Isa 28:22

### 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 necheratza shama'ti me'et Adonai YHWH tzevaot al kol ha'aretz_ > And now do not scoff lest your bonds be made strong — for full end cut short I heard from Adonai YHWH hosts upon all the earth. LXX: _me euphrantheiete mede ischysatosan hymon hoi desmoi... syntetelesmena kai syntetmemena..._ Peshitta: _la telutzun d'la nehzaqun asraykoun... gmirta p'siqta..._ No variation — because this is legal seal. *The seal — _chala ve necheratza_ — everywhere it appears:* 1. *Isa 10:22-23* — _ki im yihyeh amcha Yisrael kechol hayam shear yashuv bo chala necheratza shotefet tzedakah... ki chala ve necheratza..._ Though Israel as sand of sea — remnant shall return — consumption finished cut short overflowing righteousness — for full end cut short makes Adonai in midst of all land. 2. *Isa 28:22* — same seal — bonds made strong — full end cut short heard. 3. *Dan 9:26-27* — _ve'ad kalah ve necheratza... ve'al kenaf shiqutzim meshomem ve'ad kalah ve necheratza tittach al shomem_ Until full end cut short decreed... upon wing abominations desolating until full end cut short poured on desolator. Aramaic behind it: _gmirta psuqta_ — finished cut — legal term for decree. Translators make vague — "destruction decreed" — hides _chala_ — consumption, land eating its Sabbaths Lev 26:34, and _necheratza_ — cut, as days cut short Matt 24:22 _kolobothesontai_ — and _shotefet tzedakah_ — overflowing righteousness — not "just punishment about to overflow." *Return or Saved? No discrepancy.* Isa 10:22 MT — _shear yashuv_ — remnant shall return — name of Isaiah's son Shear-Jashub 7:3 LXX — _to kataleimma sothesetai_ — remnant shall be saved Rom 9:27 — _to kataleimma sothesetai_ — Paul same Lazy to say "Paul quoted Greek." Paul knew Hebrew better. If someone you know is lost and you find him and lead him home — what is he? He is returned — _yashuv_ — and he is saved — _sothesetai_ — and he is found. Hebrew pairs them always: Deut 30:2 _ve shavta_ — you return — 30:3 _ve shav YHWH_ — YHWH returns/restores Targum Jonathan on 10:22 already reads _yashuv_ as _yitkayemun_ — shall be established/saved Peshitta _nehtub_ = return = be restored Paul didn't copy LXX — he gave Romans the Hebrew meaning — to return is to be saved — _to find lost is to save them._ LXX translators knew same, so they wrote _sothesetai_ — same Hebrew understanding. *Commentary — די — Enough:* 19 — _midei_ — from enough — overflowing flood passes — exile — enough, not death — Dayenu. 20 — _lo di_ — not enough — garment too short — _mana z'or l'mestarohi_ — no covering — stripped — _g-l-h_ = exile = uncovered. 21-22 — Strange divider does both — Perazim/Gibeon — bursts land to give rest — _marge'ah_ 28:12 — divider who gives rest — _raga_ — to divide sea and give rest. Land gets rest — Lev 26:34 _az tirtzeh ha'aretz et shabbetoteha_ — 70 years — enough for land — not enough bed for people — great divide. Same divider cuts days short — _chala ve necheratza_ — end cut short, finished quickly — so bonds not forever — so remnant can return/be saved — quickly. That is _zar ma'asehu_ — foreign work — same instrument — divided tongues — Isa 28:11 _belagei saphah ubelashon acheret_ — other tongue — as judgment Assyrian — and as Pentecost _diamerizomenai glossai_ — divided tongues fire — dividing people FROM world — to clothe as priests — _mamlechet kohanim._ Same cut — stripped of garment to exile land, clothed with garment to enter rest.