Isaias

Septuaginta

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

XVII. 1 The word against Damascus.

Behold, Damascus shall be removed from (among) cities, and shall become a ruin,

2 Deserted for ever, for a place for flocks to lie down and herds to rest, and there shall be none that chaseth them.

3 And no longer shall it be strong, for Ephraim to take refuge; and no longer there be a kingdom in Damascus, and the remnant of the Syrians: for thou art not better than the sons of Israel, and their glory.

4 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, There shall be in that day a failing of the glory of Jacob, and the fat things of his glory shall be shaken.

[*](10 ‘from the vineyards,’)[*](11. ‘as a wall thou didst newly ’ B (om. ‘which’).)[*](12. ’s reading, ὡς τὸ ἐντραπῆναι, very doubtful: perhaps ὥστε (71. ‘so that thou pay,’ θc. Β, c. read ctr τὸ, and insert ὅτι before Moab is grown weary,’ θc. εἰς τὸ ἐντραφῆναι to be construed either ὡς τὸ ἐντ. or possibly ‘it shall tend to thy paying reverence.’ The sentence scarcely intelligible.)[*](13. ‘a word.’ B: omit ‘also.’)[*](2. ℵ*BQ omit ‘herds.)[*](3. ‘shall there be ’ not expressed in B.)[*](4. ‘the ’fat things’ altered, by the insertion of a letter, in A to ‘the greater part,’ which is read by ℵQ* (corrected by Qa).)
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5 And it shall be like as if one gather a standing harvest, and reap the seed of ears of corn with his arm; and it shall be like as if one gather an ear of corn in a barren valley,

6 And there be left in it a stalk, or as it were olive berries, two or three on high in the air, or four or five upon the branches thereof. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.

7 In that day shall a man trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall look unto the Holy One of Israel.

8 And they shall not trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look upon their groves, nor their abominations.

9 In that day shall thy cities be abandoned, like as the Amorites and the Hivites abandoned them from before the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.

10 Because thou didst abandon God thy Saviour, and τε· memberedst not the Lord thy helper. Therefore shalt thou plant an unfaithful plant, and an unfaithful seed.

11 But in the day when thou plantest it, thou shalt wander; and in the morning if thou sowest, it shall blossom to harvest, in whatsoever day thou shalt obtain it; and like a ’s father, thou shalt obtain it for (thy) sons.

12 Woe, the multitude of many nations: as a billowy sea, so shall ye be confounded, and the surface of many nations shall sound as water

13 As much water are many nations, as when much water is violently borne along; and he shall cast him off, and pursue him afar, as the dust Of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and like a whirlwind carrying along a circling dust cloud. I

[*](5. Omit ‘with his arm,’ BQ.)[*](6 fin. ‘thereof’: pronoun masc. (or neut.) sing. AQ*: plur. ℵBQmg.)[*](7. ‘the man.’)[*](8. ‘trees.’ B.)[*](11. ‘thou shalt obtain’: apparently from taking Heb. word as verb meaning ‘possess.’ ‘apportion,’ θc. ‘thy’ not expressed in Α, which ‘plantest’ for ‘sowest.’)[*](13. ‘dust.’ Rather, ‘down,’ ‘flying ’ as NBQ (an additional letter): ‘circling,’ lit. ‘of a whee.’)
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14 Toward evening there shall be trouble: before morning, and he shall not be; this is the portion of them that plundered you, and the share for them that shared you.