Isaiah 8

Isaiah 8
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 8 is the eighth 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][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, 8-12
    • 4QIsae (4Q59): extant: verses 2‑14
    • 4QIsaf (4Q60): extant: verses 1, 4‑11
    • 4QIsah (4Q62): extant: verses 11‑14

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Structure

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:

The Good News Translation divides the chapter into five sections:

Verse 1

Moreover the Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll, and write on it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.[4]

Methodist founder John Wesley noted that the message was to be "written in large and legible characters".[5]

Verse 3

Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz;[6]

Verse 14

He is the sanctuary and the stumbling stone
and the rock that brings down the two houses of Israel;
a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem."[7]

Cross reference: Isaiah 28:16
Cited in Romans 9:33

Verse 16

Bind up the testimony

This verse relates to the completion of the scroll initiated in verse 1.[8]

Verse 23

For is there no gloom to her that was stedfast? [9]

The Jerusalem Bible suggests that this line "seems to be a gloss".[10]

In the former time he debased the land of Zebulon, and the land of Naphthali;
But in the latter time he hath made it glorious:
Even the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations.[11]

This text, which appears as Isaiah 9:1 in most modern translations,[12] forms verse 8:23 in Hebrew texts and some English versions.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  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. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  4. ↑ Isaiah 8:1
  5. ↑ Wesley's Notes on Isaiah 8, accessed 18 March 2018
  6. ↑ Isaiah 8:3
  7. ↑ Isaiah 8:14, CTS New Catholic Bible
  8. ↑ Barnes' Notes on Isaiah 8, accessed 18 March 2018
  9. ↑ Isaiah 8:23 - JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society of America)
  10. ↑ Jerusalem Bible (1966), Footnote to Isaiah 8:23
  11. ↑ 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 16
  12. ↑ Range of translations in BibleGateway.com

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