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Isaiah, Chapter 50 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)

        
Isaiah, Chapter 50 (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 50 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. XLI (41), col. XLII (42) 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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            §50.1-6 · Isaiah 50:1-6 (1QIsa-a col. XLI line 29; col. XLII lines 1-7)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
1כוה אמר יהוה אי זה ספר כריתות אמכמה אשר שלחתיה או מי מנושי אשר מכרתי אתכמה לו הנה בעוונותיכמה נמכרתמה ובפשעיכמה ש⟨ו⟩לחה אמכםה 2מדוע באתי ואין איש קראתי ואין עונה הקצור קצרה ידי מפדות אמ אין בי כוח להציל הנה בגערתי אחריב ים אשים נהרות מדבר תיבש דגתם מאין מים ותמות בצמא 3אלבישה שמים קד̣רות ושק אשים כסותם 4אדוני יהוה נתן לי לשון למודים לדעת לעות את יעף דב{{ו̣}} ויעיר בבוקר בבוקר ויעיר לי אוזן לשמוע כלמודים 5אדוני אלוהים פתח לי אוזן ואנוכי לוא מריתי אחור לוא נסגותי 6גוי נתתי למכים ולחיי למטלים פני לוא הסירותי מכלמות ורוק

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
1Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

          

        

        
        


          

            §50.7-11 · Isaiah 50:7-11 (1QIsa-a col. XLII lines 7-13)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
7ואדוני יהוה יעזור לי על כן לוא נכלמתי על כן שמתי פני כחלמיש ואדעה כיא לוא אבוש 8קרוב מצדיקי מי יריב אתי נעמודה יחדיו מי בעל משפטי יגש אלי 9הנה אדוני יהוה יעזור ליא מי הואה ירשיעני הנה כולם כבגד יבלו עש יאכולם 10מי בכםה יראי יהוה שומע בקול עבדו אשר הלכו חשוכים ואין נוגה לו יבטח בשם יהוה וישען באלוהיו 11הנה כולם קודחי אש מאזרי זיקות לכו באור אשכמה ובזיקות בערתמה מידי הייתה זואת לכמה למעצבה תשכבו

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
7For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. 9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

          

        

        
      


    

    

    

      

      

        
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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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