# bible_fts_content

c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 129
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Yahweh is righteous. He has cut the ropesThat is, the yoke and tackle on a beast of burden of the wicked.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 129
c2verse: 8
c3content:
so that passersby do not say, "The blessing of Yahweh be upon you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 130
c2verse: 3
c3content:
If you, O Yah,A shortened form of "Yahweh" should {keep track of}Literally "keep" iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 130
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I waitOr "hope," here and v. 7, though the Hebrew uses a different verbal stem in v. 7 for his word.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 130
c2verse: 6
c3content:
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Yes, more than watchmen for the morning.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 130
c2verse: 7
c3content:
O Israel, waitOr "hope" for Yahweh. For with Yahweh there is loyal love, and with him there is abundant redemption.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 131
c2verse: 1
c3content:
My heart is not haughty nor my eyes {arrogant}.Literally "raised" And I do not {concern myself}Literally "walk about" with things too great and difficult for me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 131
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like the weaned child is my soul with me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 132
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Yahweh swore in truth to David; he will not turn back from it. "One from the fruit of your {body}Literally "belly" I will set on your throne.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 132
c2verse: 12
c3content:
If your sons will heed my covenant and my testimonies that I will teach them, their sons also forever will sit on your throne."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 133
c2verse: 2
c3content:
It is like the fragrant oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, that runs down upon the edges of his robes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 133
c2verse: 3
c3content:
It is like the dew of Hermon that runs down upon the mountains of Zion, because there Yahweh commanded the blessing-- life forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 134
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Look, bless Yahweh, all you the servants of Yahweh, who {serve}Literally "stand" in the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh by night.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 135
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Praise Yah,A shortened form of "Yahweh" for Yahweh is good. Sing praises concerning his name, for it is pleasant.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 135
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; he brings out the wind from his storehouses.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 135
c2verse: 13
c3content:
O Yahweh, your name endures forever, your {renown}Literally "remembrance" {throughout all generations},Literally "for a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 136
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But he tossed Pharaoh and his army into the {Red Sea},Literally "sea of reed" for his loyal love endures forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 137
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For there our captors asked of us words of a song, and our tormentorsOnly occurring once in the MT, this interpretation is uncertain. The LXX's "carried us captive" is a guess. If related to the Hebrew root yll it might have the idea of "mockers/yammerers" asked of us jubilation, "Sing for us from a song of Zion."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 137
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if do not I exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 137
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, the ones who said, "Lay it bare! Lay it bare to its foundation!"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 137
c2verse: 8
c3content:
O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy shall be he who pays back to you {what you paid out to us}.Literally "with what you treated us"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 138
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your wordOr "promise" according to all your name.Or "beyond all your name"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 138
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{When}Literally "In the day" I called and you answered me, you emboldened me in my soul with strength.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 138
c2verse: 4
c3content:
All the kings of the earth will praise you, O Yahweh, when they have heard the wordsOr "heard about the words" of your mouth,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 138
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Though Yahweh is high, yet he sees the lowly, but the proud he perceivesHebrew "knows" at a distance.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 138
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me with your right hand.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 138
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh accomplishes things for my benefit. O Yahweh, your loyal love endures forever; do not abandon the works of your hands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 139
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You search outHebrew "winnow"; or perhaps from another root, "measure" my wandering and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 139
c2verse: 12
c3content:
even the darkness is not too dark for you,Or "does not obscure from you" and the night shines as the day-- the darkness and the light are alike for you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 139
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.Or "I am made wonderful fearfully" Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it well.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 139
c2verse: 15
c3content:
My {frame}Literally "bone" was not hidden from you, when I was created secretly,Or "in the secret place" and intricately woven in the depths of the earth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 139
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Your eyes saw my embryo,Hebrew "unformed substance" and in your book they all were written-- days fashioned for me when there was not one of them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 139
c2verse: 19
c3content:
If only you would kill the wicked, O God-- so get away from me, you {bloodthirsty men}--Literally "men of bloods"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 139
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And see if there is in me {the worship of false gods},Literally "a way of an idol" and lead me in the way everlasting.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 140
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Rescue me, O Yahweh, from evil men.The several uses of the singular "man" in this psalm are probably collective Preserve me from violent men,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 140
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Protect me, O Yahweh, from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from violent men, who have planned to {make me stumble}.Literally "push my steps"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 140
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along the {side}Literally "hand" of the path. They have set snares for me. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 140
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Do not grant, O Yahweh, the desires of the wicked. Do not allow them to attain theirHebrew "his" plan, lest they be exalted. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 140
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits from which they cannot rise.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 140
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Do not let a {slanderer}Literally "man of tongue" be established in the land; as for the man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 140
c2verse: 12
c3content:
I knowAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 141
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 141
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. It is oil for my head;Or "It is choice oil" let not my head refuse. For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 141
c2verse: 6
c3content:
When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff,Or "are dropped into the hands of the Rock," that is, Yahweh. The interpretation of vv. 6-7 is uncertain. then they will understand that my words were pleasant.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 141
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ButOr "Because" my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord; I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.Or "Do not raze my life"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 141
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Protect me from the {grasp}Literally "hand" of the trap they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 142
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When my spirit faints within me, you know my way. On the path where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me;


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 142
c2verse: 4
c3content:
look to my right and see. There is no one looking out for me; there is no escape for me;Hebrew "a refuge has perished from me" no one cares for my soul.Or "life"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 142
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 142
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Bring meHebrew "my soul" out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will encircle me, because you will deal bountifully with me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 1
c3content:
O Yahweh, hear my prayer; listen to my supplications. In your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like those long dead.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And so my spirit grows faint within me; my heart {within}Literally "in the midst of" me is desolate.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your doings.Hebrew "doing" I muse on the labor of your hands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like those descending to the pit.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Cause me to hear your loyal love in the morning, for I trust you. Cause me to know the way that I should go, for I lift up my soul to you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Deliver me from my enemies, O Yahweh. I take refuge in you.This reading for the difficult Hebrew "I cover to you" is suggested by the LXX


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For your name's sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life; in your righteousness bring meHebrew "my soul" out of trouble.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 143
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And in your loyal love destroy my enemies, and exterminate all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 144
c2verse: 2
c3content:
my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoplesReading with many Hebrew manuscripts and versions; MT reads "my people" under me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 144
c2verse: 3
c3content:
O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 144
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 144
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand is a false right hand,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 144
c2verse: 12
c3content:
that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 144
c2verse: 13
c3content:
that our granaries may be full, providing produce of all kinds,Hebrew "from kind to kind" that our sheep may produce by the thousands, by the tens of thousands in our open fields,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 144
c2verse: 14
c3content:
that our cattle may be pregnant; that there be no breach in our walls, and no going out in exile, and no outcry in our plazas.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 145
c2verse: 1
c3content:
I will exalt you, my God, O king, and I will blessThat is, praise; here and v. 2 your name forever and ever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 145
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And they will speak of the power of your awesome deeds,That is, deeds that evoke a fearful reverence and I will tell of your greatness.According to the reading tradition (Qere)


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 145
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They will utter Hebrew "pour forth" the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 145
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh is gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger}Literally "long of nostrils" and great in loyal love.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 145
c2verse: 12
c3content:
to make known to the children of humankind his mighty deeds, and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 145
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures {throughout all generations}.Literally "for a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 146
c2verse: 4
c3content:
His breath departs; he returns to his plot;A Hebrew wordplay: "humankind," adam (v. 3), returns to his ground/plot, adamah on that day his plans perish.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 146
c2verse: 6
c3content:
who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, the one who keeps faithOr "remains faithful" forever,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 146
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Yahweh protectsOr "watches over" the strangers. He helps up the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he {thwarts}.Literally "makes crooked"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 146
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Yahweh will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, {throughout all generations}.Literally "for a generation and a generation" Praise Yah.Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 147
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Praise Yah.Hebrew hallelujah; here and v. 20 For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; praise is fitting.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 147
c2verse: 8
c3content:
who covers the heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 147
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, the ones who hopeThat is, "wait expectantly" for his loyal love.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 147
c2verse: 14
c3content:
he makes your border peaceful; he satisfies you with the {finest of wheat}.Literally "the fat of the wheat"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 147
c2verse: 17
c3content:
he throws his hail like crumbs. Who can stand before his cold?With slight alteration of the Hebrew, the line might read "before his cold water stands"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 147
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He has not done so for any nation, and they do not know his ordinances. Praise Yah.Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 148
c2verse: 8
c3content:
fire and hail, snow and cloud,The meaning of "cloud" is uncertain stormy wind doing his bidding,Hebrew "his word"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 148
c2verse: 10
c3content:
beasts and all cattle,That is, wild and domesticated creeping things and {flying birds},Literally "bird of wing"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 148
c2verse: 13
c3content:
let them praise the name of Yahweh, because his name alone is is exalted. His splendor is above earth and heavens.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 148
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he has raised high a horn for his people, praise for all his faithful-- for the children of Israel, a people close to him. Praise Yah.Hebew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 149
c2verse: 7
c3content:
to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,Reading against the MT and with the LXX


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 149
c2verse: 9
c3content:
to execute on them the judgment that is decreed.Hebrew "written" This will be honor for all his faithful ones; Praise Yah.Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
to gain {insightful instruction},Literally "the instruction of insight" righteousness and justice and equity,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
to give shrewdnessOr "cleverness," or "prudence" to the simple, knowledge and purposeOr "plan" to the young,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
My child, may you keepOr "obey," or "hear" your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.Or "wantonly," or "for nothing"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Like Sheol,A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld we will swallow them alive and whole, {like those who descend to the pit}.Literally "like the descenders of a pit"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
for "in vainOr "without cause," or "for nothing" is the net scattered, in the sight of any {winged bird}."Literally "bird of wing"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
On a {busy corner}Literally "head of commotion," or "head of stirring, bustling" she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"{How long},Literally "Until when" O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 23
c3content:
May you turn to my argument!Or "turn at my reproach" Behold, I shall pour out my spirit upon you; I will make my words known to you.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 26
c3content:
I will also laugh at your calamity;Or "downfall" I will mock when panicOr "dread, fear" comes upon you.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 27
c3content:
When your panic comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 28
c3content:
then they will callOr "cry out to" me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 32
c3content:
for the waywardness of the simple ones will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Whoever listens to me will dwell in security and rest securelyOr "be at ease, peace" from dread and disaster."


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For if you cry out for understanding,Or "call to understanding" if you liftOr "carry, give" your voice for insight,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
in order to guard paths of justice and keepOr "preserve, guard, watch" the way of his faithful ones.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{who are crooked in their ways},Literally "that in their ways are crooked" and devious in their paths;


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
in order to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman who flattersOr "makes smooth" with her sayings,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So that you will walk on the road of those who are good, and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For those who are upright will dwell in the land,Or "earth" and those who are blamelessOr "innocent" will remain in it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
May loyal loveOr "kindness, mercy" and truth not forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them upon your heart.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And you shall find favor and good senseOr "understanding, prudence" in the eyes of God and humankind.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{Trust Yahweh}Literally "trust toward Yahweh" with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Honor Yahweh from your substance,Or "wealth, property" and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For herOr "its"; both "wisdom" and "understanding" are feminine nouns and can be read as either "she" or "it" income is better than the income of silver, and her revenue than that of gold.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
My child, may theyGrammatically, "they" most likely refers to clouds (3:20). In context, "they" may refer to wisdom and understanding (3:13). not escape from your {sight};Literally "eyes" may you keep sound wisdom and prudence.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
If you sit down, you will not panic,Or "fear, dread" and if you lie down, then your sleep shall be sweet.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Do not say to your neighbor, "Go and return and tomorrow I will give it," {when it is with you}.Literally "and there is with you"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{When you walk},Literally "In your walking" your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day {is full}.Literally "is correct"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For they are life to those who find them and healing {to the entire body}.Literally "for all his flesh"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Remove from yourself {deceitful speech},Literally "crookedness of mouth" and abolish {devious talk}Literally "deviousness of lips" from yourself.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol.A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
She does not observeOr "examine, weigh" the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I was almost at utterOr "all, every, whole" ruinOr "evil" in the midst of the assembly and congregation."


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
She is a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always};Literally "at all time" by her love may you be intoxicated continually.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For before the eyes of Yahweh are {human ways},Literally "the ways of man/humankind" and all his paths he examines.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
He shall die {for lack of}Literally "with there is no" discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, if you have bound {yourself}Literally "palms of your hands" to the stranger,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into {the palm of your neighbor's hand}:Literally "the palm of the hand of your neighbor" Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
like a {robber}Literally "one who walks," that is, a vagabond shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Upon {such a man},Literally "thus" suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.Or "repair"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{When you walk},Literally "In your walking" sheThat is, "commandment" and "instruction" will lead you, {When you lie down},Literally "In your lying down" she will watch over you, and when you awake, she will converse with you.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of lifeHebrew "lives" is the reproof of discipline,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
in order to preserve you from an evil woman,Or "wife" from the smoothness of the tongue of {an adulteress}.Literally "a foreign woman"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 26
c3content:
For the price of a woman, a prostitute,Or "whore" is the price of a loaf of bread, but the {woman belonging to a man}Literally "the woman of a man" hunts precious life.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 30
c3content:
People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himselfOr "soul," or "inner self" when he is hungry.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 32
c3content:
He who commits adultery with a woman lacks {sense},Literally "heart" he destroys himselfOr "his soul," or "his life" who does it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 35
c3content:
He will not accept {any compensation},Literally "the face of any compensation" and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like the {apple of your eye}.A single word meaning "pupil of the eye"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Say to wisdom,Hebrew "the wisdom" "you are my sister," and you shall call insight,Hebrew "the insight" "{intimate friend}."Literally "one who is known." To "know" is often a euphemism for intercourse. Therefore "intimate friend" may also be read "lover."


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
In order to guard yourself from {an adulteress},Literally "a strange woman" from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.Literally "causes to be smooth her words"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense},Literally "heart"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
passing on the street {at}Literally "at the place of" her corner, and he takes the road to her house,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostituteOr "whore" and {a secret heart}.Literally "secret of heart"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now in the street, now in the square, {at}Literally "at the place of" every corner she lies in wait.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For there is no manOr "husband" in his home; he has gone on a {long journey}.Literally "a journey from far"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
until an arrow pierces his {entrails},Literally "heaviness," often referring to the liver like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that {it will cost him his life}.Literally "it is against his life"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The ways of SheolA term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld are her house, descending to chambers of death.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{Atop the heights}Literally "At a head of the heights" beside the road, at the crossroads she stands.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The fear of Yahweh is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{Advice and sound judgment}Literally "To/for me are advice and sound judgment" are mine; I am understanding, {strength is mine}.Literally "to/for me is strength"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
My fruit is better than gold,Literally "fine gold" even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Yahweh possessedOr "gained," or "acquired" me, the first of his ways, before his acts {of old}.Literally "from before" or "from then"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 24
c3content:
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of {abounding}Literally "made heavy" water.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 27
c3content:
{when he established}Literally "in his establishing" the heavens, there I was, {when he drew}Literally "in his drawing" a circle upon the face of the deep,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 29
c3content:
{when he assigned}Literally "in his assigning" his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his {command},Literally "mouth" {when he marked}Literally "in his marking" the foundations of the earth,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 30
c3content:
I was {beside}Literally "at the place of" him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him {always},Literally "in all of time"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Happy is the person who listens to me, in order to keep watch at my doors day by day, in order to guard the frames of my entrances.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
She has sent her servant girls,Or "young maidens" she calls upon the wings of the high places of town,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Whoever is simple, let him turn here." As for the one who lacks {sense},Literally "heart" she says to him,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He who corrects a scoffer gains abuse for himself, and he who rebukes the wicked {gets hurt}.Literally "abuse him"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; {teach}Literally "make known to" a righteous one and he will increase learning.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Whoever is simple, may he turn here!" As for he who lacks {sense},Literally "heart" she says to him,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But he does not know that the deadOr "Rephaim" are there, in the depths of SheolA term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld are her guests.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Yahweh will not cause a righteous personOr "soul," or "inner self" to go hungry, but the craving of the wicked he will thwart.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He who gathers in the summer is a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest is a child who brings shame.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Whoever walks in integrityHebrew "in the integrity" will walk securely, but whoever follows perversity, his ways will be made known.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks {sense}.Literally "heart"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Choice silver is a tongue of righteousness, a heartOr "mind" of wickedness is {of little worth}.Literally "like a little"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools {die for lack of sense}.Literally "in the lack of heart, they die"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
With the passing of the tempest, there is no wickedness, but the righteous have a foundation forever.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus is the lazy to one who employsOr "sends" him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 29
c3content:
A stronghold for the upright is the way of Yahweh, but ruin belongs to {evildoers}.Literally "them who do evil"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 30
c3content:
The righteous one is forever; he will not be removed. But the wicked will not remain in the land.Or "earth"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Balances of deceit are an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight}Literally "a full stone" or "a pure stone" delights him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The righteousness of the upright will save them, but by a scheme the treacherous will be taken captive.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
When good is with the righteous, the city rejoices, and with the perishing of the wicked, jubilation.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
By the blessing of the upright, a city will be exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked, it will be overthrown.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He who lacks {sense}Literally "heart" belittles his neighbor, but a person of intelligence will remain silent.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Where there is no guidance, a nationOr "people" shall fall, but there is safety in an abundance of counsel.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
A person of kindness rewards himself,Or "soul," or "inner self" but a cruel person harms his own flesh.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The wicked earnsOr "does, makes" {deceptive gain},Literally "gain of deception" but he who sows righteousness, a {true reward}.Literally "a reward of truth"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
An abomination of Yahweh are the {crooked of heart},Literally "crooked ones of heart"; "heart" may also be translated "mind" but his delight are {those with blameless ways}.Literally "blameless ones of ways"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Rest assured},Literally "Hand to hand" the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspringOr "seed" of the righteous will escape.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
There is one who gives yet {grows richer},Literally "adding more" but he who withholds {what is right}Literally "from what is right" only finds need.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 29
c3content:
He who brings trouble to his household, he will inherit wind,Or "breath, spirit" and a fool will serve the wise of heart.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 30
c3content:
The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, and he who captures soulsOr "persons," or "inner selves" is wise.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 31
c3content:
If the righteous on earth will be repaid, {how much more}Literally "more for" the wicked and sinner.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
A woman of strengthOr "honor" is the crown of her master,Or "lord, owner" but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The wicked are overthrown and {are no more},Literally "there is no them" but the house of the righteous shall stand.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind}Literally "heart" will be despised.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
It is better to be lowly and a servant {to someone}Literally "for him," "belonging to him" than self-glorifying and lacking food.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The righteous knows the lifeOr "soul," or "inner self" of his animal, but the compassionHebrew "compassions" of the wicked is cruel.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks {sense}.Literally "heart"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The wicked covets the proceeds of evil, but the root of the righteous {bears fruit}.Literally "gives, sets up"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he is filled with good, and the reward of {a man's labor}Literally "the hands of a man" will return to him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
As for a fool, {on that very day}Literally "on the day" he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult is prudent.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Deceit is in the heartOr "mind" of {those who plan}Literally "the planners of" evil, but to {those who plan}Literally "the planners of" peace, there is joy.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{No evil will happen}Literally "All evil will not happen" to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desireOr "soul" of the treacherous, wrongdoing.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He who keeps his mouth guards his life;Or "soul," or "inner self" he who opens his lips, ruin belongs to him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The soulOr "life" of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The righteous hates a word of falsehood; the wicked will bring shame and {disgrace}.Literally "he will bring disgrace"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
There is one who acts rich but {has nothing};Literally "there is no" another who pretends to be poor but has wealth.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Wealth gained from hasteOr "vanity" will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little}Literally "upon the hand" will increase it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
He who despises a word will bring destruction on himself, but he who respects a commandment will be rewarded.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Poverty and disgrace belong to him who ignores instruction, but he who guards reproof will be honored.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
A desire {fulfilled}Literally "made to be," "brought about" will be sweet to the soul, but an abomination of fools is turning from evil.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Misfortune will pursue sinners, but the righteous {will be rewarded with prosperity}.Literally "it will reward prosperity"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He who is good will leave an inheritance to {his grandchildren},Literally "sons of sons" and stored up for the righteous is the wealth of a sinner.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
There is much food in the field of the poor, but {it is swept away}Literally "there is sweeping away" by {injustice}.Literally "no justice"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 24
c3content:
He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him}Literally "visits him" discipline.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The righteous eats to satisfy his life,Or "soul," or "inner self" but the belly of the wicked will lack.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The {wisest of women}Literally "wise ones of women" builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{When there are no}Literally "In there is no" oxen the manger is empty, but an abundance of crops comes by the strength of an ox.Hebrew "bull"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.Literally "to one who understands it comes easy"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Leave {the presence of a foolish man},Literally "from the presence belonging to a man of foolishness" for you will not come to know {words of knowledge}.Literally "lips of knowledge"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The heartOr "mind" knows the bitterness of its soul,Or "life," or "inner self" but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 12
c3content:
There is a way that seems upright {to}Literally "to the face of" a man, but its end is the way of death.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and {from his own},Literally "from upon him" so shall a good man.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He who is short of {temper}Literally "nostril" will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
In all toil, there is profit, but the {talk}Literally "word, matter, thing" of lips leads only to poverty.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 25
c3content:
He who saves livesOr "souls," or "inner selves" is a witness of truth, but he who utters lies is a betrayer.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 30
c3content:
A heartOr "mind" of tranquilityOr "he who heals" is life to the flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 33
c3content:
In the heartOr "mind" of him who has understanding, wisdom rests, but even in the midst of fools it becomes known.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 35
c3content:
The favor of a king is for the servant who deals wisely, but his wrath will be on him who acts shamefully.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
GentlenessOr "Healing" of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in itThat is, the tongue causes a break in spirit.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 11
c3content:
SheolA term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld and AbaddonPoetic synonym for "Sheol." Only mentioned in the ot in relation to Sheol, the grave, or death. are before Yahweh, {how much more}Literally "more for" the hearts of the children of men!


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
A scoffer does not like {his rebuke};Literally "rebuke belonging to him" to the wise he will not go.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
A heartOr "mind" of gladness will make good {countenance},Literally "faces" but in sorrow of heartOr "mind" a spirit is broken.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The heart of him who understands will seek knowledge, but the faces of fools, theyHebrew "he/it" will feed on folly.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Better is a dinner of vegetables whenHebrew "and" love is there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.Or "him"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
A man who is hot-tempered will stir up strife, but he who is slow to {anger},Literally "nostrils" he will calm contention.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns,Hebrew "thorn" but the path of the upright is a highway.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person},Literally "foolishness of humankind" he despises his mother.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Folly is a joy to him who lacks {sense},Literally "heart" and a person of understanding {will walk upright}.Literally "he will walk upright walking"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear it down, but he will maintain the {property line}Literally "boundary" of the widow.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 27
c3content:
He who makes trouble for his house is he who is greedy for unjust gain, but he who hates bribes will live.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 28
c3content:
A heartOr "mind" of righteousness will ponder the answer, but a mouth of wickedness will pour out deceit.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 30
c3content:
From the light of the eyes, the heartOr "mind" will rejoice, and good news will enliven the bones.Hebrew "bone"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 32
c3content:
He who ignores instruction despises himself,Or "soul," or "inner self" but he who hears admonition gains heart.Or "mind"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
An abomination of Yahweh are all who are arrogant of heart;Or "mind" {rest assured},Literally "hand to hand" he will not go unpunished.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
By loyalty and faithfulness, iniquity will be covered over,Or "atoned for" and by fear of Yahweh {one turns}Literally "turning" from evil.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When the ways of a man are pleasing to Yahweh, even his enemies he will cause to make peace with him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but one who is wise will appeaseOr "atone, cover over" it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Getting wisdom: {how much}Literally "what" better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen {over}Literally "from" silver.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The highway of the upright, it turns from evil, he who guards himselfOr "soul," or "inner self" keeps his way.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The wise of heartOr "mind" is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 22
c3content:
A fountain of life is wisdom for its owner,Or "master" but the instructionOr "punishment" of fools is folly.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The heartOr "mind" of the wise will make his mouth judicious, and upon his lips, itOr "he" will add persuasiveness.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 26
c3content:
The lifeOr "soul," or "inner self" of a worker works for him, for his {hunger}Literally "mouth" urges him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 30
c3content:
He who winks his eyes does so in order to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 32
c3content:
He who is slow to angerLiterally "nostrils" is better than him who is mighty, and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and in the midst of brothers he will share his inheritance.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The crown of the elderly are {grandchildren},Literally "sons of sons" and the glory of children is their fathers.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Fine speech}Literally "A lip of fineness" is not becoming a fool, {still less}Literally "only for" is {false speech}Literally "lip of deceit" for a ruler.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The bribe is a stone of magic in the eyes of its owner;Or "master" {everywhere}Literally "to all which" he will turn, he will prosper.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, the two of them are both abominations of Yahweh.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool, in order to buy wisdom whereHebrew "and" there is no {sense}.Literally "heart"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
A person who lacks {sense}Literally "heart" {pledges};Literally "pledges a hand" he becomes security before his neighbor.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He who is crooked of heartOr "mind" will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 24
c3content:
He who understands sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.Or "land"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Even a fool who keeps silent {shall be considered wise};Literally "wise, he shall be considered" he who closes his lips is intelligent.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The words of a whisper are like delicious morsels, and they themselves go down to inner parts of the body.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The wealth of the rich is {his strong city},Literally "a city of his strength" and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
In the presence of destruction, the heartOr "mind" of a man will be haughty, but in the presence of honor, humble.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself belongs to him as well asHebrew "and" shame.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
An intelligent {mind}Literally "heart" will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
A brother who is offended is worse than a city of strength, and quarrels are like the bars of a fortification.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach will be satisfied, as for the yield of his lips, it will satisfy.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Death and life are in the {power}Literally "hand" of the tongue, and those who love herThat is, the power of the tongue will eat of her fruit.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech}Literally "in his lips" and is a fool.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Also, a lifeOr "soul," or "inner self" without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with his feet {misses the mark}.Or "sins"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heartOr "mind" will rage.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone is the friend of a man of gifts.Hebrew "gift"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All the brothers of the poor, if they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues them with words, and they are gone.Or "when he pursues words and not them"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He who acquires wisdom loves himself;Or "soul," or "inner self" he who guards understanding loves to find good.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The understanding of a person makes him slow to his {anger},Literally "nostril" and his glory overlooks offense.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a womanOr "wife" is a continuous dripping.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
A house and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but from Yahweh comes a womanOr "wife" who is prudent.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a personOr "soul," or "life" of idleness will suffer hunger.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He who guards commandments guards his life;Or "soul," or "inner self" he who is careless of his ways will be killed.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.Or "soul," or "inner self"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you will gain wisdom for your {future}.Literally "after things"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The craving of a man is his steadfast loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a {liar}.Literally "man of lying"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The scoffer you shall strike, and the simple, may they learn prudence, and reprove the intelligent and he will gain knowledge.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 26
c3content:
He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, is a child who causes shame and brings reproach.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray}Literally "in order to stray" from sayings of knowledge.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 29
c3content:
JudgmentsOr "Punishments," or "Condemnations" are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Roaring like the lion is the dreaded anger of a king; he who provokes him forfeits his life.Or "soul," or "inner self"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Deep waters are like purpose in the heartOr "mind" of a man, and a man of understanding will draw itOr "her"; referring to "purpose" out.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Stone and stone, measure and measure, {both of them}Literally "also the two of them" are an abomination of Yahweh.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Even by his acts, a {young man}Or "young boy," or "adolescent" will make himself known, whether his acts are pure and upright.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made {them both}.Literally "also the two of them"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Take his garment, for he has given security to a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner--take it as pledge.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.Literally "in a pupil of darkness"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 21
c3content:
An inheritance acquired hastily {at the beginning}Literally "at the first" will not be blessed at its end.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 23
c3content:
An abomination of Yahweh is {a stone and a weight},Literally "a stone and a stone" and scales of falsehood are not good.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The lamp of Yahweh is the spiritOr "soul" of humankind, he who searches every {innermost part}.Literally "parts of the inmost"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Loyalty and faithfulness will preserve a king, and he is upheld with the righteousness of his throne.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 29
c3content:
The glory of young men is their strength,Or "strengthens them" but the beauty of the aged is gray hair.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 30
c3content:
The blows of a wound will cleanse evil, as willHebrew "and" beatings of the {innermost part}.Literally "parts of the inmost"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Streams of water are the heartOr "mind" of a king in the hand of Yahweh; {wherever}Literally "upon all that" he will desire, he will turn.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The soulOr "soul, life, throat" of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
With the punishment of a scoffer, the simple will become wise, and with the instruction of the wise, he will obtain knowledge.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
A gift in secretHebrew "the secret" will avert {anger},Literally "nostril" and a {concealed bribe},Literally "bribe in the bosom" strong wrath.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the deadOr "Rephaim" he will rest.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Precious treasure and oil are in the house of the wise, but the foolish personOr "foolish of mankind" will devour them.Literally "it"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
To a city of warriors, the wise ascends, and he will bring down the stronghold--its object of trust.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{All day}Literally "All the day" he craves a craving, but the righteous will give and not hold back.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 29
c3content:
A wicked man is strong in {his countenance},Literally "his face" but the upright will appoint his paths.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
A {reputation}Literally "name" is to be chosen {rather than}Literally "from" great riches; {favor is better than silver and gold}.Literally "from silver and from gold, favor is better"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himselfOr "soul," or "life" will keep away from them.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Train the child {concerning his way};Literally "on the mouth of his way" even when he is old, he will not stray from it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of {the lender}.Literally "the borrower belonging to a man"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He who {is generous}Literally "the generous of eye" will be blessed, for he gives to the poor from his own bread.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He who loves purity of heart and has{gracious speech},Literally "grace of his lips" his friend is the king.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress},Literally "a strange woman" he with whom Yahweh is angry will fall there.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Folly is bound up in the heartOr "mind" of a boy;Or "young man," or "adolescent" the rod of discipline will drive itThat is, folly from him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He who oppresses the poor in order to enrich himself, or gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.Literally "only loss"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise; you shall apply your heartOr "mind" to my teaching.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For it is pleasant if you guard them {within you};Literally "in your belly/womb" together they will be ready upon your lips.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
In order for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made them known to you {today}Literally "the day"--evenOr "only" you.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
In order to show you what is right--sayings of truth-- in order to return a true saying to him who sent you.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
For Yahweh will plead their case and despoil those who despoil them of life.Or "soul," or "inner self"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Do not befriend an ownerOr "master" of {anger},Literally "nostril" and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Do not be with those who {give a pledge}Literally "strike a hand" {by becoming}Literally "in the becomings of" surety.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 29
c3content:
A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a {big appetite}.Literally "lord/master of life"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Your eyes will {alight}Literally "cause to fly" on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For, like hair in his {throat},Literally "soul," or "inner self" so it is.Or "is he" "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his lifeOr "soul," or "inner self" you will save from Sheol.A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
May your heartOr "mind" not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh {all day}.Literally "all the day"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Listen to your father--he who {gave you life},Literally "caused you to be born" and do not despise your mother whenOr "for, because" she is old.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For a deep pit is a prostitute,Or "whore" and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.Literally "a foreign woman"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it {sparkles}Literally "gives its eye" on the cup, going down smoothly.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 35
c3content:
"They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again."


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
if you say, "Look, we do not know this," does not he who weighs hearts perceive it? And he who keeps your soul,Or "life," or "inner self" he knows and will repay humankind according to his deeds.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Thus know wisdom for the sake of your soul,Or "life," or "inner self" if you find it, then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence to his dwelling place.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For seven times the righteous will fall, but he will rise, but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heartOr "mind" not be glad


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of {both of them},Literally "the two of them" who knows?


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 23
c3content:
These sayings are also for the wise: {Partiality}Literally "acknowledge faces" in judgment is not good.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, thenHebrew "and" you shall build your house.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Do not say, "Just as he has done to me, so shall I do to him; I will pay back the man according to his deed."


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 30
c3content:
I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking {sense};Literally "heart"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 31
c3content:
and behold, it was overgrown--all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles, and {its stone wall}Literally "a wall of his/its stones" was broken down.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
As heaven is to height and the earth is to depth, so is the heartOr "mind" of kings--there is no searching.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.Hebrew "in the righteousness"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For it is better that he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
do not hastily bring out to court, forOr "lest" what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Like the cold of snow on a dayOr "at a season" of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him, and the soulOr "life," or "inner self" of his master is refreshed.Or "returned"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{With patience}Literally "With length of face" a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.Or "strength"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 19
c3content:
A bad tooth and a lame foot is the trust of a faithless person {in a time}Literally "on a day" of trouble.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Like one who removes a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar on natron,A mineral salt found on dry lake beds often used as a preservative. is he who sings songs to a heavy heart.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Better to live upon the corner of a roof than with a womanOr "wife" of contention and in a shared house.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Like cold waterHebrew "waters" upon a weary soul,Or "life," or "inner self" so too is good news from a distant place.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 28
c3content:
A breached city where there is no wall is like a man who {has no}Literally "there is no" self-control for his spirit.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Like the sparrow is to fluttering and like the swallow is to flying, so an undeserved curse does not go forth.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Like {impure silver}Literally "silver of impurities" which overlays an earthen vessel, so are smooth lips and an evil heartOr "mind".


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Do not boast {about tomorrow},Literally "on the day of tomorrow" for you do not know what the day will bring.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
An {appetite}Literally "soul" that is sated spurns honey, but to an {appetite}Literally "soul" that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend is {personal advice}.Literally "because of advice of a person"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 10
c3content:
As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them, and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger, and to {an adulteress}Literally "a foreign woman"--so take his pledge.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 16
c3content:
In restraining her, he restrains wind,Or "breath, or "spirit" and his right hand will grasp oilOr "fat".


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 17
c3content:
As iron sharpensOr "is united with" iron, so {one man sharpens another}.Literally "a man sharpens the faces of his friend"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 19
c3content:
As the waters reflect {face to face},Literally "the faces to the faces" so the heart of a person reflects the person.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 20
c3content:
SheolA term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld and AbaddonPoetic synonym for "Sheol." Only mentioned in the ot in relation to Sheol, the grave, or death. will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 21
c3content:
A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 22
c3content:
If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with}Or "in the midst of" the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 23
c3content:
You will surely know the {condition}Literally "faces" of your flock; your heartOr "mind" attends to the herds.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 25
c3content:
When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and the {nourishment}Literally "life" of your maidservants.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
A man who is poor and oppresses the impoverished is a beating rain {that leaves}Literally "and there is" no food.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He who keeps instruction is a child of understanding, but the companion of gluttons will shame his father.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When the righteous triumphs, great is the glory, but with the rising of the wicked, a person will be hidden.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart,Or "mind" will fall into calamity.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 16
c3content:
A ruler who lacks understanding isHebrew "and" a cruel oppressor, but those who hate unjust gain will have longOr "prolong" days.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
A person who is burdened with the blood of {another},Literally "life" until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty of poverty.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
A man of faithfulness has abundant blessings, but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Showing partiality}Literally "Recognizing faces" is not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He who hurries for wealth is {a man with an evil eye},Literally "a man of evil of eye" but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 24
c3content:
He who robs his father and his mother and says, "There is no crime," is partner to a man who corrupts.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The {greedy person}Literally "wide soul" will stir up strife, but he who trusts in Yahweh will be enriched.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 26
c3content:
He who trusts in his own heartOr "mind," or "sense" is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be saved.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but for heHebrew "those" who turns his eyes, there are many curses.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 28
c3content:
With the rising of the wicked, humankind will be hidden, and with their perishing, the righteous will multiply.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck-- suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
When the righteous are numerous, the people will rejoice, but when the wicked are ruling, people will groan.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
A man who loves wisdom will make his parents glad, but the friend of prostitutesOr "whores" will squander his wealth.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In transgression, an evil man is a snare, but the righteous will sing and rejoice.Hebrew "he will rejoice"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule,Hebrew "there is ridicule" but there is no relief.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The poor and a man of oppression have this in common: Yahweh gives {light to the eyes of them both}.Literally "light of the eyes of the two of them"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 15
c3content:
As for a rod and reproof, theyHebrew "it" will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced by his mother.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
With the increase of the wicked, transgression will increase, but the righteous will look on his downfall.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul.Or "life," or "inner self"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but as for he who guards instruction, happiness is his.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He who pampers his servant from childhood, {arrogance will be his end}.Literally "and its/his end will be arrogance"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life;Or "soul," or "inner self" a curse he will hear, but not disclose.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Many are those who seek the {favor}Literally "faces" of a ruler, but from Yahweh {one obtains justice}.Literally "comes justice for a man"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 27
c3content:
A man of injustice is an abomination to the righteous, but the {upright}Literally "upright of way" is an abomination to the wicked.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, the oracle. Thus says the man to Ithiel, to Ithiel, and Ucal:Or "I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in aHebrew "the" garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what is the name of his child? For surely you know.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Keep falsehood and a {lying word}Literally "word of a lie" far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me with food only for my need.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Or else I will be satisfied and will deny him and say "Who is Yahweh?" OrOr "Lest" I will be poor and will steal and profane the name of my God.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and its jawbones, knives, in order to devour the poor from the earthOr "land" and the needy from humankind.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For the leech, there are two daughters; "Give, give!" they cry. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
SheolA term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld and barrenness of womb, the land is not satisfied with water, and fire does not say "enough!"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The eye that mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 19
c3content:
the way of the eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 20
c3content:
This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong."


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 24
c3content:
There are four small things on the earth, and they are {exceedingly wise}:Literally "wise ones from wise ones"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 30
c3content:
a mighty lion among the beasts,Hebrew "beasts" but he will not turn back from {any face};Literally "faces of all"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 32
c3content:
If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 33
c3content:
For pressing milk produces curd, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing {anger}Literally "nostrils" produces strife.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 4
c3content:
It is not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine is not for the kings, nor is strong drink for rulers.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rightsHebrew "right" of all the {afflicted}.Literally "sons of affliction"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those {in bitter distress}.Literally "to bitterness of soul"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rightsHebrew "right" of all the {needy}.Literally "the sons of the needy"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
A womanOr "wife" of excellence,Or "strength," or "valor," or "ability," or "efficiency" who will find? For her worth is far more than precious jewels.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And she arises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and tasks to her servant girls.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 16
c3content:
She considers a field and buys it, from the fruit of {her hand}Literally "her palm" she plants a vineyard.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Her hands she puts onto the distaff,A stick or spindle onto which wool or flax is wound in preparation for spinning and her palms hold a spindle.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 21
c3content:
She does not fear for her house when it snows, for {her entire household}Literally "all her house, household" is clothed in crimson.


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs {at the future}.Literally "to the day/time coming after"


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"Many daughters have done excellence,Or "strength," or "valor," or "ability," or "efficiency" but {you surpass}Literally "you ascend over" all of them."


c0book: Prov
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 30
c3content:
CharmHebrew "The charm" is deceit and beautyHebrew "the beauty" is vain;Or "vapor," or "emptiness," or "breath" but a woman who fears Yahweh shall be praised.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The sun rises, and the sun goes down; to its place it hurries,The MT reads "it gasps for breath," which is supported by LXX "to draw breath"; the BHS editors suggest "it returns again" and there it rises again.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The wind goes to the south and goes around to the north; around and around it goes, and on its circuit the wind returns.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All the streams flow to the sea, but the sea is never full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
All things toil continuously;Or "are wearisome" no one can ever finish describing this.The MT reads "no one is able to speak." The BHS editors suggest "no one can finish speaking." On the basis of internal evidence, the latter is adopted in the translation, since it makes better sense in the light of the immediate context The eye is neverOr "not" satisfied with seeing, and the ear is neverOr "not" filled with hearing.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
What has been--it is what will be; what has been done--it is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
There is a thing of which it is said, "Look at this! This is new!" But it already existed in ages past before us.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
There is neither remembrance of former generations, nor will there be remembrance of future generations.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I applied my mind to seek and to search by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.MT reads "under the heavens," which is supported by LXX; however, several versions (Syriac Peshitta, Aramaic Targum, Latin Vulgate) as well as the Cairo Geniza manuscript read, "under the sun," cf. 1:3, 9, etc. It is a grievous task God has given to {humans}.Literally "the sons of the man"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
What is twisted cannot be straightened,The MT reads the active "to be straight"; however, the BHS editors suggest the passive "to be straightened," which is supported by LXX, which reflects a passive form and what is lacking cannot be counted.The MT reads "to be numbered"; however, the BHS editors suggest "to be supplied," comparing 1:15b with similar wording in the Babylonian Talmud: "May the Almighty replenish your loss" (b. Berachot 16b)


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{I said to myself},Literally "I myself said to my heart" "Look! I have become great and have increased in wisdom more than anyone who {has preceded}Literally "before me" me over Jerusalem. {I have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge}."Literally "And my mind has seen much wisdom and knowledge"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So {I dedicated myself}Literally "So I gave my heart" to learn about wisdom and to learn about delusion and folly. However, I discoveredOr "I knew" that this also is chasing wind. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For in much wisdom is much frustration,Or "vexation" and whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
I said {to myself},Literally "to my heart" "Come! I will testThe MT reads "I will test you," but the BHS editors propose "I will test ..." Whether or not one adopts MT, Qohelet is speaking to himself pleasure {to see whether it is worthwhile}."Literally "and look at goodness"; this idiom refers to the enjoyment of life But look, "This also is vanity!"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I said of laughter, "It is folly!" and of pleasure, "{What does it accomplish?}"Literally "What does it give?"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I also {explored}Literally "I searched in my mind" {the effects of indulging my flesh}Literally "to cheer my flesh" with wine. My mind guiding me with wisdom, {I investigated}Literally "laid hold of" folly so that I might discover what is good under heavenFollows MT; two medieval Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, Peshitta read, "under the sun," cf. 1:3, 9, etc. for {humans}Literally "the sons of the man" to do {during the days of their lives}.Literally "the number of the days of their lives" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{I accomplished great things}.Literally "I made great my works" I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children born in my house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who was before me in Jerusalem.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I also gathered to myself silver and gold--the royal and provincial treasuries. I acquired for myself male and female singers, as well as the delight of {men},Literally "the sons of the man" {voluptuous concubines}.Literally "a breast and breasts," as a synecdoche for beautiful women in the king's harem 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Thus, {I accomplished far more}Literally "I became great and I surpassed" than anyone who was before me in Jerusalem--indeed, my wisdom stood by me.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Yet when I consideredOr "turned to" all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything is vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone do who will come after the king that has not already been done?


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{The wise man can see where he is walking},Literally "The eyes of the wise are in his head" but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So I said {to myself},Literally "in my heart" "{If I also suffer the same fate as the fool},Literally "Just as the fate of the fool--so it will happen to me!" {what advantage is my great wisdom}?"Literally "why have I been so exceedingly wise?" So I said {to myself},Literally "in my heart" "This also is vanity!" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}.Literally "the futures" When future days come, both will have been forgotten already. How is it that the wise man dies the same as the fool?


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So I hated life because the work done under the sun is grievous to me. For everything is vanity and chasing wind! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all the fruit of my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also is vanity! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So {I began to despair}Literally "I myself turned to cause my heart to despair" of all the toil with which I toiled under the sun.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also is vanity and a great calamity.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
All his days are painful, his labor brings grief, and his heart cannot rest at night. This also is vanity! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight}Literally "to see good" in his toil. For I also realized that this is from the hand of God!


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
For who can eat and drink, and who can enjoy life apart from him?The MT reads "more than me," which is supported by Aramaic Targum and Latin Vulgate, but several medieval Hebrew manuscripts read "from him"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 26
c3content:
For to the person who is good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give it to him who is pleasing to him. This also is vanity and chasing wind! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
a time to bearOr "a time to be born"; MT reads the active form "to bear children" and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to root up what is planted;


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I have seen the busyness God gives to {humans}Literally "the sons of the man" to preoccupyOr "to be busy" them.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put {the past}Literally "eternity" in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So I realized that there is {nothing better}Literally "no good" for them than to {rejoice and enjoy themselves}Literally "to rejoice and to do good" during their lives.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And for anyone to eat and drink, that is, {to enjoy the fruit of all his toil},Literally "to see good in all his toil" this also is a gift of God. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I know everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken from it, for God so acts that humansOr "they" might stand in awe before him.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
What is--it already was, and what will be--it already is, for {God will do what he has done.}Literally "God seeks what is pursued"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice there was evil; instead of righteousness there was wickedness.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So I said {to myself},Literally "in my heart" "God will surely judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointedThe MT reads שָׁם "there," but repointing to שָׂם, "he has appointed," makes better sense a time of judgment for every deed and every work." 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I said to myself concerning {humans},Literally "the sons of the man" "God siftsOr "tests" them in order to showThe MT reads active "to see," but causative "to show" is reflected by LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate them that they are like beasts."


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For the fate of {humans}Literally "the sons of the man" and the fate of the beast is {the same}.Literally "is one" The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}.Literally "and one breath is for all" Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For no one knows whether the spirit of a human ascends to heaven and whether the spirit of the beast descends to the ground! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy the fruit of his labor, for this is his lot in life. {For no one knows what will happen in the future.}Literally "For who can bring him to see in what will be after him?" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But better off than both of them is the one who has not yet been born and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I also realized that all of the toil and all of the skillful work that is done--it is envy between one man and {another}.Literally "his friend" This also is vanity and chasing wind! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{The fool refuses to work with his hands, so he has nothing to eat except his own skin}!Literally "The fool folds his hands and eats his flesh"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself}Literally "his soul" of pleasure?" This also is vanity--it is an unhappy business! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For if one falls, his companion may help him up. But pity the one who falls and there is {no one}Literally "there is not a second" to help him up.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Also if two lie together, {they can keep each other warm}.Literally "and it will be warm for them" But how can one person be warm?


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{Although an assailant may overpower one person, two may withstand him}.Literally "And even though he will prevail against him, the one; the second, they will withstand opposite him" A threefold cord {is not easily broken}!Literally "will not be broken in haste" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
A poor but wise youth is better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows {how to receive advice}.Literally "how to be warned"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For he came out of the prison house to reign, {since he was born poor in his kingdom}.Literally "for all in his kingdom he was born poor"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I saw all the living who move about under the sun with the youth; the second who will stand in his place.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
There is no end to all the people, to all who were before him. Yet the later generation will not rejoice in him, for this also is vanity and chasing wind! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Ecclesiastes 5:1-20 in the English Bible is 4:17-5:19 in the Hebrew Bible Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, for {he takes no pleasure}Literally "there is no desire" in fools. Fulfill what you vow!


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it was a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Do not be surprised if you see the poor being oppressed with violence or do not see justice and righteousness in the province. For one official is watched by a higher official, and there are even higher officials over them!


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The produce of the land is exploited by everyone; {even the king profits from the field of the poor}!Literally "for the field is even worked for the king"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Whoever loves money is not satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is not satisfied with profit. This also is vanity!


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.Literally "And what gain has its owner but to see it with his eyes?"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The sleep of the laborer is pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded}Literally "kept " by its owner to his harm.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}.Literally "he has nothing in his hand"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Just as he came from his mother's womb naked, {he will depart}Literally "return to go" just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
This also is a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit does he gain for all his toil for the wind?


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and {to enjoy}Literally "to see goodness" all the fruit of the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him--for this is his lot.Or "fate"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
This indeed is a gift of God: everyone to whom God gives wealth and possessions, he also empowers him {to enjoy them},Literally "to eat from it" to accept his lot, and to rejoice in the fruit of his toil.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For he does not remember the brief days of his life, for God keeps his heart preoccupied with enjoyment of life. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it--instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This is vanity--indeed, it is a grievous ill! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heartOr "his soul" is not satisfied with {his prosperity}Literally "the good" and {he does not receive a proper burial},Literally "and also there is no burial for him" I deem the stillborn better than him.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Even if a manHebrew "he" lives a thousand years twice, if heHebrew "and" does not enjoy {prosperity},Literally "good" {both suffer the same fate}!Literally "are not the all going to the same place?" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So do the wise really have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor really gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}?Literally "What is there for the poor knowing how to conduct themselves before the living?"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}.Literally "Sight of the eyes is better than wandering of desire" This also is vanity and chasing wind!


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Whatever is--it was already determined, {what will be--it has already been decided}.Literally "and his name is known what he is man" As for man, he cannot argue against what is more powerful than him.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{Increasing words only multiplies futility},Literally "Where there are numerous words, it makes numerous vanity" how does that profit anyone?


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For who knows what is good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}Literally "after him" under the sun? 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for death is the end of every person, and the living should take it to his heart.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The end of a matter is better than its beginning; {better to be slow to anger than hot-headed}.Literally "one who is long of spirit is better than one who is high of spirit"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{For wisdom offers protection like money offers protection}.Literally "For in the shade of wisdom is the shade of money" But knowledge has an advantage--wisdom restores life to its possessor.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.Literally "after him"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I have seen all these things in my vain life: Sometimes a righteous man perishes in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked man lives a long life in spite of his evil.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Do not be excessivelyOr "abundantly" righteous, and do not act excessively wise, lest you destroy yourself.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It is good to take hold of the one and also must not let go of the other; for whoever fears God will hold both of them secure.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
All this I have tested with wisdom. I said, "I will be wise!" but {it was beyond my grasp}.Literally "it was far from me"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{Whatever is--it is far beyond comprehension}.Literally "That which is--it is far and deep deep" Who can discover it? 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness is foolishness and that folly is delusion.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
I myself found that more bitter than death is the woman who is a trap, whose heart is a snare, and whose hands are bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"Look! I found this," said the Teacher,Hebrew "Qohelet" "while trying to find how the plan fits together.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 28
c3content:
What my heart sought, I did not find. Although I found one righteous man among one thousand, I did not find one upright woman among all these.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Who is like the sage? Who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Keep the command of the kingWhile MT reads "I said, 'Keep the mouth of the king,'" the versions read "Keep the mouth of the king," which is adopted in the translation {because of your oath to God}.Literally "because of the oath of God"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Do not be terrified of his presence! Go at once and do not delay when a matter is unpleasant, for he can do anything that he desires.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Whoever obeys his command will not suffer disaster. The wise mind knows the proper time and the right procedure.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For there is a proper time and right procedure for every matter, even though the trouble of man weighs heavy upon him.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I saw all this as I applied my heart to all the deeds done under the sun: {sometimes those in authority harm others}.Literally "sometimes one man domineers another man to his harm"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being honorably buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also is vanity! 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans}Literally "the sons of the man" fills up within them to do evil.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Although the sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will be good for those who fear God--because they fear {his presence}.Literally "from before his face"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong their days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.Literally "from before the face of God"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
There is a vanity that happens on earth: sometimes the righteous suffer what the wicked deserve, and sometimes the wicked receive what the righteous deserve. I said, "This also is vanity!" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So I recommend enjoyment. For there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth--how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then I saw all the work of God--man is not able to discover the work that is done under the sun. Although man may toil in seeking, he cannot find it. Even if a wise man claims that he knows it, he cannot find it. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
So all this I laid to my heart, and I concludedOr "examined" that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will come to them, whether it will be love or hatred.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
This is the {injustice}Literally "evil" that is done under the sun: the same fate comes to everyone. Also the hearts of {humans}Literally "the sons of the man" are full of evil; delusion is in their hearts during their lives, and then they die.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Whoever is joinedThe Kethib reads "chosen," but the Qere as well as all the versions and numerous medieval Hebrew manuscripts read "joined" to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion!


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which he gives you under the sun, because this is your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Whatever your hand finds to do--do it with all your might; for in Sheol--where you are going--no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
I looked again and saw under the sun that the race does not belong to the swift, the battle does not belong to the mighty, food does not belong to the wise, wealth does not belong to the intelligent, and successOr "favor" does not belong to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all of them.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans}Literally "the sons of the man" are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
There was a small city with few people in it. A great king came and besieged it, building great siege works against it.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The words of the wise are heard in peace more than the shouting of a ruler is heard among the fools.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Dead flies cause a bad smell and ruinOr "spew" the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness can undo great offenses.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Whoever {quarries}Literally "breaks out" stones will be wounded by them. Whoever splits logs will be endangered by them.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
If the ax is blunt but one does not sharpen its edge, {he must exert more effort},Literally "he must be more strength" but the advantage of wisdom is it brings success.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
If the snake bites before the charming, {the snake charmer will not succeed}.Literally "there is no advantage to the owner of the charm"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The fool {talks too much},Literally "increases words" for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?Literally "after him"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.Or "for he knows not to go to a city"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is a son of nobility and your princes feast at the proper time-- to gain strength and not to get drunk.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{Feasts are held for celebration},Literally "They make bread for laughter" wine cheers the living, and money answers everything.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich even in your own bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice; a winged messenger may repeat your words.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls--there it will be.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Just as you do not know how the path of the windOr "the breath" goes, nor how the bones of a fetus form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them! Let him remember that the days of the darkness will be many-- all that is coming is vanity!


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth-- before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When the guards of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent; the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows see dimly.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the grinding mill is low; one rises up to the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They are afraid of heights, and terrors are on the road. The almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper draws itself along, and desire fails because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is broken; and the jar at the foundation is broken, and the wheel at the cistern is broken.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The TeacherHebrew "Qohelet" was full of wisdom, and he taught the people with knowledge. He carefully considered many proverbs and carefully arranged them.


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The TeacherHebrew "Qohelet" sought to find delightful words,Hebrew "words of delight" and he wroteThe MT reads the term passively, "what is written," but an alternate textual tradition reads, "and he wrote" what is upright--truthful words. 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The words of the wise are like cattle goads; the collections of the sages are like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.Or "The owner of collections are given by one shepherd"


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
My son, be careful {about anything beyond these things}.Literally "but from more than them" For the writing of books is endless, and too much study {is wearisome}.Literally "increases weariness of flesh" 


c0book: Eccl
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Now that all has been heard, here is the final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The Song of Songs,This construction conveys a superlative connotation, e.g., "The most exquisite song" which is forOr "by Solomon" or "about/concerning Solomon" Solomon. 


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{MayIn the maiden's soliloquy, she thinks about her beloved in her thoughts ("May he kiss me!"), then poetically speaks to him as if he were in her presence ("for your love is better than wine"). To avoid confusion, the translation uses the second-person form throughout vv. 2-4 you kiss me}Literally "May he kiss me" {passionately with your lips},Literally "with the kisses of his mouth" for your love is better than wine.The shift from the third person "he ... his" to the second person "you ... your" in vv. 2-4 should not be interpreted as suggesting two different referents, that is, one male whom the maiden is addressing as "you," and another to whom she refers as "he." Rather, this shift is a poetic device (called "grammatical differentiation") that is not uncommon in Hebrew poetry (e.g., Gen 49:4; Deut 32:15; Psa 23:2-5; Isa 1:29; 42:20; 54:1; Jer 22:24; Amos 4:1; Mic 7:19; Lam 3:1; Song 4:2; 6:6). This shift is characteristic of a soliloquy, a dramatic or literary form in which a character reveals her thoughts without addressing a listener who is actually present (e.g., 2 Sam 19:4). In this case, the maiden's private thoughts about her beloved (v. 2a) shift to an imaginary address to her beloved (vv. 2b-4a)


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
As fragrance, {your perfumes}Literally "your oil lotions" are {delightful};Literally "good" your name is poured out {perfume};Literally "oil lotion" therefore young women love you.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Draw me after you, let us run! May the king bring me into his chambers!Or "The king has brought me into his chambers" Let us be joyful and let us rejoice in you; let us extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you!


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I am black but beautiful,Or "black and beautiful" {O maidens of Jerusalem},Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem" like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Do not gaze at me because I am black, This is figurative for the maiden's physical appearance; her skin was darkly tanned because the sun has stared at me. The sons of my mother were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own "vineyard"Literally "my vineyard that for me" I did not keep.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Tell me, you whom my {heart}Literally "soul" loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do your sheep lie down at the noon? {For why should I be like}Literally "For to what will I be like" one who is veiledThe reading of the MT ("like one who is veiled") is supported by the LXX. However, several ancient versions (Syriac Peshitta, Latin Vulgate, Symmachus) reflect an alternate Hebrew textual tradition in which two letters are transposed, resulting in the reading "like one who wanders about." This makes good sense contextually, since the maiden does not know where her beloved would be at noon beside the flocks of your companions?


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow {the tracks}Literally "in the tracks" of the flock, and pasture your little lambsOr "your kids" beside the tents of the shepherds.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
My beloved is to me {a pouch}Literally "the bag" of myrrh, he spends the nightOr "he lays" between my breasts.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
I am a roseMore likely "meadow saffron" or "crocus." Hebrew scholars and botanists suggest the term refers to Ashodelos (lily family), Narcissus tazetta (narcissus or daffodil), or Colchicum autumnale (meadow saffron or crocus) (e.g., Isa 35:1). The location of this flower in Sharon suggests a common wild flower rather than a rose. The maiden compares herself to a simple, common flower of the field of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. In his shade {I sat down with delight},Literally "I sat down and I delighted" and his fruit was sweet to my palate.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, {for I am lovesick}.Literally "for I myself am sick with love"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem},Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem" by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!Or "Do not stir up or awaken the love until it is willing," or "Do not disturb or interrupt our lovemaking until it is satisfied"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The voice of my beloved! Look! Here {he}Literally "this one" comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills!


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
My beloved is like a gazelle or {a young stag}.Literally "the fawn of the stag" Look! {He is}Literally "This is he" standing behind our wall, gazing {through}Literally "from" the window, looking {through}Literally "from" the lattice.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
My beloved answered and said to me, "{Arise},Literally "Arise, you" my beloved! {Come, my beauty}!Literally "And come, you"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For look! The winter is over; {the rainy season}Literally "the rain" {has turned and gone away}.Literally "is over; it is gone"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The blossoms {appear}Literally "is seen" {in the land};Literally "on the earth" {the time of singingMost likely, a subtle word play occurs here since there are two different words in Hebrew spelled the same way: "pruning" and "singing." The former plays upon the first line and the latter upon the third line has arrived};Literally "the time of the song arrived" the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The fig tree puts forth her figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give fragrance. {Arise},Literally "Arise, to you!" my beloved! {Come, my beauty}!"Literally "My beauty, come, you"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
My dove, in the clefts of the rock, {in the secluded place}Literally "in the secret place"Or "in the covering" {in the mountain},Literally "foothold in the rock"Or "cliff" Let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying vineyards, forOr "while" our vineyards are in blossom!


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{My beloved belongs to me and I belong to him};Literally "My beloved for me and I for him" he pastures his flock among the lilies.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved! {Be like}Literally "Be like for you" a gazelleOr "a buck gazelle" or {young stag}Literally "the fawn of the stag" on the cleft mountains.Or "the mountains of Bether"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
On my bed in the night, I soughtOr "I seek" him whom my {heart}Literally "soul" loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now I will arise, and I will go about in the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my {heart}Literally "soul" loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The sentinels who go about in the city found me. "Have you seen the one whom my {heart}Literally "soul" loves?"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{Scarcely had I passed}Literally "As little that I passed" by them when I found him whom my {heart}Literally "soul" 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.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem},Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem" by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!Or "Do not stir up or awaken the love until it is willing," or "Do not disturb or interrupt our love-making until it is satisfied"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
What is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Look! It is Solomon's {portable couch}!Literally "couch" or "portable sedan chair" Sixty mighty men surround {it},Literally "her" the mighty men of Israel.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
All of them {wield swords};Literally "holders of sword" they are {trained in warfare},Literally "learnt of war" each with his sword at his thigh to guard {against terror}Literally "because of the fear" in the night.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{King Solomon}Literally "The king, Solomon" made for himself a sedan chair from the wood of Lebanon.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He made its column of silver, its backOr "its support," "its base," "its headrest," "its litter," "its cover" of gold, its seat of purple; its interior is inlaid with leatherOr "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" by {the maidens of Jerusalem}.Literally "by the daughters of Jerusalem"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Come out and look, {O maidens of Zion},Literally "O daughters of Zion" at {King Solomon},Literally "the king, Solomon" at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the joy of his heart!


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{Oh my}!Literally "Behold!" Or "Look!" You are beautiful, my beloved! {Oh my}!Literally "Behold!" Or "Look!" You are beautiful! Your eyes are doves from behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Your lips are like a thread of crimson, and your mouth is lovely. Your temple is like pomegranate from behind your veil.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Your neck is like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand {ornaments}Literally "shields" are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of the myrrh, to the hill of the frankincense.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ComeOr "You must come" with me from Lebanon, my bride! Come with meOr "With me" 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.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance from your eyes, with one ornament from your necklaces.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your lips; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Your shootsOr "your channel" are an orchard of pomegranates with {choice fruit},Literally "fruit of choice things" henna with nard;


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon spice with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes with all chief spices.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Awake, O north wind! Come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden! Let its fragrancesOr "perfumes" waft forth!Or "His perfumes can waft down" Let my beloved come to his garden, let him eat his choice fruit!


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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 with love}!Or "Drink and become drunk, O lovers!"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I was asleep butOr "and" my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved knocking!Or "The sound of my beloved knocking!" "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}."Literally "my locks with drops of night"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I have taken off my tunic, {must I put it on}?Literally "How will I put it on?" I have bathed my feet, {must I soil them}?Literally "How will I soil them?"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I myself arose to open to my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh upon the handles of the bolt.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I opened myself to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone;Or "my beloved had left; he was gone" my heart sankOr "my soul left" when he turned away.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 I sought him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The sentinels making rounds in the city found me; they beat me, they wounded me; they took my cloakOr "mantle" away from me-- {those sentinels on the walls}!Literally "the sentinels of the walls"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem},Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem" if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am {lovesick}!Literally "sick with love"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{How is your beloved better than another lover},Literally "What is your beloved more than another beloved ...?" O most beautiful among women? {How is your beloved better than another lover}, Literally "What is your beloved more than another beloved ...?" that you adjure us thus?


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
My beloved is radiant and {ruddy},Literally "red" distinguished {among}Literally "more than" ten thousand.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
His eyes are like doves beside springsOr "streams" of water, bathed in milk, {set like mounted jewels}.Literally "dwelling in a setting"Or "seated at a suitable mounting"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
His cheeks are like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips are lilies dripping liquid myrrh.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
His arms are {rods}Literally "cylinders"Or "rings" of gold {engraved with}Literally "filled with" jewels; his bellyOr "body" is polished ivory covered with sapphires.Or "works of ivory set with sapphire"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
His legs are columns of alabaster,Or "marble" set on bases of gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as {its cedars}.Literally "the cedars"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{His mouth}Or "his palate" is sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved; this is my friend, {O young women of Jerusalem}.Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned that we may seek him with you?


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me};Literally "I for my beloved and he for me" he pastures his flock among the lilies.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
You are beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, {overwhelming as an army with banners}.Literally "terrible as the bannered ones"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Your teeth are 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.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
My dove, {she is the one};Literally "she is one"The term "one" functions here as an adjective of quality: "unique, singular, the only one" my perfect, {she is the only one};Literally "she is one"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" she is {the favorite of}Or "she is 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 latterLiterally "the favorite for" her mother who bore her. Maidens see her and consider her fortunate;Or "call her happy" or "call her blessed" or "bless her" queens and concubines praise her:


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Who is this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, {bright as the sun},Literally "pure as the glow"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) {overwhelming as an army with banners}?"Literally "terrible as the bannered ones"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
I went down to the orchard of the walnut trees to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines have sprouted, whether the pomegranates have blossomed.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
I did not know my {heart}Literally "soul" set me in a chariot of my princely people.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)


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Song of Songs 6:13-7:13 in the English Bible is 7:1-14 in the Hebrew Bible Turn, turn,Or "Return, return ...!" O Shulammite!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) Turn, turnOr "Return, return ...!" so that we may look upon you! Why do you look upon the Shulammite as at a dance of the two armies?


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O royal princess!Or "O daughter of leader" The curves of your {thighs}Literally "thigh" are like {jewels},Literally "ornaments" the work of the hands of a craftsman.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Your navel is {a round wine-mixing bowl}Literally "a bowl of the roundness" that does not lack mixedOr "blended" wine! Your belly is a heap of wheat encircled with lilies.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon {looking out over Damascus}.Literally "looking out over the face of Damascus"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{Your head crowns you like Carmel};Literally "Your head is on you like the Carmel"Because of its height and fertility, Mount Carmel is often associated with royalty the flowing locks of your head are like {purple tapestry};Literally "the purple" a king is held captive in the tresses!


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Your stature}Literally "this your height" is like the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I say, "I will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters." Let your breasts be pleasing like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Your palate is like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.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


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{I belong to my beloved},Literally "I am for my beloved" {and he desires me}!Literally "and his desire is for me." Or "and his desire belongs to me"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Come, my beloved, let us {go out to the countryside};Literally "go forth into the field" let us spend the nightOr "lodge" in the villages.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Let us rise early to goOr "let us go" to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded,Or "sprouted" whether the grape blossom has opened, and whether the pomegranates {are in bloom};Literally "have bloomed" there I will give my love to you.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The mandrakes give off their fragrance, and {over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit};Or "over our doorways all choice things" both {fresh and dried fruit I have stored up}Literally "new also old I have laid up" for you, O my beloved.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{How I wish that you were my little brother},Literally "O that he would give you like a brother to me"The Hebrew construction (which is somewhat misleading if rendered in a woodenly literal sense) is an idiom expressing one's fanciful wish who nursed {upon my mother's breasts}!Literally "at the breast of my mother" If {I met you outside},Literally "I will find you in the street" I would kiss you, {and no one would despise me}!Literally "also they would not despise me"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{I would surely bring you}Literally "I would lead you and I would bring you"The combination of the two verbs creates a hendiadys which may be rendered more cogently as "I would surely bring you ..." to the house of my mother, {who would surely teach me};Literally "she will teach me" {I would give you spiced wine to drink},Literally "I would give you to drink from the wine of the spice" the {sweet wine}Or "juice" of my pomegranates.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


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem},Literally "O daughters of Jerusalem" do notOr "Why must you ... before it pleases?" arouse or awaken love until it pleases!Or "Do not stir up or awaken the love until it is willing," or "Do not disturb or interrupt our lovemaking until it is satisfied"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother {conceived you};Literally "was in labor with you" there she who was in labor gave birth to you.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; passion is fierce as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire; it is a blazing flame.


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.Or "and rivers cannot engulf it" If a man were to give all the wealth of his house {for love},Literally "in the love" he would be utterly scorned.Literally "they will utterly scorn him"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{We have a little sister},Literally "a little sister for us" {and she does not yet have any breasts}.Literally "and there is no breast for her" What should we do for our sister {on the day when she is betrothed}?Literally "on the day when it is spoken of her"Or "on the day when she is spoken for"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
If she is a wall, {we will adorn her with a turret of silver};Literally "we will build upon her a camp of silver"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 but if she is a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar.Or "we will enclose her"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I was a wall, and my breasts were like the towers, {so my betrothed viewed me with great delight}.Literally "then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{Solomon had a vineyard}Literally "A vineyard was for Solomon" at Baal-hamon; {he entrusted his vineyard to the keepers};Literally "he gave the vineyard to the keepers" {people paid a thousand silver pieces for its fruit}.Literally "each one brought a thousand silver pieces for his fruit"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{My own "vineyard" belongs to me};Literally "My vineyard that for me before my face" the "thousand" are for you, O Solomon, {and "two hundred" for those who tend its fruit}.Literally "and two hundred for the keepers of his fruit"


c0book: Song
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle}Literally "and be like for you to a gazelle" or {a young stag}Literally "to the fawn of the stag" upon {the perfumed mountains}!Literally "the mountains of spices"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: "I reared children and I brought them up, but they rebelled against me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged and gone backward.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue in rebellion. The whole of the head is sick, and the whole of the heart is faint.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
From the sole of the foot and up to the 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; As for your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and it is desolate, like devastation by foreigners.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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.Or "preserved"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors,Hebrew "survivor" we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals and I do not delight in the blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You must not {continue}Literally "increase" or "add to" to bring offeringsHebrew "offering" of futility, incense--it is an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of a convocation-- I cannot endure iniquity with solemn assembly.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like a burden, I am not able to bear them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers,Hebrew "prayer" I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan and the legal dispute of the widow does not come before them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 24
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all of your tin.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will restore your judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. After this {you will be called}Literally "it will be called for you" the city of righteousness, faithful city.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 28
c3content:
But the destruction of rebels and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh will perish.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 29
c3content:
For youLiterally "they," but a few manuscripts read "you," which fits the context better will be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 30
c3content:
For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the strong man shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench them."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And it shall happen in the future of the days the mountain of the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh shall be established; it will be among the highestLiterally "head" of the mountains, and it shall be raised from the hills. All of the nations shall travel to him;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
many peoples shall come. And they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the houseOr "temple" 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are fullPossibly "of diviners" was part of the original text here from the east, and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and {they make alliances}Literally "they clap hands" with the offspring of foreigners.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And its land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to its treasures; and its land is filled with horses, and there is no end to its chariots.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Its land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of theirHebrew "his" hands, to what they made with theirHebrew "his" fingers.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The {haughty eyes}Literally "eyes of the haughtiness" of humanity willThe Hebrew is singular be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of the proud and the lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble,Or "it will be humbled"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and against all the lofty and lifted up cedars of Lebanon, and against all the large trees of Bashan,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
and they will enter into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the ground from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty {when he rises}Literally "in his rising" to terrify the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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 rodentsOr "moles" and to the bats--


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
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}Literally "in his rising" to terrify the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Turn away from humanity, who has breath in its nostrils,Hebrew "nostril" for byOr "in" what is it esteemed?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing {every source of support}Literally "supplies and supplies" from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the people will be oppressed {by each other}Literally "man by man" and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: "{You have a cloak};Literally "a cloak for you" you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He will lift up his voice 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 the leader of the people!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, and they confuse the course of your paths.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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 is in your houses!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Yahweh said: "BecauseThere are two Hebrew words for "because" here the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances with their eyes, {mincing along as they go},Literally "they go walking and mincing along" and {with their feet they rattle their bangles},Literally "they tinkle with their feet"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
the Lord will make the headsHebrew "head" of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the {perfume boxes}Literally "houses of the breath" and the amulets,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And herThat is, Jerusalem's gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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}!Literally "let your name be called upon us" Take away our disgrace!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
On that day the branch of Yahweh shall become beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall become the pride and glory of the survivorsHebrew "survivor" of Israel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Yahweh will create over all of the siteOr "place" of {Mount Zion}Literally "the mountain of Zion" and over her assembly a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of flaming fire by night. Indeed, over all the glory there will be a canopy,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and it will be a shelter for shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and a hiding place from rainstorm and from rain.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: {My beloved had a vineyard}Literally "A vineyard was for my beloved" on {a fertile hill}.Literally "a horn of a son of olive oil." The Hebrew for horn, qeren, sounds like the Hebrew for vineyard, kerem


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it with choice vines,Hebrew "vine" and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited for it to yield grapes-- but it yielded wild grapes.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why did I hope for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briersHebrew "brier" and thornbushes.Hebrew "thornbush" And concerning the clouds, I will command {them not to send}Literally "from sending" rain down upon it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the manOr "people" of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice,The Hebrew word, mishpat, sounds like mishpakh in the next line but look! Bloodshed!The Hebrew word, mishpakh, sounds like mishpat in the previous line For righteousness,The Hebrew word, tsedaqah, sounds like tsa`aqah in the next line but look! A cry of distress!The Hebrew word, tsa`aqah, sounds like tsedaqah in the previous line


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Ah! Those who {join}Literally "touch" house with house, they join field together with field until {there is no place}Literally "an end of place" and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,A bath is a liquid measure and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.An ephah is a dry measure equal to one-tenth of a homer


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And there will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts, but they do not look at the deedsHebrew "deed" of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, and theirHebrew "its" noblesHebrew "noble" will be men of hunger, and theirHebrew "its" multitude is parched with thirst.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and herThat is, Jerusalem's noblesHebrew "noble" will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and {fatlings, kidsFollowing the Septuagint, which reads the Hebrew grym (resident aliens) as gdym (young goats/sheep) will eat among the sites of ruins.}Literally "and ruins, fatlings, resident aliens, will eat"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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 it!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyes and have understanding {in their view}!Literally "before their faces"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become like the stench, and their blossom will go up like the 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Therefore {Yahweh's wrath was kindled}Literally "the anger of Yahweh became hot" against his people, and he stretched out his hand against themHebrew "it" and struck them,Hebrew "it" and the mountains quaked, and their corpsesHebrew "corpse" were like refuse in the middle of the streets.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And he will raise a signal for a nationThe Hebrew is plural, but the following verses refer to the nation as singular from afar, and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth. And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 27
c3content:
None is 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 28
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 29
c3content:
His roaring is like the lion, and he roars like young lions. And he growls and seizes his prey, and he carries it off, and not one can rescue it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And he will roar over him on that day like the roaring of the sea, and if one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And the light grows dark with itsPresumably the land's clouds.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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 was filling the temple.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Seraphs were standing above him. {Each had six wings}:Literally "six wings six wings for one" with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the houseOr "temple" was filled with smoke. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed!Or "silenced" For I am a man {of unclean lips},Literally "unclean of lips" and I am living amongWith an emphatic sense: "in the very heart and midst of" a people {of unclean lips},Literally "unclean of lips" for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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 with its mind and turn back, and it may be healed for him."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And {even if only a tenth part remain},Literally "still in her a tenth" {again she will be destroyed}Literally "and she will again and she will be to burn" like a terebinth or like an oak, which although felled, a tree stump remains in them. The seed of holiness will be her tree stump."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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, wentThe Hebrew is singular up to Jerusalem for warfare against it,Literally "her" but he was not able to fight against it.Literally "her"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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 the forest because of the wind. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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 the highway of the washer's field.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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}Literally "because of the fierceness of the anger of" Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Let us go up against Judah and let us tear her apart, {and let us lay it open and so bring it unto ourselves},Literally "and let us break through her to us" and let us install the son of Tabeel as king in her midst."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure." '" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then he said, "Hear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Therefore the Lord himself will give youThe Hebrew is plural a sign. Look! the virginOr "young woman" is with child and she is about to give birth to a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.'


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}Literally "the land which you dread will be abandoned because of the face of her two kings" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestorOr "father" days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond the river--with the king of Assyria--and it will even take off the beard.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of the herd and two sheep alive.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vinesHebrew "vine" for a thousand silver pieces will become briers,Hebrew "brier" and it will be thornbushes.Hebrew "thornbush"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briersHebrew "brier" and thornbushes.Hebrew "thornbush"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And as for all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, for fear of briersHebrew "brier" and thornbushes.Hebrew "thornbush" And it will become like pastureland for cattle and overtrodden land for sheep. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to me, "Take yourself a large tablet and write on it with a common stylus pen: Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria." 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Because this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
therefore look! The Lord is bringing up the waters of the great and mighty river against them, the king of Assyria and all his glory. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he will sweep into Judah; he will overflow and he will flood up to the neck. He will reach, and {he will spread his wings out over your entire land},Literally "the outspreading of his wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land" God with us."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed. And listen, all distant parts of the earth; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{Make a plan},Literally "Plan counsel" but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For Yahweh said this to me {while his hand weighed heavily on me},Literally "with the strength of the hand" and he {warned me not to walk}Literally "instructed me from walking" in the way of this people, saying,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and you must not {share its fear},Literally "fear its fear" and you must not be in dread.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy, and he is yourThe Hebrew is plural fear, and he is your dread.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they who speak like this have no dawn}.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" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And itThat is, the nation will pass through itThat is, the land distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods,Or "God" and it will face upwar


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
or look to the earth. But look! Distress and darkness, the gloom of affliction! And it will be thrust into darkness! 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Isaiah 9:1-21 in the English Bible is 8:23-9:20 in the Hebrew Bible {But there will be no gloom for those who were in distress}.Literally "Indeed there is no gloom for the one to whom there was anxiety for her" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You have made the nation numerous; you have notThe written text (Kethib) is "not," but the reading tradition (Qere) is "for it" made the joy great. They rejoice in your presence as with joy at the harvest, as they rejoice when they divide plunder.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For you have shattered the yoke of its burden and the stick of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, onHebrew "like"; the Hebrew letters for "like" and "on" look alike the day of Midian.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For every boot {that marches and shakes the earth}Literally "marching with shaking," which might mean "marching is with shaking" and garment rolled in blood {will}Literally "and it will" be for burning--fire fuel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end}Literally "There is no end to the increase of the dominion and to peace" onOr "for" the throne of David and overOr "for" his kingdom, to establish itThat is, the kingdom and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stone. The sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace them with cedars."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Yahweh strengthened {the adversaries of Rezin}Or "his adversaries" if a copyist added "of Rezin" in error against him, and he provoked his enemies--


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Aram from the east and PhilistinesHebrew "Philistine" from the 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the people did not turn to the one who struck it,That is, the people and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
EldersHebrew "Elder" and {the respectable}Literally "one lifted up of face" are the head, and prophetsHebrew "prophet" who teach liesHebrew "lie" are the tail.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth was speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand is stretched out.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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}.Literally "A man does not have compassion toward his brother"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
They devoured on the right but still were hungry and devoured on the left but they were not satisfied. Each one devoured the flesh of his arm,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Manasseh devoured Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they were against Judah. In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand is stretched out.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
to guide the needy away from legal claims,Hebrew "claim" and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And what will you do at the day of punishment, and at calamity? It comes from afar! To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain}?Literally "except he will bow down under a prisoner and under slain they will fall"; "under" could also mean "in the place of" In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand is stretched out.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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 themHebrew "him" a trampling place, like the clay of the streets.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But he does not think this,Or "so" and his heart does not plan this. For it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idolsHebrew "idol" --and their images were {greater than those of}Literally "from" Jerusalem and Samaria--


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against {Mount Zion}Literally "the mountain of Zion" and Jerusalem, "I will punish the {arrogance}Literally "fruit of the greatness of the heart" of the king of Assyria and {his haughtiness}."Literally "the pride of the height of his eyes" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro? {As if a rod should move the one who lifts it}!Literally "As a rod waving even the one who lifts it up" {As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood}!Literally "As a staff lifting up not wood"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thornsHebrew "thorn" and briersHebrew "brier" in one day.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard {completely},Literally "from soul and to body" and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the rest of the treesHebrew "tree" of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And this shall happen: on that day, the remnant of Israel and the survivorsHebrew "survivor" of the house of Jacob will not continue to lean on the one who struck it but will lean on Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, in truth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of it will return. Annihilation is determined, overflowing with righteousness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 23
c3content:
For the Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
My indignation will come to an end {in just a very little while},Literally "for still a little a trifle" and my anger will be directed to their destruction."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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 will be over the sea, and he will lift him up {as he did in Egypt}.Literally "in the way of Egypt"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 29
c3content:
They crossed over the pass; Geba is a place of overnight lodging for us. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Daughter of Gallim, cry out with your voice; Laishah, listen! {Anathoth is poor}.Or with different vocalization, "Answer her, Anathoth!" which fits the parallelism better


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 32
c3content:
{This day}Literally "Yet today" {taking a stand}Literally "to stand" at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughterFollowing the reading tradition (Qere); the consonantal text has "house" of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Look! The Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to lop off the branchesHebrew "branch" with great power, and {the towering trees}Literally "the haughty of the height" will be felled, and the {tall trees}Literally "height" will be brought low.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with the axe, and Lebanon will fall by the mighty one.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And his {breath}Hebrew "smelling," perhaps metaphorically as "delight" as in Amos 5:14; perhaps this line was accidentally copied twice from the preceding line is in the fear of Yahweh. And he shall judge not by his eyesight, and he shall rebuke not by {what he hears with}Literally "the rumors of" his ears.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But he shall judge the poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for the needy of the earth with rectitude. And he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill the wicked person with the breath of his lips.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And a wolf shall {stay}Literally "dwell as an alien" 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}Literally "and a small boy leading" them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And {an infant}Literally "one nursing" shall play over a serpent's hole, and {a toddler}Literally "one who is weaned" shall put his hand on a viper's hole.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
They will not injure and they will not destroy on all of my {holy mountain},Literally "mountain of holiness" for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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}Literally "wings" of the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and the enemies of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be an enemy of Ephraim.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But they shall {swoop}Literally "fly" upon the Philistine shoulder,That is, the hill country west of Judah {westward}.Literally "sea" Together they shall plunder the sons of the east. Edom and Moab {will be under their command},Literally "the stretching of their hand" and the sons of Ammon will be their subjugated people.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Yahweh will divideOr "utterly destroy" the tongueProbably the "gulf" of the sea of Egypt,That is, the Red Sea and he will wave his hand over the riverThat is, the Euphrates River with his scorching wind; and he will strike it into seven streams, and he will {make it passable by foot}.Literally "cause to walk with the sandal"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So there shall be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people that remains, as there was for Israel {when}Literally "in the day" it went up from the land of Egypt.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up your voice to them; wave the hand and may they enter the gateways of the noblemen.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the {ones who exalt over}Literally "exultant of" my majesty.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
A sound, a noise is on the mountains, the likeness of many people! A sound of the roar of the kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts is mustering an army for battle.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy {the whole earth}.Literally "all of the land/earth"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!Often translated "the Almighty"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. {They will stare at one another},Literally "A man will stare at his neighbor" {their faces flushing}.Literally "faces of flames"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Look! The day of Yahweh is coming, cruel and wrath and the burning of anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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 the moon will not cause its light to shine.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Therefore I will make the 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.The reading tradition (Qere) softens this to "slept with"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And their bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like {when God overthrew}Literally "the overthrow by God of" Sodom and Gomorrah. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in {forever};Literally "until generation and generation" and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and the daughters of ostrichesHebrew "ostrich" will live there, and goats will dance there.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time {is coming soon},Literally "close to come" and its days will not be prolonged.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will take possession of themThat is, the nations in the land of Yahweh as slaves and female slaves.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which {you had to perform},Literally "was worked by you" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How the oppressor has ceased! his insolenceThe meaning of the word is uncertain; others translate it as "fury," "hostility," or even "golden city" has ceased.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger {with unrestrained persecution}.Literally "persecution without withholding"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since you were laid down, no wood cutter comes up against us.'


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet {you when you come};Literally "your entrance" it arouses the dead spirits for you, all of the leaders of the earth. It raises all of the kings of the nations from their thrones.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!'


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Your pride is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggotsHebrew "maggot" are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.Hebrew "worm"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 12
c3content:
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I will ascend to the high places of the clouds,Hebrew "cloud" I will make myself like the Most High.'


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
who made the world like the desert and destroyed its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?'


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But as for you, you are thrown away from your grave, like an abhorrent shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, those who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse that is trodden down.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the sin of their ancestors.Or "fathers" Let them not rise and take possession of the earth or fill up the face of the world with cities."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 25
c3content:
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 hisThat is, their shoulders."Hebrew "shoulder"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 26
c3content:
This is the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all of the nations.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 29
c3content:
You must not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for a viper will come forth from the root of the snake, and its fruit will be a flying serpent.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in security; but I will cause your root to die in famine, and it will kill your remnant.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Wail, gate! Cry, city! Melt,With fear or despair Philistia, all of you! For smoke is coming from the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
It has gone up to the house,Or "temple" and Dibon to the high places for weeping over Nebo, and Moab wails over Medeba. {Every head is bald},Literally "On all its heads baldness" every beard is shaved.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They gird themselves with sackcloth in its streets; on its roofs and public squares everyone wails, going down in weeping.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Heshbon and Elealeh cryThe Hebrew is singular out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed ones of Moab cry out; its soul quiversThe Hebrew words for "cry out" and "quiver" are similar for him.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives flee up to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith it goes up it with weeping; for on the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for the grass has withered, the vegetation has vanished, there is no greenness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Therefore they carry the abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For a cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab, her wailing is heard as far as Eglaim, and her wailing as far as Beer Elim.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For the waters of DimonOne of the Dead Sea Scrolls reads "Dibon" here are full of blood; but I will place added things upon Dimon: a lion for the survivorsHebrew "survivor" of Moab and for the remnant of the land.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Send a ramPossibly "rams" if a scribe accidentally omitted the Hebrew plural ending because the next word begins with that same letter to the ruler of the land, from Sela across the desert to the mountain of {daughter Zion}.Literally "the daughter of Zion"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"Bring counsel, make a decision; make your shade like the night in the middle of noonday. Hide the outcasts; you must not betray the fugitive.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Let my outcasts of Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from the presence of the destroyer." When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, the {one who tramples has}Literally "one who tramples have," with mismatched singular and plural disappeared from the land,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
We have heard of the pride of Moab--exceedingly proud-- of his arrogance, pride, and insolence; {his boasting is not true}.Literally "not so his boasting"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Therefore Moab wails; all of it wails for Moab, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you moan, {utterly devastated}.Literally "surely destroyed"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah; rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils, they reached up to Jazer, they wandered to the desert; her shoots spread abroad, they crossed over the sea.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I drench you with my tears,Hebrew "tear" Heshbon and Elealeh, for a jubilant shout has fallen over your summer fruit and harvest.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And joy and gladness areThe Hebrew is singular 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 the jubilant shout.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Therefore my {heart moans}Literally "intestines moan,"; in Hebrew, the "intestines" are the seat of the emotions, which would correspond to the "heart" in English like a harp for Moab and my inner parts for Kir-heres.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will become contemptible, with all of the great multitude, and the remnant will be a few, small, not strong. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The cities of Aroer will be deserted;These words in Hebrew (and "flocks" in the next line) all begin with the same letter, Ayin they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and {no one will frighten}Literally "there is not one who frightens" them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And it shall be as {when a reaper gathers}Literally "a gathering of a reaper of" standing grain and he reaps grain with his arm, and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And gleanings will be left over in it, as {when an olive tree is beaten},Literally "beating of an olive tree" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
On that day, {its fortified cities}Literally "the cities of his fortress" will be like the {abandonment of the wooded place and the summit},Perhaps this difficult phrase originally read "abandonment of the wooded heights of the Amorites" which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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}Literally "plant it" a vine of a foreigner.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
On your planting day you make them grow, and in the morning of your sowing you bring them into bloom, yet the harvest will fleeReading the same consonants as a verb, nad, rather than the noun ned, which would mean "a heap ofthe harvest" in a day of sickness and incurable pain.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Ah! The noise of many peoples, they make a noise like the noise of the seas! And the roar of nations, they roar like the roar of mighty waters!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The nations roar like the roar of many waters, but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away. And they are chased like chaff of the mountains before the wind and like tumbleweed before the storm.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
At the time of evening, and look, terror! Before morning he is no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who plunder us.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a {tall}Literally "stretched out" and {smooth}Literally "peeled," "wiped clean," or "hairless" nation, to a people feared {near and far},Literally "from this and beyond" a {mighty, mighty}Perhaps this is a gibberish phrase in Hebrew, qaw-qaw and tramplingMeaning uncertain nation, whose land rivers divide.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 3
c3content:
All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers of the earth, {when a signal is raised on the}Literally "as a raising of a signal" mountains, you must look, and {when a trumpet is blown},Literally "as a blowing of a trumpet" you must listen!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For before the harvest, {when the blossom is complete}Literally "as a completion of a blossom" and a blossom becomes ripening fruit, and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and one removes, tears away the tendrils.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
They shall {all be left}Literally "be left together" for birdsHebrew "bird" of prey of the mountains and for the animalsHebrew "animal" of the earth. And the birdsHebrew "bird" of prey will pass the summer on it, and every animal of the earth will winter on it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"And I will stir up {Egyptians}Literally "Egypt" against {Egyptians},Literally "Egypt" and each one will fight against his brother and each one against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the spirit of {the Egyptians}Literally "Egypt" will be disturbed in his midst, and I will {confuse}Literally "engulf" his plans,Hebrew "plan" and they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, and the ghosts and the spiritists.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I will hand over {the Egyptians}Literally "Egypt" into the hand of a hard master, and a powerful king will rule over them," {declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh of hosts.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Bare places by the Nile will be dried up, by the edge of the Nile and all the sown land of the Nile; it will be driven about, and {it will be no more}.Literally "there is none of it"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the fishers will mourn, and all of those who cast fishhooksHebrew "fishhook" in the Nile will lament, and those who spread out fishing netsHebrew "net" on the {surface}Literally "face" of the water will languish.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And her weavers will be crushed; all the {hired workers}Literally "workers of wage" will be grieved of heart.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Surely the princes of Zoan are foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh give senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I myself am a son of sages, a {descendant}Literally "son" of ancient kings"?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Where are your sages then? Now, let them tell you, and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has planned against Egypt.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The princes of Zoan have become foolish; the princes of Memphis are deceived; the leaders of her tribes have led Egypt astray.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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}Literally "the staggering of a drunkard" in his vomit.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And {there will be nothing for Egypt to do},Literally "not it will be for Egypt a deed which he can do" head or tail, palm branch or reed.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
On that day, Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be afraid before the waving hand of Yahweh of hosts that he is waving against it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt, everyone to whom one mentions it will be afraid in himself because of the plan of Yahweh of hosts that he is planning against him. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
On that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the {language}Literally "lip" of Canaan and swear an oath to Yahweh of hosts. One will be called "City of the Sun." 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
On that day, there will be an altar for Yahweh in in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a stone pillar for Yahweh at her border.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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},Literally "contender" and he will deliver them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know Yahweh on that day, and they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vowsHebrew "vow" to Yahweh, and they will fulfill them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 22
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 23
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 25
c3content:
whom Yahweh of hosts blessed, saying, "May Egypt my people be blessed, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and my inheritance, Israel." 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the year {the commander-in-chief came}Literally "of the coming of the commander in chief" to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and he took it,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
so shall the king of Assyria lead the captivesHebrew "captive" of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, {with bared buttocks},Literally "and bare of buttocks" the shame of Egypt. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they shall be dismayed, and they shall be ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their pride.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman giving birth. I am {too bent to hear},Literally "bent from hearing," which could also mean "bent because of what I heard" I am {too dismayed to see}.Literally "dismayed from seeing," which could also mean "dismayed because of what I saw"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
My {mind}Literally "heart" staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight {I desired}Literally "of my desire" {brought}Literally "put" me fear.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs!Hebrew "rug" Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smearThat is, prepare with oil the shield!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
WhenOr "And" he sees riders,Hebrew "rider" a pair of horsemen, ridersHebrew "rider" of donkeys,Hebrew "donkey" ridersHebrew "rider" of camels,Hebrew "camel" {then}Or "and" he must listen attentively, paying attention, paying {special}Literally "much" attention."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{When you happen to meet}Literally "Toward encountering" the thirsty, bring water. Inhabitants of the land of Tema came to meet the fugitive with his bread.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword and the bent bow, and from the heaviness of the battle.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the remainder of the number of the bowsHebrew "bow" of the warriors of the sons of Kedar will be few."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{noisy},Literally "full of noises" tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead from battle.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of {you who were found}Literally "your found ones" were captured. They were captured together; they had fled far away.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusionThese three Hebrew words are alliterative: mehûmâûmeḇûsâûmeḇûḵâ in the valley of vision, a tearing down of wallsHebrew "wall" and a cry for help to the mountains.Hebrew "mountain"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Elam lifted up the quiver, with chariotsHebrew "chariot" of menHebrew "man" and cavalry. And Kir uncovered the shield.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weaponsHebrew "weapon" of the House of the Forest,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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}.Literally "its creator from far away"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxenHebrew "ox" and the slaughtering of sheep, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine! "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
'What {business do you have}Literally "to you" here, and who {do you have}Literally "to you" here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave on the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Look! Yahweh is about to {really hurl}Literally "hurl a hurling" you, man! And he is about to grasp you firmly;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
he will wind a winding tightly around you like a ball, to a {wide land}.Literally "land broad of sides" There you shall die, and there the chariots of your splendor will be, disgrace to your master's house!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
and I will clothe him with 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 inhabitantsHebrew "inhabitant" of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder, and he shall open and no one will be able to shut; and he shall shut and no one will be able to open.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I will drive him in like a peg into a secure place, and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
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}.Literally "vessels of the bowls to all of the vessels of the jars"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 25
c3content:
On that day, {declares}Literally "declaration of" 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 was on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.'" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And on the great waters is the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile is its produce, and she was the merchandise of the nations.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Be ashamed, Sidon, for the 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, broughtOr "I have brought" up young women."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Is this your exultant one},Literally "this to you, exultant" her origin from the days of long ago? Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,Hebrew "crown" whose merchants were princes, her traders the honored ones of the earth?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Yahweh of hosts has planned it: to defile the pride of all glory, to humble all the honored ones of the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Cross over your own land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.Hebrew "waistband" is emended to "harbor" by transposing two consonants


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He has stretched his hand out over the sea; he has made kingdoms shake. Yahweh has commanded concerning Canaan to destroy her fortresses.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Look at the land of the Chaldeans! {This people no longer exists. Assyria destined}Literally "this people was not Assyria destined," which could be translated "It was this people! It was not Assyria. They destined" it for wild animals. They erected its siege towers; they demolished its citadel fortresses. It made her like a ruin.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Take a harp, go around the city, forgotten prostitute! Do it well, playing a stringed instrument! Make numerous songs,Hebrew "song" that you may be remembered."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste and is about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes;Hebrew "statute" they have broken the everlasting covenant.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore a curse devours the earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn, and {few men are left}.Literally "he is left a man of smallness"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
the joy of the tambourine has stopped. The noise of the jubilant has ceased; the joy of the lyre has stopped.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut {so that no one can enter};Literally "from entering"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
there is an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into {darkness};Literally "evening" the joy of the earth disappears.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth, among the nations, like the beating of an olive tree, like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
They lift up their voices;Hebrew "voice" they sing for joy; they shout out from the west over the majesty of Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, the name of Yahweh the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
We hear songs from the {edge}Literally "wing" of the earth: "Glory to the righteous one!" But I say, "Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! The treacherous ones deal treacherously, and the treacherous ones deal treacherously with treachery!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard, and it sways like a hut, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it falls and does not rise again.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And they will be gathered in a gathering, like a prisoner {in}Literally "on" a pit. And they will be shut {in}Literally "on" a prison and be punished {after}Literally "from" many days.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And the full moon will be ashamed and the sun will be ashamed, for Yahweh of hosts will rule on {Mount Zion}Literally "the mountain of Zion" and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things,Hebrew "thing" plansHebrew "plan" {of old},Literally "from far away " in faithfulness, trustworthiness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For you have {made}Literally "placed" the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin, the palace of foreigners {is no longer}Literally "from" a city; it will {never}Literally "to eternity not" be rebuilt.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless was like a rainstorm against a wall,The same consonants with different vowels can be translated "winter rainstorm"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
the noise of foreigners like heat in a dry land. You subdued the heat with the shade of a cloud; the song of the ruthless was silenced.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And on this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a {rich feast},Literally "feast of fat" a feast of aged wines, fat filled with marrow, filtered aged wine.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And on this mountain he will {destroy}Literally "engulf" the face of the shroud, the shroud over all peoples, and the woven covering over all nations.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He will {destroy}Literally "engulf" death forever, and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off the tears from all faces, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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}Literally "the trampling down of a heap of straw" in {waters of}These words are in the written Hebrew text, but not in the reading tradition (Qere) a dung heap.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And itMoab 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 movementMeaning uncertain of its hands.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls; he will bring it low; he will {send it}Literally "cause it to touch" to the ground, to the dust.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For he has thrown down the inhabitants of the height, he lays low the lofty city. He lays it low to the ground; he throws her to the dust.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The way of the righteous is a straight path; {you clear the level path of the righteous}.Literally "the level path of the righteous you make level"; the meaning of this phrase is uncertain


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh, for your name and renown are the desire of the soul.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I desire you with all my soul in the night; also I seek you with my spirit within me, for when your judgments are {upon}Literally "to" the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Yahweh, our God, lords besides you ruled over us, {but we praise your name alone}.Literally "alone in you we praise name you"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
You have added to the nation, Yahweh. You have added to the nation; you are honored. You have extended all the ends of the land.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Yahweh, in distress they have visited you; they poured out an {incantation};Literally "whispering" your discipline was on them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth to wind. We cannot bring about deliverance on the earth, and no inhabitants of the world are born.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Your dead shall live; {their corpses}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 shall rise. Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust, for your dew is {celestial dew},Literally "dew of light" and the earth will give birth to dead spirits.Or "you make the land of Rephaim fall"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doorsThe reading tradition (Qere) is singular behind you; hide for {a very little}Literally "a little a little" while, until the wrath has passed over.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitantsHebrew "inhabitant" of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover her slain.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
On that day, Yahweh will punish with his cruel, great and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I, Yahweh, am her keeper; I water it {again and again}.Literally "by moments" Lest one afflict harm on it, I guard it night and day;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{I have no wrath}.Literally "There is no wrath for me" Whatever gives me thorns and briers, I will step forth against in battle. I will set it on fire altogether.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{Days are coming},Literally "The coming ones" let Jacob take root; Israel will blossom and send out shoots, and they will fill the face of the world with fruit.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Does he strike him {as he struck down those who struck him}?Literally "like the striking of one striking him" Or is he killed {as those who killed him were killed}?Literally "like the killing of his killed ones"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 8
c3content:
By expellingMeaning uncertain, derived from the following parallel expression her, by her sending away, you argue with her. He removed them with his strong wind, in the day of the east wind.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore by this he will make atonement for the guilt of Jacob, and this will be all of the fruit of the removal of his sin: {when he makes}Literally "in his setting" all the stones of the altar like crushed stones of chalk, no poles of Asherah worship or incense altars will stand.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For the fortified city is solitary, a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calf grazes there, lies down there and destroys its branches.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{When its branches are dry},Literally "In her branch being dry" they are broken; women are coming and setting light to it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and the withering flower of the glory of his beauty, which is at the head of {the rich valley},Literally "a valley of fat" {ones overcome}Literally "ones struck" with wine!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Look! The Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a rainstorm of hail, a wind storm of destruction, like a rainstorm of mighty overflowing waters, he will put them to the earth with his hand.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and the withering flower of the glory of its beauty which is at the head of {the rich valley}Literally "a valley of fat" will be like its early fig before summer, {which the one who sees it swallows}Literally "Which, when the one who sees it sees it, he swallows it" while it is still in his hand.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
In that day, Yahweh of hosts will become a garland of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confusedOr "swallowed" because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger in the rendering of a decision,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For it is blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah,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" a little here, a little there.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,Hebrew "lie" and waters will flood over the hiding place.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{As often as it passes through},Literally "From enough his passing through" it will take you, for {morning by morning}Literally "in the morning in the morning" it will pass through, in the day and in the night,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For the bed is too short {to stretch out on},Literally "from stretching oneself" and the covering is too narrow when wrapping oneself.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount Perazim; he will rave as in the valley at Gibeon to do his deed--his deed is strange-- and to work his work--his work is alien!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 25
c3content:
When he has leveled its {surface},Literally "face" does he not scatter dill, and sow cumin seed, and {plant}Literally "place" wheat in planted rows,Hebrew "row" and barley in an appointed place, and spelt grain as its border?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a utility cart {rolled}Literally "turned" over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 28
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
YetOr "And" I will inflict Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.Hebrew "Ariel," which might mean "altar hearth"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I will encamp {in a circle}The Hebrew text literally reads "like the ball"; the LXX supports an emendation to "David" against you, and I will lay siege to you with towersHebrew "tower" and I will raise up siegeworks against you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 4
c3content:
ThenOr "And" you shall be low; you shall speak from the earth, and your wordsHebrew "word" will be low, from dust. And your voice will be from the earth, like a ghost, and your word will whisper from the dust.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 5
c3content:
ButOr "And" the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust, and the multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, all those who fight against her and her stronghold, and those who inflict her shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And it shall be as when the hungry person dreams--look, he is eating! And he wakes up and his inner self is empty. OrOr "And" as when the thirsty person dreams--look, he is drinking! And he wakes up and look, he is faint, and his inner self is longing for water. So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Be astonished and be amazed! Blind yourselves and be blinded! They are drunk butOr "and" not from wine; they stagger butOr "and" not from strong drink.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. When they give it to one who knows theThe reading tradition (Qere) has "a" instead of "the" document, saying, "{Read}Literally "Call" this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it is sealed."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And if the document is given to one who does not {know how to read},Literally "know a document" saying, "{Read}Literally "Call" this now!" he says, "I do not {know how to read}."Literally "know a document" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide it from Yahweh, and their deeds areThe Hebrew is singular in a dark place. And they say, "Who sees us? And who knows us?"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Your perversity! As if {a potter}Literally "of the one who creates" shall be regarded as the clay! That the product of its maker says, "He did not make me," and the thing made into shape says of its {potter},Literally "one who creates" "He has no understanding."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{In a very little while}Literally "Not still a trifling of time" shall not Lebanon change into a fruitful land, and the fruitful land be regarded as a forest?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And on that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and darkness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the meek {have joy after joy}Literally "shall add joy" in Yahweh, and the needy of the people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall come to an end. And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
those who mislead a person into sin with a word and set a trap for the {arbitrator}Literally "one who argues" in the gate and guide away the righteous by emptiness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 23
c3content:
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 of the God of Israel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And those who err in spirit will {acquire}Literally "know" understanding, and those who grumble will learn instruction.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Who go to go down to Egypt, butOr "and" they do not ask of my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
ForOr "And" {Egyptians}Literally "Egypt" help with vanity and emptiness, therefore I have called this one "Rahab, they are sitting."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now go, write it on a tablet with them, and inscribe it on a scroll, {that}Or "and" it may be {for the time to come},Literally "for last day" forever, forever.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For it is a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children who are not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 11
c3content:
turn aside from the way, turn aside from the path, put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 13
c3content:
therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks}Literally "whose breaking comes" suddenly, in an instant.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he breaks it like a vessel of {a potter}Literally "someone who forms" breaks, that is crushed; he has no compassion, and no potsherd is found among its fragmentsHebrew "fragment" {to take fire}Literally "for the taking away of fire" from the hearth, or {to skim}Literally "for the skimming off of" water from the cistern."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 17
c3content:
One thousand {because of}Literally "from the face of" a threat of one, {because}Literally "from the face" of a threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like a flagstaff on {top}Literally "head" of a mountain, and like a signal on a hill.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the Lord will give you the bread of distress and the water of oppression, butOr "and" your teachers will not hide themselvesHebrew "himself" any longer. And your eyes {shall see}Literally "be seeing" your teachers.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this is the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And you will defile the plating of your silver idols and the covering of your gold image. You will scatter them like contaminated things;Hebrew "contaminated thing" you will say to it, "Filth!"Or "Get out!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and {fertile}.Literally "fat" On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures;Hebrew "pasture"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 24
c3content:
and the oxen and the donkeys that tillOr "tilling" the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill, watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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 the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people, and he heals the wound of his blow.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And his breath is like an overflowing river; it reaches up to the neck to shake the nations with the sieve of worthlessness; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jawbones of the peoples.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 29
c3content:
{You shall have a song}Literally "There shall be a song for you" as in the 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 30
c3content:
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, with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stonesHebrew "stone" of hail.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And every stroke of the staff of foundationSome translations emend this to "discipline" that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres, and he will fight against itThe reading tradition (Qere) has "them" with battles of brandishing.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 33
c3content:
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}.Literally "numerous" The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And indeed, he is wise, and he brings disaster, and he does not remove his words, and he will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of workers of iniquity.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the Egyptians are human and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and the helper will stumble, and the one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end.Or "perish"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For on that day, each one will reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold which your hands have made in sin for you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Assyria shall fall by a sword not of a man, and a sword not of a human shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And his rock will pass over because of terror, and his officers will be terrified because of the flag," {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, who has a fire in Zion and has a furnace in Jerusalem.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And each one will be like a hiding place from the wind and a covering from the rainstorm, like streams of water in a dry region, like the shade of a large rock in a weary land.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the eyes of those who see will not gaze,The same consonants with different vowels would be translated "be blinded," which fits the context better and the ears of those who hear will listen.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the {minds}Literally "heart" of the rash will understand {knowledge},Literally "to know" and the tonguesHebrew "tongue" of stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For a fool speaks folly, and his {mind}Literally "heart" does iniquity: to {behave wickedly},Literally "do ungodliness" and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave the throat of the hungry empty, and he deprives the thirsty of drink.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And a scoundrel, his weapons are evil; he plans evil devices to ruin the poor with words of deception evenOr "and" when the speech of the needy is right.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Tremble, you who are at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on your loins,Although the carefree and at ease addressees in this verse are feminine plural ("you women"), the commands are masculine singular in form


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 13
c3content:
over the soil of my people. It goes up in thornsHebrew "thorn" and briers,Hebrew "brier" indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For the palace will be forsaken, the {crowded city}Literally "crowd of the city" deserted; the hill and the watchtower will becomeThe Hebrew text has "for the benefit of" following "become" a cave forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture {for}Literally "of" flocks.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 16
c3content:
ThenOr "And" justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And it hails when {the forest comes down},Literally "the coming down of the forest" and the city will become low in humiliation.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him!Many manuscripts suggest "you" rather than "him" When you {cease}Literally "finishing" destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you. Be ourHebrew "their" arm in the mornings, indeed our salvation in the time of trouble.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Highways are deserted; the traveler on the road ceases. One breaks a treaty, he rejects the cities,A Dead Sea Scroll reads "witnesses" he does not hold man in high regard.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The land mourns; it languishes. Lebanon feels abashed; it withers. Sharon is like the desert, and Bashan and Carmel {are losing their leaves}.Literally "shaking off"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the peoples will be burning to lime-- they are burned like thorns that have been cut down in the fire.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling has seized the godless: "Who of us can {live}Literally "dwell as an alien" with devouring fire? Who of us can {live}Literally "dwell as an alien" with everlasting consuming hearths?"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He who walks in righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects the gain of extortion, who {refuses}Literally "shakes his hand from the taking of" a bribe, who stops up his earsHebrew "ear" from hearing {bloodshed}Literally "blood" and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 16
c3content:
That one will live on the heights; the fortresses of rocks will be his refuge. His food will be given; his watersHebrew "water" will endure.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see a {distant land}.Literally "land of distance"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Your {mind}Literally "heart" will meditate on the terror: "Where is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed out? Where is the one who counted the towers?"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 19
c3content:
You will not see the insolent people, the people {whose language is too obscure to understand},Literally "obscure of lip than to hear" whose stammering of tongue {cannot be understood}.Literally "there is no understanding"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed settlement, a tent {that is not moved}.Literally "not he is loaded" No one will ever pull out its tent pegs, and none of its ropes will be torn in two.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Rather, there Yahweh will be mighty for us, a place of rivers and {broad streams},Literally "streams broad of hands" a galley ship withOr "of" oarsHebrew "oar" cannot go in it, and a mighty ship cannot pass through it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For Yahweh is our judge; Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king; he is the one who will save us.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Your riggings hang slack; they do not hold the base of their mast firm, they do not spread out the sail. Then the prey of spoil in abundance will be divided; the lame will take plunder.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who live in it, their iniquity will be taken away.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Come near, nations, to hear; and peoples, listen attentively! Let the earth hear, and that which fills it; the world and all its offspring.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For the anger of Yahweh is against all the nations, and his wrath is against all their armies; he has put them under a ban, he has given them up for slaughter.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And their slain shall be cast out; as forOr "and" their corpses, their stench shall go up. And the mountains shall melt withOr "from" their blood,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and all the host of heaven shall rot. And the skies shall roll up like a scroll, and all their host shall wither like the withering of a leaf from a vine, orOr "and" like the withering from a fig tree.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And wild oxen shall go down with them, and steers with strong bulls. And their land shall be drenched withOr "from" blood, and their soil shall be fattened withOr "from" fat.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For {Yahweh has a day of vengeance},Literally "a day of vengeance for Yahweh" a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur, and its land shall become like burning pitch.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 11
c3content:
ButOr "And" the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it, and the owl and the raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weedsHebrew "weed" and thistle plantsHebrew "thistle plant" in her fortresses; and it shall be the settlement of jackals, green grass for the daughters of an ostrich.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas, and a goat-demon shall call to his neighbor; surely there LilithHebrew transliteration; possibly a proper name for a Mesopotamian night-demon shall repose, and she shall find a resting place for herself.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 15
c3content:
There the owl shall nest and lay and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow; surely there the birds of prey shall be gathered, each one with her mate.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he {is the one that}Literally "he" has cast the 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}.Literally "to generation and generation"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Wilderness and dry land shall be glad,The Hebrew has an extra "them," probably from an accidental of the first letter of the next word and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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}Literally "they" shall see the glory of Yahweh, the majesty of our God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then the lame shall leap like the deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Her resting place is in a settlement of jackals; the grass shall become like reedsHebrew "reed" and rushes.Hebrew "rush"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean shall not travel through it, butOr "and" it is for them, he who walks on the way; and fools shall not wander about.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 9
c3content:
No lion shall be there, and no ferocious wild beast shall go up it. It shall not be found there, butOr "and" the redeemed shall walk there.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy shall be on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And this happened: In {the fourteenth year}Literally "four ten year" of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he captured them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the king of Assyria sent RabshakehRabshekah is the title of a high Assyrian official from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a large army, and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the field of the washer.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who {was in charge of the palace},Literally "was over the house" came out to him, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Rabshakeh said to them, "Now say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What is this confidence in which you trust?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I said, 'Only a word of lips! {War has power and a plan}!'The Hebrew here is awkward; literally "Plan and power for war" Now, in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And if you say to me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' was it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? And he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall bow down in the {presence}Literally "face" of this altar.'"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And now please make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, that is, if you are able {put}Literally "give" riders for yourself on them!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But how can you drive back {one governor among the least of my master's servants},Literally "the face of the governor of the one of the insignificant servants of my master" whenOr "and" you trust in Egypt for chariotsHebrew "chariot" and horsemen?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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!" '" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we can understandOr "hear" it, and you must not speak to us in Judean in the {hearing}Literally "ear" of the people who are on the wall." 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 12
c3content:
ButOr "And" Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your masters and you? Was it not for the people who sit on the wall, to eat their dung and drink their urineSo Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib); the reading tradition (Qere) has "feet-water" with you?" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 13
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Rabshakeh stood and called in a great voice in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And do 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!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 16
c3content:
You must not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: "Make a blessingThat is, a gesture of surrender with me, and come out to me, and each one will eat from his vine and from his fig tree and drink water fromOr "of" his cistern,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 17
c3content:
until {I come}Literally "my coming" and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 18
c3content:
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?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Who are there among all the gods of these countries who have saved their land from my hand, that Yahweh should save Jerusalem from my hand?" '" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 21
c3content:
ButOr "And" they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 22
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the {palace},Literally "house" Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder, came to Hezekiah with torn garments and told him the words of Rabshakeh. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And this happened: When King Hezekiah heard, he tore his garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the templeOr "house" of Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he sent Eliakim, who was {in charge of}Literally "over" the palace,Or "house" and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the priests {covered}Literally "covering themselves" with sackcloth to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Maybe Yahweh your God heard the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt the 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.'" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Look! I am about to {put}Literally "give" a spirit in him {so that}Or "and" 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." '" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had left from Lachish.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 9
c3content:
NowOr "And" heThat is, the king heard concerning Tirhakah the king of Cush, saying, "He has set out to fight againstOr "with" you." 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"You shall say this to Hezekiah, king of Judah: 'Do 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."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Look! you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands to destroy them, and you--shall you be delivered?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Did the gods of the nations that my {predecessors}Literally "fathers" destroyed deliver them--Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, orOr "and" Ivvah?'" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and he readOr "called" it. ThenOr "And" he went up to the templeOr "house" of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before the {presence}Literally "face" of Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel {who is enthroned on}Literally "sitting" the cherubim, you are the one, God by yourself, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you are the one who made the heavens and the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the landsThe parallel text in 2 Kings has "nations" and their land,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 19
c3content:
to {set}Literally "give" their gods in the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 20
c3content:
SoOr "And" now, Yahweh, our God, save us from his hand so thatOr "and" all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, you alone!" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'Because you have prayed to me {concerning}Literally "to" Sennacherib, king of Assyria,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up your voice and lifted your eyes upward?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 24
c3content:
By the hand of your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said, "With my many chariots,Hebrew "chariot" I myself have gone up the height of the mountains, to the remote areas of Lebanon. And I cut off {its tall cedars},Literally "the height of its cedars" the choicest of its junipers. And I came to the height of its limit, the forest of its orchard.Or "Carmel"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 25
c3content:
I myself dug and drank waters, and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Have you not heard from {a long time ago}?Literally "distant" I have made it from days of primeval time, and I formed it. Now I have brought it about, and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And their inhabitants are {weak};Literally "short of hand" they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become like plantsHebrew "plant" of the field, and like greens of grass, like grass onOr "of" the roofs and a cultivated field {before}Literally "before the face of" the standing grain.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And I know your sitting down and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging {against}Literally "to" me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Because you were enraged {against}Literally "to" me, and your noiseOr "complacency" has come up toLiterally "in" 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 by which you came.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And this shall be the sign for you: the eating of volunteer plantsHebrew "plant" thisLiterally "the" year, and in the second year self-seeded plants,Hebrew "plant" and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the remnant of the house of Judah that remain shall {grow}Literally "add" rootsHebrew "root" downwards and make fruit upwards. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. WhenOr "And" they rose in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And this happened: he was bowing in worship in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword. And they themselves escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-haddon his son reigned as king in his place. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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 are about to die, and you shall not recover.'"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember howOr "that" I have walked before your {presence}Literally "face" in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept with great weeping. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor:Or "father" "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. {Look, I am going to}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 add fifteen years to your days.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city." ' 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Look! I will cause the 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. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 11
c3content:
I said, "I shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among the inhabitants of the world.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 12
c3content:
My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I lie downOr "cry out" until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 15
c3content:
What can I say? ForOr "And" he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 16
c3content:
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!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who lovedOr possibly "kept back," which sounds similar in Hebrew my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For Sheol cannot praise you; death cannot praise you. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The living, the living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yahweh, save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the templeOr "house" of Yahweh."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Isaiah said, "Let them {take}Literally "lift up" a lump of figs, and let them rub it on the boil {so that}Or "and" he may recover."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 1
c3content:
At that time, Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, forOr "and" he heard that he had been sick and recovered.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 2
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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},Literally "said" "They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And heThat is, Isaiah said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezekiah {answered},Literally "said" "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing that I have not shown them in my storehouses." 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 6
c3content:
'Look! days are coming, and all that is in your house and that which your ancestorsOr "fathers" have stored up to this day shall be carried off to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 7
c3content:
'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.'"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh that you have spoken is good," forOr "and" he {thought},Literally "said" "Surely there will be peace and security in my days." 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 3
c3content:
A voice is calling in the wilderness, "Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all {humankind}Literally "flesh" together shall see it,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 6
c3content:
A voice is saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind}Literally "flesh" are grass, and all his loyalty is like the flowers of the field.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Grass withers; the flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people are grass.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{Get yourself}Literally "Go for you" up to a high mountain, Zion, bringer of good news! Lift up your voice with strength, Jerusalem, bringer of good news! Lift it up; you must not fear! Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Look! The Lord Yahweh comes with {strength},Literally "strong" and his arm rules for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his recompense {in his presence}.Literally "before his face"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arm, and he will carry them in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, comprehended the dust of the earth in a third of a measure and weighed out the mountains in the scales,Hebrew "scale" and the hills in a balance?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Who has measured up the spirit of Yahweh or informed him as {his counselor}Literally "the man of his counsel"?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 14
c3content:
With whom has he consulted, thatOr "and" he enlightened himOr "made him understand" and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and made the way of understanding known to him?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket, and they are counted like dust of the balances! Look! He weighs the islands like a thin covering.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Lebanon is not enough to light a fire, and its animalsHebrew "animal" not enough for a burnt offering.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 17
c3content:
All the nations are like nothing before him; they are counted by him asOr "from" nothing and emptiness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 19
c3content:
A craftsman pours out the idol, and a {goldsmith}Literally "refiner" overlays it with gold, and he smelts chains of silver.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The one who is too impoverished for a gift chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image that will not be knocked over.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the {beginning}?Literally "head" Have you not understood from the foundation of the earth?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil and spreads them out like a tent to live in,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Indeed, hardly are they planted; indeed, hardly are they sown; indeed, hardly has their shoot taken root in the earth whenOr "also" he blows on them and they wither, and the tempest carries them like stubble.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Lift your eyes up on high, and see! Who created these? The one who brings out their host by number. He calls all them by name. Because he is great of power and mighty of power, no man is missing.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 27
c3content:
{Why}Literally "To what" do you say, Jacob, and you speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my judgment is passed over by my God?"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Have you not known, or have you not heard? Yahweh is the God of eternity, the creator of the ends of the earth! He is not faint, and he does not grow weary! There is no searching his understanding.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 31
c3content:
ButOr "And" those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wingsHebrew "wing" like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Listen to me in silence, coastlands, and let nations renew their strength. Let them approach, then let them speak; let us draw near together for judgment.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Who has roused salvation from the east, summonedOr "called" him to his foot, gives nations {in his presence},Literally "before his face" and subjugates kings? He makesOr "gives" them like the dust with his sword, like scattered stubble with his bow.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Who has accomplished and done this, calling the generations from the {beginning}?Literally "head" I, Yahweh, am first; and I am the one with the last.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble. They have drawn near, and they have come.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the artisan encourages the {goldsmith},Literally "refiner" the one who makes smooth with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good!" And they strengthen it with nails so it cannot be knocked over.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ButOr "And" you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the {offspring}Literally "seed" of Abraham my {friend},Literally "beloved"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 9
c3content:
you whom I grasped from the ends of the earth and called from its remotest parts and told, "You are my servant; I have chosen you and I have not rejected you."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated; {your opponents}Literally "the men of your strife" shall be like nothing and shall become lost.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 12
c3content:
You shall seek them, butOr "and" you shall not find them; {your opponents}Literally "the men of your strife" shall be like nothing, and the men of your war like nothing.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For I, Yahweh your God, am grasping your right hand; {it is I who say}Literally "the sayer" to you, "You must not fear; I myself, I will help you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 14
c3content:
You must not fear, O worm of Jacob; people of Israel, I myself, I will help you," {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, "and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge, {with}Literally "owner of" sharp edges. You shall thresh and crush the mountains, and you shall make the hills like chaff.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 16
c3content:
You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you yourself shall rejoice in Yahweh; you shall boast in the holy one of Israel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The poor and the needy are seeking water and there is none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I will open rivers on the barren heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness like a pool of water and the land of dryness like springs of water.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 19
c3content:
I will {put}Literally "give" the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive oil tree in the wilderness; I will set the cypress, elm, and box tree together in the desert


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Let them bring them, and let them tell us what will happen. Tell us what the former things are {so that}Or "And" we may take them to our heart and know their outcome.Or "end" Declare to us the things to come;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 23
c3content:
tell us the things coming {hereafter},Literally "later" thatOr "and" we may know that you are gods. Indeed, do good orOr "and" do evil, thatOr "and" we may be afraid and seeFollowing the reading tradition (Qere); the written text (Kethib) has "fear" together.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Who declared it from the {beginning}Literally "head" {so that}Or "and" we might know, and {beforehand}Literally "from before faces" {so that}Or "and" we might say, "He is {right}!"Literally "righteous" Indeed, there was no one who declared it; Indeed, there was no one who proclaimed it. Indeed there was no one who heard your words.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 28
c3content:
ButOr "And" I look and there is no man, and I look among these and there is no counselor, thatOr "and" I might ask them and they might answer a word.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Look! here is my servant; I hold him, my chosen one, in whom my soul delights. I have {put}Literally "given" my spirit on him; he will bring justice forth to the nations.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He will not break a broken reed, and he not will extinguish a dim wick. He will bring justice forth inOr "to" faithfulness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And the coastlands wait for his teaching.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"I am 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 the people, as a light of the nations,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 7
c3content:
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoner out from the dungeon, those who sit in darkness from the house of imprisonment.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Look! the former things have come, and I declare new things. I {announce}Literally "cause to hear" them to you before they sprout up."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Sing a new song to Yahweh; praise him from the end of the earth, youOr "those" who go down to the sea and that which fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy; let them shout loudly from the {top}Literally "head" of the mountains.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 15
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; I will cause them to tread on paths they have not known. I will make darkness {in their presence}Literally "before their face" into light and rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They shall turn back; they shall be {greatly ashamed},Literally "ashamed with shame" those who trust in an image, who say to a cast image, "You are our gods."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Who is blind but my servant orOr "and" deaf like my messenger whom I sent? Who is blind like the one who is repaid orOr "and" blind like the servant of Yahweh?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You see many things, butOr "and" you do not observe. His ears are open, butOr "and" he does not hear.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness; he showed his teaching to be great and proved it to be glorious.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 22
c3content:
ButOr "And" this is 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; like booty, and there is no one who says, "Restore!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Who among you will heed this, will listen attentively and listen, for {the time to come}?Literally "later"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Who gave Jacob to a plundererThe reading tradition (Qere) has "as plunder" and Israel to those who plunder?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 25
c3content:
SoOr "and" he poured the wrath of his anger upon him and the strength of war. And it set him afire all around, butOr "and" he did not understand;Or "did not know" and it burned him, butOr "and" he did not take it to heart.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 2
c3content:
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorchOr "burn" you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For I am Yahweh, your God, the holy one of Israel, your savior. I give you Egypt as ransom, Cush and Seba in place of you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You must not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your {offspring}Literally "seed" from the east, and I will gather you from the west.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I will say to the north, 'Give!' and to the south, 'You must not withhold!' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the end of the earth--


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 7
c3content:
everyone who is called by my name, and whom I created for my glory, whom I formed, indeed whom I made."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them has declared this, and {declared}Literally "caused to hear" the former things to us? Let them bringOr "give" their witnesses, thatOr "and" they may be in the right, and let them hear and say, "It is true!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"You are my witnesses," {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, "and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe {in}Literally "to" me and understand that I am he. No god was formed before {me}Literally "my face", and none shall be after me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 12
c3content:
I myself declared and saved, and I {proclaimed}.Literally "caused to hear" And there was no {strange god}Literally "stranger" among you. And you are my witnesses," {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, "and I am God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Indeed, from this day I am the one, and no one can deliver from my hand. I perform,Or "make" and who can {cancel it}?"Literally "bring it back"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, and I will cause all of them to fall down as fugitives, and {the Chaldeans},Literally "Chaldea" their rejoicing on the ships.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 17
c3content:
who brings out chariot and horse, army and mighty one. Together they lie down; they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like a wick.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceiveOr "know" it? Indeed, I will {make}Literally "put" a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The animals of the field will honor me, jackals and daughters of the ostrich, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give a drink to my chosen people,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 23
c3content:
You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering norOr "and" honored me with your sacrifice. I have not made you serve with offerings,Hebrew "offering" nor have I made you weary with frankincense.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 24
c3content:
You have not bought me spice reed with money orOr "and" satisfied me with the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Take me to court; let us enter into judgment together. You, {make an account}Literally "count up" so that you may be in the right.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Your first ancestorOr "father" sinned, and your {representatives}Literally "scoffers" or "spokesmen" transgressed against me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and I gave Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, who made you, and who formed you inOr "from" the womb and will help you: you must not fear, my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I have chosen.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For I will pour out water on a thirsty land and streams on dry ground. I will pour my spirit out on your descendantsHebrew "descendant" and my blessing on your offspring.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And they shall sprout {among}Literally "in between" the grass like willows by a watercourse of water.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 5
c3content:
This one will say, 'I belong to Yahweh!' And that one will be called by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand 'Yahweh's' and {take the name}Literally "he will be titled by the name" of Israel."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, the king of Israel, and its redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: "I am the first, and I am the last, and there is no god besides me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And who is like me? Let him proclaimOr "call" it! And let him declare it and set it in order for me {since I established an eternal people}Literally "from my placing a people of eternity" and things that are to come, and let them tell them the things that are coming.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 8
c3content:
You must not tremble,Or "be startled" and you must not be paralyzed with fear. Have I not made you hear from of oldOr "then" and declared it, and you are my witnesses? Is there a god besides me? And there is no rock! I know none!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 9
c3content:
All those who form an idol are nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Look! all his companions shall be ashamed, and the artisans are human! Let all of them assemble; let them stand up. They shall tremble;Or "be startled" they shall be ashamed together.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The {ironsmith}Literally "craftsman of iron" works in the coals with his tool and forms it with hammers. And he makes it with {his strong arm};Literally "the arm of his strength" indeed, he becomes hungry, and {he lacks}Literally "there is no" strength; he does not drink water, and he is faint.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The {woodworker}Literally "craftsman of wood" stretches out a line; he makes an outline of it with a marker. He makes it with a knife and makes an outline of it with a compass. He makes it like the image of a man, like the beauty of a human, to dwell in a temple.Or "house"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Cutting down cedars for himself, he {chooses}Literally "takes" a holm tree and an oak, and he lets it grow strong for him among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And it {becomes fuel for a human},Literally "will become for a man as burning" 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!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He burns half of it in the 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 the fire!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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 are my god!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 18
c3content:
They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes are besmeared {so that they cannot see},Literally "from seeing" their {minds}Literally "hearts" {so that they have no insight}.Literally "from having insight"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And {no one takes it to heart},Literally "he does not bring back to his heart" and there is no knowledge and no understanding to say, "I burned half of it in the fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make the rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He feeds on ashes; a {deceived mind}Literally "heart deceived" misleads him. And he cannot save {himself},Literally "his soul" and he cannot say, "Is this not an illusion in my right hand?"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant: I formed you; you are my servant; Israel, you will not be forgotten by me!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 22
c3content:
I have wiped your transgressions out like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Sing for joy, heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, depths of the earth! Break forth, mountains, in rejoicing, forest and every tree in it, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and he will show his glory in Israel!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, and he who formed you inOr "from" the womb: "I am Yahweh, who made everything, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth--who was with me?--


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 25
c3content:
who frustratesOr "breaks" the signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives the wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 26
c3content:
who keepsOr "erects" 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';


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 28
c3content:
who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd,' and he shall carry out all my wishesHebrew "wish"; and saying of Jerusalem, 'It shall be rebuilt,' and the temple, 'It shall be founded.'"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subjugate nations before him, and I uncoverOr "let loose" the loins of kings to open doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"I myself will go before you, and I will level the {mountains}.Literally "swells" I will break the doors of bronze and cut throughthe bars of iron.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I will give you the treasures of darkness and treasures of secret places so that you may know that I am Yahweh, the one who calls you by your name, the God of Israel,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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, thoughOr "and" you do not know me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I am Yahweh, and there is none besides me; besides me there is no god. I gird you thoughOr "and" you do not know me,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 6
c3content:
so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me; I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I form light and I create darkness; I make peace and I create evil; I am Yahweh; I do all these things.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Trickle, O heavens, from above, and let clouds trickle with righteousness; let the earth open so thatOr "and" salvation may be fruitful, and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it.Or "together" I myself, Yahweh, have created it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Woe to the one who strives with his {maker},Literally "one who forms" a potsherd amongOr "with" potsherds of earth! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Woe to the one who says to a father, 'What you are begetting?' orOr "and" to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its {maker}:Literally "one who forms" "Ask me of the things to come {about}Literally "over" my children, and you command me about the work of my hands.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 12
c3content:
I myself made the earth, and I created humankind upon it. I, my hands, stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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 is with you, and there is no other. Besides him there is no God.'"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed, and you shall not be humiliated {to all eternity}.Literally "for eternity, forever"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh, {who created}Literally "creating" the heavens, he is God, {who formed}Literally "forming" the earth and {who made}Literally "making" it. He himself established it; he did not create it as emptiness-- he formed it for inhabiting.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 19
c3content:
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}!'Literally "in emptiness," as in verse 18 I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness, declaring uprightness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols}Literally "the wood of their idol" and pray to a god who cannot save.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Declare and present your case, also let them consult together! Who {made this known}Literally "caused to hear this" from {former times},Literally "before" declared it from {of old}?Literally "then" Was it not I, Yahweh? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God besides me, and no savior besides me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 23
c3content:
I have sworn by myself; a word thatOr "and" shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness: 'Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.'


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 24
c3content:
'Only in Yahweh,' one shall say to me, 'are righteousness and strength.' He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Bel bows down; Nebo is stooping. Their idols are {on}Literally "to" animalsHebrew "animal" and {on}Literally "to" cattle; your {cargo}Literally "things that are carried" is carried as a burden {on}Literally "to" weary animals.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 2
c3content:
They stoop; they bow down together. They are not able to save the burden, butOr "and" {they themselves go}Literally "their inner self goes" in captivity.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 4
c3content:
EvenOr "And" to your old age I am he; evenOr "And" to your advanced age I myself will support you. I myself have made you, and I myself will carry you, and I myself will support you, and I will save you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 5
c3content:
To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as thoughOr "and" we were alike?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire {a goldsmith}Literally "one who smelts" and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They carry it on their shoulder; they support it and they set it in its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even when he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Remember the former things from {a long time ago},Literally "forever" for I am God and there is none besides me, God and there is none like me,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 10
c3content:
who from the beginning declares the end, and from before, things that have not been done, who says, 'My plan shall stand,' and, 'I will accomplishOr "do" all my wishes,'Hebrew "wish"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 11
c3content:
who calls a bird of prey from the east, the man of hisThe reading tradition (Qere) has "my" plan from a country from afar. Indeed I have spoken; indeed I will bring it to being. I have formed it; indeed I will do it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I bring my righteousness near; it is not far. And my salvation will not delay; and I will putOr "give" salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Come down and sit on the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Chaldea! For {they shall no longer call}Literally "you shall not add they shall call to" you tender and delicate.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Take the pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover your thigh, pass through the rivers!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Your nakedness shall be exposed; indeed, your shame shall become visible. I will take vengeance and I will not {spare}Literally "plead with" a person.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for {they shall no longer call}Literally "you shall not add they shall call to" you mistress of kingdoms.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not {give}Literally "set up" them mercy; on the aged you made your yoke very heavy.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And you said, "I shall be an eternal mistress forever!" You did not set these things upon your heart; you did not remember its end.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Therefore now hear this, luxuriant one who sitsOr "sitting" in security, who saysOr "saying" in her heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one. I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know the loss of children."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And these two shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come on you {completely},Literally "as their fullness" in spite of your many sorceries, in spite of the power of your great enchantments.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, "{No one}Literally "none" seesOr "is seeing" me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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}Literally "make amends" it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly; you do not know.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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}.Literally "terrify"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You struggle with your many consultations;Or "advice" let them stand, now, and save you-- those who see the stars, divide the {celestial sphere},Literally "heavens," that is, for astrology who inform by new moons-- from those things that are coming upon you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Look! They are like stubble; the fire burns them completely. They cannot deliver {themselves}Literally "their lives" from the {power}Literally "hand" of the flame; there is no coal {for warming oneself},Literally "to grow warm" no fire before which to sit.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So are to you those with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth. They wander, each to his side; there is no one who can save you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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}Literally "cause to remember" the God of Israel, but not in truth and not in righteousness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For they call themselves {after the holy city},Literally "from the city of the holiness" and they lean on the God of Israel-- Yahweh of hosts is his name.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"I declared the former things from {of old},Literally "then" and they went out from my mouth. And I {announced}Literally "caused to hear" them suddenly; I acted,Or "did" and they came to pass,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 4
c3content:
because {I know}Literally "knowing me" that you are obstinate, and your neck an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I declared them to you from of old; I { announced}Literally "caused to hear" them to you before they came to pass so that you would not say, 'My idol did them, and my image and my cast image commanded them.'


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You have heard; see it all. And will you not declare it? I {announce}Literally "cause to hear" new things to you from this time and hidden things thatOr "and" you have not known.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now they are created, and not from {of old},Literally "then" and before today, and you have not heard them so that you could not say, "Look! I knew them."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Neither have you heard, nor have you known, nor from {of old}Literally "then" has your ear been opened. For I knew you would deal treacherously, very treacherously, and you are called a rebel from the womb.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For the sake of my name I {refrain from}Literally "make long" my anger, and for my praise I restrain it for you so as not to cut you off.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Look! I have refined you, butOr "and" not likeOr "with" silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of misery.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For my own sake, for my own sake I do it; for why should itThat is, my name be defiled? And I will not give my glory to another."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, {whom I called}:Literally "who was called by me" I am he. I am the first; also I am the last.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Indeed, my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summonOr "calling" them, they stand in position together.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them declared these things? Yahweh loves him; he shall performOr "do" his wish against Babylon and his arm against {the Chaldeans}.Literally "Chaldea"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I, I myself, I have spoken! Indeed, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will be successful in his way.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Draw near to me; hear this! I have not spoken in secrecy from the {beginning};Literally "head" from the time {it came to be},Literally "of becoming it" there I have been; And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your {body}Literally "intestines" like its grains.Hebrew "grain" It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Go out from Babylon! Flee from Chaldea! ProclaimOr "announce" it with a shoutOr "sound" of rejoicing; proclaimOr "cause to hear" this! {Send it forth}Literally "Cause it to go out" to the end of the earth; say, "Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And when he led them through the deserts, they were not thirsty; he made water flow from the rock for them, and he split the rock, and the water gushed out.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Listen to me, coastlands, and listen attentively, peoples from far away! Yahweh called me from the womb; from the {body}Literally "intestines" of my mother he made my name known.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he {made}Literally "put" my mouth like a sharp sword; he hid me in the shadow of his hand, and he {made}Literally "put" me like an sharpened arrow; he hid me in his quiver.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 4
c3content:
ButOr "And" I myself said, "I have labored inOr "for" vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice is with Yahweh, and my reward is with my God."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And now Yahweh says, who formed me from the womb as a servant for him, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might notThe reading tradition (Qere) has "to him" be gathered, forOr "and" I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 9
c3content:
saying to the {prisoners},Literally "captured ones" "Come out!" to those who are in darkness, "Show yourselves!" they shall feed {along}Literally "on" the ways, and their pasturage shall be on all the barren heights.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I will {make}Literally "put" all my mountains like a road, and my highways shall lead up.Or "be high"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Look! These shall come from afar, And look! These from the north and from the west and these from the land of Sinim."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth in rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Can a woman forget her suckling, refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, butOr "and" I, I will not forget you!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Lift your eyes up all around and see; all of them gather; they come to you. {As surely as I live},Literally "Life I" {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, surely you shall put on all of them like an ornament, and you shall bind them on like a bride.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yet the children {born when you were bereaved}Literally "of your bereavement" will say in your {hearing},Literally "ears" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And kings shall be your {guardians},Literally "those who nurture" and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, {faces}Literally "noses" to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. ThenOr "And" you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Can war-booty be taken from the mighty? or can a captive of a righteousThe Dead Sea Scroll has "violent" person be rescued?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I will feed your oppressors their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their blood as with wine. ThenOr "And" all flesh shall know that I am Yahweh, your savior and redeemer, the strong one of Jacob."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Why was there no man when I came, no one who answered when I called? {Do I lack the strength to save}?Literally "short is short my hand from redemption" Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look! by my rebuke I dry up the sea; I {make}Literally "put" the rivers a desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and theyHebrew "she" die because of thirst.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of a pupil, to know how to help the weary with a word. He awakens {morning by morning},Literally "in the morning in the morning" awakens an ear for me to listen as do the pupils.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out my {beard};Literally "face" I did not hide my face from insults and spittle.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 8
c3content:
he who obtains rights for me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is the master of my judgment? Let him approach me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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; the moth will eat them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Who among you is in fear of Yahweh, obeysOr "listens" the voice of his servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light, trusts in the name of Yahweh and depends on his God?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Look! All of you are kindlers of fire, who gird yourselves with flaming arrows. Walk in the light of your fire, and among the flaming arrows you have kindled! You shall have this from my hand: you shall lie down inOr "to" a place of torment.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the excavation of the pit from which you were quarried.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought you forth. For I called him {alone},Literally "one" butOr "and" I blessed him and made him numerous."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will {make}Literally "put" its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the {sound}Literally "voice" of song.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"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 the peoples.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 5
c3content:
My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they wait.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for the heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like a garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. ButOr "And" my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people who have my teaching in their heart; you must not fear the reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devourOr "eat" them like wool, butOr "and" my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}.Literally "generation of generations""


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Awake! Awake; put on strength, O arm of Yahweh! Awake as in days of long ago, the generations of a long time back! Are you not the one who cut Rahab in pieces, the one who pierced the sea-dragon?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, the one who {made}Literally "placed" the depths of the sea a way for those who are redeemed to cross over?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 11
c3content:
SoOr "And" the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be on their heads.Hebrew "head" Joy and gladness shall {appear};Literally "reach" sorrow and sighing shall flee away!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"I, I am he who comforts you; who are you thatOr "and" you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of humankind? He is {sacrificed}Literally "given" as grass!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you have forgotten Yahweh, your maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth. And you tremble continually, all day, because of the wrath of the oppressor when he {takes aim}Literally "sets up" to destroy. ButOr "And" where is the wrath of the oppressor?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The fettered one shall make haste to be freed. And he shall not die inOr "to" the pit, and he shall not lack his bread.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 15
c3content:
ForOr "And" I am Yahweh, your God, who stirs upOr "stirring up" the sea, {so that}Or "and" its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, saying to Zion, 'You are my people.'"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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 it out.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 18
c3content:
There is no one who guides her amongOr "from" all the children she has borne, and there is no one who grasps her by the hand amongOr "from" all the children she raised.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Two things here have happened to you--who will {show sympathy}Literally "wander" for you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword--who will comfort you?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope inOr "of" a snare, those who are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Thus says your Lord, Yahweh, and your God pleads the cause of his people: "Look! I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering. You shall not {continue}Literally "do again" to drink the goblet, the cup of my wrath, any longer.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters, who have said to {you},Literally "your inner self" 'Bow down thatOr "and" we may {pass}Or "stride" over you!' And you have {made}Literally "placed" your back like the ground, and like the street for those who {pass}Or "stride" over you."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Awake! Awake; put on your strength, Zion! Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem, {holy city}!Literally "city of the holiness" For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall not {continue to}Literally "do again he shall" enter you any longer.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Shake yourself free from the dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem! Free yourselves from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And now what do I have here?"{declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, "for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl," {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh--"and my name is reviled continually, all day.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. {Here am I}."Literally "Look at me" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The voicesHebrew "voice" of your watchmen! They lift up their voices;Hebrew "voice" together they sing for joy; for they {clearly}Literally "eye in eye " see Yahweh's return to Zion.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Break forth, sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem, for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Yahweh has bared {his holy arm}Literally "the arm of his holiness" to the eyes of all the nations, and all the endsHebrew "end" of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for Yahweh is going before you, and your rear guard is the God of Israel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Look, my servant shall achieve success; he shall be exalted, and he shall be lifted up, and he shall be very high.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Just as many were appalled at you-- such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement, and his form beyond the sons of mankind--


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 15
c3content:
so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.Hebrew "mouth" For they shall see what has not been told them, and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 2
c3content:
ForOr "And" he wentOr "grew" up like a shoot before him, and like a root from dry ground. He had no form and no majesty thatOr "and" we should see him, and no appearance thatOr "and" we should take pleasure in him.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering, and acquainted withOr "knowledgeable of" sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces},Literally "hiding of face from him" he was despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 4
c3content:
However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yetOr "and" we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God and afflicted.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 5
c3content:
ButOr "And" he was piercedOr "wounded" because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement forOr "of" our peaceOr "healing" was upon him, and by his woundsHebrew "wound" {we were healed}.Literally "it was healed for us"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He was oppressed and afflicted, yetOr "and" he did not open his mouth; he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, soOr "and" he did not open his mouth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He was taken by restraint of justice, and who concerned himself with his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living; he received a blow because of the transgression of my people.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He madeOr "gave" his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 10
c3content:
YetOr "And" Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he {made him sick}.Literally "he made sick" If sheOr "you" placesOr "makes" his life a guilt offering,Or "compensation" he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 11
c3content:
From the trouble of his lifeOr "soul" he will see;Dead Sea Scrolls add "light" he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous,Or "right" and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many,Or "great" and with the strong ones he will divide bounty, {because}Literally "Instead of that" he poured his life out to death and was counted with the transgressors; andOr "yet" he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Sing for joy, barren woman; who has not borne! Burst forth into rejoicing and rejoice, she who has not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman are more than the children of the married woman," says Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"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,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 3
c3content:
for you will spread out to the right and to the left. And your descendantsHebrew "descendant" will be heir to the nations, and they will inhabit desolate towns.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For your husbandThe Hebrew is plural is your maker,The Hebrew is plural his name is Yahweh of hosts; and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel, he is called the God of all of the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, likeOr "and" the wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I abandoned you {for a short}Literally "in a small" moment, butOr "and" I will gather you with great compassion.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I hid my face from you for a moment, in the flowing of anger, butOr "and" I will have compassion on you with everlasting faithfulness" says your redeemer, Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"For this is like the waters of Noah to me, when I swore {that the waters of Noah would never again pass}Literally "from the passing over of the waters of Noah again" over the earth, so I swore {that I would not be}Literally "from being " angry at you and rebuke you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, butOr "and" my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway," says Yahweh, who has compassion on you,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"O afflicted one, driven away, who is not consoled. Look! I am about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I will {make}Literally "place" your battlements of ruby, and your gates of stones of beryl, and all your wall of precious stones.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Look! I myself have created the craftsman who blowsOr "blowing" the fire of coals, and who producesOr "producing" a weapon for his work; alsoOr "and" I myself have created the destroyer to destroy.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue that rises against you for judgment. This is the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, and their {legal right}Literally "justice" from me,"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"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!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Why do you weigh out money for what is not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}?Literally "what is not for satiation" Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich}Literally "fatty" food.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so thatOr "and" your soul may live, and I will {make}Literally "cut" an everlasting covenant withor "for" you, the enduring proofs of {the mercies shown to}Literally "mercy of" David.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that does not know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Seek Yahweh {while he lets himself be found};Literally "in his letting himself be found" call him {while he is}Literally "in his being" near.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, thatOr "and" he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will {forgive manifold}.Literally "make numerous to"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"For as the heavens are {higher}Literally "high" than the earth, so my ways are {higher}Literally "high" than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 11
c3content:
so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me without success, but shall accomplishOr "do" what I desire and be successful in the thing for which I sent it.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 12
c3content:
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.Hebrew "hand"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Instead of the thorn bush, the juniper shall go up; instead of the brier, the myrtle shall go up, and it shall serve as a memorial to Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Happy is the man who does this, and the son of humankind who keeps hold of it, who keeps the Sabbath {so as not to profane}Literally "from profaning" it, and who keeps his hand from doing anyOr "all" evil."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And do not let the {foreigner}Literally "son of the foreign country" who joins himself to Yahweh say, "Surely Yahweh will separate me from his people." And do not let the eunuch say, "Look! I am a dry tree!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the {foreigners}Literally "sons of the foreign country" who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him and to love the name of Yahweh, to become his servants, every one who keeps the Sabbath, {so as not to profane}Literally "from profaning" it, and those who keep hold of my covenant,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I will bring them to {my holy mountain};Literally "the mountain of my holiness" I will make them merry in my house of prayer. their burnt offerings and their sacrifices {will be accepted}Literally "for acceptance" on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{declares}Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, who gathersOr "gathering" the scattered ones of Israel (still I will gather toOr "upon" him, to his gathered ones). 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 10
c3content:
His watchmen are blind, none of them know. They are all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the dogs {have a greedy appetite};Literally "are strong of soul" they {are never satisfied}.Literally "do not know satiation" And they are the shepherds! They do not haveOr "know" understanding. They all turn to their own way, each one for his own gain, {every one of them}.Literally "from his end "


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse with intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, {very great indeed}."Literally "excessively"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The righteous one perishes, and there is no one who takesOr "sets" it to heart. And men of faithfulness are gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"ButOr "And" you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring of an adulterer and she who commits fornication.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 4
c3content:
At whom do you make fun? At whom do you {open}Literally "widen" your mouth and {stick out}Literally "make long" your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deception,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 5
c3content:
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; they, they are your lot; indeed, to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a food offering.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And you have set your symbol behind the door and the doorpost; for you departThe reading tradition (Qere) has "uncover," which makes no sense in context, but with different vowels it would be "depart" from me, and you go up; you make your bed wide, and you {make a deal with}Literally "cut off for yourself from" them, you have loved their bed; you have seen their {genitals}.Literally "hand"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And you climbed down to the king with oil, and you made your perfumes numerous, and you sent your envoys {far away},Literally "to from far" and you {sent down deep}Literally "humiliated" to Sheol.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You grow weary by the greatness of your way, but you did not say, 'Despairing!' You found the {renewal}Literally "life" of your {strength},Literally "hand;" compare the "hand" in verse 8 therefore you do not grow weak.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And of whom were you afraid and feared, that you deceived and did not remember me? Did you not place it on your heart? Have I not been silent, even from long ago, and so you do not fear me?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 13
c3content:
When {you cry},Literally "your crying" let your collection deliver you, and the wind will carry all of them away; a breath will take them away. ButOr "And" he who takes refuge in me shall take possession of the land, and he shall inherit my {holy mountain}."Literally "mountain of holiness "


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And one shall say, "Build up, build up! Clear the way! Remove the obstaclesHebrew "obstacle" from the way of my people!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For I will not attack forever, and I will not be angry forever, for the spirit will grow faint before me, and the breaths that I myself I have made.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, butOr "and" he walked apostate, in the waysHebrew "way" of his heart.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I have seen his ways, butOr "and" I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 20
c3content:
ButOr "And" the wicked are like the churning sea, that is not able to keep quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Call with the throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declareOr "announce" to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 2
c3content:
YetOr "And" they seek me day by day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced}Literally "did" righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments},Literally "judgments of righteousness" they desire the closeness of God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 3
c3content:
'Why do we fast, and you do not see it? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice it?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}.Literally "fist of wickedness" You shall not fast as you do {today},Literally "the day" to {make your voice heard}Literally "cause to hear your voice" on the height.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Is the fast I choose like this, a day for humankind to humiliate {himself}Literally "his soul"? To bow his head like a reed, and {make}Literally "he makes" his bed on sackcloth and ashes; you call this a fast and a day of pleasure to Yahweh?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Is this not the fast I choose: to release the bonds of injustice, to untie the ropes of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and {tear}Literally "you must tear" every yoke to pieces?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Is it not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring {home}Literally "a house" the poor, the homeless. When you see the naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your {relatives}.Literally "flesh"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 8
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, 'Here I am!' If you remove from among you the yoke, the {finger-pointing}Literally "stretching out of the finger" and {evil speech},Literally "the speaking of evil"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 10
c3content:
ifOr "and" you offer your soul to the hungry, and you satisfy the appetite of the afflicted, thenOr "and" your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness will be like noon.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 11
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you; you shall erect the foundations of {many generations,}Literally "generation and generation" and {you shall be called}Literally "shall be called to you" the bricklayer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 13
c3content:
If you hold your foot back from the Sabbath, from doing your affairs on {my holy day},Literally "the day of my holiness" ifOr "and" you call the Sabbath a pleasure, the holy day of Yahweh honorable, ifLiterally "and" you honor him {more than}Literally "from" doing your ways, than finding your affairsHebrew "affair" and speaking a word,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 14
c3content:
then you shall take your pleasure inOr "on" Yahweh, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth, and I will feed you the heritage of Jacob your ancestor,Or "father"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short {to save},Literally "from saving" and his ear is not too dull {to hear}.Literally "from hearing"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Rather, your iniquities have been {barriers}Literally "dividers" between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 4
c3content:
There is nobody {who pleads with}Literally "calling in" justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 5
c3content:
they hatch viper eggs, and they weave a spider web. One who eats their eggs dies, and that which is pressed is hatched as a serpent.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and deedsHebrew "deed" of violence are in their hands.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their highways.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks}Literally "walking" in it knows no peace.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, butOr "and" look! there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 10
c3content:
We grope like the blind along a wall, and we grope {as without}Literally "like there are no" eyes. We stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the strong we are like the dead.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 11
c3content:
We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, butOr "and" there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins {testify}Or "answers" against us. Indeed, our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 13
c3content:
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning {away from following}Literally "back from behind" our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from the heart.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and truth is missing, and he who turns aside from evil is plundered. And Yahweh saw, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, soOr "and" his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness {was what}Literally "it" sustained him.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 18
c3content:
According to deeds, so he will repay; wrath to his enemies, requital to those who are his {enemies}.Literally "hostile" He will repay requital to the coastlands.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 19
c3content:
SoOr "And" they shall fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the sunrise, for he will come like a narrow stream; the wind of Yahweh drives it on.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For look! darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples, butOr "and" Yahweh will rise on you, and his glory will appear over you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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 the hip.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then you shall see and you shall be radiant; and your heart shall tremble and open itself wide, because the abundance of the sea shall fall upon you; the wealth of the nations shall come to you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall serve you. They shall present a sacrifice for favor on my altar, and I will glorify {my honorable house}.Literally "house of my honor"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Because the coastlands wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish are 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And {foreigners}Literally "sons of a foreign country" shall build your walls, and their kings shall serve you, for in my anger I struck you, butOr "and" in my favor I have taken pity on you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And your gates shall continually be open, day and night they shall not be shut, to bring you the wealth of nations, and their kings shall be led.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be utterly devastated.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The glory of Lebanon shall come to you; the cypress, the plane, and the pine together, to glorify the place of my sanctuary, and I will do honor to the place of my feet.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 14
c3content:
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 of the holy one of Israel.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Instead of you being forsaken and hated {with no one passing through,}Or "and there is not one who passes through" I will {make}Literally "place" you an everlasting {object of pride},Literally "pride" a joy of {coming generations}.Literally "generation and generation"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And you shall suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings, and you shall know that I am Yahweh your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Strong One of Jacob.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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}Literally "put" peace as your overseer, and righteousness as {your ruling body}.Literally "they who force you to work"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Violence shall no longer be heard in your land; devastation orOr "and" destruction on your borders. And you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates, Praise.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The sun shall no longer be your light by day, and for bright light the moon shall not give you light, butOr "and" Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Your sun shall no longer go down, and your moon shall not {wane},Literally "be taken away" for Yahweh himself will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall come to an end.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And all your people shall be righteous; they shall take possession of the land forever, the shoot of hisThe reading tradition (Qere) has "my" planting, the work of my hands, to show my glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up {the brokenhearted},Literally "those broken of heart" to {proclaim}Literally "call" release to the captives and liberation to those who are bound,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 2
c3content:
to {proclaim}Literally "call" the year of Yahweh's favor, and our God's day of vengeance, to comfort all those in mourning,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 3
c3content:
to {give}Literally "place" for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And {they will be called}Literally "it will be called to them" oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And they shall build the ancient ruins, they shall erect the former deserted places. And they shall restore the {devastated cities},Literally "cities of devastation" the deserted places of {many generations}.Literally "generation and generation"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,Hebrew "flock" and {foreigners}Literally "sons of a foreign country" shall be your farmers and vinedressers.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 6
c3content:
ButOr "And" you shall be called the priests of Yahweh, {you will be called}Literally "it shall be said of you" servers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and you shall boast in their riches.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Instead of your shame, a double portion, and instead of insult, they will rejoice over their portion. Therefore they will take a double portion in their land; {they shall possess everlasting joy}.Literally "possession of joy everlasting shall be for them"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For I, Yahweh, love justice, hate robbery andOr "in" injustice, and I will {faithfully}Literally "in the faithfulness" give their reward, and I will {make}Literally "cut" an everlasting covenant {with}Literally "to" them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And their descendantsHebrew "descendant" 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 are descendantsHebrew "descendant" whom Yahweh has blessed.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns himself with a head wrap like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewelry.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For as the earth {produces}Literally "brings out" its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 1
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and {you will be called}Literally "it shall be called to you" a new name that the mouth of Yahweh will designate.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a headband of royalty in the hand of your God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 4
c3content:
It shall no longer be said of you, "Forsaken," and it shall no longer be said of your land, "Desolation!" but {you will}Literally "to you it shall" be called "My Delight Is In Her," and your land, "Married," for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as is the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 6
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And you must not give him rest until he establishes, and until he {makes}Literally "places" Jerusalem {an object of praise}Literally "a praise" in the earth.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by {his mighty arm},Literally "the arm of his might" "Surely I will never again give your grain as food to {your enemies},Literally "those who are hostile to you" and surely {foreigners}Literally "sons of a foreign country" shall not drink your new wine at which you have labored."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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}.Literally "the courts of my holiness"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Pass through, pass through the gates! Make the way clear {for}Literally "of" the people! Pile up, pile up the highway; clear it of stones!Hebrew "stone" Lift up an ensign over the peoples!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And they shall call them "The {Holy People},Literally "People of the Holiness" The Redeemed Of Yahweh," and {you}Literally "to you it" shall be called "Sought After, A City Is Not Forsaken."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Who is this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah in bright red garments? Who is this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "It is I, speaking in justice, {mighty}Literally "great" to save!"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"I have trodden the winepress alone, and there was no man from the 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,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I looked, butOr "and" there was no helper, and I was appalled, butOr "and" there was no one who sustains, soOr "and" my arm came to assist me, and my wrath {was what}Literally "it" sustained me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I trampled peoples in my anger, and I made them drunk in my wrath, and I brought their juice down to the earth."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I will mention the loyal love of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has done for us, and the 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he said, "Surely my people are children; they will not break faith." And he became a Savior to them. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 9
c3content:
In all their distress, {there was no distress},The reading tradition (Qere) has "he had distress" and the messenger of his {presence}Literally "face" saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all the days of old.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 10
c3content:
ButOr "And" they {were the ones who}Literally "they" rebelled, and they grieved {his Holy Spirit},Literally "the spirit of his holiness" soOr "and" he {became an enemy to them};Literally "was changed to them to one who is hostile" he himself fought against them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 11
c3content:
ThenOr "And" his people remembered the days of old, of Moses. Where is the one who led up them from the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who puts {his Holy Spirit}Literally "the spirit of his holiness" inside him,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{who made}Literally "bringing" his magnificent arm move {at}Literally "to" the right hand of Moses, {who divided}Literally "dividing" the waters {before them},Literally "from their face" to make an everlasting name for himself,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{who led}Literally "leading" them through the depths? They did not stumble like a horse in the desert;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 14
c3content:
like cattle in the valley that goes down, the Spirit of Yahweh {gave him rest},Literally "caused to rest" so you lead your people to make a magnificent name for yourself.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Look from heaven, and see from the lofty residence of your holiness and glory. Where are your zeal and strength? {Your compassion}Literally "The agitation of your intestines" and mercy to me hold themselves back.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For you are our father, although Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh are our father, Our Redeemer from of old is your name.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Why do you make us wander, Yahweh? You harden our heart from your ways {so that we do not fear}Literally "from the fear of" you. Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{Your holy people}Literally "The people of your holiness" took possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 19
c3content:
We have been since antiquity; you did not rule them; {they were not called by your name}.Literally "your name was not called over them"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Isaiah 64:1 in the English Bible begins here. In the Hebrew Bible, 63:19 continues Would that you would tear the heavens and come down; the mountains would quake before you,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Isaiah 64:2-12 in the English Bible is 64:1-11 in the Hebrew Bible as fire kindles brushwood, the fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations might tremble from your {presence}.Literally "face"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When you did terrible deeds which we did not {expect},Literally "await" you came down; the mountains quaked because of your {presence}.Literally "face"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And since ancient times they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he {acts}Literally "makes" for the one who waits for him.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 5
c3content:
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 in ancient times and we were saved.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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,Or "him" and melted us into the hand of our iniquity.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yet now Yahweh, you are our father; we are the clay and you are our {potter},Literally "one who fashions" and we all are the work of your hand.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{Your holy cities}Literally "The cities of your holiness" have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{Our holy and beautiful temple},Literally "the house of our holiness and our beauty" where our ancestorsOr "fathers" praised you has {been burned}Literally "been for burning" by fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins.Hebrew "ruin"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh? Will you be silent? And will you oppress us exceedingly?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"I let myself be sought by those who did not ask; I let myself be found by those who did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am; here I am!' to a nation that did not call on my name;


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people, those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 3
c3content:
the people {who provoke}Literally "provoking" me to anger continually to my face, slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden, and making smoke offerings on bricks,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{who sit}Literally "sitting" in graves and spend the night in {secret places},Literally "watches" {who eat}Literally "eating" the flesh of swine withOr "and" a fragmentThe reading tradition (Qere) has "broth" of impurity in their vessels,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{who say},Literally "saying" "{Keep to yourself}!Literally "Come near to you" You must not come near me, for I am too holy for you!" These are a smoke in my {nostrils},Literally "nose" a fire burning all day.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Look! It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay; and I will repay inOr "on" the fold of their garment


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 7
c3content:
your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestorsOr "fathers" together, says Yahweh, because they made smoke offerings on the mountains and they taunted me on the hills, I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh: "Just as the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say 'You must not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for the sake of my servants {by}Literally "to" not destroying {everyone}.Literally "all" 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And I will bring descendant sHebrew "descendant" out from Jacob, and a {people}Literally "man" from Judah to take possession of my mountain, and my chosen ones shall inherit it, and my servants shall settle there.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Sharon shall become a pasture forLiterally "of" flocks,Hebrew "flock" and the valley of Achor a resting place forOr "of" herdsHebrew "herd" for my people who have sought me.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 11
c3content:
ButOr "and" you {who forsake}Literally "forsaking" Yahweh, forgetting {my holy mountain},Literally "the mountain of my holiness" who set a table for Fortune, and who {pour out}Literally "fill" a jug of mixed wine for Destiny,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, butOr "and" you did not answer; I spoke, butOr "and" you did not listen, butOr "and" you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Look! My servants shall shout {for joy},Literally "from goodness of heart" butOr "and" you, you shall cry out {for pain}Literally "from pain of heart" and howl {for sadness}.Literally "from a breaking of the spirit"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse, and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will {give}Literally "call" his servants another name.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 16
c3content:
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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not {come to mind}.Literally "go up to heart"


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever over what I am about to create! For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing, and her people as a source of joy.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem, and I will rejoice over my people, and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it, orOr "and" the sound of a cry for help.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 20
c3content:
There will no longer be a nursing infant {who lives only a few}Literally "of" days, orOr "and" an old man who does not fill his days, for the boy will die {a hundred years old},Literally "a son of a hundred year" and the one who {fails to reach}Literally "misses" {a hundred years}Literally "a son of a hundred year" will be {considered}Literally "treated" accursed.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 22
c3content:
They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree, and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 23
c3content:
They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they {shall be offspring blessed by}Literally "the offspring of the blessing of" Yahweh, and their descendants with them.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer; while still they are speaking, I myself will hear.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, butOr "and" dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall do no evil, and they shall not destroy on all {my holy mountain},"Literally "the mountain of my holiness" says Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The one who slaughters a bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters a lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck of a dog. The one who offers an offering, the 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.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 4
c3content:
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};Literally "there was no one who answers" I spoke and they did not listen, butOr "and" they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight."


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 6
c3content:
A voice, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of Yahweh {paying back}Literally "rewarding retribution to" his enemies!


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Before she was in labor she gave birth; before labor painsHebrew "pain" came to her, she gave birth to a son.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Who has heard anything like this? Who has seen anything like these things? Can a land be born in one day? Or can a nation be born in a moment?


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Shall I myself I break open and not {deliver}?"Literally "cause to bring forth" says Yahweh, "or I who {delivers}Literally "causes to bring forth" lock up the womb?" says your God.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Rejoice with Jerusalem and shout in exultation with her, all those who love her! Rejoice with her in joy, all those who mourn over her,


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 11
c3content:
so that you may suck and be satisfied from her {consoling breast},Literally "breast of consolation" so that you may drink deeply and refresh yourselves from her {heavy breast}."Literally "breast of heaviness "


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 13
c3content:
As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall {flourish}Literally "sprout" like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known {to}Literally "with" his servants, and he shall curse his enemies.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For look! Yahweh will come in fire, and his chariots like the storm wind, to {give back}Literally "cause to turn around" his anger in wrath, and his rebuke in flames of fire.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For Yahweh enters into judgment on all flesh with fire and his sword, and {those slain by}Literally "the slain of" Yahweh shall be many.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Those who sanctify themselves and those who cleanse themselves {to go into}Literally "toward" the gardens after the one in the middle, eating the flesh of swine and detestable thingsHebrew "thing" and rodentsHebrew "rodent" together


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"And I--their works and thoughts!--am about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow; Tubal and Javan, the faraway coastlands that have not heard of my fame, and have not seen my glory.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and bring all your countrymenOr "brothers" from all the nations as an offering to Yahweh on horses and chariotsHebrew "chariot" and in litters and on mules and camels, toOr "on" {my holy mountain},Literally "the mountain of holiness me" Jerusalem," says Yahweh, "just as the sons of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"For just as the new heavens and earth that I am about to make shall stand before me," {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, "so shall your descendantsHebrew "descendant" and your name stand. 


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And this shall happen: From {new moon to new moon}Literally "enough of new moon in his new moon" and from {Sabbath to Sabbath}Literally "enough of Sabbath in his Sabbath" all flesh shall come to bow in worship before me," says Yahweh.


c0book: Isa
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the peopleOr "men" {who have rebelled}Literally "rebelling" against me, 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, among the priests who were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
to 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
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. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But Yahweh said to me, "You must not say, 'I am a youth,'Or "boy" for to {whomever}Literally "all of whom" I send you, you will go, and {whatever}Literally "all of that" I command you, you will speak.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Do not be afraid of them},Literally "you must not be afraid from the faces of them" for I am with you to deliver you," {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},Literally "to say" "What are you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I am seeing a branch of an almond tree."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, {saying},Literally "to say" "What are you seeing?" And I said, "I am seeing a {boiling}Literally "blown upon" pot, and its face is from the face of the north."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to me, "From the north disaster will be unleashedOr "opened" on all the inhabitants of the land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For, look, I am calling to all the clansOr "families" of the kingdoms of the north," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and they will come and set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I will passOr "pronounce" my judgments on them because of all their wickedness in that they have forsaken me, and they made sacrifices to other gods, and they bowed in worship to the works of their hands.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But you, you must gird your loins, and stand, and speak to them all that I command you. {Do not be afraid of them},Literally "You must not be filled with terror from the faces of them" or I will shatter you {before}Literally "to the faces of" them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now look, I have made you {today}Literally "the day" as a fortified city and as an iron pillar and a bronze wallHebrew "walls" against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And they will fight against you but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "to deliver you." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Israel was holy to Yahweh, the first fruit of his produce. All those who ate it were held guilty; disaster came to them," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.'"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And they did not say, 'Where is Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert,Or "wilderness" in a land of desert plains and gorges,Hebrew "gorge" in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land {that no one passes through},Literally "no man passes through in it" and no human lives there?'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I brought you to the land of the orchard, to eat its fruit, and its good things.Hebrew "good thing" But you entered and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made a detestable thing.Or "abomination"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The priests did not say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have {rebelled against me},Literally "broken with me" and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after things which do not profit.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" I again bring a lawsuit against you," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and with {your children}Literally "sons of your sons" I bring a lawsuit.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For go over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, and send to Kedar and consider very closely, and see if there has been a thing like this:


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Has a nation exchanged gods? And they are not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the sourceOr "fountain" of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Is Israel a slave? Or {a slave born in a house}?Literally "born of a house" Why has he become plunder?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The young lions have roared against him, they have {raised}Literally "given" their voices.Hebrew "voice" And they have made his land as horror; his cities are destroyed, {without}Literally "from not" an inhabitant.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes will {shave}Literally "pasture" your skull.Or "crown of your head"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Did you not do this to yourself, by forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And now {why do you go}Literally "what for you" the way of Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor? And {why do you go}Literally "what for you" the way of Assyria to drink the waters of the {Euphrates}?Literally "river"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me is not in you," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"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 were lying down as a prostitute.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Yet I planted you as a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For if you wash with natron, and you {use much soap},Literally "make numerous for yourself alkaline salt" your guilt is sticking as a stain {before}Literally "to the face of" me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" the Lord Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"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. You are a young she-camel, interweaving her ways.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
A wild ass accustomed to the desert,Or "wilderness" in the desire of her soul. She gasps for wind in her rutting time. Who can quellOr "restrain" her lust? All those who seek her will not grow weary, in her month they will find her.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Restrain your foot from being barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'Or "walk"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 26
c3content:
As the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Those who say to the tree, 'You are my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth to me.' For they have turned their {backs}Literally "neck" to me, and not their faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 28
c3content:
But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For according to the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Why do you complain to me? All of you have {rebelled against me},"Literally "broken with me" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 30
c3content:
"For {in vain}Literally "the vanity" I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a raveningOr "destroying" lion.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 31
c3content:
O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desertOr "wilderness" to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Can a young woman forget her ornaments?Or "jewelry" Or a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 33
c3content:
How well you do on your way to seek love! {Therefore}Literally "To thus" even to the wicked woman you can teach your ways.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Also on your skirts is found the blood of the life of the innocent, the poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these things,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 35
c3content:
yet you say, 'But I am innocent, surely his anger has turned away from me.' Look, I am entering into judgment with you because of your saying, 'I have not sinned.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 36
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Also from there you will come out with your hands on your head, for Yahweh has rejected {those in whom you trust},Literally "in your objects of trust" and you will not prosper through them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
A {saying}:Literally "to say" 'Look, if a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him {and she becomes another man's wife},Literally "and she becomes to a man another" will he return to her again?' Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, would you now return to me?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Lift up your eyes at the barren heights, and see where you have not been ravished. Beside the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert,Or "wilderness" and you have defiled the land with your fornication and with your wickedness.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Therefore rain showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come. Yet {you have}Literally "it is for you" the forehead of a woman prostitute, you refuse to be ashamed.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Will he be angry {forever}?Literally "to eternity" Will he maintain it {always}'?Literally "to duration" Look, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could."Literally "you have done the evil and you were able"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, "Have you seen what apostateOr "unfaithful" Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted herself there.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I thought, 'After her doing all these things to me she will return,' but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I saw that {for this very reason, that}Literally "because of all" on account of apostateOr "unfaithful" 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 herself also.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Yet even in all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, {but only}Literally "but if" in pretense,"Or "deception" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to me, "ApostateOr "unfaithful" Israel has proved herself more uprightOr "righteous" than treacherous Judah.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
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}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"Return, apostateOr "unfaithful" children," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "For {I am your master},Literally "I rule over among you" and I will take you one from a city and two from a clan,Or "family" and I will bring you to Zion.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And it will be when you have multiplied and become fruitful in the land in those days," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "they will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.' And {it will not come to mind},Literally "it shall not go up on heart" nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation nor will it be made again.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
In those days the house of Judah will walk along with the house of Israel and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave as an inheritance to your ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of the glory of the hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from {behind}Or "following" me.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"A voice is heard on the 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Return, O apostateOr "unfaithful" children, I will heal your backsliding. 'Look, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Surely, an illusion comes from the hills, the turmoil on the mountains. Surely, in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our ancestorsOr "fathers" from our youth, their flocks, and their cattle, their sons and their daughters.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
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,Or "fathers" from our youth and until this day. and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
If you return, O Israel," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "you return to me. And if you remove your abominations from my {presence},Literally "faces" and you do not wander,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and you swear, '{As Yahweh lives},'Literally "life of Yahweh" in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will be blessed by him, and in him they will boast."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh to the menHebrew "man" of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and remove the foreskins of your hearts,Hebrew "heart" menHebrew "man" of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and burns, and there is no one who extinguishes it,Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation because of the evil of your deeds."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say, "Blow a horn through the land, {call with a loud voice}Literally "call fill" and say, 'Be gathered and let us go into the fortified cities.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
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}Literally "from not" inhabitant.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Because of this gird yourselves with sackcloth,Hebrew "sackcloths" lament and wail, for {the burning anger}Literally "the blaze of the nose" of Yahweh has not turned back from us.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And then on that day," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" 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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
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." 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "{A hot wind from the barren heights}Literally "a wind of shimmering of barren heights" in the desert,Or "wilderness" {in the direction of}Literally "the way of" the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse,


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{a wind too strong for}Literally "a wind strong more than" these will come for me, now also I speak judgments against them."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Look, he comes up like the clouds, and his chariots are like the whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles, woe to us, for we are devastated.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long}Literally "until when" will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Report to the nations, 'Here they are!' Proclaim against Jerusalem, 'Besiegers are coming {from a distant land},Literally "from a land the distance place" and they raise their voice against the cities of Judah.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Like watchers of a field they were against her from all around, because she has rebelled against me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"You obtained this for yourself because of your way and your deeds. This is your doom, for it is bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear in my inner self the sound of a horn, the alarm of war.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, for all of the land is devastated. Suddenly my tents are devastated, my tent curtains in a moment.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"For my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are foolish children, and they do not have insight. They are skillful at doing evil, and they do not know how to do good."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and they were without their light.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 24
c3content:
I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 26
c3content:
I looked and behold, the fruitful land was a desert,Or "wilderness" and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of {his burning anger}.Literally "the blaze of his nose"


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 28
c3content:
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."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 29
c3content:
From the sound of a horseman and {an archer}Literally "one who shoots arrows of a bow" every town flees, they enter in the thickets and among the rocks they climb. Every town is forsaken, and there is no person who lives in them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And you, O devastated one, what do you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers reject you; they seek your life.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like a woman who 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 tiredOr "fainting" before killers."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"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 who does justice, who seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And though they say, '{As Yahweh lives},'Literally "Life of Yahweh" {therefore}Literally "to thus" they swear falsely."


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
O Yahweh, do not your eyes look 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then I said, "They are just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the lawOr "ordinance" of their God.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the lawOr "ordinance" of their God." However, they together have broken the yoke, they have torn to pieces the bonds.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them, A wolf from the desert plainsOr "Arabah" will devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities, everyone who goes out from there will be torn, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are numerous.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"{How}Literally "Why to this" can I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me, and they have sworn by those who are not gods. But I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and flocked to the house of a prostitute.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Because of these things shall I not punish?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "and on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge?


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Go up through her vineyards and destroy, but you must not make complete destruction. Remove her branches, for they are not to Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt utterly treacherously with me," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"They have denied Yahweh, and have said, 'Not he, {for}Literally "and" evil will not come on us, we will see neither sword nor famine.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{Therefore}Literally "To thus" thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, "Because you have spoken this word, look, I am making my words in your mouth like a fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Look, I am about to bring on you a nation from afar, O house of Israel," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh. "It is an enduring nation, it is {an ancient nation}.Literally "a nation from a long time ago" A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
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},Literally "the cities of your fortification" in which you trust.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"But even in those days," {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "I will not make you a complete destruction.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{And then},Literally "And it will happen" when you people say, 'Why has Yahweh our God done all of these things 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}.'Literally "a land not to you" 


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
'Hear this please, O foolish and {senseless}Literally "without heart" people, {who have eyes}Literally "eyes for them" but do not see, {who have ears}Literally "ears for them" but do not hear.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Do you not revere me?" {declares}Literally "a declaration of" Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}?Literally "from the face of me" For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit},Literally "a limit of eternity" 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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And they do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the one who gives the autumn rainHebrew "early rain" and the spring rainHebrew "late rain" in its season, {the set times of the harvest}Literally "weeks due harvest" he keeps for us.'


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
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.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Like a cage full of birds,Hebrew "bird" so their houses are full of fraud. {Therefore}Literally "Unto thus" they have become great, and they have become rich.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 28
c3content:
They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}.Literally "they cross over evil deeds" They do not judge with justice, the legal cause of the orphan, or allow it to succeed, and the legal case of the poor, they do not defend.


c0book: Jer
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The prophets prophesy {falsely},Literally "in the lie" and the priests rule {by their own authority},Literally "by their hands" and my people love itHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation so much. But what will you do {when the end comes}?Literally "to end her"


