Isaias

Septuaginta

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

4 Α voice of many nations upon the mountains, like (the voice) of many nations; a voice of kings and of nations gathered together. The Lord of Hosts hath commanded an armed nation

5 To come from aland afar off, from the uttermost foundation of heaven, the Lord and his armed men, to destroy the whole world.

6 Wail ye: ’the day of the Lord is near; and a destruction shall come from God.

7 Therefore shall every hand he slackened, and every heart of man shall be faint:

8 And the old men shall be confounded, and pangs as of a travailing woman shall have hold of them; and they shall lament one with another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their face as doth a ﬂame.

9 For behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and there is no healing of its wrath and anger, to make the earth desolate, and to, destroy the sinners out of it.

10 For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the order of ’ heaven shall not give their light; and it shall grow dark when the sun ariseth, and the mobn shall not give her light.

11 And I will command evils upon the whole world, even their own sins upon the wicked: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will humble the pride of the arrogant;

12 And they that are left shall be more precious than new gold; and the man shall be more precious than the stone from Ophir.

[*](3.. B omits ‘they are ﬁed’: some MSS. read ‘and I lead them‘ instead of ‘even I’: CL. (Tyconius 50) reads ‘I marshal them: they sanctified, and Icall them’: so Lucianic MSS. with 62. 147 except ‘lead’ for ‘call.’ ‘to fulfil‘: ’to stop,’ 106 and (in diff. order) Lucian. MSS.)[*](6. ‘a day,’ B: so ver. 9.)[*](8 init. ‘And,’ B.)[*](12. ‘a man,’ B. Lit. ‘unﬁred gold’: ‘in Ophir’ generally) B.)

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13 For the heaven shall be wroth, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundations, because of the wrath of the anger of the Lord of Hosts, in the day when his wrath cometh upon it.

14 And they that are left shall be as a roe that ﬂeeth, and as a sheep that wandereth, and there shall be none that gathereth them together, for each to return to his people; and each to haste into his own land.

15 For whosoever is taken shall be overcome, and whosoever are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

16 And they Shall dash their children down before their face, and plunder their houses, and take possession of their wives.

17 Behold, I rouse up against you the Medes, who reckon not silver, neither have they any need of gold.

18 They shall shatter the bows of the young men; and they shall not have pity on your children, nor shall their eyes spare your children.

19 And Babylon, which is called honourable by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be, like as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 It shall not be inhabited for ever, nor shall they enter ’ it throughout many generations, nor shall the Arabians pass through it, nor shall shepherds rest therein.

21 And wild beasts shall rest there, and houses shall be ﬁlled with noise: and owls shall rest there, and demons shall dance there.

22 And apes shall dwell there, and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. Quickly it comes, and will not linger.

XIV. 1 And the Lord shall have pity on Jacob, and will yet choose out Israel, and they shall rest upon their own land; and the stranger shall be added unto them, and shall be added unto the house of Jacob.