Isaias

Septuaginta

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

7 All the earth shouteth with joy,

8 And the trees of Lebanon rejoice over thee, and the cedar of Lebanon, (saying,) Since thou hast lain down to sleep, there hath not come up one that felleth us.

9 Hell from beneath is embittered on meeting thee; there were roused up together for thee all the giants that did rule the earth, that roused from their thrones all kings of the nations;

10 All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also art taken, as we also were; and art reckoned among us.

11 But down to hell hath thy glory come, thy plentiful joy; under thee shall they spread decay, and a worm is thy covering.

[*](2. ‘upon the land‘ (om. ‘of God’) or, ‘earth,’ B.)[*](3. ‘God’: ‘the Lord,’ B: so ver. 5: B omits ‘and’ after ‘indignation’: perh. ‘indignation at thy hard bondage.’)[*](4. Omit ‘in that day,’ B.)[*](6. ‘that cannot be healed,’ as in xiii. 9 (diff. word in Heb.), i.e. inexorable.)[*](9. ‘Hell’: Gr. ‘Hades’: Heb. ‘Sheol,’ throughout Isai. 11 init. Omit ‘But,’ BQ.)

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12 How is Lucifer, that riseth early, fallen out of heaven! he is crushed into the earth, that sent forth unto all the nations.

13 But thou saidst in thy heart, Up to heaven ‘will I go, above the stars of heaven will I set my throne; I will sit on a high mountain, above the high’hills toward the north,