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A photograph of a section of the Dead Sea Scrolls, specifically the Great Isaiah Scroll. The manuscript is written on tanned parchment/leather with visible vertical and horizontal ruling lines (dry point). The central column is mostly preserved, while portions of the columns to the left and right are visible at the torn edges. The bottom of the sheet is severely damaged with significant loss of parchment.
[In]stead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle a rope, and instead of the adornment of the temple captivity?.
For instead of beauty, your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty ones in battle. And
her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate; she shall sit upon the ground. And seven women shall take hold
of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel;
only let your name be called upon us; take away our reproach." In that day the branch of the LORD shall be
for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the land for pride and honor for the survivors of Israel. And it shall come to pass that
the one who is left in Zion and the one who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy—everyone who is written
for life in Jerusalem—when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and the blood of
Jerusalem shall call? from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. And the LORD will create over
every dwelling place of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire
by night, for over all the glory there shall be a canopy, and a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter
from the storm and from rain.
Let me sing now for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill;
and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress
therein; and he looked for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I
have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes? And now, I will tell
you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall,
and it shall be trodden down. And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor digged, but there shall come up briers and thorns; and I will
also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold
a cry.
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone
in the midst of the earth! In the ears of the LORD of Hosts, surely many houses shall be desolate,
even great and fair, without inhabitant. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, until wine inflames them! And the
harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider
the operation of His hands. Therefore my people are gone into exile for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude
is dried up with thirst. Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure, and there shall descend