Isaias

Septuaginta

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

3 All of them, like as an inhabited land shall their land be inhabited; like as if a signal were raised from a mountain, like the voice of a trumpet shall it be heard.

4 For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be safety in my city as the light of midday heat, and as a cloud of dew in a day of harvest shall it be.

5 Before the harvest, when the blossom is perfect, and the sour ’ grape hath put forth its blossom; then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning hooks, and shall take away the sprigs and cut them off.

6 And shall leave them together for the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth ; and the fogls of the heaven shall be gathered together unto them, and all the beasts of the earth shall come unto him.

7 At that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of Hosts from a people crushed and torn, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; (it is) a nation hoping, and trodden down, which is in the portion of the river of its land : to the place where is the name of the Lord of Hosts, the mount Zion.

[*](14. ‘and there shall be trouble,’)[*](1. Or. ‘wings of the land of ’: or, ‘Ah, for the land, the wings of ships....’)[*](2 fin. ’who is beyond it? ’ ℵBQ)[*](3. Difficult: the subj. (ἀρθῇ) is not easy to account for: Jerome thus (elevetur). B* reads ‘for a signal’ instead of ‘if,’ which can scarcely translated.)[*](5. ‘shall also the sour grape put...and he shall take ’ ℵBQ)[*](7. ‘a ’ B c)

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XIX. A vision of Egypt.

1 Behold, the Lord sitteth upon a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt, and the works of ’s hands shall be shaken from before him, and their hearts shall be discomfited within them.