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Isaiah, Chapter 25 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)

        
Isaiah, Chapter 25 (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 25 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. XIX (19), col. XX (20) of the scroll's 54 columns.
  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.

      


      

        

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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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            §25.1-6 · Isaiah 25:1-6 (1QIsa-a col. XIX lines 26-32; col. XX lines 1-2)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
1יהוה אלוהי אתה ארוממך אודה שמך כי עשיתה פלא אצית מרחוק אמו̣נה אמן 2כי שמתה מעיר לגל קריה בצורה למ⟨פ⟩לה ארמון זרים מעיר לעולם לוא יבנה 3עלכן יכבדוך עמ עז קרית גוים עריצים ייראוך 4כי הייתה מעוז לדל מעוז לאביון בצר לו {{ו}}מחסה מזרם צל מחורב כי רוח עריצים כזרם קיר 5כחורב בציון שאון זרים תכניע חורב בצל עב זמיר עריצים יענה 6ועשה יהוה צבאות לכול העמים בהר הזה משתה שמנים משתה שמרים שמנים ממחים שמרים מזוקקים

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
1O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. 6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

          

        

        
        


          

            §25.7-12 · Isaiah 25:7-12 (1QIsa-a col. XX lines 2-12)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
7ובלע בהר הזה פנו̣ הלוט הלוט על כול העמים והמסכה הנסוכה על כול הגואים 8בלע המות לנצח ומחה אדוני יהוה דמעה מעל כול פנים וחרפת עמו יסיר מעל כול הארץ כי יהוה דבר 9ואמרת ביום ההוא הנה יהוה אלוהינו זה קוינו לו ויושיענו זה יהוה קוינו לו נגילה ונשמח בישועתו 10כי תנוח יד יהוה בהר הזה ונדש מואב תחתיו כחדוש מתבן במי מדמנה 11ופרש ידיו בקרבו כאשר יפרש השוחה לשחות והשפיל גאותו עמ ארבות ידיו 12ומבצר משגב חומותיך השח⟨ה⟩ השפיל יגיע לארץ עד עפר

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. 8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 10For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. 11And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

          

        

        
      


    

    

    

      

      

        
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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
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  • Critical edition: ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls transcription (Abegg data, CC BY-NC 4.0)
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