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August 4, 2011

A Bad Omen, Giving Birth To Wind

Take a look at this from Šumma Izbu tablet I, omen 50.

     If a women becomes pregnant with wind (IM, šaru), and gives birth to wind – there will be bad times and the mother will bar her door against her daughter; there will be no brotherhood; that land will disappear; the harvest of land will not prosper.

There are actually a couple of omens in Šumma Izbu that mention a women giving birth to wind (SAL IM Ù.TU, amīltu šara ulid).

Now look at this from Isaiah 26:18,

     We were with child, we writhed –
     It is as though we had given birth to wind (יָלַדְנוּ רוּח);
     We have won no victory on earth;
     The inhabitants of the world have not come to life?
           ( JPS)

It’s hard not to see a reflex of the Šumma Izbu omen in Isaiah 26:18.

I now need to see if anyone else has noticed this. I also need to take a closer look at the last clause of Isaiah 26:18 (וּבַל-יִפְּלוּ יֹשְׁבֵי תֵבֵל).

Posted by Duane Smith at August 4, 2011 3:15 PM | Read more on Hebrew Bible |

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