Isaiah 6:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

But yet in it shall be. tenth, &c.. Still, there is in it (the land). tenth part; and it (the tenth part) shall again be swept away; yet, as with terebinth and oak, whose life remains in them when felled, the holy seed will be the life thereof. This is no "interpolation"; it is necessary to complete the Structure.

shall be. Supply [there is].

teil tree. terebinth.

substance. root-stock.

is in them: or will be in them.. special rending called Sevir (App-34) reads "in it": i.e. in the land.

cast their leaves. are felled. The Ellipsis, here, is wrongly supplied.

Isaiah 6:13

13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.