2. "Hear, O heaven! and give ear, O earth;" for it is the fitting season for me to exclaim the same things with that loudest-voiced of all the prophets, Isaiah; save that he calls out and testifies thus to disobedient Israel; but I, over a tyrant who also was disobedient, and has fallen a fitting victim of his own impiety.

Βʹ. Ἄκουε, οὐρανὲ, καὶ ἐνωτίζου, γῆ: καιρὸς γάρ μοι τὰ αὐτὰ τῷ μεγαλοφωνοτάτῳ τῶν προφητῶν Ἠσαΐᾳ συμφθέγξασθαι. Πλὴν ὅσον ὁ μὲν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἀθετήσαντι ταῦτα καλεῖ καὶ μαρτύρεται: ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ τυράννῳ, καὶ ἀθετήσαντι καὶ πεσόντι πτῶμα τῆς ἀσεβείας ἄξιον.