Isaias

Septuaginta

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

XVIII. 1 Ah, the wings of the ships of the land, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

2 He that sendeth forth hostages upon the sea, and letters on papyrus above the water. For swift messengers shall go to a nation that is high, and a stranger people and a cruel; (what is beyond it?) a nation not looked for, and trodden down. Now ’ (as for) the rivers of the land

3 All of them, like as an inhabited land shall their land be inhabited; like as if a signal were raised from a mountain, like the voice of a trumpet shall it be heard.

4 For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be safety in my city as the light of midday heat, and as a cloud of dew in a day of harvest shall it be.

5 Before the harvest, when the blossom is perfect, and the sour ’ grape hath put forth its blossom; then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning hooks, and shall take away the sprigs and cut them off.

6 And shall leave them together for the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth ; and the fogls of the heaven shall be gathered together unto them, and all the beasts of the earth shall come unto him.

7 At that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of Hosts from a people crushed and torn, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; (it is) a nation hoping, and trodden down, which is in the portion of the river of its land : to the place where is the name of the Lord of Hosts, the mount Zion.

[*](14. ‘and there shall be trouble,’)[*](1. Or. ‘wings of the land of ’: or, ‘Ah, for the land, the wings of ships....’)[*](2 fin. ’who is beyond it? ’ ℵBQ)[*](3. Difficult: the subj. (ἀρθῇ) is not easy to account for: Jerome thus (elevetur). B* reads ‘for a signal’ instead of ‘if,’ which can scarcely translated.)[*](5. ‘shall also the sour grape put...and he shall take ’ ℵBQ)[*](7. ‘a ’ B c)

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XIX. A vision of Egypt.

1 Behold, the Lord sitteth upon a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt, and the works of ’s hands shall be shaken from before him, and their hearts shall be discomfited within them.

2 And Egyptians shall rise up against Egyptians, and shall war each against his brother and each against his neighbour, and city shall rise up against city, and province against province.

3 And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be confounded within them, and I will scatter their counsel, and they shall inquire of their gods and their images, and of them that speak from the earth, and of the ventriloquists, and the diviners.

4 And I will give Egypt over into the hands of men, harsh lords; and harsh kings shall lord it over them. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts.

5 And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is. beside the sea, and the river shall fail, and be dried up.

6 And the rivers and the trenches of the river shall fail, and every gathering together of water shall be dried up, and (the water) in every marsh of reed and rush,

7 And the green meadow-grass, all that is round about the river, and all that which is sown about the river, shall be dried up, blasted by the wind.