Isaias

Septuaginta

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

21 Make ready thy children to be slaughtered for the sins of: thy father} that they may not rise up, and inherit the earth, and . ﬁll the earth with wars.

22 And I will rise against them, saith the Lord of Hosts, and Α will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.

23 And I will make Babylon desolate, for hedgehogs to dwell ’ there; and it shall come to nought; and I will make it a <pit> of mire, unto destruction.

[*](12. ‘that sent forth’: apparently ABBREVread as ABBREVCf. xviii. 2.)[*](17. A omits ’ and his cities...destroyed.’)[*](21. ‘their father,’ B. ‘wars’: V and a few cursives read ’ cities’: so Aq. Th. Symm.’ ‘cities’ in Greek omits one letter of ‘wars,’ and ‘enemies’ inserts one more.)[*](23. Α actually reads ‘foundation’ βάθρον (so 109, 305): prob. clerical· error, omitting syllable of βάραθρον, or else for βόθρον (Ezek. xxxii. 18).)

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24 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: As I have spoken, so shall it be, and as I have counselled, so shall it abide,

25 To destroy the Assyrians from my land, and from my mountains; and they shall be trodden down, and their yoke shall be stripped from off them, and their renown shall be stripped from off their shoulders.

26 This is the counsel which the Lord hath counselled against the whole world, and this (is) his hand, which is upraised against all the nations of the world.

27 For what God, the Holy, has counselled, who shall scatter? and his hand, that is upraised, who shall turn away?

28 In the year that the king Ahaz died came this word.

29 May ye not rejoice, all ye strangers, for that the yoke of him that smote you is broken; for from ’ seed shall come forth the offspring of asps, and their offspring shall come forth, ﬂying serpents.

30 And through him shall beggars feed, and beggar men shall rest in peace; but he shall destroy thy seed with famine, and thy, remnant shall he destroy.

31 Wail, ye gates of cities; let cities that are confounded cry out, all ye strangers: for from the north a smoke cometh, and there is no means to continue.

32 And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and through him shall the humble among the people be saved.

XV. 1 The Vision against the land of Moab.

By night shall the land of Moab perish, for by night shall the wall of the land of Moab perish.

[*](25. ‘upon my land. and upon my mountains,’ B: ‘trodden down.’ lit. a ’ cf. ch. v. 5.)[*](26. Omit ‘of the world.’)[*](29. ‘a serpent's,’)[*](31. ‘to continue’: lit. ‘to be’: a letter possibly missing. mostly, ‘to to remain in his ranks’)[*](32. Or, ‘For the Lord hath’... (same ambiguity in Heb., but agree in rendering ‘that...’).)[*](1. ‘Vision’: so A: ‘word,’ B, and c.)

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2 Grieve ye for yourselves; for Dibon also shall perish, where your altar is; there shall ye go up to weep, upon Nebo of the land of Moab. Wail: (let there be) baldness on every head, all arms cut in pieces.

3 In her highways gird yourselves with sackcloth, and smite yourselves on her housetops and in her highways and in her streets; wail, ’of-you, with weeping.

4 For Heshbon hath cried aloud, and <Elealeh>; until voice was heard; therefore the loins of the land of Moab cry out, her heart shall learn.

5 The heart of the land of Moab crieth aloud within her unto Zoar; for she is (as) a heifer of three years old; and on the ascent of Luhith shall they go up weeping unto thee, by the way of Horonaim; destruction crieth out, and an earthquake;

6 The water of Nimrim shall be desolate and the grass thereof shall fail; for there shall be no green grass.

7 Is she like to be saved, even thus? for I will bring (the) Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

8 For the cry hath reached the mountain of the land of Moab, Of Eglairn, and her wailing unto the well of Elim.