Isaias

Septuaginta

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

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.

4 The exiles shall sojourn <with thee> Moab; for they shall be a shelter to you from the face of a pursuer; for thine alliance is taken away, misery is fulfilled, and the ruler is perished that did trample upon the earth.

5 And a throne shall be established with mercy, and he shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking out judgment, and hasting righteousness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; very proud is he; thou hast up his haughtiness. Not thus is thy prophesying, not thus.

7 Moab shall wail; fOr in the land of Moab shall all wail; thou shalt take care for them that dwell in Deseth, and shalt not regard them.

8 The plains of Heshbon shall mourn, and the vine of Sibmah; swallowing up the nations, tread ye down her vines, unto Jazer; ye shall not reach, nor wander in the wilderness; they that were sent forth were forsaken; for they crossed over the desert.

9 Therefore will I weep as the weeping of Jazer, for the vine ’ of Sibmah; he cast down thy trees, Heshbon, and <Elealeh>; upon thy harvest and thy vintage will I tread, and all shall fall.

[*](2. ‘thou shalt be, daughter of M.,’)[*](3. Or, ‘for her continually.’ ‘be an exile’: or, ‘rule afar’: very (see Pind. Nem. IV. 76). The words appear to be divided so as to mean ‘no(??) from the ’: but B reads ‘be not ’ (away, or captive), which is prob. right. as it is a misunderstanding of the Hebrew. ’)[*](4. ‘A omits ‘with thee.’ Or, ‘The exiles of Moab shall sojourn with omit ‘for’ before ‘they,’ BNQ θc.: omit ‘misery is fulfilled,’ ℵBQ the earth. BQmg.)[*](6. ‘I have raised...’)[*](8 ﬁn. ‘desert,’ ’sea,’ ℵcaB)[*](9. See on xv. 4: ‘for upon thy harvest,’ B. ‘yet upon’ θc.,)

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10 And joy shall be removed, and exultation, from thy vineyards, and in thy vineyards shall they not rejoice; and they shall not tread wine into the vats, for it is ceased.

11 Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp upon Moab, and ’ mine inward-parts like a wall which thou didst newly build.

12 And it shall be, as to thy paying reverence, Moab is grown weary at the altars, she shall also enter in unto the works of hands so as to. pray, and shall not be able to deliver him.

13 This (is) the word that the Lord spake concerning Moab, what time he also spake.

14 And now I say, Within three years, of the years of a hireling, shall the glory of Moab be dishonoured with all (his) much wealth, and shall be left very small and not honourable.