Isaias

Septuaginta

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

VI. 1 And it came to pass, in the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated upon a throne, (that was) high and lifted up, and the house was full of his glory.

2 And seraphim stood around him; each one had six wings; and with twain they covered their face, and with twain they covered their feet, and with twain they did fly.

3 And they cried one to another and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts; all the earth is full of his glory.

4 And the lintel was lifted up, at the voice with which they cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 And I said, O wretched me, for I am amazed; for being (but) a man, and with impure lips, I dwell in the midst of a people with impure lips: and I have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts, with mine eyes.

6 And there was sent to me one of the seraphim, and in his hand he had a coal of fire, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar;

[*](27. A omits ‘...hunger ’ partly supported by 106.)[*](28. ‘hoofs’ is read in some texts (prob. introduced from Aq. Symm. or Theod.) for ‘feet.’)[*](29. ‘They rage (?) like ’ B: ‘they came up like a ’s whelps ’ B.)[*](2. Lit. ‘six wings to one, and six wings to one.’ ‘did fly,’ imperfect.)[*](3. ‘one cried to another’ B.)[*](5. Or, ‘sore smitten,’ ‘pricked’; or ‘silenced.’ Cf. Gen. xxxiv. 7 x. 3; Acts ii. 37.)[*](6. So A: most other MSS. omit ‘of fire.’)
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7 And he touched my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and shall take away thy transgressions, and shall purify thy sins.

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom am I to serial, and who will go to this people? And I said, Here am I; sen me.

9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, By hearing ye shall bear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

10 For the heart of this people. is made fat, and with their ears they hear dully, and their eyes have they closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and pgidrirstand with their heart, and should return, when I will heal them.

11. And I said, Until when, Lord P And he said, Until cities be desolated, because they are not inhabited, and houses, because there are no men; and the land shall be left desolate.

12 And after this, God shall far remove men, and they that are left shall be multiplied upon the earth.

13 And still upon it is the tenth part, and again it shall be for plunder; as a terebinth, and as an oak, when it is torn from its place.