Isaiah, Chapter 11 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)
Introduction
Isaiah 11 from the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa), the complete copy of Isaiah found in Cave 1 at Qumran in 1947 and now in the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Copied around 125 BCE, it is roughly a thousand years older than the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete Masoretic manuscript. This chapter stands in col. X (10), col. XI (11) of the scroll's 54 columns.
- Scan: each section is shown with the actual column of the scroll that carries it, cropped from the Israel Museum / Google Art Project photograph of the whole scroll published on Wikimedia Commons (public domain). The column for every verse comes from the transcription itself, which records the column and line of each word.
- Hebrew: the scroll's own text, verbatim from the ETCBC dss Text-Fabric dataset (Jacobs, Naaijer and Roorda, from Martin G. Abegg Jr.'s transcription; CC BY-NC 4.0). This is not the Masoretic text: 1QIsaa uses a fuller spelling (for example לוא for לא, כיא for כי) and differs from the Masoretic text in a number of readings. No vowel points exist in the scroll and none are added. Marks: ⟨x⟩ letters the scribe added above the line, [x] modern reconstruction of text lost to damage, {{x}} letters cancelled by an ancient scribe, ⟪x⟫ an ancient correction, a dot under a letter (x̣) an uncertain reading, ···· four dots written in place of the divine name (Tetrapuncta).
- English: the King James Version (1611, public domain), verbatim from bible-api.com. The KJV translates the Masoretic text, so where the scroll reads differently the English will not match the Hebrew shown; the scroll's reading can be checked on the column image.
How was this verified? (Provenance)
1ויצא חטר מגזע̣ ישי ונצר משורשיו יפרה 2ונחה עליו רוח יהוה רוח חכמה ובינה רוח עצה וגבור̣ה רוח דעת ויראת יהוה 3והריחו ביראת יהוה ולוא למראה עניו ישפוט ולוא למשמע אוזנו יוכיח 4ושפט בצדק דלים והוכיח במישור לענ̣י̣י הארץ והכה הארץ בש⟨ב⟩ט פיו {{יומת רשע}} וברוח שפתיו יומת רשע 5והי̣ה צדק אזור מתניו ואמונה אזור חלציו 6וגר ז̣אב עמ כבש ונמר עמ גדי ירבץ ועגל וכפיר ימרו יחדו ונער קטן נהג במה 7ופרה ודב תרעינה יחדו ורבצו ילדיהן ואריה כבקר יאכל תבן 8וישעשע יונק על חור פתן ועל מאורות צפעונים גמול ידו הדה
1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
9לוא ירעו ולוא ישחיתו בהר קדשי כי תמלאה הארץ דעה את יהוה כמים לים מכסים 10והיה ביום ההוא שרש ישי אשר עמד לנס עמים אליו גואים ידרושו והיא מנוחתו כבוד 11והיה ביום ההוא יוסיף אדוני שנית ידו לקנות ⟨את⟩ שאר עמו אשר ישאר מאשור וממצרים ומפתרוס ומכוש ומעילם ומשנער̣ ומחמת ומאיי הים 12ונשה נס לגואים ואספ נדחי ישראל ונפוצות יהודה יקבצ מכנפות הארץ 13וסרה קנאת אפרים וצוררי יהודה יכרתו אפרים לוא יקנא את יהודה ויהודה לוא יצר את אפרים 14ועפו בכתף פלשתיים ימה יחדו ובזזו את בני קדם אדום ומואב משלוח ידם ובני עמון משמעתם 15והחרים יהוה את לשון ימ מצרים והניף ידיו על הנהר בעיים רוח והכהו לשבעת נחלים והדריכי ב̣נעלים 16והייתה מסלה לשאר עמו אשר ישאר מאשור כאשר הייתה לישראל ביום עלות מארצ מצרים
9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Cite
Source & Cross-References
- Source text: Great Isaiah Scroll 1QIsa-a: Israel Museum / Google Art Project photograph (Wikimedia Commons, PD) + ETCBC dss transcription (Abegg; CC BY-NC 4.0) + KJV (bible-api.com) — view original
- Critical edition: ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls transcription (Abegg data, CC BY-NC 4.0)
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