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Strong's Number G5101 matches the Greek τίς (tis),
which occurs 100 times in 77 verses in 'Isa'
in the LXX Greek.
Page 1 / 2 (Isa 1:5–Isa 45:10)
Why do you want more beatings?
Why do you keep on rebelling?
The whole head is hurt,
and the whole heart is sick.
“What are all your sacrifices to me? ”
asks the LORD.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.
“When you come to appear before me,
who requires this from you —
this trampling of my courts?
The LORD brings this charge
against the elders and leaders of his people:
“You have devastated the vineyard.
The plunder from the poor is in your houses.
“Why do you crush my people
and grind the faces of the poor? ”
This is the declaration
of the Lord GOD of Armies.
What more could I have done for my vineyard
than I did?
Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes,
did it yield worthless grapes?
Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to my vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking:
Who will I send?
Who will go for us?
I said:
Here I am. Send me.
When they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people inquire of their God?[fn] Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
What will you do on the day of punishment
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
The LORD of Armies himself has planned it;
therefore, who can stand in its way?
It is his hand that is outstretched,
so who can turn it back?
What answer will be given to the messengers from that nation?
The LORD has founded Zion,
and his oppressed people find refuge in her.
which sends envoys by sea,
in reed vessels over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,[fn]
whose land is divided by rivers.
Where then are your wise men?
Let them tell you and reveal
what the LORD of Armies has planned against Egypt.
A pronouncement concerning the Valley of Vision:
What’s the matter with you?
Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?
“What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a resting place for yourself out of rock?
Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?
I am not angry.
If only there were thorns and briers for me to battle,
I would trample them
and burn them to the ground.
Woe to those who go to great lengths
to hide their plans from the LORD.
They do their works in the dark,
and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us? ”
The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames? ”
The royal spokesman said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
The great king, the king of Assyria, says this: What are you relying on?
“You[fn] think mere words are strategy and strength for war. Who are you now relying on that you have rebelled against me?
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the royal spokesman, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew[fn] within earshot of the people who are on the wall.”
“Who among all the gods of these lands ever rescued his land from my power? So will the LORD rescue Jerusalem from my power? ”
“Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say, and where did they come to you from? ”
Hezekiah replied, “They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.”
Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace? ”
Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”
A voice was saying, “Cry out! ”
Another said,[fn] “What should I cry out? ”
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains on a balance
and the hills on the scales?
Who did he consult?
Who gave him understanding
and taught him the paths of justice?
Who taught him knowledge
and showed him the way of understanding?
With whom will you compare God?
What likeness will you set up for comparison with him?
Look up and see!
Who created these?
He brings out the stars by number;
he calls all of them by name.
Because of his great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.
Jacob, why do you say,
and Israel, why do you assert,
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?
“Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I am the LORD, the first
and with the last — I am he.”
“Let them come and tell us
what will happen.
Tell us the past events,
so that we may reflect on them
and know the outcome,
or tell us the future.
“Who told about this from the beginning,
so that we might know,
and from times past,
so that we might say, ‘He is right’?
No one announced it,
no one told it,
no one heard your words.
“Who is blind but my servant,
or deaf like my messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like my dedicated one,[fn]
or blind like the servant of the LORD?
Who gave Jacob to the robber,[fn]
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the LORD?
Have we not sinned against him?
They were not willing to walk in his ways,
and they would not listen to his instruction.
All the nations are gathered together,
and the peoples are assembled.
Who among them can declare this,
and tell us the former things?
Let them present their witnesses
to vindicate themselves,
so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”
“Also, from today on I am he alone,
and none can rescue from my power.
I act, and who can reverse it? ”
Who, like me, can announce the future?
Let him say so and make a case before me,
since I have established an ancient people.
Let these gods declare[fn] the coming things,
and what will take place.
This is what the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says:
I am the LORD, who made everything;
who stretched out the heavens by myself;
who alone spread out the earth;
1. Isa 1:5–Isa 45:10
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