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 ABBREVE 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 ABBREVE 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 ABBREVE).

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.