Remnant studies

*Isa 28:1-4 — The Crown, The Hirelings, and Heavenly Fatness vs Heavenly Instructions* We have been in Isa 28 for weeks. V5, then 10-29. We found LXX did not understand supernatural context of 9-12 — _menuha_ and _marge'ah_ — Divider who gives rest. Now 1-4 sets up why. *My translation 1-4 with glosses:* *1* Woe! to crown glorious of drunkard Ephraim (LXX: crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim) and to garland shameful, army of his glory that at head of valley of fatness (heavenly fatness / beautifully fertile) (P: shameful diadem of strength of his glory which dominates at entrance of fertile valley) (LXX: flower fallen from glory on top of fertile mountain) of those confused with wine (LXX: those drunken without wine). *2* Behold, strong and mighty to Lord — as stream hail, storm destroying — as stream waters many, heavy, thick (כַּבִּירִים) overflowing — He causes to rest to land (P: I will give rest to this land by your hands) (LXX: he shall make rest for land) with power...

Here is your blog — starting with the Shavah translation as you asked: --- *Isaiah 28:29 — When You Press Level* > _This also — from with YHWH of Hosts it came forth — He makes wonderful counsel, He makes great the pressing-even._ That is Isa 28:29 if _tushiyah_ is from שוה — to press down hard to level, to set, to make stand. Not "excellent working" — but "great leveling." Not abstract wisdom — but the farmer's last pass with his foot and board that makes broken ground stand even, ready to grow. *1. The verse we all skip* Hebrew: > _gam-zot me'im YHWH tzevaot yatza'ah hifli etzah higdil tushiyah_ Traditional English: > This also comes forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom / working. [KJV / ESV] It closes the farming parable — 28:24-28 — does the plowman plow all day? No. Does he open and break clods all day? No. When he has leveled its face — _ki shivvah paneha_ — does he not scatter dil...

Isa 28:24-28 — Quick view *24* Does the plowman plow all day to sow? (P- does he plow all day, does farmer) Does he open and break up his ground? (P- turn over and break up) You are right — I missed it. v24 corrected: *24* Does the plowman plow all day to sow? (LXX- or will he prepare seed before working ground) (P- does farmer plow all day to sow) Does he open and break up his ground? (P- turn over and break up) LXX adds *prepare* — _proetoimasei_ — where MT has open and harrow — same idea you caught — breaking open IS preparing — LXX makes explicit what Hebrew implies — opening = preparing seed bed. *25* Is it not when he levels its face he scatters fennel (MT- black cumin) and cumin sows and casts wheat (MT- puts wheat in rows) and barley and rye (MT- barley marked and spelt) at its border (LXX- at your borders) *26* He is instructed in right judgment (MT- his God teaches him) his God shall teach him and they shall glory / praise (MT- He teaches him / LXX- and you shall rejoic...

### Isa 28:21-22 — Strange Work That Divides and Cuts Short *Translation 21:* > For as at Mount Perazim — Mount of Burstings — shall YHWH rise, as in Valley of Gibeon shall He be wroth, to do His work — strange is His work — and to perform His act — foreign is His act. *Perazim and Gibeon — not places, divisions:* - *Har Perazim* — where YHWH _paratz_ — burst through enemies as waters burst — and where land itself burst in Uzziah's earthquake — Amos 1:1 — Targum on Perazim remembers mountains splitting. - *Emek Gibeon* — where YHWH divided enemies with hail, divided day — sun stood in Gibeon, moon in Aijalon — to give rest — and where Israel divided against Israel — 12 vs 12 at Pool of Gibeon — Field of Swords. Both are _paratz_ — to burst, to divide — to give rest. God rising against His own city as He once rose for it — that's foreign. *Translation 22 — Word for word across MT, LXX, Peshitta:* > _ve'atta al titlotzatzu pen yechezqu mosreichem ki chala ve ne...

### Isa 28:21 — The Strange Work That Divides *Translation:* > For as at Mount Perazim — Mount of Breakings — shall YHWH rise, > as in the Valley of Gibeon shall He be wroth, > to do His work — strange is His work — > and to perform His act — foreign is His act. Peshitta: _metol d'vatura b'tur'ata nequm Marya, ayk 'umqa d'Gib'on nirgiz, l'me'bad 'abdohi nochrin 'abdohi, ul'me'bad 'abidta nochrin 'abidta_ *Perazim and Gibeon — Two Divisions:* *Har Perazim — Mountain of Burstings* — Baal-Perazim in Valley of Rephaim southwest of Jerusalem. There David said _paratz YHWH et oyvai keperetz mayim_ — YHWH burst through my enemies as waters burst. Targum remembers it as earthquake in days of Uzziah — mountains burst, land divided — Amos 1:1. *Emek Gibeon — Valley of Gibeon* — northwest of Jerusalem. There Joshua 10 — YHWH threw Amorites into panic, divided them with hail, and divided the day — sun stood still in Gibeon...

*Isaiah 28:19-20 — with די* > *19* For *enough* — from the full measure of its passing — it will take you, > as often as it passes, morning by morning, > by day and by night it will pass, > and it will be sheer terror — evil expectation — just to hear the report. > > *20* But *not enough* — the spread is too short to stretch out on, > and the garment too narrow to wrap yourself in. Notes for casual reader: - *v19 _midei_ — מדי* = from _dei_ — enough / sufficient. Same word as Passover *Dayenu — דיינו — it would have been enough.* God says: exile morning by morning is _enough_ punishment — not death. - *v20 _qatzar / tzarah*_ — too short / too narrow — *לא די* — _not_ enough — not enough spread to cover shame after being stripped. So contrast Isaiah wants: - Enough rowing away to punish you - Not enough cloth left to cover you Peshitta East kept garment: _mana_ — garment too short to cover — because in Hebrew your bed _was_ your garment — you spread your clo...