Isaiah, Chapter 52 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)
Introduction
Isaiah 52 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. XLIII (43), col. XLIV (44) 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: 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).
- 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)
1עורי עורי לבשי עוז ⟨ציון⟩ לבשי בגדי תפארתך ירושלם עיר הקודש כיא לוא יוסיף ויבוא בך ערל וטמא 2התנערי מעפר וקומי ושבי ירושלים התפתחו מוסרי צורך שביה בת ציון 3כיא כוה אמר יהוה חנם נמכרתםה ולוא בכסף תגאלו 4כיא כוה אמר יהוה מצרים ירד עמי ברישונה לגור שמה ואשור באפס עשקו 5ועתה מה לי פה נואם יהוה כי לוקח עמיא̣ חנם משלו והוללו נואם ותמיד כול היום שמי מנואץ 6לכן ידע עמיא שמי ביום ההואה כי אני הואה המדבר הנני 7מה נאוו על ההרים רגלי מבשר מבשר שלום משמיע טוב משמ̣י( ע ) ישועה אומר לציון מלך אלוהיך 8קול צופיך נשאו קולם יחדיו ירננו כיא עין בעין יראו בשוב יהוה ציון ברחמים
1Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. 6Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. 7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 8Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9פצחו רונה יחדיו חרבות ירושלים כיא נחמ יהוה עמו וגאל את ירושלים 10חשף יהוה את זרוע קודשו לעיני כול הגואים וראו כול אפסי הארץ את ישועת אלוהינו 11סורו סורו צאו משםה בטמה אל תגעו צאו מתוכה הברו נושאי כלי יהוה 12כיא לוא בחפזון תצאו ובמנוסא לוא תלכון כיא הולך לפ̣ניכמה יהוה ומאספכמה אלוהי ישראל אלוהי כול הארץ יקרא 13הנה ישכיל עבדי וירום ונשא וגבה מואדה 14כאשר שממו עליכה רבים כן משחתי מאיש מראהו ותוארו מבני האדם 15כן יזה גואים רבים עליו וקפצו מלכים פיהמה כיא את אשר לוא סופר להמה ראו ואת אשר לוא שמעו התבוננו
9Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 10The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. 12For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward. 13Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: 15So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Cite
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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