are</transChange> gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="2">he enters <transChange type="added">into</transChange> peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">"But<note>Or "And"</note> you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring <transChange type="added">of</transChange> an adulterer and she <transChange type="added">who</transChange> commits fornication.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">At whom do you make fun? At whom do you {open}<note>Literally "widen"</note> <transChange type="added">your</transChange> mouth <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {stick out}<note>Literally "make long"</note> <transChange type="added">your</transChange> tongue? <transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you not children of transgression, offspring of deception,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Your portion <transChange type="added">is</transChange> among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> smooth <transChange type="added">stones</transChange> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> valley; they, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your lot; indeed, to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a food offering.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7">You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">And you have set your symbol behind the door and the doorpost; for you depart<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "uncover," which makes no sense in context, but with different vowels it would be "depart"</note> from me, and you go up; you make your bed wide, and you {make a deal with}<note>Literally "cut off for yourself from"</note> them, you have loved their bed; you have seen <transChange type="added">their</transChange> {genitals}.<note>Literally "hand"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">And you climbed down to the king with oil, and you made your perfumes numerous, and you sent your envoys {far away},<note>Literally "to from far"</note> and you {sent down deep}<note>Literally "humiliated"</note> to Sheol.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">You grow weary by the greatness of your way, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> you did not say, 'Despairing!' You found the {renewal}<note>Literally "life"</note> of your {strength},<note>Literally "hand;" compare the "hand" in verse 8</note> therefore you do not grow weak.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">And of whom were you afraid and feared, that you deceived and did not remember me? Did you not place <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on your heart? <transChange type="added">Have</transChange> I not been silent, even from long ago, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> you do not fear me?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but<note>Or "and"</note> they will not benefit you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">When {you cry},<note>Literally "your crying"</note> let your collection deliver you, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind will carry all of them away; a breath will take <transChange type="added">them</transChange> away. But<note>Or "And"</note> he who takes refuge in me shall take possession <transChange type="added">of</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land, and he shall inherit my {holy mountain}."<note>Literally "mountain of holiness "</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="14">And one shall say, "Build up, build up! Clear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way! Remove <transChange type="added">the</transChange> obstacles<note>Hebrew "obstacle"</note> from the way of my people!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">For thus says <transChange type="added">the</transChange> high and lofty one who resides forever, and <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> holy: </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">For I will not attack forever, and I will not be angry forever, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit will grow faint before me, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breaths <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I myself I have made.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but<note>Or "and"</note> he walked apostate, in the ways<note>Hebrew "way"</note> of his heart.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="18">I have seen his ways, but<note>Or "and"</note> I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense,</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="19">creating fruit of lips. Peace, peace to the far and near," says Yahweh, "and I will heal him.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="20">But<note>Or "And"</note> the wicked <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like the churning sea, that is not able to keep quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">"Call with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> trumpet, and declare<note>Or "announce"</note> to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Yet<note>Or "And"</note> they seek me day <transChange type="added">by</transChange> day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced}<note>Literally "did"</note> righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments},<note>Literally "judgments of righteousness"</note> they desire the closeness of God.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">'Why do we fast, and you do not see <transChange type="added">it</transChange>? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice <transChange type="added">it</transChange>?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="4">Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}.<note>Literally "fist of wickedness"</note> You shall not fast as <transChange type="added">you do</transChange> {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> to {make your voice heard}<note>Literally "cause to hear your voice"</note> on the height.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="5">Is <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fast I choose like this, a day for humankind to humiliate {himself}<note>Literally "his soul"</note>? To bow his head like a reed, and {make}<note>Literally "he makes"</note> his bed <transChange type="added">on</transChange> sackcloth and ashes; you call this a fast and a day of pleasure to Yahweh?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">Is this not <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fast I choose: to release <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bonds of injustice, to untie <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ropes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> yoke, and to let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressed go free, and {tear}<note>Literally "you must tear"</note> every yoke to pieces?</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring {home}<note>Literally "a house"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> homeless. When you see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your {relatives}.<note>Literally "flesh"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="8">Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall grow quickly. And your salvation shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="9">Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, 'Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>!' If you remove from among you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> yoke, the {finger-pointing}<note>Literally "stretching out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> finger"</note> and {evil speech},<note>Literally "the speaking of evil"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="10">if<note>Or "and"</note> you offer your soul to the hungry, and you satisfy <transChange type="added">the</transChange> appetite of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted, then<note>Or "and"</note> your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> like noon.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="11">And Yahweh will lead you continually, and satisfy your soul in a barren land, and he will strengthen your bones, and you shall be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring of water whose water does not fail.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you; you shall erect <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foundations of {many generations,}<note>Literally "generation and generation"</note> and {you shall be called}<note>Literally "shall be called to you"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bricklayer <transChange type="added">of</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breach, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> restorer of paths to live <transChange type="added">in</transChange>.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">If you hold your foot back from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sabbath, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> doing your affairs on {my holy day},<note>Literally "the day of my holiness"</note> if<note>Or "and"</note> you call the Sabbath a pleasure, the holy <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of Yahweh honorable, if<note>Literally "and"</note> you honor him {more than}<note>Literally "from"</note> doing your ways, than finding your affairs<note>Hebrew "affair"</note> and speaking a word,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">then you shall take your pleasure in<note>Or "on"</note> Yahweh, and I will make you ride upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heights of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and I will feed you the heritage of Jacob your ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note></verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="1">Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short {to save},<note>Literally "from saving"</note> and his ear is not <transChange type="added">too</transChange> dull {to hear}.<note>Literally "from hearing"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Rather, your iniquities have been {barriers}<note>Literally "dividers"</note> between you and your God, and your sins have hidden <transChange type="added">his</transChange> face from you, from hearing.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="3">For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">There is nobody {who pleads with}<note>Literally "calling in"</note> justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">they hatch viper eggs, and they weave a spider web. One who eats their eggs dies, and that which is pressed is hatched <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a serpent.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works <transChange type="added">are</transChange> works of iniquity, and deeds<note>Hebrew "deed"</note> of violence <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in their hands.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts <transChange type="added">are</transChange> thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in their highways.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">They do not know <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks}<note>Literally "walking"</note> in it knows no peace.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but<note>Or "and"</note> look! <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> darkness; for brightness, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> we walk in darkness.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">We grope like the blind <transChange type="added">along</transChange> a wall, and we grope {as without}<note>Literally "like there are no"</note> eyes. We stumble at noon as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the twilight; among the strong <transChange type="added">we are</transChange> like the dead.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but<note>Or "and"</note> there is none; for salvation, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> it is far from us.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins {testify}<note>Or "answers"</note> against us. Indeed, our transgressions <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with us, and we know our iniquities:</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning {away from following}<note>Literally "back from behind"</note> our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heart.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">and truth is missing, and he who turns aside from evil <transChange type="added">is</transChange> plundered. And Yahweh saw, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, so<note>Or "and"</note> his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness {was what}<note>Literally "it"</note> sustained him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">And he put on righteousness like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance <transChange type="added">for</transChange> clothing, and he wrapped <transChange type="added">himself in</transChange> zeal as <transChange type="added">in a</transChange> robe.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">According to deeds, so he will repay; wrath to his enemies, requital to those who are his {enemies}.<note>Literally "hostile"</note> He will repay requital to the coastlands.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">So<note>Or "And"</note> they shall fear the name of Yahweh from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west, and his glory from the sunrise, for he will come like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> narrow stream; the wind of Yahweh drives it on.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">"And a redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn away from transgression,"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">"And as for me, this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my covenant with them, says Yahweh: </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">"Arise, shine! For your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">For look! darkness shall cover <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and thick darkness <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples, but<note>Or "and"</note> Yahweh will rise on you, and his glory will appear over you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the bright light of your sunrise.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Lift up your eyes all around and see! All of them gather; they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be looked after on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hip.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">Then you shall see and you shall be radiant; and your heart shall tremble and open itself wide, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> abundance of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea shall fall upon you; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wealth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations shall come to you.</verse>


book: Isa
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<verse num="6">A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young male camels of Midian and Ephah. All those from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and they shall proclaim the praise of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall serve you. They shall present a sacrifice for favor <transChange type="added">on</transChange> my altar, and I will glorify {my honorable house}.<note>Literally "house of my honor"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these? They fly like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> cloud, and like doves to their coops.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coastlands wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish <transChange type="added">are</transChange> first to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the holy one of Israel, because he has glorified you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">And {foreigners}<note>Literally "sons of a foreign country"</note> shall build your walls, and their kings shall serve you, for in my anger I struck you, but<note>Or "and"</note> in my favor I have taken pity on you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">And your gates shall continually be open, day and night they shall not be shut, to bring you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wealth of nations, and their kings shall be led.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be utterly devastated.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">The glory of Lebanon shall come to you; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cypress, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plane, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pine together, to glorify the place of my sanctuary, and I will do honor to the place of my feet.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">And the children of those who oppressed you shall come to you bending low, and all those who treated you disrespectfully shall bow down at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you the city of Yahweh, Zion <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the holy one of Israel.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">Instead of you being forsaken and hated {with no one passing through,}<note>Or "and there is not one who passes through"</note> I will {make}<note>Literally "place"</note> you an everlasting {object of pride},<note>Literally "pride"</note> a joy of {coming generations}.<note>Literally "generation and generation"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">And you shall suck <transChange type="added">the</transChange> milk of nations, and suck <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breast of kings, and you shall know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Strong One of Jacob.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. And I will {appoint}<note>Literally "put"</note> peace <transChange type="added">as</transChange> your overseer, and righteousness <transChange type="added">as</transChange> {your ruling body}.<note>Literally "they who force you to work"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">Violence shall no longer be heard in your land; devastation or<note>Or "and"</note> destruction on your borders. And you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates, Praise.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">The sun shall no longer be your light by day, and for bright light the moon shall not give you light, but<note>Or "and"</note> Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">Your sun shall no longer go <transChange type="added">down</transChange>, and your moon shall not {wane},<note>Literally "be taken away"</note> for Yahweh himself will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall come to an end.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">And all your people <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> righteous; they shall take possession of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land forever, the shoot of his<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "my"</note> planting, the work of my hands, to show my glory.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">The small <transChange type="added">one</transChange> shall become <transChange type="added">a</transChange> tribe, and the smallest one a mighty nation.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> Spirit of the Lord Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> oppressed, to bind up {the brokenhearted},<note>Literally "those broken of heart"</note> to {proclaim}<note>Literally "call"</note> release to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> captives and liberation to those who are bound,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">to {proclaim}<note>Literally "call"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> year of Yahweh's favor, and our God's day of vengeance, to comfort all those in mourning,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">to {give}<note>Literally "place"</note> for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And {they will be called}<note>Literally "it will be called to them"</note> oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">And they shall build <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ancient ruins, they shall erect <transChange type="added">the</transChange> former deserted <transChange type="added">places</transChange>. And they shall restore <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {devastated cities},<note>Literally "cities of devastation"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deserted <transChange type="added">places</transChange> of {many generations}.<note>Literally "generation and generation"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,<note>Hebrew "flock"</note> and {foreigners}<note>Literally "sons of a foreign country"</note> <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> your farmers and vinedressers.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">But<note>Or "And"</note> you shall be called the priests of Yahweh, {you will be called}<note>Literally "it shall be said of you"</note> servers of our God. You shall eat <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wealth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations, and you shall boast in their riches.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Instead of your shame, a double portion, and <transChange type="added">instead of</transChange> insult, they will rejoice <transChange type="added">over</transChange> their portion. Therefore they will take a double portion in their land; {they shall possess everlasting joy}.<note>Literally "possession of joy everlasting shall be for them"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">For I, Yahweh, love justice, hate robbery and<note>Or "in"</note> injustice, and I will {faithfully}<note>Literally "in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> faithfulness"</note> give their reward, and I will {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> an everlasting covenant {with}<note>Literally "to"</note> them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">And their descendants<note>Hebrew "descendant"</note> will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All those who see them shall recognize them, that they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> descendants<note>Hebrew "descendant"</note> <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> Yahweh has blessed.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> garments of salvation, he has covered me <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> robe of righteousness, as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> bridegroom adorns <transChange type="added">himself</transChange> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a head wrap like a priest, and as <transChange type="added">a</transChange> bride adorns herself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> her jewelry.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">For as the earth {produces}<note>Literally "brings out"</note> its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not maintain a quiet attitude, until her righteousness goes out like the bright light, and her salvation burns like a torch.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations shall see your righteousness, and all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kings your glory, and {you will be called}<note>Literally "it shall be called to you"</note> a new name that the mouth of Yahweh will designate.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a headband of royalty in the hand of your God.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">It shall no longer be said of you, "Forsaken," and it shall no longer be said of your land, "Desolation!" but {you will}<note>Literally "to you it shall"</note> be called "My Delight <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> In Her," and your land, "Married," for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">For <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a young man marries a virgin, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> shall your sons marry you, and <transChange type="added">as is the</transChange> joy of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bridegroom over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bride, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> shall your God rejoice over you.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">I have appointed watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who profess Yahweh have no rest.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And you must not give him rest until he establishes, and until he {makes}<note>Literally "places"</note> Jerusalem {an object of praise}<note>Literally "a praise"</note> in the earth.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by {his mighty arm},<note>Literally "the arm of his might"</note> "Surely I will never again give your grain <transChange type="added">as</transChange> food to {your enemies},<note>Literally "those who are hostile to you"</note> and surely {foreigners}<note>Literally "sons of a foreign country"</note> shall not drink your new wine at which you have labored."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">But those who gather it shall eat it, and they shall praise Yahweh, and those who gather it shall drink it in {my holy courts}.<note>Literally "the courts of my holiness"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">Pass through, pass through the gates! Make the way clear {for}<note>Literally "of"</note> the people! Pile up, pile up the highway; clear <transChange type="added">it</transChange> of stones!<note>Hebrew "stone"</note> Lift up an ensign over the peoples!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">And they shall call them "The {Holy People},<note>Literally "People of the Holiness"</note> The Redeemed Of Yahweh," and {you}<note>Literally "to you it"</note> shall be called "Sought After, A City Is Not Forsaken."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah <transChange type="added">in</transChange> bright red garments? <transChange type="added">Who is</transChange> this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> I, speaking in justice, {mighty}<note>Literally "great"</note> to save!"</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your garments<note>Hebrew "garment"</note> red, and your garments like he who treads in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> winepress?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">"I have trodden <transChange type="added">the</transChange> winepress alone, and there was no man from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples with me. And I trod them in my anger, and I trampled them in my wrath, and spattered their juice on my garments, and stained all my clothing,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of vengeance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in my heart, and the year of my blood-vengeance has come!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">And I looked, but<note>Or "and"</note> there was no helper, and I was appalled, but<note>Or "and"</note> there was no one who sustains, so<note>Or "and"</note> my arm came to assist me, and my wrath {was what}<note>Literally "it"</note> sustained me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And I trampled peoples in my anger, and I made them drunk in my wrath, and I brought their juice down to the earth."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">I will mention the loyal love of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has done for us, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatness of goodness to the house of Israel that he has done to them according to his mercy and the abundance of his loyal love.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">And he said, "Surely my people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> children; they will not break faith." And he became a Savior to them. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">In all their distress, {there was no distress},<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "he had distress"</note> and the messenger of his {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days of old.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">But<note>Or "And"</note> they {were the ones who}<note>Literally "they"</note> rebelled, and they grieved {his Holy Spirit},<note>Literally "the spirit of his holiness"</note> so<note>Or "and"</note> he {became an enemy to them};<note>Literally "was changed to them to one who is hostile"</note> he himself fought against them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">Then<note>Or "And"</note> his people remembered the days of old, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Moses. Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one who led up them from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one who puts {his Holy Spirit}<note>Literally "the spirit of his holiness"</note> inside him,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">{who made}<note>Literally "bringing"</note> his magnificent arm move {at}<note>Literally "to"</note> the right hand of Moses, {who divided}<note>Literally "dividing"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters {before them},<note>Literally "from their face"</note> to make an everlasting name for himself,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">{who led}<note>Literally "leading"</note> them through the depths? They did not stumble like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> horse in the desert;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">like cattle in the valley <transChange type="added">that</transChange> goes down, the Spirit of Yahweh {gave him rest},<note>Literally "caused to rest"</note> so you lead your people to make a magnificent name for yourself.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">Look from heaven, and see from the lofty residence of your holiness and glory. Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your zeal and strength? {Your compassion}<note>Literally "The agitation of your intestines"</note> and mercy to me hold themselves back.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">For you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our father, although Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our father, Our Redeemer from <transChange type="added">of</transChange> old <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your name.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Why do you make us wander, Yahweh? You harden our heart from your ways {so that we do not fear}<note>Literally "from the fear of"</note> you. Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">{Your holy people}<note>Literally "The people of your holiness"</note> took possession for <transChange type="added">a</transChange> little <transChange type="added">while</transChange>; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">We have been since antiquity; you did not rule them; {they were not called by your name}.<note>Literally "your name was not called over them"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1"><note>Isaiah 64:1 in the English Bible begins here. In the Hebrew Bible, 63:19 continues</note> Would that you would tear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens <transChange type="added">and</transChange> come down; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains would quake before you,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2"><note>Isaiah 64:2-12 in the English Bible is 64:1-11 in the Hebrew Bible</note> as fire kindles brushwood, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, <transChange type="added">that the</transChange> nations might tremble from your {presence}.<note>Literally "face"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">When you did terrible deeds <transChange type="added">which</transChange> we did not {expect},<note>Literally "await"</note> you came down; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains quaked because of your {presence}.<note>Literally "face"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">And since ancient <transChange type="added">times</transChange> they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he {acts}<note>Literally "makes"</note> for the one who waits for him.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> ancient <transChange type="added">times</transChange> and we were saved.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like <transChange type="added">a</transChange> leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">And there is no one who calls on your name, who pulls himself up to keep hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us,<note>Or "him"</note> and melted us into the hand of our iniquity.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Yet now Yahweh, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our father; we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clay and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our {potter},<note>Literally "one who fashions"</note> and we all <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the work of your hand.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">You must not be exceedingly angry, Yahweh, and you must not remember iniquity forever!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">{Your holy cities}<note>Literally "The cities of your holiness"</note> have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">{Our holy and beautiful temple},<note>Literally "the house of our holiness and our beauty"</note> where our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> praised you has {been burned}<note>Literally "been for burning"</note> <transChange type="added">by</transChange> fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins.<note>Hebrew "ruin"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh? Will you be silent? And will you oppress us exceedingly?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="1">"I let myself be sought by <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> did not ask; I let myself be found by <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am; here I am!' to a nation <transChange type="added">that</transChange> did not call on my name;</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people, those who walk after their thoughts <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the way <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> not good,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">the people {who provoke}<note>Literally "provoking"</note> me to anger continually to my face, slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden, and making smoke offerings on bricks,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">{who sit}<note>Literally "sitting"</note> in graves and spend the night in {secret places},<note>Literally "watches"</note> {who eat}<note>Literally "eating"</note> the flesh of swine with<note>Or "and"</note> a fragment<note>The reading tradition (Qere) has "broth"</note> of impurity <transChange type="added">in</transChange> their vessels,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="5">{who say},<note>Literally "saying"</note> "{Keep to yourself}!<note>Literally "Come near to you"</note> You must not come near me, for I am <transChange type="added">too</transChange> holy for you!" These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a smoke in my {nostrils},<note>Literally "nose"</note> a fire burning all day.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">Look! <transChange type="added">It</transChange> is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay; and I will repay in<note>Or "on"</note> the fold of their garment</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> together, says Yahweh, because they made smoke offerings on the mountains and they taunted me on the hills, I will measure their punishment <transChange type="added">from the</transChange> beginning into the fold of their garment."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Thus says Yahweh: "Just as the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say 'You must not destroy it, for <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a blessing in it,' so I will do for the sake of my servants {by}<note>Literally "to"</note> not destroying {everyone}.<note>Literally "all"</note> </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">And I will bring descendant s<note>Hebrew "descendant"</note> out from Jacob, and a {people}<note>Literally "man"</note> from Judah to take possession of my mountain, and my chosen ones shall inherit it, and my servants shall settle there.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">And Sharon shall become a pasture for<note>Literally "of"</note> flocks,<note>Hebrew "flock"</note> and the valley of Achor a resting place for<note>Or "of"</note> herds<note>Hebrew "herd"</note> for my people who have sought me.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">But<note>Or "and"</note> you {who forsake}<note>Literally "forsaking"</note> Yahweh, forgetting {my holy mountain},<note>Literally "the mountain of my holiness"</note> who set a table for Fortune, and who {pour out}<note>Literally "fill"</note> a jug of mixed wine for Destiny,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="12">and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, but<note>Or "and"</note> you did not answer; I spoke, but<note>Or "and"</note> you did not listen, but<note>Or "and"</note> you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">Look! My servants shall shout {for joy},<note>Literally "from goodness of heart"</note> but<note>Or "and"</note> you, you shall cry out {for pain}<note>Literally "from pain of heart"</note> and howl {for sadness}.<note>Literally "from a breaking of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse, and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will {give}<note>Literally "call"</note> his servants another name.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness, and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness, because the former troubles are forgotten, and they are hidden from my eyes.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">For look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not {come to mind}.<note>Literally "go up to heart"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever <transChange type="added">over</transChange> what I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to create! For look! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to create Jerusalem <transChange type="added">as a source of</transChange> rejoicing, and her people <transChange type="added">as a source of</transChange> joy.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem, and I will rejoice over my people, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it, or<note>Or "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of a cry for help.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">There will no longer be a nursing infant {who lives only a few}<note>Literally "of"</note> days, or<note>Or "and"</note> an old man who does not fill his days, for the boy will die {a hundred years old},<note>Literally "a son of a hundred year"</note> and the one who {fails to reach}<note>Literally "misses"</note> {a hundred years}<note>Literally "a son of a hundred year"</note> will be {considered}<note>Literally "treated"</note> accursed.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">And they shall build houses and inhabit <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of my people <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> like the days of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> tree, and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they {shall be offspring blessed by}<note>Literally "the offspring of the blessing of"</note> Yahweh, and their descendants with them.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer; <transChange type="added">while</transChange> still they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> speaking, I myself will hear.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="25"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wolf and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lamb shall feed like one, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lion shall eat straw like the ox, but<note>Or "and"</note> dust <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> serpent's food. They shall do no evil, and they shall not destroy on all {my holy mountain},"<note>Literally "the mountain of my holiness"</note> says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="2">And my hand has made all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and all these {came to be},"<note>Literally "were"</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="3">The one who slaughters <transChange type="added">a</transChange> bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters <transChange type="added">a</transChange> lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck <transChange type="added">of</transChange> a dog. The one who offers an offering, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="4">Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment, and I will bring them objects of their dread, because I called, and {no one answered};<note>Literally "there was no one who answers"</note> I spoke and they did not listen, but<note>Or "and"</note> they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight."</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="6">A voice, an uproar from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city! A voice from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> temple! The voice of Yahweh {paying back}<note>Literally "rewarding retribution to"</note> his enemies!</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="7">Before she was in labor she gave birth; before labor pains<note>Hebrew "pain"</note> came to her, she gave birth to a son.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="8">Who has heard <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> like this? Who has seen <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> like these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>? Can a land be born in one day? Or can a nation be born in a moment?</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="9">Shall I myself I break open and not {deliver}?"<note>Literally "cause to bring forth"</note> says Yahweh, "or I who {delivers}<note>Literally "causes to bring forth"</note> lock up <transChange type="added">the womb</transChange>?" says your God.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="10">"Rejoice with Jerusalem and shout in exultation with her, all those who love her! Rejoice with her <transChange type="added">in</transChange> joy, all those who mourn over her,</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="11">so that you may suck and be satisfied from her {consoling breast},<note>Literally "breast of consolation"</note> so that you may drink deeply and refresh yourselves from her {heavy breast}."<note>Literally "breast of heaviness "</note></verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="13">As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="14">And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall {flourish}<note>Literally "sprout"</note> like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known {to}<note>Literally "with"</note> his servants, and he shall curse his enemies.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="15">For look! Yahweh will come in fire, and his chariots like the storm wind, to {give back}<note>Literally "cause to turn around"</note> his anger in wrath, and his rebuke in flames of fire.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="16">For Yahweh enters into judgment <transChange type="added">on</transChange> all flesh with fire and his sword, and {those slain by}<note>Literally "the slain of"</note> Yahweh shall be many.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="17">Those who sanctify themselves and those who cleanse themselves {to go into}<note>Literally "toward"</note> the gardens after <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one in the middle, eating the flesh of swine and detestable things<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> and rodents<note>Hebrew "rodent"</note> together</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="18">"And I--their works and thoughts!--<transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="19">And I will set a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow; Tubal and Javan, the faraway coastlands that have not heard <transChange type="added">of</transChange> my fame, and have not seen my glory.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="20">and bring all your countrymen<note>Or "brothers"</note> from all the nations <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an offering to Yahweh on horses and chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and in litters and on mules and camels, to<note>Or "on"</note> {my holy mountain},<note>Literally "the mountain of holiness me"</note> Jerusalem," says Yahweh, "just as the sons of Israel bring <transChange type="added">an</transChange> offering in a clean vessel <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="21">And indeed, I will take some of them as priests <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the Levites," says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="22">"For just as the new heavens and earth that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to make shall stand before me," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "so shall your descendants<note>Hebrew "descendant"</note> and your name stand. </verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="23">And this shall happen: From {new moon to new moon}<note>Literally "enough of new moon in his new moon"</note> and from {Sabbath to Sabbath}<note>Literally "enough of Sabbath in his Sabbath"</note> all flesh shall come to bow in worship before me," says Yahweh.</verse>


book: Isa
content:
<verse num="24">"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people<note>Or "men"</note> {who have rebelled}<note>Literally "rebelling"</note> against me, </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, among the priests who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">to</transChange> whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">It came also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came out from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb I consecrated you; I appointed you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a prophet to the nations."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know <transChange type="added">how</transChange> to speak, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a youth."<note>Or "boy"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">But Yahweh said to me, "You must not say, 'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a youth,'<note>Or "boy"</note> for to {whomever}<note>Literally "all of whom"</note> I send you, you will go, and {whatever}<note>Literally "all of that"</note> I command you, you will speak.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">{Do not be afraid of them},<note>Literally "you must not be afraid from the faces of them"</note> for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you to deliver you," {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and he touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me, </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">See, I appoint you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, and to destroy and to tear down, to build and to plant."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">And the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> seeing a branch of an almond tree."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Then Yahweh said to me, "You did well to see, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> watching over my word to perform it."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And the word of Yahweh came to me a second <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you seeing?" And I said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> seeing a {boiling}<note>Literally "blown upon"</note> pot, and its face <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Then Yahweh said to me, "From <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north disaster will be unleashed<note>Or "opened"</note> on all the inhabitants of the land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">For, look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> calling to all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clans<note>Or "families"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdoms of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and they will come and set each one his throne <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">And I will pass<note>Or "pronounce"</note> my judgments on them because of all their wickedness <transChange type="added">in</transChange> that they have forsaken me, and they made sacrifices to other gods, and they bowed in worship to the works of their hands.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">But you, you must gird your loins, and stand, and speak to them all that I command you. {Do not be afraid of them},<note>Literally "You must not be filled with terror from the faces of them"</note> or I will shatter you {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">Now look, I have made you {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> as a fortified city and as an iron pillar and a bronze wall<note>Hebrew "walls"</note> against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">And they will fight against you but they will not prevail against you, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "to deliver you." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, {saying},<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Thus says Yahweh, </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> holy to Yahweh, the first fruit of his produce. All <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> ate it were held guilty; disaster came to them," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.'"</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Hear the word of Yahweh, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> house of Jacob, and all the clans<note>Or "families"</note> of the house of Israel.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">And they did not say, 'Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> in a land of desert plains and gorges,<note>Hebrew "gorge"</note> in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land {that no one passes through},<note>Literally "no man passes through in it"</note> and no human lives there?'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And I brought you to the land of the orchard, to eat its fruit, and its good things.<note>Hebrew "good thing"</note> But you entered and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made a detestable thing.<note>Or "abomination"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">The priests did not say, 'Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh?' and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have {rebelled against me},<note>Literally "broken with me"</note> and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after <transChange type="added">things which</transChange> do not profit.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> I again bring a lawsuit against you," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and with {your children}<note>Literally "sons of your sons"</note> I bring a lawsuit.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">For go over <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the coasts of Cyprus and look, and send <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Kedar and consider very closely, and see if there has been <transChange type="added">a thing</transChange> like this:</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Has a nation exchanged gods? And they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">Be appalled, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> source<note>Or "fountain"</note> of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> Israel a slave? Or {a slave born in a house}?<note>Literally "born of a house"</note> Why has he become plunder?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> young lions have roared against him, they have {raised}<note>Literally "given"</note> their voices.<note>Hebrew "voice"</note> And they have made his land as horror; his cities are destroyed, {without}<note>Literally "from not"</note> an inhabitant.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes will {shave}<note>Literally "pasture"</note> your skull.<note>Or "crown of your head"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">Did you not do this to yourself, <transChange type="added">by</transChange> forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">And now {why do you go}<note>Literally "what for you"</note> the way of Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor? And {why do you go}<note>Literally "what for you"</note> the way of Assyria to drink the waters of the {Euphrates}?<note>Literally "river"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not in you," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">"For from long ago you have broken your yoke, you tore to pieces your bonds. And you said, 'I will not serve!' But on every high hill and under every leafy tree you <transChange type="added">were</transChange> lying down <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a prostitute.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">Yet I planted you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me <transChange type="added">into something that is</transChange> degenerate, the foreign vine?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap},<note>Literally "make numerous for yourself alkaline salt"</note> your guilt <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sticking as a stain {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> the Lord Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">"How can you say, 'I have not defiled myself, I have not gone after the Baals?' Look at your way in the valley, know what you have done. <transChange type="added">You are</transChange> a young she-camel, interweaving her ways.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">A wild ass accustomed to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> in the desire of her soul. She gasps <transChange type="added">for</transChange> wind <transChange type="added">in</transChange> her rutting time. Who can quell<note>Or "restrain"</note> her <transChange type="added">lust</transChange>? All <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> seek her will not grow weary, in her month they will find her.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">Restrain your foot from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, '<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'<note>Or "walk"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">As <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shame of a thief when he is caught in the act, so the house of Israel will be ashamed. They, their kings, their officials, and their priests, and their prophets.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27"><transChange type="added">Those who</transChange> say to the tree, 'You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth <transChange type="added">to</transChange> me.' For they have turned <transChange type="added">their</transChange> {backs}<note>Literally "neck"</note> to me, and not <transChange type="added">their</transChange> faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">But where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> the number of your towns are your gods, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">Why do you complain to me? All of you have {rebelled against me},"<note>Literally "broken with me"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">"For {in vain}<note>Literally "the vanity"</note> I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening<note>Or "destroying"</note> lion.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert<note>Or "wilderness"</note> to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="32">Can a young woman forget her ornaments?<note>Or "jewelry"</note> <transChange type="added">Or</transChange> a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="33">How well you do <transChange type="added">on</transChange> your way to seek love! {Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> even <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the wicked <transChange type="added">woman</transChange> you can teach your ways.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="34">Also on your skirts is found <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blood of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> life of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="35">yet you say, 'But I am innocent, surely his anger has turned away from me.' Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> entering into judgment with you because of your saying, 'I have not sinned.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="36">How you go about so much changing your way! Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, just as you were put to shame by Assyria.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="37">Also from there you will come out with your hands on your head, for Yahweh has rejected {those in whom you trust},<note>Literally "in your objects of trust"</note> and you will not prosper through them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">A {saying}:<note>Literally "to say"</note> 'Look, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him {and she becomes another man's wife},<note>Literally "and she becomes to a man another"</note> will he return to her again?' Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted <transChange type="added">yourself</transChange> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> many lovers, <transChange type="added">would</transChange> you now return to me?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">"Lift up your eyes at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barren heights, and see where you have not been ravished. Beside the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> and you have defiled <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land with your fornication and with your wickedness.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore rain showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come. Yet {you have}<note>Literally "it is for you"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> forehead of a woman prostitute, you refuse to be ashamed.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the close friend of my youth?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">Will he be angry {forever}?<note>Literally "to eternity"</note> Will he maintain <transChange type="added">it</transChange> {always}'?<note>Literally "to duration"</note> Look, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could."<note>Literally "you have done the evil and you were able"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, "Have you seen what apostate<note>Or "unfaithful"</note> Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted <transChange type="added">herself</transChange> there.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">And I thought, 'After her doing all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to me she will return,' but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">And I saw that {for this very reason, that}<note>Literally "because of all"</note> on account of apostate<note>Or "unfaithful"</note> Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted <transChange type="added">herself</transChange> also.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Yet even in all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, {but only}<note>Literally "but if"</note> in pretense,"<note>Or "deception"</note> {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">Then Yahweh said to me, "Apostate<note>Or "unfaithful"</note> Israel has proved herself more upright<note>Or "righteous"</note> than treacherous Judah.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Only acknowledge your guilt, that against Yahweh your God you have rebelled, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every leafy tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">"Return, apostate<note>Or "unfaithful"</note> children," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "For {I am your master},<note>Literally "I rule over among you"</note> and I will take you one from a city and two from a clan,<note>Or "family"</note> and I will bring you <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Zion.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">And it will be when you have multiplied and become fruitful in the land in those days," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "they will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.' And {it will not come to mind},<note>Literally "it shall not go up on heart"</note> nor will they remember it, nor will they miss <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> nor will it be made again.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">At that time they will call Jerusalem 'The Throne of Yahweh,' and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and they will no longer go after the stubbornness of their evil heart.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">In those days the house of Judah will walk along with the house of Israel and they will come together from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north to the land that I gave as an inheritance <transChange type="added">to</transChange> your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> glory of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from {behind}<note>Or "following"</note> me.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with me, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> house of Israel," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">"A voice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> heard on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barren heights, the weeping of the pleas for mercy of the children of Israel, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Return, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> apostate<note>Or "unfaithful"</note> children, I will heal your backsliding. 'Look, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">Surely, an illusion <transChange type="added">comes</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> turmoil <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the mountains. Surely, in Yahweh our God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the salvation of Israel.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> from our youth, their flocks, and their cattle, their sons and their daughters.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. For against Yahweh our God we have sinned, we and our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> from our youth and until this day. and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">If you return, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Israel," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "you return to me. And if you remove your abominations from my {presence},<note>Literally "faces"</note> and you do not wander,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">and you swear, '{As Yahweh lives},'<note>Literally "life of Yahweh"</note> in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will be blessed by him, and in him they will boast."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">For thus says Yahweh to the men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and remove the foreskins of your hearts,<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and burns, and there is no <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> extinguishes <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> because of the evil of your deeds."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say, "Blow a horn through the land, {call with a loud voice}<note>Literally "call fill"</note> and say, 'Be gathered and let us go into the fortified cities.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> bringing evil from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and a great destruction.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has gone out from his place to make your land as a horror, your cities will go to ruin {without}<note>Literally "from not"</note> inhabitant.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">Because of this gird yourselves <transChange type="added">with</transChange> sackcloth,<note>Hebrew "sackcloths"</note> lament and wail, for {the burning anger}<note>Literally "the blaze of the nose"</note> of Yahweh has not turned back from us.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">And then on that day," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "the heart of the king and the heart of the officials will be destroyed, and the priests will be appalled, and the prophets will be astonished."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'It will be peace for you,' while the sword reaches up to the throat." </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "{A hot wind from the barren heights}<note>Literally "a wind of shimmering of barren heights"</note> in the desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> {in the direction of}<note>Literally "the way of"</note> the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse,</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">{a wind too strong for}<note>Literally "a wind strong more than"</note> these will come for me, now also I speak judgments against them."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">Look, he comes up like the clouds, and his chariots <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like the whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles, woe to us, for we are devastated.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">Cleanse your heart from wickedness, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long}<note>Literally "until when"</note> will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">For a voice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> declaring from Dan, and <transChange type="added">is</transChange> proclaiming disaster from the mountain of Ephraim.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">"Report to the nations, 'Here they are!' Proclaim against Jerusalem, 'Besiegers <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming {from a distant land},<note>Literally "from a land the distance place"</note> and they raise their voice against the cities of Judah.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">Like watchers of a field they were against her from all around, because she has rebelled against me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">"You obtained this for yourself <transChange type="added">because of</transChange> your way and your deeds. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your doom, for <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear <transChange type="added">in</transChange> my inner self the sound of a horn, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> alarm of war.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="20">Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, for all of the land is devastated. Suddenly my tents are devastated, my tent curtains in a moment.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">How long must I see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> banner, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of a horn?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">"For my people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> foolish, they have not known me. They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> foolish children, and they do not have insight. They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> skillful at doing evil, and they do not know <transChange type="added">how</transChange> to do good."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> without their light.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">I looked and behold, there was no person, and all of the birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> of the sky had fled.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">I looked and behold, the fruitful land <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a desert,<note>Or "wilderness"</note> and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of {his burning anger}.<note>Literally "the blaze of his nose"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">Because of this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will become dark. Because I have spoken, I have planned, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">From the sound of a horseman and {an archer}<note>Literally "one who shoots arrows of a bow"</note> every town flees, they enter in the thickets and among the rocks they climb. Every town <transChange type="added">is</transChange> forsaken, and there is no person <transChange type="added">who</transChange> lives in them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="30">And you, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> devastated one, what <transChange type="added">do</transChange> you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. <transChange type="added">Your</transChange> lovers reject you; they seek your life.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like <transChange type="added">a woman who</transChange> bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired<note>Or "fainting"</note> before killers."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person <transChange type="added">who</transChange> does justice, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="2">And though they say, '{As Yahweh lives},'<note>Literally "Life of Yahweh"</note> {therefore}<note>Literally "to thus"</note> they swear falsely."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">O</transChange> Yahweh, do not your eyes <transChange type="added">look</transChange> for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="4">Then I said, "<transChange type="added">They are</transChange> just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law<note>Or "ordinance"</note> of their God.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="5">Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the law<note>Or "ordinance"</note> of their God." However, they together have broken <transChange type="added">the</transChange> yoke, they have torn to pieces <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bonds.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="6">Therefore a lion from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> forest will kill them, A wolf <transChange type="added">from the</transChange> desert plains<note>Or "Arabah"</note> will devastate them. A leopard <transChange type="added">is</transChange> watching their cities, everyone <transChange type="added">who</transChange> goes out from there will be torn, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are numerous.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="7">"{How}<note>Literally "Why to this"</note> can I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me, and they have sworn by <transChange type="added">those who are</transChange> not gods. But I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and flocked <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of a prostitute.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="8">They were well-fed lusty horses, they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="9">Because of these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> shall I not punish?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and on a nation who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like this, shall I not take revenge?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="10">Go up through her vineyards and destroy, but you must not make complete destruction. Remove her branches, for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="11">For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt utterly treacherously with me," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="12">"They have denied Yahweh, and have said, 'Not he, {for}<note>Literally "and"</note> evil will not come on us, we will see neither sword nor famine.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="13">And the prophets are like wind, and the word <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not in them.' Thus it will be done to them."</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="14">{Therefore}<note>Literally "To thus"</note> thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, "Because you have spoken this word, look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> making my words in your mouth like a fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="15">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring on you a nation from afar, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> house of Israel," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh. "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an enduring nation, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {an ancient nation}.<note>Literally "a nation from a long time ago"</note> A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="16">Their quiver <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like an open tomb, all of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> warriors.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="17">And they will eat your harvest and your food, they will eat your sons and your daughters, they will eat your flock and your herd, they will eat your vine and your fig tree, they will smash with the sword {your fortified cities},<note>Literally "the cities of your fortification"</note> in which you trust.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="18">"But even in those days," {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "I will not make you a complete destruction.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="19">{And then},<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> when you <transChange type="added">people</transChange> say, 'Why has Yahweh our God done all of these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to us?' Then you will say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and have served gods of a foreign land in your land, so will you serve strangers in {a land that does not belong to you}.'<note>Literally "a land not to you"</note> </verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="21">'Hear this please, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> foolish and {senseless}<note>Literally "without heart"</note> people, {who have eyes}<note>Literally "eyes for them"</note> but do not see, {who have ears}<note>Literally "ears for them"</note> but do not hear.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="22">Do you not revere me?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}?<note>Literally "from the face of me"</note> For I have placed <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sand <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit},<note>Literally "a limit of eternity"</note> and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="23">But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone <transChange type="added">away</transChange>.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="24">And they do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> gives <transChange type="added">the</transChange> autumn rain<note>Hebrew "early rain"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spring rain<note>Hebrew "late rain"</note> in its season, {the set times of the harvest}<note>Literally "weeks due harvest"</note> he keeps for us.'</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="25">Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="26">For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="27">Like a cage full of birds,<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> so their houses <transChange type="added">are</transChange> full of fraud. {Therefore}<note>Literally "Unto thus"</note> they have become great, and they have become rich.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="28">They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}.<note>Literally "they cross over evil deeds"</note> They do not judge <transChange type="added">with</transChange> justice, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> legal cause of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan, or allow it to succeed, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> legal case of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, they do not defend.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="29">Because of these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> shall I not punish?" {declares}<note>Literally "a declaration of"</note> Yahweh, "and on a nation who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like this, shall I not take revenge?</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="31">The prophets prophesy {falsely},<note>Literally "in the lie"</note> and the priests rule {by their own authority},<note>Literally "by their hands"</note> and my people love <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> so much. But what will you do {when the end comes}?<note>Literally "to end her"</note></verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="1">Flee for safety, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem. And in Tekoa blow a horn, and on Beth-haccherem lift up a signal, for evil looks down from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north, and a great destruction.</verse>


book: Jer
content:
<verse num="3">Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch <transChange type="added">their</transChange> tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his {portion}.<note>Literally "hand"</note></verse>


