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Isaiah, Chapter 27 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)

        
Isaiah, Chapter 27 (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 27 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. XXI (21) 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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            §27.1-7 · Isaiah 27:1-7 (1QIsa-a col. XXI lines 7-16)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
1ביום ההוא יפקוד יהוה בחרבו הקשה והגדולה והחזקה על לויתן נחש בורח ועל לויתן נחש עקלתון והרג את התנין אשר בים 2ביום ההוא כרם חוםר ענו לה 3אני יהוה נצרה לרגעים אשקנה פן יפקוד עליה לילה ויום אצורנה 4חמה אין לי מי יתנני ש{{י}}מיר ושית במלחמה אפשעה בה ואציתנה יחדו 5או יחזק במעוזי יעשה שלום לי שלום יעשה לי 6הבאים ישריש יעקוב ויציץ ויפרח ישראל ומלאו פני תבל תנובה 7הכמכת מכהו הכהו אמ כהרג הורגיו הרג

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
1In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 3I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. 5Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. 6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 7Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

          

        

        
        


          

            §27.8-13 · Isaiah 27:8-13 (1QIsa-a col. XXI lines 16-28)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
8בסאסאה בשלחה תריבנה הגה ברוחו הקשה ביום קדים 9לכן בזואת יכפר עוון יעקוב וזה כול פרי הסיר חטאוו בשומו כול אבני מזבח כאבני גיר מנפצות לוא יקומו אשרים וחמנים 10כי עיר בצורה בדד נוה משלח ונעזב כמדבר שמ ירעה עגל ושמ ירבץ וכלה סעפיה 11ביבש קצירה תשברנה נשים ⟨באות⟩ מאירות אותה כי לוא עמ בינות הוא על כן לוא ירחמנו עושהו ויוצרו לוא יחוננו 12והיה ביום ההוא יחבוט יהוה משבל הנהר עד נחל מצרים ואתמה תלקטו לאחד אחד בני ישראל 13והיה ביום ההוא יתקע בשופר גדול ובאו האובדים בארץ אשור והנדחים בארץ מצרים והשתחו ליהוה בהר הקדש בירושלם

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. 12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

          

        

        
      


    

    

    

      

      

        
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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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