Isaiah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Isaiah 46 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;
1 POSTRÓSE Bel, abatióse Nebo; sus simulacros fueron [puestos] sobre bestias, y sobre animales [de carga]: os llevarán cargados de vosotros, carga penosa.
2 who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led [away] captive.
2 Fueron humillados, fueron abatidos juntamente; no pudieron escaparse de la carga, sino que tuvieron ellos mismos que ir en cautiverio.
3 Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by me] from the womb, and taught [by me] from infancy, [even] to old age:
3 Oidme, oh casa de Jacob, y todo el resto de la casa de Israel, los que sois traídos [por mí] desde el vientre, los que sois llevados desde la matriz.
4 I am [he]; and until ye shall have grown old, I am [he]: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.
4 Y hasta la vejez yo mismo, y hasta las canas [os] soportaré yo: yo hice, yo llevaré, yo soportaré y guardaré.
5 To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.
5 ¿A quién me asemejáis, y me igualáis, y me comparáis, para que sea semejante?
6 They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.
6 Sacan oro del talego, y pesan plata con balanzas, alquilan un platero para hacer un dios de ello; humíllanse y adoran.
7 They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.
7 Echanselo sobre los hombros, llévanlo, y asiéntanlo en su lugar; allí se está, y no se mueve de su sitio. Danle voces, y tampoco responde, ni libra de la tribulación.
8 Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;
8 Acordaos de esto, y tened vergüenza; tornad en vosotros, prevaricadores.
9 and remember the former things [that were] of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,
9 Acordaos de las cosas pasadas desde el siglo; porque yo soy Dios, y no hay más Dios, y nada hay á mí semejante;
10 telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, All my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:
10 Que anuncio lo por venir desde el principio, y desde antiguo lo que aun no era hecho; que digo: Mi consejo permanecerá, y haré todo lo que quisiere;
11 calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned: I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.
11 Que llamo desde el oriente al ave, y de tierra lejana al varón de mi consejo. Yo hablé, y lo haré venir: he[lo] pensado, y también lo haré.
12 Hearken to me, ye senseless ones, that are far from righteousness:
12 Oidme, duros de corazón, que estáis lejos de la justicia.
13 I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.
13 Haré que se acerque mi justicia, no se alejará: y mi salud no se detendrá. Y pondré salud en Sión, y mi gloria en Israel.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 21:9; Jeremiah 51:44; Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 51:52; Isaiah 41:6–7
- 2 Jeremiah 48:7; Judges 18:17–18; Judges 18:24; Jeremiah 43:12–13; 2 Samuel 5:21
- 3 Deuteronomy 1:31; Isaiah 51:7; Isaiah 51:1; Psalm 71:6; Isaiah 44:1–2
- 4 Psalm 71:18; Psalm 48:14; Psalm 92:14; Hebrews 13:8; James 1:17
- 5 Isaiah 40:18; Isaiah 40:25; Psalm 89:6; Philippians 2:6; Colossians 1:15
- 6 Acts 17:29; Jeremiah 10:14; Isaiah 40:19–20; Hosea 8:4–6; Isaiah 2:8
- 7 Isaiah 45:20; Jeremiah 10:5; Isaiah 46:1; 1 Samuel 5:3; Jonah 1:5
- 8 1 Corinthians 14:20; Luke 15:17; Haggai 1:7; Isaiah 47:7; Haggai 1:5
- 9 Isaiah 45:21–22; Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 46:5; Psalm 111:4; Deuteronomy 33:26
- 10 Proverbs 19:21; Psalm 33:11; Ephesians 1:9–11; Isaiah 43:13; Proverbs 21:30
- 11 Numbers 23:19; Isaiah 14:24–27; Job 23:13; Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 41:2
- 12 Jeremiah 2:5; Ephesians 2:13; Isaiah 46:3; Zechariah 7:11–12; Psalm 119:150
- 13 Isaiah 62:11; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 51:5; Isaiah 61:3; Isaiah 44:23
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And on this account, he (the Demiurge), being incapable of recognising any spiritual essences, imagined himself to be God alone, and declared through the prophets, "I am God, and besides me there is none else." They further teach that the spirits of wickedness derived their origin from grief.
Thou wilt carry us both when little, and even to grey hairs wilt Thou carry us; for our firmness, when it is Thou, then is it firmness; but when it is our own, then it is infirmity.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)