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Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Greek: Rahlfs — Isaiah
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.
The 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.
For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and all raiment with restitution; and they shall be willing, even if they were burned with fire.
The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.
And all the people of Ephraim, and they that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,
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.
And God shall dash down them that rise up against him on Mount Zion, and shall scatter his enemies;
But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.
So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:
the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.
And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.
The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burned by fire: no man shall pity his brother.
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.
For Manasseh shall eat the flesh of Ephraim, and Ephraim the flesh of Manasseh; for they shall besiege Judah together. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.
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: for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him.
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 forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.
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.
