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Isaiah, Chapter 46 (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 46 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. XXXIX (39) 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.

§46.1-7 · Isaiah 46:1-7 (1QIsa-a col. XXXIX lines 5-13)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

¹כרע בל קרס נבו היו עצביהמה לחיה לבהמה נשאותיכמה עמוסות משמועיהמה ²קרסו כרעו יחדיו ולוא יוכלו מלט משא ונפשמה בשבי הלכו ³שמע אלי בית יעקוב וכול שארית בית ישראל עומסים ממני בטן ונושאים {{מ}}מני רחם ⁴עד זקנה אני הואה ועד שיבה אני אסבול אני עשיתי ואני אשא ואנוכי אסבול ואמלטה ⁵למי{{י}} תדמיוני ותשוי ותמשלוני ואדמה ⁶הזלים זהב בכיס וכסף בקנה ישקולו ישכורו צורף ויעשה אל ויסגודו אף ישתחו ⁷וישאוהי על כתף יסבלוהי ויניחוהי תחתיו ויעמוד ממקומו לוא ימוש אפ יזעק עליו ולוא יענה מצרתו לוא יושיענו

English · King James Version (1611)

¹Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. ²They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. ³Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: ⁴And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. ⁵To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? ⁶They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. ⁷They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

§46.8-13 · Isaiah 46:8-13 (1QIsa-a col. XXXIX lines 13-19)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

⁸זכורו זואת והתאוששו השיבו פושעים על לב ⁹זכורו רישונו̣ת מעולם כיא אני אל ואין עוד אלוהים ואפס כמוני ¹⁰מגיד מראישית אחרו̣ת ומקדם אשר לוא נעשו אמר עצתי תקום וכול חפצי יעשה ¹¹קורה ממזרח עיט מארץ מרחק איש עצתו אף דברתי אף אביאנה יצרתיה אף אעשנה ¹²שמעו אלי אבירי לב הרחוקים מצדקה ¹³קרובה צדקתי ולוא תרחק ותשועתי ולוא תאחר נתתי בציון תשועה ולישראל תפארתי

English · King James Version (1611)

⁸Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. ⁹Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, ¹⁰Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: ¹¹Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. ¹²Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: ¹³I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

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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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