Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 423

ISAIAH. *11 12 CH. 6. Ouxs 11, 12, Boon I. At what time, Almighty? Not until their

towns are ruins without inhabitants, and their houses have no men, and their farms are desolate wastes, and the LORD has driven away their race from the heart of the land by a great emigration. Yet a tithe shalrremain in her and be fed, like a Plane or Oak when they shed their leaves, yet stand up with good sap to sustain Om: 12. 3 Message in Qhag. At the period when Ahaz-ben-

jotham~ben - Aziah was King of judah, Retzin King of Aram, and Pekah—ben-Remeliah the king of Israel, advanced to jerusalem to assail it, but were not able to con- quer. But when it was reported to the House of David that Aram had joined with Ephraim its heart and the heart of its people shook like the trees of a wood are shaken before the wind. Go

at once with your son Turn-again, to meet Ahaz at the side of the embankment of the High Reservoir on the Hill of the Bleachers’ Field and say to him ; ‘,Rest, and be quiet, and fear not these two smoking tails of sticks, those firebrands Retzin of Aram and the greedy son of Remeliah who con- spire against you,-—Aram the friend of Ephraim and the son of Remeliah, who say ;——Let us advance into

judah and conquer her, and divide her between us and make the son of '1`ebal a King in her centre E the Almighty LORD

it shall never succeed or be done.-What is the head of Aram? Damask !—-and the Head of Damask ? I Retzin; but by a period of six full years, Damask shall be struck down, with the Head of Ephraim , Shomeron, and the Head of Shomeron,-—Ben-

Remeliah!—-—If you do not believe this,—·~—Why do you not believe 10 The Messenger of the LORD con- Ask a proof Ch. 7, v. 8. I believe the name Ephraim,

QVWQR, is the pen·s1ip of an ancient tran- scriber, for Damask, Ijwp'1, as the sense of the passage demands Damask, and not Ephraim, whose doom follows. from your Evsiurivmo Gon for yourself,———from the valley below, or from the hills above I will not ask

one,—~—for I will not try the EvER· Listen,

now, House of David, is it atrifie that you {lout men, that you must also flout God? ‘However the AlmightyHimselfwil1

give you a proof.—~—I.,ook ! that Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and you shall call his name God—with-us.2 ‘ He will eat butter and honey when

he learns how to distinguish between bad and good. Yet before he the lad knows to distinguish between bad and good, the Country that you oppose will be deprived of both her Kings!3 ‘For the Even-1.1vmo will bring

over you and over your People, and over your father’s house, such times as have not come from the day when Ephraim revolted from ]udah,—·—the King of Ashur !~—And then the LORD will whistle for the Flies who are on the banks of the rivers of the Mitzeraim, and for the Wasps who are in the land of Ashur, and they will come and all of them settle in the banks of the rivers and the clefts in the crags, and in all the bushes and on all the trees by the brooks. At the same time the Almighty will shave off by a hired razor,——by the King of Ashur,—··—the head and hair of the feet and also the beard ! ‘ At that period it will happen that a

man who feeds a cow and a couple of sheep, caneat butter and milk from their abundant produce,·—for all who are left in the breast of the land will eat butter and honey, for then on every farm where there had been a thousand vines, let for a thousand shillings, there will be only briars I2 16 18 20 2I 22

refers to Isaiah the Messenger, not to jehovah. 2 Imanuel. This event actually occurred when Tiglath-

Piliser captured Damascus and Samaria, after Ahaz had entered into an alliance with him in 741-·-—74o a.c. (2 Kings, Ch. 16, v. 7). Upon these facts I read this 7 Ch. of Isaiah, v. 8, not 65 as former ' translators have done, for the word wpi1, a ull and does not always stand as a mere numeral of arithmetic. Sec Pro- fessor Samuel Lee`s Hebrew Lexicon. 423