Isa 30:18-19, 26 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 18. And therefore will he be exalted -"Even for this shall he expect in silence"] For yarum, he shall be exalted , which belongs not to this place, Houbigant reads yadum, he shall be silent : and so it seems to be in a MS. Another MS. instead of it reads yashub, he shall return . The mistakes occasioned by the similitude of the letters daleth and resh are very frequent, as the reader may have already observed.

‏ Isaiah 30:18-19

Verse 18. And therefore will he be exalted-"Even for this shall he expect in silence"] For yarum, he shall be exalted, which belongs not to this place, Houbigant reads yadum, he shall be silent: and so it seems to be in a MS. Another MS. instead of it reads yashub, he shall return. The mistakes occasioned by the similitude of the letters daleth and resh are very frequent, as the reader may have already observed.

Verse 19. For the people shall dwell in Zion-"When a holy people shall dwell in Sion"] λαοςσγιος, Septuagint; am kadosh. The word kadosh, lost out of the text, but happily supplied by the Septuagint, clears up the sense, otherwise extremely obscure. When the rest of the cities of the land were taken by the king of Assyria, Zion was preserved, and all that were in it.

Thou shalt weep no more-"Thou shalt implore him with weeping"] The negative particle lo is not acknowledged by the Septuagint. It may perhaps have been written by mistake for lo, to him, of which there are many examples.

‏ Isaiah 30:26

Verse 26. Shall be sevenfold] The text adds keor shibath haiyamayim, "as the light of seven days," a manifest gloss, taken in from the margin; it is not in most of the copies of the Septuagint. It interrupts the rhythmical construction, and obscures the sense by a false, or at least an unnecessary, interpretation.

By moon, sun, light, are to be understood the abundance of spiritual and temporal felicity, with which God should bless them in the days of the Messiah, which should be sevenfold, i.e. vastly exceed all that they had ever before possessed.