Isaias

Septuaginta

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

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.

XVIII. 1 Ah, the wings of the ships of the land, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

2 He that sendeth forth hostages upon the sea, and letters on papyrus above the water. For swift messengers shall go to a nation that is high, and a stranger people and a cruel; (what is beyond it?) a nation not looked for, and trodden down. Now ’ (as for) the rivers of the land