Isaiah, Chapter 61 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)
Introduction
Isaiah 61 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. XLIX (49), col. L (50) 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)
1רוח יהוה עלי יען משח יהוה אותי לבשר ענוים ⟨של̣חני⟩ ולחבוש לנשברי לב לקרו̣א לשבוי̣ים דרור ולאסורים פקחקוח 2לקרוא שנת רצון ליהוה יום נקם לאלוהינו לנחם כול אבילים 3לשום לאבילי ציון לתת להמה פאר תחת אפר שמן ששון תחת אבל מעטה תהלה תחת רוח כהה וקראו להמה אילי הצדק מטע יהוה להתפאר 4ובנו חרבות עולם שוממות ריאשונים יקוממו וחדשו ערי חורב שוממות דור ודור יקוממו 5ועמדו זרים ורעו צואנכמה ובני נכר אכריכמה וכורמיכמה 6ואתמה כוהני יהוה תקרוא ומשרתי אלוהינו יאמר לכמה חיל גואים תואכלו ובכבודם תתיאמרו
1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. 4And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7תחת בושתכמה משנה וכלמה ירונו חלקכמה לכן משנה בארצם תירשו שמחת עולם תהיה לכמה 8כיא אני יהוה אוהב משפט ושונה גזול בעולה ונתתי פעולתכם באמת וברית עולם אכרות לכמה 9ונודע בגואים זרעכמה וצאצאיכמה בתוכ העמים כול רואיהםה יכירום כיא המה זרע ברך יהוה 10שיש אשיש ביהוה תגל נפשי באלוהי כיא הלבישני בגדי ישע מעיל צדקה יעטני כחתן ככוהן פאר וככלה תעדה כליהא 11כיא כארץ תוציא צמחה וכגנה זרועיה תצמיח כן יהוה אלוהימ יצמיח צדקה ותהלה נגד כול הגואים
7For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. 8For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. 10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. 11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
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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