Isaias

Septuaginta

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

15 Behold, I make thee as wheels of a cart, that thresh out; new, with teeth like a saw; and thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat small the hills, and shalt make them as dust.

16 And thou shalt winnow them, and a wind shall take them, and a tempest shall scatter them. But thou shalt rejoice among the holy things of Israel.

[*](7. A* seems to omit ‘withal’: B c. read ‘some ’ for ‘then,’ and B has ‘he hath made them strong.)[*](13. ‘thy ’ ℵab BQ)[*](14. ‘that ransometh ’ B.)[*](15. Rather. ‘chaff,’ ℵBQ.)

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17 And the poor and the needy shall triumph. For they shall seek water, and there shall be none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them.

18 But I will open rivers upon the mountains, and fountains in the midst of the plains; I will make the wilderness into pools, and the thirsty land into watercourses.

19 I will plant in the waterless land cedar and box, and myrtle and cypress, and white poplar;

20 That they may see, and learn, and understand, and know together that the hand of the Lord hath done all this, and the Holy One of Israel hath shown it forth.

21 Your judgment draweth near, saith the Lord God; your counsels have drawn near, saith the King of Jacob.

22 Let them draw near, and declare unto you what shall come to pass; or tell ye (of) the former things, what they were, and we will apply our thoughts; and perceive what the last things be: and tell us the things that are coming.

23 Declare the things that are coming at the last, and we shall perceive that ye are gods: do good, and do evil, and we will wonder.

24 For whence are ye, and whence is your working? from the earth. As an abomination have they chosen you.

25 I have raised up him from the north, and him from the rising of the sun; they shall be called by my name; let rulers. come, and like clay of a potter, and like a potter treading clay, so shall ye be trodden down. ’

26 For who shall proclaim the things from, the beginning, that we may learn them? or the former things, and we shall say that they are true? there is none that foretelleth, nor any that heareth your words.

[*](18. ‘pools of ’ ℵ*B,)[*](19. Omit ‘and’ before ‘myrtle,’ ℵ*B.)[*](20. Omit ‘all.’ ℵ*B.)[*](23 init. ‘Declare to ’ ℵ*B. ‘wonder, and see (it) ’ ℵBQ c.)[*](25 init. ‘But I ’ ℵBQ. ‘be ’ syllable omitted in A,)

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27 I will give rule to Zion, and will comfort Jerusalem in the way.

28 For from the nations, behold, no man; and from among their idols there was none that declared (aught), and if I ask of them, Whence are ye? they will not answer me.

29 For they are those that make you, and vain are they that lead you astray.

XLII. 1 Jacob my servant, on him will I take hold; Israel (is) my chosen, my soul hath received him; I have put my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment for the nations.

2 He shall not cry out, nor send forth (his voice), nor shall his voice be heard without.

3 A bruised reed shall he not crush, and smoking ﬂax shall he not quench, but shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

4. He shall shine out, and shall not be shattered, until he have iegpiudgment upon the earth; and in his name shall nations

5 Thus saith the Lord, the God who made the heaven and ﬁxed it, who established the earth and the things therein, and grave breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon,