LXX.'s rendering seems to emphasize the responsibility of the people for their own blindness and deafness: “like the deaf adder that stoppeth her car.” Ps. lviii. 4.

11. Ἔως πότι] Hardly classical Greek, but renders the Hebrew literally. Cf. Luke ix. 41. We have, however, ἕως ὅτε in Xenophon,ἕως ὀψὲ in Thucydides,ἕως οὗ in Herodotus,ἕως τοῦ c. infin. in Demosthenes.

In LXX. ἕως is used frequently as a prepos. c. gen.; e.g., Ps. civ. 23 cvi. 48, cviii. 4.

παρὰ τὸ μὴ κατοικεῖσθαι] Were we dealing with classical Greek, this might be explained, ‘up to the point of not being inhabited,’ ‘till they are not...’ See Liddell and Scott, παρά, C. I. 5. As, however, the Hebrew has D, of origin or cause, it must be explained as ‘because they are not....’ Cf. Exod. xiv. 11; Numb. xiv. 16; Jerem. iv. 7 (xl.) 10, 12; Zeph. iii. 6, &c. διὰ is also used, Jerem. vii.

καταλειφθήσεται] If this depends on ἕως, it must be accounted for like ἰάσομαι in ver. IO. The verb ‘be left’ for Heb. ‘be desolated’ suggests that LXX. read ‘ (cf. Shear-jashub, and mm. rendering, vii. 3) for ABBREVNote, with regard to A.V. margin, that Heb. words for ‘desolate’ and ‘desolation’ differ.