Remnant studies

Isaiah chapter 28 as Hebrew compared to Greek LXX (LXX: ...) and Aramaic Peshitta (P: ...) and Aramaic Targums. _1_ Woe to crown glorious of drunkard Ephraim (LXX: crown of pride, hirelings of Ephraim) (P: shameful diadem of strength of his glory) and to garland shameful, army of his glory at head of valley of fatness (heavenly fatness / beautifully fertile) (P: which dominates at entrance of fertile valley) of those confused with wine (LXX: drunk without wine). _2_ Behold, the strong and mighty one for YHWH — as stream hail, storm destroying — as stream waters many, heavy, thick overflowing — He causes land to rest with power — (LXX: as great body water sweeping away soil, he shall make rest for the land) (P: I will give rest to this land by your hands) (Targum: people come against them to remove them out of the land into another land because sins in hands — army — Shalmaneser). _3_ With feet trampled crown glorious of drunkards Ephraim (LXX: hirelings beaten down with hands and fe...

Here is blog 6-9 in same voice — LXX vs MT / P difference is sharpest here — vomit vs covetousness: --- *Isa 28:6-9 — Judgment, Hirelings, and Tables — Vomit vs Covetous Counsel* We saw 1-4 — man's heavenly fatness — beautifully fertile hill they called heaven — early fig eaten while in hand — cannot produce — vs ground prepared by _shavah_ — pressing even — Divider who gives rest. Now 6-9 — priest and prophet — same hirelings — LXX keeps thread — MT / P keep vomit. *My translation 6-9 with glosses:* *6* And for spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn back battle to gate (LXX: They shall be left in spirit of judgment for judgment, and for strength of them that hinder slaying) (P: same as MT). *7* But these also through wine have erred, and through strong drink are gone astray — priest and prophet have erred through strong drink, swallowed up from wine, gone astray from strong drink — they err in vision, they stumble in judgment (LX...

*Isa 28:1-4 — The Crown, The Hirelings, and Heavenly Fatness vs Heavenly Instructions* We have been in Isa 28 for weeks. V5, then 10-29. We found LXX did not understand supernatural context of 9-12 — _menuha_ and _marge'ah_ — Divider who gives rest. Now 1-4 sets up why. *My translation 1-4 with glosses:* *1* Woe! to crown glorious of drunkard Ephraim (LXX: crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim) and to garland shameful, army of his glory that at head of valley of fatness (heavenly fatness / beautifully fertile) (P: shameful diadem of strength of his glory which dominates at entrance of fertile valley) (LXX: flower fallen from glory on top of fertile mountain) of those confused with wine (LXX: those drunken without wine). *2* Behold, strong and mighty to Lord — as stream hail, storm destroying — as stream waters many, heavy, thick (כַּבִּירִים) overflowing — He causes to rest to land (P: I will give rest to this land by your hands) (LXX: he shall make rest for land) with power...

Here is your blog — starting with the Shavah translation as you asked: --- *Isaiah 28:29 — When You Press Level* > _This also — from with YHWH of Hosts it came forth — He makes wonderful counsel, He makes great the pressing-even._ That is Isa 28:29 if _tushiyah_ is from שוה — to press down hard to level, to set, to make stand. Not "excellent working" — but "great leveling." Not abstract wisdom — but the farmer's last pass with his foot and board that makes broken ground stand even, ready to grow. *1. The verse we all skip* Hebrew: > _gam-zot me'im YHWH tzevaot yatza'ah hifli etzah higdil tushiyah_ Traditional English: > This also comes forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom / working. [KJV / ESV] It closes the farming parable — 28:24-28 — does the plowman plow all day? No. Does he open and break clods all day? No. When he has leveled its face — _ki shivvah paneha_ — does he not scatter dil...

Isa 28:24-28 — Quick view *24* Does the plowman plow all day to sow? (P- does he plow all day, does farmer) Does he open and break up his ground? (P- turn over and break up) You are right — I missed it. v24 corrected: *24* Does the plowman plow all day to sow? (LXX- or will he prepare seed before working ground) (P- does farmer plow all day to sow) Does he open and break up his ground? (P- turn over and break up) LXX adds *prepare* — _proetoimasei_ — where MT has open and harrow — same idea you caught — breaking open IS preparing — LXX makes explicit what Hebrew implies — opening = preparing seed bed. *25* Is it not when he levels its face he scatters fennel (MT- black cumin) and cumin sows and casts wheat (MT- puts wheat in rows) and barley and rye (MT- barley marked and spelt) at its border (LXX- at your borders) *26* He is instructed in right judgment (MT- his God teaches him) his God shall teach him and they shall glory / praise (MT- He teaches him / LXX- and you shall rejoic...

### Isa 28:21-22 — Strange Work That Divides and Cuts Short *Translation 21:* > For as at Mount Perazim — Mount of Burstings — shall YHWH rise, as in Valley of Gibeon shall He be wroth, to do His work — strange is His work — and to perform His act — foreign is His act. *Perazim and Gibeon — not places, divisions:* - *Har Perazim* — where YHWH _paratz_ — burst through enemies as waters burst — and where land itself burst in Uzziah's earthquake — Amos 1:1 — Targum on Perazim remembers mountains splitting. - *Emek Gibeon* — where YHWH divided enemies with hail, divided day — sun stood in Gibeon, moon in Aijalon — to give rest — and where Israel divided against Israel — 12 vs 12 at Pool of Gibeon — Field of Swords. Both are _paratz_ — to burst, to divide — to give rest. God rising against His own city as He once rose for it — that's foreign. *Translation 22 — Word for word across MT, LXX, Peshitta:* > _ve'atta al titlotzatzu pen yechezqu mosreichem ki chala ve ne...