The book of Isaiah; translated from a text revised in accordance with the results of recent criticism, with introductions, critical notes and explanations, and two maps - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...of Earth? 22 (It is He) Who sits throned above 'the circle of Earth So that the dwellers thereon are as locusts, Who has stretched out the heavens 'as a firmament' And spread them out as a tent to dwell in; 6 (41'), Rec. Text adds it will not totter: probably an accidental repetition. It overloads the line. (Or possibly it is an explanatory gloss.) So Duhm, Cheyne, Marti. c (vs. 20): He who carves and cuts out a sculpture (so Duhm, reading ha-mashin temunah; cf. LXX, explaining verb as a denominative from sahhin, knife; cf. Targ.). The Rec. Text is usually explained as = He that is impoverished as to an oblation (highly doubtful). d (vs. 21): from the foundation. The preposition (from) is required by the parallelism. Rec. Text has (have ye not foundations of Earth. e (vs. 22): the circle of Earth (i.e., the Horizon). C of the earth. f (vs. 22): as a firmament: so Cheyne, Marti. Rec. Text has as a fine cloth (?). (The Hebrew word is doubtful in this sense.) d1scerned) /the hers, the vault B (It is He) who turns princes to nothing, Who makes Earth's judges of no account; Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scant hold has been secured by the root of their stock in the earth--When He blows upon them, and they wither, And like stubble the tempest whirls them away. To whom would ye liken me, then, As my equal? says the Holy One. Lift up on high your eyes, And see: who has created those? He who brings out their host by number, And calleth them all by name; For fear of Him Who is of great might, and strong power Not one is out of its place. (4.) JAHVEH, THE ETERNAL GOD, IS THE HELP OF THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM. (40 27-31 ) Here the writer addresses himself to his own people Jacob-Israel. This mighty and eternal God, before Whom all that is e...
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Driver was professor of Hebrew at Oxford University.
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