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 Woe, they that are prudent in themselves, and have understanding in their own sight!

22 Woe, they that are strong among you, that drink wine, and the powerful ones, that mingle the strong drink:

23 That justify the impious for ’ sake, and remove the justice of the just.

24 Therefore, like as a reed shall be burned by coals of fire. and burned up by blazing flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their blossom shall go up as whirling dust: for they desired not the law of the Lord of Hosts, but they provoked the oracle of < Holy One of > Israel.

25 And the Lord of Hosts was wroth with anger against his people, and laid his hand upon them, and smote them; and the mountains were provoked (to anger), and their carcases became as dung in the midst of the way. Amid all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is still upraised.

26 Therefore he shall raise up a signal among the nations afar off, and shall hiss unto them from the end of the earth; and, behold, quickly they come swiftly.

[*](18. Pesh. also has ‘long’; Manila) for Maxpw would be near Heb. (Symm. has ματαιότητος). ‘a cow—hide’ & c.: c.: or, ‘a heifer's cf. Horn. Il. III. 375.)[*](19. Or, ‘Let what he will do draw near ’: the actual reading of Β, supported by about six cursives, is ‘know,’ εἰδῶμεν; but ἴδωμεν, ‘see,’ was probably intended. A omits ‘of Israel’ here (so 106), and ‘the One ’ in ver. 24 (so 106, 305).)[*](25. ‘And amid all this. . .’ ℵB)[*](26. ‘hiss them on,’ B and several cursives (O.L. has ‘draw with accus. for συριεῖ). Cypr. Tat. or and 22, ‘Speculum,’ 657.)
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27 They shall not <hunger nor> grow weary, nor nod, nor sleep, nor shall they loose their girdles from their loins, nor shall the thongs of their sandals be broken:

28 Whose darts are sharp, and their bows bent; their ’ hoofs are as solid rock; the wheels of their chariots were counted as a whirlwind.

29 They spring like lions, and are come up like a ’s whelp; and he shall take hold, and shall roar as a wild beast, and shall cast them out, and there shall be none that delivereth them,

30 And he shall roar because of them, in that day, as the voice of a surging sea; and they shall look upon the earth, and behold, cruel darkness in their dismay.