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THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT 323 שלום "לםרבה המשרה ולשלום אין קץ על כסא דוד ועל ממלכתו להכין אתה ולסעדה במשפט ובצדקה מעתה ועד עולם קנאת יהוה צבאות תעשה זאת State the changes that have been proposed in the text and punctuation of some of these verses and the reasons for re- ceiving and rejecting them Notice unusual punctuations account for them and give similar instances State the modern Jewish translation of v'erse 10 and show that it is contrary to the accents and the Hebrew idiom Interpret the whole passage in its connexion with the preceding and following context Translate into Hebrew with the points Therefore shall the Lord the Lord of hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle burning like the burning of fire And the light of Israel shall be for fire and his Holy One for flame and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day and shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field both soul and body and they shall be as when standard-bearer fainteth And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few that child may write them And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him that smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel in truth The remnant shall return even the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea yet remnant of then shall return the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness For the Lord God of hosts shall make consumption even determined in the midst of all the land Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts Ο my people that dwellest in Zion be not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with rod and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of Egypt