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.)
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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?

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.

11 Woe, they that rise up early, and follow strong drink; that tarry till late; for wine shall burn them up.

12 For with harp, and psaltery, and tabrets, and pipes, drink they their wine; but they regard not the works of the Lord, and the works of his hands they consider not.

13 Therefore is my people become captive, because they know not the Lord; and is become a multitude of dead bodies, because of famine and thirst for water.

14 And Hades enlarged his appetite, and opened his mouth, continually; and her glorious, and great, and rich ones, and her pestilences, shall descend.

15 And the mean man shall be humbled, and the great man shall be dishonoured, and the eyes that are lifted up shall be humbled:

16 And the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God, the Holy One, shall be glorified in righteousness.

17 And they that are spoiled shall graze as bulls, and the waste places of them that are taken away shall lambs eat.

[*](10. ‘yield,’ lit. ‘make,’ cf. ver. a, 4. The measures correspond in quantity with those of the Heb. μέτρον=seah, (??) ephah, cf. Exod. xvi. 36).)[*](13 ‘dead bodies.’ Differs from ‘men’ in vowel-points only: fame. Vulg.)[*](14. ‘pestilences.’ Possibly ABBREV, ‘terrible,’ Ezek. xxviii. 7 c. for ABBREV ‘reioicing.’)[*](15. Gr. ἄνθρωπος...ἀνήρ.)[*](17 ἀπειλημμένων MSS. Probably corrupted from ἀπηλειμμένων, ‘wiped,’ or ‘blotted ’ = Heb. ABBREVfor ABBREV(ABBREV), ‘fat.’ In 2 Ki. xxi. 13, ABBREVis rendered by ἀπαλείφω. ‘lambs,’ reading ABBREV(or ABBREVCheyne) for ABBREVof Heb. text. Some critics prefer the LXX. reading.)
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18 Woe, they that drag along their sins as with a long rcpe, and their transgressions as with a cow-hide chariot trace:

19 That say, Let him speedily bring near what he will do, that we may see; and let the counsel of the Holy One &003C; of Israel come, that we may perceive:

20 Woe, they that call evil good, and good evil; that set darkness as light, and light as darkness; that set bitter as sweet, and sweet as bitter!