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Isaiah 66 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:1 - Thus saith the Lord, [fn] Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will ye build me? and of what kind is to be the place of my rest?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:2 - For all these things are mine, saith the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the man that trembles at my words?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3 - But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:4 - I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:5 - Hear the words of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; speak ye, [fn]our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear [fn]their joy; but they shall be ashamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:6 - A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompence to his adversaries.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:7 - Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:8 - Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:9 - But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, saith the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? saith thy God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:10 - Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all ye that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that now mourn over her:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:11 - that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:12 - For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [fn]turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:13 - As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:14 - And ye shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall [fn]thrive like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear him, and he shall threaten the disobedient.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15 - For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:16 - For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:17 - They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:18 - And I know their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:19 - And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tharsis, and Phud, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Thobel, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord with horses, and chariots, in litters drawn by mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children of Israel should bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:21 - And I will take of them priests and Levites, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:22 - For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:23 - And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from sabbath to sabbath, that all flesh shall come to worship before me in Jerusalem, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:24 - And they shall go forth, and see the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.
BES Footnotes
Acts 7:49,50.
Alex. ἡμῶν, but Heb. and Vat. 'your.'
Or, your.
i. e. turn myself.
Gr. spring up.
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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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