Isaiah, Chapter 58 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)
Introduction
Isaiah 58 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. XLVII (47), col. XLVIII (48) 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)
1קרא̣ בגרון אל תחשוך כשופר הרם קולכה והגד לעמיא פשעיהםה ולבית יעקוב חטאותםה 2אותי יום ויום ידרושו ודעת דרכי יחפצון כגוי אשר צדקה עשה ומשפט אלוהו לוא עזב ישאלוני משפטי צדק קרבת אלוהים יחפצו 3למה צמנו ולוא ראיתה ענינו נפשותינו ולוא תדע הן ביום צומכמה תמצאו חפץ וכו⟨ל⟩עצביכמ תנגשו 4הנה לריב ולמצא תצומו ולהכות בגורף רשע לוא תצומו כיום לשמיע במרום קולכמה 5הכזה יהיה צום אבחרהו יום ענות אדם נפשו הלכוף כאוגמן רואשו שק ואפר יציע הלזה תקראו צום יום רצון ליהוה 6הלוא זה הצום אשר אבחרהו פתח חרצבות רשע והתר אגודות מטה ושלח רצו̣צים חו( פ )שי⟨י⟩ם וכול מוטה תנתקו 7הלוא פרוס לרעב לחמכה וענוי⟨י⟩ם מרודים תביא בית כיא תראה ערום וכסיתו בגד ומבשרכה לוא תתעל
1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 3Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? 6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8אז יבקע כשחר אורכה וארוכתכה מהרה תצמח והלך לפניכה צדקכה וכבוד יהוה יאספכה 9אז תקרא ויהוה יענה תשוע ויואמר הנני אמ תסיר מתוככה מוטה ושלוח אצבע ודבר און 10ותפק לרעב נפשכה ונפש נענה תשביע וזרח בחושך אורכה ואפלתכה כצהורים 11ונחכה יהוה תמיד והשביע בצצחות נפשכה ועצמותיך⟨ה⟩ יחליצו והייתה כגן רוה וכמוצא מים אשר לוא יכזבו מימיו 12ובנו ממכה חרבות עולם מוסדי דור ודור תקוםם וקראו לך גודר פרץ משובב נתיבות לשבת 13אמ תשיב משבת רגלכה מעשות חפציכה ביום קודשי וקראתה לשבת עונג ולקד⟨ו⟩ש יהוה מכבד וכבדתו מעשות דרכיכה וממצוא חפצכה ודבר דבר 14אז תתענג על יהוה והרכיבכה על בומתי ארץ והאכילכה נחלת יעקוב אביכה כיא פי יהוה דבר
8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. 9Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: 11And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
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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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