Isaias

Septuaginta

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

21 And the garments edged with purple, and shaded with purple,

22 And the hangings about the house, and the Laconian gauzes,

[*](12. ‘glean’: same root letters as ‘children.’ ‘tax gatherers,’ a misreading of Heb. letters. ‘call happy’: same root letters in Heb. ‘lead’: perhaps same word. Cf. ix. 16.)[*](14. i.e. ‘and why is the spoil...?’)[*](17. ‘principal,’ lit. ‘ruling.’ ‘discover,’ rather ‘uncover,’ in ℵB.)[*](18. Omit ‘and their adornments, and’ B.)[*](20. Α reads ‘understanding’ (omitting a letter inadvertently) for ‘ordering.’ ℵ*B read ‘finger rings and the bangles.’)[*](22. ‘hangings,’ or ‘tapestries.’)
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23 And the (garments) of fine linen, and of blue, and scarlet, and the fine linen embroidered with gold and with blue, and the reclining veils.

24 And there shall be, instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle thou shalt gird thyself with a rope, and instead of the golden adornment of the head thou shalt have baldness because of thy works, and instead of the purple shaded robe thou shalt gird thyself about with sackcloth.

25 And thy son. the fairest, whom thou lovest, shall fall by the sword, and your strong men shall fall by the sword, and shall be humbled:

26 And the coffers of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be trodden into the earth.

IV. 1 And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing; only let thy name be called upon us; take away our reproach.

2 But in that day shall God shine in counsel with glory upon the earth, to uplift and to glorify that which is left of Israel.

3 And it shall be, that which is left behind in Zion, and left in Jerusalem, they shall be called holy, all they who were written unto life in Jerusalem.

4 For the Lord shall cleanse the filth of the sons and of the daughters of Zion, and shall purge the blood from the midst of them, by the spirit of judgment <and the spirit of birning>

5 And he shall come, and it shall be, every place of the mount Zion, and all that is round about her; a cloud shall shadow it by day, and like as when smoke and as a light of fire burneth by night; it shall be sheltered by all the glory (of the Lord),

[*](23 fin. uncertain. Perhaps rather ‘shawls’ than veils: κατάκλιτα should probably be κατάκλειστα, with ℵcaΓ i.e. ‘close-wrapping.’ Vulgate as Heb. has no epithet.)[*](24.. A reads ἰδίας, ‘own’ (making no sense), for ἡδείας, ‘sweet.’)[*](26. Or, ‘levelled with the ’ ‘ornaments’: or ‘adornment.’ as above.)[*](3. ‘written,’ or, ‘enrolled.’ Cf. Dan. xii. r; Rev. and. 27.)[*](4 fin. Α omits ‘and the spirit of burning.’)[*](5 fin. ‘and it shall be,’ B. Omit ‘of the Lord’ after ‘glory,’ ℵBC &c.: perhaps an alteration in A, which omits some letters of the verb following.)
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6 And it shall be for a shadow from heat, and as a covering and a hiding place from stress and from rain storm.

V. 1 Now will I sing for my beloved a song of my loved one for my vineyard. My beloved hath a vineyard on a hill-top, in a fertile place;

2 And I set a hedge around it, and fenced it, and planted a vine of Sorek, and built a tower in the midst of it, and digged a wine-fat therein; and I waited for it to bring forth a cluster of grapes, and it brought forth thorns.

3 And now, man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, judge ye betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What shall I do yet for my vineyard, that I have not done for it? because I waited for it to bring forth a cluster of grapes, but it brought forth thorns.

5 But now I will declare to you what I will do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be plundered; and destroy the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

6 And I will abandon my vineyard, and it shall not be pruned, nor digged; and there shall come up into it thorns, as into a waste place; and I will command the clouds, to shower no rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah a beloved young plant; I waited for (him) to bring forth judgment, but he brought forth transgression, and not righteousness, but a cry.

[*](I. ‘hill-top,’ lit. ‘hom.’ Strictly, Α reads ‘the beloved’ in both B in the second.)[*](1. ‘bring forth...brought forth,’ lit. ‘make...made,’ same word as ver. 4., Cf. Matt. 16.)[*](3. B has order as in Heb. Lit. ‘in my case (or, upon me) and ‘between my ’ (mixed construction, partly Hebraism).)[*](5. Lit. ‘for a plundering...for a treading.’ A, by clerical error, reads ‘plundering’ twice, and ‘house,’ afterwards corrected, for ‘wall.’)[*](6. Possibly ‘a thorn’ (or collective) ℵcaAQ c. ‘waste place,’ a misreading or guess for ‘briers’ (ABBREVor ABBREVfor ABBREV). Also vii. 23, 25.)
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8 Woe, they that join house to house, and set field next to field, that they may rob somewhat from their neighbour; will ye dwell alone upon the earth?