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Isaiah, Chapter 8 (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 8 from the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa^a), 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. VII (7), col. VIII (8) 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: 1QIsa^a 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 9:1 is Masoretic 8:23; it is shown in chapter 9.

How was this verified? (Provenance)

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.

Challenge: Submit a correction to contact@theosislibrary.com.

Hebrew (1QIsa-a transcription) / English (KJV) original and English translation, with manuscript scans.

§8.1-8 · Isaiah 8:1-8 (1QIsa-a col. VII lines 18-29; col. VIII line 1)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

¹ויאומר יהוה אלי קח לך גליון גדול וכתוב עליו ⟨ב⟩חרט̣ אנוש למהר שלל חש בז ²והעד לי עדים נאמנים את אוריה הכוהן ואת זכריה בן יברכיה ³ואקרב אל הנביא ותהר ותלד בן ויאומר יהוה אלי קרא שמו מהר שלל חש בז ⁴כיא בטרם ידע הנער לקראו אביו ואמו ישא את חיל דרמשק ואת שלל שומרון לפני מלך אשור ⁵ויוסף יהוה דבר אלי עוד לאמור ⁶יען כיא מאס העם ה̣ז̣ה את מי השולח ההולכים לאוט ומשוש את רצין ואת בן [רומ]ל[י]ה ⁷ולכ̣ן̣ הנ̣ה̣ ⟨אדוני⟩ {{יה̣ו̣ה̣}} מעלה עליהם את מי הנהר ה̣[[העצומים והרבים את מ]ל̣ך אשור ואת כול כבודו ועלה [על כול אפיקיו והלך על כול] גדוותיו ⁸וחלף ביהודה̣ שטפ[ועבר עד צואר יגיע והיה מטות כנפיו מלוא רחב ארצך עמנואל

English · King James Version (1611)

¹Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ²And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. ³And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ⁴For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. ⁵The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, ⁶Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; ⁷Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: ⁸And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

§8.9-15 · Isaiah 8:9-15 (1QIsa-a col. VIII lines 2-9)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

⁹רעו עמים וחתו ו⟨ה⟩אזינו כול מרחקי הארץ התאזרו וחותו ¹⁰עצו עצה ותפר דברו דבר ולוא יקום כיא עמנואל ¹¹כי כה אמר יהוה אלי כחזקת יד יסירנו מלכת בדרך העם הזה לאמור ¹²לוא תאמרו קשר לכול אשר יואמר העמ הזה קשר ואת מוראו לוא ת̣יראו ולוא תעריצו ¹³את יהוה צבאות אותו תקדישו והוא מוראכם והוא מערצכם ¹⁴ו⟨י⟩היא למקדש ולאבן נגפ ולצר מכשול לשני בתי ישראל לפח ולמוקש ליושב ירושלים ¹⁵וכשלו במ רבים ונפלו ונשברו ונוקשו ונלכדו

English · King James Version (1611)

⁹Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. ¹⁰Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. ¹¹For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, ¹²Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. ¹³Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ¹⁴And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

§8.16-22 · Isaiah 8:16-22 (1QIsa-a col. VIII lines 9-16)

Manuscript

Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

¹⁶צור תעודה וחתום תורה בלמדי ¹⁷וחכיתי ליהוה המסתיר ⟨את⟩ פניו מבית יעקוב וקויתי לו ¹⁸אנה אנוכי והילדים אשר נתן לי יהוה לאות ולמופת בישראל מעמ יהוה צבאות השוכן בהר ציון ¹⁹וכי יואמרו אליכמה דרשו אל הא⟨ו⟩בות ואל הידעונים המצפצפים והמהגים הלוא עמ אל אלוהו ידרוש בעד חיים אל המיתים ²⁰לתורה ולתעודה אמ לוא יואמרו כדבר הזה אשר אין לו שחר ²¹ועבר בה ונקשה ורעב והיה כיא ירעב יתקצפ וקלל במלכו ובאלוהו ופנה למעלה ²²ואל הארץ יביט והנה צרה ⟨ו⟩חשוכה מעיף צוקה ואפלה מנדח

English · King James Version (1611)

¹⁶Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. ¹⁷And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. ¹⁸Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. ¹⁹And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? ²⁰To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. ²¹And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. ²²And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

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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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