Discovery BoxIsaiah 35:8 
Context35:8 A thoroughfare will be there –
it will be called the Way of Holiness. 1
The unclean will not travel on it;
it is reserved for those authorized to use it 2 –
fools 3 will not stray into it.
Isaiah 52:1
Context52:1 Wake up! Wake up!
Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful clothes,
O Jerusalem, 4 holy city!
For uncircumcised and unclean pagans
will no longer invade you.
Isaiah 64:6
Context64:6 We are all like one who is unclean,
all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. 5
We all wither like a leaf;
our sins carry us away like the wind.
1 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and there will be there a road and a way, and the Way of Holiness it will be called.” וְדֶרֶךְ (vÿderekh, “and a/the way”) is accidentally duplicated; the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa does not reflect the repetition of the phrase.
2 tn The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. The text reads literally “and it is for them, the one who walks [on the] way.” In this context those authorized to use the Way of Holiness would be morally upright people who are the recipients of God’s deliverance, in contrast to the morally impure and foolish who are excluded from the new covenant community.
3 tn In this context “fools” are those who are morally corrupt, not those with limited intellectual capacity.
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn Heb “and like a garment of menstruation [are] all our righteous acts”; KJV, NIV “filthy rags”; ASV “a polluted garment.”
