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Douay
Rheims Version ...
BEHOLD the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it
cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and
your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth
iniquity.
4 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any
one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak
vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.
5 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of
spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which
is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.
6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and
the work of iniquity is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction
are in their ways.
8 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment
in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one
that treadeth in them, knoweth no peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not
overtake us...
...15 And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil,
lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his
eyes, because there is no judgment.
16 And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished,
because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought
salvation to him, and his own justice supported him.
17 He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation
upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad
with zeal as with a cloak.
18 As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries,
and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.
19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and
they from the rising of the sun, his glory: when he shall come as a
violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:
20 And there shall come a, redeemer to Sion, and to them that
return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that
is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out
of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and
for ever.
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Notes
from L.-CL. Fillion's 1894 Version ...
God has all the power to
redeem all sinners, yet some are too guilty to deserve blessings
from God.
Notwithstanding His power,
God is in possession of all of His goodness to either hear the
prayers or to grant the request.
Yet the prayers (or words)
of the "sinners" are no less criminal than their
works.
Judges in listening to the
accusations are no better than the advocates. Re: Job, XV, ... 31 He
shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be
redeemed with any price... Thus it is firstly evil projected, then
confirmed.
The total emptiness of
their works are the fruits of pernicious plans or "Eggs
of asps". If one of the eggs is broken ... the issuing
poisonous snake will strike and wound the closest at hand.
They are amazingly active
in committing iniquities and their works are both malicious and
violent.
N.B. this is a free
translations of the above notes... thus no presumption of rigorous
precision.
The whole sorrowful chapter
is depicting the moral misery of harden sinners... terrible results
of bad conducts leading towards ruins and malice in all directions
and points of view.
Isaias wrote his book
around 750 B.C.
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15®19
... the retribution of God
... there is nobody to
deliver the reformed sinner ... so God must take "charge" and
insure the deliverance...
... God does NOT need an
ally for His work ...
... His justice, His
holiness will suffice ...
then all of His infinite
attributes will be described...
His response will bring
terror to the adversaries...
the exemplary chastisement
will produce great hope for the sinners ... and those having escaped
will gain confidence in God.
...
20-21
...and now: reconciliation,
the Redemptor (ie: liberator) is nothing else than the Messiah. The
Redeemer has created an Alliance in providing the escape, the
salvation from the iniquity and/or the enemy.
From then on, the sinner
will enjoy the sublime assurance of God's gift of the Holy Ghost and
of Divine Revelations to avoid the above described state and be the
propagators of truth that will never cease to develop. The eternal
Alliance.
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