Isaias

Septuaginta

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

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.

7 And I saw two mounted horsemen, one mounted on an ass, and one mounted on a camel. Hear with diligent hearing,

8 And call Uriah to the watch tower of the Lord. And he said, I have stood continually by day, and over the camp I stood the whole night,

9 And behold, he himself cometh, mounted on a two-horse chariot. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen: and all her images and the works of her hands are crushed into the earth.