Delphi Septuagint

by Lancelot C L Brenton (ed)

  Chapter 7

  [1] Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Also, thou, son of man, say, [2] Thus saith the Lord;

  An end is come to the land of Israel, the end is come on the four corners of the land. [3] The end is come on thee, [7] the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn nigh, not with tumult, nor with pangs. [8] Now I will pour out my anger upon thee near at hand, and I will accomplish my wrath on thee: and I will judge thee for thy ways, and recompense upon thee all thine abominations. [9] Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord that smite thee. [7] Now the end is come to thee, and I will send judgment upon thee: and I will take vengeance on thy ways, and will recompense all thine abominations upon thee. [4] Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy way upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

  [5] For thus saith the Lord; Behold, the end is come.

  [10] Behold, the day of the Lord! although the rod has blossomed, [11] pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and that not with tumult, nor with haste. [12] The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn. [13] For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye of hope to his life. [14] Sound ye the trumpet, and pass sentence on all together. [15] There shall be war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.

  [16] But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will slay all the rest, every one for his iniquities. [17] All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture. [18] And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, even upon every face, and baldness upon every head. [19] Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the punishment of their iniquities. [20] As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

  [21] And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them. [22] And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them. [23] And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity. [24] And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled. [25] And though propitiation shall come, and one shall seek peace, yet there shall be none. [26] There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. [27] The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgements will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  Chapter 8

  [1] And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Juda were sitting before me: and the hand of the Lord came upon me. [2] And I looked, and, behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards there was fire, and from his loins upwards there was as the appearance of amber. [3] And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser. [4] And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.

  [5] And he said to me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes toward the north, and, behold, I looked from the north toward the eastern gate. [6] And he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what these do? They commit great abominations here so that I should keep away from my sanctuary: and thou shalt see yet greater iniquities.

  [7] And he brought me to the porch of the court. [8] And he said to me, Son of man, dig: so I dug, and behold a door. [9] And he said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practise here. [10] So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about. [11] And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechonias the son of Saphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up. [12] And he said to me, Thou hast seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber: because they have said, The Lord see not; The Lord has forsaken the earth.

  [13] And he said to me, Thou shalt see yet greater iniquities which these do. [14] And he brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and, behold there were women sitting there lamenting for Thammuz. [15] And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen; but thou shalt yet see evil practices greater then these.

  [16] And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun. [17] And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen this. Is it a little thing to the house of Juda to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners. [18] Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.

  Chapter 9

  [1] And he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, The judgement of the city has drawn nigh; and each had the weapons of destruction in his hand. [2] And, behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks toward the north, and each one’s axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to the feet, and a sapphire girdle was on his loins: and they came in and stood near the brazen altar. [3] And the glory of the God of Israel, that was upon them, went up from the cherubs to the porch of the house.

  And he called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the girdle on his loins; [4] And said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them. [5] And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and smite: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy. [6] Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go ye not nigh any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary.

  So they began with the elder men who were within in the house. [7] And he said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and smite.

  [8] And it came to pass as they were smiting, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! wilt thou destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out thy wrath upon Jerusalem? [9] Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon it. [10] Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.

  [11] And, behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girt with the girdle about his loins, answered and said, I have done as thou didst command me.

  Chapter 10

  [1] Then I looked, and, behold, over the firmament
that was above the head of the cherubs there was a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone. [2] And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill thine hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.

  [3] And the cherubs stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. [4] Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubs to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord. [5] And the sound of the cherubs’ wings was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God speaking.

  [6] And it came to pass, when he gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubs, that he went in, and stood near the wheels. [7] And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the cherubs, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took it, and went out.

  [8] And I saw the cherubs having the likeness of men’s hands under their wings. [9] And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone. [10] And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel. [11] When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went. [12] And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels. [13] And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing. [14] 15 And the cherubs were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Chobar.

  [16] And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not. [17] When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them: because the spirit of life was in them.

  [18] Then the glory of the Lord departed from the house, and went up on the cherubs. [19] And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.

  [20] This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chobar; and I knew that they were cherubs. [21] Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men’s hands. [22] And as for the likeness of their faces, these are the same faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the river of Chobar: and they went each straight forward.

  Chapter 11

  [1] Moreover the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of the Lord, that looks eastward: and behold at the entrance of the gate were about five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jechonias the son of Ezer, and Phaltias the son of Banaeas, the leaders of the people.

  [2] And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city: [3] who say, Have not the houses been newly built? This is the caldron, and we are the flesh. [4] Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man. [5] And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, say;

  Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: and I know the devices of your spirit. [6] Ye have multiplied your dead in this city, and ye have filled your ways with slain men. [7] Therefore thus saith the Lord; Your dead whom ye have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and city this is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. [8] Ye fear the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord. [9] And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgements among you. [10] Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  [11] 12 [13] And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Phaltias the son of Banaeas died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas, alas, O Lord! wilt thou utterly destroy the remnant of Israel? [14] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [15] Son of man, thy brethren, and the men of thy captivity, and all the house of Israel are come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep ye far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance. [16] Therefore say thou,

  Thus saith the Lord; I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter. [17] Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands wherein I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.

  [18] And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations of it, and all its iniquities from it. [19] And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh: [20] that they may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

  [21] And as for the heart set upon their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, saith the Lord.

  [22] Then the cherubs lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. [23] And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which was in front of the city.

  [24] And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision which I saw. [25] And I spoke to the captivity all the words of the Lord which he had shewed me.

  Chapter 12

  [1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the iniquities of those, who have eyes to see, and see not; and have ears to hear, and hear not: because it is a provoking house.

  [3] Thou therefore, son of man, prepare thyself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and thou shalt be led into captivity from thy place into another place in their sight; that they may see that it is a provoking house. [4] And thou shalt carry forth thy baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight. [5] Dig for thyself into the wall of the house, and thou shalt pass through it in their sight: [6] thou shalt be lifted up on men’s shoulders, and shalt go forth in secret: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: because I have made thee a sign to the house of Israel.

  [7] And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on men’s shoulders before them. [8] And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying, [9] Son of man, have not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee, What doest thou? [10] Say to them,

  Thus saith the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them: [11] say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him: they shall go into banishment and captivity. [12] And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by any eye, and he himself shall not see the ground. [13] And I will spread out my net upon him, and he shall be caught in my toils: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there. [14] And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; an
d I will draw out a sword after them;

  [15] And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them in the countries.

  [16] And I will leave of them a few men in number spared from the sword, and from famine, and pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations whither they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  [17] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [18] Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction. [19] And thou shalt say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are ungodly. [20] And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  [21] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [22] Son of man, what is your parable on the land of Israel, that ye say, The days are long, the vision has perished? [23] Therefore say to them,

  Thus saith the Lord; I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Israel shall no more at all use this parable: for thou shalt say to them, The days are at hand, and the import of every vision. [24] For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel. [25] For I the Lord will speak my words; I will speak and perform them, and will no more delay, for in your days, O provoking house, I will speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord.