Isaiah, Chapter 64 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)
Introduction
Isaiah 64 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. LI (51) 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.
Numbering: KJV 64:1 is the second half of Masoretic 63:19, and KJV 64:2-12 are Masoretic 64:1-11. The Hebrew here is re-numbered to the KJV so the verses line up; no text is added or removed.
How was this verified? (Provenance)
1לוא קרעתה שמים וירדתה מפניכה הרים נזלו 2כקדוח אש עמוס̣ים מים תבעה אש לצריכה להודיע שמכה לצריכה{{…}}⟨מ⟩פניכה גואים ירגזו 3בעשותכה נוראות נקוה ירדתה מפניכה הרים נזלו 4מעולם לוא שמעו ולוא האזינו ועין לוא ראתה̣ אלוהים זולתך יעשה למחכה לו 5פגעתה את שש ועושה צדק בדרכיכה יזכורוכה הנה אתה קצפתה ונחטא בהמה עולם ונושע 6ונהיה כ̣טמא כולנו כבגד עדים כול צדקותינו ונבולה כעלה כולנו ועוונותינו כרוח ישאונו
1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. 4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. 5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7ואין קורה בשמכה מתעורר לאחזיק בכה כיא הסתרתה פניכה ממנו ותמגדנו ביד עווננו 8ואתה יהוה אבינו אתה ואנחנו חמר ואתה יוצרנו ומעשה ידיכה כולנו 9אל תקצוף יהוה עד מואדה ואל לעת תזכור עוון הנה הבטנה עמכה כולנו 10ערי קודשכה היו מדבר ציון כמדבר הייתה ירושלי̣מ שוממה 11בית ק⟨ו⟩דשנו ותפארתנו אשר הללוכה אבותינו היו לשרפת אש וכול מחמודינו היו לחורבה 12העל אלה תתאפק יהוה תחשה ותעננו עד מואדה
7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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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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