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Isaiah, Chapter 26 (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 26 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. XX (20), col. XXI (21) 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.

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.

§26.1-7 · Isaiah 26:1-7 (1QIsa-a col. XX lines 13-18)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

¹ביום ההוא ישיר השיר הזואת בארץ יהודה עיר עוז לנו ישוע̣ה ישית חומות וחל ²פתחו שעריך ויבוא גוי צדיק שומר אמונים ³יצר סמוך תצר שלום שלום כי בכה ⁴בטחו ביהוה עד⟨י⟩ עד כי ביה יהוה צור עולמים ⁵כי השת יושבי מרום קריה נשגבה ישפילנה עדי ארץ יגיענה עדי עפר ⁶תרמסנה רגלי עניים פעמי דלים ⁷אורח לצדיק מישרים ישר מעגל צדק תפלט

English · King James Version (1611)

¹In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. ²Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. ³Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. ⁴Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: ⁵For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. ⁶The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. ⁷The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

§26.8-14 · Isaiah 26:8-14 (1QIsa-a col. XX lines 19-27)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

⁸אפ אורח משפטיך יהוה קוינו̣ לשמך ולתורתך תאית נפש ⁹נפשי אויתיך בלילה אפ רוחי בקרבי אשחרכה כי כאשר משפטיך לארץ צדק למדו יושבי תבל ¹⁰יחון רשע בל למד צדק בארץ נכוחות יעיל ובל יראה גאות יהוה ¹¹יהוה רמה ידכה בל יחזיון ויחזו ויבושו קנאת העם אף אש צריך תאכלם ¹²יהוה תשפוט שלום לנו כי גמ כול מעשינו פעלתה לנו ¹³יהוה אלוהינו בעלונו אדונים זולתך לבד בך נזכו̣ר שמך ¹⁴מיתים בל יחיו {{ו}}רפאים בל יקומו לכן פקדת ותשמידם ותאסר כול זכר למו

English · King James Version (1611)

⁸Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. ⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. ¹⁰Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. ¹¹LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. ¹²LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. ¹³O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. ¹⁴They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

§26.15-21 · Isaiah 26:15-21 (1QIsa-a col. XX lines 27-31; col. XXI lines 1-6)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

¹⁵יספת לגוי יהוה יספתה לגוי נכבדת רחקת כול קצוי ארץ ¹⁶יהוה בצר פקדו̣ך צקון לחשו מוסריך למו ¹⁷כמו הרה תקריב ללדת תחיל תזעק בחבליה כן היינו מפניך יהוה ¹⁸הרינו חלנו כמו ילדנו רוח ישועתך בל נעשה ארץ ובל יפולו יושבי תבל ¹⁹יחיו מיתיך נבלתי יקומון יקיצו וירננו שוכני עפר כי טל אורות טלך וארץ רפאים תפיל ²⁰לך עמי בא בחדריך וסגר דלתיך בעדך חבו כמעט רגע עד יעבור זעם ²¹כי יהוה יצא ממקומו לפקוד עוון יושב הארץ עליו וגלתה הארץ את דמיה ולוא תכסה עוד על הרוגיה

English · King James Version (1611)

¹⁵Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. ¹⁶LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. ¹⁷Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. ¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. ¹⁹Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. ²⁰Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. ²¹For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

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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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