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Isaiah 44:16-18
International Standard Version
Isaiah 44:16-18
International Standard Version
16 Half the wood he burns in the fire, and[a] over[b] that half he places[c] meat so he can eat. He sits by its coals, warms himself,[d] and says, “Ah! I am warm in front of[e] the fire.” 17 And the rest of it he makes into a god. To blocks[f] of wood he bows down, worships, prays, and says, “Save me, since you are my god.”
18 They don’t realize; they don’t understand, because their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds, too, so they cannot understand.
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- Isaiah 44:16 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and
- Isaiah 44:16 1QIsaa lacks over, but inserts it above the line
- Isaiah 44:16 Lit. half is
- Isaiah 44:16 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read eats meat he roasted as a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself
- Isaiah 44:16 So 1QIsaa; MT reads I see; LXX reads and I have seen
- Isaiah 44:17 Or to his Baals (i.e. to Canaanite deities); so 1QIsaa copyist error; MT LXX read god, for his idol
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