ISAIAH.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE original intention of the translator was
to have laid a Welsh version only of Isaiah
before the public. The present English trans-
lation was completed, in order the more easily
to obtain the advice and opinion of those friends
in the University, and others, who being ac-
quainted with the Hebrew language, but not with
the Welsh, would thereby be enabled to assist
him in clearing up the difficulties with which
the text abounds. It is now published with
the sincere hope that it will prove interesting
and useful not only to the English reader, but
also to the student in Oriental literature.

The translator has adhered to the received
text as given by VAN DER HOOGHT; and has
followed the system of the Masoretic points.
In further elucidation of the obscurities, he has
diligently compared the versions and illustra-

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint: 6 From the sole of the foot to the crown of the

head, there is no soundness;

[But] wounds, and lashes, and fresh stripes: They have not been pressed out, neither bound up, Nor mollified with oil.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire;

Your land, strangers devour it before your eyes; It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left alone, as a shed in a vineyard;

As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a city saved.

9 Had JEHOVAH of hosts not left us the smallest

remnant,

We had been as Sodom; we had become like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear ye the word of JEHOVAH, O ye princes of Sodom!

Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of
Gomorrah!

11 Why to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?

saith JEHOVAH :

I am satiated with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;

And in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats, I have no delight.

12 When

ye come to

before appear

me,

Who hath required this at your hand, to tread

my courts?

13 Bring no more insincere oblation,

Incense! it is an abomination unto me;

The new moon also, the sabbath, and the proclaiming of an assembly;

I cannot endure iniquity, even the solemn assembly;

14 Your new moons, and your appointed festivals, my soul hateth:

They are a burden unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from

you:

Even when ye multiply prayer, I will not hear:
Your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash ye, make ye clean;

Remove ye far away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;

Cease to do evil :

17 Learn to do good; seek after justice; correct the evil-doer;

Do justice to the orphan; plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith JEHOVAH :

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be

white as snow;

Though they be red as crimson, they shall be like wool.