Isaias

Septuaginta

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

9 And remember the former things from eternity; for I am God, (and there is none beside me :)

10 Declaring the last things before they come to pass, and therewith they are fulfilled; and I said, All my counsel shall sand, and all that I have counselled will I do.

11 Calling a fowl of the air from the East, and from a land afar off them concerning whom I have counselled; I spake, and led him, I created and made, I led him, and made his way plain:

12 Hearken to me, ye that have lost your heart, ye that are far from righteousness.

13 I have brought near my righteousness, and the salvation that cometh from me will I not delay: I have given salvation in Zion to Israel for a glorifying.

[*](1 ﬁn., 2. ‘weary, Enfeebled and hungry, without strength,’ c. Β. antes et esurientes et non valentes,’ Cyp.)[*](7. ‘shoulder,’ B.)

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XLVII. 1 Come down, sit upon the ground, virgin daughter of Babylon; enter into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans, for no longer shalt thou. be any more called tender and delicate.

2 Take a millstone, grind meal, take off thy covering, uncover thy grey hairs, make bare the legs, pass through rivers.

3 Thy shame shall be uncovered, thy reproaches shall appear; I will do justice upon thee, no longer will I deliver thee over unto men,

4 Saith thy deliverer, the Lord of Hosts, his name is the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit down in amazement, enter into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans: no longer shalt thou be called the strength of a kingdom.

6 I was provoked at my people, thou defiledst mine inheritance: I gave (them) into thine hand, and thou showedst them no mercy; thou didst make the yoke of the elder very heavy.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a princess for ever; thou per- ceivedst not this in thy heart, neither didst remember the last things.

8 But now hear this, delicate one, that sittest, that art confident that sayest in thine heart, I am, and there is none other; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I come to know bereavement.

9 But now shall there come suddenly these two things in one day, childlessness and widowhood shall come suddenly upon thee in thy witchcraft; in the strength of thy enchantments exceeding greatly,

10 In the hope of thy wickedness; for thou saidst, I am, and there is no other: learn thou, that the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame: and thou saidst in thine heart, I am, and there is no other.

[*](1. ‘enter . . . darkness,’ ‘sit upon the ’ B: add. ‘there is no throne, Q mg 41 91 104 309 (87).)[*](4. ‘Thy deliverer (is) the Lord’ (omit ‘saith’) ℵ*B. Text ℵca cb AQ* 49 93 106 c.)[*](6. ‘them’ expressed in B.)[*](9. The order of words differs in B as corrected: the orig. hand reading only ‘But now shall (it) come suddenly upon thee in thy witchcraft; in the strength,’)[*](10. ‘the understanding of these things shall be, ’ c. ℵ*B (omit ‘that’). ℵBQ om. ‘shall be’ before ‘thy shame.)

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11 And there shall come upon thee destruction, and thou shalt not perceive it; a pit, and thou shalt fall into it: and there shall come misery upon thee, and thou shalt not be able to be clear of it: and there shall come destruction suddenly upon thee, and thou shalt not perceive it.

12 Stand now in thine enchantments, and thy abundant witch- craft, which thou didst learn from thy youth, (to see) if thou canst be helped:

13 Thou hast grown weary in thy counsels: let the astrologers of the heaven stand and save thee; let them who look on the stars declare to thee what is purposed to come upon thee.

14 Behold, all shall be burnt up as brushwood upon a ﬁre, and they shall not deliver their soul from the ﬂame; since thou hast coals of ﬁre, sit thereon.

15 These shall be thy help: thou didst weary thyself in thy traffic from thy youth: each went astray by himself; but for thee shall be no salvation.