Isaias

Septuaginta

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

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.)

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?

9 For this was heard in the ears of the Lord of Hosts; For if houses become many, they shall be a desolation; great ones and fair, and there shall be none that inhabit them.

10 For where ten yoke of oxen plough, it shall yield one jar, and he that soweth six bushels shall get three measures.