If only you would be altogether silent!(A)
    For you, that would be wisdom.(B)

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O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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Oh, that you would be silent,
And (A)it would be your wisdom!

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Look at me and be appalled;
    clap your hand over your mouth.(A)

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Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

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Look at me and be astonished;
(A)Put your hand over your mouth.

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the chief men refrained from speaking(A)
    and covered their mouths with their hands;(B)

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The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

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The princes refrained from talking,
And (A)put their hand on their mouth;

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“I am unworthy(A)—how can I reply to you?
    I put my hand over my mouth.(B)

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Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

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“Behold,(A) I am vile;
What shall I answer You?
(B)I lay my hand over my mouth.

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15 so he will sprinkle(A) many nations,[a]
    and kings(B) will shut their mouths(C) because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
    and what they have not heard, they will understand.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:15 Or so will many nations be amazed at him (see also Septuagint)

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

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15 (A)So shall He [a]sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For (B)what had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:15 Or startle

16 Nations will see and be ashamed,(A)
    deprived of all their power.
They will put their hands over their mouths(B)
    and their ears will become deaf.

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16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

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16 The nations (A)shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
(B)They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.

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