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 My people, whom I have preserved to set forth my excellences.

22 Not now have I called thee, Jacob, nor made thee weary, Israel:

23 No sheep have I of thy offering, nor didst thou glorify me in thy sacrifices, nor serve in thy sacrifices; nor have I wearied thee with frankincense,

24 Neither didst thou buy for me incense for silver, nor did I desire the fat of thy offerings; but in thy sins and in thine unrighteousness I stood before thee.

25 I am, I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions and will not remember thine unrighteousnesses.

26 But do thou remember, and let us be judged; tell thou first thy transgressions, that thou mayest be justified.

27 Our fathers first, and their rulers transgressed against me?

28 And the rulers defiled my holy things; and I gave Jacob over to destroy (him) and Israel for a reproach.

[*](18. [not] omitted in A. Negative in all other Gk MSS. ‘Nolite (ergo) priora meminisse,’ Cyp. Test. i.)[*](20. ‘to give my chosen race,’)[*](22. Α has strictly ‘not’ for ‘nor.’)[*](23. ‘thy’ before ‘offering’ not expressed in ℵAQ c. Omit ‘nor serve in thy sacrifices,’)[*](24. ‘an offering for silver,’ B: ‘thou stoodest before me,’)[*](25. ‘transgressions for my sake, and thy sins, and will not,’ B. Theod.) ‘will not remember them,’)[*](27. ‘Your fathers,’ ℵBQ: ‘your rulers’)[*](28. A has ‘Jerusalem’ (ABBREV.) for ‘Israel.’)
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XLIV. 1 But now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I chose (out).

2 Thus said the Lord God who made thee, and he that formed thee from the womb, Thou shalt yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob, and my beloved Israel whom I chose (out);

3 For I will give water in thirst to them that walk in a waterless place; I will put my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thy children,

4 And they shall rise up as grass among water, and as a willow by the side of a flowing water.

5 This one shall say, I am God's, and this shall speak in the name of Jacob; and another writeth, I am God's; upon the name of Israel.

6 Thus saith God, the King of Israel, and his deliverer, God of Hosts; I am first, and I am hereafter; except me there is no God.

7 Who is as I am? let him stand, let him call, and make ready for me, since I made man for everlasting; and let them declare to you the coming things before they come.

8 Hide not yourselves; did ye not give ear from the beginning, and I declared it to you? ye are witnesses, whether there be a God beside me; and they were not, at that time.

9 They that mould images, and that grave, are all of them vain; they that make their own delights, which shall not help them; but they shall be ashamed,

10 All they that mould a god, and grave unprofitable things:

11 And all are withered from whence they sprang, and (are) dumb from among men; let them all be gathered together, and they shall stand together, let them be turned backward and be ashamed together.

[*](5. ‘cry aloud in the name of ’ ℵBQ. ‘shall write,’ ℵ0 BQ: ‘with his hand,’ B. ‘upon the name of Is. shall he also cry,’)[*](6. ‘Thus saith the King of Israel’)[*](7. ‘stand, and call, and declare, and make ready...’ B.)[*](8. ‘Hide not yourselves, neither go astray’)[*](8 fin. ‘heard not, at that time’)[*](9. ‘are all of them vain things,’ ℵ*B: ‘making,’)[*](10. ‘They that mould and grave a god are all of them unprof. things,’)[*](11. Omit ‘they shall’)
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12 For the craftsman sharpeneth iron, with an adze he fashioneth it, and boreth it with a gimlet, worketh it with the arm of his strength; and he shall be hungry, and shall be faint, and not drink water: