mine head; Judah is my sceptre. 9 Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe : 10 Who will bring me into the fenced city? Who hath led me unto Edom? 11 Hast not thou cast us off, O God? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts. 12 Give us help against the adversary: For vain is the help of man. 13 Through Ps. 60. For the Chief Musician upon Shushan. eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah. 5 That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer us. 6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will exult: I will divide Shechem, and mete I out the valley of Succoth. 7 Gilead is mine, [and] Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of mine head; Judah is my sceptre. 8 Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will cast my shoe : Philistia, shout thou because of me. 9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who hath led me unto Edom? 10 Hast not thou cast us off, O God? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts. 11 Give us help against the adver sary: For vain is the help of man. God we shall do 12 Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that shall tread down our adversaries. valiantly: For he it is that shall tread down our adversaries. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of For the Chief Musician; set to Maha David. 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good. 2 The LORD looked down from hea ven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have [all] the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon the LORD. 5 There were they in great fear : [For God is in the generation of the righteous.] 6 Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because the LORD is his refuge. 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. lath. Maschal of David. 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, [and] they have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have . . the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God. 5 There were they in great fear, [where no fear was : For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee ;] Thou hast put them to shame, 6 Oh that the salvation of Israel Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. 5 They have mouths, but they 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; speak not; 8 They that make them shall be 18 They that make them shall be THE EARLIER AND LATER PARTS OF ISAIAH. THE passages below show marks of relationship between the two main divisions of Isaiah, but in themselves they afford no substantial evidence for or against identical authorship. There are marked resemblances between certain passages in the early division: see, for example, chapters 10. 23 and 28. 22; also chaps. 29. 17 and 32. 15. In the second division there are more numerous resemblances: compare chaps. 40. 10 and 62. II; 41. 17, 18 and 43. 19, 21; 42. 6, 7 and 49. 8, 9; 46. 13 and 51. 5; 48. 22 and 52. 21. Isa. 11. 6-9. Isa. 65. 25. 6 And the wolf shall dwell with the 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed lamb, [and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child 7 shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their together, THE relationship between Isaiah and his contemporary Micah is of a deeply interesting character. It is by no means confined to the passage given below. Compare, for example, Isa. 26. 21 with Mic. 1. 3; Isa. 58. I with Mic. 3. 8; Isa. 25. 8 with Mic. 6. 16; also compare Isa. 10. 21 with Mic. 5. 3, 7, 8, noting two different words for 'remnant.' Both prophets also speak of the Babylonian captivity (Isa. 39. 5 and Mic. 4. 10). In comparing the texts below, the variations prove to be akin to those which we are familiar with elsewhere. It remains to ask who has the prior claim to the original authorship. In Isaiah the passage stands as the beginning of a message given to him in vision. In Micah it appears to be part of the prophecy contained in the previous chapter which was published in the reign of Hezekiah (see Jer. 26. 18). If the early chapters of Isaiah are in anything like chronological order his second chapter was before Hezekiah's time. 2 Isa. 2. 1-5. [The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.] And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and. shall be exalted above the hills; and all 3 nations shall flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD 4 from Jerusalem. And he shall judge between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 [O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.] Mic. 4. 1-4. And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and [it] shall be exalted above the hills; and 2 peoples shall flow unto it. And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, [and] to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD 3 from Jerusalem. And he shall judge between many peoples, and shall reprove strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 4 [But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.] M |