Isaiah 58

Isaiah 58
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 58 is the fifty-eighth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 56-66 are often referred to as Trito-Isaiah.[1] This chapter contains a proclamation regarding "fasting that pleases God".[2]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

  • Masoretic Text (10th century)
  • Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)[3]
    • 1QIsaa: complete
    • 1QIsab: extant: verses 1‑14
    • 4QIsad (4Q58): extant: verses 1‑3, 5‑7
    • 4QIsan (4Q67): extant: verses 13‑14

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 3

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
and exact all your labours.[4]

Verse 12

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;
and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.[5]

In some versions, "the old waste places" is translated as "ancient ruins":[6] John Skinner, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, suggests that "the description of the ruins as 'ancient' suggests a period considerably later than the Exile (which only lasted half a century), although the argument is not one that can be rigorously pressed".[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oxford Reference, Overview: Bernhard Duhm accessed 6 September 2018
  2. ↑ Sub-title to Isaiah 58:1-14 in the New King James Version
  3. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  4. ↑ Isaiah 58:3
  5. ↑ Isaiah 58:12
  6. ↑ Appendix containing the Essential Variations from the Translation of Lowth by Michael Dodson, Esq. and Joseph Stock, D.D., 1834, appended to Lowth, R., Isaiah: a new translation: with a preliminary dissertation, and notes, critical, philological and explanatory, Boston, W. Hilliard; Cambridge, J. Munroe and Company, 1834, page 531
  7. ↑ Skinner, J., Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Isaiah 58, accessed 10 September 2018

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