Isaias

Septuaginta

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

XXI. 1 The vision of the desert.

As a tempest passeth through the desert, coming from a desert, from the land. Fearful

2 Is the vision, and hard, that was proclaimed to me. He that setteth at nought doth set at nought, and he that transgresseth doth transgress.

The Elamites are upon me, and the envoys of the Persians are coming against me. Now will I mourn, and will comfort myself.

3 Therefore are my loins ﬁlled with faintness, and pangs have taken hold of me, as her that travaileth- ; I did wrong, so as not to hear, I laboured earnestly so ’ not to see.

4 My heart wandereth, and my transgression overwhelmeth me; my soul turneth to fear.

5 Prepare the table, eat, drink ; stand up, ye rulers, and prepare shields.

[*](3. ‘Like as...barefoot three years, three years shall it be for a sign, c.’)[*](4. ‘naked and ‘barefooted together, covered as to (or, with?) the shame of Egypt.’ B (scarcely)[*](5. ‘they shall ’ B (om. ‘the Egyptians’))[*](6. ‘shall say in that day,’)[*](3. More definitely ‘that I might not see,’)

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6 For thus saith the Lord to me, Go, set thee a watchman, and whatsoever thou seest, tell it.