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Isaiah 9 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 - (LXX 8:23) Drink this first. [fn]Act quickly, [fn] O land of Zabulon, land of Nephthalim, and the rest inhabiting the sea-coast, and the land beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - (LXX 9:1) O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 - (LXX 9:2) The [fn]multitude of the people which thou hast brought down in thy joy, they shall even rejoice before thee as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:4 - (LXX 9:3) Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Madiam.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:5 - (LXX 9:4) For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and all raiment with [fn]restitution; and they shall be willing, even if they were burnt with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:6 - (LXX 9:5) For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel: [fn]for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:7 - (LXX 9:6) His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:8 - (LXX 9:7) The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:9 - (LXX 9:8) And all the people of Ephraim, and they that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:10 - (LXX 9:9) The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:11 - (LXX 9:10) And God shall dash down them that rise up against him on mount Sion, and shall scatter his enemies;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 - (LXX 9:11) even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:13 - (LXX 9:12) But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:14 - (LXX 9:13) So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 - (LXX 9:14) the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:16 - (LXX 9:15) And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - (LXX 9:16) Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 - (LXX 9:17) And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19 - (LXX 9:18) The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:20 - (LXX 9:19) But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:21 - (LXX 9:20) For Manasses shall eat the flesh of Ephraim, and Ephraim the flesh of Manasses; for they shall besiege Juda together. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.
BES Footnotes
Or, do it quickly, i. e. ‘drink’; See Hebrew.
Mat. 4:15,16.
Gr. greatest part.
Gr. reconciliation, or, exchange.
Alex. + Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty One, Potentate, Prince of Peace, Father of the age to come; Compare Heb. 2:2.
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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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