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Isaiah 28 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:2 - Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:3 - The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - And the fading flower of the [fn]glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:5 - In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven crown of glory, to the remnant of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:6 - They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:7 - For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered [fn]through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:8 - A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:9 - To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:10 - Expect thou affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, and yet a little,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:11 - [fn] by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:12 - This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:13 - Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:14 - Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye princes of this people that is in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:15 - Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16 - therefore thus saith the Lord, even the Lord, [fn] Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious stone, for its foundations; and he that believes on him shall by no means be ashamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:17 - And I will cause judgment to be for hope, and my compassion shall be for just measures, and ye that trust vainly in falsehood shall fall: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:18 - [fn]except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, ye shall be beaten down by it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:19 - Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:22 - Therefore do not ye rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:23 - Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:24 - Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:25 - Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in thy borders?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:26 - So thou shalt be chastened by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:27 - For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a waggon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:28 - for [fn]I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of [fn]my anger crush you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:29 - And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.
BES Footnotes
Gr. hope of glory.
Lit. from.
1 Cor. 14:21.
Rom. 9:33; 1 Pet. 2:6.
Or, shall it not also? etc.
Gr. I am.
Gr. bitterness trample you.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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