τῶν ἀπειλημμένων] Heb. ‘the fat ones,’ ABBREV The Greek translators
must surely, as Schleusner pointed out, have written ἀπηλειμμένων, or
λιμμένων, a late form, for which compare Numb. iii. 3, from ἀπαλείφω
he took the Hebrew to be from ABBREV ‘wipe’ or ‘blot out’; which is
represented by ἀπαλείφω, e.g. three times in 2 Kings xxi. 13, and by
other kindred words, as Prov. vi. 33, Exodus xxxii. 32, 33, &c. (ἀφεῖλεν,
chap. xxv. 8). The Greek was easily corrupted into the present
text, as the Sense of the passage had been missed: though, with four
principal words—see below—misread, some general resemblance to
the original still appears. (I regret that I first put this forward as my own suggestion, not
being aware that Schleusner had long ago pointed it out.) ἄρνες] Probably ABBREV read for ABBREV ‘sojourners,’ of the Heb. text.
Some have preferred the LXX. reading here: which Cheyne, in his
critical note in ed. 4 of The Prophecies Prophecies of Isaiah, thinks rather to have
been ABBREV also = ῾Iambs.᾿ Compare with this verse vii. 21, xiv. 23, xviii. 6, xxix. 17, xxxiv. 13
—15, &c.; xliii. 20 gives the converse picture; Ps.
contrasts both. So Horace, Od. III. iii. 40,
 “Dum Priami Paridisque busto Insultet armentum, et catulos ferae Celent inultae.’ 18. σχοινίῳ μακρῷ] Heb. ‘cords of vanity.’ ματαιω for μακρω
would be close to the original: Symmachus indeed has ὡς σχοινίῳ
ματαιότητος. The word is rendered ‘lies’ in lix. 4, cf. Exod. xx. 7, ἐπὶ
ματαίῳ. The Syriac (Peshitta) also has ‘long’: and Lowth suggested
that Lxx. read not ABBREV but ABBREV ‘prolonged,’ ‘overgrown,’ as in Levit.
xxi. 18, xxii. 2 3, A.V. ‘superfluous’; the verb occurs, chap. xxviii. 20.