Isaiah 64


Isaiah 64 is the sixty-fourth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 56-66 are often referred to as Trito-Isaiah. This chapter contains "a prayer for help" in a format which T. K. Cheyne describes as "a liturgical psalm".

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 12 verses. In Hebrew texts, Isaiah 64:1 is numbered as 63:19b, and verses 2-12 are numbered as verses 1-11.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis.
Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls :
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Isaiah 64 is a part of the Consolations . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Verse 8

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