Isaiah 59:15

Verse Isaiah 59:15. And the Lord saw it - "And JEHOVAH saw it -----"] This third line of the stanza appears manifestly to me to be imperfect by the loss of a phrase. The reader will perhaps more perfectly conceive my idea of the matter if I endeavour to supply the supposed defect, I imagine it might have stood originally in this manner: -

לו ויחר יהוה וירא

lo veyachar Yehovah vaiyar

משפט אין כי בעיניו וירע

mishpat ein ki beeyinaiv veyera

"And JEHOVAH saw it, and he was wroth;

And it displeased him, that there was no judgment."

We have had already many examples of mistakes of omission; this, if it be such, is very ancient, being prior to all the versions. - L.