Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 488

ISAIAH. Ovns 66, 67, Boox II. Cn. 65. I0 II 12 16 18 'Such are a smoke in My face, Fire scorching all day. It is written before Me, I will not be still, but repay, Will repay their own sin to their breast And the sins of their fathers at once} Says the Loma, Who burnt Incense on Hills, And insulted on Heights, Their own web I will spread on their brea.sts.’ Oxm 67. 3 §r¤mi¤z uf Snrhzaruurz. Thus says the LORD; As when one Ends in a. cluster the juice, And says, ‘ Injure it not, for the goodness it holds} So will I do with My servants, Refrain from destroying the whole; And will bring out from jacob a Seed, And from judah an Heir for My Hill, And he shall inherit M Chosen, v And My Servants dwellthere. And Sharon be pasture for flocks, And cattle in Akbar's Vale rest, For My People who sought Me. But you, who leave the LIFE, Forsake My Holy Hill; Who spread tables to Gad, And Eli tiagons to Mani; I will measure yourselves for the sword, And you all shall to slaughter bow down. You shall call, but I will not reply, Shall entreat Me, but I will not hear, For you practised wrong in My sight, And what I approved not, you chose. thus says the Almighty Loxv, ‘ My Servants shall feed ,—·-·but you starve; My Servants shall drink~—but you thirst; And My Servants be glad,—-but you shamed; My Servants shall g1ad—hearted sing, But you wail for your sorrow of heart, And howl for vexation of spirit! T0 My Chosen your name shall be left asia Curse ;~·· The Gnnar Loan will kill you;

But a new Name will give to His friends. ‘ Then who blesses on earth, will bless by the TRUE GOD; And who swears upon earth, will swear by the TRUE Gon; When old wrongs are forgot, and are hid from My sight, When New Skies I create and New Earth, Nor the Old be remembered, or brought up to mind. For ever and ever in what I create, They will joy and be glad, For jerusalem I will create a Delight, And her People a joy! Nom.-·Ch. 65, v. xx. In v. 11, ch. 65 English. I suggest that Mani was the

- the Prophet plays upon the name of the Idol drunkards’ God, or the ecgiivalent of Bacchus. ‘Ma¤i in the next line, where in Hebrew Gad was, apparently, t e God, or Idol of toimeasure is Maru-rm, but I cannot doso in Thieves, Mercury. 4.88