Isa 1:4 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 4. Ah sinful nation -"Degenerate"] Five MSS., one of them ancient, read moschathim , without the first yod , in hophal corrupted , not corrupters . See the same word in the same form, and in the same sense, . Are corrupters -"Are estranged"] Thirty-two MSS., five ancient, and two editions, read nazoru ; which reading determines the word to be from the root zur, to alienate , not from nazar, to separate ; so Kimchi understands it. See also Annotat. in Noldium , 68. They are gone away backward -"They have turned their backs upon him."] So Kimchi explains it: "they have turned unto him the back and not the face." See . I have been forced to render this line paraphrastically; as the verbal translation, "they are estranged backward," would have been unintelligible.

‏ Isaiah 1:4

Verse 4. Ah sinful nation-"Degenerate"] Five MSS., one of them ancient, read moschathim, without the first yod, in hophal corrupted, not corrupters. See the same word in the same form, and in the same sense, Pr 25:26.

Are corrupters-"Are estranged"] Thirty-two MSS., five ancient, and two editions, read nazoru; which reading determines the word to be from the root zur, to alienate, not from nazar, to separate; so Kimchi understands it. See also Annotat. in Noldium, 68.

They are gone away backward-"They have turned their backs upon him."] So Kimchi explains it: "they have turned unto him the back and not the face." See Jer 2:27; 7:24. I have been forced to render this line paraphrastically; as the verbal translation, "they are estranged backward," would have been unintelligible.