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Isaiah, Chapter 2 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)

Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a (c. 125 BCE, Israel Museum),

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) · ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls transcription (Abegg data, CC BY-NC 4.0)

Introduction

Isaiah 2 from the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa^a), 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. II (2), col. III (3) 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: 1QIsa^a 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.

Manuscript note: KJV verse 2:10 is not present in 1QIsa^a as transcribed. The English is shown for reference with no Hebrew beside it; the omission can be checked on the column image.

How was this verified? (Provenance)

Manuscript: Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a (c. 125 BCE, Israel Museum) — page scan from 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).

Original text: ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls transcription (Abegg data, CC BY-NC 4.0) (public domain).

English translation: King James Version (1611) (public domain).

Verify: The scan image is the physical evidence. The original-language text is verifiable against the scan. The English translation is checkable against the original. Click any Greek, Hebrew, or Latin word for morphological analysis.

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Hebrew (1QIsa-a transcription) / English (KJV) original and English translation, with manuscript scans.

§2.1-8 · Isaiah 2:1-8 (1QIsa-a col. II lines 7-18)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

¹הדבר אשר חזה ישעיה בן אמוץ על יהודה וירושלים ²והיה באחרית הימים נכון יהיה הר בית יהוה בראש הרים ונשא מגבעות ונהרו עלוהי כול הגואים ³והלכו עמים רבים ואמרו לכו ונעלה אל בית אלוהי יעקוב וירונו מדרכיו ונאלכה באורחתיו כיא מציון תצא תורה ודבר יהוה מירוש̣לים ⁴ושפט בין הגואים וה והוכיח {{בין}} ⟨ל⟩עמים רבים וכתתו את חרבותם לאתים וחניתותיהמ למזמרות ולוא ישא גוי אל גוי חרב ולוא ילמדו עוד מלחמה ⁵בית יעקוב לכו ונלכה באור יהוה ⁶כיא נטשתה עמך בית יעקוב כ̣⟨י⟩א מלאו מקדם ועוננים כפלשתים ובילדי נכריאים ישפיק̣ו ⁷ו̣תמלא ארצו כספ וזהב ואין קץ לאוצרותיו ותמלא ארצו סוסים ואין קץ למרכבותיו ⁸ותמלא ארצו אלילים למעשה ידיו ישתחוו לאשר {{ל}}עשו אצבעותיו

English · King James Version (1611)

¹The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. ²And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. ³And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. ⁴And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ⁵O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. ⁶Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. ⁷Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: ⁸Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

§2.9-15 · Isaiah 2:9-15 (1QIsa-a col. II lines 18-23)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

⁹וישח אדם וישפל איש ¹¹ועיני גבהות אדם תשפלנה וישח רום אנשים ונשגב יהוה לבדו ביום ההוא ¹²כיא יום ליהוה צבאות על כל גאה ורם ונשא ושפל ¹³ועל כל ארזי הלבנון הרמים והנשאים ועל כל אלוני הבשן ¹⁴ועל כל ההרים [הרומ]ים ועל כול הגבעות הנשאות ¹⁵ועל כול מגדל גבה ועל כול [חומה]ב̣צורה

English · King James Version (1611)

⁹And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. ¹⁰Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. ¹¹The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹²For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: ¹³And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, ¹⁵And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

§2.16-22 · Isaiah 2:16-22 (1QIsa-a col. II lines 23-29; col. III lines 1-2)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

¹⁶ועל כול אניות תרשיש ועל כול שכיות החמדה ¹⁷ושח [גבהות]ה̣אדם ושפל רומ אנשים ונשגב יהוה לבדו ביום ההו̣א ¹⁸[והאלילי]ם̣ כליל יחלופו ¹⁹ובאו במערות צורים ובמחלות עפר מפני [פחד יה]וה ומהדר גאונו בקומו לערוץ הארץ ²⁰[ביום ה]הוא ישליך האדם את אלילי כספו ואת אלילי זהבו אשר [עשו אצ]ב̣עותיו להשתחות לחפרפרים ולעטלפים ²¹לבוא בנקרות [הצורים וב]ס̣עפי הסלעים מפני פחד יהוה ומהדר גאונו בקומו לערוץ הארץ ²²חדלו לכמה מן האדם אשר נשמה באפו כיא במה נחשב הוא

English · King James Version (1611)

¹⁶And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. ¹⁷And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹⁸And the idols he shall utterly abolish. ¹⁹And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. ²⁰In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; ²¹To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. ²²Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

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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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