Isaias

Septuaginta

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

14 I will go up above the clouds, I will be like the most High.

15 But now shalt thou go down’into hell, and into the foundations of the earth.

16 They that see thee shall marvel at thee, and say, This is the man that tortureth the earth, shaking kings,

17 He that maketh the whole world desolate, <and his cities hath he destroyed,> those in (his) train hath he not loosed;

18 All the kings of the nations have lain down to rest in honour, each one in his own house:

19 But thou shalt be cast forth upon the mountains, like a loathed corpse; with many dead, that are thrust through with swords, that go down to Hell. Even as a cloke smeared with blood shall not be clean,

20 Even so‘neither shalt thou be clean, because thou didst" destroy my land, and didst slay my peOple; thou shalt not abide, no, not for ever, an evil seed.

21 Make ready thy children to be slaughtered for the sins of: thy father} that they may not rise up, and inherit the earth, and . ﬁll the earth with wars.

22 And I will rise against them, saith the Lord of Hosts, and Α will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.

23 And I will make Babylon desolate, for hedgehogs to dwell ’ there; and it shall come to nought; and I will make it a <pit> of mire, unto destruction.

[*](12. ‘that sent forth’: apparently ABBREVread as ABBREVCf. xviii. 2.)[*](17. A omits ’ and his cities...destroyed.’)[*](21. ‘their father,’ B. ‘wars’: V and a few cursives read ’ cities’: so Aq. Th. Symm.’ ‘cities’ in Greek omits one letter of ‘wars,’ and ‘enemies’ inserts one more.)[*](23. Α actually reads ‘foundation’ βάθρον (so 109, 305): prob. clerical· error, omitting syllable of βάραθρον, or else for βόθρον (Ezek. xxxii. 18).)

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24 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: As I have spoken, so shall it be, and as I have counselled, so shall it abide,

25 To destroy the Assyrians from my land, and from my mountains; and they shall be trodden down, and their yoke shall be stripped from off them, and their renown shall be stripped from off their shoulders.

26 This is the counsel which the Lord hath counselled against the whole world, and this (is) his hand, which is upraised against all the nations of the world.

27 For what God, the Holy, has counselled, who shall scatter? and his hand, that is upraised, who shall turn away?