Isaiah 49

Isaiah 49
Isaiah 49
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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
Category	Nevi'im
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	23

Isaiah 49 is the forty-ninth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.^[1]^[2] This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.^[3]^[4] This chapter details the story of, but is not limited to, a "Suffering Servant".

Second servant song

The servant songs were first identified by Bernhard Duhm in his 1892 commentary on Isaiah. The songs are four poems taken from the Book of Isaiah written about a certain "servant of YHWH". God calls the servant to lead the nations, but the servant is horribly repressed. In the end, he is rewarded. Those four poems are:

The second of the "servant songs" begins at Isaiah 49:1, continuing through 49:12. This poem, written from the Servant's point of view, is an account of his pre-natal calling by God to lead both Israel and the nations. The Servant is now portrayed as the prophet of the Lord equipped and called to restore the nation to God. Yet, anticipating the fourth song, he is without success. Taken with the picture of the Servant in the first song, his success will come not by political or military action, but by becoming a light to the Gentiles. Ultimately his victory is in God's hands. Isaiah 49:1-6.

Text

The original text is written in Hebrew language.
This chapter is divided into 11 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Masoretic Text (10th century)
Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)^[5]^[6]
- 1QIsa^a: complete^[5]
- 1QIsa^b: extant: verses 1‑13, 15^[5]
- 4QIsa^b (4Q56): extant: verses 21-23^[5]
- 4QIsa^d (4Q58): extant: verses 1‑15^[5]

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Septuagint (3rd century BC)
Theodotion version (~AD 180)

Notes and references

^ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
^ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
^ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
^ Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Dead sea scrolls - Isaiah
^ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Toy (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

External links

Jewish

Isaiah 49:Original Hebrew with Parallel English

Christian

[Halley-1] Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.

[Holman-2] Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.

[Davis-3] J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.

[Hiebert-4] Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.

[thewaytoyahuweh-5] Dead sea scrolls - Isaiah

[6] Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Toy (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

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