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Isaiah 28 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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and to whom have we reported a message? <i>even to those</i> that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Except thou affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, <i>and</i> yet a little,<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>by reason of the contemptuous <i>words</i> of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, <i>and</i> yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">A Cornerstone in Zion<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye princes of this people that is in Jerusalem.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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:<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious <i>stone</i>, for its foundations; and he that believes <i>on him</i> shall by no means be ashamed.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I will cause judgement <i>to be</i> for hope, and my compassion shall be for <i>just</i> measures, and ye that trust vainly in falsehood <i>shall fall</i>: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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,<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly <i>men</i>, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, <i>even</i> a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">Listen and Hear<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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?<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So thou shalt be chastened by the judgement of thy God, and shalt rejoice.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/28-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>