ISAIAH (Jah saves-Yesha Yah yesha yahu)
Introduction:
Isaiah was a Prophet, Seer and a gospel preacher before gospel was actualized. His name and lifestyle resemble the Adonay Himself. Anabiy Yesha, as people of moslem sect will refer to Jesus Christ was coined from the name of this great man. His own death was recorded by himself, to be a sacrificial death, just to let the will of God be done. History has it that, Manasseh, who was born within additional fifteen years of king Hezekiah, killed him. Imagine giving a suicidal prophecy, to save the life of Hezekiah, but more importantly, to give space for the will of God for the prophecy - by a young prophet from Judah to Jeroboam- on the birth of Josiah to still come true (1king 13:2, Is 38:10). This book was written between 701-681 BC. He was a Prophet to the kingdom of Judah and His prophecy, counsel, signs, utterances remained a REFERENCE for the Lord Jesus Himself when He came and in the letters of His Apostles thereafter.
Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he envisioned concerning Jerusalem and Judah, in the days of Uzziah, Jothan, Ahaz and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. (2King 15)
2 the children in the land who have rebelled should give ears, and listen as I speak things to magnify and exalt Jehovah of Heaven.
3 just as the ox and the ass in a manger know the landlord that bought them, even the people of Israel should know and understand things.
4 Alas! Just as the heathen nations are heavily into doing evil, Israel has forsaken Jehovah. Their people have sinned, their offsprings behind them are corrupted and the sons of the strangers have despised the Holy of holies with their iniquities;
5 why will you be slain, and be in emotional ache in the core of your heart, because your head-masters have added (societal) malady to your rebellion?
6 the completeness/soundness of head-masters IS in softening/soothing the (societal) contusion/bruise from the plagues of the strangers, as though, they are to bandage a fresh wound on the palm, and feet with oil/ointment.
7 there is revolution/upheaval by strangers in your land and in front of you, the city is burned (seraph) with fire, unto a wasteland, as strangers devour things from your soil unto total desolation.
8 daughters of Zion are to be preserved in our city, the booths should be for the remnants from our vineyards, and huts for solid work-piece/things from our cucumber gardens;
9 but little by little, we would be likened to gomorrah of Sodom (ruined-heap of scorched districts), if not, for Jehovah of (heavenly) army, that, there will still exist for us, the remnants and survivors.
10 If commissioned-officers of gomorrah of Sodom, had broadened their ears to the law (Torah) like our people, and listened to the spoken-words of Jehovah of Elohim;
11 they would have been told that, Jehovah delighted and will be satiated in the blood of full grown reserved bullocks, and burnt-offering of lambs, fat of fatted-animals, with abundance of slaughtered rams. But How/for what reason?
12 what do you come to see in HIS presence, to search out for things in HIS Hand or just to tread down HIS court?
13 you CAN come at sabbaths and call out for solemn-festival, exerting yourselves on scripture-reading, but unto your self-destruct, and by adding incense to your grain-offerings at new moons will still be an abomination to HIM.
14 because souls which are to be lifted are wearied/exhausted at your yearly feasts, and they hated the new-moons because of it's burden/cumberance.
15 and as you multiply your intercession, by spreading your palms, for you to be heard; you should have covered/veiled your eyes, because your hands are replenished with blood;
16 you wash before all eyes to earn/merit being clean, when you should have turned away from invention of badness and cease from doing evil;
17 you should have learnt to be honest/happy, by seeking after the verdicts to judge and contend for the fatherless and widow, so that it will be well with them from those that are sour to them.
18 it is said, walk with Jehovah and your sin will be reproved/corrected, and even if your wool/silk from voracious silk-worm has been blushed/dyed red, it will be whitened as snow.
19 If you listen and consent or be willing, you will eat from the goodness of the land.
20 but, if you refuse, Jehovah will be embittered, and the edge of swords will devour you as rehearsed/spoken.
21 Had they believed and were full of HIS verdicts of Justification, how would there be a murder of a harlot that lodged overnight in a city-capital! (ref: Judg 19).
22 just as, you will reduce/cut down money for a drink which is a type with traces of water;
23 a fatherless and widow with any contention will go to a head-person who is peaceful and love them, to be judged, rather than companions of thieves who are rebellious and will be pursuing bribes.
24 Thus says Jehovah of (heavenly) army; alas to Israel in tight places of the enemies. However, the Adoni/Lord (of the earth) and the Knight/the Mighty One will comfort them and will avenge for them.
25 because you have turned away from ME, however, like fusing of tin-alloy, I will restore you in His Hand, because He is a Type with trace of My output/sonship (bar).
26 at the first time, they will believe on Him in their cities and it will be the beginning of restoring them, for they will call out to Him as their Counselor/Adviser, and afterwards, He will judge them from the borough/capital-city according to MY Justification.
27 and having redeemed them, verdicts of righteousness shall be restored in Zion;
28 the fractures/ruins of sinners who transgress and those who forsake Jehovah altogether shall come to an end.
29 they will be ashamed of what they have chosen, having coveted the rams of others and detected that, they are to be blamed.
30 but, when leaves wilt/fade because of their oath, they blamed it on water;
31 while things in their storehouse are two-times by the work of a maid/young-girl, whom they have quenched her kindled spark/talent altogether.