Θέαν πλοίων κάλλους] πλοίων seems here to be a mistaken addition;
the rest is not far from the Heb., ‘images,’ or ‘objects of desire’: to the
root ABBREV E is by many assigned the meaning ‘to see,’ so that θέα in the
sense of ‘an object of sight’ is very near, and κάλλος represents ABBREV E
also in liii. 2. Cf. Plat. Repub. Χ. 615 Α, διηγεῖσθαι θέας ἀμηχάνους τὸ
κάλλος. Vulg. has here omne, quad visu bulchrum est. 18. πάντα] Modems generally construe Heb. ‘utterly’ or ‘the
whole.’ κατακρύψουσιν] Rendered as plural in LXX., as if they read final 4
and by Vulg. contermtur, perhaps by grammatical necessity; it is
more probably intransitive. (Scholz suggests that LXX. read qbp for ABBREV E). 19. εἰσενέγκαντος] Lxx. substitutes participle, causal, for ‘and
they shall go.’ Cf. i. 23, προσέχοντες, for the same Heb. verb. The
Greek brings us back to the refrain with a touch of artifice.