Isaias

Septuaginta

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

8 For he draweth near that justified me: who is he that contendeth with me; let him stand up against me together; yea, who is he that contendeth with me? let him draw near to me.

9 Behold, the Lord helpeth me: who shall harm me? behold, all ye. shall wax old ’a garment, and as it were a moth shall eat you up.

10 Who among you is he that feareth the Lord? let him listen to the voice of his servant: ye that walk in darkness, they have no light, trust ye in the name of the Lord, and stay yourselves upon God.

[*](2. ‘and there was none that listened,’ ℵBQ. ‘by my reproof,’ B: reproof and my ’ ℵ*. ℵcorr as text).)[*](3 init. Omit ‘And,’ B.)[*](4. i.e. ‘an instructed (or disciplined) tongue.6 Omit ‘in ’ ℵBQ. ‘The Lord’ repeated (so vv. 5 and 7).)[*](6 init. ‘I ’ ℵB.)[*](7. ‘turn back,’ often implying shame. Cf. Psal. xl. 14, lxx. 2)[*](9. ‘will help,’ B: omit ‘as it were,’)
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11 Behold, all ye kindle a fire, and strengthen a flame; walk by the light of your fire, and in the flame wherewith ye kindled it; because of me came this upon you, ye shall lie down in pain.

LI. 1 Hearken to me, ye that pursue that is righteous, and seek the Lord: look unto the solid rock which ye did hew, and unto the hole of the pit which ye digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for he was one, and I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

3 And thee will I now comfort, Zion, and I did comfort all her waste places; <and I will make her waste places> as and the western regions like a garden of the Lord; joy and exultation shall they find therein, confession and the voice of praise.

4 Hearken to me, hearken, my people; and ye kings, give ear unto me ; for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment for a light of the nations.

5 My righteousness draweth quickly near; and my salvation also shall go forth, and in my arm shall the nations hope; the isles shall wait for me, and in my arm shall they hope.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heaven, and look upon the earth beneath 3 for the heaven is massed as smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a cloke, and they that dwell on the earth shall die like as those (things); but my salvation, shall be for everlasting, and my righteousness shall not fail.

7 Hearken unto me, ye that know judgment, my people who have the law in your hearts; fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their despising.

[*](2. Omit ‘and multiplied him,’)[*](3. Α omits (apparently homoeoteleuton) . . . ‘and I will make her waste places...’)[*](5. Orig. hand of A reads ‘thy righteousness.’ ‘and my salvation also go forth as (for) a light,’)[*](6. Omit ‘on the earth,’ B ‘the)[*](7. ‘a people who...,’)
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8 For as a cloke shall it be eaten up by time, and as wool shall it be eaten up by a moth; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for generations of generations.

9 Awake, awake, Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the beginning of a day, as a generation of eternity. Art not thou

10 She that maketh desolate the sea, the water, the abundance of the deep? that made the depths of the sea a passage way for the delivered,