Isaias

Septuaginta

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

8 And the ﬁshers shall mourn, and all they that cast hook into the river shall mourn, and they that cast nets, and the ﬁshermen shall grieve.

9 And shame shall seize on them that work the carded ﬂax, and them that work the linen.

[*](1. A reads ‘their ’ but unsupported : ‘heart,’ B c)[*](2 b. ‘and...shall rise ’ not expressed in B* ‘province’: Gr. word identical with that for ‘law’ (exci accent), hence O. Lat. (Tyconius 43) ‘lex supra legem ’: (used esp. of Egypt, as Hdt. 11. 166, but cf. 1. 192 c.))[*](3. Omit ‘ and the diviners ’ BQ. .)[*](7. B* omits ‘all,’ before ‘ that which is sown...)[*](8. ‘hooks,’ B.)

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10 And they that <weave> them shall be in pain, and that make strong drink shall be. grieved, and shall afflict their souls,

11 And the rulers of Tanis shall be fools; the wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned to foolishness. How will ye say to the king, We are sons of men of understanding, sons of kings which were from the beginning?

12 Where are now thy wise men? let them even proclaim to thee, and let them tell, what the Lord of Hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

13 rulers of Tanis have failed, and the rulers of are uplifted: and they shall make Egypt to wander in her tribes.

14 For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of wandering, and they have made Egypt to wander in all their works, as wandereth the drunken man, and he that vomiteth, together.