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Isaiah, Chapter 62 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)

        
Isaiah, Chapter 62 (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 62 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. L (50) 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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            §62.1-6 · Isaiah 62:1-6 (1QIsa-a col. L lines 10-18)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
1למען ציון ולוא אחריש ולמען ירושלים לוא אשקוט עד יצא כנוגה צדקה וישועתה כלפיד תבער 2וראו גואים צדקכי וכול מלכים כבודך וקראו לך שמ חדש אשר פי יהוה יקובנו 3והיית עטרת תפארת ביד יהוה וצנופ מלוכה בכפ אלוהיךי 4ולוא יאמר לכי עוד עזובה ולארצך לוא יאמר עוד שוממה כיא לכי יקראו חפצי בהא ולארצך בעולה כיא חפץ יהוה בכי וארצכ תבעל 5כיא כבעול בחו̣ר בתולה יבעלוכי בניך ומשוש חתן̣ על כלה ישיש עליך אלוהיך 6על חומותיך ירושלים הפקד̣תי שומר̣ים כול היום וכול הלילה לוא יחשו המזכירים את יהוה אל דמי לכמה

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
1For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 2And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. 3Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 5For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

          

        

        
        


          

            §62.7-12 · Isaiah 62:7-12 (1QIsa-a col. L lines 18-26)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
7ואל תתנו דמי לו עד יכין ועד יכונן ועד ישים את ירושל⟨י⟩מ תהלה בארץ 8נשבע יהוה בימינו ובזרוע עוזו אמ אתן עוד דגנך מאכל לאוביך אמ ישתו בני נכר תירושך אשר יגעתי בוה 9כיא אמ מאספו̣הי יאכולוהי ויהללו את שמ יהוה ומקבצו ישתוהי בח̣צרות ק⟨ו⟩דשי אמר אלוהיך 10עבורו בשע̣רים פנו דרך העם סולו סולו המסלה סקולו מאבן הנגף אמורו בעמים 11הנה יהוה השמיעו אל קצוי הארץ אמורו לבת ציון הנה ישעך בא הנה שכרו אתו ופעלתיו לפניו 12וקראו להמה עמ הקודש גאולי יהוה ולכי יקראו דרושה עיר לוא נעזבה

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
7And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: 9But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. 10Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highways; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. 11Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 12And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

          

        

        
      


    

    

    

      

      

        
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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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