Isaiah 34:4

Hebrew Bible

3 Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood. 4 All the stars in the sky will fade away, the sky will roll up like a scroll; all its stars will wither, like a leaf withers and falls from a vine or a fig withers and falls from a tree. 5 He says, “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

LXX Isaiah 34:4

Septuagint

3 Their wounded and their dead shall be cast out, and their stench shall rise; the mountains shall be drenched with their blood. 4 Heaven shall roll up like a scroll, and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine and as leaves fall from a fig tree. 5 My dagger has become drunk in heaven; lo, it will descend upon Idumea and upon the people of destruction with judgment.

 Notes and References
"... Isaiah 34:4 ... there are textual uncertainties on the Hebrew side that may weaken the contribution of this verse to our discussion,98 though it is not clear that these doubts are weighty. Furthermore, it may be possible to account for the LXX minus (the opening has not been translated) by parablepsis, for both the first and second clauses ... Still further, our translator often collapses a series of syntactical units, such as these three verbal clauses. However, this will more often than not involve the use of elements of each of the Masoretic text units, whereas in this case the first of the three has been cleanly omitted ..."

Baer, David A. When We All Go Home: Translation and Theology in LXX Isaiah 56-66 (pp. 187-188) Sheffield Academic Press, 2001

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