Verse 27
From off thy shoulder - Bishop Lowth translates the whole verse thus: -
"And it shall come to pass in that day,
His burden shall be removed from off thy shoulder;
And his yoke off thy neck:
Yea, the yoke shall perish from off your shoulders.'
On which he gives us the following note: I follow here the Septuagint, who for שמן מפני mippeney shamen read משכמיכם mishshichmeychem , απο των ωμων ὑμων , from your shoulders, not being able to make any good sense out of the present reading. I will add here the marginal conjectures of Archbishop Secker, who appears, like all others, to have been at a loss for a probable interpretation of the text as it now stands." o. leg. שכם shakam ; forte legend. שמן מבני mibbeney shamen , vide cap. Isaiah 5:1 . Zechariah 4:14 ; : Et possunt intelligi Judaei uncti Dei , Psalm 105:15 , vel Assyrii , משמנים mishmannim , hic Psalm 105:16 , ut dicat propheta depulsum iri jugum ab his impositum: sed hoc durius. Vel potest legi שמי מפני mippeney shami ."
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