13. Cf. Psalm lxxxii. 1.

14. ἐνεπυρίσατι] Heb. word sometimes has this meaning; but Exod. xxii. 5, where it is rendered καταβοσκῆσαι, is strong evidence for its being here ‘to eat up.’ Vulg. depasti estis Another hint of coming parable of the vineyard, cf. i. 8.

15. mm. softens the Heb. verbs ‘crush’...‘grind.’ Vulg. atteritis commolitis. Cf. Amos ii. 6, Micah iii. 1—3, Ezek. xxxiv.

16, 17. Ver. 16 is slightly modified in the LXX. At the beginning of 17 καὶ represents the common Heb. conjunction 1, υ’—, here, often, used to mark the apodosis, as δέ sometimes is in Greek.

17. ταπεινώσα] Reading ABBREV(but it should be (Govett). ἀρχούσας] a Heb. word for ‘crown of the LXX. seem to have taken metaphorically; the verb, which is again softened, and the Heb. word represented by σχῆμα—habitum. Cyprian, see below ; crinem, Vulg.—occur here