Scrolls from Qumran Cave I

Fragmentary right column (Column XII of the scroll, ending with Isaiah 15:2)

1 [do not rejoice]? O Philistia
2 [and]? in the poor [ ]?
3 [c]?ries and destructions
4
5
6 [the poor of His people will take refuge in the Lord]?
7 [f]?or in the night it is laid waste
8 [a]?nd Dibon, the high places
9 [---]? Elealeh [h]?
10 [---]? the armed men of
11 [---]? a cry
12 [---]? of Nimrim [s]?
13 [---]? it was
14 [---]? the border
15 [---]? of Moab
16 [---]? poor
17 [---]? stronghold
18 [---]? the land
19 [---]? truth
20 [---]? fields of
21 [---]? harvest
22 [---]? His sanctuary
23 [---]? in the dry land

Main central column (Column XIII of the scroll, Isaiah 14:29–16.14)

1 [Do not rejo]?ice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a viper, and its fruit shall be a flying
2 serpent. And the firstborn of the poor shall graze, and the needy shall lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine,
3 your remnant I will slay. Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! The whole of Philistia is melted;
4 for from the north comes smoke, and there is no straggler in his ranks. And what will one answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord
5 has founded Zion, and in her the poor of His people will take refuge?.
6 The burden of Moab. For in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and destroyed; for in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and destroyed.
7 He has gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba
8 Moab shall wail; on every head there is baldness, and every beard is shorn. In their streets they shall gird
9 sackcloth; on their housetops and in their streets everyone shall wail and descend in weeping. And Heshbon shall cry out,
10 and Elealeh, even to Jahaz; their voice is heard. Therefore the armed men of Moab shall cry out; his soul
11 shall tremble within him. My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years old;
12 for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they shall go up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise a cry of destruction.
13 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered, the herbage fails, the green thing
14 is no more. Therefore the abundance they have gained and their store, they shall carry away to the brook of the Willows; for
15 the cry has gone around the border of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
16 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood; for I will lay more upon Dimon, a lion for those who escape of
17 Moab, and for the remnant of the land. Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela, to the wilderness
18 to the mount of the daughter of Zion. And it shall be like a wandering bird, like a scattered nest; the daughters of
19 Moab shall be at the fords of the Arnon. Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night in the midst of the noonday;
20 hide the outcasts; do not betray the fugitive. Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with you; be a shelter
21 to them from the face of the destroyer; for the extortioner has ceased, the destruction is ended, the oppressors are consumed from the land. And a throne shall be established
22 in mercy, and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice
23 and swift to do righteousness. We have heard the pride of Moab, he is very proud; his pride and his arrogance
24 and his wrath; his boasts are not so. Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab; everyone shall wail.
25 For the foundations of Kir-hareseth you shall mourn, only for the crushed ones. For the fields of Heshbon are withered; the vine
26 of Sibmah, the lords of the nations have struck down its branches; they reached even to Jazer, they wandered in the wilderness;
27 its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench
28 with my tears Heshbon and Elealeh; for upon your summer fruit and upon your harvest the battle shout has fallen. And there is gathered
29 joy and gladness from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, nor shall there be shouting; in the winepresses
30 the treader shall tread out no wine; I have made the shouting to cease. Therefore my inward parts shall resound like a harp for Moab,
31 and my heart for Kir-heres. And it shall be, when it is seen that Moab is weary upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray, but he shall not be able.
32 This is the word which the Lord spoke concerning Moab from of old. And now the Lord speaks,

Fragmentary left column (Column XIV of the scroll, Isaiah 16:14–17:14)

1 saying?, in three [years]?
2 [and]? the remnant is small [and not great]?
3 The burden of Damascus.
4 deserted? Aroer [---]?
5 and the fortress shall cease from Eph[raim]?
6 the children of? Israel, and it shall be
7 And it shall be in that day
8 as when one gathers the harvest of corn
9 in the valley of Rephaim and [is left in it]?
10 on the topmost bough or [four]?
11 Israel
12 [the Holy One of I]?srael
13 [and what his fingers have made]?
14 In that day there shall be?
15 the forsaken forests and [the bough]?
16 from before the children of [---]?
17 [---]?
18 because you have forgotten the God of y[our salvation]?
19 and the Rock of your refuge [you have not remembered]?
20 therefore you shall plant pleasant plants [---]?
21 and with a foreign vine you shall sow [them]?
22 in the day you plant you shall [make them grow]?
23 and in the morning your seed you shall [make flourish]?
24 harvest of a heap in the day of [inheritance]?
25 and desperate sorrow. Woe, the multitude of?
26 many peoples like the [roaring of the seas]?
27 they shall roar, and the rushing of [waters]?
28 like the rushing of mighty [waters they shall roar]?
29 nations like the rushing of many [waters]?
30 and He shall rebuke him and he shall flee from [afar]?
31 and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains [before the wind]?
32 and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind?
33 at evening time and behold terror?