Isaiah 58

Isaiah 58
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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 58 is the fifty-eighth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.

Text

• The original text is written in Hebrew language.
• This chapter is divided into 14 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

• Masoretic Text (10th century)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)
  • 1QIsa^a: complete
  • 1QIsa^b: extant: verses 1‑14
  • 4QIsa^d (4Q58): extant: verses 1‑3, 5‑7
  • 4QIsaⁿ (4Q67): extant: verses 13‑14

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

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

Structure

This chapter can be grouped into:

• Isaiah 58:1–14 = Fasting that Pleases God

Verse 12

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:

thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;

and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach,

The restorer of paths to dwell in.

• "They that shall be of thee": They that spring from thee; or thy people.
• "Shall build the old waste places": The descendants shall restore all that has fallen into decay in Israel, whether it be cities or customs. They shall restore "breaches" of every kind, and bring back the old paths for thee to walk in. The restoration of the ruined cities of Judah may be glanced at, but is far from exhausting the writer's meaning (compared to Isaiah 61:4).
• "The old waste places" or "the waste places of the world", as the words may be rendered, shall be built by a set of men, that shall be of the church of God, who shall be instruments in his hand of converting many souls, and so of peopling it with Christians; such places as before were desolate, where before there was no preaching of the word, no administration of ordinances, nor any Gospel churches:
• "foundations of many generations": The buildings which had lain in ruins, even to their foundations, for many ages; called in the parallel passage (Isaiah 61:4), "the former desolations"; and in the preceding clause here, "the old waste places." The literal and spiritual restoration of Israel is meant, which shall produce like blessed results on the Gentile world (Amos 9:11, 12; Acts 15:16, 17).

See also

• Jacob

• Related Bible parts: Isaiah 61, Acts 15

External links

Jewish

• Isaiah 58 Original Hebrew with Parallel English
• Isaiah 58 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary

Christian

• Isaiah 58 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate