Isaiah 25
Isaiah 25 | |
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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 25 is the twenty-fifth 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] The four chapters (the twenty-fourth through the twenty-seventh) form one continuous poetical prophecy.[3]
Text
- The original text is written in Hebrew language.
- This chapter is divided into 12 verses.
Textual versions
Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:
- Masoretic Text (10th century)
- Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)[4][5]
- 1QIsaa: complete
- 1QIsab: extant: verses 1‑8
- 4QIsac (4Q57): extant: verses 1‑2, 8‑12
Ancient translations in Koine Greek:
- Septuagint (3rd century BC)
- Theodotion version (~AD 180)
Structure
Contemporary English Version grouped this chapter into:
- Isaiah 25:1-5 = A Prayer of Thanks to God
- Isaiah 25:6-12 = The Lord Has Saved Us
Verse 6
- And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things,
- a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.[6]
- "This mountain": refers to Mount Zion, also in Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 25:10.[7][8]
- "Fat things full of marrow": Special food for banquet (to complement the "wines on the lees well refined") such as "prepared by Wisdom in Proverb 9:1-6".[8]
See also
- Related Bible parts: Isaiah 2, Isaiah 24, Isaiah 26, Isaiah 27, Jeremiah 48, Revelation 19, Revelation 21
Notes and references
- ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
- ↑ Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
- ↑ Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ulrich 2010, p. 496-497.
- ↑ Isaiah 25:6
- ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1011-1012 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
- 1 2 The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999. pp. 1149-1150.
Bibliography
- Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.
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