Isaias

Septuaginta

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

11 Ι said, I shall no more see the salvation of God in the land, I shall no more see man.

12 From among my kindred; I have left behind the residue of my-life; it is gone forth and departed from me, like him that looseth. his tent which he hath pitched; my spirit in me became as a web, when she that weaveth draweth near to cut it off.

[*](5. Omit ‘the voice ’ B.)[*](6.- ‘deliver thee and this city out ’ B.)[*](7 ﬁn. Or. ‘do this ’ representing Heb. in which ‘word’ and ‘thing’ are sometimes not distinguished.)[*](9. Ornit ‘ ’ ℵBQ.)[*](10. After ‘days’ ℵca with some other authorities insert ‘I shall ’ or ‘walk.’)[*](11. 'In the land of the living; I shall no more see the salvation of upon earth, I shall no more see man; (12) he is failed from among my kindred.B')

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13 In that day was I given over until morning, as to a lion ; so hath he crushed all my bones; for from the day until night was I given over.

14 As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a clove, so will I rehearse it; for mine eyes have failed from looking up to the height of heaven to the Lord, who rescued me, and took away the anguish of my soul.

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16 Ο Lord; yea, it was told thee concerning it, and thou didst rouse up my breath, and I was comforted, and came to life.

17 For thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, and hast cast away all my sins behind me.

18 For they that are in hell shall not praise thee, nor shall the dead bless thee, nor they in hell hope_for thy mercy.

19 The living shall bless thee, as I also do ; for from today will I beget children which shall declare thy righteousness,

20 O Lord of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee upon the psaltery, all the days of my life, in front of the house of God.

21 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Take a cake of ﬁgs, and bruise it, and apply it as a plaister, and thou shalt be whole.

22 And Hezekiah said, This is the sign, that I shall go up into the house of the Lord God.

XXXIX. 1 At that time Merodach, the son of Baladan, king of Babylonia, sent a letter and envoys and presents to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had fallen sick unto death, and had arisen again.

[*](13. ‘he hath crushed’ (omit ‘so’), B.)[*](14. ‘so do I rehearse it’ (corrector? of) B.)[*](20 init. ‘O God of,’ B.)[*](22. ‘This (is) a sign to Hezekiah that...’ B. Omit ‘the Lord,’ B.)[*](1. ‘Merodach-Baladan,’ B. (A &c. spell ‘ Laadan’ in next clause.) Om. ‘to Hezekiah.’ B.)

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2 And Hezekiah rejoiced with great joy over them, and showed them the house of the treasury, and of the balsam, and the incense, and the myrrh, and the silver, and the gold, and all the houses of the vessels of the treasure, and all that was among his treasures; and there was nothing which Hezekiah showed them not in his house.

3 And Isaiah the prOphet came to the king Hezekiah, and said to him, What say these men, and from whence are they come to thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a land (from) afar unto me, from Babylon.

4 And Isaiah said, What saw they in thine house? An ’Hezekiah said, They saw all that is in my house, and there is nothing in my house which they saw not, but (they saw) even that which is among my treasures:

5 And Isaiah said unto him, Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts;

6 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and they shall take all that is in thine house, and all that thy fathers gathered together unto this day shall come to Babylon, and they shall leave nothing behind; and God said,

7 They shall take also of thy children, which thou shalt beget, and shall make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians.

8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is Lord's word which he hath spoken: let there be now peace and righteousness in my days.