JCR - Comp. JPS, Targums Onkelos, Palestinian, Jerusalem

Comparison of Pentateuch:
Jewish Publication Society 1917
Targum Jonathan Ben Uziel:
The Chaldee Paraphrase on
The Prophet Isaiah
C. W. H. Pauli (1871)

Isaiah
Chapter 1

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JPS TOC Comparison TOC Targum TOC Isaiah 2

Isaiah 1:1
JPS 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
TJBU 1:1 THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOZ, WHICH IS PROPHESIED CONCERNING THE MEN OF JUDAH AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AHAZ, AND HEZEKIAH, THE KINGS OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH.

Isaiah 1:2
JPS 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For the LORD hath spoken: Children I have reared, and brought up, And they have rebelled against Me.
TJBU 1:2 Hear, heavens, which trembled when I gave my law to my people, and give ear, earth, which was agitated on account of my words, for the Lord has spoken. My people, the house of Israel, whom I called sons, I loved them, I made them glorious; but they have rebelled against my Word.

Isaiah 1:3
JPS 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib; But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
TJBU 1:3 The ox knoweth his purchaser, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel has not learned to know my fear, my people doth not consider to return to my law.

Isaiah 1:4
JPS 1:4 Ah sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children that deal corruptly; They have forsaken the LORD, They have contemned the Holy One of Israel, They are turned away backward.
TJBU 1:4 Woe to those who are called a holy people, because they have sinned; a chosen congregation, but they have multiplied sins; they are sur named a beloved seed, but they have done evil; they are called beloved sons, but they have corrupted their paths; they have forsaken the worship of the Lord; they abhorred the fear ot the Holy One of Israel, and because their works are evil they are turned away, and they are turned back.

Isaiah 1:5
JPS 1:5 On what part will ye yet be stricken, Seeing ye stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint;
TJBU 1:5 They do not consider so as to say. Wherefore has He smitten us? They continue in sin; they do not say, Why is all the head sick, and the whole heart faint?

Isaiah 1:6
JPS 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head There is no soundness in it; But wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: They have not been pressed, neither bound up, Neither mollified with oil.
TJBU 1:6 From the lowest of my people even unto the chief of them, there is not one amongst them who is perfect in my fear: all of them are disobedient and rebellious; they are polluted with sins, they are like an ulcerous wound; they have not forsaken their pride, neither long for repentance; they have also no righteousness to protect them.

Isaiah 1:7
JPS 1:7 Your country is desolate; Your cities are burned with fire; Your land, strangers devour it in your presence, And it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.
TJBU 1:7 Your land is desolate, your cities each burnt with fire; in your presence the nations possess it. On account of their sins it is laid desolate: from you it is transferred, and it belongs to aliens.

Isaiah 1:8
JPS 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city.
TJBU 1:8 The congregation of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard after they have gathered the grapes; as a lodge for passing the night in, in a garden of cucumbers after they have gleaned it; as a city against which they lay siege.

Isaiah 1:9
JPS 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts Had left unto us a very small remnant, We should have been as Sodom, We should have been like unto Gomorrah.
TJBU 1:9 Except the exceeding goodness of the Lord of hosts had caused to remain unto us in His mercy a deliverance, we had sins, on account of which we certainly had perished as the men of Sodom, and as the inhabitants of Gomorrah we would have been consumed.

Isaiah 1:10
JPS 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, Ye rulers of Sodom; Give ear unto the law of our God, Ye people of Gomorrah.
TJBU 1:10 Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye rulers, whose works are evil, as of the rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, people, whose works are evil like those of the people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:11
JPS 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? Saith the LORD; I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, And the fat of fed beasts; And I delight not in the blood Of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
TJBU 1:11 I have no pleasure in the multitude of your holy sacrifices, saith the Lord: I am full with the abundance of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts, and the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats; for in such I have no pleasure.

Isaiah 1:12
JPS 1:12 When ye come to appear before Me, Who hath required this at your hand, To trample My courts?
TJBU 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, and that ye should come? Tread not my courts;

Isaiah 1:13
JPS 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; It is an offering of abomination unto Me; New moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.
TJBU 1:13 Bring no more the oblation obtained by oppression; sacrifice is an abomination before me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the assembly ye are congregating, your sins shall not be forgiven, nor shall I hear your prayer at the time of your congregating yourselves together.

Isaiah 1:14
JPS 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed seasons My soul hateth; They are a burden unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
TJBU 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my Word hates; they are an abomination before me. I have often forgiven you.

Isaiah 1:15
JPS 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; Your hands are full of blood.
TJBU 1:15 When your priests are spreading out their hands to pray for you, I shall make to ascend the presence of my Shekinah from you; and when you are multiplying prayer, it is not my pleasure to accept your prayer at your hands, they being full of the blood of the innocent.

Isaiah 1:16
JPS 1:16 Wash you, make you clean, Put away the evil of your doings From before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil;
TJBU 1:16 Retum to the law; make you clean from your sins; put away the evil of your doings from before the presence of my Word; cease to do evil;

Isaiah 1:17
JPS 1:17 Learn to do well; Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
TJBU 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment; judge ye justice for him who is suffering violence; do justice to the orphan; hear ye the cry of the widow.

Isaiah 1:18
JPS 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, Saith the LORD; Though your sins be as scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
TJBU 1:18 Then, when ye return to the law, ye shall pray before me, and I will grant your petition, saith the Lord. Though your sins be stained as with dye, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be pure as wool.

Isaiah 1:19
JPS 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, Ye shall eat the good of the land;
TJBU 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient to my Word, ye shall eat the good of the land.

Isaiah 1:20
JPS 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, Ye shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken.
TJBU 1:20 But if ye refuse, and will not be obedient to my Word, ye shall be slain with the sword of the enemy; for the Word of the Lord has decreed it thus.

Isaiah 1:21
JPS 1:21 How is the faithful city Become a harlot! She that was full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.
TJBU 1:21 How are the works of the faithfiil city become like those of an harlot! she was full of those who did judgment, truth was wrought in her; but now they are murderers!

Isaiah 1:22
JPS 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, Thy wine mixed with water.
TJBU 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

Isaiah 1:23
JPS 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Every one loveth bribes, And followeth after rewards; They judge not the fatherless, Neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
TJBU 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: all of them love gifts. One saith to the other, Show me kindness in my cause, and I will repay thee in thy cause. The fatherless they judge not, and the cry of the widow does not come before them.

Isaiah 1:24
JPS 1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, And avenge Me of Mine enemies;
TJBU 1:24 Therefore saith the Lord of the world, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, The city of Jerusalem, I will comfort her; but woe to the wicked, when I shall reveal myself, to render just recompense to the enemies of my people, and render vengeance to my enemies.

Isaiah 1:25
JPS 1:25 And I will turn My hand upon thee, And purge away thy dross as with lye, And will take away all thine alloy;
TJBU 1:25 And I will turn the blow of my might upon thee; and I will scour away all the wicked, as he that is scouring with soap, and take away all thy sin.

Isaiah 1:26
JPS 1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as at the beginning; Afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, The faithful city.
TJBU 1:26 And I will appoint in thee judges of truth, upright ones, as at the first, and thy counsellors, as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called the holy city, the faithful city.

Isaiah 1:27
JPS 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And they that return of her with righteousness.
TJBU 1:27 As for Zion, when justice shall be practised in her, she shall be redeemed; and those that do the law shall return to her in righteousness.

Isaiah 1:28
JPS 1:28 But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, And they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
TJBU 1:28 The rebels and the sinners shall be broken together; and those that forsake the law of the Lord shall be destroyed.

Isaiah 1:29
JPS 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye have desired, And ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
TJBU 1:29 For ye shall be confounded of the oaks of idolatry which ye have desired; and ye shall be ashamed of the gardens of idolatry in which ye were seeking help.

Isaiah 1:30
JPS 1:30 For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, And as a garden that hath no water.
TJBU 1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a watered garden that hath no water.

Isaiah 1:31
JPS 1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, And his work as a spark; And they shall both burn together, And none shall quench them.
TJBU 1:31 The strength of the wicked shall be as tow of flax, and the work of their hand as a spark of fire, when one approaches to the side of the other, both are burning together: thus the wicked shall be consumed, they and their evil works, and none shall have pity upon them.

JPS TOC Comparison TOC Targum TOC Isaiah 2

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Isaiah 1:1
JPS	1:1	The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
TJBU	1:1	THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOZ, WHICH IS PROPHESIED CONCERNING THE MEN OF JUDAH AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AHAZ, AND HEZEKIAH, THE KINGS OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH.

Isaiah 1:2
JPS	1:2	Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For the LORD hath spoken: Children I have reared, and brought up, And they have rebelled against Me.
TJBU	1:2	Hear, heavens, which trembled when I gave my law to my people, and give ear, earth, which was agitated on account of my words, for the Lord has spoken. My people, the house of Israel, whom I called sons, I loved them, I made them glorious; but they have rebelled against my Word.

Isaiah 1:3
JPS	1:3	The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib; But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
TJBU	1:3	The ox knoweth his purchaser, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel has not learned to know my fear, my people doth not consider to return to my law.

Isaiah 1:4
JPS	1:4	Ah sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children that deal corruptly; They have forsaken the LORD, They have contemned the Holy One of Israel, They are turned away backward.
TJBU	1:4	Woe to those who are called a holy people, because they have sinned; a chosen congregation, but they have multiplied sins; they are sur named a beloved seed, but they have done evil; they are called beloved sons, but they have corrupted their paths; they have forsaken the worship of the Lord; they abhorred the fear ot the Holy One of Israel, and because their works are evil they are turned away, and they are turned back.

Isaiah 1:5
JPS	1:5	On what part will ye yet be stricken, Seeing ye stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint;
TJBU	1:5	They do not consider so as to say. Wherefore has He smitten us? They continue in sin; they do not say, Why is all the head sick, and the whole heart faint?

Isaiah 1:6
JPS	1:6	From the sole of the foot even unto the head There is no soundness in it; But wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: They have not been pressed, neither bound up, Neither mollified with oil.
TJBU	1:6	From the lowest of my people even unto the chief of them, there is not one amongst them who is perfect in my fear: all of them are disobedient and rebellious; they are polluted with sins, they are like an ulcerous wound; they have not forsaken their pride, neither long for repentance; they have also no righteousness to protect them.

Isaiah 1:7
JPS	1:7	Your country is desolate; Your cities are burned with fire; Your land, strangers devour it in your presence, And it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.
TJBU	1:7	Your land is desolate, your cities each burnt with fire; in your presence the nations possess it. On account of their sins it is laid desolate: from you it is transferred, and it belongs to aliens.

Isaiah 1:8
JPS	1:8	And the daughter of Zion is left As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city.
TJBU	1:8	The congregation of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard after they have gathered the grapes; as a lodge for passing the night in, in a garden of cucumbers after they have gleaned it; as a city against which they lay siege.

Isaiah 1:9
JPS	1:9	Except the LORD of hosts Had left unto us a very small remnant, We should have been as Sodom, We should have been like unto Gomorrah.
TJBU	1:9	Except the exceeding goodness of the Lord of hosts had caused to remain unto us in His mercy a deliverance, we had sins, on account of which we certainly had perished as the men of Sodom, and as the inhabitants of Gomorrah we would have been consumed.

Isaiah 1:10
JPS	1:10	Hear the word of the LORD, Ye rulers of Sodom; Give ear unto the law of our God, Ye people of Gomorrah.
TJBU	1:10	Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye rulers, whose works are evil, as of the rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, people, whose works are evil like those of the people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 1:11
JPS	1:11	To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? Saith the LORD; I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, And the fat of fed beasts; And I delight not in the blood Of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
TJBU	1:11	I have no pleasure in the multitude of your holy sacrifices, saith the Lord: I am full with the abundance of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts, and the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats; for in such I have no pleasure.

Isaiah 1:12
JPS	1:12	When ye come to appear before Me, Who hath required this at your hand, To trample My courts?
TJBU	1:12	When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, and that ye should come? Tread not my courts;

Isaiah 1:13
JPS	1:13	Bring no more vain oblations; It is an offering of abomination unto Me; New moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.
TJBU	1:13	Bring no more the oblation obtained by oppression; sacrifice is an abomination before me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the assembly ye are congregating, your sins shall not be forgiven, nor shall I hear your prayer at the time of your congregating yourselves together.

Isaiah 1:14
JPS	1:14	Your new moons and your appointed seasons My soul hateth; They are a burden unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
TJBU	1:14	Your new moons and your appointed feasts my Word hates; they are an abomination before me. I have often forgiven you.

Isaiah 1:15
JPS	1:15	And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; Your hands are full of blood.
TJBU	1:15	When your priests are spreading out their hands to pray for you, I shall make to ascend the presence of my Shekinah from you; and when you are multiplying prayer, it is not my pleasure to accept your prayer at your hands, they being full of the blood of the innocent.

Isaiah 1:16
JPS	1:16	Wash you, make you clean, Put away the evil of your doings From before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil;
TJBU	1:16	Retum to the law; make you clean from your sins; put away the evil of your doings from before the presence of my Word; cease to do evil;

Isaiah 1:17
JPS	1:17	Learn to do well; Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
TJBU	1:17	Learn to do well; seek judgment; judge ye justice for him who is suffering violence; do justice to the orphan; hear ye the cry of the widow.

Isaiah 1:18
JPS	1:18	Come now, and let us reason together, Saith the LORD; Though your sins be as scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
TJBU	1:18	Then, when ye return to the law, ye shall pray before me, and I will grant your petition, saith the Lord. Though your sins be stained as with dye, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be pure as wool.

Isaiah 1:19
JPS	1:19	If ye be willing and obedient, Ye shall eat the good of the land;
TJBU	1:19	If ye be willing and obedient to my Word, ye shall eat the good of the land.

Isaiah 1:20
JPS	1:20	But if ye refuse and rebel, Ye shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken.
TJBU	1:20	But if ye refuse, and will not be obedient to my Word, ye shall be slain with the sword of the enemy; for the Word of the Lord has decreed it thus.

Isaiah 1:21
JPS	1:21	How is the faithful city Become a harlot! She that was full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.
TJBU	1:21	How are the works of the faithfiil city become like those of an harlot! she was full of those who did judgment, truth was wrought in her; but now they are murderers!

Isaiah 1:22
JPS	1:22	Thy silver is become dross, Thy wine mixed with water.
TJBU	1:22	Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

Isaiah 1:23
JPS	1:23	Thy princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Every one loveth bribes, And followeth after rewards; They judge not the fatherless, Neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
TJBU	1:23	Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: all of them love gifts. One saith to the other, Show me kindness in my cause, and I will repay thee in thy cause. The fatherless they judge not, and the cry of the widow does not come before them.

Isaiah 1:24
JPS	1:24	Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, And avenge Me of Mine enemies;
TJBU	1:24	Therefore saith the Lord of the world, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, The city of Jerusalem, I will comfort her; but woe to the wicked, when I shall reveal myself, to render just recompense to the enemies of my people, and render vengeance to my enemies.

Isaiah 1:25
JPS	1:25	And I will turn My hand upon thee, And purge away thy dross as with lye, And will take away all thine alloy;
TJBU	1:25	And I will turn the blow of my might upon thee; and I will scour away all the wicked, as he that is scouring with soap, and take away all thy sin.

Isaiah 1:26
JPS	1:26	And I will restore thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as at the beginning; Afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, The faithful city.
TJBU	1:26	And I will appoint in thee judges of truth, upright ones, as at the first, and thy counsellors, as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called the holy city, the faithful city.

Isaiah 1:27
JPS	1:27	Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And they that return of her with righteousness.
TJBU	1:27	As for Zion, when justice shall be practised in her, she shall be redeemed; and those that do the law shall return to her in righteousness.

Isaiah 1:28
JPS	1:28	But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, And they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
TJBU	1:28	The rebels and the sinners shall be broken together; and those that forsake the law of the Lord shall be destroyed.

Isaiah 1:29
JPS	1:29	For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye have desired, And ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
TJBU	1:29	For ye shall be confounded of the oaks of idolatry which ye have desired; and ye shall be ashamed of the gardens of idolatry in which ye were seeking help.

Isaiah 1:30
JPS	1:30	For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, And as a garden that hath no water.
TJBU	1:30	For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a watered garden that hath no water.

Isaiah 1:31
JPS	1:31	And the strong shall be as tow, And his work as a spark; And they shall both burn together, And none shall quench them.
TJBU	1:31	The strength of the wicked shall be as tow of flax, and the work of their hand as a spark of fire, when one approaches to the side of the other, both are burning together: thus the wicked shall be consumed, they and their evil works, and none shall have pity upon them.