Isaiah 13

Isaiah 13
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book Book of Isaiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 23
Category Nevi'im

Isaiah 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.[1] This chapter opens the second section of Isaiah, chapters 13 to 23, containing "predictions as to foreign nations".[2] In the New King James Version, the chapter is sub-titled "Proclamation Against Babylon".[3]

Text

  • The original text is written in Hebrew language.
  • This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
  • The American Old Testament scholar Brevard Childs links this chapter with the first part of chapter 14 as one section, composed of two units: 13:2-22 and 14:4b-21, "linked editorially by an initial superscription (13:1) and two redactional units 14:1-4a and 22-23.[4]

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 1

The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. (NKJV)[8]
  • "Burden" (Hebrew: מַשָּׂ֖א maś-śā): the keyword in the superscriptions for a total of nine similar oracles; the others being: Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 17:1; Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 21:11; Isaiah 21:13; Isaiah 22:1; Isaiah 23:1.[9]

Verse 2

Lift up a banner on the high mountain (NKJV)[10]

The ASV refers to "the bare mountain", i.e. "i.e. one denuded of trees, so that the signal might be clearly distinguished".[11]

Verse 17

"Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it." (NKJV) [12]

This verse makes clear that Babylon was to fall at the hand of the Medes, probably under the leadership of Cyrus the Great.[11] The Medes are specified by name as the instrument of God's wrath, pointing to a historical setting in the sixth century, but according to Childs, significantly "portrayed as a still future event, and ... not to be interpreted as a late postexilic retrojection of the events in 539" BC when Medes (and Persia) actually conquered Babylon.[13]

Verse 21

Desert animals will move into the ruined city (NLT) [14]

Owls, ostriches and goats are identified as examples.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  2. ↑ Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Isaiah 13, accessed 24 March 2018
  3. ↑ Isaiah 13:1-22: NKJV
  4. ↑ Childs 2001, p. 117-123.
  5. 1 2 Jull, Timothy A. J.; Donahue, Douglas J.; Broshi, Magen; Tov, Emanuel (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  6. ↑ Ulrich 2010, p. 355-356.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Walch, Stephen (13 January 2016). "Dead Sea Scrolls". The Way To Yahuweh.
  8. ↑ Isaiah 13:1
  9. ↑ Childs 2001, p. 113.
  10. ↑ Isaiah 13:2
  11. 1 2 Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Isaiah 13, accessed 26 March 2018
  12. ↑ Isaiah 13:7
  13. ↑ Childs 2001, p. 125.
  14. ↑ Isaiah 13:21

Bibliography

  • Childs, Brevard S. (2001). Isaiah. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664221430.
  • Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.

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