Isaias

Septuaginta

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

LI. 1 Hearken to me, ye that pursue that is righteous, and seek the Lord: look unto the solid rock which ye did hew, and unto the hole of the pit which ye digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for he was one, and I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

3 And thee will I now comfort, Zion, and I did comfort all her waste places; <and I will make her waste places> as and the western regions like a garden of the Lord; joy and exultation shall they ﬁnd therein, confession and the voice of praise.

4 Hearken to me, hearken, my people; and ye kings, give ear unto me ; for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment for a light of the nations.

5 My righteousness draweth quickly near; and my salvation also shall go forth, and in my arm shall the nations hope; the isles shall wait for me, and in my arm shall they hope.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heaven, and look upon the earth beneath 3 for the heaven is massed as smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a cloke, and they that dwell on the earth shall die like as those (things); but my salvation, shall be for everlasting, and my righteousness shall not fail.

7 Hearken unto me, ye that know judgment, my people who have the law in your hearts; fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their despising.

[*](2. Omit ‘and multiplied him,’)[*](3. Α omits (apparently homoeoteleuton) . . . ‘and I will make her waste places...’)[*](5. Orig. hand of A reads ‘thy righteousness.’ ‘and my salvation also go forth as (for) a light,’)[*](6. Omit ‘on the earth,’ B ‘the)[*](7. ‘a people who...,’)

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8 For as a cloke shall it be eaten up by time, and as wool shall it be eaten up by a moth; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for generations of generations.

9 Awake, awake, Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the beginning of a day, as a generation of eternity. Art not thou

10 She that maketh desolate the sea, the water, the abundance of the deep? that made the depths of the sea a passage way for the delivered,

11 and them that were redeemed? For by the Lord's doing shall they return, and come to Zion with joy, and everlasting exultation; for upon their head is exultation and praise, and joy shall take hold of them; grief is fallen away, and pain, and sighings.