Isaias

Septuaginta

Septuaginta. The Book of Isaiah According to the Septuagint (Codex Alexandrinus). Ottley, Richard, Rusden, editor. Cambridge: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1904.

I. 1 The vision which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the reign of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, who ’over Judah.

2 Hear, O heaven, and give ear, earth; for the Lord hath spoken, I have begotten sons and upraised them, but they have set me at nought.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ’s crib: but Israel knoweth me not, and the people understandeth me not.

4 Ah, sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless sons: ye have forsaken the Lord, and angered the Holy One of Israel.

5 Why should ye be yet smitten, (for) transgressing further? every head (turns) to weariness, and every heart to grief.

6 From the feet to the head, neither wound, nor stripe, nor inflamed hurt: there is no means to apply a balm, or oil, or bandages.

7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with ﬁre; your country, strangers devour it before your face, and it has been desolated, ruined by stranger peoples.

8 The daughter of Zion shall be left like a booth in avineyard, and like a watching-hut in a cucumber garden, like a city besieged.

[*](1. Or, ‘against Judah and Jer.’ Matt. v. n, Acts vi. 13 &c)[*](5. ‘transgressing further’: lit. ‘adding’)[*](6. After ‘head’ several cursives supply (from Aquila’s version) ‘there no soundness (completeness, cf. Acts iii. 16) in it.’ In the true Lxx. text, negatives seem to be cumulative, and the construction broken (casus pendens); sense being, ‘neither to wound nor stripe can one c.’)

9 And unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed there, we should have become as Sodom, and we should have been made like as Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; attend ye to the law of God, people of Gomorrah.

11 What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? saith the Lord: I am full of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and of goats I desire not,

12 Not even if ye come to appear before me. For who hath demanded this of your hands? Tread my court

13 Ye shall not, any more; if ye bring me ﬁne ﬂour, it is vain; incense, it is an abomination to me; your new moons, and the sabbaths, and a great day, I cannot bear: fasting and idleness,

14 And your new moons, and your feasts, my soul hateth; ye are become to me a surfeit! no longer will I let your sins be.

15 When ye stretch out your hands toward me, I will turn away mine eyes from you; and if ye multiply your petition, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash you, become clean; take away your wickednesses from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your wickednesses,

17 Learn to do well; seek out judgment, deliver one wronged, judge for the orphan, justify the widow.

18 And ’come, and let us be convicted, saith the Lord; and if your sins be as a scarlet thing, I will make them white as snow; and if they be as crimson, I will make them white as wool.

19 And if ye be willing, and hearken unto me, ye shall eat the good things of the land:

20 But if ye be not willing, neither hearken unto me, a sword ’ shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this.