Isaias

Septuaginta

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

XV. 1 The Vision against the land of Moab.

By night shall the land of Moab perish, for by night shall the wall of the land of Moab perish.

[*](25. ‘upon my land. and upon my mountains,’ B: ‘trodden down.’ lit. a ’ cf. ch. v. 5.)[*](26. Omit ‘of the world.’)[*](29. ‘a serpent's,’)[*](31. ‘to continue’: lit. ‘to be’: a letter possibly missing. mostly, ‘to to remain in his ranks’)[*](32. Or, ‘For the Lord hath’... (same ambiguity in Heb., but agree in rendering ‘that...’).)[*](1. ‘Vision’: so A: ‘word,’ B, and c.)
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2 Grieve ye for yourselves; for Dibon also shall perish, where your altar is; there shall ye go up to weep, upon Nebo of the land of Moab. Wail: (let there be) baldness on every head, all arms cut in pieces.

3 In her highways gird yourselves with sackcloth, and smite yourselves on her housetops and in her highways and in her streets; wail, ’of-you, with weeping.

4 For Heshbon hath cried aloud, and <Elealeh>; until voice was heard; therefore the loins of the land of Moab cry out, her heart shall learn.

5 The heart of the land of Moab crieth aloud within her unto Zoar; for she is (as) a heifer of three years old; and on the ascent of Luhith shall they go up weeping unto thee, by the way of Horonaim; destruction crieth out, and an earthquake;

6 The water of Nimrim shall be desolate and the grass thereof shall fail; for there shall be no green grass.

7 Is she like to be saved, even thus? for I will bring (the) Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

8 For the cry hath reached the mountain of the land of Moab, Of Eglairn, and her wailing unto the well of Elim.

9 But the waters of Dimon shall be filled with blood; for I ’will bring (the) Arabians upon Dimon, and I will remove the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adamah.

XVI. 1 I will send as it were creeping things upon the earth: is the mount of Zion a desolate rock?

[*](3. Omit ‘and in her highways’)[*](4. ‘Elealeh’: AQ 26 106 233 301 and a few others read a somewhat similar Greek word meaning ‘hath’ ’: so also in xvi. 9 ἐλάλησεν for Ἐλεαλή). Β has been altered to this, and R combines both readings. ‘until... heard’ so ℵcaAQ: ‘their voice was heard unto ’ B (8); reading ABBREVfor ABBREVof Heb. word.)[*](6. ‘shall be a desolation.’ B; omit ℵ*)[*](8. ‘border of the land of M.’ ℵBQ θc. (rightly: similarity)[*](1. Curious discrepancy; due to diff. division of words by LXX. (Heb. letters identical, or nearly so); ‘mount of the daughter of ’ NB.)
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2 For thou shalt be as a nestling taken away, when a bird flieth up, daughter of Moab: against thee, Amon, yet further

3 Take counsel, and make a shelter from trouble for thyself continually; in midday darkness they flee, they are amazed; (see) lest thou be an exile.