Biblia Sacra: VETUS TESTAMENTUM

1 et factum est in tricesimo anno in quarto mense in quinta mensis cum essem in medio captivorum iuxta fluvium Chobar aperti sunt caeli et vidi visiones Dei

1 and it came to pass in the thirtieth year in the fourth month on the fifth of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God

2 in quinta mensis ipse est annus quintus transmigrationis regis Ioachin

2 on the fifth of the month—it is the fifth year of the transmigration of King Jehoiachin

3 factum est verbum Domini ad Hiezecihel filium Buzi sacerdotem in terra Chaldeorum secus flumen Chobar et facta est super eum ibi manus Domini

3 the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans beside the river Chobar, and there the hand of the Lord was upon him

4 et vidi et ecce ventus turbinis veniebat ab aquilone et nubes magna et ignis involvens et splendor in circuitu eius et de medio eius quasi species electri id est de medio ignis

4 and I saw, and behold, a whirlwind was coming from the north, and a great cloud and a fire enfolding, and splendor round about it, and from its midst, as the appearance of electrum, that is, from the midst of the fire

5 et ex medio eorum similitudo quattuor animalium et hic aspectus eorum similitudo hominis in eis

5 and from the midst of them the similitude of four animals; and this was their aspect: the similitude of a man was in them.

6 et quattuor facies uni et quattuor pinnae uni

6 and four faces to each one, and four pinions to each one

7 et pedes eorum pedes recti et planta pedis eorum quasi planta pedis vituli et scintillae quasi aspectus aeris candentis

7 and their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was as the sole of a calf’s foot, and sparks like the aspect of incandescent bronze.

8 et manus hominis sub pinnis eorum in quattuor partibus et facies et pinnas per quattuor partes habebant

8 and the hands of a man were under their wings in four parts, and they had faces and wings in four parts

9 iunctaeque erant pinnae eorum alterius ad alterum non revertebantur cum incederent sed unumquodque ante faciem suam gradiebatur

9 and their pinions were joined one to another; they did not turn back when they advanced, but each one advanced straight before its face

10 similitudo autem vultus eorum facies hominis et facies leonis a dextris ipsorum quattuor facies autem bovis a sinistris ipsorum quattuor et facies aquilae ipsorum quattuor

10 And the likeness of their faces was: the face of a man; and the face of a lion on the right of the four of them; and the face of an ox on the left of the four of them; and the face of an eagle, of the four of them.

11 et facies eorum et pinnae eorum extentae desuper duae pinnae singulorum iungebantur et duae tegebant corpora eorum

11 and their faces and their pinions were outstretched above; two pinions of each were joined together, and two covered their bodies

12 et unumquodque coram facie sua ambulabat ubi erat impetus spiritus illuc gradiebantur nec revertebantur cum ambularent

12 and each was walking before its face; where the impetus of the spirit was, thither they were walking, nor were they turning back when they walked

13 et similitudo animalium aspectus eorum quasi carbonum ignis ardentium et quasi aspectus lampadarum haec erat visio discurrens in medio animalium splendor ignis et de igne fulgor egrediens

13 and the similitude of the animals—their aspect was as of coals of burning fire, and as the aspect of lamps; this was a vision running to and fro in the midst of the animals: a splendor of fire, and from the fire a flash going forth.

14 et animalia ibant et revertebantur in similitudinem fulguris coruscantis

14 and the animals went and returned, in the likeness of coruscating lightning

15 cumque aspicerem animalia apparuit rota una super terram iuxta animalia habens quattuor facies

15 and when I was looking at the animals, one wheel appeared upon the earth beside the animals, each having four faces

16 et aspectus rotarum et opus earum quasi visio maris et una similitudo ipsarum quattuor et aspectus earum et opera quasi sit rota in medio rotae

16 and the aspect of the wheels and their work was as the vision of the sea, and one similitude for the four of them; and their aspect and their work were as though a wheel were in the midst of a wheel

17 per quattuor partes earum euntes ibant et non revertebantur cum ambularent

17 going toward their four parts they went, and they did not turn back when they walked

18 statura quoque erat rotis et altitudo et horribilis aspectus et totum corpus plenum oculis in circuitu ipsarum quattuor

18 and there was, moreover, to the wheels stature and altitude and a horrible aspect, and the whole body of the four of them was full of eyes all around

19 cumque ambularent animalia ambulabant pariter et rotae iuxta ea et cum elevarentur animalia de terra elevabantur simul et rotae

19 and when the living creatures walked, the wheels walked together next to them; and when the living creatures were elevated from the earth, the wheels were elevated together as well

20 quocumque ibat spiritus illuc eunte spiritu et rotae pariter levabantur sequentes eum spiritus enim vitae erat in rotis

20 wherever the spirit went, with the spirit going there, the wheels were likewise lifted up, following it, for the spirit of life was in the wheels

21 cum euntibus ibant et cum stantibus stabant et cum elevatis a terra pariter elevabantur et rotae sequentes ea quia spiritus vitae erat in rotis

21 when they went, they went, and when they stood, they stood, and when they were lifted up from the earth, they were lifted up together, and the wheels followed them, because the spirit of life was in the wheels

22 et similitudo super caput animalium firmamenti quasi aspectus cristalli horribilis et extenti super capita eorum desuper

22 And over the head of the animals there was the similitude of a firmament, as the appearance of a terrible crystal, stretched out over their heads above.

23 sub firmamento autem pinnae eorum rectae alterius ad alterum unumquodque duabus alis velabat corpus suum et alterum similiter velabatur

23 Under the firmament, moreover, their pinions were straight, one toward the other; each one with two wings was veiling its body, and the other likewise was veiled.

24 et audiebam sonum alarum quasi sonum aquarum multarum quasi sonum sublimis Dei cum ambularent quasi sonus erat multitudinis ut sonus castrorum cumque starent dimittebantur pinnae eorum

24 and I was hearing the sound of the wings like the sound of many waters, like the sound of the sublime God; when they walked, it was like the sound of a multitude, like the sound of camps; and when they stood still, their pinions were let down

25 nam cum fieret vox supra firmamentum quod erat super caput eorum stabant et submittebant alas suas

25 for when a voice was made above the firmament that was over their heads, they stood and let down their wings

26 et super firmamentum quod erat inminens capiti eorum quasi aspectus lapidis sapphyri similitudo throni et super similitudinem throni similitudo quasi aspectus hominis desuper

26 and above the firmament which was overhanging their head, as the aspect of a sapphire stone, a likeness of a throne; and upon the likeness of the throne, a likeness as the aspect of a man above.

27 et vidi quasi speciem electri velut aspectum ignis intrinsecus eius per circuitum a lumbis eius et desuper et a lumbis eius usque deorsum vidi quasi speciem ignis splendentis in circuitu

27 and I saw as it were the appearance of electrum, like the aspect of fire within it all around; from his loins and upward, and from his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, shining in circuit.

28 velut aspectum arcus cum fuerit in nube in die pluviae hic erat aspectus splendoris per gyrum

28 like the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud on the day of rain, this was the appearance of the brightness round about

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1 haec visio similitudinis gloriae Domini et vidi et cecidi in faciem meam et audivi vocem loquentis et dixit ad me fili hominis sta supra pedes tuos et loquar tecum

1 this is the vision of the likeness of the glory of the Lord and I saw and I fell on my face and I heard the voice of one speaking and he said to me son of man stand upon your feet and I will speak with you

2 et ingressus est in me spiritus postquam locutus est mihi et statuit me supra pedes meos et audivi loquentem ad me

2 and the spirit entered into me after he spoke to me, and he set me upon my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me

3 et dicentem fili hominis mitto ego te ad filios Israhel ad gentes apostatrices quae recesserunt a me patres eorum praevaricati sunt pactum meum usque ad diem hanc

3 and he said, son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to apostate nations that have withdrawn from me; their fathers have transgressed my covenant up to this day

4 et filii dura facie et indomabili corde sunt ad quos ego mitto te et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus

4 and sons of a hard face and an indomitable heart are they, to whom I am sending you; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God.

5 si forte vel ipsi audiant et si forte quiescant quoniam domus exasperans est et scient quia propheta fuerit in medio eorum

5 if perhaps even they themselves may hear, and if perhaps they may be quiet, since it is an exasperating house, and they shall know that a prophet has been in the midst of them

6 tu ergo fili hominis ne timeas eos neque sermones eorum metuas quoniam increduli et subversores sunt tecum et cum scorpionibus habitas verba eorum ne timeas et vultus eorum ne formides quia domus exasperans est

6 but you, son of man, do not fear them, nor be afraid of their words, for the incredulous and subverters are with you, and you dwell with scorpions; do not fear their words, and do not dread their faces, for they are an exasperating house

7 loqueris ergo verba mea ad eos si forte audiant et quiescant quoniam inritatores sunt

7 you shall therefore speak my words to them, if perhaps they may hear and be quiet, since they are irritators

8 tu autem fili hominis audi quaecumque loquor ad te et noli esse exasperans sicut domus exasperatrix est aperi os tuum et comede quaecumque ego do tibi

8 But you, son of man, hear whatever I speak to you, and do not be exasperating (rebellious) like the exasperating house; open your mouth and eat whatever I give to you.

9 et vidi et ecce manus missa ad me in qua erat involutus liber et expandit illum coram me qui erat scriptus intus et foris et scriptae erant in eo lamentationes et carmen et vae

9 And I saw, and behold, a hand sent to me, in which there was a scroll rolled up; and he spread it before me, which was written within and without; and in it were written lamentations and a song and woe.

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1 et dixit ad me fili hominis quodcumque inveneris comede comede volumen istud et vadens loquere ad filios Israhel

1 and he said to me, son of man, whatever you find, eat; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the sons of Israel

2 et aperui os meum et cibavit me volumine illo

2 and I opened my mouth, and he fed me with that scroll

3 et dixit ad me fili hominis venter tuus comedet et viscera tua conplebuntur volumine isto quod ego do tibi et comedi illud et factum est in ore meo sicut mel dulce

3 and he said to me, son of man, your belly will eat, and your viscera will be filled with this volume which I give to you; and I ate it, and it became in my mouth like honey, sweet.

4 et dixit ad me fili hominis vade ad domum Israhel et loqueris verba mea ad eos

4 and he said to me, son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them

5 non enim ad populum profundi sermonis et ignotae linguae tu mitteris ad domum Israhel

5 for not to a people of deep speech and of an unknown tongue are you being sent, but to the house of Israel

6 neque ad populos multos profundi sermonis et ignotae linguae quorum non possis audire sermones et si ad illos mittereris ipsi audirent te

6 nor to many peoples of profound speech and an unknown language, whose speeches you cannot hear; and if you were sent to them, they themselves would listen to you

7 domus autem Israhel nolent audire te quia nolunt audire me omnis quippe domus Israhel adtrita fronte est et duro corde

7 but the house of Israel will be unwilling to hear you, because they are unwilling to hear me; for indeed all the house of Israel has a worn-down forehead and a hard heart

8 ecce dedi faciem tuam valentiorem faciebus eorum et frontem tuam duriorem frontibus eorum

8 behold, I have given your face stronger than their faces, and your forehead harder than their foreheads

9 ut adamantem et ut silicem dedi faciem tuam ne timeas eos neque metuas a facie eorum quia domus exasperans est

9 like adamant and like flint I have made your face; do not fear them nor dread their face, because it is an exasperating house

10 et dixit ad me fili hominis omnes sermones meos quos loquor ad te adsume in corde tuo et auribus tuis audi

10 and he said to me, son of man, all my words which I speak to you, take into your heart, and hear with your ears

11 et vade ingredere ad transmigrationem ad filios populi tui et loqueris ad eos et dices eis haec dicit Dominus Deus si forte audiant et quiescant

11 and go, enter to the transmigration, to the sons of your people, and you shall speak to them and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God, if perhaps they may hear and be quiet.

12 et adsumpsit me spiritus et audivi post me vocem commotionis magnae benedicta gloria Domini de loco suo

12 and the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great commotion: ‘Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.’

13 et vocem alarum animalium percutientium alteram ad alteram et vocem rotarum sequentium animalia et vocem commotionis magnae

13 and the voice of the wings of the living creatures striking one to another, and the voice of the wheels following the living creatures, and the voice of a great commotion

14 spiritus quoque levavit me et adsumpsit me et abii amarus in indignatione spiritus mei manus enim Domini erat mecum confortans me

14 the spirit also lifted me up and took me, and I went bitter in the indignation of my spirit; for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me

15 et veni ad transmigrationem acervum novarum frugum ad eos qui habitabant iuxta flumen Chobar et sedi ubi illi sedebant et mansi ibi septem diebus maerens in medio eorum

15 and I came to the transmigration, the heap of new fruits, to those who were dwelling beside the river Chobar, and I sat where they were sitting, and I remained there seven days, mourning in the midst of them

16 cum autem pertransissent septem dies factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

16 and when seven days had passed, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

17 fili hominis speculatorem dedi te domui Israhel et audies de ore meo verbum et adnuntiabis eis ex me

17 son of man, I have set you as a watchman to the house of Israel, and you will hear a word from my mouth and you will announce it to them from me.

18 si dicente me ad impium morte morieris non adnuntiaveris ei neque locutus fueris ut avertatur a via sua impia et vivat ipse impius in iniquitate sua morietur sanguinem autem eius de manu tua requiram

18 if, when I say to the impious, ‘by death you shall die,’ you do not announce it to him nor speak so that he may turn from his impious way and live, the impious man himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from your hand

19 si autem tu adnuntiaveris impio et ille non fuerit conversus ab impietate sua et via sua impia ipse quidem in iniquitate sua morietur tu autem animam tuam liberasti

19 if, however, you have announced to the impious, and he has not been converted from his impiety and his impious way, he indeed will die in his iniquity; but you have liberated your soul.

20 sed et si conversus iustus a iustitia sua fecerit iniquitatem ponam offendiculum coram eo ipse morietur quia non adnuntiasti ei in peccato suo morietur et non erunt in memoria iustitiae eius quas fecit sanguinem vero eius de manu tua requiram

20 but also, if a just man, turned from his justice, has done iniquity, I will set a stumbling-block before him; he himself shall die, because you did not announce to him; in his sin he shall die, and the just deeds of his which he did shall not be in memory; but his blood I will require from your hand.

21 si autem tu adnuntiaveris iusto ut non peccet iustus et ille non peccaverit vivens vivet quia adnuntiasti ei et tu animam tuam liberasti

21 but if you have warned the just man that the just man not sin, and he does not sin, living he shall live, because you have warned him, and you have delivered your soul

22 et facta est super me manus Domini et dixit ad me surgens egredere in campum et ibi loquar tecum

22 and the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me, rising, go out into the field, and there I will speak with you

23 et surgens egressus sum in campum et ecce ibi gloria Domini stabat quasi gloria quam vidi iuxta fluvium Chobar et cecidi in faciem meam

23 and rising I went out into the plain, and behold, there the glory of the Lord was standing, like the glory which I saw beside the river Chebar, and I fell upon my face

24 et ingressus est in me spiritus et statuit me super pedes meos et locutus est mihi et dixit ad me ingredere et includere in medio domus tuae

24 and the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet, and he spoke to me and said to me: enter and shut yourself within the midst of your house

25 et tu fili hominis ecce data sunt super te vincula et ligabunt te in eis et non egredieris in medio eorum

25 and you, son of man, behold, bonds are set upon you, and they will bind you with them, and you shall not go out into the midst of them

26 et linguam tuam adherescere faciam palato tuo et eris mutus nec quasi vir obiurgans quia domus exasperans est

26 and I will make your tongue adhere to your palate, and you will be mute, nor as a man objurgating, because it is an exasperating house

27 cum autem locutus fuero tibi aperiam os tuum et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus qui audit audiat et qui quiescit quiescat quia domus exasperans est

27 and when I shall have spoken to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: let him who hears hear, and let him who keeps quiet keep quiet, for it is an exasperating house.

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1 et tu fili hominis sume tibi laterem et pones eum coram te et describes in eo civitatem Hierusalem

1 and you, son of man, take for yourself a brick and you will set it before you and you will describe upon it the city Jerusalem

2 et ordinabis adversus eam obsidionem et aedificabis munitiones et conportabis aggerem et dabis contra eam castra et pones arietes in gyro

2 and you shall arrange against it a siege, and you shall build fortifications, and you shall bring together a rampart, and you shall set camps against it, and you shall place battering-rams round about

3 et tu sume tibi sartaginem ferream et pones eam murum ferreum inter te et inter civitatem et obfirmabis faciem tuam ad eam et erit in obsidionem et circumdabis eam signum est domui Israhel

3 and you, take for yourself an iron frying-pan, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city, and you shall set your face against it, and it shall be for a siege, and you shall encircle it—it is a sign to the house of Israel

4 et tu dormies super latus tuum sinistrum et pones iniquitates domus Israhel super eo numero dierum quibus dormies super illud et adsumes iniquitatem eorum

4 and you shall lie upon your left side, and you shall place the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of days during which you shall lie upon it; and you shall assume their iniquity.

5 ego autem dedi tibi annos iniquitatis eorum numero dierum trecentos et nonaginta dies et portabis iniquitatem domus Israhel

5 but I have given to you the years of their iniquity according to the number of days, 390 days, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel

6 et cum conpleveris haec dormies super latus tuum dextrum secundo et adsumes iniquitatem domus Iuda quadraginta diebus diem pro anno diem inquam pro anno dedi tibi

6 and when you have completed these, you will lie upon your right side a second time, and you will assume the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days, a day for a year, a day, I say, for a year I have given to you

7 et ad obsidionem Hierusalem convertes faciem tuam et brachium tuum erit exertum et prophetabis adversus eam

7 and toward the siege of Jerusalem you shall turn your face, and your arm shall be outstretched, and you shall prophesy against her

8 ecce circumdedi te vinculis et non te convertes a latere tuo in latus aliud donec conpleas dies obsidionis tuae

8 behold i have bound you with bonds, and you will not turn from your side to another side until you complete the days of your siege

9 et tu sume tibi frumentum et hordeum et fabam et lentem et milium et viciam et mittes ea in vas unum et facies tibi panes numero dierum quibus dormies super latus tuum trecentis et nonaginta diebus comedes illud

9 and you, take for yourself grain and barley and bean and lentil and millet and vetch, and you shall put them into one vessel, and you shall make for yourself loaves by the number of the days during which you will sleep upon your side; for 390 days you shall eat it.

10 cibus autem tuus quo vesceris erit in pondere viginti stateres in die a tempore usque ad tempus comedes illud

10 and your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels in a day; from time to time you shall eat it

11 et aquam in mensura bibes sextam partem hin a tempore usque ad tempus bibes illud

11 and water by measure you shall drink, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time you shall drink it

12 et quasi subcinericium hordiacium comedes illud et stercore quod egredietur de homine operies illud in oculis eorum

12 and as an ash-baked barley-cake you shall eat it, and with the dung that goes out of a man you shall cover it, in their sight

13 et dixit Dominus sic comedent filii Israhel panem suum pollutum inter gentes ad quas eiciam eos

13 and the Lord said: thus shall the sons of Israel eat their bread polluted among the nations to which I will cast them out

14 et dixi ha ha ha Domine Deus ecce anima mea non est polluta et morticinum et laceratum a bestiis non comedi ab infantia mea usque nunc et non est ingressa os meum omnis caro inmunda

14 and I said, ah, ah, ah, Lord God, behold, my soul has not been polluted, and a carcass and what is torn by beasts I have not eaten from my infancy until now, and no unclean flesh has entered my mouth.

15 et dixit ad me ecce dedi tibi fimum boum pro stercoribus humanis et facies panem tuum in eo

15 and he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow dung in place of human dung, and you shall make your bread upon it

16 et dixit ad me fili hominis ecce ego conteram baculum panis in Hierusalem et comedent panem in pondere et in sollicitudine et aquam in mensura et in angustia bibent

16 And he said to me, son of man, behold, I will shatter the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread in weight and in solicitude, and water in measure, and in anguish they will drink.

17 ut deficientibus pane et aqua corruat unusquisque ad fratrem suum et contabescant in iniquitatibus suis

17 so that, with bread and water failing, each may fall against his brother, and they may waste away in their iniquities

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1 et tu fili hominis sume tibi gladium acutum radentem pilos adsumes eum et duces per caput tuum et per barbam tuam et adsumes tibi stateram ponderis et divides eos

1 And you, son of man, take for yourself a sharp sword; as a razor shaving hairs you shall take it, and you shall draw it over your head and over your beard; and you shall take for yourself a balance of weight and divide them.

2 tertiam partem igni conbures in medio civitatis iuxta conpletionem dierum obsidionis et adsumens tertiam partem concides gladio in circuitu eius tertiam vero aliam disperges in ventum et gladium nudabo post eos

2 a third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the completion of the days of the siege; and taking a third part, you shall cut down with the sword around it; but another third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will bare the sword after them

3 et sumes inde parvum numerum et ligabis eos in summitate pallii tui

3 and you shall take from there a small number and you shall bind them in the hem of your cloak

4 et ex eis rursum tolles et proicies in medio ignis et conbures eos igni ex eo egredietur ignis in omnem domum Israhel

4 and from them again you will take, and you will cast into the midst of the fire, and you will burn them with fire; from it a fire will go forth into all the house of Israel

5 haec dicit Dominus Deus ista est Hierusalem in medio gentium posui eam et in circuitu eius terras

5 thus says the Lord God: this is Jerusalem; in the midst of the nations I have set her, and the lands round about her

6 et contempsit iudicia mea ut plus esset impia quam gentes et praecepta mea ultra quam terrae quae in circuitu eius sunt iudicia enim mea proiecerunt et in praeceptis meis non ambulaverunt

6 and she contemned my judgments, so as to be more impious than the nations, and my precepts beyond the lands that are in her circuit; for they have cast forth my judgments, and in my precepts they have not walked

7 idcirco haec dicit Dominus Deus quia superastis gentes quae in circuitu vestro sunt in praeceptis meis non ambulastis et iudicia mea non fecistis et iuxta iudicia gentium quae in circuitu vestro sunt non estis operati

7 therefore thus says the Lord God: because you have surpassed the nations that are around you— in my precepts you have not walked, and my judgments you have not done; and according to the judgments of the nations that are around you you have not acted

8 ideo haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad te et ipse ego faciam in medio tui iudicia in oculis gentium

8 therefore thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against you, and I, even I, will execute judgments in your midst, in the eyes of the nations.

9 et faciam in te quae non feci et quibus similia ultra non faciam propter omnes abominationes tuas

9 and I will do in you things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do any more, on account of all your abominations

10 ideo patres comedent filios in medio tui et filii comedent patres suos et faciam in te iudicia et ventilabo universas reliquias tuas in omnem ventum

10 therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and I will winnow all your remnant into every wind.

11 idcirco vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus nisi pro eo quod sanctum meum violasti in omnibus offensionibus tuis et in omnibus abominationibus tuis ego quoque confringam et non parcet oculus meus et non miserebor

11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely because you have violated my sanctuary in all your offenses and in all your abominations, I too will shatter, and my eye will not spare, and I will not have mercy.

12 tertia tui pars peste morietur et fame consumetur in medio tui et tertia tui pars gladio cadet in circuitu tuo tertiam vero partem tuam in omnem ventum dispergam et gladium evaginabo post eos

12 a third part of you will die by pestilence and be consumed by famine in your midst, and a third part of you will fall by the sword around you, but the third part of you I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword after them

13 et conpleam furorem meum et requiescere faciam indignationem meam in eis et consolabor et scient quia ego Dominus locutus sum in zelo meo cum implevero indignationem meam in eis

13 And I will complete my fury, and I will make my indignation rest upon them, and I will be consoled; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I have completed my indignation upon them.

14 et dabo te in desertum et in obprobrium in gentibus quae in circuitu tuo sunt in conspectu omnis praetereuntis

14 and I will make you a desert and an opprobrium among the nations that are around you, in the sight of every passer-by

15 et eris obprobrium et blasphemia exemplum et stupor in gentibus quae in circuitu tuo sunt cum fecero in te iudicia in furore et in indignatione et in increpationibus irae

15 and you shall be an opprobrium and a blasphemy, an example and a stupor among the nations that are around you, when I have executed judgments in you in fury and in indignation and in rebukes of wrath

16 ego Dominus locutus sum quando misero sagittas famis pessimas in eos quae erunt mortiferae et quas mittam ut disperdam vos et famem congregabo super vos et conteram vobis baculum panis

16 I, the Lord, have spoken: when I send the worst arrows of famine among them, which shall be mortiferous, and which I will send to destroy you; and I will gather famine upon you, and I will break for you the staff of bread.

17 et inmittam in vos famem et bestias pessimas usque ad internicionem et pestilentia et sanguis transibunt per te et gladium inducam super te ego Dominus locutus sum

17 and I will send into you famine and the worst beasts unto internecine destruction, and pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring a sword upon you; I, the Lord, have spoken

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis pone faciem tuam ad montes Israhel et prophetabis ad eos

2 son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and you shall prophesy to them

3 et dices montes Israhel audite verbum Domini Dei haec dicit Dominus Deus montibus et collibus rupibus et vallibus ecce ego inducam super vos gladium et disperdam excelsa vestra

3 and you shall say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the crags and the valleys: behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

4 et demoliar aras vestras et confringentur simulacra vestra et deiciam interfectos vestros ante idola vestra

4 and I will demolish your altars, and your simulacra shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols

5 et dabo cadavera filiorum Israhel ante faciem simulacrorum vestrorum et dispergam ossa vestra circum aras vestras

5 and I will lay the corpses of the sons of Israel before the face of your idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars

6 in omnibus habitationibus vestris urbes desertae erunt et excelsa demolientur et dissipabuntur et interibunt arae vestrae et confringentur et cessabunt idola vestra et conterentur delubra vestra et delebuntur opera vestra

6 in all your habitations your cities will be desolate, and the high places will be demolished and be dissipated, and your altars will perish; and they will be broken, and your idols will cease, and your shrines will be crushed, and your works will be blotted out

7 et cadet interfectus in medio vestri et scietis quoniam ego Dominus

7 and the slain will fall in the midst of you, and you will know that I am the Lord

8 et relinquam in vobis eos qui fugerint gladium in gentibus cum dispersero vos in terris

8 and I will leave in you those who shall have escaped the sword among the nations, when I shall have dispersed you in the lands

9 et recordabuntur mei liberati vestri in gentibus ad quas captivi ducti sunt quia contrivi cor eorum fornicans et recedens a me et oculos eorum fornicantes post idola sua et displicebunt sibimet super malis quae fecerunt in universis abominationibus suis

9 and your survivors will remember me among the nations to which they were led captive, because I have crushed their heart, fornicating and departing from me, and their eyes fornicating after their idols; and they will loathe themselves over the evils which they have done in all their abominations

10 et scient quia ego Dominus non frustra locutus sum ut facerem eis malum hoc

10 and they will know that I, the Lord, have not spoken in vain, that I would bring this evil upon them

11 haec dicit Dominus Deus percute manu tua et adlide pedem tuum et dic eheu ad omnes abominationes malorum domus Israhel qui gladio fame peste ruituri sunt

11 thus says the Lord God: strike with your hand and stamp your foot, and say, alas, for all the abominations of the evil things of the house of Israel, who are about to fall by the sword, by famine, by pestilence.

12 qui longe est peste morietur qui autem prope gladio corruet et qui relictus fuerit et obsessus fame morietur et conpleam indignationem meam in eis

12 he who is far off shall die by pestilence; but he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who is left and besieged shall die by famine; and I will complete my indignation upon them

13 et scietis quia ego Dominus cum fuerint interfecti vestri in medio idolorum vestrorum in circuitu ararum vestrarum in omni colle excelso in cunctis summitatibus montium et subtus omne lignum nemorosum et subtus universam quercum frondosam locum ubi accenderunt tura redolentia universis idolis suis

13 and you will know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be in the midst of your idols, around your altars, on every high hill, on all the summits of the mountains, and under every leafy tree, and under every leafy oak—the place where they burned fragrant incenses to all their idols

14 et extendam manum meam super eos et faciam terram desolatam et destitutam a deserto Deblatha in omnibus habitationibus eorum et scient quia ego Dominus

14 and I will extend my hand over them, and I will make the land desolated and destitute, from the desert of Deblatha, in all their habitations; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 et tu fili hominis haec dicit Dominus Deus terrae Israhel finis venit finis super quattuor plagas terrae

2 and you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: an end has come, the end upon the four quarters of the land

3 nunc finis super te et emittam furorem meum in te et iudicabo te iuxta vias tuas et ponam contra te omnes abominationes tuas

3 now the end is upon you, and I will send forth my fury upon you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will set against you all your abominations

4 et non parcet oculus meus super te et non miserebor sed vias tuas ponam super te et abominationes tuae in medio tui erunt et scietis quia ego Dominus

4 and my eye will not spare you, and I will not have mercy; but I will set your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I am the Lord

5 haec dicit Dominus Deus adflictio una adflictio ecce venit

5 thus says the Lord God: affliction, one affliction: behold, it comes

6 finis venit venit finis evigilavit adversum te ecce venit

6 the end has come the end has come it has awakened against you behold it has come

7 venit contractio super te qui habitas in terra venit tempus prope est dies occisionis et non gloriae montium

7 contraction comes upon you, you who dwell in the land; the time has come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the glory of the mountains

8 nunc de propinquo effundam iram meam super te et conpleam furorem meum in te et iudicabo te iuxta vias tuas et inponam tibi omnia scelera tua

8 now, from nearby, I will pour out my wrath upon you, and I will complete my fury against you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will impose upon you all your crimes

9 et non parcet oculus meus neque miserebor sed vias tuas inponam tibi et abominationes tuae in medio tui erunt et scietis quia ego sum Dominus percutiens

9 and my eye will not spare, nor will I pity; but I will impose your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I am the Lord, the one striking.

10 ecce dies ecce venit egressa est contractio floruit virga germinavit superbia

10 behold the day behold it has come the constriction has gone forth the rod has flourished pride has germinated

11 iniquitas surrexit in virga impietatis non ex eis et non ex populo neque ex sonitu eorum et non erit requies in eis

11 iniquity has arisen as a rod of impiety; not from them, and not from the people, nor from their sound; and there will be no rest in them

12 venit tempus adpropinquavit dies qui emit non laetetur et qui vendit non lugeat quia ira super omnem populum eius

12 the time has come, the day has drawn near; let the one who buys not rejoice, and let the one who sells not mourn, because wrath is upon all his people

13 quia qui vendit ad id quod vendidit non revertetur et adhuc in viventibus vita eorum visio enim ad omnem multitudinem eius non regredietur et vir in iniquitate vitae suae non confortabitur

13 because the seller shall not return to that which he sold—even while they are yet among the living; for the vision concerning all his multitude shall not turn back; and a man shall not be strengthened in the iniquity of his life.

14 canite tuba praeparentur omnes et non est qui vadat ad proelium ira enim mea super universum populum eius

14 sound the trumpet let all be prepared and there is no one who goes forth to battle for my wrath is upon the whole of his people

15 gladius foris pestis et fames intrinsecus qui in agro est gladio morietur et qui in civitate pestilentia et fame devorabuntur

15 the sword outside, pestilence and famine within; he who is in the field will die by the sword, and those who are in the city will be devoured by pestilence and famine

16 et salvabuntur qui fugerint ex eis et erunt in montibus quasi columbae convallium omnes trepidi unusquisque in iniquitate sua

16 and those of them who escape will be saved, and they will be on the mountains like the doves of the valleys, all trembling, each in his iniquity

17 omnes manus dissolventur et omnia genua fluent aquis

17 all hands will be dissolved, and all knees will flow with waters

18 et accingent se ciliciis et operiet eos formido et in omni facie confusio et in universis capitibus eorum calvitium

18 and they will gird themselves with cilices (sackcloth), and dread will cover them, and on every face confusion, and on all their heads baldness

19 argentum eorum foris proicietur et aurum eorum in sterquilinium erit argentum eorum et aurum eorum non valebit liberare eos in die furoris Domini animam suam non saturabunt et ventres eorum non implebuntur quia scandalum iniquitatis eorum factum est

19 their silver will be thrown outside and their gold will be in a dunghill their silver and their gold will not be able to liberate them on the day of the Lord’s fury they will not satiate their soul and their bellies will not be filled because it has become the scandal of their iniquity

20 et ornamentum monilium suorum in superbiam posuerunt et imagines abominationum suarum et simulacrorum fecerunt ex eo propter hoc dedi eis illud in inmunditiam

20 and the ornament of their necklaces they set in pride, and from it they made images of their abominations and their idols; for this reason I gave it to them as uncleanness

21 et dabo illud in manus alienorum ad diripiendum et impiis terrae in praedam et contaminabunt illud

21 and I will give it into the hands of aliens to be despoiled, and to the impious of the land for a prey, and they will contaminate it

22 et avertam faciem meam ab eis et violabunt arcanum meum et introibunt in illud emissarii et contaminabunt illud

22 and I will turn my face away from them, and they will violate my secret place, and into it the emissaries will enter, and they will contaminate it

23 fac conclusionem quoniam terra plena est iudicio sanguinum et civitas plena iniquitate

23 make the chain, for the land is full of judgment of bloodshed, and the city full of iniquity

24 et adducam pessimos de gentibus et possidebunt domos eorum et quiescere faciam superbiam potentium et possidebunt sanctuaria eorum

24 and I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses, and I will cause the pride of the potent to rest, and they shall possess their sanctuaries

25 angustia superveniente requirent pacem et non erit

25 with anguish supervening they will seek peace, and it shall not be

26 conturbatio super conturbationem veniet et auditus super auditum et quaerent visionem de propheta et lex peribit a sacerdote et consilium a senioribus

26 perturbation upon perturbation will come, and report upon report; and they will seek a vision from the prophet, and the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders

27 rex lugebit et princeps induetur maerore et manus populi terrae conturbabuntur secundum viam eorum faciam eis et secundum iudicia eorum iudicabo eos et scient quia ego Dominus

27 the king will lament, and the prince will be clothed with mourning, and the hands of the people of the land will be disturbed; according to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they will know that I am the Lord.

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1 et factum est in anno sexto in sexto mense in quinta mensis ego sedebam in domo mea et senes Iuda sedebant coram me et cecidit super me ibi manus Domini Dei

1 and it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, and there fell upon me there the hand of the Lord God

2 et vidi et ecce similitudo quasi aspectus ignis ab aspectu lumborum eius et deorsum ignis et a lumbis eius et sursum quasi aspectus splendoris ut visio electri

2 and I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of splendor, like the vision of electrum (amber)

3 et emissa similitudo manus adprehendit me in cincinno capitis mei et elevavit me spiritus inter terram et caelum et adduxit in Hierusalem in visione Dei iuxta ostium interius quod respiciebat aquilonem ubi erat statutum idolum zeli ad provocandam aemulationem

3 and a likeness as of a hand was sent forth and apprehended me by the lock of my head, and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me into Jerusalem in a vision of God, near the inner gate that looked toward the north, where the idol of jealousy was set to provoke emulation.

4 et ecce ibi gloria Dei Israhel secundum visionem quam videram in campo

4 and behold, there was the glory of the God of Israel, according to the vision which I had seen in the plain.

5 et dixit ad me fili hominis leva oculos tuos ad viam aquilonis et levavi oculos meos ad viam aquilonis et ecce ab aquilone portae altaris idolum zeli in ipso introitu

5 And he said to me, Son of man, lift your eyes to the way of the north; and I lifted my eyes to the way of the north, and behold, to the north of the gate of the altar, the idol of jealousy, in the very entrance.

6 et dixit ad me fili hominis putasne vides tu quid isti faciant abominationes magnas quas domus Israhel facit hic ut procul recedam a sanctuario meo et adhuc conversus videbis abominationes maiores

6 and he said to me, son of man, do you think you see what these are doing—the great abominations which the house of Israel does here—that I should withdraw far from my sanctuary? and yet, turning again, you will see greater abominations.

7 et introduxit me ad ostium atrii et vidi et ecce foramen unum in pariete

7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and I saw; and behold, a single hole in the wall.

8 et dixit ad me fili hominis fode parietem et cum perfodissem parietem apparuit ostium unum

8 and he said to me, son of man, dig through the wall; and when I had dug through the wall, a single door appeared.

9 et dixit ad me ingredere et vide abominationes pessimas quas isti faciunt hic

9 and he said to me, enter and see the most wicked abominations which these are doing here

10 et ingressus vidi et ecce omnis similitudo reptilium et animalium abominatio et universa idola domus Israhel depicta erant in pariete in circuitu per totum

10 and, having entered, I saw; and behold, every likeness of creeping things and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were depicted on the wall round about throughout

11 et septuaginta viri de senioribus domus Israhel et Hiezonias filius Saphan stabat in medio eorum stantium ante picturas et unusquisque habebat turibulum in manu sua et vapor nebulae de ture consurgebat

11 and seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan, was standing in the midst of them, as they stood before the pictures; and each man had a censer in his hand, and the vapor-cloud of incense was rising.

12 et dixit ad me certe vides fili hominis quae seniores domus Israhel faciunt in tenebris unusquisque in abscondito cubiculi sui dicunt enim non videt Dominus nos dereliquit Dominus terram

12 and he said to me: surely you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each in the hidden place of his chamber; for they say, the Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land

13 et dixit ad me adhuc conversus videbis abominationes maiores quas isti faciunt

13 and he said to me turn again, and you will see greater abominations which these are doing

14 et introduxit me per ostium portae domus Domini quod respiciebat ad aquilonem et ecce ibi mulieres sedebant plangentes Adonidem

14 and he led me in through the doorway of the gate of the house of the Lord which looked toward the north, and behold, there women were sitting, lamenting Adonis.

15 et dixit ad me certe vidisti fili hominis adhuc conversus videbis abominationes maiores his

15 and he said to me, surely you have seen, son of man; turning yet again you will see abominations greater than these

16 et introduxit me in atrium domus Domini interius et ecce in ostio templi Domini inter vestibulum et altare quasi viginti quinque viri dorsa habentes contra templum Domini et facies ad orientem et adorabant ad ortum solis

16 and he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the vestibule and the altar, as it were twenty-five men, having their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces to the east, and they were worshipping at the rising of the sun

17 et dixit ad me certe vidisti fili hominis numquid leve est hoc domui Iuda ut facerent abominationes istas quas fecerunt hic quia replentes terram iniquitate conversi sunt ad inritandum me et ecce adplicant ramum ad nares suas

17 and he said to me, surely you have seen, son of man; is this a light thing to the house of Judah, that they should do these abominations which they have done here? for, filling the land with iniquity, they have turned to irritate me; and behold, they apply the branch to their noses.

18 ergo et ego faciam in furore non parcet oculus meus nec miserebor et cum clamaverint ad aures meas voce magna non exaudiam eos

18 therefore I too will act in fury; my eye will not spare, nor will I pity; and when they cry with a great voice into my ears, I will not hear them.

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1 et clamavit in auribus meis voce magna dicens adpropinquaverunt visitationes urbis et unusquisque vas interfectionis habet in manu sua

1 and he cried in my ears with a great voice, saying: the visitations of the city have drawn near, and each one has the instrument of killing in his hand

2 et ecce sex viri veniebant de via portae superioris quae respicit ad aquilonem et uniuscuiusque vas interitus in manu eius vir quoque unus in medio eorum vestitus lineis et atramentarium scriptoris ad renes eius et ingressi sunt et steterunt iuxta altare aereum

2 and behold, six men were coming by the way of the upper gate which looks toward the north, and each one’s vessel of destruction in his hand; and one man, too, in the midst of them, clothed in linens, and the inkwell of a scribe at his loins; and they entered and stood beside the brazen altar.

3 et gloria Domini Israhel adsumpta est de cherub quae erat super eum ad limen domus et vocavit virum qui indutus erat lineis et atramentarium scriptoris habebat in lumbis suis

3 and the glory of the Lord of Israel was taken up from the cherub, which was over it, to the threshold of the house, and he called the man who was clothed in linens and had the scribe’s inkstand at his loins

4 et dixit Dominus ad eum transi per mediam civitatem in medio Hierusalem et signa thau super frontes virorum gementium et dolentium super cunctis abominationibus quae fiunt in medio eius

4 and the Lord said to him: pass through the middle of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark a thau upon the foreheads of the men groaning and grieving over all the abominations that are done in its midst

5 et illis dixit audiente me transite per civitatem sequentes eum et percutite non parcat oculus vester neque misereamini

5 and to them he said, as I was hearing, pass through the city following him and strike; let not your eye spare, nor show mercy.

6 senem adulescentulum et virginem parvulum et mulieres interficite usque ad internicionem omnem autem super quem videritis thau ne occidatis et a sanctuario meo incipite coeperunt ergo a viris senioribus qui erant ante faciem domus

6 old man, adolescent and virgin, little child and women—kill unto total extermination; but everyone upon whom you see a thau, do not slay; and begin from my sanctuary. therefore they began from the elder men who were before the face of the house

7 et dixit ad eos contaminate domum et implete atria interfectis egredimini et egressi sunt et percutiebant eos qui erant in civitate

7 and he said to them contaminate the house and fill the atria with the slain go out and they went out and were striking those who were in the city

8 et caede conpleta remansi ego ruique super faciem meam et clamans aio heu heu heu Domine Deus ergone disperdes omnes reliquias Israhel effundens furorem tuum super Hierusalem

8 and when the slaughter was completed, I was left, and I fell upon my face, and crying out I said, “Alas, alas, alas, Lord God! Will you then destroy all the remnant of Israel, pouring out your fury upon Jerusalem?”

9 et dixit ad me iniquitas domus Israhel et Iuda magna est nimis valde et repleta est terra sanguinibus et civitas repleta est aversione dixerunt enim dereliquit Dominus terram et Dominus non videt

9 and he said to me: the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city is filled with turning-away; for they have said, “The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.”

10 igitur et meus non parcet oculus neque miserebor viam eorum super caput eorum reddam

10 therefore my eye also will not spare, nor will I pity; I will repay their way upon their head.

11 et ecce vir qui indutus erat lineis qui habebat atramentarium in dorso suo respondit verbum dicens feci sicut praecepisti mihi

11 and behold, the man who was clothed in linens, who had the inkwell on his back, responded a word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.”

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1 et vidi et ecce in firmamento quod erat super caput cherubin quasi lapis sapphyrus quasi species similitudinis solii apparuit super ea

1 and I saw, and behold, in the firmament which was over the head of the cherubim there appeared over them, as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 et dixit ad virum qui indutus erat lineis et ait ingredere in medio rotarum quae sunt subtus cherub et imple manum tuam prunis ignis quae sunt inter cherubin et effunde super civitatem ingressusque est in conspectu meo

2 and he said to the man who was clothed in linen, Enter into the midst of the wheels which are beneath the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire which are between the cherubim, and pour them out over the city; and he entered in my sight

3 cherubin autem stabant a dextris domus cum ingrederetur vir et nubes implevit atrium interius

3 now the cherubim were standing at the right of the house when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court

4 et elevata est gloria Domini desuper cherub ad limen domus et repleta est domus nube et atrium repletum est splendore gloriae Domini

4 and the glory of the Lord was lifted up from above the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the atrium was filled with the splendor of the glory of the Lord

5 et sonitus alarum cherubin audiebatur usque ad atrium exterius quasi vox Dei omnipotentis loquentis

5 and the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, like the voice of God the Omnipotent speaking

6 cumque praecepisset viro qui indutus erat lineis dicens sume ignem de medio rotarum quae sunt inter cherubin ingressus ille stetit iuxta rotam

6 and when he had commanded the man who was clothed in linen, saying, take fire from the midst of the wheels which are between the cherubim, he went in and stood beside the wheel

7 et extendit cherub manum de medio cherubin ad ignem qui erat inter cherubin et sumpsit et dedit in manus eius qui indutus erat lineis qui accipiens egressus est

7 and the cherub extended a hand from the midst of the cherubim to the fire that was among the cherubim, and he took and gave it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who, receiving it, went out

8 et apparuit in cherubin similitudo manus hominis subtus pinnas eorum

8 and there appeared in the cherubim the similitude of the hand of a man under their wings

9 et vidi et ecce quattuor rotae iuxta cherubin rota una iuxta cherub unum et rota alia iuxta cherub unum species autem erat rotarum quasi visio lapidis chrysoliti

9 and I saw, and behold four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside one cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was as the vision of a chrysolite stone

10 et aspectus earum similitudo una quattuor quasi sit rota in medio rotae

10 and their aspect, their similitude was one for the four, as if there were a wheel in the middle of a wheel

11 cumque ambularent in quattuor partes gradiebantur non revertebantur ambulantes sed ad locum ad quem ire declinabat quae prima erat sequebantur et ceterae nec convertebantur

11 and whenever they walked, they advanced toward their four quarters; they did not turn back as they walked, but to the place to which the one that was first inclined to go, the others followed, and they did not turn

12 et omne corpus earum et colla et manus et pinnae et circuli plena erant oculis in circuitu quattuor rotarum

12 and all their body, and their necks and their hands and their pinions and their circles, were full of eyes round about the four wheels

13 et rotas istas vocavit volubiles audiente me

13 and he called those wheels revolving, in my hearing

14 quattuor autem facies habebat unum facies una facies cherub et facies secunda facies hominis et in tertio facies leonis et in quarto facies aquilae

14 and it had four faces: one face, the face of a cherub; and the second, the face of a man; and in the third, the face of a lion; and in the fourth, the face of an eagle

15 et elevata sunt cherubin ipsum est animal quod videram iuxta flumen Chobar

15 and the cherubim were lifted up; this is the living creature that I had seen beside the River Chebar

16 cumque ambularent cherubin ibant pariter et rotae iuxta ea et cum levarent cherubin alas suas ut exaltarentur de terra non residebant rotae sed et ipsae iuxta erant

16 and when the cherubim walked, they went together, and the wheels were alongside them; and when the cherubim lifted their wings to be exalted from the earth, the wheels did not settle, but they too were alongside.

17 stantibus illis stabant et cum elevatis elevabantur spiritus enim vitae erat in eis

17 as they stood, they stood, and when they were lifted up, they were lifted up, for the spirit of life was in them

18 et egressa est gloria Domini a limine templi et stetit super cherubin

18 and the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim

19 et elevantia cherubin alas suas exaltata sunt a terra coram me et illis egredientibus rotae quoque subsecutae sunt et stetit in introitu portae domus Domini orientalis et gloria Dei Israhel erat super ea

19 and as the cherubim were lifting up their wings, they were exalted from the earth before me, and as they were going out, the wheels likewise followed; and it stood at the entrance of the eastern gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them

20 ipsum est animal quod vidi subter Deum Israhel iuxta fluvium Chobar et intellexi quia cherubin essent

20 this is the very animal which I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chobar, and I understood that they were cherubim

21 quattuor per quattuor vultus uni et quattuor alae uni et similitudo manus hominis sub alis eorum

21 four by four faces to each one, and four wings to each one, and the similitude of a man’s hand under their wings

22 et similitudo vultuum eorum ipsi vultus quos videram iuxta fluvium Chobar et intuitus eorum et impetus singulorum ante faciem suam ingredi

22 and the similitude of their faces—the very faces which I had seen by the river Chebar—and their look, and the impetus of each, was to go forward before his own face

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1 et elevavit me spiritus et introduxit me ad portam domus Domini orientalem quae respicit solis ortum et ecce in introitu portae viginti quinque viri et vidi in medio eorum Hiezoniam filium Azur et Pheltiam filium Banaiae principes populi

1 and the spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of the house of the Lord, which faces the rising of the sun; and behold, at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw in the midst of them Hiezoniah son of Azur and Pheltiah son of Banaiah, princes of the people

2 dixitque ad me fili hominis hii viri qui cogitant iniquitatem et tractant consilium pessimum in urbe ista

2 and he said to me, son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and contrive the worst counsel in this city.

3 dicentes nonne dudum aedificatae sunt domus haec est lebes nos autem carnes

3 saying, were not houses built a short while ago? this is the cauldron, but we are the meat

4 idcirco vaticinare de eis vaticinare fili hominis

4 therefore vaticinate against them, vaticinate, son of man

5 et inruit in me spiritus Domini et dixit ad me loquere haec dicit Dominus sic locuti estis domus Israhel et cogitationes cordis vestri ego novi

5 and the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon me and said to me, Speak: Thus says the Lord: Thus you have spoken, house of Israel; and the cogitations of your heart I know.

6 plurimos occidistis in urbe hac et implestis vias eius interfectis

6 you have killed very many in this city and you have filled its streets with the slain

7 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus interfecti vestri quos posuistis in medio eius hii sunt carnes et haec est lebes et educam vos de medio eius

7 therefore thus says the Lord God: your slain whom you have placed in its midst—these are the flesh, and this is the cauldron; and I will lead you out from its midst

8 gladium metuistis et gladium inducam super vos ait Dominus Deus

8 you have feared the sword, and the sword I will bring upon you, says the Lord God

9 et eiciam vos de medio eius daboque vos in manu hostium et faciam in vobis iudicia

9 and I will cast you out from its midst and I will give you into the hand of the enemies and I will execute judgments upon you

10 gladio cadetis in finibus Israhel iudicabo vos et scietis quia ego Dominus

10 you shall fall by the sword; within the borders of Israel I will judge you, and you shall know that I am the Lord

11 haec non erit vobis in lebetem et vos non eritis in medio eius in carnes in finibus Israhel iudicabo vos

11 this will not be to you as a cauldron, and you will not be meat in its midst; at the borders of Israel I will judge you

12 et scietis quia ego Dominus qui in praeceptis meis non ambulastis et iudicia mea non fecistis sed iuxta iudicia gentium quae in circuitu vestro sunt estis operati

12 and you shall know that I am the Lord, that in my precepts you have not walked and my judgments you have not done, but according to the judgments of the nations which are around you you have acted

13 et factum est cum prophetarem Pheltias filius Banaiae mortuus est et cecidi in faciem meam clamans voce magna et dixi heu heu heu Domine Deus consummationem tu facis reliquiarum Israhel

13 and it came to pass, while I was prophesying, Pheltias son of Benaiah died, and I fell on my face, crying with a great voice, and I said, alas, alas, alas, Lord God, are you making a consummation of the remnant of Israel

14 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

14 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

15 fili hominis fratres tui fratres tui viri propinqui tui et omnis domus Israhel universi quibus dixerunt habitatores Hierusalem longe recedite a Domino nobis data est terra in possessionem

15 son of man, your brothers, your brothers, your kinsmen, and all the house of Israel, all of them, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Withdraw far from the Lord; to us the land has been given for a possession’

16 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus quia longe feci eos in gentibus et quia dispersi eos in terris ero eis in sanctificationem modicam in terris ad quas venerunt

16 Therefore thus says the Lord God: because I have made them far off among the nations, and because I have scattered them in the lands, I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the lands to which they have come

17 propterea loquere haec dicit Dominus Deus congregabo vos de populis et adunabo de terris in quibus dispersi estis daboque vobis humum Israhel

17 therefore speak: thus says the Lord God, I will gather you from the peoples and will unite you from the lands in which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel

18 et ingredientur illuc et auferent omnes offensiones cunctasque abominationes eius de illa

18 and they shall enter there, and they shall remove all its offenses and all its abominations from it

19 et dabo eis cor unum et spiritum novum tribuam in visceribus eorum et auferam cor lapideum de carne eorum et dabo eis cor carneum

19 and I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will bestow within their inward parts, and I will take away the heart of stone from their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh

20 ut in praeceptis meis ambulent et iudicia mea custodiant faciantque ea et sint mihi in populum et ego sim eis in Deum

20 that they may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments and do them, and they may be to me for a people, and I will be to them for a God

21 quorum cor post offendicula et abominationes suas ambulat horum viam in capite suo ponam dicit Dominus Deus

21 whose heart walks after their offenses and their abominations, the way of these I will put upon their head, says the Lord God

22 et elevaverunt cherubin alas suas et rotae cum eis et gloria Dei Israhel erat super ea

22 and the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels with them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them

23 et ascendit gloria Domini de medio civitatis stetitque super montem qui est ad orientem urbis

23 and the glory of the Lord ascended from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is to the east of the city

24 et spiritus levavit me adduxitque in Chaldeam ad transmigrationem in visione in spiritu Dei et sublata est a me visio quam videram

24 and the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into Chaldea to the transmigration, in a vision, in the Spirit of God, and the vision that I had seen was taken up from me

25 et locutus sum ad transmigrationem omnia verba Domini quae ostenderat mihi

25 and I spoke to the captivity all the words of the Lord which he had shown to me

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis in medio domus exasperantis tu habitas qui oculos habent ad videndum et non vident et aures ad audiendum et non audiunt quia domus exasperans est

2 son of man, you dwell in the midst of a house that exasperates, who have eyes for seeing and do not see, and ears for hearing and do not hear, because it is an exasperating house

3 tu ergo fili hominis fac tibi vasa transmigrationis et transmigrabis per diem coram eis transmigrabis autem de loco tuo ad locum alterum in conspectu eorum si forte aspiciant quia domus exasperans est

3 therefore you, son of man, make for yourself vessels of transmigration, and you shall transmigrate by day before them; moreover you shall transmigrate from your place to another place in their sight, perhaps they may look, because it is an exasperating house

4 et efferes foras vasa tua quasi vasa transmigrantis per diem in conspectu eorum tu autem egredieris vespere coram eis sicut egreditur migrans

4 and you shall carry out your vessels outside like the vessels of a transmigrant, by day in their sight; but you yourself shall go out in the evening before them, as a migrant goes out

5 ante oculos eorum perfodi tibi parietem et egredieris per eum

5 before their eyes dig through the wall for yourself, and go out through it

6 in conspectu eorum in umeris portaberis in caligine effereris faciem tuam velabis et non videbis terram quia portentum dedi te domui Israhel

6 in their sight, on shoulders you shall be carried; in the gloom you shall be borne out; you shall veil your face, and you shall not see the land, for I have given you as a portent to the house of Israel

7 feci ergo sicut praeceperat mihi vasa mea protuli quasi vasa transmigrantis per diem et vespere perfodi mihi parietem manu in caligine egressus sum et in umeris portatus in conspectu eorum

7 therefore I did as he had commanded me: I brought out my vessels as the vessels of a transmigrant by day, and in the evening I pierced for myself the wall with my hand; in the darkness I went out, and I was carried on the shoulders in their sight.

8 et factus est sermo Domini ad me mane dicens

8 and the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying

9 fili hominis numquid non dixerunt ad te domus Israhel domus exasperans quid tu facis

9 son of man, has not the house of Israel, an exasperating house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

10 dic ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus super ducem onus istud qui est in Hierusalem et super omnem domum Israhel quae est in medio eorum

10 say to them: thus says the Lord God: this onus is upon the leader who is in Jerusalem, and upon all the house of Israel which is in the midst of them.

11 dic ego portentum vestrum quomodo feci sic fiet illis in transmigrationem et captivitatem ibunt

11 Say: I am your portent; as I have done, so it shall be done to them; into transmigration and captivity they will go.

12 et dux qui est in medio eorum in umeris portabitur in caligine egredietur parietem perfodient ut educant eum facies eius operietur ut non videat oculo terram

12 and the leader who is in the midst of them will be carried on shoulders; in gloom he will go out; they will dig through the wall so as to lead him out; his face will be covered so that he may not see the land with his eye

13 et extendam rete meum super illum et capietur in sagena mea et adducam eum in Babylonem in terram Chaldeorum et ipsam non videbit ibique morietur

13 and I will spread my net over him, and he will be taken in my dragnet, and I will bring him to Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there he will die

14 et omnes qui circa eum sunt praesidium eius et agmina eius dispergam in omnem ventum et gladium evaginabo post eos

14 and all who are around him—his garrison and his companies—I will scatter into every wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them

15 et scient quia ego Dominus quando dispersero illos in gentibus et disseminavero eos in terris

15 and they will know that I am the Lord when I have scattered them among the nations and have disseminated them in the lands

16 et relinquam ex eis viros paucos a gladio et fame et pestilentia ut narrent omnia scelera eorum in gentibus ad quas ingredientur et scient quia ego Dominus

16 and I will leave out of them a few men, spared from the sword and famine and pestilence, that they may narrate all their crimes among the nations into which they enter, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

17 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

17 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

18 fili hominis panem tuum in conturbatione comede sed et aquam tuam in festinatione et maerore bibe

18 son of man, eat your bread in perturbation; and also drink your water in haste and in mourning

19 et dices ad populum terrae haec dicit Dominus Deus ad eos qui habitant in Hierusalem in terra Israhel panem suum in sollicitudine comedent et aquam suam in desolatione bibent ut desoletur terra a multitudine sua propter iniquitatem omnium qui habitant in ea

19 and you shall say to the people of the land: thus says the Lord God to those who dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel: they shall eat their bread in solicitude and drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolated of its multitude because of the iniquity of all who dwell in it.

20 et civitates quae nunc habitantur desolatae erunt terraque deserta et scietis quia ego Dominus

20 and the cities which are now inhabited shall be desolated, and the land a desert, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

21 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

22 fili hominis quod est proverbium istud vobis in terra Israhel dicentium in longum differentur dies et peribit omnis visio

22 Son of man, what is this proverb of yours in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision will perish?

23 ideo dic ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus quiescere faciam proverbium istud neque vulgo dicetur ultra in Israhel et loquere ad eos quod adpropinquaverint dies et sermo omnis visionis

23 therefore say to them: thus says the Lord God: I will cause this proverb to rest, nor shall it be said commonly any longer in Israel; and speak to them: that the days have drawn near and the word of every vision

24 non enim erit ultra omnis visio cassa neque divinatio ambigua in medio filiorum Israhel

24 for there will no longer be any empty vision, nor ambiguous divination, in the midst of the sons of Israel

25 quia ego Dominus loquar quodcumque locutus fuero verbum et fiet non prolongabitur amplius sed in diebus vestris domus exasperans loquar verbum et faciam illud dicit Dominus Deus

25 for I, the Lord, will speak whatever word I shall have spoken, and it will come to pass; it will no longer be prolonged, but in your days, O exasperating house, I will speak a word and I will do it, says the Lord God

26 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

26 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

27 fili hominis ecce domus Israhel dicentium visio quam hic videt in dies multos et in tempora longa iste prophetat

27 son of man, behold, the house of Israel is saying: The vision which this man sees is for many days, and he prophesies for long times.

28 propterea dic ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus non prolongabitur ultra omnis sermo meus verbum quod locutus fuero conplebitur dicit Dominus Deus

28 therefore say to them: thus says the Lord God: no longer will every word of mine be prolonged; the word which I shall have spoken will be fulfilled, says the Lord God.

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis vaticinare ad prophetas Israhel qui prophetant et dices prophetantibus de corde suo audite verbum Domini

2 son of man, vaticinate against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and you shall say to those prophesying from their own hearts: Hear the word of the Lord

3 haec dicit Dominus Deus vae prophetis insipientibus qui sequuntur spiritum suum et nihil vident

3 thus says the Lord God: woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and see nothing

4 quasi vulpes in desertis prophetae tui Israhel erant

4 your prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts

5 non ascendistis ex adverso neque opposuistis murum pro domo Israhel ut staretis in proelio in die Domini

5 you did not go up into the breach, nor did you set up a wall for the house of Israel, that you might stand in battle on the Day of the Lord

6 vident vana et divinant mendacium dicentes ait Dominus cum Dominus non miserit eos et perseveraverunt confirmare sermonem

6 they see vanities and divine falsehood, saying, “The Lord says,” when the Lord has not sent them; and they have persisted to confirm the word.

7 numquid non visionem cassam vidistis et divinationem mendacem locuti estis et dicitis ait Dominus cum ego non sim locutus

7 Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a mendacious divination, and you say, ‘The Lord says,’ when I myself have not spoken?

8 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus quia locuti estis vana et vidistis mendacium ideo ecce ego ad vos ait Dominus Deus

8 therefore thus says the Lord God: because you have spoken vain things and have seen a mendacity, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord God

9 et erit manus mea super prophetas qui vident vana et divinant mendacium in concilio populi mei non erunt et in scriptura domus Israhel non scribentur nec in terra Israhel ingredientur et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus

9 and my hand shall be upon the prophets who see vanities and divine falsehood; in the council of my people they shall not be, and in the register of the house of Israel they shall not be written, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord God.

10 eo quod deceperint populum meum dicentes pax et non est pax et ipse aedificabat parietem illi autem liniebant eum luto absque paleis

10 because they have deceived my people, saying “peace,” and there is no peace; and he was building a wall, but they were daubing it with mud without straw.

11 dic ad eos qui liniunt absque temperatura quod casurus sit erit enim imber inundans et dabo lapides praegrandes desuper inruentes et ventum procellae dissipantem

11 say to those who plaster without tempering that it will fall; for there shall be an inundating rain, and I will give very large stones rushing down from above, and a wind of tempest scattering.

12 siquidem ecce cecidit paries numquid non dicetur vobis ubi est litura quam levistis

12 for indeed, behold, the wall has fallen; will it not be said to you, where is the daubing which you smeared?

13 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus et erumpere faciam spiritum tempestatum in indignatione mea et imber inundans in furore meo erit et lapides grandes in ira in consummationem

13 therefore thus says the Lord God: and I will cause the spirit of tempests to burst forth in my indignation, and a flooding rain shall be in my fury, and great stones in wrath, unto consummation

14 et destruam parietem quem levistis absque temperamento et adaequabo eum terrae et revelabitur fundamentum eius et cadet et consumetur in medio eius et scietis quia ego sum Dominus

14 and I will destroy the wall which you have levigated without tempering, and I will level it to the earth, and its foundation will be revealed, and it will fall, and it will be consumed in its midst, and you will know that I am the Lord

15 et conplebo indignationem meam in parietem et in his qui linunt eum absque temperamento dicamque vobis non est paries et non sunt qui linunt eum

15 and I will complete my indignation upon the wall and upon those who smear it without tempering, and I will say to you: it is not a wall, and there are not those who smear it

16 prophetae Israhel qui prophetant ad Hierusalem et vident ei visionem pacis et non est pax ait Dominus Deus

16 the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem and see for it a vision of peace, and there is no peace, says the Lord God

17 et tu fili hominis pone faciem tuam contra filias populi tui quae prophetant de corde suo et vaticinare super eas

17 and you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy from their own heart, and prophesy against them

18 et dic haec ait Dominus Deus vae quae consuunt pulvillos sub omni cubito manus et faciunt cervicalia sub capite universae aetatis ad capiendas animas cum caperent animas populi mei vivificabant animas eorum

18 and say: Thus says the Lord God, woe to those who sew little pillows under every elbow of the hand and make headrests under the head of every age to capture souls; while they were capturing the souls of my people, they were vivifying their souls.

19 et violabant me ad populum meum propter pugillum hordei et fragmen panis ut interficerent animas quae non moriuntur et vivificarent animas quae non vivunt mentientes populo meo credenti mendaciis

19 and they were violating me against my people for a handful of barley and a fragment of bread, in order to kill souls that do not die and to vivify souls that do not live, lying to my people believing lies

20 propter hoc haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad pulvillos vestros quibus vos capitis animas volantes et disrumpam eos de brachiis vestris et dimittam animas quas vos capitis animas ad volandum

20 for this cause, thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against your pillows, with which you capture flying souls, and I will tear them off from your arms, and I will release the souls which you capture—souls for flying.

21 et disrumpam cervicalia vestra et liberabo populum meum de manu vestra neque erunt ultra in manibus vestris ad praedandum et scietis quia ego Dominus

21 and I will tear apart your cushions, and I will free my people from your hand; and they shall no longer be in your hands as prey, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

22 pro eo quod maerere fecistis cor iusti mendaciter quem ego non contristavi et confortastis manus impii ut non reverteretur a via sua mala et viveret

22 because you have made the heart of the just to mourn mendaciously, whom I did not sadden, and you have strengthened the hands of the impious so that he would not turn back from his evil way and live

23 propterea vana non videbitis et divinationes non divinabitis amplius et eruam populum meum de manu vestra et scietis quoniam ego Dominus

23 therefore you shall not see vanities, and you shall no longer divine divinations; and I will rescue my people from your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord

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1 et venerunt ad me viri seniorum Israhel et sederunt coram me

1 and there came to me men of the elders of Israel, and they sat before me

2 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

2 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

3 fili hominis viri isti posuerunt inmunditias suas in cordibus suis et scandalum iniquitatis suae statuerunt contra faciem suam numquid interrogatus respondebo eis

3 son of man, these men have set their uncleannesses in their hearts and have established the scandal of their iniquity before their face; shall I, when interrogated, respond to them

4 propter hoc loquere eis et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus homo homo de domo Israhel qui posuerit inmunditias suas in corde suo et scandalum iniquitatis suae statuerit contra faciem suam et venerit ad prophetam interrogans per eum me ego Dominus respondebo ei in multitudine inmunditiarum suarum

4 for this cause speak to them, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God, man, man of the house of Israel, who has set his impurities in his heart and has established the scandal of his iniquity before his face, and has come to the prophet, inquiring of me through him, I, the Lord, will answer him according to the multitude of his impurities.

5 ut capiatur domus Israhel in corde suo quo recesserunt a me in cunctis idolis suis

5 that the house of Israel may be caught in its heart, because they have fallen away from me by all their idols

6 propterea dic ad domum Israhel haec dicit Dominus Deus convertimini et recedite ab idolis vestris et ab universis contaminationibus vestris avertite facies vestras

6 Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: be converted and withdraw from your idols, and from all your contaminations turn your faces away.

7 quia homo homo de domo Israhel et de proselytis quicumque advena fuerit in Israhel si alienatus fuerit a me et posuerit idola sua in corde suo et scandalum iniquitatis suae statuerit contra faciem suam et venerit ad prophetam ut interroget per eum me ego Dominus respondebo ei per me

7 For any man, any man of the house of Israel, and of the proselytes, whoever is a sojourner in Israel—if he has become alienated from me and has set his idols in his heart, and has established the scandal of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire of me through him—I, the Lord, will answer him by myself.

8 et ponam faciem meam super hominem illum et faciam eum in exemplum et in proverbium et disperdam eum de medio populi mei et scietis quia ego Dominus

8 and I will set my face against that man and I will make him into an example and into a proverb and I will destroy him from the midst of my people and you shall know that I am the Lord

9 et propheta cum erraverit et locutus fuerit verbum ego Dominus decepi prophetam illum et extendam manum meam super eum et delebo eum de medio populi mei Israhel

9 and the prophet, when he has erred and has spoken a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will extend my hand over him, and I will blot him out from the midst of my people Israel

10 et portabunt iniquitatem suam iuxta iniquitatem interrogantis sic iniquitas prophetae erit

10 and they shall bear their iniquity; according to the iniquity of the inquirer, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be

11 ut non erret ultra domus Israhel a me neque polluatur in universis praevaricationibus suis sed sit mihi in populum et ego sim eis in Deum ait Dominus exercituum

11 that the house of Israel may no longer stray from me, nor be defiled in all its transgressions, but may be to me for a people, and I may be to them for a God, says the Lord of hosts

12 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

13 fili hominis terra cum peccaverit mihi ut praevaricetur praevaricans extendam manum meam super eam et conteram virgam panis eius et inmittam in eam famem et interficiam de ea hominem et iumentum

13 son of man, when a land shall have sinned against me so as to prevaricate—prevaricating—I will stretch out my hand over it and I will break the staff of its bread, and I will send famine into it, and I will slay from it man and beast

14 et si fuerint tres viri isti in medio eius Noe Danihel et Iob ipsi iustitia sua liberabunt animas suas ait Dominus exercituum

14 and if these three men should be in its midst—Noah, Daniel, and Job—they, by their own righteousness, will deliver their own souls, says the Lord of hosts.

15 quod si et bestias pessimas induxero super terram ut vastem eam et fuerit invia eo quod non sit pertransiens propter bestias

15 but if even the most evil beasts I bring upon the land to devastate it, and it becomes impassable, because there is no one passing through on account of the beasts

16 tres viri isti qui fuerint in ea vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quia nec filios nec filias liberabunt sed ipsi soli liberabuntur terra autem desolabitur

16 these three men, if they should be in it—as I live, says the Lord God—they will deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they themselves alone will be delivered; however, the land will be desolated

17 vel si gladium induxero super terram illam et dixero gladio transi per terram et interfecero de ea hominem et iumentum

17 or if I bring a sword upon that land and say to the sword, Pass through the land, and I slay from it man and beast

18 et tres viri isti fuerint in medio eius vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus non liberabunt filios neque filias sed ipsi soli liberabuntur

18 and if these three men are in its midst, as I live, says the Lord God, they will not deliver sons nor daughters, but they themselves alone will be delivered

19 si autem et pestilentiam inmisero super terram illam et effudero indignationem meam super eam in sanguine ut auferam ex ea hominem et iumentum

19 but if I also send pestilence upon that land and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, so that I remove from it man and beast

20 et Noe et Danihel et Iob fuerint in medio eius vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quia filium et filiam non liberabunt sed ipsi iustitia sua liberabunt animas suas

20 and Noah and Daniel and Job should be in its midst, as I live, says the Lord God, they will not deliver son nor daughter, but they, by their own righteousness, will deliver their own souls

21 quoniam haec dicit Dominus Deus quod si et quattuor iudicia mea pessima gladium et famem et bestias malas et pestilentiam misero in Hierusalem ut interficiam de ea hominem et pecus

21 For thus says the Lord God: that if even my four worst judgments—the sword and famine and evil beasts and pestilence—I send into Jerusalem, that I may cut off from it man and beast

22 tamen relinquetur in ea salvatio educentium filios et filias ecce ipsi egredientur ad vos et videbitis viam eorum et adinventiones eorum et consolabimini super malo quod induxi in Hierusalem in omnibus quae inportavi super eam

22 nevertheless there shall be left in it a salvation of those leading out sons and daughters; behold, they themselves will go out to you, and you will see their way and their inventions, and you will be consoled over the evil which I have brought into Jerusalem, in all that I have brought upon her

23 et consolabuntur vos cum videritis viam eorum et adinventiones eorum et cognoscetis quod non frustra fecerim omnia quae feci in ea ait Dominus Deus

23 and they will console you when you see their way and their inventions, and you will know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis quid fiet ligno vitis ex omnibus lignis nemorum quae sunt inter ligna silvarum

2 son of man what will be made of the wood of the vine from all the woods of the groves which are among the trees of the forests

3 numquid tolletur de ea lignum ut fiat opus aut fabricabitur de ea paxillus ut dependeat in eo quodcumque vas

3 will wood be taken from it to make a work, or will a peg be fabricated from it so that whatever vessel may hang upon it?

4 ecce igni datum est in escam utramque partem eius consumpsit ignis et medietas eius redacta est in favillam numquid utile erit ad opus

4 behold it has been given to the fire for fuel the fire has consumed both its parts and its middle has been reduced to cinders will it be useful for work

5 etiam cum esset integrum non erat aptum ad opus quanto magis cum ignis illud devoraverit et conbuserit nihil ex eo fiet operis

5 even when it was whole it was not apt for work; how much more, when fire has devoured it and burned it, will nothing be made of it for work

6 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus quomodo lignum vitis inter ligna silvarum quod dedi igni ad devorandum sic tradidi habitatores Hierusalem

6 therefore thus says the Lord God: just as the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for devouring, so I have delivered the inhabitants of Jerusalem

7 et ponam faciem meam in eos de igne egredientur et ignis consumet eos et scietis quia ego Dominus cum posuero faciem meam in eos

7 and I will set my face against them; they will go out from the fire, and the fire will consume them; and you will know that I am the Lord, when I have set my face against them

8 et dedero terram inviam et desolatam eo quod praevaricatores extiterint dicit Dominus Deus

8 and I will make the land trackless and desolate, because they have been transgressors, says the Lord God

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord was made to me, saying

2 fili hominis notas fac Hierusalem abominationes suas

2 son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

3 et dices haec dicit Dominus Deus Hierusalem radix tua et generatio tua de terra chananea pater tuus Amorreus et mater tua Cetthea

3 and you shall say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: your root and your generation are from the land of Canaan; your father an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

4 et quando nata es in die ortus tui non est praecisus umbilicus tuus et in aqua non es lota in salutem nec sale salita nec involuta pannis

4 and when you were born on the day of your birth your umbilicus was not cut and in water you were not washed for health nor salted with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths

5 non pepercit super te oculus ut facerem tibi unum de his miseratus tui sed proiecta es super faciem terrae in abiectione animae tuae in die qua nata es

5 no eye spared you, to do for you one of these things, in pity for you; but you were cast upon the face of the earth, in the abjection of your soul, on the day you were born

6 transiens autem per te vidi te conculcari in sanguine tuo et dixi tibi cum esses in sanguine tuo vive dixi inquam tibi in sanguine tuo vive

6 but passing by you I saw you being trampled in your blood, and I said to you, when you were in your blood, Live; I said, I say, to you, in your blood, Live.

7 multiplicatam quasi germen agri dedi te et multiplicata es et grandis effecta et ingressa es et pervenisti ad mundum muliebrem ubera tua intumuerunt et pilus tuus germinavit et eras nuda et confusionis plena

7 I made you grow like the sprout of the field, and you were multiplied and became great, and you entered and came to womanly adornment; your breasts swelled and your hair sprouted, and you were naked and full of confusion.

8 et transivi per te et vidi te et ecce tempus tuum tempus amantium et expandi amictum meum super te et operui ignominiam tuam et iuravi tibi et ingressus sum pactum tecum ait Dominus Deus et facta es mihi

8 and I passed by you and saw you, and behold, your time was the time of lovers, and I spread my mantle over you and covered your ignominy, and I swore to you and entered into a pact with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine

9 et lavi te aqua et emundavi sanguinem tuum ex te et unxi te oleo

9 and I washed you with water and cleansed your blood from you, and anointed you with oil

10 et vestivi te discoloribus et calciavi te ianthino et cinxi te bysso et indui te subtilibus

10 and I vested you with particolored garments, and I shod you with hyacinthine, and I girded you with byssus, and I clothed you with fine, delicate garments

11 et ornavi te ornamento et dedi armillas in manibus tuis et torquem circa collum tuum

11 and I adorned you with ornament, and I gave bracelets on your hands, and a torque around your neck

12 et dedi inaurem super os tuum et circulos auribus tuis et coronam decoris in capite tuo

12 and I gave a nose-ring upon your nose and rings in your ears and a crown of adornment upon your head

13 et ornata es auro et argento et vestita es bysso et polymito et multicoloribus similam et mel et oleum comedisti et decora facta es vehementer nimis et profecisti in regnum

13 and you were adorned with gold and silver, and you were clothed in byssus and polymite and many-colored garments, and you ate fine flour and honey and oil, and you were made exceedingly beautiful, and you advanced into a kingdom

14 et egressum est nomen tuum in gentes propter speciem tuam quia perfecta eras in decore meo quem posueram super te dicit Dominus Deus

14 and your name went out among the nations on account of your appearance, because you were perfect in my decor which I had set upon you, says the Lord God

15 et habens fiduciam in pulchritudine tua fornicata es in nomine tuo et exposuisti fornicationem tuam omni transeunti ut eius fieres

15 and having confidence in your beauty you fornicated on account of your renown, and you exposed your fornication to every passer-by, that you might become his

16 et sumens de vestimentis meis fecisti tibi excelsa hinc inde consuta et fornicata es super eis sicut non est factum neque futurum est

16 and taking from my garments, you made for yourself high places sewn together here and there, and you fornicated upon them, such as has not been done nor will be

17 et tulisti vasa decoris tui de auro meo et argento meo quae dedi tibi et fecisti tibi imagines masculinas et fornicata es in eis

17 and you took the vessels of your adornment from my gold and my silver which I gave to you, and you made for yourself male images, and you fornicated with them

18 et sumpsisti vestimenta tua multicoloria et vestita es eis et oleum meum et thymiama meum posuisti coram eis

18 and you took your multicolored garments and were clothed with them, and my oil and my incense you set before them

19 et panem meum quem dedi tibi similam et oleum et mel quibus enutrivi te posuisti in conspectu eorum in odorem suavitatis et factum est ait Dominus Deus

19 and my bread which I gave to you—fine flour (semolina) and oil and honey with which I nourished you—you placed in their sight for an odor of sweetness; and it came to pass, says the Lord God

20 et tulisti filios tuos et filias tuas quas generasti mihi et immolasti eis ad devorandum numquid parva est fornicatio tua

20 and you took your sons and your daughters whom you generated for me, and you immolated them to them for devouring; is your fornication a small thing?

21 immolantis filios meos et dedisti illos consecrans eis

21 you immolated my sons and you gave them, consecrating them to them

22 et post omnes abominationes tuas et fornicationes non es recordata dierum adulescentiae tuae quando eras nuda et confusione plena conculcata in sanguine tuo

22 and after all your abominations and your fornications you did not remember the days of your adolescence, when you were naked and full of confusion, trampled down in your blood

23 et accidit post omnem malitiam tuam vae vae tibi ait Dominus Deus

23 and it happened after all your malice, woe, woe to you, says the Lord God

24 et aedificasti tibi lupanar et fecisti tibi prostibulum in cunctis plateis

24 and you built yourself a brothel, and made yourself a prostitution-place in all the streets

25 ad omne caput viae aedificasti signum prostitutionis tuae et abominabilem fecisti decorem tuum et divisisti pedes tuos omni transeunti et multiplicasti fornicationes tuas

25 at the head of every way you built a sign of your prostitution, and you made your beauty abominable, and you spread your feet to every passer-by, and you multiplied your fornications

26 et fornicata es cum filiis Aegypti vicinis tuis magnarum carnium et multiplicasti fornicationem tuam ad inritandum me

26 and you fornicated with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and you multiplied your fornication to irritate me

27 ecce ego extendi manum meam super te et auferam ius tuum et dabo te in animam odientium te filiarum Palestinarum quae erubescunt in via tua scelerata

27 behold, I have stretched out my hand over you, and I will remove your right, and I will give you into the soul of those hating you, the daughters of the Philistines, who blush at your wicked way

28 et fornicata es in filiis Assyriorum eo quod necdum fueris expleta et postquam fornicata es nec sic es satiata

28 and you fornicated with the sons of the Assyrians because you had not yet been filled; and after you fornicated, not even thus were you satiated

29 et multiplicasti fornicationem tuam in terra Chanaan cum Chaldeis et nec sic satiata es

29 and you multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan with the Chaldeans, and not even thus were you satiated

30 in quo mundabo cor tuum ait Dominus Deus cum facias omnia haec opera mulieris meretricis et procacis

30 In what shall I cleanse your heart, says the Lord God, when you do all these works of a woman—of a harlot and a procacious one?

31 quia fabricasti lupanar tuum in capite omnis viae et excelsum tuum fecisti in omni platea nec facta es quasi meretrix fastidio augens pretium

31 because you fabricated your brothel at the head of every way, and you made your high place in every street; and you were not like a prostitute, augmenting the price out of disdain.

32 sed quasi mulier adultera quae super virum suum inducit alienos

32 but like an adulterous woman, who brings in strangers instead of her own husband

33 omnibus meretricibus dantur mercedes tu autem dedisti mercedes cunctis amatoribus tuis et donabas eis ut intrarent ad te undique ad fornicandum tecum

33 Wages are given to all prostitutes; but you, you gave wages to all your lovers, and you were donating to them, so that they might enter to you from every side to fornicate with you.

34 factumque in te est contra consuetudinem mulierum in fornicationibus tuis et post te non erit fornicatio in eo enim quod dedisti mercedes et mercedes non accepisti factum est in te contrarium

34 and it has been done in you contrary to the custom of women in your fornications, and after you there will not be fornication; for in that you have given wages and have not received wages, the contrary has been done in you.

35 propterea meretrix audi verbum Domini

35 therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord

36 haec dicit Dominus Deus quia effusum est aes tuum et revelata est ignominia tua in fornicationibus tuis super amatores tuos et super idola abominationum tuarum in sanguine filiorum tuorum quos dedisti eis

36 Thus says the Lord God: because your brass has been poured out and your ignominy has been revealed in your fornications upon your lovers and upon the idols of your abominations, in the blood of your sons whom you gave to them

37 ecce ego congregabo omnes amatores tuos quibus commixta es et omnes quos dilexisti cum universis quos oderas et congregabo eos super te undique et nudabo ignominiam tuam coram eis et videbunt omnem turpitudinem tuam

37 behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you were commingled, and all whom you loved together with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you on every side, and I will lay bare your ignominy before them, and they will see all your turpitude

38 et iudicabo te iudiciis adulterarum et effundentium sanguinem et dabo te in sanguinem furoris et zeli

38 and I will judge you with the judgments of adulteresses and of those who pour out blood, and I will give you into the bloodshed of fury and zeal

39 et dabo te in manus eorum et destruent lupanar tuum et demolientur prostibulum tuum et denudabunt te vestimentis tuis et auferent vasa decoris tui et derelinquent te nudam plenamque ignominia

39 and I will give you into their hands, and they shall destroy your brothel, and they shall demolish your place of prostitution, and they shall strip you of your garments, and they shall take away the vessels of your adornment, and they shall leave you naked and full of ignominy

40 et adducent super te multitudinem et lapidabunt te lapidibus et trucidabunt te gladiis suis

40 and they will bring upon you a multitude, and they will stone you with stones and will slaughter you with their swords

41 et conburent domos tuas igni et facient in te iudicia in oculis mulierum plurimarum et desines fornicari et mercedes ultra non dabis

41 and they will burn your houses with fire and will execute judgments upon you in the eyes of many women, and you will cease to fornicate, and you will no longer give hire.

42 et requiescet indignatio mea in te et auferetur zelus meus a te et quiescam nec irascar amplius

42 and my indignation will rest upon you, and my zeal will be taken away from you, and I will rest and will not be angry any more

43 eo quod non fueris recordata dierum adulescentiae tuae et provocasti me in omnibus his quapropter et ego vias tuas in capite tuo dedi ait Dominus Deus et non feci iuxta scelera tua in omnibus abominationibus tuis

43 because you have not remembered the days of your adolescence, and you provoked me in all these things; wherefore I also have put your ways upon your head, says the Lord God, and I have not done according to your crimes in all your abominations

44 ecce omnis qui dicit vulgo proverbium in te adsumet illud dicens sicut mater ita et filia eius

44 Behold, everyone who commonly says a proverb will take it up concerning you, saying, as the mother, so also her daughter.

45 filia matris tuae es tu quae proiecit virum suum et filios suos et soror sororum tuarum tu quae proiecerunt viros suos et filios suos mater vestra Cetthea et pater vester Amorreus

45 you are the daughter of your mother, who cast off her husband and her sons, and the sister of your sisters, who cast off their husbands and their sons; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite

46 et soror tua maior Samaria ipsa et filiae eius quae habitat ad sinistram tuam soror autem tua minor te quae habitat a dextris tuis Sodoma et filiae eius

46 and your greater sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, who dwells at your left; but your lesser sister than you, who dwells at your right, is Sodom and her daughters

47 sed nec in viis earum ambulasti neque secundum scelera earum fecisti pauxillum minus paene sceleratiora fecisti illis in omnibus viis tuis

47 but neither did you walk in their ways nor did you act according to their crimes; by a very little less—almost—you did more criminal things than they, in all your ways

48 vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quia non fecit Sodoma soror tua ipsa et filiae eius sicut fecisti tu et filiae tuae

48 As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister herself and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

49 ecce haec fuit iniquitas Sodomae sororis tuae superbia saturitas panis et abundantia et otium ipsius et filiarum eius et manum egeno et pauperi non porrigebant

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom your sister: pride, satiety of bread, and abundance and leisure—hers and her daughters’—and they did not extend a hand to the needy and the poor.

50 et elevatae sunt et fecerunt abominationes coram me et abstuli eas sicut vidisti

50 and they were haughty and committed abominations before me, and I removed them as you have seen

51 et Samaria dimidium peccatorum tuorum non peccavit sed vicisti eas sceleribus tuis et iustificasti sorores tuas in omnibus abominationibus tuis quas operata es

51 and Samaria has not sinned half of your sins; but you have surpassed them by your crimes, and you have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have wrought

52 ergo et tu porta confusionem tuam quae vicisti sorores tuas peccatis tuis sceleratius agens ab eis iustificatae sunt enim a te ergo et tu confundere et porta ignominiam tuam quae iustificasti sorores tuas

52 therefore you also bear your confusion, you who surpassed your sisters by your sins, acting more criminally than they; for by you they have been justified; therefore you also be confounded and bear your ignominy, you who have justified your sisters

53 et convertam restituens eas conversione Sodomorum cum filiabus suis et conversione Samariae et filiarum eius et convertam reversionem tuam in medio earum

53 and I will turn, restoring them—the conversion of Sodom with her daughters and the conversion of Samaria and her daughters—and I will turn back your reversion in the midst of them

54 ut portes ignominiam tuam et confundaris in omnibus quae fecisti consolans eas

54 that you may bear your ignominy and be confounded in all that you have done, consoling them

55 et soror tua Sodoma et filiae eius revertentur ad antiquitatem suam et Samaria et filiae eius revertentur ad antiquitatem suam et tu et filiae tuae revertimini ad antiquitatem vestram

55 and your sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state; and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.

56 non fuit autem Sodoma soror tua audita in ore tuo in die superbiae tuae

56 but Sodom, your sister, was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride

57 antequam revelaretur malitia tua sicut hoc tempore in obprobrium filiarum Syriae et cunctarum in circuitu tuo filiarum Palestinarum quae ambiunt te per gyrum

57 before your malice was revealed, as at this time, as an opprobrium to the daughters of Syria and to all the daughters of the Palestinians who surround you round about

58 scelus tuum et ignominiam tuam tu portasti ait Dominus Deus

58 your crime and your ignominy you have borne, says the Lord God

59 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus et faciam tibi sicut dispexisti iuramentum ut irritum faceres pactum

59 For thus says the Lord God: and I will do to you as you have despised the oath, in order to make the pact void.

60 et recordabor ego pacti mei tecum in diebus adulescentiae tuae et suscitabo tibi pactum sempiternum

60 and I will recall my pact with you in the days of your adolescence, and I will raise up for you a sempiternal pact

61 et recordaberis viarum tuarum et confunderis cum receperis sorores tuas te maiores cum minoribus tuis et dabo eas tibi in filias sed non ex pacto tuo

61 and you will remember your ways and be confounded when you receive your sisters, those older than you together with your younger ones; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not from your pact

62 et suscitabo ego pactum meum tecum et scies quia ego Dominus

62 and I will raise up my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord

63 ut recorderis et confundaris et non sit tibi ultra aperire os prae confusione tua cum placatus fuero tibi in omnibus quae fecisti ait Dominus Deus

63 that you may remember and be confounded, and that it be no longer for you to open your mouth because of your confusion, when I am placated toward you in all that you have done, says the Lord God

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1 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis propone enigma et narra parabolam ad domum Israhel

2 son of man, propose an enigma and narrate a parable to the house of Israel

3 et dices haec dicit Dominus Deus aquila grandis magnarum alarum longo membrorum ductu plena plumis et varietate venit ad Libanum et tulit medullam cedri

3 and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: a great eagle of great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers and of variegation, came to Lebanon and took the marrow of the cedar.

4 summitatem frondium eius avellit et transportavit eam in terram Chanaan in urbem negotiatorum posuit illam

4 he plucked off the summit of its foliage and transported it into the land of Canaan; in the city of merchants he placed it

5 et tulit de semente terrae et posuit illud in terra pro semine ut firmaret radicem super aquas multas in superficie posuit illud

5 and he took from the seed of the land and set it in the land for seed, so that it might make firm a root over many waters; on the surface he placed it

6 cumque germinasset crevit in vineam latiorem humili statura respicientibus ramis eius ad eam et radices eius sub illa erunt facta est ergo vinea et fructificavit in palmites et emisit propagines

6 and when it had germinated, it grew into a broader vine, of humble stature, with its branches looking back toward it, and its roots would be under it; therefore it became a vine and bore fruit in tendrils and sent forth offshoots

7 et facta est aquila altera grandis magnis alis multisque plumis et ecce vinea ista quasi mittens radices suas ad eam palmites suos extendit ad illam ut inrigaret eam de areolis germinis sui

7 and there came to be another eagle, great, with great wings and many plumes; and behold, that vine, as though sending its roots toward it, stretched out its shoots toward that one, in order that it might irrigate it from the garden-beds of its sprouting

8 in terra bona super aquas multas plantata est ut faciat frondes et portet fructum et sit in vineam grandem

8 it was planted in good land upon many waters, that it might make fronds and bear fruit and become a great vine

9 dic haec dicit Dominus Deus ergone prosperabitur nonne radices eius evellet et fructum eius distringet et siccabit omnes palmites germinis eius et arescet et non in brachio grandi neque in populo multo ut evelleret eam radicitus

9 say: thus says the Lord God: will it then indeed prosper? Will he not pull up its roots and strip its fruit, and dry up all the tendrils of its sprouting, and it will wither? And not with a mighty arm nor with a numerous people, to uproot it root and branch.

10 ecce plantata est ergone prosperabitur nonne cum tetigerit eam ventus urens siccabitur et in areis germinis sui arescet

10 behold, it is planted: will it then prosper? will it not, when the burning wind touches it, be dried up, and wither in the beds of its germination?

11 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

12 dic ad domum exasperantem nescitis quid ista significent dic ecce venit rex Babylonis Hierusalem et adsumet regem et principes eius et adducet eos ad semet ipsum in Babylonem

12 say to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things signify? say: Behold, the king of Babylon is coming to Jerusalem, and he will take the king and its princes, and he will lead them to himself into Babylon.

13 et tollet de semine regni ferietque cum eo foedus et accipiet ab eo iusiurandum sed et fortes terrae tollet

13 and he will take from the seed of the kingdom, and he will strike a covenant with him, and he will receive from him an oath; but he will also take the strong ones of the land

14 ut sit regnum humile et non elevetur sed custodiat pactum eius et servet illud

14 that the kingdom may be humble and not be lifted up, but may keep his pact and preserve it

15 qui recedens ab eo misit nuntios ad Aegyptum ut daret sibi equos et populum multum numquid prosperabitur vel consequetur salutem qui fecit haec et qui dissolvit pactum numquid effugiet

15 who, withdrawing from him, sent messengers to Egypt, that it might give him horses and a great people—shall he prosper, or attain safety, who has done these things? and he who dissolved the pact, shall he escape?

16 vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quoniam in loco regis qui constituit eum regem cuius fecit irritum iuramentum et solvit pactum quod habebat cum eo in medio Babylonis morietur

16 As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place of the king who constituted him king—whose oath he made void and dissolved the pact that he had with him—in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

17 et non in exercitu grandi neque in populo multo faciet contra eum Pharao proelium in iactu aggeris et in extructione vallorum ut interficiat animas multas

17 and not with a great army nor with much people will Pharaoh make battle against him, in the casting up of a rampart and in the construction of siege-walls, so as to slay many souls

18 spreverat enim iuramentum ut solveret foedus et ecce dedit manum suam et cum omnia haec fecerit non effugiet

18 for he had spurned the oath so as to dissolve the covenant; and behold, he gave his hand, and when he has done all these things, he will not escape

19 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus vivo ego quoniam iuramentum quod sprevit et foedus quod praevaricatus est ponam in caput eius

19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, the oath which he despised and the covenant which he transgressed I will put upon his head.

20 et expandam super eum rete meum et conprehendetur sagena mea et adducam eum in Babylonem et iudicabo illum ibi in praevaricatione qua despexit me

20 and I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my dragnet, and I will bring him into Babylon, and I will judge him there for the prevarication by which he despised me

21 et omnes profugi eius cum universo agmine gladio cadent residui autem in omnem ventum dispergentur et scietis quia ego Dominus locutus sum

21 and all his fugitives, with the whole host, shall fall by the sword; but the remainder shall be scattered to every wind; and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken.

22 haec dicit Dominus Deus et sumam ego de medulla cedri sublimis et ponam de vertice ramorum eius tenerum distringam et plantabo super montem excelsum et eminentem

22 thus says the Lord God: and I will take from the marrow of the lofty cedar, and I will set it; from the summit of its branches I will draw out a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and eminent mountain

23 in monte sublimi Israhel plantabo illud et erumpet in germen et faciet fructum et erit in cedrum magnam et habitabunt sub eo omnes volucres universum volatile sub umbra frondium eius nidificabit

23 on the lofty mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it will erupt into a sprout and produce fruit and become a great cedar; and beneath it all birds will dwell, every winged creature will nest under the shade of its fronds

24 et scient omnia ligna regionis quia ego Dominus humiliavi lignum sublime et exaltavi lignum humile et siccavi lignum viride et frondere feci lignum aridum ego Dominus locutus sum et feci

24 and all the trees of the region shall know that I, the Lord, have humbled the lofty tree and have exalted the lowly tree, and have dried the green tree and have made the dry tree to put forth fronds; I, the Lord, have spoken and I have done.

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 quid est quod inter vos parabolam vertitis in proverbium istud in terra Israhel dicentes patres comederunt uvam acerbam et dentes filiorum obstupescunt

2 What is this, that among you you turn a parable into this proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the sons are set on edge?

3 vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus si erit vobis ultra parabola haec in proverbium in Israhel

3 As I live, says the Lord God, this parable shall no longer be to you a proverb in Israel.

4 ecce omnes animae meae sunt ut anima patris ita et anima filii mea est anima quae peccaverit ipsa morietur

4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul which has sinned, it itself shall die.

5 et vir si fuerit iustus et fecerit iudicium et iustitiam

5 and a man, if he is just and has done judgment and justice

6 in montibus non comederit et oculos suos non levaverit ad idola domus Israhel et uxorem proximi sui non violaverit et ad mulierem menstruatam non accesserit

6 he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and has not violated his neighbor’s wife, and has not approached a menstruating woman

7 et hominem non contristaverit pignus debitori reddiderit per vim nihil rapuerit panem suum esurienti dederit et nudum operuerit vestimento

7 and he has not afflicted a man, has restored the pledge to the debtor, has seized nothing by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment

8 ad usuram non commodaverit et amplius non acceperit ab iniquitate averterit manum suam iudicium verum fecerit inter virum et virum

8 has not lent at usury and has not taken increase has turned his hand away from iniquity has made true judgment between man and man

9 in praeceptis meis ambulaverit et iudicia mea custodierit ut faciat veritatem hic iustus est vita vivet ait Dominus Deus

9 has walked in my precepts and has kept my judgments so as to do the truth—this man is just; he shall surely live, says the Lord God.

10 quod si genuerit filium latronem effundentem sanguinem et fecerit unum de istis

10 but if he has begotten a son, a brigand, shedding blood, and he has done one of these

11 et haec quidem omnia non facientem sed in montibus comedentem et uxorem proximi sui polluentem

11 and—indeed—not doing all these things, but eating on the mountains and polluting his neighbor’s wife

12 egenum et pauperem contristantem rapientem rapinas pignus non reddentem et ad idola levantem oculos suos abominationem facientem

12 saddening the needy and the poor, practicing rapine, not returning the pledge, and lifting his eyes to idols, doing an abomination

13 ad usuram dantem et amplius accipientem numquid vivet non vivet cum universa detestanda haec fecerit morte morietur sanguis eius in ipso erit

13 giving on usury and receiving increase—will he live? he will not live; since he has done all these detestable things, by death he shall surely die; his blood will be upon himself.

14 quod si genuerit filium qui videns omnia peccata patris sui quae fecit timuerit et non fecerit simile eis

14 but if he has begotten a son who, seeing all the sins of his father which he has done, has feared and has not done similar to them

15 super montes non comederit et oculos suos non levaverit ad idola domus Israhel et uxorem proximi sui non violaverit

15 has not eaten upon the mountains, and has not lifted his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor’s wife

16 et virum non contristaverit pignus non retinuerit et rapinam non rapuerit panem suum esurienti dederit et nudum operuerit vestimento

16 and has not afflicted a man has not retained a pledge and has not carried off spoil has given his bread to the hungry and has covered the naked with a garment

17 a pauperis iniuria averterit manum suam usuram et superabundantiam non acceperit iudicia mea fecerit in praeceptis meis ambulaverit hic non morietur in iniquitate patris sui sed vita vivet

17 he has turned his hand away from wronging the poor, has not taken usury and increase, has done my judgments, has walked in my precepts—this one will not die in the iniquity of his father, but he shall live by life

18 pater eius quia calumniatus est et vim fecit fratri et malum operatus est in medio populi sui ecce mortuus est in iniquitate sua

18 his father, because he has calumniated and did violence to his brother and has wrought evil in the midst of his people, behold he has died in his iniquity

19 et dicitis quare non portavit filius iniquitatem patris videlicet quia filius iudicium et iustitiam operatus est omnia praecepta mea custodivit et fecit illa vita vivet

19 and you say, Why has the son not borne the iniquity of the father? namely, because the son has worked judgment and justice, has kept all my precepts and has done them; he shall live

20 anima quae peccaverit ipsa morietur filius non portabit iniquitatem patris et pater non portabit iniquitatem filii iustitia iusti super eum erit et impietas impii erit super eum

20 the soul that has sinned, that very one shall die; the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son; the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the impiety of the impious shall be upon him

21 si autem impius egerit paenitentiam ab omnibus peccatis suis quae operatus est et custodierit universa praecepta mea et fecerit iudicium et iustitiam vita vivet non morietur

21 but if the impious man has done penance from all his sins which he has wrought and has kept all my precepts and has done judgment and justice, he shall live life, he shall not die

22 omnium iniquitatum eius quas operatus est non recordabor in iustitia sua quam operatus est vivet

22 of all his iniquities which he has wrought I will not remember; in his justice which he has wrought he shall live

23 numquid voluntatis meae est mors impii dicit Dominus Deus et non ut convertatur a viis suis et vivat

23 Is the death of the impious my will, says the Lord God, and not rather that he be converted from his ways and live?

24 si autem averterit se iustus a iustitia sua et fecerit iniquitatem secundum omnes abominationes quas operari solet impius numquid vivet omnes iustitiae eius quas fecerat non recordabuntur in praevaricatione qua praevaricatus est et in peccato suo quod peccavit in ipsis morietur

24 but if the just man shall turn himself away from his righteousness and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the impious is accustomed to do, shall he live? all his justices which he had done will not be remembered; in the prevarication wherein he has prevaricated and in his sin which he has sinned, in them he shall die.

25 et dixistis non est aequa via Domini audite domus Israhel numquid via mea non est aequa et non magis viae vestrae pravae sunt

25 and you have said, The way of the Lord is not equitable; hear, house of Israel: is my way not equitable, and are not your ways rather perverse?

26 cum enim averterit se iustus a iustitia sua et fecerit iniquitatem morietur in eis in iniustitia quam operatus est morietur

26 for when the just man turns away from his righteousness and does iniquity, he shall die in them; in the injustice which he has done he shall die.

27 et cum averterit se impius ab impietate sua quam operatus est et fecerit iudicium et iustitiam ipse animam suam vivificabit

27 and when the impious man turns himself away from his impiety which he has wrought and does judgment and justice, he himself will make his soul live.

28 considerans enim et avertens se ab omnibus iniquitatibus suis quas operatus est vita vivet et non morietur

28 for, considering and turning himself away from all his iniquities which he has wrought, he shall surely live and shall not die

29 et dicunt filii Israhel non est aequa via Domini numquid viae meae non sunt aequae domus Israhel et non magis viae vestrae pravae

29 and the sons of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Are my ways not equal, O house of Israel? and are not rather your ways crooked?

30 idcirco unumquemque iuxta vias suas iudicabo domus Israhel ait Dominus Deus convertimini et agite paenitentiam ab omnibus iniquitatibus vestris et non erit vobis in ruinam iniquitas

30 therefore each one according to his ways I will judge house of Israel says the Lord God turn back and do penitence from all your iniquities and iniquity will not be to you for ruin

31 proicite a vobis omnes praevaricationes vestras in quibus praevaricati estis et facite vobis cor novum et spiritum novum et quare moriemini domus Israhel

31 cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; and why will you die, house of Israel?

32 quia nolo mortem morientis dicit Dominus Deus revertimini et vivite

32 for I do not will the death of the dying, says the Lord God; turn back and live

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1 et tu adsume planctum super principes Israhel

1 and you, take up a lament over the princes of Israel

2 et dices quare mater tua leaena inter leones cubavit in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos

2 and you shall say: Why did your mother, a lioness, lie down among lions; in the midst of lion-cubs she nourished her whelps

3 et eduxit unum de leunculis suis leo factus est et didicit capere praedam hominemque comedere

3 and she led out one of her whelps; he became a lion, and learned to seize prey and to eat man

4 et audierunt de eo gentes et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Aegypti

4 and the nations heard of him, and, not without their own wounds, they seized him, and brought him in chains into the land of Egypt

5 quae cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est et periit expectatio eius tulit unum de leunculis suis leonem constituit eum

5 and when she saw that she was infirm and her expectation had perished, she took one of her whelps; she made him a lion

6 qui incedebat inter leones et factus est leo didicit praedam capere et homines devorare

6 who was going among the lions and became a lion; he learned to seize prey and to devour men

7 didicit viduas facere et civitates eorum in desertum adducere et desolata est terra et plenitudo eius a voce rugitus illius

7 he learned to make widows and to lead their cities into a desert, and the land and its plenitude was desolated by the voice of his roaring

8 et convenerunt adversum eum gentes undique de provinciis et expanderunt super eum rete suum in vulneribus earum captus est

8 and the nations assembled against him from every side from the provinces and they spread over him their net in their wounds he was captured

9 et miserunt eum in caveam in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis miseruntque eum in carcerem ne audiretur vox eius ultra super montes Israhel

9 and they sent him into a cage in chains; they brought him to the king of Babylon, and they sent him into prison, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel

10 mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata fructus eius et frondes eius creverunt ex aquis multis

10 your mother as a vine in your blood planted upon the water her fruit and her fronds grew from many waters

11 et factae sunt ei virgae solidae in sceptra dominantium et exaltata est statura eius inter frondes et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum

11 and there were made for her solid rods for the scepters of rulers, and her stature was exalted among the fronds, and she beheld her height in the multitude of her vine-shoots

12 et evulsa est in ira in terramque proiecta et ventus urens siccavit fructum eius marcuerunt et arefactae sunt virgae roboris eius ignis comedit eam

12 and she was uprooted in wrath and cast to the ground, and a burning wind dried up her fruit; her rods of strength drooped and were dried up, fire consumed her.

13 et nunc transplantata est in desertum in terra invia et sitienti

13 and now it has been transplanted into the desert, into a trackless and thirsty land

14 et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum eius qui fructum eius comedit et non fuit in ea virga fortis sceptrum dominantium planctus est et erit in planctum

14 and fire went out from the rod of her branches which devoured her fruit, and there was not in her a strong rod, a scepter of rulers. a lamentation it is, and it will be for a lamentation

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1 et factum est in anno septimo in quinto mense in decima mensis venerunt viri de senioribus Israhel ut interrogarent Dominum et sederunt coram me

1 and it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, that men from the elders of Israel came to interrogate the Lord, and they sat before me

2 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

2 and the word of the Lord was made to me, saying

3 fili hominis loquere senioribus Israhel et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus num ad interrogandum me vos venistis vivo ego quia non respondebo vobis ait Dominus Deus

3 son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live, I will not answer you, says the Lord God.

4 si iudicas eos si iudicas fili hominis abominationes patrum eorum ostende eis

4 if you judge them, if you judge, son of man, show them the abominations of their fathers

5 et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus in die qua elegi Israhel et levavi manum meam pro stirpe domus Iacob et apparui eis in terra Aegypti et levavi manum meam pro eis dicens ego Dominus Deus vester

5 and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God, on the day when I chose Israel and lifted my hand for the stock of the house of Jacob, and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and I lifted my hand for them, saying, I am the Lord your God.

6 in die illa levavi manum meam pro eis ut educerem eos de terra Aegypti in terram quam provideram eis fluentem lacte et melle quae est egregia inter omnes terras

6 On that day I lifted up my hand for them, that I might lead them out from the land of Egypt into the land which I had provided for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is preeminent among all lands

7 et dixi ad eos unusquisque offensiones oculorum suorum abiciat et in idolis Aegypti nolite pollui ego Dominus Deus vester

7 and I said to them: let each one cast away the offenses of his eyes, and do not be polluted in the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God

8 et inritaverunt me nolueruntque audire unusquisque abominationes oculorum suorum non proiecit nec idola Aegypti reliquerunt et dixi ut effunderem indignationem meam super eos et implerem iram meam in eis in medio terrae Aegypti

8 and they provoked me and were unwilling to listen; each one did not cast away the abominations of his eyes, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt; and I said that I would pour out my indignation upon them and fulfill my ire in them in the midst of the land of Egypt

9 et feci propter nomen meum ut non violaretur coram gentibus in quarum medio erant et inter quas apparui eis ut educerem eos de terra Aegypti

9 and I did it for the sake of my name, that it might not be violated before the nations in whose midst they were, and among whom I appeared to them, so that I might lead them out of the land of Egypt

10 eieci ergo eos de terra Aegypti et eduxi in desertum

10 therefore I cast them out from the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness

11 et dedi eis praecepta mea et iudicia mea ostendi eis quae faciat homo et vivat in eis

11 and I gave them my precepts and I showed them my judgments, which a man may do and live in them

12 insuper et sabbata mea dedi eis ut esset signum inter me et eos et scirent quia ego Dominus sanctificans eos

12 moreover, I also gave them my sabbaths, that it might be a sign between me and them, and that they might know that I am the Lord sanctifying them

13 et inritaverunt me domus Israhel in deserto in praeceptis meis non ambulaverunt et iudicia mea proiecerunt quae faciens homo vivet in eis et sabbata mea violaverunt vehementer dixi ergo ut effunderem furorem meum super eos in deserto et consumerem eos

13 and the house of Israel provoked me in the desert; in my precepts they did not walk, and my judgments they cast away— which, a man doing, shall live in them— and my sabbaths they vehemently violated; therefore I said that I would pour out my fury upon them in the desert and consume them.

14 et feci propter nomen meum ne violaretur coram gentibus de quibus eieci eos in conspectu earum

14 and I acted for my name, lest it be violated before the nations, from whom I cast them out, in their sight

15 ego igitur levavi manum meam super eos in deserto ne inducerem eos in terram quam dedi eis fluentem lacte et melle praecipuam terrarum omnium

15 I therefore lifted my hand over them in the desert, that I would not lead them into the land which I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey, the preeminent of all lands.

16 quia iudicia mea proiecerunt et in praeceptis meis non ambulaverunt et sabbata mea violaverunt post idola enim cor eorum gradiebatur

16 because they cast away my judgments and did not walk in my precepts, and they violated my sabbaths; for after idols their heart was walking

17 et pepercit oculus meus super eos ut non interficerem eos nec consumpsi eos in deserto

17 and my eye spared them, that I might not slay them, nor did I consume them in the desert

18 dixi autem ad filios eorum in solitudine in praeceptis patrum vestrorum nolite incedere nec iudicia eorum custodiatis nec in idolis eorum polluamini

18 But I said to their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the precepts of your fathers, nor keep their judgments, nor be defiled by their idols.

19 ego Dominus Deus vester in praeceptis meis ambulate et iudicia mea custodite et facite ea

19 I am the Lord your God: walk in my precepts, and keep my judgments, and do them.

20 et sabbata mea sanctificate ut sit signum inter me et vos et sciatur quia ego Dominus Deus vester

20 and sanctify my sabbaths, that it may be a sign between me and you, and it may be known that I am the Lord your God

21 et exacerbaverunt me filii in praeceptis meis non ambulaverunt et iudicia mea non custodierunt ut facerent ea quae cum fecerit homo vivet in eis et sabbata mea violaverunt et comminatus sum ut effunderem furorem meum super eos et implerem iram meam in eis in deserto

21 and the sons exasperated me: in my precepts they did not walk, and my judgments they did not keep to do them—which, when a man shall have done, he shall live in them—and my sabbaths they violated; and I threatened to pour out my fury upon them and to fulfill my wrath in them in the desert

22 averti autem manum meam et feci propter nomen meum ut non violaretur coram gentibus de quibus eieci eos in oculis earum

22 But I turned away my hand, and I acted on account of my name, so that it might not be violated before the nations, from whom I cast them out, in their eyes.

23 iterum levavi manum meam in eos in solitudine ut dispergerem illos in nationes et ventilarem in terras

23 again I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I might scatter them among the nations and winnow them into the lands

24 eo quod iudicia mea non fecissent et praecepta mea reprobassent et sabbata mea violassent et post idola patrum suorum fuissent oculi eorum

24 because they had not done my judgments and had reprobated my precepts and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers

25 ergo et ego dedi eis praecepta non bona et iudicia in quibus non vivent

25 therefore I also gave them precepts not good and judgments in which they would not live

26 et pollui eos in muneribus suis cum offerrent omne quod aperit vulvam propter delicta sua et scient quia ego Dominus

26 and I defiled them in their gifts when they offered everything that opens the womb on account of their delicts, and they shall know that I am the Lord

27 quam ob rem loquere ad domum Israhel fili hominis et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus adhuc et in hoc blasphemaverunt me patres vestri cum sprevissent me contemnentes

27 wherefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: yet even in this your fathers blasphemed me, when they spurned me, contemning.

28 et induxissem eos in terram super quam levavi manum meam ut darem eis viderunt omnem collem excelsum et omne lignum nemorosum et immolaverunt ibi victimas suas et dederunt ibi inritationem oblationis suae et posuerunt ibi odorem suavitatis suae et libaverunt libationes suas

28 and when I had brought them into the land over which I had lifted up my hand to give to them, they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and there they immolated their victims, and there they gave the provocation of their oblation, and there they set the odor of their sweetness, and they poured out their libations.

29 et dixi ad eos quid est excelsum ad quod vos ingredimini et vocatum est nomen eius Excelsum usque ad hanc diem

29 And I said to them: What is the high place to which you enter? and its name has been called High Place unto this day.

30 propterea dic ad domum Israhel haec dicit Dominus Deus certe in via patrum vestrorum vos polluimini et post offendicula eorum vos fornicamini

30 therefore say to the house of Israhel: thus says the Lord God: surely in the way of your fathers you pollute yourselves, and after their stumbling-blocks you fornicate

31 et in oblatione donorum vestrorum cum transducitis filios vestros per ignem vos polluimini in omnibus idolis vestris usque hodie et ego respondebo vobis domus Israhel vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quia non respondebo vobis

31 and in the oblation of your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols even to this day; and shall I respond to you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not respond to you.

32 neque cogitatio mentis vestrae fiet dicentium erimus sicut gentes et sicut cognationes terrae ut colamus ligna et lapides

32 nor shall the cogitation of your mind come to pass, you who say, we will be like the nations and like the kindreds of the earth, so that we may worship wood and stone

33 vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quoniam in manu forti et brachio extento et in furore effuso regnabo super vos

33 As I live, says the Lord God, for with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with poured-out fury I will reign over you.

34 et educam vos de populis et congregabo vos de terris in quibus dispersi estis in manu valida et brachio extento et in furore effuso regnabo super vos

34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and I will gather you from the lands in which you have been dispersed; with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and in outpoured fury, I will reign over you.

35 et adducam vos in desertum populorum et iudicabor vobiscum ibi facie ad faciem

35 and I will bring you into the desert of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face

36 sicut iudicio contendi adversum patres vestros in deserto terrae Aegypti sic iudicabo vos dicit Dominus Deus

36 just as in judgment I contended against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, says the Lord God

37 et subiciam vos sceptro meo et inducam vos in vinculis foederis

37 and I will bring you under my scepter, and I will bring you into the bonds of the covenant

38 et eligam de vobis transgressores et impios et de terra incolatus eorum educam eos et terram Israhel non ingredientur et scietis quia ego Dominus

38 and I will select from among you the transgressors and the impious, and from the land of their sojourn I will lead them out, and into the land of Israel they shall not enter, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

39 et vos domus Israhel haec dicit Dominus Deus singuli post idola vestra ambulate et servite eis quod si et in hoc non audieritis me et nomen meum sanctum pollueritis ultra in muneribus vestris et in idolis vestris

39 and you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord God each one after your idols walk and serve them but if even in this you do not hearken to me and you profane my holy name any further in your gifts and in your idols

40 in monte sancto meo in monte excelso Israhel ait Dominus Deus ibi serviet mihi omnis domus Israhel omnes inquam in terra in qua placebunt mihi et ibi quaeram primitias vestras et initium decimarum vestrarum in omnibus sanctificationibus vestris

40 On my holy mountain, on the exalted mountain of Israel, says the Lord God, there shall serve me the whole house of Israel, all of them, I say, in the land in which they will be pleasing to me; and there I will seek your first-fruits and the beginning of your tithes, in all your sanctifications.

41 in odorem suavitatis suscipiam vos cum eduxero vos de populis et congregavero vos de terris in quas dispersi estis et sanctificabor in vobis in oculis nationum

41 in an odor of sweetness I will receive you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands into which you have been dispersed, and I will be sanctified in you in the eyes of the nations

42 et scietis quia ego Dominus cum induxero vos ad terram Israhel in terram pro qua levavi manum meam ut darem eam patribus vestris

42 and you will know that I am the Lord, when I have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers

43 et recordabimini ibi viarum vestrarum et omnium scelerum vestrorum quibus polluti estis in eis et displicebitis vobis in conspectu vestro in omnibus malitiis vestris quas fecistis

43 and you will remember there your ways and all your crimes by which you have been polluted in them, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your malices that you have done

44 et scietis quia ego Dominus cum benefecero vobis propter nomen meum non secundum vias vestras malas neque secundum scelera vestra pessima domus Israhel ait Dominus Deus

44 and you shall know that I am the Lord when I shall have done good to you on account of my name, not according to your evil ways nor according to your most wicked crimes, O house of Israel, says the Lord God

45 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

45 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

46 fili hominis pone faciem tuam contra viam austri et stilla ad africum et propheta ad saltum agri meridiani

46 son of man, set your face toward the way of the south, and drip toward the south wind, and prophesy to the forest of the field of the south

47 et dices saltui meridiano audi verbum Domini haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego succendam in te ignem et conburam in te omne lignum viride et omne lignum aridum non extinguetur flamma succensionis et conburetur in ea omnis facies ab austro usque ad aquilonem

47 and you shall say to the southern woodland, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I myself will kindle in you a fire, and I will burn up in you every green wood and every dry wood; the flame of kindling shall not be extinguished, and in it every face shall be burned from the south unto the north

48 et videbit universa caro quia ego Dominus succendi eam nec extinguetur

48 and all flesh shall see that I, the Lord, have kindled it, and it shall not be extinguished.

49 et dixi ha ha ha Domine Deus ipsi dicunt de me numquid non per parabolas loquitur iste

49 and I said: ah, ah, ah, Lord God; they themselves say of me: is not this one speaking in parables?

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord was made to me, saying

2 fili hominis pone faciem tuam ad Hierusalem et stilla ad sanctuaria et propheta contra humum Israhel

2 son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and distill toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the ground of Israel

3 et dices terrae Israhel haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad te et eiciam gladium meum de vagina sua et occidam in te iustum et impium

3 and you shall say to the land of Israel: thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against you, and I will draw out my sword from its sheath, and I will slay within you the just and the impious

4 pro eo autem quod occidi in te iustum et impium idcirco egredietur gladius meus de vagina sua ad omnem carnem ab austro ad aquilonem

4 but for that I have slain in you the just and the impious, therefore my sword will go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north

5 ut sciat omnis caro quia ego Dominus eduxi gladium meum de vagina sua inrevocabilem

5 that all flesh may know that I, the Lord, have drawn my sword from its sheath, irrevocable

6 et tu fili hominis ingemesce in contritione lumborum et in amaritudinibus ingemesce coram eis

6 and you, son of man, groan with the breaking of the loins, and in bitterness groan before them

7 cumque dixerint ad te quare tu gemis dices pro auditu quia venit et tabescet omne cor et dissolventur universae manus et infirmabitur omnis spiritus et per cuncta genua fluent aquae ecce venit et fiet ait Dominus Deus

7 and when they say to you, “Why do you groan?” you shall say: “For the hearing—for it has come—and every heart will melt and all hands will be dissolved, and every spirit will be made infirm, and through all knees waters will flow; behold, it comes and it will be done,” says the Lord God.

8 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

8 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

9 fili hominis propheta et dices haec dicit Dominus Deus loquere gladius gladius exacutus est et limatus

9 son of man, prophesy, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Speak: A sword, a sword is sharpened and polished.

10 ut caedat victimas exacutus est ut splendeat limatus est qui moves sceptrum filii mei succidisti omne lignum

10 to slay victims it is sharpened to shine it is polished you who wield the scepter of my son you have hewn down every wood

11 et dedi eum ad levigandum ut teneatur manu iste exacutus est gladius et iste limatus ut sit in manu interficientis

11 and I have given it to be smoothed, that it may be held in the hand; this sword is sharpened, and this one is polished, that it may be in the hand of the slayer

12 clama et ulula fili hominis quia hic factus est in populo meo hic in cunctis ducibus Israhel qui fugerant gladio traditi sunt cum populo meo idcirco plaude super femur

12 Cry out and wail, son of man, because this has been done among my people, this among all the leaders of Israel; those who had fled have been delivered to the sword along with my people; therefore strike upon the thigh.

13 quia probatus est et hoc cum sceptrum subverterit et non erit dicit Dominus Deus

13 because it has been proved; and this, when it has subverted the scepter, and it shall not be, says the Lord God

14 tu ergo fili hominis propheta et percute manu ad manum et duplicetur gladius ac triplicetur gladius interfectorum hic est gladius occisionis magnae qui obstupescere eos facit

14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike hand to hand, and let the sword be doubled and let the sword be tripled, the sword of the slayers; this is the sword of a great slaughter, which stupefies them.

15 et corde tabescere et multiplicat ruinas in omnibus portis eorum dedi conturbationem gladii acuti et limati ad fulgendum amicti ad caedem

15 and for the heart to melt, and it multiplies the ruins; in all their gates I have given the consternation of the sword, sharp and polished to gleam, clad for slaughter

16 exacuere vade ad dextram sive ad sinistram quocumque faciei tuae est appetitus

16 be sharpened; go to the right or to the left, whithersoever the appetite of your face is

17 quin et ego plaudam manu ad manum et implebo indignationem meam ego Dominus locutus sum

17 indeed I too will clap hand to hand, and I will fill my indignation; I, the LORD, have spoken

18 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

19 et tu fili hominis pone tibi duas vias ut veniat gladius regis Babylonis de terra una egredientur ambo et manu capiet coniecturam in capite viae civitatis coniciet

19 and you, son of man, set for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; from one land both shall go forth; and with the hand he will take divination; at the head of the way of the city he will cast it.

20 viam pones ut veniat gladius ad Rabbath filiorum Ammon et ad Iudam in Hierusalem munitissimam

20 you will set a way so that the sword may come to Rabbath of the sons of Ammon and to Judah in Jerusalem, the most fortified

21 stetit enim rex Babylonis in bivio in capite duarum viarum divinationem quaerens commiscens sagittas interrogavit idola exta consuluit

21 for the king of Babylon stood at the crossroads, at the head of the two ways, seeking divination; mixing the arrows, he questioned the idols, he consulted the entrails.

22 ad dextram eius facta est divinatio super Hierusalem ut ponat arietes ut aperiat os in caede ut elevet vocem in ululatu ut ponat arietes contra portas ut conportet aggerem ut aedificet munitiones

22 on his right the divination was made over Jerusalem: to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in ululation, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a rampart, to build fortifications

23 eritque quasi consulens frustra oraculum in oculis eorum et sabbatorum otium imitans ipse autem recordabitur iniquitatis ad capiendum

23 and it will be as one consulting an oracle in vain in their eyes, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths; but he himself will recall the iniquity for capture.

24 idcirco haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod recordati estis iniquitatis vestrae et revelastis praevaricationes vestras et apparuerunt peccata vestra in omnibus cogitationibus vestris pro eo inquam quod recordati estis manu capiemini

24 therefore thus says the Lord God: because you have remembered your iniquity, and have revealed your prevarications, and your sins have appeared in all your thoughts; therefore, I say, because you have remembered, you will be taken by the hand

25 tu autem profane impie dux Israhel cuius venit dies in tempore iniquitatis praefinita

25 but you, profane, impious prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of iniquity preappointed

26 haec dicit Dominus Deus aufer cidarim tolle coronam nonne haec est quae humilem sublevavit et sublimem humiliavit

26 thus says the Lord God: remove the mitre, take away the crown; is not this the one that has lifted up the humble and humbled the exalted?

27 iniquitatem iniquitatem iniquitatem ponam eam et hoc nunc factum est donec veniret cuius est iudicium et tradam ei

27 Iniquity, iniquity, iniquity I will set it; and this is now done, until he comes whose is the judgment, and I will hand it over to him

28 et tu fili hominis propheta et dic haec dicit Dominus Deus ad filios Ammon et ad obprobrium eorum et dices mucro mucro evaginate ad occidendum limate ut interficias et fulgeas

28 and you, son of man, prophesy and say: thus says the Lord God to the sons of Ammon and to their opprobrium; and you shall say: sword, sword, be unsheathed to kill; file it that you may slay and flash.

29 cum tibi viderentur vana et divinarentur mendacia ut dareris super colla vulneratorum impiorum quorum venit dies in tempore iniquitatis praefinita

29 when things seemed to you vain and mendacities were being divined, so that you might be given over upon the necks of the wounded impious, whose day has come at the pre-defined time of iniquity

30 revertere ad vaginam tuam in loco in quo creatus es in terra nativitatis tuae iudicabo te

30 return to your sheath; in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity, I will judge you

31 et effundam super te indignationem meam in igne furoris mei sufflabo in te daboque te in manus hominum insipientium et fabricantium interitum

31 and I will pour out upon you my indignation; in the fire of my fury I will blow upon you, and I will give you into the hands of foolish men and of those fabricating destruction

32 igni eris cibus sanguis tuus erit in medio terrae oblivioni traderis quia ego Dominus locutus sum

32 you will be food for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will be consigned to oblivion, for I, the Lord, have spoken

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1 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 et tu fili hominis num iudicas num iudicas civitatem sanguinum

2 And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the city of bloodshed?

3 et ostendes ei omnes abominationes suas et dices haec dicit Dominus Deus civitas effundens sanguinem in medio sui ut veniat tempus eius et quae fecit idola contra semet ipsam ut pollueretur

3 and you shall show her all her abominations, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: a city pouring out blood in her midst, that her time may come, and that has made idols against herself, that she might be polluted.

4 in sanguine tuo qui a te effusus est deliquisti et in idolis tuis quae fecisti polluta es et adpropinquare fecisti dies tuos et adduxisti tempus annorum tuorum propterea dedi te obprobrium gentibus et inrisionem universis terris

4 In your blood, which has been effused by you, you have been delinquent, and in your idols which you made you have been polluted; and you have made your days draw near, and you have brought the time of your years; therefore I have given you as an opprobrium to the nations and a derision to all the lands.

5 quae iuxta sunt et quae procul a te triumphabunt de te sordida nobilis grandis interitu

5 those who are adjacent and those who are distant from you will triumph over you: sordid noble one, great in destruction

6 ecce principes Israhel singuli in brachio suo fuerunt in te ad effundendum sanguinem

6 behold, the princes of Israel, each by his own arm, have been in you to pour out blood

7 patrem et matrem contumeliis adfecerunt in te advenam calumniati sunt in medio tui pupillum et viduam contristaverunt apud te

7 father and mother they have treated with contumely in you the newcomer they have calumniated in your midst the orphan and the widow they have grieved among you

8 sanctuaria mea sprevistis et sabbata mea polluistis

8 you have despised my sanctuaries and you have profaned my sabbaths

9 viri detractores fuerunt in te ad effundendum sanguinem et super montes comederunt in te scelus operati sunt in medio tui

9 men detractors were in you to pour out blood, and on the mountains they ate within you; they committed crime in your midst

10 verecundiora patris discoperuerunt in te inmunditiam menstruatae humiliaverunt in te

10 they uncovered a father’s nakedness in you; they humbled in you the immundity of a menstruant

11 et unusquisque in uxorem proximi sui operatus est abominationem et socer nurum suam polluit nefarie frater sororem suam filiam patris sui oppressit in te

11 and each one has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and a father-in-law has polluted his daughter-in-law nefariously; a brother has violated his sister, the daughter of his father, in you

12 munera acceperunt apud te ad effundendum sanguinem usuram et superabundantiam accepisti et avare proximos tuos calumniabaris meique oblita es ait Dominus Deus

12 they have received bribes among you for the shedding of blood; you have taken usury and superabundance; and avariciously you were calumniating your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God

13 ecce conplosi manus meas super avaritiam tuam quam fecisti et super sanguinem qui effusus est in medio tui

13 behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice which you have done, and over the blood which has been poured out in your midst

14 numquid sustinebit cor tuum aut praevalebunt manus tuae in diebus quos ego faciam tibi ego Dominus locutus sum et faciam

14 Will your heart sustain, or will your hands prevail, in the days which I shall make for you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.

15 et dispergam te in nationes et ventilabo te in terras et deficere faciam inmunditiam tuam a te

15 and I will disperse you into the nations and I will winnow you into the lands and I will cause your immundity to fail from you

16 et possidebo te in conspectu gentium et scies quia ego Dominus

16 and I will possess you in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am the Lord

17 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

17 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

18 fili hominis versa est mihi domus Israhel in scoriam omnes isti aes et stagnum et ferrum et plumbum in medio fornacis scoria argenti facti sunt

18 son of man, the house of Israel has turned for me into dross; all these—bronze and tin and iron and lead— in the midst of the furnace, they have become dross of silver.

19 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus eo quod versi estis omnes in scoriam propterea ecce ego congregabo vos in medium Hierusalem

19 therefore thus says the Lord God: because you have all been turned into dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem

20 congregatione argenti et aeris et ferri et stagni et plumbi in medium fornacis ut succendam in eam ignem ad conflandum sic congregabo in furore meo et in ira mea et requiescam et conflabo vos

20 as in the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and tin and lead into the midst of the furnace, that I may kindle upon it a fire for smelting, so will I gather you in my fury and in my wrath, and I will be at rest, and I will smelt you

21 et congregabo vos et succendam vos in igne furoris mei et conflabimini in medio eius

21 and I will gather you, and I will kindle you in the fire of my fury, and you shall be smelted in its midst

22 ut conflatur argentum in medio fornacis sic eritis in medio eius et scietis quia ego Dominus effuderim indignationem meam super vos

22 As silver is smelted in the midst of the furnace, so you shall be in its midst; and you shall know that I, the Lord, have poured out my indignation upon you

23 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

23 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

24 fili hominis dic ei tu es terra inmunda et non conpluta in die furoris

24 Son of man, say to her: you are an unclean land and not rained upon in the day of fury

25 coniuratio prophetarum in medio eius sicut leo rugiens capiensque praedam animam devoraverunt opes et pretium acceperunt viduas eius multiplicaverunt in medio illius

25 a conspiracy of the prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion seizing prey; they have devoured lives, they have taken wealth and price, they have multiplied her widows in her midst

26 sacerdotes eius contempserunt legem meam et polluerunt sanctuaria mea inter sanctum et profanum non habuere distantiam et inter pollutum et mundum non intellexerunt et a sabbatis meis averterunt oculos suos et coinquinabar in medio eorum

26 her priests have contemned my law and have polluted my sanctuaries; between the holy and the profane they have had no distinction, and between the defiled and the clean they have not understood; and from my sabbaths they have averted their eyes, and I was defiled in the midst of them

27 principes eius in medio illius quasi lupi rapientes praedam ad effundendum sanguinem et perdendas animas et avare sectanda lucra

27 her princes in her midst are like wolves snatching prey, to pour out blood and to destroy souls, and to pursue lucre avariciously

28 prophetae autem eius liniebant eos absque temperamento videntes vana et divinantes eis mendacium dicentes haec dicit Dominus Deus cum Dominus non sit locutus

28 But her prophets were daubing for them without tempering, seeing vanities and divining a lie for them, saying, “Thus says the Lord God,” when the Lord had not spoken.

29 populi terrae calumniabantur calumniam et rapiebant violenter egenum et pauperem adfligebant et advenam opprimebant calumnia absque iudicio

29 the people of the land practiced calumny and seized violently; they afflicted the needy and the poor, and they oppressed the sojourner by calumny, without judgment.

30 et quaesivi de eis virum qui interponeret sepem et staret oppositus contra me pro terra ne dissiparem eam et non inveni

30 and I sought among them a man who would interpose a hedge and stand opposed before me for the land, that I might not lay it waste, and I did not find one

31 et effudi super eos indignationem meam in igne irae meae consumpsi eos viam eorum in caput eorum reddidi ait Dominus Deus

31 and I poured out upon them my indignation; in the fire of my wrath I consumed them; I returned their way upon their head, says the Lord God

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis duae mulieres filiae matris unius fuerunt

2 son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother

3 et fornicatae sunt in Aegypto in adulescentia sua fornicatae sunt ibi subacta sunt ubera earum et fractae sunt mammae pubertatis earum

3 and they fornicated in Egypt; in their adolescence they fornicated there; their breasts were pressed, and the teats of their puberty were bruised.

4 nomina autem earum Oolla maior et Ooliba soror eius et habui eas et pepererunt filios et filias porro earum nomina Samaria Oolla et Hierusalem Ooliba

4 the names, moreover, of them: Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her sister; and I had them, and they bore sons and daughters; furthermore, their names: Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem Ooliba

5 fornicata est igitur Oolla super me et insanivit in amatores suos in Assyrios propinquantes

5 therefore Oolla fornicated against me and raved after her lovers, the Assyrians who were near

6 vestitos hyacintho principes et magistratus iuvenes cupidinis universos equites ascensores equorum

6 clothed in hyacinth, princes and magistrates, youths of desire all, horsemen, riders of horses

7 et dedit fornicationes suas super eos electos filios Assyriorum universos et in omnibus in quos insanivit in inmunditiis eorum polluta est

7 and she bestowed her fornications upon them, the chosen sons of the Assyrians, all of them; and with all those for whom she went mad, she was polluted in their uncleannesses

8 insuper et fornicationes suas quas habuerat in Aegypto non reliquit nam et illi dormierant cum ea in adulescentia eius et illi confregerant ubera pubertatis eius et effuderant fornicationem suam super eam

8 moreover even her fornications which she had had in Egypt she did not leave; for they too had lain with her in her adolescence, and they too had bruised the breasts of her puberty, and had poured out their fornication upon her

9 propterea tradidi eam in manu amatorum suorum in manus filiorum Assur super quorum insanivit libidinem

9 therefore I handed her over into the hand of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of Assur, over whose lust she raved

10 ipsi discoperuerunt ignominiam eius filios et filias illius tulerunt et ipsam occiderunt gladio et factae sunt famosae mulieres et iudicia perpetrarunt in ea

10 they themselves uncovered her ignominy they took her sons and her daughters and her they killed with the sword and the women became ill-famed and they perpetrated judgments upon her

11 quod cum vidisset soror eius Ooliba plus quam illa insanivit libidine et fornicationem suam super fornicationem sororis suae

11 when her sister Ooliba saw this, she went insane with libido more than she, and she set her fornication beyond the fornication of her sister

12 ad filios Assyriorum praebuit inpudenter ducibus et magistratibus ad se venientibus indutis veste varia equitibus qui vectabantur equis et adulescentibus forma cunctis egregia

12 she shamelessly proffered herself to the sons of the Assyrians, to the leaders and magistrates coming to her, clad in variegated attire, to equestrians who were mounted on horses, and to adolescents, all of them of outstanding form

13 et vidi quod polluta esset via una ambarum

13 and I saw that the one way of both was polluted

14 et auxit fornicationes suas cumque vidisset viros depictos in pariete imagines Chaldeorum expressas coloribus

14 and she increased her fornications; and when she had seen men depicted on the wall, images of the Chaldeans expressed with colors

15 et accinctos balteis renes et tiaras tinctas in capitibus eorum formam ducum omnium similitudinem filiorum Babylonis terraeque Chaldeorum in qua orti sunt

15 and loins girded with belts, and dyed tiaras on their heads, the form of all leaders, the likeness of the sons of Babylon and of the land of the Chaldeans in which they were born

16 et insanivit super eos concupiscentia oculorum suorum et misit nuntios ad eos in Chaldeam

16 and she went mad over them with the concupiscence of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea

17 cumque venissent ad eam filii Babylonis ad cubile mammarum polluerunt eam stupris suis et polluta est ab eis et saturata est anima eius ab illis

17 and when the sons of Babylon had come to her, to the couch of the breasts, they polluted her with their stuprations, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was sated by them

18 denudavit quoque fornicationes suas et discoperuit ignominiam suam et recessit anima mea ab ea sicut recesserat anima mea a sorore eius

18 She also denuded her fornications and uncovered her ignominy, and my soul withdrew from her, just as my soul had withdrawn from her sister.

19 multiplicavit enim fornicationes suas recordans dies adulescentiae suae quibus fornicata est in terra Aegypti

19 for she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her adolescence during which she fornicated in the land of Egypt

20 et insanivit libidine super concubitu eorum quorum carnes sunt ut carnes asinorum et sicut fluxus equorum fluxus eorum

20 and she raved with libido over their concubinage, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and like the flux of horses their flux

21 et visitasti scelus adulescentiae tuae quando subacta sunt in Aegypto ubera tua et confractae mammae pubertatis tuae

21 and you revisited the lewdness of your adolescence, when your breasts were pressed in Egypt and the breasts of your puberty were bruised

22 propterea Ooliba haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego suscitabo omnes amatores tuos contra te de quibus satiata est anima tua et congregabo eos adversum te in circuitu

22 therefore, Ooliba, thus says the Lord God: behold, I will rouse all your lovers against you, those by whom your soul has been satiated, and I will congregate them against you in a circuit.

23 filios Babylonis et universos Chaldeos nobiles tyrannosque et principes omnes filios Assyriorum iuvenes forma egregia duces et magistratus universos principes principum et nominatos ascensores equorum

23 the sons of Babylon and all the Chaldeans, nobles and tyrants and all princes; the sons of the Assyrians, youths of outstanding form; leaders and magistrates, all of them, princes of princes, and renowned equestrian horsemen

24 et venient super te instructi curru et rota multitudo populorum lorica et clypeo et galea armabuntur contra te undique et dabo coram eis iudicium et iudicabunt te iudiciis suis

24 and they will come upon you, arrayed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of peoples, and with cuirass and shield and helmet they will arm themselves against you on every side, and I will give judgment before them, and they will judge you by their judgments

25 et ponam zelum meum in te quem exercent tecum in furore nasum tuum et aures tuas praecident et quae remanserint gladio concident ipsi filios tuos et filias tuas capient et novissimum tuum devorabitur igni

25 and I will set my zeal in you, which they will exercise with you in fury; your nose and your ears they will cut off, and what remains they will cut down with the sword; they themselves will seize your sons and your daughters, and your latter end will be devoured by fire.

26 et denudabunt te vestimentis tuis et tollent vasa gloriae tuae

26 and they will strip you of your garments, and they will carry off the vessels of your glory

27 et requiescere faciam scelus tuum de te et fornicationem tuam de terra Aegypti nec levabis oculos tuos ad eos et Aegypti non recordaberis amplius

27 and I will cause your crime to rest from upon you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt; nor will you lift your eyes to them, and you will no longer remember Egypt.

28 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego tradam te in manu eorum quos odisti in manu de quibus satiata est anima tua

28 because thus says the Lord God: behold, I will hand you over into the hand of those whom you hated, into the hand of those by whom your soul was satiated.

29 et agent tecum in odio et tollent omnes labores tuos et dimittent te nudam et ignominia plenam revelabitur ignominia fornicationum tuarum scelus tuum et fornicationes tuae

29 and they will deal with you in hatred, and they will take away all your labors, and they will leave you naked and full of ignominy; the ignominy of your fornications will be revealed—your crime and your fornications

30 fecerunt haec tibi quia fornicata es post gentes inter quas polluta es in idolis eorum

30 They have done these things to you, because you have fornicated after the nations, among whom you were polluted in their idols.

31 in via sororis tuae ambulasti et dabo calicem eius in manu tua

31 you have walked in the way of your sister, and I will give her chalice into your hand

32 haec dicit Dominus Deus calicem sororis tuae bibes profundum et latum eris in derisum et in subsannationem quae es capacissima

32 thus says the Lord God, you will drink the cup of your sister, deep and wide; you will be for derision and for subsannation, you who are most capacious

33 ebrietate et dolore repleberis calice maeroris et tristitiae calice sororis tuae Samariae

33 you shall be filled with ebriety and dolor, with the cup of mourning and sadness, the cup of your sister Samaria.

34 et bibes illum et epotabis usque ad feces et fragmenta eius devorabis et ubera tua lacerabis quia ego locutus sum ait Dominus Deus

34 and you will drink it and drain it down to the dregs, and you will devour its fragments, and you will lacerate your breasts, for I have spoken, says the Lord God.

35 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus quia oblita es mei et proiecisti me post corpus tuum tu quoque porta scelus tuum et fornicationes tuas

35 therefore thus says the Lord God: because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you too, bear your crime and your fornications.

36 et ait Dominus ad me dicens fili hominis numquid iudicas Oollam et Oolibam et adnuntias eis scelera earum

36 And the Lord said to me, saying, Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah, and announce to them their crimes?

37 quia adulterae sunt et sanguis in manibus earum et cum idolis suis fornicatae sunt insuper et filios suos quos genuerunt mihi obtulerunt eis ad devorandum

37 because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols they have fornicated; moreover, even their sons whom they bore to me they have offered to them to be devoured

38 sed et hoc fecerunt mihi polluerunt sanctuarium meum in die illa et sabbata mea profanaverunt

38 But even this they did to me: they polluted my sanctuary on that day and profaned my sabbaths.

39 cumque immolarent filios suos idolis suis et ingrederentur sanctuarium meum in die illa ut polluerent illud etiam haec fecerunt in medio domus meae

39 and while they were immolating their sons to their idols and entering my sanctuary on that day to pollute it, even these things they did in the midst of my house

40 miserunt ad viros venientes de longe ad quos nuntium miserant itaque ecce venerunt quibus te lavisti et circumlevisti stibio oculos tuos et ornata es mundo muliebri

40 they sent to men coming from far away, to whom they had sent a message; and so, behold, they came, for whom you washed yourself and circled your eyes with stibium, and you were adorned with womanly finery

41 sedisti in lecto pulcherrimo et mensa ordinata est ante te thymiama meum et unguentum meum posuisti super eam

41 you sat on a most beautiful couch, and a table was set in order before you; my incense and my unguent you placed upon it

42 et vox multitudinis exultantis erat in ea et in viris qui de multitudine hominum adducebantur et veniebant de deserto posuerunt armillas in manibus eorum et coronas speciosas in capitibus eorum

42 and the voice of an exultant multitude was in her, and among the men who were being brought from the multitude of mankind; and they were coming from the desert; they placed armlets on their hands and splendid crowns on their heads

43 et dixi ei quae adtrita est in adulteriis nunc fornicabitur in fornicatione sua etiam haec

43 and I said to her who is worn down in adulteries, Now even she will fornicate in her fornication

44 et ingressi sunt ad eam quasi ad mulierem meretricem sic ingrediebantur ad Oollam et ad Oolibam mulieres nefarias

44 and they went in to her as to a harlot; thus they went in to Oollah and to Oolibah, wicked women.

45 viri ergo iusti sunt hii iudicabunt eas iudicio adulterarum et iudicio effundentium sanguinem quia adulterae sunt et sanguis in manibus earum

45 Therefore these are righteous men; they will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of those who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 haec enim dicit Dominus Deus adduc ad eas multitudinem et trade eas in tumultum et in rapinam

46 for thus says the Lord God: bring against them a multitude, and hand them over into tumult and into rapine

47 et lapidentur lapidibus populorum et confodiantur gladiis eorum filios et filias earum interficient et domos earum igne succendent

47 and they shall be stoned with the stones of the peoples and be pierced with their swords their sons and their daughters they will kill and their houses they will burn with fire

48 et auferam scelus de terra et discent omnes mulieres ne faciant secundum scelus earum

48 and I will remove wickedness from the land, and all women will learn not to do according to their wickedness.

49 et dabunt scelus vestrum super vos et peccata idolorum vestrorum portabitis et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus

49 and they will set your crime upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols, and you shall know that I am the Lord God

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1 et factum est verbum Domini ad me in anno nono in mense decimo decima mensis dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me in the 9th year, in the 10th month, on the 10th of the month, saying

2 fili hominis scribe tibi nomen diei huius in qua confirmatus est rex Babylonis adversum Hierusalem hodie

2 son of man, write for yourself the name of this day, on which the king of Babylon has been confirmed against Jerusalem today

3 et dices per proverbium ad domum inritatricem parabolam et loqueris ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus pone ollam pone inquam et mitte in ea aquam

3 and you shall say by a proverb to the provoking house a parable, and you shall speak to them: thus says the Lord God: set on the pot, set it on, I say, and put water into it

4 congere frusta eius in ea omnem partem bonam femur et armum electa et ossibus plena

4 heap together its pieces in it, every good part, the thigh and the shoulder, chosen pieces and full of bones

5 pinguissimum pecus adsume conpone quoque struices ossuum sub ea efferbuit coctio eius et discocta sunt ossa illius in medio eius

5 take the fattest beast; also arrange piles of bones beneath it; its cooking effervesced, and its bones were thoroughly seethed in its midst

6 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus vae civitati sanguinum ollae cuius rubigo in ea est et rubigo eius non exivit de ea per partes et per partes suas eice eam non cecidit super eam sors

6 therefore thus says the Lord God: woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust has not gone out from it; cast it out piece by piece, and no lot has fallen upon it

7 sanguis enim eius in medio eius est super limpidissimam petram effudit illum non effudit illum super terram ut possit operiri pulvere

7 for her blood is in her midst; upon the most limpid rock she poured it; she did not pour it upon the earth, that it might be covered with dust

8 ut superducerem indignationem meam et vindicta ulciscerer dedi sanguinem eius super petram limpidissimam ne operiretur

8 that I might bring upon my indignation, and with vengeance might avenge, I placed its blood upon the most limpid rock, that it might not be covered

9 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus vae civitati sanguinum cuius ego grandem faciam pyram

9 therefore thus says the Lord God: woe to the city of bloodshed, for which I will make a great pyre

10 congere ossa quae igne succendam consumentur carnes et concoquetur universa conpositio et ossa tabescent

10 heap up the bones, which I will set ablaze with fire; the flesh will be consumed, and the whole composition will be cooked down, and the bones will waste away

11 pone quoque eam super prunas vacuam ut incalescat et liquefiat aes eius et confletur in medio eius inquinamentum eius et consumatur rubigo eius

11 set it also upon coals empty, that it may grow hot and its bronze be liquefied, and its pollution be fused in its midst, and its rust be consumed

12 multo labore sudatum est et non exibit de ea nimia rubigo eius neque per ignem

12 it has been sweated with much labor, and its excessive rust will not go out from it, nor even by fire

13 inmunditia tua execrabilis quia mundare te volui et non es mundata a sordibus tuis sed nec mundaberis prius donec quiescere faciam indignationem meam in te

13 your uncleanness is execrable, because I wished to cleanse you and you have not been cleansed from your sordidnesses; but neither will you be cleansed until I cause my indignation to rest upon you

14 ego Dominus locutus sum venit et faciam non transeam nec parcam nec placabor iuxta vias tuas et iuxta adinventiones tuas iudicavi te dicit Dominus

14 I, the Lord, have spoken: it comes, and I will do it; I will not pass over, nor spare, nor be appeased; according to your ways and according to your inventions I have judged you, says the Lord.

15 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

15 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

16 fili hominis ecce ego tollo a te desiderabile oculorum tuorum in plaga et non planges neque plorabis neque fluent lacrimae tuae

16 son of man, behold, I am taking from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke; and you shall not mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears flow.

17 ingemesce tacens mortuorum luctum non facies corona tua circumligata sit tibi et calciamenta tua erunt in pedibus tuis nec amictu ora velabis nec cibos lugentium comedes

17 groan in silence; you shall not make mourning for the dead; let your crown be bound around you, and your shoes shall be on your feet; neither shall you veil your mouth with a garment, nor shall you eat the foods of mourners

18 locutus sum ergo ad populum mane et mortua est uxor mea vesperi fecique mane sicut praeceperat mihi

18 so I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening; and I did in the morning as he had commanded me

19 et dixit ad me populus quare non indicas nobis quid ista significent quae tu facis

19 and the people said to me, why do you not indicate to us what those things signify which you are doing?

20 et dixi ad eos sermo Domini factus est ad me dicens

20 and I said to them, the word of the Lord was made to me, saying

21 loquere domui Israhel haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego polluam sanctuarium meum superbiam imperii vestri et desiderabile oculorum vestrorum et super quo pavet anima vestra et filii vestri et filiae quas reliquistis gladio cadent

21 speak to the house of Israel: thus says the Lord God: behold, I will profane my sanctuary—the pride of your empire, the desire of your eyes, and that over which your soul trembles—and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

22 et facietis sicut feci ora amictu non velabitis et cibos lugentium non comedetis

22 and you will do as I have done: you shall not veil your mouths with a covering, and you shall not eat the foods of mourners.

23 coronas habebitis in capitibus vestris et calciamenta in pedibus non plangetis neque flebitis sed tabescetis in iniquitatibus vestris et unusquisque gemet ad fratrem suum

23 you shall have crowns upon your heads and shoes on your feet; you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall waste away in your iniquities, and each one shall groan to his brother.

24 eritque Hiezecihel vobis in portentum iuxta omnia quae fecit facietis cum venerit istud et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus

24 and Ezekiel will be to you for a portent; according to all that he has done, you will do; when this comes, you will know that I am the Lord God.

25 et tu fili hominis ecce in die quo tollam ab eis fortitudinem eorum et gaudium dignitatis et desiderium oculorum eorum super quo requiescunt animae eorum filios et filias eorum

25 and you, son of man: behold, on the day when I take from them their strength and the joy of their dignity and the desire of their eyes, upon which their souls rest—their sons and their daughters

26 in die illa cum venerit fugiens ad te ut adnuntiet tibi

26 on that day, when the fugitive comes to you to announce to you

27 in die inquam illa aperietur os tuum cum eo qui fugit et loqueris et non silebis ultra erisque eis in portentum et scietis quia ego Dominus

27 on that day, I say, your mouth will be opened with him who flees, and you will speak, and you will no longer be silent; and you will be to them for a portent, and you will know that I am the Lord

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis pone faciem tuam contra filios Ammon et prophetabis de eis

2 Son of man, set your face against the sons of Ammon, and you shall prophesy concerning them.

3 et dices filiis Ammon audite verbum Domini Dei haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod dixisti euge euge super sanctuarium meum quia pollutum est et super terram Israhel quoniam desolata est et super domum Iuda quoniam ducti sunt in captivitatem

3 and you shall say to the sons of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord God; thus says the Lord God: because you said, “Aha, aha,” over my sanctuary because it has been polluted, and over the land of Israel because it has been desolated, and over the house of Judah because they have been led into captivity

4 idcirco ego tradam te filiis orientalibus in hereditatem et conlocabunt caulas suas in te et ponent in te tentoria sua ipsi comedent fruges tuas et ipsi bibent lac tuum

4 therefore I will hand you over to the sons of the east as an inheritance, and they will set their folds in you and will place their tents in you; they themselves will eat your fruits, and they themselves will drink your milk

5 daboque Rabbath in habitaculum camelorum et filios Ammon in cubile pecorum et scietis quia ego Dominus

5 and I will make Rabbah a habitation of camels, and the sons of Ammon a couching-place of flocks; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

6 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod plausisti manu et percussisti pede et gavisa es ex toto affectu super terram Israhel

6 for thus says the Lord God: because you clapped the hand and struck the foot, and you rejoiced with all your emotion over the land of Israel

7 idcirco ecce ego extendam manum meam super te et tradam te in direptionem gentium et interficiam te de populis et perdam de terris et conteram et scies quia ego Dominus

7 therefore, behold, I will stretch out my hand over you and I will hand you over for plunder to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will destroy you from the lands, and I will crush you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

8 haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod dixerunt Moab et Seir ecce sicut omnes gentes domus Iuda

8 thus says the Lord God: because Moab and Seir have said, “Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations.”

9 idcirco ecce ego aperiam umerum Moab de civitatibus de civitatibus inquam eius et de finibus eius inclitas terrae Bethiesimoth et Beelmeon et Cariathaim

9 therefore, behold, I will open the shoulder of Moab, from the cities, from his cities, I say, and from his boundaries, the illustrious of the land: Bethiesimoth and Beelmeon and Cariathaim

10 filiis orientis cum filiis Ammon et dabo eam in hereditatem ut non sit memoria ultra filiorum Ammon in gentibus

10 to the sons of the East with the sons of Ammon, and I will give it into an inheritance, so that there be no memory any longer of the sons of Ammon among the nations

11 et in Moab faciam iudicia et scient quia ego Dominus

11 and in Moab I will execute judgments, and they will know that I am the Lord

12 haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod fecit Idumea ultionem ut se vindicaret de filiis Iuda peccavitque delinquens et vindictam expetivit de eis

12 Thus says the Lord God: because Idumea did vengeance, so as to vindicate itself upon the sons of Judah, and sinned by transgressing, and sought out vengeance against them.

13 idcirco haec dicit Dominus Deus extendam manum meam super Idumeam et auferam de ea hominem et iumentum et faciam eam desertum ab austro et qui sunt in Daedan gladio cadent

13 therefore thus says the Lord God: I will extend my hand over Idumea, and I will remove from it man and beast, and I will make it a desert from the south, and those who are in Daedan will fall by the sword

14 et dabo ultionem meam super Idumeam per manum populi mei Israhel et facient in Edom iuxta iram meam et furorem meum et scient vindictam meam dicit Dominus Deus

14 and I will set my vengeance upon Idumea through the hand of my people Israel, and they shall act in Edom according to my wrath and my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God

15 haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod fecerunt Palestini in vindictam et ulti se sunt toto animo interficientes et implentes inimicitias veteres

15 thus says the Lord God: because the Philistines acted in vindicta and avenged themselves with all their soul, killing and fulfilling ancient enmities

16 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego extendam manum meam super Palestinos et interficiam interfectores et perdam reliquias maritimae regionis

16 therefore thus says the Lord God: behold, I will stretch out my hand over the Philistines, and I will slay the slayers, and I will destroy the remnant of the sea‑coast region

17 faciamque in eis ultiones magnas arguens in furore et scient quia ego Dominus cum dedero vindictam meam super eos

17 And I will execute great vengeances upon them, arraigning in fury, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have given my vengeance upon them.

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1 et factum est in undecimo anno prima mensis factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis pro eo quod dixit Tyrus de Hierusalem euge confractae sunt portae populorum conversa est ad me implebor deserta est

2 son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the peoples are broken; it has turned to me; I shall be filled; she is desolate

3 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego super te Tyre et ascendere faciam ad te gentes multas sicut ascendit mare fluctuans

3 therefore thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against you, Tyre, and I will make many nations ascend against you, as the sea ascends, fluctuating

4 et dissipabunt muros Tyri et destruent turres eius et radam pulverem eius de ea et dabo eam in limpidissimam petram

4 and they will dissipate the walls of Tyre and destroy her towers, and I will shave her dust from her, and I will make her into a most limpid rock

5 siccatio sagenarum erit in medio maris quia ego locutus sum ait Dominus Deus et erit in direptionem gentibus

5 it shall be a drying-place for seines in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, says the Lord God, and it shall be for plunder to the nations

6 filiae quoque eius quae sunt in agro gladio interficientur et scient quia ego Dominus

6 and her daughters also, who are in the field, will be put to death by the sword; and they will know that I am the Lord.

7 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego adducam ad Tyrum Nabuchodonosor regem Babylonis ab aquilone regem regum cum equis et curribus et equitibus et coetu populoque magno

7 for thus says the Lord God: behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, from the north, the king of kings, with horses and chariots and horsemen, and with a company and a great people

8 filias tuas quae sunt in agro gladio interficiet et circumdabit te munitionibus et conportabit aggerem in gyro et levabit contra te clypeum

8 your daughters who are in the field he will kill with the sword, and he will encircle you with fortifications, and will heap up a rampart all around, and will raise the shield against you.

9 et vineas et arietes temperabit in muros tuos et turres tuas destruet in armatura sua

9 and he will deploy mantlets and battering rams against your walls, and he will destroy your towers with his armament.

10 inundatione equorum eius operiet te pulvis eorum a sonitu equitum et rotarum et curruum movebuntur muri tui dum ingressus fuerit portas tuas quasi per introitus urbis dissipatae

10 by the inundation of his horses their dust will cover you; at the sound of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the chariots your walls will be moved, when he has entered your gates as through the entrances of a ruined city

11 ungulis equorum suorum conculcabit omnes plateas tuas populum tuum gladio caedet et statuae tuae nobiles in terram corruent

11 with the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets he will strike your people with the sword and your noble statues will fall to the ground

12 vastabunt opes tuas diripient negotiationes tuas et destruent muros tuos et domos tuas praeclaras subvertent et lapides tuos et ligna tua et pulverem tuum in medio aquarum ponent

12 they will devastate your wealth, they will plunder your trading enterprises, and they will destroy your walls, and your splendid houses they will overthrow, and your stones and your timber and your dust they will place in the midst of the waters

13 et quiescere faciam multitudinem canticorum tuorum et sonitus cithararum tuarum non audietur amplius

13 and I will make the multitude of your songs cease, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more

14 et dabo te in limpidissimam petram siccatio sagenarum eris nec aedificaberis ultra quia ego locutus sum dicit Dominus Deus

14 and I will set you as a most limpid rock; you shall be a drying-place of seine-nets, and you shall not be built any more, for I have spoken, says the Lord God

15 haec dicit Dominus Deus Tyro numquid non a sonitu ruinae tuae et gemitu interfectorum tuorum cum occisi fuerint in medio tui commovebuntur insulae

15 thus says the Lord God to Tyre: will not the islands be commoved at the sound of your ruin and the groan of your slain, when the slain fall in your midst?

16 et descendent de sedibus suis omnes principes maris et auferent exuvias suas et vestimenta sua varia abicient et induentur stupore in terra sedebunt et adtoniti super repentino casu tuo admirabuntur

16 and all the princes of the sea will descend from their seats, and they will remove their regalia, and their variegated garments they will cast off, and they will be clothed with stupor; on the ground they will sit, and, astonished at your sudden fall, they will marvel.

17 et adsumentes super te lamentum dicent tibi quomodo peristi quae habitas in mari urbs inclita quae fuisti fortis in mari cum habitatoribus tuis quos formidabant universi

17 and taking up a lamentation over you they will say to you: How you have perished, you who dwell in the sea, O illustrious city, who were strong on the sea with your inhabitants, whom all dreaded

18 nunc stupebunt naves in die pavoris tui et turbabuntur insulae in mari eo quod nullus egrediatur ex te

18 now the ships will be stupefied on the day of your terror and the islands in the sea will be disturbed because no one goes forth from you

19 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus cum dedero te urbem desolatam sicut civitates quae non habitantur et adduxero super te abyssum et operuerint te aquae multae

19 for thus says the Lord God, when I have made you a desolated city like the cities that are not inhabited, and have brought upon you the abyss, and many waters have covered you

20 et detraxero te cum his qui descendunt in lacum ad populum sempiternum et conlocavero te in terra novissima sicut solitudines veteres cum his qui deducuntur in lacum ut non habiteris porro dedero gloriam in terra viventium

20 and I will drag you down with those who descend into the pit, to the everlasting people, and I will set you in the lowest land like the ancient solitudes, with those who are led down into the pit, so that you may not be inhabited; furthermore, I will give glory in the land of the living

21 in nihilum redigam te et non eris et requisita non invenieris ultra in sempiternum dicit Dominus Deus

21 I will reduce you to nothing, and you shall not be; and, though sought, you shall no longer be found, forever, says the Lord God.

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1 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 tu ergo fili hominis adsume super Tyrum lamentum

2 you therefore, son of man, take up over Tyre a lamentation

3 et dices Tyro quae habitat in introitu maris negotiationi populorum ad insulas multas haec dicit Dominus Deus o Tyre tu dixisti perfecti decoris ego sum

3 and you shall say to Tyre, who inhabits at the entrance of the sea, for the commerce of the peoples to many islands: thus says the Lord God: O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

4 et in corde maris sita finitimi tui qui te aedificaverunt impleverunt decorem tuum

4 and in the heart of the sea situated your neighbors who have edified you have filled your decor

5 abietibus de Sanir extruxerunt te cum omnibus tabulatis maris cedrum de Libano tulerunt ut facerent tibi malum

5 with firs from Senir they constructed you, with all the ship’s planking; they took cedar from Lebanon to make for you a mast

6 quercus de Basan dolaverunt in remos tuos transtra tua fecerunt tibi ex ebore indico et praetoriola de insulis Italiae

6 oaks from Bashan they hewed for your oars; your thwarts they made for you from Indian ivory, and little praetoria from the islands of Italy.

7 byssus varia de Aegypto texta est tibi in velum ut poneretur in malo hyacinthus et purpura de insulis Elisa facta sunt operimentum tuum

7 variegated byssus from Egypt was woven for you into a sail to be set upon the mast; hyacinth and purple from the islands of Elisa were made your covering

8 habitatores Sidonis et Aradii fuerunt remiges tui sapientes tui Tyre facti sunt gubernatores tui

8 the inhabitants of Sidon and Aradus were your rowers your wise men, Tyre, became your pilots

9 senes Bibli et prudentes eius habuerunt nautas ad ministerium variae supellectilis tuae omnes naves maris et nautae earum fuerunt in populo negotiationis tuae

9 the elders of Byblus and its prudent men had sailors for the service of your various furnishings; all the ships of the sea and their sailors were among the people of your commerce

10 Persae et Lydi et Lybies erant in exercitu tuo viri bellatores tui clypeum et galeam suspenderunt in te pro ornatu tuo

10 The Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in your army—your men of war; they hung shield and helmet upon you for your adornment.

11 filii Aradii cum exercitu tuo erant super muros tuos in circuitu sed et Pigmei qui erant in turribus tuis faretras suas suspenderunt in muris tuis per gyrum ipsi conpleverunt pulchritudinem tuam

11 the sons of Aradus were with your army upon your walls round about; but also the Pygmies, who were in your towers, hung their quivers on your walls all around— they themselves completed your beauty

12 Carthaginienses negotiatores tui a multitudine cunctarum divitiarum argento ferro stagno plumboque repleverunt nundinas tuas

12 The Carthaginians, your merchants, by reason of the multitude of every kind of wealth, filled your markets with silver, iron, tin, and lead

13 Graecia Thubal et Mosoch ipsi institores tui mancipia et vasa aerea adduxerunt populo tuo

13 Greece, Tubal, and Meshech—these were your merchants; they brought slaves and bronze vessels for your people

14 de domo Thogorma equos et equites et mulos adduxerunt ad forum tuum

14 from the house of Togarmah they brought horses and horsemen and mules to your market

15 filii Dadan negotiatores tui insulae multae negotiatio manus tuae dentes eburneos et hebeninos commutaverunt in pretio tuo

15 the sons of Dedan were your merchants; many islands were the negotiation of your hand; ivory teeth and ebony they exchanged for your price

16 Syrus negotiator tuus propter multitudinem operum tuorum gemmam purpuram et scutulata et byssum et sericum et chodchod proposuerunt in mercatu tuo

16 Syria, your trader, because of the multitude of your works, offered gems, purple, scutulated fabrics, and byssus and silk and chodchod in your market

17 Iuda et terra Israhel ipsi institores tui in frumento primo balsamum et mel et oleum et resinam proposuerunt in nundinis tuis

17 Judah and the land of Israel—these were your traders; they set forth in your fairs prime wheat, balsam, and honey, and oil, and resin

18 Damascenus negotiator tuus in multitudine operum tuorum in multitudine diversarum opum in vino pingui in lanis coloris optimi

18 The Damascene, your merchant, in the multitude of your works, in the multitude of diverse kinds of wealth, with rich wine, with wools of the finest color

19 Dan et Graecia et Mozel in nundinis tuis proposuerunt ferrum fabrefactum stacte et calamus in negotiatione tua

19 Dan and Greece and Mozel set forth in your markets wrought iron, stacte, and calamus in your trade

20 Dadan institores tui in tapetibus ad sedendum

20 Dadan, your peddlers, in carpets for sitting

21 Arabia et universi principes Cedar ipsi negotiatores manus tuae cum agnis et arietibus et hedis venerunt ad te negotiatores tui

21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they the merchants of your hand; with lambs and rams and kids your merchants came to you.

22 venditores Saba et Reema ipsi negotiatores tui cum universis primis aromatibus et lapide pretioso et auro quod proposuerunt in mercatu tuo

22 the sellers of Saba and Reema, they themselves your merchants, with all the prime aromatics and with precious stone and gold which they set forth in your market

23 Aran et Chenne et Eden negotiatores Saba Assur Chelmad venditores tui

23 Aran and Chenne and Eden, negotiators; Saba, Assur, Chelmad, your vendors.

24 ipsi negotiatores tui multifariam involucris hyacinthi et polymitorum gazarumque pretiosarum quae obvolutae et adstrictae erant funibus cedros quoque habebant in negotiationibus tuis

24 these, your merchants, in many ways, with wrappings of hyacinth and of embroidered fabrics, and with precious treasures which were wrapped around and bound with ropes, also had cedars in your traffickings.

25 naves maris principes tuae in negotiatione tua et repleta es et glorificata nimis in corde maris

25 the ships of the sea were your princes in your traffic and you were filled and exceedingly glorified in the heart of the sea

26 in aquis multis adduxerunt te remiges tui ventus auster contrivit te in corde maris

26 on many waters your rowers have brought you; the south wind has crushed you in the heart of the sea

27 divitiae tuae et thesauri tui et multiplex instrumentum tuum nautae tui et gubernatores tui qui tenebant supellectilem tuam et populo tuo praeerant viri quoque bellatores tui qui erant in te cum universa multitudine tua quae est in medio tui cadent in corde maris in die ruinae tuae

27 your riches and your treasures and your manifold merchandise, your sailors and your governors (pilots), who held your wares and presided over your people, your men of war also who were in you, with all your multitude that is in your midst, shall fall in the heart of the sea on the day of your ruin

28 a sonitu clamoris gubernatorum tuorum conturbabuntur classes

28 at the sound of the clamor of your pilots the fleets will be thrown into confusion

29 et descendent de navibus suis omnes qui tenebant remum nautae et universi gubernatores maris in terra stabunt

29 and all who hold the oar will come down from their ships—the sailors and all the pilots of the sea—and on the land they will stand.

30 et heiulabunt super te voce magna et clamabunt amare et superiacient pulverem capitibus suis et cinere conspergentur

30 and they will ululate over you with a great voice, and they will cry bitterly, and they will cast dust upon their heads, and they will sprinkle themselves with ashes

31 et radent super te calvitium et accingentur ciliciis et plorabunt te in amaritudine animae ploratu amarissimo

31 and they shall shave themselves bald over you, and they shall gird themselves with cilices, and they shall weep over you in the bitterness of soul with a most bitter weeping

32 et adsument super te carmen lugubre et plangent te quae est ut Tyrus quae obmutuit in medio maris

32 and they will take up over you a lugubrious song and they will lament you: Who is like Tyre, who has fallen silent in the midst of the sea?

33 quae in exitu negotiationum tuarum de mari implesti populos multos in multitudine divitiarum tuarum et populorum tuorum ditasti reges terrae

33 which, at the exit of your negotiations from the sea, you filled many peoples; in the multitude of your riches and of your peoples you enriched the kings of the earth

34 nunc contrita es a mari in profundis aquarum opes tuae et omnis multitudo tua quae erat in medio tui ceciderunt

34 now you are shattered by the sea; in the depths of the waters your wealth and all your multitude that was in your midst have fallen

35 universi habitatores insularum obstipuerunt super te et reges earum omnes tempestate perculsi mutaverunt vultus

35 all the inhabitants of the islands were astonished over you, and all their kings, smitten by the tempest, changed their faces

36 negotiatores populorum sibilaverunt super te ad nihilum deducta es et non eris usque in perpetuum

36 the merchants of the peoples hissed over you; you have been reduced to nothing, and you shall not be unto perpetuity.

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis dic principi Tyri haec dicit Dominus Deus eo quod elevatum est cor tuum et dixisti Deus ego sum et in cathedra Dei sedi in corde maris cum sis homo et non Deus et dedisti cor tuum quasi cor Dei

2 son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: thus says the Lord God: because your heart has been lifted up, and you said, 'I am God; I have sat in the cathedra of God in the heart of the sea,' though you are a man and not God; and you have set your heart like the heart of God.

3 ecce sapientior es tu Danihele omne secretum non est absconditum a te

3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you

4 in sapientia et prudentia tua fecisti tibi fortitudinem et adquisisti aurum et argentum in thesauris tuis

4 by your wisdom and your prudence you have made might for yourself, and you have acquired gold and silver in your treasuries

5 in multitudine sapientiae tuae et in negotiatione tua multiplicasti tibi fortitudinem et elevatum est cor tuum in robore tuo

5 by the multitude of your wisdom and by your negotiation you have multiplied strength for yourself, and your heart has been lifted up in your might

6 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus eo quod elevatum est cor tuum quasi cor Dei

6 therefore thus says the Lord God, because your heart has been elevated like the heart of God

7 idcirco ecce ego adducam super te alienos robustissimos gentium et nudabunt gladios suos super pulchritudinem sapientiae tuae et polluent decorem tuum

7 therefore behold, I will bring upon you foreigners, the most robust of the nations, and they will bare their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they will pollute your splendor

8 interficient et detrahent te et morieris interitu occisorum in corde maris

8 they will slay you and drag you down, and you will die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea

9 numquid dicens loqueris Deus ego sum coram interficientibus te cum sis homo et non Deus in manu occidentium te

9 Will you, saying, “I am God,” speak before those slaying you, since you are a man and not God, in the hand of those killing you?

10 morte incircumcisorum morieris in manu alienorum quia ego locutus sum ait Dominus Deus

10 you shall die the death of the uncircumcised, in the hand of foreigners, for I have spoken, says the Lord God

11 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens fili hominis leva planctum super regem Tyri

11 and the word of the Lord came to me saying son of man lift up a lamentation over the king of Tyre

12 et dices ei haec dicit Dominus Deus tu signaculum similitudinis plenus sapientia et perfectus decore

12 and you shall say to him, Thus says the Lord God: you are the signet of similitude, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

13 in deliciis paradisi Dei fuisti omnis lapis pretiosus operimentum tuum sardius topazius et iaspis chrysolitus et onyx et berillus sapphyrus et carbunculus et zmaragdus aurum opus decoris tui et foramina tua in die qua conditus es praeparata sunt

13 in the delights of the paradise of God you were; every precious stone was your covering: sardius, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite and onyx and beryl, sapphire and carbuncle and emerald; gold—the workmanship of your ornament and your settings were prepared on the day in which you were created.

14 tu cherub extentus et protegens et posui te in monte sancto Dei in medio lapidum ignitorum ambulasti

14 you, a cherub outspread and protecting, and I placed you on the holy mountain of God; you walked in the midst of fiery stones

15 perfectus in viis tuis a die conditionis tuae donec inventa est iniquitas in te

15 perfect in your ways from the day of your creation until iniquity was found in you

16 in multitudine negotiationis tuae repleta sunt interiora tua iniquitate et peccasti et eieci te de monte Dei et perdidi te o cherub protegens de medio lapidum ignitorum

16 in the multitude of your trafficking, your inner parts have been filled with iniquity, and you have sinned, and I cast you out from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O protecting cherub, from the midst of the enflamed stones

17 elevatum est cor tuum in decore tuo perdidisti sapientiam tuam in decore tuo in terram proieci te ante faciem regum dedi te ut cernerent te

17 your heart was lifted up in your beauty; you lost your wisdom in your beauty; to the earth I cast you; before the face of kings I set you, that they might behold you

18 in multitudine iniquitatum tuarum et iniquitate negotiationis tuae polluisti sanctificationem tuam producam ergo ignem de medio tui qui comedat te et dabo te in cinerem super terram in conspectu omnium videntium te

18 in the multitude of your iniquities and by the iniquity of your negotiation (trade) you have polluted your sanctification; therefore I will bring forth fire from your midst, which shall devour you, and I will make you into ash upon the earth in the sight of all who see you

19 omnes qui viderint te in gentibus obstupescent super te nihili factus es et non eris in perpetuum

19 all who shall have seen you among the nations will be stupefied over you; you have been made a nothing, and you shall not be in perpetuity

20 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

20 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

21 fili hominis pone faciem tuam contra Sidonem et prophetabis de ea

21 Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and you shall prophesy concerning it.

22 et dices haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad te Sidon et glorificabor in medio tui et scient quia ego Dominus cum fecero in ea iudicia et sanctificatus fuero in ea

22 and you shall say: thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst, and they shall know that I am the Lord when I have executed judgments in her, and when I have been sanctified in her.

23 et inmittam ei pestilentiam et sanguinem in plateis eius et corruent interfecti in medio eius gladio per circuitum et scient quia ego Dominus

23 and I will send into it pestilence and blood in its streets, and the slain will fall in its midst, by the sword all around; and they will know that I am the Lord.

24 et non erit ultra domui Israhel offendiculum amaritudinis et spina dolorem inferens undique per circuitum eorum qui adversantur eis et scient quia ego Dominus Deus

24 and there will no longer be to the house of Israel a stumbling‑block of bitterness, and a thorn inflicting pain on every side all around from those who are adversaries to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God

25 haec dicit Dominus Deus quando congregavero domum Israhel de populis in quibus dispersi sunt sanctificabor in eis coram gentibus et habitabunt in terra sua quam dedi servo meo Iacob

25 thus says the Lord God: when I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they were dispersed, I will be sanctified in them before the nations, and they shall dwell in their land which I gave to my servant Jacob

26 et habitabunt in ea securi et aedificabunt domos plantabuntque vineas et habitabunt confidenter cum fecero iudicia in omnibus qui adversantur eis per circuitum et scient quia ego Dominus Deus eorum

26 and they will dwell in it securely, and they will build houses and will plant vineyards, and they will dwell confidently, when I have executed judgments upon all who oppose them round about, and they will know that I am the Lord their God.

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1 in anno decimo in decimo mense undecima mensis factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 in the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the eleventh of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis pone faciem tuam contra Pharaonem regem Aegypti et prophetabis de eo et de Aegypto universa

2 son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy concerning him and concerning all Egypt

3 loquere et dices haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad te Pharao rex Aegypti draco magne qui cubas in medio fluminum tuorum et dicis meus est fluvius et ego feci memet ipsum

3 speak, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, great dragon who lie in the midst of your rivers; and you say, My river is mine, and I myself made myself.

4 et ponam frenum in maxillis tuis et adglutinabo pisces fluminum tuorum squamis tuis et extraham te de medio fluminum tuorum et universi pisces tui squamis tuis adherebunt

4 and I will put a bridle in your jaws, and I will agglutinate the fishes of your rivers to your scales, and I will extract you from the midst of your rivers, and all your fishes will adhere to your scales

5 et proiciam te in desertum et omnes pisces fluminis tui super faciem terrae cades non colligeris neque congregaberis bestiis terrae et volatilibus caeli dedi te ad devorandum

5 and I will cast you into the desert, and all the fish of your river; upon the face of the earth you shall fall; you shall not be gathered nor assembled; to the beasts of the earth and the birds of heaven I have given you for devouring

6 et scient omnes habitatores Aegypti quia ego Dominus pro eo quod fuisti baculus harundineus domui Israhel

6 and all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because you have been a reed-staff to the house of Israel

7 quando adprehenderunt te manu et confractus es et lacerasti omnem umerum eorum et innitentibus eis super te comminutus es et dissolvisti omnes renes eorum

7 when they took hold of you by the hand, you were broken, and you lacerated their whole shoulder; and as they leaned upon you, you were crushed, and you dissolved all their loins

8 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego adducam super te gladium et interficiam de te hominem et iumentum

8 therefore thus says the Lord God: behold, I will bring the sword upon you, and I will slay from you man and beast

9 et erit terra Aegypti in desertum et solitudinem et scient quia ego Dominus eo quod dixerit fluvius meus est et ego feci

9 and the land of Egypt shall be a desert and a solitude, and they shall know that I am the Lord, because he has said, “The river is mine, and I made it.”

10 idcirco ecce ego ad te et ad flumina tua daboque terram Aegypti in solitudines gladio dissipatam a turre Syenes usque ad terminos Aethiopiae

10 therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will give the land of Egypt into solitudes, scattered by the sword, from the tower of Syene as far as the boundaries of Ethiopia

11 non pertransibit eam pes hominis neque pes iumenti gradietur in ea et non habitabitur quadraginta annis

11 no foot of man shall pass through it, nor shall the foot of a beast walk in it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years

12 daboque terram Aegypti desertam in medio terrarum desertarum et civitates eius in medio urbium subversarum erunt desolatae quadraginta annis et dispergam Aegyptios in nationes et ventilabo eos in terras

12 and I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities, in the midst of subverted cities, shall be desolated for forty years; and I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and will winnow them into the lands

13 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus post finem quadraginta annorum congregabo Aegyptum de populis in quibus dispersi fuerunt

13 for thus says the Lord God: after the end of 40 years I will congregate Egypt from the peoples among whom they were dispersed

14 et reducam captivitatem Aegypti et conlocabo eos in terra Fatures in terra nativitatis suae et erunt ibi in regnum humile

14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt and I will place them in the land of Fatures, in the land of their nativity, and there they shall be into a humble kingdom

15 inter regna cetera erit humillima et non elevabitur ultra super nationes et inminuam eos ne imperent gentibus

15 among the other kingdoms it will be the most humble, and it will not be elevated any more above the nations, and I will diminish them so that they may not rule the peoples

16 neque erunt ultra domui Israhel in confidentia docentes iniquitatem ut fugiant et sequantur eos et scient quia ego Dominus Deus

16 nor shall they any longer be, for the house of Israel, a confidence, teaching iniquity so that they might flee and follow them, and they shall know that I am the Lord God

17 et factum est in vicesimo et septimo anno in primo in una mensis factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

17 and it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

18 fili hominis Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis servire fecit exercitum suum servitute magna adversum Tyrum omne caput decalvatum et omnis umerus depilatus est et merces non est reddita ei neque exercitui eius de Tyro pro servitute qua servivit mihi adversum eam

18 son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made his army serve with great servitude against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was stripped; and no wages were rendered to him nor to his army from Tyre for the servitude with which he served me against her.

19 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego dabo Nabuchodonosor regem Babylonis in terra Aegypti et accipiet multitudinem eius et depraedabitur manubias eius et diripiet spolia eius et erit merces exercitui illius

19 therefore thus says the Lord God: behold, I will give Nabuchodonosor, the king of Babylon, the land of Egypt, and he will take its multitude, and he will despoil its booty and plunder its spoils, and it shall be wages for his army.

20 et operi pro quo servivit adversum eam dedi ei terram Aegypti pro eo quod laboraverunt mihi ait Dominus Deus

20 And for the work for which he served against her, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they labored for me, says the Lord God.

21 in die illo pullulabit cornu domui Israhel et tibi dabo apertum os in medio eorum et scient quoniam ego Dominus

21 on that day a horn will sprout for the house of Israel, and to you I will give an open mouth in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am the Lord

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1 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis propheta et dic haec dicit Dominus Deus ululate vae vae diei

2 Son of man, prophesy and say: thus says the Lord God: ululate, woe, woe for the day.

3 quia iuxta est dies et adpropinquavit dies Domini dies nubis tempus gentium erit

3 for the day is near, and the Day of the Lord has approached, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations

4 et veniet gladius in Aegyptum et erit pavor in Aethiopia cum ceciderint vulnerati in Aegypto et ablata fuerit multitudo illius et destructa fundamenta eius

4 and a sword will come into Egypt, and there will be terror in Ethiopia, when the wounded fall in Egypt and her multitude is carried away and her foundations are destroyed

5 Aethiopia et Lybia et Lydii et omne reliquum vulgus et Chub et filii terrae foederis cum eis gladio cadent

5 Ethiopia and Libya and the Lydians, and all the remaining crowd, and Chub, and the sons of the land of the covenant, with them shall fall by the sword

6 haec dicit Dominus Deus et corruent fulcientes Aegyptum et destruetur superbia imperii eius a turre Syenes gladio cadent in ea ait Dominus exercituum

6 thus says the Lord God: and those supporting Egypt will collapse, and the pride of its empire will be destroyed; from the tower of Syene they shall fall by the sword within her, says the Lord of hosts

7 et dissipabuntur in medio terrarum desolatarum et urbes eius in medio civitatum desertarum erunt

7 and they will be scattered in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities will be in the midst of deserted cities

8 et scient quoniam ego Dominus cum dedero ignem in Aegyptum et adtriti fuerint omnes auxiliatores eius

8 and they will know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt and all her auxiliaries have been crushed

9 in die illa egredientur nuntii a facie mea in trieribus ad conterendam Aethiopiae confidentiam et erit pavor in eis in die Aegypti quia absque dubio veniet

9 on that day messengers will go out from my presence in triremes to crush the confidence of Ethiopia, and there will be dread in them on the day of Egypt, for it will surely come

10 haec dicit Dominus Deus et cessare faciam multitudinem Aegypti in manu Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis

10 thus says the Lord God: and I will cause the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon

11 ipse et populus eius cum eo fortissimi gentium adducentur ad disperdendam terram et evaginabunt gladios suos super Aegyptum et implebunt terram interfectis

11 he and his people with him, the strongest of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land; and they shall unsheathe their swords over Egypt, and shall fill the land with the slain

12 et faciam alveos fluminum aridos et tradam terram in manu pessimorum et dissipabo terram et plenitudinem eius in manu alienorum ego Dominus locutus sum

12 and I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and I will deliver the land into the hand of the most wicked, and I will lay waste the land and its plenitude by the hand of foreigners; I, the Lord, have spoken.

13 haec dicit Dominus Deus et disperdam simulacra et cessare faciam idola de Memphis et dux de terra Aegypti non erit amplius et dabo terrorem in terra Aegypti

13 thus says the Lord God: and I will destroy the simulacra and I will cause the idols to cease from Memphis, and a leader from the land of Egypt shall be no more, and I will give terror in the land of Egypt

14 et disperdam terram Fatures et dabo ignem in Tafnis et faciam iudicia in Alexandriam

14 and I will destroy the land of Pathros and I will set a fire in Tahpanhes and I will execute judgments in Alexandria

15 et effundam indignationem meam super Pelusium robur Aegypti et interficiam multitudinem Alexandriae

15 and I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the strength of Egypt and I will slay the multitude of Alexandria

16 et dabo ignem in Aegypto quasi parturiens dolebit Pelusium et Alexandria erit dissipata et in Memphis angustiae cotidianae

16 and I will set fire in Egypt; Pelusium will suffer as one in labor, and Alexandria will be laid waste, and in Memphis there will be quotidian anguish

17 iuvenes Eliupoleos et Bubasti gladio cadent et ipsae captivae ducentur

17 the young men of Heliopolis and of Bubastis will fall by the sword, and they themselves will be led away as captives

18 et in Tafnis nigrescet dies cum contrivero ibi sceptra Aegypti et defecerit in ea superbia potentiae eius ipsam nubes operiet filiae autem eius in captivitatem ducentur

18 and in Tafnis the day will grow black, when I shatter there the scepters of Egypt, and the arrogance of its puissance fails within it; a cloud will cover it, moreover its daughters will be led into captivity

19 et faciam iudicia in Aegypto et scient quia ego Dominus

19 and I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord

20 et factum est in undecimo anno in primo in septima mensis factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

20 and it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

21 fili hominis brachium Pharao regis Aegypti confregi et ecce non est obvolutum ut restitueretur ei sanitas ut ligaretur pannis et farciretur linteolis et recepto robore posset tenere gladium

21 son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been wrapped so that health might be restored to it—to be bound with bandages and packed with linens—and, strength having been recovered, to be able to hold the sword.

22 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad Pharao regem Aegypti et comminuam brachium eius forte sed confractum et deiciam gladium de manu eius

22 therefore thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will crush his arm—the strong one, yet broken—and I will cast down the sword from his hand

23 et dispergam Aegyptum in gentibus et ventilabo eos in terris

23 and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and I will winnow them in the lands

24 et confortabo brachia regis Babylonis daboque gladium meum in manu eius et confringam brachia Pharaonis et gement gemitibus interfecti coram facie eius

24 and I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will give my sword into his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and the slain will groan with groanings before his face

25 et confortabo brachia regis Babylonis et brachia Pharaonis concident et scient quia ego Dominus cum dedero gladium meum in manu regis Babylonis et extenderit eum super terram Aegypti

25 and I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have given my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out over the land of Egypt

26 et dispergam Aegyptum in nationes et ventilabo eos in terris et scient quia ego Dominus

26 and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and I will winnow them through the lands, and they shall know that I am the Lord

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1 et factum est in undecimo anno tertio una mensis factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 and it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis dic Pharaoni regi Aegypti et populo eius cui similis factus es in magnitudine tua

2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people: to whom have you become like in your greatness?

3 ecce Assur quasi cedrus in Libano pulcher ramis et frondibus nemorosus excelsusque altitudine et inter condensas frondes elevatum est cacumen eius

3 behold Assur like a cedar in Lebanon, beautiful in branches and wooded with fronds, and lofty in altitude, and among the dense fronds its summit was elevated

4 aquae nutrierunt illum abyssus exaltavit eum flumina eius manabant in circuitu radicum eius et rivos suos emisit ad universa ligna regionis

4 waters nourished him, the abyss exalted him; its rivers were flowing around his roots, and it sent out its rivulets to all the trees of the region

5 propterea elevata est altitudo eius super omnia ligna regionis et multiplicata sunt arbusta eius et elevati sunt rami eius prae aquis multis

5 therefore its altitude was elevated above all the trees of the region, and its thickets were multiplied, and its branches were raised by reason of many waters

6 cumque extendisset umbram suam in ramis eius fecerunt nidos omnia volatilia caeli et sub frondibus eius genuerunt omnes bestiae saltuum et sub umbraculo illius habitabat coetus gentium plurimarum

6 and when it had extended its shadow upon its branches, all the birds of the heaven made nests, and under its fronds all the beasts of the woodlands bore their young, and under its umbrage there dwelt the gathering of very many nations

7 eratque pulcherrimus in magnitudine sua et in dilatatione arbustorum suorum erat enim radix illius iuxta aquas multas

7 and he was most beautiful in his magnitude and in the dilatation of his plantings, for his root was beside many waters

8 cedri non fuerunt altiores illo in paradiso Dei abietes non adaequaverunt summitatem eius et platani non fuerunt aequae frondibus illius omne lignum paradisi Dei non est adsimilatum illi et pulchritudini eius

8 the cedars were not higher than it in the Paradise of God; the firs did not equal its summit, and the plane-trees were not equal to its foliage; every tree of the Paradise of God was not likened to it and to its beauty

9 quoniam speciosum feci eum et multis condensisque frondibus et aemulata sunt eum omnia ligna voluptatis quae erant in paradiso Dei

9 for I made him beautiful and with many and dense leaves, and all the trees of delight that were in the paradise of God emulated him

10 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod sublimatus est in altitudine et dedit summitatem suam virentem atque condensam et elevatum est cor eius in altitudine sua

10 therefore thus says the Lord God: on account of this, that he was exalted in height and made his summit verdant and dense, and his heart was elevated in his own height

11 tradidi eum in manu fortissimi gentium faciens faciet ei iuxta impietatem eius eieci eum

11 I delivered him into the hand of the strongest of the nations; dealing, he will deal with him according to his impiety; I cast him out.

12 et succident illum alieni et crudelissimi nationum et proicient eum super montes et in cunctis convallibus corruent rami eius et confringentur arbusta eius in universis rupibus terrae et recedent de umbraculo eius omnes populi terrae et relinquent eum

12 and foreigners will cut him down, the most cruel of the nations, and they will cast him upon the mountains, and in all the valleys his branches will fall, and his thickets will be broken on all the cliffs of the land, and all the peoples of the earth will withdraw from his shade and will abandon him

13 in ruina eius habitaverunt omnia volatilia caeli et in ramis eius fuerunt universae bestiae regionis

13 upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens dwelt, and in his branches were all the beasts of the region

14 quam ob rem non elevabuntur in altitudine sua omnia ligna aquarum neque ponent sublimitatem suam inter nemorosa atque frondosa nec stabunt in sublimitate eorum omnia quae inrigantur aquis quia omnes traditi sunt in mortem ad terram ultimam in medio filiorum hominum ad eos qui descendunt in lacum

14 wherefore all the trees by the waters shall not be lifted up in their own height, nor shall they set their sublimity among the wooded and the frondose; nor shall all that are irrigated by waters stand in their loftiness, because all are delivered over to death, to the ultimate earth, in the midst of the sons of men, to those who go down into the pit

15 haec dicit Dominus Deus in die quando descendit ad inferos indixi luctum operui eum abysso et prohibui flumina eius et coercui aquas multas contristatus est super eum Libanus et omnia ligna agri concussa sunt

15 thus says the Lord God: on the day when he descended to the underworld I proclaimed mourning; I covered him with the abyss and forbade his rivers, and I constrained many waters; Lebanon was grieved over him, and all the trees of the field were shaken.

16 a sonitu ruinae eius commovi gentes cum deducerem eum ad infernum cum his qui descendebant in lacum et consolata sunt in terra infima omnia ligna voluptatis egregia atque praeclara in Libano universa quae inrigabantur aquis

16 at the sound of his ruin I moved the nations, when I was leading him down to the underworld with those who were descending into the pit; and in the nether earth all the trees of delight were consoled—the outstanding and illustrious in Lebanon, all that were irrigated with waters.

17 nam et ipsi cum ea descendent ad infernum ad interfectos gladio et brachium uniuscuiusque sedebit sub umbraculo eius in medio nationum

17 for they too with it will descend to the underworld, to those slain by the sword; and each one’s arm will sit under its shade-umbrella in the midst of the nations

18 cui adsimilatus es o inclite atque sublimis inter ligna voluptatis ecce deductus es cum lignis voluptatis ad terram ultimam in medio incircumcisorum dormies cum his qui interfecti sunt gladio ipse est Pharao et omnis multitudo eius dicit Dominus Deus

18 To whom have you been likened, O illustrious and sublime one, among the trees of delight? Behold, you have been brought down with the trees of delight to the uttermost land; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will sleep with those who have been slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God.

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1 et factum est duodecimo anno in mense duodecimo in una mensis factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 and it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis adsume lamentum super Pharao regem Aegypti et dices ad eum leoni gentium adsimilatus es et draconi qui est in mari et ventilabas cornu in fluminibus tuis et conturbabas aquas pedibus tuis et conculcabas flumina eorum

2 son of man, take up a lament over Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him: you are likened to a lion of the nations and to a dragon that is in the sea; and you were stirring with your horn in your rivers, and you were confounding the waters with your feet, and you were trampling their rivers.

3 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus expandam super te rete meum in multitudine populorum multorum et extrahent te in sagena mea

3 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will spread my net over you, amid the multitude of many peoples, and I will draw you out in my dragnet.

4 et proiciam te in terram super faciem agri abiciam te et habitare faciam super te omnia volatilia caeli et saturabo de te bestias universae terrae

4 and I will cast you onto the land; upon the face of the field I will throw you, and I will cause all the winged creatures of heaven to dwell upon you, and I will satiate from you the beasts of the whole earth

5 et dabo carnes tuas super montes et implebo colles tuos sanie tua

5 and I will give your flesh upon the mountains, and I will fill your hills with your gore.

6 et inrigabo terram pedore sanguinis tui super montes et valles implebuntur ex te

6 and I will irrigate the land with the stench of your blood upon the mountains, and the valleys will be filled from you

7 et operiam cum extinctus fueris caelos et nigrescere faciam stellas eius solem nube tegam et luna non dabit lumen suum

7 and I will cover the heavens when you have been extinguished and I will make its stars blacken I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon will not give its light

8 omnia luminaria caeli maerere faciam super te et dabo tenebras super terram tuam dicit Dominus Deus

8 I will make all the luminaries of the heavens mourn over you, and I will set darkness over your land, says the Lord God.

9 et inritabo cor populorum multorum cum induxero contritionem tuam in gentibus super terras quas nescis

9 and I will provoke the heart of many peoples, when I bring your ruin among the nations, upon lands which you do not know

10 et stupescere faciam super te populos multos et reges eorum horrore nimio formidabunt super te cum volare coeperit gladius meus super facies eorum et obstupescent repente singuli pro anima sua in die ruinae suae

10 and I will make many peoples be stupefied over you, and their kings, with excessive horror, will dread over you, when my sword begins to fly before their faces; and suddenly each one will be astonished for his life on the day of your ruin.

11 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus gladius regis Babylonis veniet tibi

11 because thus says the Lord God: the sword of the king of Babylon will come to you

12 in gladiis fortium deiciam multitudinem tuam inexpugnabiles gentes omnes heae et vastabunt superbiam Aegypti et dissipabitur multitudo eius

12 by the swords of the strong I will cast down your multitude, all these impregnable nations; and they will devastate the pride of Egypt, and its multitude will be dissipated

13 et perdam omnia iumenta eius quae erant super aquas plurimas et non conturbabit eas pes hominis ultra neque ungula iumentorum turbabit eas

13 and I will destroy all her beasts of burden which were upon the many waters, and no foot of man will disturb them any longer, nor will the hoof of beasts of burden trouble them.

14 tunc purissimas reddam aquas eorum et flumina eorum quasi oleum adducam ait Dominus Deus

14 then I will make their waters most pure, and I will cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord God

15 cum dedero terram Aegypti desolatam deseretur autem terra a plenitudine sua quando percussero omnes habitatores eius et scient quia ego Dominus

15 when I shall have given the land of Egypt desolate, the land moreover shall be deserted of its plenitude when I strike all its inhabitants, and they shall know that I am the Lord

16 planctus est et plangent eum filiae gentium plangent eum super Aegypto et super multitudine eius plangent eum ait Dominus Deus

16 a dirge it is, and the daughters of the nations shall lament him; they shall lament him over Egypt and over its multitude, they shall lament him, says the Lord God

17 et factum est in duodecimo anno in quintadecima mensis factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

17 And it came to pass in the 12th year, on the 15th of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying

18 fili hominis cane lugubre super multitudine Aegypti et detrahe eam ipsam et filias gentium robustarum ad terram ultimam cum his qui descendunt in lacum

18 son of man, chant a lugubrious lament over the multitude of Egypt, and drag her down—her and the daughters of the strong nations—to the lowest land with those who descend into the pit

19 quo pulchrior es descende et dormi cum incircumcisis

19 whom are you more beautiful than? descend and sleep with the uncircumcised

20 in medio interfectorum gladio cadent gladius datus est adtraxerunt eam et omnes populos eius

20 in the midst of those slain by the sword they shall fall; the sword has been given; they have dragged her down, and all her peoples

21 loquentur ei potentissimi robustorum de medio inferni qui cum auxiliatoribus eius descenderunt et dormierunt incircumcisi interfecti gladio

21 the most potent of the robust will speak to him from the midst of the infernal who with his auxiliaries have descended and slept uncircumcised slain by the sword

22 ibi Assur et omnis multitudo eius in circuitu illius sepulchra eius omnes interfecti et qui ceciderunt gladio

22 there is Assur and all his multitude; around him are his sepulchers, all the slaughtered and those who fell by the sword

23 quorum data sunt sepulchra in novissimis laci et facta est multitudo eius per gyrum sepulchri eius universi interfecti cadentesque gladio qui dederant quondam formidinem in terra viventium

23 whose graves have been set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her multitude has been placed round about her grave, all of them slain and fallen by the sword, who had once given terror in the land of the living

24 ibi Aelam et omnis multitudo eius per gyrum sepulchri sui omnes hii interfecti ruentesque gladio qui descenderunt incircumcisi ad terram ultimam qui posuerunt terrorem suum in terra viventium et portaverunt ignominiam suam cum his qui descendunt in lacum

24 there is Elam and all her multitude around her own tomb, all these slain and fallen by the sword, who descended uncircumcised to the nether land, who set their terror in the land of the living, and they bore their ignominy with those who descend into the pit

25 in medio interfectorum posuerunt cubile eius in universis populis eius in circuitu eius sepulchrum illius omnes hii incircumcisi interfectique gladio dederant enim terrorem in terra viventium et portaverunt ignominiam suam cum his qui descendunt in lacum in medio interfectorum positi sunt

25 in the midst of the slain they have placed her bed; among all her peoples, around her, her sepulcher—all these uncircumcised and killed by the sword—for they had given terror in the land of the living—and they bore their ignominy with those who descend into the pit; they are set in the midst of the slain

26 ibi Mosoch et Thubal et omnis multitudo eius in circuitu illius sepulchra eius omnes hii incircumcisi interfectique et cadentes gladio quia dederunt formidinem suam in terra viventium

26 there are Meshech and Tubal and all his multitude, their sepulchres around him; all these uncircumcised, slain and falling by the sword, because they set their dread in the land of the living

27 et non dormient cum fortibus cadentibusque et incircumcisis qui descenderunt ad infernum cum armis suis et posuerunt gladios suos sub capitibus suis et fuerunt iniquitates eorum in ossibus eorum quia terror fortium facti sunt in terra viventium

27 and they shall not lie with the mighty, fallen and uncircumcised, who descended to the underworld with their arms, and they placed their swords beneath their heads, and their iniquities were upon their bones; for they were made a terror of the strong in the land of the living.

28 et tu ergo in medio incircumcisorum contereris et dormies cum interfectis gladio

28 and you therefore shall be crushed in the midst of the incircumcised, and you shall sleep with those slain by the sword

29 ibi Idumea et reges eius omnes duces eius qui dati sunt cum exercitu suo cum interfectis gladio et qui cum incircumcisis dormierunt et cum his qui descenderunt in lacum

29 there are Idumea and its kings, all its leaders, who were given over with their army with those slain by the sword, and who slept with the uncircumcised, and with those who descended into the pit

30 ibi principes aquilonis omnes et universi venatores qui deducti sunt cum interfectis paventes et in sua fortitudine confusi qui dormierunt incircumcisi cum interfectis gladio et portaverunt confusionem suam cum his qui descendunt in lacum

30 there the princes of the North, all of them, and all the hunters, who were brought down with the slain, trembling, and confounded in their own fortitude, who slept uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and they carried their confusion with those who descend into the pit

31 vidit eos Pharao et consolatus est super universa multitudine sua quae interfecta est gladio Pharao et omnis exercitus eius ait Dominus Deus

31 Pharaoh saw them and was consoled over all his multitude which was slain by the sword—Pharaoh and all his army, says the Lord God.

32 quia dedi terrorem meum in terra viventium et dormivit in medio incircumcisorum cum interfectis gladio Pharao et omnis multitudo eius ait Dominus Deus

32 because I gave my terror in the land of the living, and he has slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword—Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God.

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1 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis loquere ad filios populi tui et dices ad eos terra cum induxero super eam gladium et tulerit populus terrae virum unum de novissimis suis et constituerit eum super se speculatorem

2 son of man, speak to the sons of your people and you shall say to them: A land—when I bring a sword upon it, and the people of the land take one man from their extremities and set him over themselves as a watchman

3 et ille viderit gladium venientem super terram et cecinerit bucina et adnuntiaverit populo

3 and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and announces to the people

4 audiens autem quisquis ille est sonum bucinae non se observaverit veneritque gladius et tulerit eum sanguis ipsius super caput eius erit

4 but whoever he is who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him, his blood shall be upon his own head.

5 sonum bucinae audivit et non se observavit sanguis eius in ipso erit si autem custodierit animam suam salvavit

5 he heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood will be upon himself; but if he has guarded his soul, he has saved it

6 quod si speculator viderit gladium venientem et non insonuerit bucina et populus non se custodierit veneritque gladius et tulerit de eis animam ille quidem in iniquitate sua captus est sanguinem autem eius de manu speculatoris requiram

6 but if the watchman shall see the sword coming and does not sound the trumpet, and the people do not guard themselves, and the sword comes and takes from them a soul, he indeed is taken in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the hand of the watchman

7 et tu fili hominis speculatorem dedi te domui Israhel audiens ergo ex ore meo sermonem adnuntiabis eis ex me

7 and you, son of man, I have set you as a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore, hearing the word from my mouth, you will announce it to them from me

8 si me dicente ad impium impie morte morieris non fueris locutus ut se custodiat impius a via sua ipse impius in iniquitate sua morietur sanguinem autem eius de manu tua requiram

8 if, when I am saying to the impious, impious one, by death you shall die, you have not spoken so that the impious may guard himself from his way, the impious himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from your hand.

9 si autem adnuntiante te ad impium ut a viis suis convertatur non fuerit conversus a via sua ipse in iniquitate sua morietur porro tu animam tuam liberasti

9 but if, when you announce to the impious that he be converted from his ways, he has not been converted from his way, he himself will die in his iniquity; but you have liberated your soul

10 tu ergo fili hominis dic ad domum Israhel sic locuti estis dicentes iniquitates nostrae et peccata nostra super nos sunt et in ipsis nos tabescimus quomodo ergo vivere poterimus

10 therefore you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: thus you have spoken, saying, our iniquities and our sins are upon us, and in them we waste away; how then shall we be able to live

11 dic ad eos vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus nolo mortem impii sed ut revertatur impius a via sua et vivat convertimini a viis vestris pessimis et quare moriemini domus Israhel

11 say to them: as I live, says the Lord God, I do not will the death of the impious, but that the impious revert from his way and live; turn back from your most evil ways; and why will you die, house of Israel?

12 tu itaque fili hominis dic ad filios populi tui iustitia iusti non liberabit eum in quacumque die peccaverit et impietas impii non nocebit ei in quacumque die conversus fuerit ab impietate sua et iustus non poterit vivere in iustitia sua in quacumque die peccaverit

12 you therefore, son of man, say to the sons of your people: the justice of the just will not deliver him on whatever day he sins, and the impiety of the impious will not harm him on whatever day he turns back from his impiety, and the just will not be able to live by his justice on whatever day he sins

13 etiam si dixero iusto quod vita vivat et confisus in iustitia sua fecerit iniquitatem omnes iustitiae eius oblivioni tradentur et in iniquitate sua quam operatus est in ipsa morietur

13 even if I say to the just man that he shall indeed live, and, trusting in his justice, he commits iniquity, all his acts of justice shall be consigned to oblivion, and in his iniquity which he has wrought, in that very thing he shall die.

14 sin autem dixero impio morte morieris et egerit paenitentiam a peccato suo feceritque iudicium et iustitiam

14 but if, however, I say to the impious you shall die by death and he has done penitence from his sin and has done judgment and justice

15 pignus restituerit ille impius rapinamque reddiderit in mandatis vitae ambulaverit nec fecerit quicquam iniustum vita vivet et non morietur

15 if that impious man has restored the pledge and has given back the rapine, has walked in the mandates of life, and has not done anything unjust, he shall live life and shall not die

16 omnia peccata eius quae peccavit non inputabuntur ei iudicium et iustitiam fecit vita vivet

16 all his sins which he has sinned shall not be imputed to him; he has done judgment and justice; he will live

17 et dixerunt filii populi tui non est aequi ponderis via Domini et ipsorum via iniusta est

17 and the sons of your people said, The way of the Lord is not equitable; and their way is unjust.

18 cum enim recesserit iustus a iustitia sua feceritque iniquitatem morietur in eis

18 for when a just man has withdrawn from his justice and has done iniquity, he shall die in them

19 et cum recesserit impius ab impietate sua feceritque iudicium et iustitiam vivet in eis

19 and when the impious has withdrawn from his impiety and has done judgment and justice, he will live in them

20 et dicitis non est recta via Domini unumquemque iuxta vias suas iudicabo de vobis domus Israhel

20 And you say, The way of the Lord is not right; each one according to his ways I will judge you, house of Israel.

21 et factum est in duodecimo anno in duodecimo mense in quinta mensis transmigrationis nostrae venit ad me qui fugerat de Hierusalem dicens vastata est civitas

21 And it came to pass, in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifth of the month of our transmigration, there came to me one who had fled from Jerusalem, saying, “The city has been laid waste.”

22 manus autem Domini facta fuerat ad me vespere antequam veniret qui fugerat aperuitque os meum donec veniret ad me mane et aperto ore meo non silui amplius

22 but the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening before the fugitive came, and he opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning, and with my mouth opened I was silent no longer.

23 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

24 fili hominis qui habitant in ruinosis his super humum Israhel loquentes aiunt unus erat Abraham et hereditate possedit terram nos autem multi nobis data est terra in possessionem

24 son of man, those who dwell in these ruins upon the soil of Israel, speaking, say: Abraham was one, and by inheritance he possessed the land; but we are many; to us the land has been given for a possession

25 idcirco dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus qui in sanguine comeditis et oculos vestros levatis ad inmunditias vestras et sanguinem funditis numquid terram hereditate possidebitis

25 therefore you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: you who eat with the blood, and lift your eyes to your unclean things, and shed blood—shall you possess the land as an inheritance?

26 stetistis in gladiis vestris fecistis abominationes et unusquisque uxorem proximi sui polluit et terram hereditate possidebitis

26 you have stood upon your swords, you have done abominations, and each man has defiled his neighbor’s wife; and will you possess the land by inheritance?

27 haec dices ad eos sic dicit Dominus Deus vivo ego quia qui in ruinosis habitant gladio cadent et qui in agro est bestiis tradetur ad devorandum qui autem in praesidiis et in speluncis sunt peste morientur

27 you shall say these things to them: thus says the Lord God: as I live, those who dwell in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the field shall be handed over to the beasts to be devoured, but those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die by pestilence

28 et dabo terram in solitudinem et desertum et deficiet superba fortitudo eius et desolabuntur montes Israhel eo quod nullus sit qui per eos transeat

28 and I will give the land into solitude and desert, and its proud fortitude shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolated, because there is no one who passes through them

29 et scient quia ego Dominus cum dedero terram desolatam et desertam propter universas abominationes suas quas operati sunt

29 and they will know that I am the Lord, when I shall have given the land as desolated and desert because of all their abominations which they have wrought

30 et tu fili hominis filii populi tui qui loquuntur de te iuxta muros et in ostiis domorum et dicunt unus ad alterum vir ad proximum suum loquentes venite et audiamus qui sit sermo egrediens a Domino

30 And you, son of man, the sons of your people who speak about you next to the walls and in the doorways of the houses, and say one to another, a man to his proximate neighbor, speaking, Come and let us hear what is the word going forth from the Lord

31 et veniunt ad te quasi si ingrediatur populus et sedent coram te populus meus et audiunt sermones tuos et non faciunt eos quia in canticum oris sui vertunt illos et avaritiam suam sequitur cor eorum

31 and they come to you as when a people enters, and my people sit before you, and they hear your discourses, and they do them not, because they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart follows their avarice.

32 et es eis quasi carmen musicum quod suavi dulcique sono canitur et audient verba tua et non facient ea

32 and you are to them like a musical song that is sung with a suave and sweet sound, and they will hear your words and will not do them

33 et cum venerit quod praedictum est ecce enim venit tunc scient quod prophetes fuerit inter eos

33 and when that which has been fore-told comes—behold, it is coming—then they will know that a prophet has been among them

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1 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis propheta de pastoribus Israhel propheta et dices pastoribus haec dicit Dominus Deus vae pastoribus Israhel qui pascebant semet ipsos nonne greges pascuntur a pastoribus

2 son of man, prophesy concerning the pastors of Israel; prophesy, and you shall say to the pastors: thus says the Lord God: woe to the pastors of Israel who were feeding themselves! are not the flocks pastured by the pastors?

3 lac comedebatis et lanis operiebamini et quod crassum erat occidebatis gregem autem meum non pascebatis

3 you consumed the milk and you clothed yourselves with the wools, and what was fat you slaughtered; but my flock you did not pasture

4 quod infirmum fuit non consolidastis et quod aegrotum non sanastis quod fractum est non alligastis et quod abiectum est non reduxistis quod perierat non quaesistis sed cum austeritate imperabatis eis et cum potentia

4 that which was infirm you did not consolidate, and that which was sick you did not heal; that which was broken you did not bind up, and that which was cast off you did not bring back; that which had perished you did not seek, but with austerity you ruled over them and with power

5 et dispersae sunt oves meae eo quod non esset pastor et factae sunt in devorationem omnium bestiarum agri et dispersae sunt

5 and my sheep were scattered because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the beasts of the field, and they were scattered.

6 erraverunt greges mei in cunctis montibus et in universo colle excelso et super omnem faciem terrae dispersi sunt greges mei et non erat qui requireret non erat inquam qui requireret

6 my flocks have strayed on all the mountains and on every high hill, and over the whole face of the earth my flocks have been scattered; and there was no one to seek, there was, I say, no one to seek.

7 propterea pastores audite verbum Domini

7 therefore, pastors, hear the word of the Lord

8 vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quia pro eo quod facti sunt greges mei in rapinam et oves meae in devorationem omnium bestiarum agri eo quod non esset pastor neque enim quaesierunt pastores gregem meum sed pascebant pastores semet ipsos et greges meos non pascebant

8 As I live, says the Lord God, because for this cause my flocks have been made into prey, and my sheep into the devouring of all the beasts of the field, because there was no pastor, nor indeed did the pastors seek out my flock, but the pastors were feeding themselves, and my flocks they did not feed.

9 propterea pastores audite verbum Domini

9 therefore, shepherds, hear the word of the Lord

10 haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ipse super pastores requiram gregem meum de manu eorum et cessare eos faciam ut ultra non pascant gregem nec pascant amplius pastores semet ipsos et liberabo gregem meum de ore eorum et non erunt ultra eis in escam

10 thus says the Lord God: behold, I myself am against the shepherds; I will require my flock at their hand, and I will make them cease, so that they may no longer pasture the flock, nor will the shepherds any longer pasture themselves; and I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and they will no longer be for them as food

11 quia haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ipse requiram oves meas et visitabo eas

11 for thus says the Lord God: behold, I myself will seek out my sheep and I will visit them

12 sicut visitat pastor gregem suum in die quando fuerit in medio ovium suarum dissipatarum sic visitabo oves meas et liberabo eas de omnibus locis quo dispersae fuerant in die nubis et caliginis

12 as a shepherd visits his flock on the day when he is in the midst of his sheep that have been scattered, so I will visit my sheep and I will liberate them from all the places where they had been dispersed on the day of cloud and murk

13 et educam eas de populis et congregabo eas de terris et inducam eas in terram suam et pascam eas in montibus Israhel in rivis et in cunctis sedibus terrae

13 and I will lead them out from the peoples and I will gather them from the lands and I will bring them into their own land, and I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the dwelling-places of the land

14 in pascuis uberrimis pascam eas et in montibus excelsis Israhel erunt pascuae eorum ibi requiescent in herbis virentibus et in pascuis pinguibus pascentur super montes Israhel

14 on most abundant pastures I will pasture them, and on the high mountains of Israel shall be their pastures; there they will rest in green grasses, and in fat pastures they will pasture upon the mountains of Israel

15 ego pascam oves meas et ego eas accubare faciam dicit Dominus Deus

15 I myself will feed my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, says the Lord God

16 quod perierat requiram et quod abiectum erat reducam et quod confractum fuerat alligabo et quod infirmum erat consolidabo et quod pingue et forte custodiam et pascam illas in iudicio

16 I will seek what had perished, and I will bring back what had been cast off, and I will bind up what had been broken, and I will strengthen what was infirm, and what was fat and strong I will guard, and I will pasture them in judgment

17 vos autem greges mei haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego iudico inter pecus et pecus arietum et hircorum

17 But as for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between rams and he-goats.

18 nonne satis vobis erat pascuam bonam depasci insuper et reliquias pascuarum vestrarum conculcastis pedibus vestris et cum purissimam aquam biberetis reliquam pedibus vestris turbabatis

18 was it not enough for you to graze a good pasture? moreover, the remnants of your pastures you trampled with your feet; and when you drank the most pure water, you muddied the rest with your feet

19 et oves meae his quae conculcata pedibus vestris fuerant pascebantur et quae pedes vestri turbaverant haec bibebant

19 and my sheep were feeding on those things which had been trampled by your feet, and they were drinking what your feet had muddied

20 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus ad eos ecce ego ipse iudico inter pecus pingue et macilentum

20 therefore thus says the Lord God to them: behold, I myself judge between the fat herd and the lean.

21 pro eo quod lateribus et umeris inpingebatis et cornibus vestris ventilabatis omnia infirma pecora donec dispergerentur foras

21 for the reason that with flanks and shoulders you were butting, and with your horns you were tossing all the infirm flock, until they were scattered outside

22 salvabo gregem meum et non erit ultra in rapinam et iudicabo inter pecus et pecus

22 I will save my flock, and it will no longer be for prey, and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

23 et suscitabo super ea pastorem unum qui pascat ea servum meum David ipse pascet ea et ipse erit eis in pastorem

23 and I will raise up over them one shepherd who will feed them, my servant David; he himself will feed them, and he himself will be a shepherd for them

24 ego autem Dominus ero eis in Deum et servus meus David princeps in medio eorum ego Dominus locutus sum

24 But I, the LORD, will be to them as God, and my servant David will be prince in the midst of them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

25 et faciam cum eis pactum pacis et cessare faciam bestias pessimas de terra et qui habitant in deserto securi dormient in saltibus

25 and I will make with them a pact of peace, and I will cause the most wicked beasts to cease from the land, and those who dwell in the desert will sleep secure in the forests

26 et ponam eos in circuitu collis mei benedictionem et deducam imbrem in tempore suo pluviae benedictionis erunt

26 and I will place them around my hill as a benediction, and I will lead down rain in its time; there will be rains of benediction

27 et dabit lignum agri fructum suum et terra dabit germen suum et erunt in terra sua absque timore et scient quia ego Dominus cum contrivero catenas iugi eorum et eruero eos de manu imperantium sibi

27 and the tree of the field will give its fruit, and the earth will give its increase, and they will be in their land without fear, and they will know that I am the Lord when I have broken the chains of their yoke and have rescued them from the hand of those domineering over them

28 et non erunt ultra in rapinam gentibus neque bestiae terrae devorabunt eos sed habitabunt confidenter absque ullo terrore

28 and they shall no longer be for plunder to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them, but they shall dwell confidently without any terror

29 et suscitabo eis germen nominatum et non erunt ultra inminuti fame in terra neque portabunt amplius obprobria gentium

29 and I will raise up for them a named shoot, and they shall no longer be diminished by famine in the land, nor shall they any more bear the reproaches of the nations.

30 et scient quia ego Dominus Deus eorum cum eis et ipsi populus meus domus Israhel ait Dominus Deus

30 and they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them; and they are my people, the house of Israel, says the Lord God

31 vos autem greges mei greges pascuae meae homines estis et ego Dominus Deus vester dicit Dominus Deus

31 But you, my flocks, the flocks of my pasture, you are human beings; and I am the Lord your God, says the Lord God.

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis pone faciem tuam adversum montem Seir et prophetabis de eo et dices illi

2 son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and you shall prophesy concerning it and you shall say to it

3 haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad te mons Seir et extendam manum meam super te et dabo te desolatum atque desertum

3 thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you desolate and a desert

4 urbes tuas demoliar et tu desertus eris et scies quia ego Dominus

4 I will demolish your cities, and you will be deserted, and you will know that I am the Lord.

5 eo quod fueris inimicus sempiternus et concluseris filios Israhel in manus gladii in tempore adflictionis eorum in tempore iniquitatis extremae

5 because you have been an everlasting enemy and have shut in the children of Israel into the hand of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of ultimate iniquity

6 propterea vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quoniam sanguini tradam te et sanguis te persequetur et cum sanguinem oderis sanguis persequetur te

6 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, because I will deliver you to blood, and blood will pursue you; and since you have hated blood, blood will pursue you.

7 et dabo montem Seir desolatum et desertum et auferam de eo euntem et redeuntem

7 and I will make Mount Seir a desolation and a desert, and I will cut off from it him that passes through and him that returns.

8 et implebo montes eius occisorum suorum in collibus tuis et in vallibus tuis atque in torrentibus interfecti gladio cadent

8 and I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in your torrent-beds, those slain by the sword shall fall

9 in solitudines sempiternas tradam te et civitates tuae non habitabuntur et scietis quoniam ego Dominus

9 I will hand you over into everlasting desolations, and your cities shall not be inhabited, and you shall know that I am the Lord

10 eo quod dixeris duae gentes et duae terrae meae erunt et hereditate possidebo eas cum Dominus esset ibi

10 because you have said: Two nations and two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance, though the Lord was there

11 propterea vivo ego dicit Dominus Deus quia faciam iuxta iram tuam et secundum zelum tuum quem fecisti odio habens eos et notus efficiar per eos cum te iudicavero

11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely I will do according to your wrath and according to your zeal which you wrought, hating them; and I shall be made known through them when I have judged you

12 et scies quia ego Dominus audivi universa obprobria tua quae locutus es de montibus Israhel dicens deserti nobis dati sunt ad devorandum

12 and you shall know that I am the Lord: I have heard all your reproaches which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are desolate, they have been given to us to devour.

13 et insurrexistis super me ore vestro et rogastis adversum me verba vestra ego audivi

13 and you have risen up against me with your mouth, and you have pleaded your words against me; I have heard

14 haec dicit Dominus Deus laetante universa terra in solitudinem te redigam

14 Thus says the Lord God: with the whole earth rejoicing, I will reduce you to desolation.

15 sicuti gavisus es super hereditatem domus Israhel eo quod fuerit dissipata sic faciam tibi dissipatus eris mons Seir et Idumea omnis et scient quia ego Dominus

15 just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it had been dissipated, so will I do to you: you shall be dissipated, Mount Seir, and all Idumea; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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1 tu autem fili hominis propheta super montes Israhel et dices montes Israhel audite verbum Domini

1 But you, son of man, prophesy over the mountains of Israel and you shall say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

2 haec dicit Dominus Deus eo quod dixerit inimicus de vobis euge altitudines sempiternae in hereditatem datae sunt nobis

2 thus says the Lord God: because the enemy has said about you, “Aha! the everlasting heights have been given to us as an inheritance.”

3 propterea vaticinare et dic haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod desolati estis et conculcati per circuitum et facti in hereditatem reliquis gentibus et ascendistis super labium linguae et obprobrium populi

3 therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God: because you have been made desolate and trampled down round about, and have been made into an inheritance for the remaining nations, and have gone up upon the lip of the tongue and an opprobrium of the people

4 propterea montes Israhel audite verbum Domini Dei haec dicit Dominus Deus montibus et collibus torrentibus vallibusque et desertis parietinis et urbibus derelictis quae depopulatae sunt et subsannatae a reliquis gentibus per circuitum

4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the torrents and the valleys, and the desolate ruins and the abandoned cities, which have been depopulated and mocked to scorn by the remaining nations all around

5 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus quoniam in igne zeli mei locutus sum de reliquis gentibus et de Idumea universa qui dederunt terram meam sibi in hereditatem cum gaudio et toto corde ex animo et eiecerunt eam ut vastarent

5 therefore thus says the Lord God: because in the fire of my zeal I have spoken concerning the remaining nations and concerning all Idumea, who gave my land to themselves for an inheritance with joy and with the whole heart, from the soul, and they cast it out so that they might devastate it

6 idcirco vaticinare super humum Israhel et dices montibus et collibus iugis et vallibus haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego in zelo meo et in furore meo locutus sum eo quod confusionem gentium sustinueritis

6 therefore prophesy over the soil of Israel, and you shall say to the mountains and the hills, the ridges and the valleys, thus says the Lord God, behold, I have spoken in my zeal and in my fury, because you have borne the reproach of the nations

7 idcirco haec dicit Dominus Deus ego levavi manum meam ut gentes quae in circuitu vestro sunt ipsae confusionem suam portent

7 therefore thus says the Lord God: I have lifted my hand, that the nations which are around you, they themselves may bear their own confusion.

8 vos autem montes Israhel ramos vestros germinetis et fructum vestrum adferatis populo meo Israhel prope est enim ut veniat

8 but you, mountains of Israel, germinate your branches and bring forth your fruit for my people Israel, for it is near to come

9 quia ecce ego ad vos et convertar ad vos et arabimini et accipietis sementem

9 for behold, I am toward you, and I will turn toward you, and you shall be ploughed, and you shall receive seed

10 et multiplicabo in vobis homines omnemque domum Israhel et habitabuntur civitates et ruinosa instaurabuntur

10 and I will multiply men upon you, even all the house of Israel, and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be restored

11 et replebo vos hominibus et iumentis et multiplicabuntur et crescent et habitari vos faciam sicut a principio bonisque donabo maioribus quam habuistis ab initio et scietis quia ego Dominus

11 and I will fill you with men and beasts of burden, and they will be multiplied and will increase, and I will cause you to be inhabited as at the beginning, and I will endow you with good things greater than you had from the beginning, and you shall know that I am the Lord

12 et adducam super vos homines populum meum Israhel et hereditate possidebunt te et eris eis in hereditatem et non addes ultra ut absque eis sis

12 and I will bring upon you men, my people Israel, and they shall possess you by inheritance, and you shall be to them for an inheritance, and you shall no longer continue to be without them

13 haec dicit Dominus Deus pro eo quod dicunt de vobis devoratrix hominum es et suffocans gentem tuam

13 Thus says the Lord God: for the reason that they say about you, “you are a devourer of men and suffocating your nation.”

14 propterea homines non comedes amplius et gentem tuam non necabis ultra ait Dominus Deus

14 therefore you shall no longer devour men, and you shall no longer slay your nation, says the Lord God

15 nec auditam faciam in te amplius confusionem gentium et obprobrium populorum nequaquam portabis et gentem tuam non amittes amplius ait Dominus Deus

15 nor will I make the confusion of the nations to be heard in you any more, and the opprobrium of the peoples you shall by no means bear, and your nation you shall not lose any more, says the Lord God

16 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

16 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

17 fili hominis domus Israhel habitaverunt in humo sua et polluerunt eam in viis suis et in studiis suis iuxta inmunditiam menstruatae facta est via eorum coram me

17 Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt in their own soil, and they polluted it by their ways and by their pursuits; according to the uncleanness of a menstruous woman their way became before me.

18 et effudi indignationem meam super eos pro sanguine quem fuderunt super terram et in idolis suis polluerunt eam

18 and I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which they shed upon the land, and by their idols they polluted it

19 et dispersi eos in gentes et ventilati sunt in terris iuxta vias eorum et adinventiones iudicavi eos

19 and I dispersed them into the nations and they were winnowed in the lands according to their ways and inventions I judged them

20 et ingressi sunt ad gentes ad quas introierunt et polluerunt nomen sanctum meum cum diceretur de eis populus Domini iste est et de terra eius egressi sunt

20 and they entered among the nations to which they had gone in, and they polluted my holy name, when it was being said about them, “This is the people of the Lord, and from his land they have gone forth.”

21 et peperci nomini meo sancto quod polluerat domus Israhel in gentibus ad quas ingressi sunt

21 and I spared my holy name, which the house of Israel had polluted among the nations into which they had entered

22 idcirco dices domui Israhel haec dicit Dominus Deus non propter vos ego faciam domus Israhel sed propter nomen sanctum meum quod polluistis in gentibus ad quas intrastis

22 therefore you shall say to the house of Israel: thus says the Lord God: not for your sakes am I doing this, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you polluted among the nations into which you entered

23 et sanctificabo nomen meum magnum quod pollutum est inter gentes quod polluistis in medio earum ut sciant gentes quia ego Dominus ait Dominus exercituum cum sanctificatus fuero in vobis coram eis

23 and I will sanctify my great name which has been polluted among the nations, which you polluted in the midst of them, so that the nations may know that I am the Lord, says the Lord of hosts, when I shall have been sanctified in you before them

24 tollam quippe vos de gentibus et congregabo de universis terris et adducam vos in terram vestram

24 For indeed I will take you from the nations and I will gather you from all the lands, and I will bring you into your land.

25 et effundam super vos aquam mundam et mundabimini ab omnibus inquinamentis vestris et ab universis idolis vestris mundabo vos

25 and I will pour out upon you pure water, and you shall be cleansed from all your pollutions, and from all your idols I will cleanse you

26 et dabo vobis cor novum et spiritum novum ponam in medio vestri et auferam cor lapideum de carne vestra et dabo vobis cor carneum

26 and I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put in the midst of you, and I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh

27 et spiritum meum ponam in medio vestri et faciam ut in praeceptis meis ambuletis et iudicia mea custodiatis et operemini

27 and I will put my Spirit in the midst of you and I will make it so that you walk in my precepts and keep my judgments and perform them

28 et habitabitis in terra quam dedi patribus vestris et eritis mihi in populum et ego ero vobis in Deum

28 and you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be to me for a people, and I will be to you for God

29 et salvabo vos ex universis inquinamentis vestris et vocabo frumentum et multiplicabo illud et non inponam in vobis famem

29 and I will save you from all your pollutions, and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not impose famine upon you

30 et multiplicabo fructum ligni et genimina agri ut non portetis ultra obprobrium famis in gentibus

30 and I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, so that you may no longer bear the opprobrium of famine among the nations

31 et recordabimini viarum vestrarum pessimarum studiorumque non bonorum et displicebunt vobis iniquitates vestrae et scelera vestra

31 and you will remember your most wicked ways and your not-good pursuits, and your iniquities and your crimes will be displeasing to you

32 non propter vos ego faciam ait Dominus Deus notum sit vobis confundimini et erubescite super viis vestris domus Israhel

32 Not for your sakes will I act, says the Lord God; let it be known to you: be confounded and blush over your ways, house of Israel.

33 haec dicit Dominus Deus in die qua mundavero vos ex omnibus iniquitatibus vestris et habitari fecero urbes et instauravero ruinosa

33 thus says the Lord God: on the day when I cleanse you from all your iniquities, and cause the cities to be inhabited, and restore the ruined places

34 et terra deserta fuerit exculta quae quondam erat desolata in oculis omnis viatoris

34 and the deserted land will have been cultivated, which once was desolate, in the eyes of every wayfarer

35 dicent terra illa inculta facta est ut hortus voluptatis et civitates desertae et destitutae atque suffossae munitae sederunt

35 they will say, That uncultivated land has been made like the garden of delight, and the cities deserted and destitute and dug-through are inhabited, fortified.

36 et scient gentes quaecumque derelictae fuerint in circuitu vestro quia ego Dominus aedificavi dissipata plantavique inculta ego Dominus locutus sum et fecerim

36 and the nations, whatsoever shall have been left in your circuit, shall know that I, the Lord, have built up the things laid waste and have planted the uncultivated; I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.

37 haec dicit Dominus Deus adhuc in hoc invenient me domus Israhel ut faciam eis multiplicabo eos sicut gregem hominum

37 thus says the Lord God: yet in this the house of Israel will find me, so that I may do for them; I will multiply them like a flock of men

38 ut gregem sanctum ut gregem Hierusalem in sollemnitatibus eius sic erunt civitates desertae plenaeque gregibus hominum et scient quia ego Dominus

38 like the holy flock, like the flock of Jerusalem in its solemnities, so shall the deserted cities be, and full of flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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1 facta est super me manus Domini et eduxit me in spiritu Domini et dimisit me in medio campi qui erat plenus ossibus

1 the hand of the Lord came upon me, and he led me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me in the midst of a plain which was full of bones

2 et circumduxit me per ea in gyro erant autem multa valde super faciem campi siccaque vehementer

2 and he led me around them in a circle; and there were very many upon the face of the plain, and exceedingly dry

3 et dixit ad me fili hominis putasne vivent ossa ista et dixi Domine Deus tu nosti

3 and he said to me, son of man, do you think these bones will live? and I said, Lord God, you know.

4 et dixit ad me vaticinare de ossibus istis et dices eis ossa arida audite verbum Domini

4 and he said to me, prophesy over these bones, and you shall say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord

5 haec dicit Dominus Deus ossibus his ecce ego intromittam in vos spiritum et vivetis

5 thus says the Lord God to these bones: behold, I will put into you spirit, and you shall live

6 et dabo super vos nervos et succrescere faciam super vos carnes et superextendam in vobis cutem et dabo vobis spiritum et vivetis et scietis quia ego Dominus

6 and I will put sinews upon you and I will cause flesh to grow over you and I will stretch skin over you and I will give you spirit and you shall live and you shall know that I am the Lord

7 et prophetavi sicut praeceperat mihi factus est autem sonitus prophetante me et ecce commotio et accesserunt ossa ad ossa unumquodque ad iuncturam suam

7 and I prophesied as he had commanded me; and there came a sound as I was prophesying, and behold, a commotion, and the bones drew near, bone to bone, each to its joint.

8 et vidi et ecce super ea nervi et carnes ascenderunt et extenta est in eis cutis desuper et spiritum non habebant

8 and I saw, and behold, upon them sinews and flesh came up, and skin was stretched over them from above, and they did not have spirit.

9 et dixit ad me vaticinare ad spiritum vaticinare fili hominis et dices ad spiritum haec dicit Dominus Deus a quattuor ventis veni spiritus et insufla super interfectos istos et revivescant

9 and he said to me: vaticinate to the spirit; vaticinate, son of man, and you shall say to the spirit: thus says the Lord God: from the four winds, come, spirit, and breathe upon these slain, and let them revive.

10 et prophetavi sicut praeceperat mihi et ingressus est in ea spiritus et vixerunt steteruntque super pedes suos exercitus grandis nimis valde

10 and i prophesied just as he had commanded me, and the spirit entered into them, and they lived, and they stood upon their feet, a very exceedingly great army

11 et dixit ad me fili hominis ossa haec universa domus Israhel est ipsi dicunt aruerunt ossa nostra et periit spes nostra et abscisi sumus

11 and he said to me, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; they themselves say, our bones have dried up, and our hope has perished, and we have been cut off

12 propterea vaticinare et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego aperiam tumulos vestros et educam vos de sepulchris vestris populus meus et inducam vos in terram Israhel

12 therefore prophesy, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: behold, I will open your tombs and I will lead you out from your sepulchers, my people, and I will bring you into the land of Israel

13 et scietis quia ego Dominus cum aperuero sepulchra vestra et eduxero vos de tumulis vestris populus meus

13 and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your sepulchers and have brought you out of your tombs, my people

14 et dedero spiritum meum in vobis et vixeritis et requiescere vos faciam super humum vestram et scietis quia ego Dominus locutus sum et feci ait Dominus Deus

14 and I will give my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will cause you to rest upon your ground, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken and I have done it, says the Lord God.

15 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

15 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

16 et tu fili hominis sume tibi lignum unum et scribe super illud Iudae et filiorum Israhel sociis eius et tolle lignum alterum et scribe super eum Ioseph lignum Ephraim et cunctae domui Israhel sociorumque eius

16 and you, son of man, take for yourself one piece of wood and write upon it: for Judah and for the sons of Israel, his associates; and take another piece of wood and write upon it: for Joseph, the wood of Ephraim, and for the whole house of Israel and his associates.

17 et adiunge illa unum ad alterum tibi in lignum unum et erunt in unionem in manu tua

17 and join them, one to the other, for yourself into one stick, and they shall be in union in your hand

18 cum autem dixerint ad te filii populi tui loquentes nonne indicas nobis quid in his tibi velis

18 when, however, the sons of your people speak to you, saying, “Will you not indicate to us what you intend by these?”

19 loqueris ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego adsumam lignum Ioseph quod est in manu Ephraim et tribus Israhel quae iunctae sunt ei et dabo eas pariter cum ligno Iuda et faciam eas in lignum unum et erunt unum in manu eius

19 you shall speak to them: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel which are joined to him, and I will give them together with the stick of Judah, and I will make them into one stick, and they shall be one in his hand

20 erunt autem ligna super quae scripseris in manu tua in oculis eorum

20 And the sticks upon which you have written shall be in your hand before their eyes

21 et dices ad eos haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego adsumam filios Israhel de medio nationum ad quas abierunt et congregabo eos undique et adducam eos ad humum suam

21 and you shall say to them: thus says the Lord God: behold, I will take the sons of Israel from the midst of the nations to which they have gone, and I will congregate them from every side, and I will lead them to their own land

22 et faciam eos gentem unam in terra in montibus Israhel et rex unus erit omnibus imperans et non erunt ultra duae gentes nec dividentur amplius in duo regna

22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be ruling over them all; and they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms.

23 neque polluentur ultra in idolis suis et abominationibus suis et in cunctis iniquitatibus suis et salvos eos faciam de universis sedibus suis in quibus peccaverunt et mundabo eos et erunt mihi populus et ego ero eis Deus

23 nor shall they be polluted any more by their idols and their abominations and in all their iniquities; and I will save them from all their habitations in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them, and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them God.

24 et servus meus David rex super eos et pastor unus erit omnium eorum in iudiciis meis ambulabunt et mandata mea custodient et facient ea

24 and my servant David will be king over them, and one shepherd will be over them all; in my judgments they will walk, and my commandments they will keep and do them

25 et habitabunt super terram quam dedi servo meo Iacob in qua habitaverunt patres vestri et habitabunt super eam ipsi et filii eorum et filii filiorum eorum usque in sempiternum et David servus meus princeps eorum in perpetuum

25 and they shall dwell upon the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell upon it, they and their sons and the sons of their sons, unto everlasting, and David my servant shall be their prince in perpetuity

26 et percutiam illis foedus pacis pactum sempiternum erit eis et fundabo eos et multiplicabo et dabo sanctificationem meam in medio eorum in perpetuum

26 and I will strike with them a covenant of peace; an everlasting pact shall be for them; and I will establish them and multiply them, and I will give my sanctuary in the midst of them forever

27 et erit tabernaculum meum in eis et ero eis Deus et ipsi erunt mihi populus

27 and my tabernacle will be among them, and I will be to them God, and they will be to me a people

28 et scient gentes quia ego Dominus sanctificator Israhel cum fuerit sanctificatio mea in medio eorum in perpetuum

28 and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctification is in their midst forever

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1 et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1 and the word of the Lord came to me, saying

2 fili hominis pone faciem tuam contra Gog terram Magog principem capitis Mosoch et Thubal et vaticinare de eo

2 son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and vaticinate concerning him

3 et dices ad eum haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego ad te Gog principem capitis Mosoch et Thubal

3 and you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal

4 et circumagam te et ponam frenum in maxillis tuis et educam te et omnem exercitum tuum equos et equites vestitos loricis universos multitudinem magnam hastam et clypeum arripientium et gladium

4 and I will turn you about and put a bridle in your jaws, and I will lead you out—you and all your army, horses and horsemen, clothed in cuirasses, all of them, a great multitude, seizing spear and shield and sword

5 Persae Aethiopes et Lybies cum eis omnes scutati et galeati

5 Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all bearing shields and helmets

6 Gomer et universa agmina eius domus Thogorma latera aquilonis et totum robur eius populique multi tecum

6 Gomer and all his armies the house of Thogorma the sides of the north and all its strength and many peoples with you

7 praepara et instrue te et omnem multitudinem tuam quae coacervata est ad te et esto eis in praeceptum

7 prepare and instruct yourself and all your multitude that has been heaped together to you and be to them as a precept

8 post dies multos visitaberis in novissimo annorum venies ad terram quae reversa est a gladio congregata est de populis multis ad montes Israhel qui fuerunt deserti iugiter haec de populis educta est et habitaverunt in ea confidenter universi

8 after many days you will be visited; in the latter years you will come to the land that has returned from the sword, that has been congregated from many peoples, to the mountains of Israel, which were desolate continually; this one has been brought out from the peoples, and they have dwelt in it confidently, all of them

9 ascendens autem quasi tempestas venies et quasi nubes ut operias terram tu et omnia agmina tua et populi multi tecum

9 But ascending like a tempest you will come, and like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hosts, and many peoples with you.

10 haec dicit Dominus Deus in die illa ascendent sermones super cor tuum et cogitabis cogitationem pessimam

10 thus says the Lord God in that day words will ascend upon your heart and you will cogitate a most evil cogitation

11 et dices ascendam ad terram absque muro veniam ad quiescentes habitantesque secure omnes habitant sine muro vectes et portae non sunt eis

11 and you will say, I will ascend to a land without a wall; I will come to the quiet and those dwelling securely— all dwell without a wall; bars and gates are not for them.

12 ut diripias spolia et invadas praedam ut inferas manum tuam super eos qui deserti fuerant et postea restituti et super populum qui est congregatus ex gentibus qui possidere coepit et esse habitator umbilici terrae

12 so that you may plunder spoil and invade for prey, so that you may lay your hand upon those who had been deserted and afterward restored, and upon the people that is congregated from the nations, who has begun to possess and to be an inhabitant of the navel of the earth

13 Seba et Dedan et negotiatores Tharsis et omnes leones eius dicent tibi numquid ad sumenda spolia tu venis ecce ad diripiendam praedam congregasti multitudinem tuam ut tollas argentum et aurum auferas supellectilem atque substantiam et diripias manubias infinitas

13 Seba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her lions will say to you: Is it to take spoils that you are coming? Behold, to plunder prey you have gathered your multitude, to take away silver and gold, to carry off furnishings and substance, and to plunder boundless spoils.

14 propterea vaticinare fili hominis et dices ad Gog haec dicit Dominus Deus numquid non in die illo cum habitaverit populus meus Israhel confidenter scies

14 therefore vaticinate, son of man, and you shall say to Gog: thus says the Lord God: is it not on that day, when my people Israel shall have dwelt confidently, that you will know?

15 et venies de loco tuo a lateribus aquilonis tu et populi multi tecum ascensores equorum universi coetus magnus et exercitus vehemens

15 and you will come from your place from the sides of the north, you and many peoples with you, riders of horses, all of them, a great assembly and a vehement army

16 et ascendes super populum meum Israhel quasi nubes ut operias terram in novissimis diebus eris et adducam te super terram meam ut sciant gentes me cum sanctificatus fuero in te in oculis eorum o Gog

16 and you will ascend over my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land; in the last days you shall be, and I will bring you upon my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall have been sanctified in you in their eyes, O Gog

17 haec dicit Dominus Deus tu ergo ille es de quo locutus sum in diebus antiquis in manu servorum meorum prophetarum Israhel qui prophetaverunt in diebus illorum temporum ut adducerem te super eos

17 thus says the Lord God: so then you are the one of whom I spoke in ancient days, by the hand of my servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in the days of those times, that I would bring you upon them

18 et erit in die illa in die adventus Gog super terram Israhel ait Dominus Deus ascendet indignatio mea in furore meo

18 and it shall be in that day, on the day of the advent of Gog upon the land of Israel, says the Lord God, my indignation will ascend in my fury

19 et in zelo meo in igne irae meae locutus sum quia in die illa erit commotio magna super terram Israhel

19 and in my zeal, in the fire of my wrath, I have spoken, for on that day there will be a great commotion over the land of Israel

20 et commovebuntur a facie mea pisces maris et volucres caeli et bestiae agri et omne reptile quod movetur super humum cunctique homines qui sunt super faciem terrae et subvertentur montes et cadent sepes et omnis murus in terra corruet

20 and the fishes of the sea will be shaken from before my face, and the birds of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing that moves upon the ground, and all men who are upon the face of the earth; and the mountains will be overthrown, and the hedges will fall, and every wall in the land will collapse.

21 et convocabo adversum eum in cunctis montibus meis gladium ait Dominus Deus gladius uniuscuiusque in fratrem suum dirigetur

21 and I will convoke against him in all my mountains the sword, says the Lord God; the sword of each shall be directed against his brother

22 et iudicabo eum peste et sanguine et imbre vehementi et lapidibus inmensis ignem et sulphur pluam super eum et super exercitum eius et super populos multos qui sunt cum eo

22 and I will judge him with pestilence and blood, and with a vehement rain and immense stones; fire and sulfur I will rain upon him and upon his army and upon the many peoples who are with him

23 et magnificabor et sanctificabor et notus ero in oculis gentium multarum et scient quia ego Dominus

23 and I will be magnified and sanctified, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD

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1 tu autem fili hominis vaticinare adversum Gog et dices haec dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego super te Gog principem capitis Mosoch et Thubal

1 but you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and you shall say: thus says the Lord God: behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal

2 et circumagam te et seducam te et ascendere faciam de lateribus aquilonis et adducam te super montes Israhel

2 and I will turn you about and lead you astray, and I will cause you to ascend from the sides of the north, and I will bring you upon the mountains of Israel

3 et percutiam arcum tuum in manu sinistra tua et sagittas tuas de manu dextera tua deiciam

3 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and I will cast down your arrows from your right hand

4 super montes Israhel cades tu et omnia agmina tua et populi qui sunt tecum feris avibus omnique volatili et bestiis terrae dedi te devorandum

4 upon the mountains of Israel you shall fall, you and all your armies and the peoples who are with you; to the wild birds and every winged creature and the beasts of the earth I have given you for devouring

5 super faciem agri cades quia ego locutus sum ait Dominus Deus

5 upon the face of the field you shall fall, for I have spoken, says the Lord God

6 et emittam ignem in Magog et in his qui habitant in insulis confidenter et scient quia ego Dominus

6 and I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell in the islands securely, and they shall know that I am the Lord

7 et nomen sanctum meum notum faciam in medio populi mei Israhel et non polluam nomen sanctum meum amplius et scient gentes quia ego Dominus Sanctus Israhel

7 and I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not pollute my holy name any more, and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel

8 ecce venit et factum est ait Dominus Deus haec est dies de qua locutus sum

8 behold, it comes and it has been done, says the Lord God; this is the day of which I spoke

9 et egredientur habitatores de civitatibus Israhel et succendent et conburent arma clypeum et hastas arcum et sagittas et baculos manus et contos et succendent ea igne septem annis

9 and the inhabitants will go out from the cities of Israel, and they will set alight and burn the arms—shield and spears, bow and arrows, and hand-staves and pikes—and they will kindle them with fire for seven years

10 et non portabunt ligna de regionibus neque succident de saltibus quoniam arma succendent igne et depraedabuntur eos quibus praedae fuerant et diripient vastatores suos ait Dominus Deus

10 and they will not carry wood from the regions nor cut down from the forests, for they will burn the weapons with fire; and they will despoil those to whom they had been prey, and they will plunder their plunderers, says the Lord God.

11 et erit in die illa dabo Gog locum nominatum sepulchrum in Israhel vallem Viatorum ad orientem maris quae obstupescere facit praetereuntes et sepelient ibi Gog et omnem multitudinem eius et vocabitur vallis Multitudinis Gog

11 and it shall be in that day, I will give to Gog a place named a sepulcher in Israhel, the valley of the Viators to the east of the sea, which makes the passers-by be obstupefied; and they will bury there Gog and all his multitude, and it will be called the valley of the Multitude of Gog.

12 et sepelient eos domus Israhel ut mundent terram septem mensibus

12 and the house of Israel will bury them so that they may cleanse the land, for seven months

13 sepeliet autem omnis populus terrae et erit eis nominata dies in qua glorificatus sum ait Dominus Deus

13 moreover all the people of the land shall bury, and there shall be for them a named day on which I have been glorified, says the Lord God

14 et viros iugiter constituent lustrantes terram qui sepeliant et requirant eos qui remanserant super faciem terrae ut emundent eam post menses autem septem quaerere incipient

14 and they will appoint men continually, going through the land, to bury and to seek out those who had remained upon the face of the land, that they may cleanse it; but after seven months they will begin to search

15 et circumibunt peragrantes terram cumque viderint os hominis statuent iuxta illud titulum donec sepeliant illud pollinctores in valle Multitudinis Gog

15 and they will go around, traversing the land; and whenever they see a bone of a man, they will set a title/marker beside it, until the embalmers bury it in the Valley of the Multitude of Gog

16 nomen autem civitatis Amona et mundabunt terram

16 Now the name of the city is Amona, and they shall cleanse the land

17 tu ergo fili hominis haec dicit Dominus Deus dic omni volucri et universis avibus cunctisque bestiis agri convenite properate concurrite undique ad victimam meam quam ego immolo vobis victimam grandem super montes Israhel ut comedatis carnes et bibatis sanguinem

17 you, therefore, son of man, thus says the Lord God: say to every bird and to all the fowls and to all the beasts of the field: assemble, make haste, run together from every side to my victim which I am immolating for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood

18 carnes fortium comedetis et sanguinem principum terrae bibetis arietum agnorum et hircorum taurorumque altilium et pinguium omnium

18 you shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, lambs, and he-goats, and bulls, fatlings and all the fat ones

19 et comedetis adipem in saturitate et bibetis sanguinem in ebrietate de victima quam ego immolabo vobis

19 and you shall eat fat to satiety and drink blood to drunkenness from the sacrifice which I will immolate for you

20 et saturabimini super mensam meam de equo et de equite forti et de universis viris bellatoribus ait Dominus Deus

20 and you shall be satiated upon my table with the horse and with the strong horseman and with all warrior men, says the Lord God

21 et ponam gloriam meam in gentibus et videbunt omnes gentes iudicium meum quod fecerim et manum meam quam posuerim super eos

21 and I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have done, and my hand which I have laid upon them

22 et scient domus Israhel quia ego Dominus Deus eorum a die illa et deinceps

22 and the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and thenceforth

23 et scient gentes quoniam in iniquitate sua capta sit domus Israhel eo quod reliquerint me et absconderim faciem meam ab eis et tradiderim eos in manu hostium et ceciderint in gladio universi

23 and the nations shall know that the house of Israel was captured for their iniquity, because they had relinquished me, and I hid my face from them and delivered them into the hand of their enemies, and all fell by the sword.

24 iuxta inmunditiam eorum et scelus feci eis et abscondi faciem meam ab illis

24 according to their uncleanness and their crime I did to them, and I hid my face from them

25 propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus nunc reducam captivitatem Iacob et miserebor omnis domus Israhel et adsumam zelum pro nomine sancto meo

25 therefore thus says the Lord God: now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob, and I will have mercy on all the house of Israel, and I will take up zeal for my holy name

26 et portabunt confusionem suam et omnem praevaricationem quam praevaricati sunt in me cum habitaverint in terra sua confidenter neminem formidantes

26 and they shall bear their confusion and all the prevarication with which they have prevaricated against me, when they dwell in their land confidently, fearing no one

27 et reduxero eos de populis et congregavero de terris inimicorum suorum et sanctificatus fuero in eis in oculis gentium plurimarum

27 and when I have brought them back from the peoples and have gathered them from the lands of their enemies, and I have been sanctified in them in the eyes of many nations

28 et scient quia ego Dominus Deus eorum eo quod transtulerim eos in nationes et congregavero eos super terram suam et non dereliquerim quemquam ex eis ibi

28 and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I have transported them into the nations and have gathered them upon their own land, and I have not left anyone of them there

29 et non abscondam ultra faciem meam ab eis eo quod effuderim spiritum meum super omnem domum Israhel ait Dominus Deus

29 and I will no longer hide my face from them, because I have poured out my spirit upon the whole house of Israel, says the Lord God

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1 in vicesimo et quinto anno transmigrationis nostrae in exordio anni decima mensis quartodecimo anno postquam percussa est civitas in ipsa hac die facta est super me manus Domini et adduxit me illuc

1 in the twenty-fifth year of our transmigration in the beginning of the year on the tenth of the month in the fourteenth year after the city was struck on this very day the hand of the Lord was upon me and he brought me there

2 in visionibus Dei adduxit me in terram Israhel et dimisit me super montem excelsum nimis super quem erat quasi aedificium civitatis vergentis ad austrum

2 in the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me upon an exceedingly high mountain, upon which there was, as it were, the edifice of a city verging toward the south.

3 et introduxit me illuc et ecce vir cuius erat species quasi species aeris et funiculus lineus in manu eius et calamus mensurae in manu eius stabat autem in porta

3 and he brought me in there, and behold, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a linen cord in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand; he was standing, moreover, in the gate.

4 et locutus est ad me idem vir fili hominis vide oculis tuis et auribus tuis audi et pone cor tuum in omnia quae ego ostendam tibi quia ut ostendantur tibi adductus es huc adnuntia omnia quae tu vides domui Israhel

4 and the same man spoke to me: Son of man, see with your eyes and with your ears hear, and set your heart upon all that I will show you; for in order that they be shown to you you have been brought here; announce all that you see to the house of Israel

5 et ecce murus forinsecus in circuitu domus undique et in manu viri calamus mensurae sex cubitorum et palmo et mensus est latitudinem aedificii calamo uno altitudinem quoque calamo uno

5 and behold, a wall on the outside in circuit around the house on every side; and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a palm; and he measured the breadth of the building, one reed, likewise the height, one reed.

6 et venit ad portam quae respiciebat viam orientalem et ascendit per gradus eius et mensus est limen portae calamo uno latitudinem id est limen unum calamo uno in latitudine

6 and he came to the gate that looked toward the eastern way, and went up by its steps; and he measured the threshold of the gate, one calamus in breadth—that is, the threshold, one calamus in breadth

7 et thalamum uno calamo in longum et uno calamo in latum et inter thalamos quinque cubitos

7 and a chamber one reed in length and one reed in breadth, and between the chambers five cubits

8 et limen portae iuxta vestibulum portae intrinsecus calamo uno

8 and the threshold of the gate, next to the vestibule of the gate on the inside, one reed

9 et mensus est vestibulum portae octo cubitorum et frontem eius duobus cubitis vestibulum autem portae erat intrinsecus

9 and he measured the vestibule of the gate, eight cubits, and its front two cubits; moreover, the vestibule of the gate was on the inside

10 porro thalami portae ad viam orientalem tres hinc et tres inde mensura una trium et mensura una frontium ex utraque parte

10 furthermore, the chambers of the gate toward the eastern way were three on this side and three on that side, one measure for the three, and one measure of the fronts on either side

11 et mensus est latitudinem liminis portae decem cubitorum et longitudinem portae tredecim cubitorum

11 and he measured the width of the threshold of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits

12 et marginem ante thalamos cubiti unius et cubitus unus finis utrimque thalami autem sex cubitorum erant hinc et inde

12 and the margin before the chambers was of one cubit, and one cubit was the boundary on either side; moreover, the chambers were six cubits, on this side and on that.

13 et mensus est portam a tecto thalami usque ad tectum eius latitudinem viginti et quinque cubitorum ostium contra ostium

13 and he measured the gate from the roof of the chamber to its roof, the width twenty-five cubits, doorway opposite doorway

14 et fecit frontes per sexaginta cubitos et ad frontem atrium portae undique per circuitum

14 and he made the fronts for sixty cubits, and toward the front the court of the gate on every side around

15 et ante faciem portae quae pertingebat usque ad faciem vestibuli portae interioris quinquaginta cubitos

15 and before the face of the gate, which reached up to the face of the vestibule of the inner gate, was fifty cubits

16 et fenestras obliquas in thalamis et in frontibus eorum quae erant intra portam undique per circuitum similiter autem erant et in vestibulis fenestrae per gyrum intrinsecus et ante frontes pictura palmarum

16 and oblique windows in the chambers and in their fronts, which were within the gate, on all sides round about; likewise there were also in the vestibules windows in a circuit on the inside, and before the fronts a depiction of palm-trees

17 et eduxit me ad atrium exterius et ecce gazofilacia et pavimentum stratum lapide in atrio per circuitum triginta gazofilacia in circuitu pavimenti

17 and he led me out to the outer atrium, and behold, gazophylacia and a pavement laid with stone in the atrium round about; thirty gazophylacia around the pavement

18 et pavimentum in fronte portarum secundum longitudinem portarum erat inferius

18 and the pavement in front of the gates, according to the length of the gates, was lower

19 et mensus est latitudinem a facie portae inferioris usque ad frontem atrii interioris extrinsecus centum cubitos ad orientem et ad aquilonem

19 and he measured the breadth from the face of the lower gate up to the front of the inner atrium outside, one hundred cubits, to the east and to the north

20 portam quoque quae respiciebat viam aquilonis atrii exterioris mensus est tam in longitudine quam in latitudine

20 He also measured the gate of the outer court that faced the way of the north, both in length and in breadth

21 et thalamos eius tres hinc et tres inde et frontem eius et vestibulum eius secundum mensuram portae prioris quinquaginta cubitorum longitudinem eius et latitudinem viginti quinque cubitorum

21 and its chambers, three on this side and three on that side, and its front and its vestibule, according to the measure of the former gate—its length 50 cubits and its breadth 25 cubits

22 fenestrae autem eius et vestibulum et scalpturae secundum mensuram portae quae respiciebat ad orientem et septem graduum erat ascensus eius et vestibulum ante eam

22 and its windows and its vestibule and its carvings were according to the measure of the gate that looked toward the east, and its ascent was of seven steps, and a vestibule was before it

23 et porta atrii interioris contra portam aquilonis et orientalem et mensus est a porta usque ad portam centum cubitos

23 and the gate of the inner atrium opposite the north gate and the eastern, and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits

24 et duxit me ad viam australem et ecce porta quae respiciebat ad austrum et mensus est frontem eius et vestibulum eius iuxta mensuras superiores

24 and he led me to the austral way, and behold, a gate that faced toward the south; and he measured its front and its vestibule according to the upper measurements.

25 et fenestras eius et vestibula in circuitu sicut fenestras ceteras quinquaginta cubitorum longitudine et latitudine viginti quinque cubitorum

25 and its windows and its vestibules all around, like the other windows, fifty cubits in length and twenty-five cubits in breadth

26 et in gradibus septem ascendebatur ad eam et vestibulum ante fores eius et celatae palmae erant una hinc et altera inde in fronte eius

26 and on seven steps one went up to it, and a vestibule before its doors; and carved palms were, one on this side and the other on that, on its front.

27 et porta atrii interioris in via australi et mensus est a porta usque ad portam in via australi centum cubitos

27 and the gate of the inner court on the southern way, and he measured from gate to gate on the southern way one hundred cubits

28 et introduxit me in atrium interius ad portam australem et mensus est portam iuxta mensuras superiores

28 and he brought me into the inner court to the south gate, and he measured the gate according to the upper measurements

29 thalamum eius et frontem eius et vestibulum eius hisdem mensuris et fenestras eius et vestibulorum eius in circuitu quinquaginta cubitos longitudinis et latitudinis viginti quinque cubitos

29 its chamber and its front and its vestibule with the same measures, and its windows, and its vestibules round about, fifty cubits in length and twenty-five cubits in breadth

30 et vestibulum per gyrum longitudine viginti quinque cubitorum et latitudine quinque cubitorum

30 and the vestibule all around, twenty-five cubits in length and five cubits in breadth

31 et vestibulum eius ad atrium exterius et palmas eius in fronte et octo gradus erant quibus ascendebatur per eam

31 and its vestibule toward the outer atrium, and its palms on the front, and there were eight steps by which one ascended to it

32 et introduxit me in atrium interius per viam orientalem et mensus est portam secundum mensuras superiores

32 and he brought me into the inner court by the eastern way, and he measured the gate according to the upper measurements

33 thalamum eius et frontem eius et vestibula eius sicut supra et fenestras eius et vestibuli eius in circuitu longitudine quinquaginta cubitorum et latitudine viginti quinque cubitorum

33 its chamber and its front and its vestibule, as above, and its windows and its vestibule all around, of a length of fifty cubits and a width of twenty-five cubits

34 et vestibulum eius id est atrii exterioris et palmae celatae in fronte eius hinc et inde et in octo gradibus ascensus eius

34 and its vestibule, that is, of the outer court, and palm trees carved on its front, on this side and on that, and its ascent was by eight steps

35 et introduxit me ad portam quae respiciebat ad aquilonem et mensus est secundum mensuras superiores

35 and he conducted me to the gate that looked toward the north, and he measured according to the upper measurements

36 thalamum eius frontem eius vestibulum eius et fenestras eius per circuitum longitudine quinquaginta cubitorum et latitudine viginti quinque cubitorum

36 its chamber, its front, its vestibule, and its windows all around, with a length of fifty cubits and a width of twenty-five cubits

37 vestibulum eius in atrium exterius et celatura palmarum in fronte illius hinc et inde et in octo gradibus ascensus eius

37 its vestibule into the outer atrium and a carving of palms on its front on this side and on that and its ascent in eight steps

38 et per singula gazofilacia ostium in frontibus portarum ibi lavabunt holocaustum

38 and for each treasure-chamber, a doorway in the fronts of the gates; there they will wash the burnt offering

39 et in vestibulo portae duae mensae hinc et duae mensae inde ut immoletur super eas holocaustum et pro peccato et pro delicto

39 and in the vestibule of the gate, two tables on this side and two tables on that side, so that upon them the holocaust and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering might be immolated

40 et ad latus exterius quod ascendit ad ostium portae quae pergit ad aquilonem duae mensae et ad latus alterum ante vestibulum portae duae mensae

40 and at the outer side which ascends to the entrance of the gate which goes toward the north two tables and at the other side before the vestibule of the gate two tables

41 quattuor mensae hinc et quattuor mensae inde per latera portae octo mensae erunt super quas immolabunt

41 four tables on this side and four tables on that side along the sides of the gate: eight tables will be there upon which they will immolate.

42 quattuor autem mensae ad holocaustum de lapidibus quadris extructae longitudine cubiti unius et dimidii et latitudine cubiti unius et dimidii et altitudine cubiti unius super quas ponant vasa in quibus immolatur holocaustum et victima

42 however, four tables for the holocaust, constructed of squared stones, of a length of one and a half cubits and a breadth of one and a half cubits and a height of one cubit, upon which they may place the vessels in which the holocaust and the victim are immolated

43 et labia earum palmi unius reflexa intrinsecus per circuitum super mensas autem carnes oblationis

43 and their lips, one palm, bent inward all around; but upon the tables the flesh of the oblation.

44 et extra portam interiorem gazofilacia cantorum in atrio interiori quod erat in latere portae respicientis ad aquilonem et facies eorum contra viam australem una ex latere portae orientalis quae respiciebat ad viam aquilonis

44 and outside the inner gate, the treasuries (gazophylacia) of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the gate facing toward the north, and their faces were toward the southern way, one from the side of the east gate which was facing toward the way of the north

45 et dixit ad me hoc est gazofilacium quod respicit viam meridianam sacerdotum qui excubant in custodiis templi

45 and he said to me: this is the treasury which looks toward the southern way, of the priests who keep watch in the watches of the temple

46 porro gazofilacium quod respicit ad viam aquilonis sacerdotum erit qui excubant ad ministerium altaris isti sunt filii Sadoc qui accedunt de filiis Levi ad Dominum ut ministrent ei

46 and the treasury which faces toward the way of the north shall be for the priests who keep watch for the ministry of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok who draw near, from the sons of Levi, to the Lord to minister to him

47 et mensus est atrium longitudine centum cubitorum et latitudine centum cubitorum per quadrum et altare ante faciem templi

47 and he measured the atrium, a length of one hundred cubits and a width of one hundred cubits, as a square, and the altar before the face of the temple

48 et introduxit me in vestibulum templi et mensus est vestibulum quinque cubitis hinc et quinque cubitis inde et latitudinem portae trium cubitorum hinc et trium cubitorum inde

48 and he brought me into the vestibule of the temple, and he measured the vestibule, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side, and the width of the gate, three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side

49 longitudinem autem vestibuli viginti cubitorum et latitudinem undecim cubitorum et octo gradibus ascendebatur ad eam et columnae erant in frontibus una hinc et altera inde

49 but the length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and it was ascended to by eight steps, and columns were at the fronts, one on this side and another on that side

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1 et introduxit me in templum et mensus est frontes sex cubitos latitudinis hinc et sex cubitos latitudinis inde latitudinem tabernaculi

1 and he brought me into the temple and measured the posts, six cubits of breadth on this side and six cubits of breadth on that side, the breadth of the tabernacle

2 et latitudo portae decem cubitorum erat et latera portae quinque cubitis hinc et quinque cubitis inde et mensus est longitudinem eius quadraginta cubitorum et latitudinem viginti cubitorum

2 and the width of the gate was ten cubits, and the posts of the gate were five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits

3 et introgressus intrinsecus mensus est in fronte portae duos cubitos et portam sex cubitorum et latitudinem portae septem cubitorum

3 and having gone inside, he measured at the front of the gate two cubits, and the gate six cubits, and the width of the gate seven cubits

4 et mensus est longitudinem eius viginti cubitorum et latitudinem viginti cubitorum ante faciem templi et dixit ad me hoc est sanctum sanctorum

4 and he measured its length twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, before the face of the temple; and he said to me, This is the Holy of Holies

5 et mensus est parietem domus sex cubitorum et latitudinem lateris quattuor cubitorum undique per circuitum domus

5 and he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of the side, four cubits, on every side around the circuit of the house

6 latera autem latus ad latus bis triginta tria et erant eminentia quae ingrederentur per parietem domus in lateribus per circuitum ut continerent et non adtingerent parietem templi

6 but the side-chambers, side to side, twice thirty-three; and there were projections which entered into the wall of the house in the sides all around, so that they might be contained and not touch the wall of the temple

7 et platea erat in rotundum ascendens sursum per cocleam et in cenaculum templi deferebat per gyrum idcirco latius erat templum in superioribus et sic de inferioribus ascendebatur ad superiora in medium

7 and a broad way was round about, ascending upward by a spiral (cochlea), and it led into the cenacle (upper room) of the temple around; therefore the temple was wider in the upper parts, and thus from the lower parts one ascended to the upper, through the middle.

8 et vidi in domo altitudinem per circuitum fundata latera ad mensuram calami sex cubitorum spatio

8 and I saw in the house a height all around, the side-chambers founded according to the measure of a reed, six cubits in span

9 et latitudinem per parietem lateris forinsecus quinque cubitorum et interior domus in lateribus domus

9 and the breadth of the wall of the side-chamber on the outside was five cubits, and the inner house was in the sides of the house

10 et inter gazofilacia latitudinem viginti cubitorum in circuitu domus undique

10 and between the treasury-chambers a breadth of twenty cubits in circuit of the house on every side

11 et ostium lateris ad orationem ostium unum ad viam aquilonis et ostium unum ad viam australem et latitudinem loci ad orationem quinque cubitorum in circuitu

11 and the door of the side (chamber) toward the oratory, one door toward the way of the north and one door toward the way of the south; and the width of the place for the oratory was five cubits in circuit

12 et aedificium quod erat separatum versumque ad viam respicientem ad mare latitudinis septuaginta cubitorum paries autem aedificii quinque cubitorum latitudinis per circuitum et longitudo eius nonaginta cubitorum

12 and the building which was separate and turned toward the way facing the sea, of a breadth of seventy cubits; moreover the wall of the edifice, five cubits in breadth round about, and its length ninety cubits.

13 et mensus est domus longitudinem centum cubitorum et quod separatum erat aedificium et parietes eius longitudinis centum cubitorum

13 and he measured the house, a length of 100 cubits, and the building that was separate, and its walls, a length of 100 cubits

14 latitudo autem ante faciem domus et eius quod erat separatum contra orientem centum cubitorum

14 and the breadth before the face of the house and of that which was separated, toward the east, one hundred cubits

15 et mensus est longitudinem aedificii contra faciem eius quod erat separatum ad dorsum ekthetas ex utraque parte centum cubitorum et templum interius et vestibula atrii

15 and he measured the length of the building opposite the face of that which was set apart at the back, the exedras on each side, 100 cubits, and the inner temple and the vestibules of the court

16 limina et fenestras obliquas et ekthetas in circuitu per tres partes contra uniuscuiusque limen stratumque ligno per gyrum in circuitu terra autem usque ad fenestras et fenestrae clausae super ostia

16 the thresholds and the oblique windows and the ekthetas (galleries) in circuit all around on three sides, opposite each one’s threshold, and the flooring laid with wood all around in circuit; and the ground up to the windows, and the windows were closed above the doorways

17 et usque ad domum interiorem et forinsecus per omnem parietem in circuitu intrinsecus et forinsecus ad mensuram

17 and up to the inner house and outwardly, along the whole wall in circuit all around, on the inside and on the outside, according to the measure

18 et fabrefacta cherubin et palmae et palma inter cherub et cherub duasque facies habebat cherub

18 and cherubim and palms were wrought, and a palm between cherub and cherub, and the cherub had two faces

19 faciem hominis iuxta palmam ex hac parte et faciem leonis iuxta palmam ex alia parte expressam per omnem domum in circuitu

19 the face of a man next to a palm on this side and the face of a lion next to a palm on the other side, engraved through all the house in circuit

20 de terra usque ad superiora portae cherubin et palmae celatae erant in pariete templi

20 from the ground up to the upper part of the gate, cherubim and palms were carved in the wall of the temple

21 limen quadrangulum et facies sanctuarii aspectus contra aspectum

21 a quadrangular threshold, and the face of the sanctuary: aspect opposite to aspect

22 altaris lignei trium cubitorum altitudo et longitudo eius duo cubitorum et anguli eius et longitudo eius et parietes eius lignei et locutus est ad me haec est mensa coram Domino

22 the wooden altar—its height three cubits, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls were of wood; and he spoke to me: This is the table before the Lord

23 et duo ostia erant in templo et in sanctuario

23 and there were two doors in the temple and in the sanctuary

24 et in duobus ostiis ex utraque parte bina erant ostiola quae in se invicem plicabantur bina enim ostia erant ex utraque parte ostiorum

24 and in the two doorways, on each side, there were two little doors which folded into one another; for there were two doors on each side of the doorways

25 et celata erant in ipsis ostiis templi cherubin et scalptura palmarum sicut in parietibus quoque expressa erat quam ob rem erant et grossiora ligna in vestibuli fronte forinsecus

25 and on the very doors of the temple there were chased cherubim and a carving of palm trees, just as it had likewise been expressed on the walls; wherefore there were also thicker timbers on the front of the vestibule outside

26 super quae fenestrae obliquae et similitudo palmarum hinc atque inde in umerulis vestibuli secundum latera domus latitudinemque parietum

26 above which were oblique windows, and the likeness of palms on this side and that, on the little shoulders of the vestibule, along the sides of the house and the breadth of the walls

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1 et eduxit me in atrium exterius per viam ducentem ad aquilonem et eduxit me in gazofilacium quod erat contra separatum aedificium et contra aedem vergentem ad aquilonem

1 and he led me into the outer atrium by the way leading to the north, and he led me into the treasury which was opposite the separated building and opposite the temple facing toward the north

2 in facie longitudinis centum cubitos ostii aquilonis et latitudinis quinquaginta cubitos

2 on the face of the length, 100 cubits, of the north gate, and of the width, 50 cubits

3 contra viginti cubitos atrii interioris et contra pavimentum stratum lapide atrii exterioris ubi erat porticus iuncta porticui triplici

3 opposite the twenty cubits of the inner court and opposite the pavement laid with stone of the outer court, where there was a portico joined to the triple portico

4 et ante gazofilacia deambulatio decem cubitorum latitudinis ad interiora respiciens viae cubiti unius et ostia earum ad aquilonem

4 and before the treasury‑chambers an ambulatory of ten cubits in width, looking toward the interior; a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north

5 ubi erant gazofilacia in superioribus humiliora quia subportabant porticus quae ex illis eminebant de inferioribus et de mediis aedificii

5 where the treasure-chambers in the upper stories were lower, because the porticoes supported them—porticoes which projected from the lower and from the middle parts of the building.

6 tristega enim erant et non habebant columnas sicut erant columnae atriorum propterea eminebant de inferioribus et de mediis a terra

6 for they were three‑tiered, and they did not have columns like the columns of the courts; therefore they projected out beyond the lower and the middle from the ground

7 et peribolus exterior secundum gazofilacia quae erant in via atrii exterioris ante gazofilacia longitudo eius quinquaginta cubitorum

7 and the outer peribolos, along the gazophylacia that were on the way of the outer atrium, before the treasuries—its length fifty cubits

8 quia longitudo erat gazofilaciorum atrii exterioris quinquaginta cubitorum et longitudo ante faciem templi centum cubitorum

8 for the length of the gazophylacia of the outer court was fifty cubits, and the length before the face of the temple was one hundred cubits

9 et erat subter gazofilacia haec introitus ab oriente ingredientium in ea de atrio exteriori

9 and beneath these gazophylacia there was an entrance from the east for those entering into them from the outer court.

10 in latitudine periboli atrii quod erat contra viam orientalem in facie aedificii separati et erant ante aedificium gazofilacia

10 in the breadth of the peribolus of the atrium, which was opposite the eastern way, in the face of the separate building; and before the building there were gazophylacia.

11 et via ante faciem eorum iuxta similitudinem gazofilaciorum quae erant in via aquilonis secundum longitudinem eorum sic et latitudo eorum et omnis introitus eorum et similitudines et ostia eorum

11 and the way before their face was according to the likeness of the treasury‑chambers which were on the way of the north: according to their length, so also their breadth; and all their entrances and their similitudes and their doors.

12 secundum ostia gazofilaciorum quae erant in via respiciente ad notum ostium in capite viae quae via erat ante vestibulum separatum per viam orientalem ingredientibus

12 according to the doors of the treasury-chambers which were on the way facing toward the south, a door at the head of the way—the way which was before the separated vestibule—for those entering by the eastern way

13 et dixit ad me gazofilacia aquilonis et gazofilacia austri quae sunt ante aedificium separatum haec sunt gazofilacia sancta in quibus vescuntur sacerdotes qui adpropinquant ad Dominum in sancta sanctorum ibi ponent sancta sanctorum et oblationem pro peccato et pro delicto locus enim sanctus est

13 and he said to me: the treasury-chambers of the north and the treasury-chambers of the south, which are before the separate building—these are the holy treasury-chambers, in which the priests who draw near to the Lord eat the most holy things; there they shall place the most holy things and the offering for sin and for guilt, for the place is holy.

14 cum autem ingressi fuerint sacerdotes non egredientur de sanctis in atrium exterius et ibi reponent vestimenta sua in quibus ministrant quia sancta sunt vestienturque vestimentis aliis et sic procedent ad populum

14 but when the priests have entered, they shall not go out from the holy places into the outer atrium; and there they shall set down their garments in which they minister, because they are holy; and they shall be clothed with other garments, and thus they shall go forth to the people

15 cumque conplesset mensuras domus interioris eduxit me per viam portae quae respiciebat ad viam orientalem et mensus est eam undique per circuitum

15 and when he had completed the measures of the inner house, he led me out by the way of the gate which looked toward the eastern way, and he measured it on every side all around

16 mensus autem est contra ventum orientalem calamo mensurae quingentos calamos in calamo mensurae per circuitum

16 but he measured toward the east wind with the reed of measure five hundred reeds, with the reed of measure all around

17 et mensus est contra ventum aquilonem quingentos calamos in calamo mensurae per gyrum

17 and he measured toward the north wind five hundred reeds by the measuring reed, all around

18 et ad ventum australem mensus est quingentos calamos in calamo mensurae per circuitum

18 and toward the south wind he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around

19 et ad ventum occidentalem mensus est quingentos calamos in calamo mensurae

19 and toward the west wind he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed

20 per quattuor ventos mensus est illud murum eius undique per circuitum longitudine quingentorum cubitorum et latitudine quingentorum cubitorum dividentem inter sanctuarium et vulgi locum

20 through the four winds he measured it, its wall, on every side all around, with a length of five hundred cubits and a width of five hundred cubits, dividing between the sanctuary and the place of the common people

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1 et duxit me ad portam quae respiciebat ad viam orientalem

1 and he led me to the gate which looked toward the eastern way

2 et ecce gloria Dei Israhel ingrediebatur per viam orientalem et vox erat ei quasi vox aquarum multarum et terra splendebat a maiestate eius

2 and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was entering by the eastern way, and it had a voice like the voice of many waters, and the earth was shining from his majesty

3 et vidi visionem secundum speciem quam videram quando venit ut disperderet civitatem et species secundum aspectum quem videram iuxta fluvium Chobar et cecidi super faciem meam

3 and I saw a vision according to the appearance which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and the appearance according to the aspect which I had seen by the river Chobar, and I fell upon my face

4 et maiestas Domini ingressa est templum per viam portae quae respiciebat ad orientem

4 and the majesty of the Lord entered the temple by the way of the gate which faced toward the east

5 et levavit me spiritus et introduxit me in atrium interius et ecce repleta erat gloria Domini domus

5 and the spirit lifted me up and introduced me into the inner atrium, and behold, the house was replete with the glory of the Lord.

6 et audivi loquentem ad me de domo et vir qui stabat iuxta me

6 and I heard one speaking to me from the house, and the man who was standing beside me

7 dixit ad me fili hominis locus solii mei et locus vestigiorum pedum meorum ubi habito in medio filiorum Israhel in aeternum et non polluent ultra domus Israhel nomen sanctum meum ipsi et reges eorum in fornicationibus suis et in ruinis regum suorum et in excelsis

7 he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no longer defile my holy name, they and their kings, by their fornications and by the ruins of their kings and in the high places.

8 qui fabricati sunt limen suum iuxta limen meum et postes suos iuxta postes meos et murus erat inter me et eos et polluerunt nomen sanctum meum in abominationibus quas fecerunt propter quod consumpsi eos in ira mea

8 who built their threshold next to my threshold, and their doorposts next to my doorposts, and there was a wall between me and them, and they polluted my holy name with the abominations which they did; on account of which I consumed them in my wrath

9 nunc ergo repellant procul fornicationem suam et ruinas regum suorum a me et habitabo in medio eorum semper

9 now therefore let them drive far away their fornication and the ruins of their kings from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever

10 tu autem fili hominis ostende domui Israhel templum et confundantur ab iniquitatibus suis et metiantur fabricam

10 but you, son of man, show the house of Israel the temple, and let them be confounded by their iniquities; and let them measure the fabric

11 et erubescant ex omnibus quae fecerunt figuram domus et fabricae eius exitus et introitus et omnem descriptionem eius et universa praecepta eius cunctumque ordinem eius et omnes leges eius ostende eis et scribes in oculis eorum et custodiant omnes descriptiones eius et praecepta illius et faciant ea

11 and let them blush from all the things which they have done; the figure of the house and its fabric, its exits and its entrances, and its whole description, and all its precepts, and its entire order, and all its laws—show to them, and you shall write before their eyes; and let them keep all its descriptions and its precepts and do them

12 ista est lex domus in summitate montis omnes fines eius in circuitu sanctum sanctorum est haec ergo est lex domus

12 this is the law of the house: on the summit of the mountain, all its bounds round about are most holy; therefore this is the law of the house

13 istae autem mensurae altaris in cubito verissimo qui habebat cubitum et palmum in sinu eius erat cubitus et cubitus in latitudine et definitio usque ad labium eius in circuitu palmus unus haec quoque erat fossa altaris

13 these, however, are the measures of the altar in the very true cubit, which had a cubit and a palm; in its bosom was a cubit, and a cubit in breadth; and the delimitation up to its lip all around, one palm: this likewise was the trench of the altar

14 et de sinu terrae usque ad crepidinem novissimam duo cubiti et latitudo cubiti unius et a crepidine maiori usque ad crepidinem minorem quattuor cubiti et latitudo unius cubiti

14 and from the bosom of the earth up to the lowermost ledge, two cubits, and the breadth of one cubit; and from the greater ledge up to the lesser ledge, four cubits, and the breadth of one cubit

15 ipse autem arihel quattuor cubitorum et ab arihel usque sursum cornua quattuor

15 but the Ariel itself was four cubits, and from the Ariel upward, four horns.

16 et arihel duodecim cubitorum in longitudine per duodecim cubitos latitudinis quadrangulatum aequis lateribus

16 and the arihel of twelve cubits in length by twelve cubits of breadth, quadrangular with equal sides

17 et crepido quattuordecim cubitorum longitudinis per quattuordecim latitudinis in quattuor angulis eius et corona in circuitu eius dimidii cubitus et sinus eius unius cubiti per circuitum gradus autem eius versi ad orientem

17 and the settle of fourteen cubits in length by fourteen in breadth at its four corners, and a crown in its circuit of half a cubit, and its bottom of one cubit in circuit; moreover its steps were turned toward the east

18 et dixit ad me fili hominis haec dicit Dominus Deus hii sunt ritus altaris in quacumque die fuerit fabricatum ut offeratur super illud holocaustum et effundatur sanguis

18 And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord God: these are the rites of the altar, on whatever day it shall have been constructed, that a burnt-offering may be offered upon it and blood be poured out.

19 et dabis sacerdotibus Levitis qui sunt de semine Sadoc qui accedunt ad me ait Dominus Deus ut offerant mihi vitulum de armento pro peccato

19 and you shall give to the Levitical priests, who are of the seed of Zadok, who draw near to me, says the Lord God, that they may offer to me a young bull from the herd for sin

20 et adsumens de sanguine eius pones super quattuor cornua eius et super quattuor angulos crepidinis et super coronam in circuitu et mundabis illud et expiabis

20 and taking up from its blood you shall put it upon its four horns and upon the four corners of the ledge and upon the crown all around, and you shall cleanse it and expiate it.

21 et tolles vitulum qui oblatus fuerit pro peccato et conbures illum in separato loco domus extra sanctuarium

21 and you shall take the calf which has been offered for sin and you shall burn it in a separate place of the house outside the sanctuary

22 et in die secunda offeres hircum caprarum inmaculatum pro peccato et expiabunt altare sicut expiaverunt in vitulo

22 and on the second day you shall offer a he-goat of the goats, immaculate, for sin, and they shall expiate the altar as they expiated with the bull-calf

23 cumque conpleveris expians illud offeres vitulum de armento inmaculatum et arietem de grege inmaculatum

23 and when you have completed expiating it, you shall offer a bull-calf from the herd immaculate and a ram from the flock immaculate

24 et offeres eos in conspectu Domini et mittent sacerdotes super eos sal et offerent eos holocaustum Domino

24 and you shall offer them in the sight of the Lord, and the priests shall put salt upon them, and they shall offer them as a holocaust to the Lord

25 septem diebus facies hircum pro peccato cotidie et vitulum de armento et arietem de pecoribus inmaculatos offerent

25 for seven days you shall make a he-goat for sin daily, and they shall offer an unblemished calf from the herd and a ram from the flocks

26 septem diebus expiabunt altare et mundabunt illud et implebunt manum eius

26 for seven days they shall expiate the altar and cleanse it, and they shall fill its hand.

27 expletis autem diebus in die octava et ultra facient sacerdotes super altare holocausta vestra et quae pro pace offerunt et placatus ero vobis ait Dominus Deus

27 But when the days are completed, on the eighth day and thereafter the priests shall make upon the altar your holocausts and the things which they offer for peace, and I will be propitious to you, says the Lord God.

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1 et convertit me ad viam portae sanctuarii exterioris quae respiciebat ad orientem et erat clausa

1 and he turned me to the way of the gate of the outer sanctuary which faced toward the east, and it was closed

2 et dixit Dominus ad me porta haec clausa erit non aperietur et vir non transiet per eam quoniam Dominus Deus Israhel ingressus est per eam eritque clausa

2 and the Lord said to me this gate shall be shut it shall not be opened and no man shall pass through it because the Lord God of Israel has entered through it and it shall be shut

3 principi princeps ipse sedebit in ea ut comedat panem coram Domino per viam vestibuli portae ingredietur et per viam eius egredietur

3 For the prince—the prince himself—shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; by the way of the vestibule of the gate he shall enter, and by its way he shall go out.

4 et adduxit me per viam portae aquilonis in conspectu domus et vidi et ecce implevit gloria Domini domum Domini et cecidi in faciem meam

4 and he led me by the way of the gate of the north into the presence of the house, and I saw, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord, and I fell upon my face

5 et dixit ad me Dominus fili hominis pone cor tuum et vide oculis tuis et auribus tuis audi omnia quae ego loquor ad te de universis caerimoniis domus Domini et de cunctis legibus eius et pones cor tuum in viis templi per omnes exitus sanctuarii

5 and the Lord said to me, Son of man, set your heart, and see with your eyes, and with your ears hear all that I speak to you concerning all the ceremonies of the house of the Lord and all its laws, and you shall set your heart on the ways of the temple through all the exits of the sanctuary

6 et dices ad exasperantem me domum Israhel haec dicit Dominus Deus sufficiant vobis omnia scelera vestra domus Israhel

6 and you shall say to the house of Israel exasperating me: Thus says the Lord God: Let all your crimes suffice you, O house of Israel

7 eo quod inducitis filios alienos incircumcisos corde et incircumcisos carne ut sint in sanctuario meo et polluant domum meam et offertis panes meos adipem et sanguinem et dissolvitis pactum meum in omnibus sceleribus vestris

7 because you bring in alien sons, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary and to pollute my house; and you offer my bread—the fat and the blood—and you dissolve my pact (covenant) in all your crimes.

8 et non servastis praecepta sanctuarii mei et posuistis custodes observationum mearum in sanctuario meo vobismet ipsis

8 and you have not kept the precepts of my sanctuary, and you have set custodians of my observances in my sanctuary for yourselves

9 haec dicit Dominus Deus omnis alienigena incircumcisus corde et incircumcisus carne non ingredietur sanctuarium meum omnis filius alienus qui est in medio filiorum Israhel

9 thus says the Lord God: every alien uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh shall not enter my sanctuary—every alien who is in the midst of the sons of Israel.

10 sed et Levitae qui longe recesserunt a me in errore filiorum Israhel et erraverunt a me post idola sua et portaverunt iniquitatem suam

10 but also the Levites who withdrew far from me in the error of the sons of Israel, and went astray from me after their idols, and bore their iniquity

11 erunt in sanctuario meo aeditui et ianitores portarum domus et ministri domus ipsi mactabunt holocaustosin et victimas populi et ipsi stabunt in conspectu eorum ut ministrent eis

11 they shall be in my sanctuary as aeditui and janitors of the gates of the house and ministers of the house; they themselves shall slaughter the holocausts and the victims of the people, and they themselves shall stand in their presence to minister to them

12 pro eo quod ministraverunt illis in conspectu idolorum suorum et facti sunt domui Israhel in offendiculum iniquitatis idcirco levavi manum meam super eos dicit Dominus Deus et portaverunt iniquitatem suam

12 for the reason that they ministered to them in the sight of their idols and became to the house of Israel a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted my hand against them, says the Lord God, and they have borne their iniquity

13 et non adpropinquabunt ad me ut sacerdotio fungantur mihi neque accedent ad omne sanctuarium meum iuxta sancta sanctorum sed portabunt confusionem suam et scelera sua quae fecerunt

13 and they shall not approach to me to perform the priesthood for me, nor shall they come near to any of my sanctuary, near the Holy of Holies; but they shall carry their confusion and their crimes which they have committed

14 et dabo eos ianitores domus in omni ministerio eius et universis quae fiunt in ea

14 And I will appoint them as doorkeepers of the house for all its ministry and all the things that are done in it.

15 sacerdotes autem Levitae filii Sadoc qui custodierunt caerimonias sanctuarii mei cum errarent filii Israhel a me ipsi accedent ad me ut ministrent mihi et stabunt in conspectu meo ut offerant mihi adipem et sanguinem ait Dominus Deus

15 but the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the ceremonies of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel were straying from me, they themselves shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand in my sight to offer me fat and blood, says the Lord God

16 ipsi ingredientur sanctuarium meum et ipsi accedent ad mensam meam ut ministrent mihi et custodiant caerimonias meas

16 they shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my ceremonies

17 cumque ingredientur portas atrii interioris vestibus lineis induentur nec ascendet super eos quicquam laneum quando ministrant in portis atrii interioris et intrinsecus

17 and when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed in linen garments, nor shall anything woolen come up upon them when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within

18 vittae lineae erunt in capitibus eorum et feminalia linea erunt in lumbis eorum et non accingentur in sudore

18 linen fillets shall be on their heads, and linen feminalia shall be upon their loins, and they shall not gird themselves so as to sweat

19 cumque egredientur atrium exterius ad populum exuent se vestimenta sua in quibus ministraverunt et reponent ea in gazofilacio sanctuarii et vestient se vestimentis aliis et non sanctificabunt populum in vestibus suis

19 when they go out to the outer court to the people, they shall strip off their garments in which they ministered and put them away in the treasury of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments, and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments

20 caput autem suum non radent neque comam nutrient sed tondentes adtondent capita sua

20 but they shall not shave their head, nor let their hair grow long, but, trimming, they shall closely clip their heads

21 et vinum non bibet omnis sacerdos quando ingressurus est atrium interius

21 and no priest shall drink wine when he is about to enter the inner court

22 et viduam et repudiatam non accipient uxores sed virgines de semine domus Israhel sed et viduam quae fuerit vidua a sacerdote accipient

22 and a widow and a repudiated woman they shall not take as wives, but virgins from the seed of the house of Israel; but even a widow who has been the widow of a priest they shall take

23 et populum meum docebunt quid sit inter sanctum et pollutum et inter mundum et inmundum ostendent eis

23 and they will teach my people what is between the sacred and the polluted, and between the clean and the unclean they will show to them

24 et cum fuerit controversia stabunt in iudiciis meis et iudicabunt leges meas et praecepta mea in omnibus sollemnitatibus meis custodient et sabbata mea sanctificabunt

24 and when there shall be a controversy they shall stand in my judgments and they shall judge according to my laws and my precepts in all my solemnities they shall keep and my Sabbaths they shall sanctify

25 et ad mortuum hominem non ingredientur ne polluantur nisi ad patrem et matrem et filium et filiam et fratrem et sororem quae alterum virum non habuit in quibus contaminabuntur

25 and to a dead human they shall not enter, lest they be polluted, except for father and mother and son and daughter and brother and a sister who has not had a husband; in these they shall be contaminated

26 et postquam fuerit emundatus septem dies numerabuntur ei

26 and after he has been cleansed, seven days shall be numbered for him

27 et in die introitus sui in sanctuarium ad atrium interius ut ministret mihi in sanctuario offeret pro peccato suo ait Dominus Deus

27 and on the day of his entry into the sanctuary, to the inner court, that he may minister to me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, says the Lord God

28 erit autem eis hereditas ego hereditas eorum et possessionem non dabitis eis in Israhel ego enim possessio eorum

28 And there shall be to them an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall not give them possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

29 victimam et pro peccato et pro delicto ipsi comedent et omne votum in Israhel ipsorum erit

29 the sacrificial victim, and the sin-offering and the guilt-offering, they themselves shall eat; and every votive thing in Israel shall be theirs

30 et primitiva omnium primogenitorum et omnia libamenta ex omnibus quae offeruntur sacerdotum erunt et primitiva ciborum vestrorum dabitis sacerdoti ut reponat benedictionem domui suae

30 and the firstfruits of all firstborn and all libations from everything that is offered shall be the priests’, and the firstfruits of your foods you shall give to the priest, that he may place a blessing upon his house

31 omne morticinum et captum a bestia de avibus et de pecoribus non comedent sacerdotes

31 every carcass and what is taken by a beast, from birds and from cattle, the priests shall not eat

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1 cumque coeperitis terram dividere sortito separate primitias Domino sanctificatum de terra longitudine viginti quinque milia et latitudine decem milia sanctificatum erit in omni termino eius per circuitum

1 and when you begin to divide the land by lot, separate the first-fruits for the Lord, a sanctified portion from the land, with a length of 25,000 and a width of 10,000; it shall be sanctified in all its boundary all around

2 et erit ex omni parte sanctificatum quingentos per quingentos quadrifariam per circuitum et quinquaginta cubitis in suburbana eius per gyrum

2 and it shall be sanctified on every side: five hundred by five hundred, fourfold, round about; and with fifty cubits for its suburbs round about

3 et a mensura ista mensurabis longitudinem viginti quinque milium et latitudinem decem milium et in ipso erit templum sanctumque sanctorum

3 and from this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand and a breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the temple and the Holy of Holies.

4 sanctificatum de terra erit sacerdotibus ministris sanctuarii qui accedunt ad ministerium Domini et erit eis locus in domos et in sanctuarium sanctitatis

4 The sanctified portion of the land shall be for the priests, ministers of the sanctuary, who draw near to the ministry of the Lord; and it shall be for them a place for houses and for a sanctuary of sanctity.

5 viginti quinque autem milia longitudinis et decem milia latitudinis erunt Levitis qui ministrant domui ipsi possidebunt viginti gazofilacia

5 but twenty-five thousand of length and ten thousand of breadth shall be for the Levites who minister to the house; they themselves shall possess twenty treasury-chambers.

6 et possessionem civitatis dabitis quinque milia latitudinis et longitudinis viginti quinque milia secundum separationem sanctuarii omni domui Israhel

6 and you shall give the possession of the city, five thousand in breadth and twenty-five thousand in length, according to the separation of the sanctuary, for all the house of Israel

7 principi quoque hinc et inde in separationem sanctuarii et in possessionem civitatis contra faciem separationis sanctuarii et contra faciem possessionis urbis a latere maris usque ad mare et a latere orientis usque ad orientem longitudinem autem iuxta unamquamque partium a termino occidentali usque ad terminum orientalem

7 and to the prince also, on this side and on that, adjoining the separation of the sanctuary and the possession of the city, opposite the face of the separation of the sanctuary and opposite the face of the possession of the city, from the side of the sea unto the sea, and from the side of the east unto the east; moreover the length shall be according to each of the portions, from the western boundary unto the eastern boundary

8 de terra erit ei possessio in Israhel et non depopulabuntur ultra principes populum meum sed terram dabunt domui Israhel secundum tribus eorum

8 From the land there shall be for him a possession in Israel, and no longer shall the princes devastate my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 haec dicit Dominus Deus sufficiat vobis principes Israhel iniquitatem et rapinas intermittite et iudicium et iustitiam facite separate confinia vestra a populo meo ait Dominus Deus

9 Thus says the Lord God: let it suffice you, princes of Israel; cease from iniquity and rapines, and do judgment and justice; separate your confines from my people, says the Lord God.

10 statera iusta et oephi iustum et batus iustus erit vobis

10 a just balance and a just ephah and a just bath shall be yours

11 oephi et batus aequalia et unius mensurae erunt ut capiat decimam partem chori batus et decimam partem chori oephi iuxta mensuram chori erit aequa libratio eorum

11 the ephah and the bath shall be equal and of one measure so that the bath may contain a tenth part of a kor and the ephah a tenth part of a kor according to the measure of the kor there shall be their equal balancing

12 siclus autem viginti obolos habeat porro viginti sicli et viginti quinque sicli et quindecim sicli minam facient

12 moreover, a shekel shall have twenty obols; furthermore, twenty shekels and twenty-five shekels and fifteen shekels shall make a mina

13 et haec sunt primitiae quas tolletis sextam partem oephi de choro frumenti et sextam partem oephi de choro hordei

13 and these are the first-fruits which you shall take up: a sixth part of an ephah from a cor of wheat, and a sixth part of an ephah from a cor of barley

14 mensura quoque olei batus olei decima pars chori est et decem bati chorum faciunt quia decem bati implent chorum

14 the measure also of oil: the bath of oil is the tenth part of a kor, and ten baths make a kor, because ten baths fill a kor

15 et arietem unum de grege ducentorum de his quae nutriunt Israhel in sacrificium et in holocaustum et in pacifica ad expiandum pro eis ait Dominus Deus

15 and one ram from the flock out of two hundred, from those that nourish Israel, for sacrifice and for holocaust and for peace-offerings, to make expiation for them, says the Lord God

16 omnis populus terrae tenebitur primitiis his principi in Israhel

16 all the people of the land shall be held to these first-fruits for the prince in Israel

17 et super principem erunt holocausta et sacrificium et libamina in sollemnitatibus et in kalendis et in sabbatis in universis sollemnitatibus domus Israhel ipse faciat pro peccato sacrificium et holocaustum et pacifica ad expiandum pro domo Israhel

17 and upon the prince shall be the holocausts and the sacrifice and the libations on the solemnities and on the Kalends and on the Sabbaths, in all the solemnities of the house of Israel; he himself shall make the sin-offering and the holocaust and the peace-offerings, to make expiation for the house of Israel

18 haec dicit Dominus Deus in primo mense una mensis sumes vitulum de armento inmaculatum et expiabis sanctuarium

18 thus says the Lord God in the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a bull-calf from the herd, unblemished, and you shall expiate the sanctuary

19 et tollet sacerdos de sanguine quod erit pro peccato et ponet in postibus domus et in quattuor angulis crepidinis altaris et in postibus portae atrii interioris

19 and the priest shall take from the blood that will be for sin and shall put it on the doorposts of the house and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorposts of the gate of the inner atrium

20 et sic facies in septima mensis pro unoquoque qui ignoravit et errore deceptus est et expiabitis pro domo

20 and thus you shall do on the seventh of the month for each one who has been ignorant and has been deceived by error, and you shall expiate for the house

21 in primo mense quartadecima die mensis erit vobis paschae sollemnitas septem diebus azyma comedentur

21 in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, there shall be for you the solemnity of the Passover; for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten

22 et faciet princeps in die illa pro se et pro universo populo terrae vitulum pro peccato

22 and the prince shall make on that day, for himself and for the whole people of the land, a young bull for a sin offering

23 et in septem dierum sollemnitate faciet holocaustum Domino septem vitulos et septem arietes inmaculatos cotidie septem diebus et pro peccato hircum caprarum cotidie

23 and in the seven days’ solemnity he shall make a holocaust to the Lord: seven bull-calves and seven rams unblemished, daily for seven days; and for sin, a he-goat of the goats daily

24 et sacrificium oephi per vitulum et oephi per arietem faciet et olei hin per singula oephi

24 and he shall make an offering of an ephah per calf and of an ephah per ram, and of oil a hin for each ephah

25 septimo mense quintadecima die mensis in sollemnitate faciet sicut supra dicta sunt per septem dies tam pro peccato quam pro holocausto et in sacrificio et in oleo

25 in the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, in the solemnity he shall do as has been said above for seven days, both for the sin-offering and for the holocaust (burnt-offering), and in sacrifice and in oil

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1 haec dicit Dominus Deus porta atrii interioris quae respicit ad orientem erit clausa sex diebus in quibus opus fit die autem sabbati aperietur sed et in die kalendarum aperietur

1 thus says the Lord God: the gate of the inner atrium which faces toward the east shall be closed for six days on which work is done; but on the day of the Sabbath it shall be opened, and also on the day of the Kalends it shall be opened.

2 et intrabit princeps per viam vestibuli portae de foris et stabit in limine portae et facient sacerdotes holocaustum eius et pacifica eius et adorabit super limen portae et egredietur porta autem non claudetur usque ad vesperam

2 and the prince shall enter by the way of the vestibule of the gate from outside, and he shall stand on the threshold of the gate, and the priests shall make his holocaust and his peace-offerings, and he shall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until evening

3 et adorabit populus terrae ad ostium portae illius in sabbatis et in kalendis coram Domino

3 and the people of the land shall adore at the doorway of that gate on the sabbaths and on the calends before the Lord

4 holocaustum autem hoc offeret princeps Domino in die sabbati sex agnos inmaculatos et arietem inmaculatum

4 But the holocaust which the prince will offer to the Lord on the day of the sabbath: six immaculate lambs and an immaculate ram.

5 et sacrificium oephi per arietem agnis autem sacrificium quod dederit manus eius et olei hin per singula oephi

5 and a grain offering of an ephah for a ram, but for the lambs a grain offering as his hand shall give, and of oil a hin for each ephah

6 in die autem kalendarum vitulum de armento inmaculatum et sex agni et arietes inmaculati erunt

6 and on the day of the new moon there shall be an unblemished calf from the herd, and six lambs and rams, unblemished

7 et oephi per vitulum oephi quoque per arietem faciet sacrificium agnis autem sicut invenerit manus eius et olei hin per singula oephi

7 and an ephah for a bull-calf, an ephah likewise for a ram he shall make as an offering; but for the lambs as his hand shall find, and of oil a hin for each ephah

8 cumque ingressurus est princeps per viam vestibuli portae ingrediatur et per eandem viam exeat

8 and when the prince is about to enter, let him enter by the way of the vestibule of the gate, and by the same way let him go out

9 et cum intrabit populus terrae in conspectu Domini in sollemnitatibus qui ingreditur per portam aquilonis ut adoret egrediatur per viam portae meridianae porro qui ingreditur per viam portae meridianae egrediatur per viam portae aquilonis non revertetur per viam portae per quam ingressus est sed e regione illius egredietur

9 and when the people of the land shall enter in the sight of the Lord on the solemnities, whoever enters by the gate of the north to adore, let him go out by the way of the gate of the south; moreover, whoever enters by the way of the gate of the south, let him go out by the way of the gate of the north; he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he entered, but he shall go out opposite to that one.

10 princeps autem in medio eorum cum ingredientibus ingredietur et cum egredientibus egredietur

10 but the prince, in the midst of them, shall enter with those who enter, and shall go out with those who go out

11 et in nundinis et in sollemnitatibus erit sacrificium oephi per vitulum et oephi per arietem agnis autem erit sacrificium sicut invenerit manus eius et olei hin per singula oephi

11 and on the market-days and on the solemnities there shall be a sacrifice: an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram; but for the lambs the sacrifice shall be as his hand shall have found, and of oil a hin for each ephah

12 cum autem fecerit princeps spontaneum holocaustum aut pacifica voluntaria Domino aperietur ei porta quae respicit ad orientem et faciet holocaustum suum et pacifica sua sicut fieri solet in die sabbati et egredietur claudeturque porta postquam exierit

12 but when the prince makes a spontaneous holocaust or voluntary peace-offerings to the Lord, the gate that looks toward the east shall be opened for him, and he shall make his holocaust and his peace-offerings as it is accustomed to be done on the sabbath day, and he shall go out; and the gate shall be closed after he has gone out

13 et agnum eiusdem anni inmaculatum faciet holocaustum cotidie Domino semper mane faciet illud

13 and a lamb of the same year, unblemished, he shall make a holocaust daily to the Lord; he shall make it always in the morning

14 et sacrificium faciet super eo cata mane mane sextam partem oephi et de oleo tertiam partem hin ut misceatur similae sacrificium Domino legitimum iuge atque perpetuum

14 and he shall make a sacrifice upon it, morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and of oil the third part of a hin, so that it may be mixed with the fine flour: an offering to the Lord, legitimate, continual and perpetual

15 faciet agnum et sacrificium et oleum cata mane mane holocaustum sempiternum

15 he shall make the lamb and the sacrifice and the oil each morning, morning, a sempiternal holocaust

16 haec dicit Dominus Deus si dederit princeps donum alicui de filiis suis hereditas eius filiorum suorum erit possidebunt ea hereditarie

16 thus says the Lord God: if the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, his inheritance will be for his sons; they shall possess it hereditarily

17 si autem dederit legatum de hereditate sua uni servorum suorum erit illius usque ad annum remissionis et revertetur ad principem hereditas autem eius filiis eius erit

17 but if he gives a legacy from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of remission, and it shall return to the prince; but his inheritance shall be for his sons.

18 et non accipiet princeps de hereditate populi per violentiam et de possessione eorum sed de possessione sua hereditatem dabit filiis suis ut non dispergatur populus meus unusquisque a possessione sua

18 and the prince shall not take from the inheritance of the people by violence, from their possession; but from his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons, so that my people may not be scattered, each from his own possession.

19 et introduxit me per ingressum qui erat ex latere portae in gazofilacia sanctuarii ad sacerdotes quae respiciebant ad aquilonem et erat ibi locus vergens ad occidentem

19 and he brought me in through the ingress which was at the side of the gate into the treasury-chambers of the sanctuary for the priests, which looked toward the north, and there was there a place inclining toward the Occident

20 et dixit ad me iste est locus ubi coquent sacerdotes pro delicto et pro peccato ubi coquent sacrificium ut non efferant in atrio exteriori et sanctificetur populus

20 and he said to me: This is the place where the priests will cook for the guilt-offering and for the sin-offering, where they will cook the sacrifice, so that they do not carry them out into the outer court and sanctify the people.

21 et eduxit me in atrium exterius et circumduxit me per quattuor angulos atrii et ecce atriolum erat in angulo atrii atriola singula per angulos atrii

21 and he led me out into the outer atrium and led me around through the four angles of the atrium, and behold, a little atrium was in the angle of the atrium—little atria, one each, in the angles of the atrium

22 in quattuor angulos atrii atriola disposita quadraginta cubitorum per longum et triginta per latum mensurae unius quattuor erant

22 in the four angles of the court little courts were arranged, of forty cubits in length and thirty in breadth; there were four, of one measure.

23 et paries per circuitum ambiens quattuor atriola et culinae fabricatae erant subter porticus per gyrum

23 and a wall going around in circuit surrounding the four small atria, and kitchens had been constructed beneath the porticoes all around

24 et dixit ad me haec est domus culinarum in qua coquent ministri domus Domini victimas populi

24 and he said to me: this is the house of kitchens in which the ministers of the house of the Lord will cook the victims of the people

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1 et convertit me ad portam domus et ecce aquae egrediebantur subter limen domus ad orientem facies enim domus respiciebat ad orientem aquae autem descendebant in latus templi dextrum ad meridiem altaris

1 And he turned me to the gate of the house, and behold, waters were going out from beneath the threshold of the house toward the east—for the face of the house faced toward the east—and the waters were descending on the right side of the temple, to the south of the altar.

2 et eduxit me per viam portae aquilonis et convertit me ad viam foras portam exteriorem viam quae respiciebat ad orientem et ecce aquae redundantes a latere dextro

2 and he led me out by the way of the gate of the north, and he turned me to the way outside the outer gate, the way which looked toward the east; and behold, waters overflowing from the right side

3 cum egrederetur vir ad orientem qui habebat funiculum in manu sua et mensus est mille cubitos et transduxit me per aquam usque ad talos

3 when the man went out toward the east, who had a cord in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits and led me through the water up to the ankles

4 rursumque mensus est mille et transduxit me per aquam usque ad genua

4 and again he measured a thousand and led me through the water up to the knees

5 et mensus est mille et transduxit me per aquam usque ad renes et mensus est mille torrentem quem non potui pertransire quoniam intumuerant aquae profundae torrentis qui non potest transvadari

5 and he measured a thousand and led me through the water up to the loins; and he measured a thousand—the torrent which I could not cross, because the waters had swollen, deep waters of the torrent, which cannot be forded.

6 et dixit ad me certe vidisti fili hominis et duxit me et convertit ad ripam torrentis

6 and he said to me: surely you have seen, son of man; and he led me and turned me back to the bank of the torrent

7 cumque me convertissem ecce in ripa torrentis ligna multa nimis ex utraque parte

7 and when I had turned myself, behold, on the bank of the torrent, very many trees on each side

8 et ait ad me aquae istae quae egrediuntur ad tumulos sabuli orientalis et descendunt ad plana deserti intrabunt mare et exibunt et sanabuntur aquae

8 and he said to me these waters which go forth toward the oriental sand-mounds and go down to the plains of the desert shall enter the sea, and they shall go out, and the waters shall be healed

9 et omnis anima vivens quae serpit quocumque venerit torrens vivet et erunt pisces multi satis postquam venerint illuc aquae istae et sanabuntur et vivent omnia ad quae venerit torrens

9 and every living soul that crawls, wherever the torrent shall come, shall live; and there will be fish very many indeed, after these waters have come there; and they shall be healed, and everything to which the torrent shall come shall live

10 vivent et stabunt super illa piscatores ab Engaddi usque ad Engallim siccatio sagenarum erunt plurimae species erunt piscium eius sicut pisces maris magni multitudinis nimiae

10 they will live, and fishermen will stand upon it; from Engaddi as far as Engallim there will be a drying-place for seines; there will be many species of its fish, like the fish of the Great Sea, of exceedingly great multitude

11 in litoribus autem eius et in palustribus non sanabuntur quia in salinas dabuntur

11 but on its shores and in its marshes they will not be healed, for they will be given over to salt pits

12 et super torrentem orietur in ripis eius ex utraque parte omne lignum pomiferum non defluet folium ex eo et non deficiet fructus eius per singulos menses adferet primitiva quia aquae eius de sanctuario egredientur et erunt fructus eius in cibum et folia eius ad medicinam

12 and along the torrent there shall spring up on its banks, on either side, every fruit-bearing tree; its leaf shall not fall away, and its fruit shall not fail; month by month it will bring first-fruits, because its waters go out from the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaves for medicine.

13 haec dicit Dominus Deus hic est terminus in quo possidebitis terram in duodecim tribubus Israhel quia Ioseph duplicem funiculum habet

13 Thus says the Lord God: this is the boundary within which you shall possess the land, in the twelve tribes of Israel, because Joseph has a double measuring-cord.

14 possidebitis autem eam singuli aeque ut frater suus quam levavi manum meam ut darem patribus vestris et cadet terra haec vobis in possessionem

14 but you shall possess it, each one equally as his brother, concerning which I lifted my hand to give to your fathers; and this land shall fall to you for a possession

15 hic est autem terminus terrae ad plagam septentrionalem a mari magno via Bethalon venientibus Sadada

15 here, moreover, is the boundary of the land on the septentrional side: from the Great Sea by the way of Bethalon, as one comes to Sadada

16 Emath Berotha Sabarim quae est inter terminum Damasci et confinium Emath domus Atticon quae est iuxta terminos Auran

16 Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is between the boundary of Damascus and the confine of Emath; the house of Atticon, which is next to the borders of Auran.

17 et erit terminus a mari usque ad atrium Aenon terminus Damasci et ab aquilone ad aquilonem et terminus Emath plaga autem septentrionalis

17 and the terminus shall be from the sea as far as the court of Aenon—the terminus of Damascus—and from the north toward the north, and the terminus of Emath; but the northern side.

18 porro plaga orientalis de medio Auran et de medio Damasci et de medio Galaad et de medio terrae Israhel Iordanis disterminans ad mare orientale metiemini etiam plagam orientalem

18 moreover the eastern side: from the middle of Auran, and from the middle of Damascus, and from the middle of Galaad, and from the middle of the land of Israel, the Jordan dividing as far as the eastern sea; you shall also measure the eastern side

19 plaga autem australis meridiana a Thamar usque ad aquas Contradictionis Cades et torrens usque ad mare magnum et plaga ad meridiem australis

19 but the southern, meridian side from Thamar as far as the waters of Contradiction, Kadesh, and the torrent as far as the great sea; and the side toward the south, southern

20 et plaga maris mare magnum a confinio per directum donec venias Emath haec est plaga maris

20 and the quarter of the sea, the Great Sea, from the confine straight on until you come to Hamath; this is the quarter of the sea

21 et dividetis terram istam vobis per tribus Israhel

21 and you shall divide this land to yourselves by the tribes of Israel

22 et mittetis eam in hereditatem vobis et advenis qui accesserint ad vos qui genuerint filios in medio vestrum et erunt vobis sicut indigenae inter filios Israhel vobiscum divident possessionem in medio tribuum Israhel

22 and you shall assign it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who have come to you, who have begotten sons in your midst; and they shall be to you like natives among the sons of Israel; with you they shall divide the possession in the midst of the tribes of Israel

23 in tribu autem quacumque fuerit advena ibi dabitis possessionem illi ait Dominus Deus

23 But in whatever tribe the sojourner may be, there you shall give a possession to him, says the Lord God.

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1 et haec nomina tribuum a finibus aquilonis iuxta viam Aethlon pergentibus Emath atrium Aenon terminus Damasci ad aquilonem iuxta Emath et erit ei plaga orientalis mare Dan una

1 and these are the names of the tribes: from the borders of the north, along the way of Aethlon, as one goes to Emath, the atrium of Aenon, the terminus of Damascus to the north, near Emath; and for it the oriental side shall be the sea: Dan, one

2 et ad terminum Dan a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris Aser una

2 and to the terminus of Dan, from the eastern quarter as far as the quarter of the sea, Asher, one

3 et super terminum Aser a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris Nepthalim una

3 and above the terminus of Asher, from the eastern side as far as the side of the sea, Naphtali, one

4 et super terminum Nepthalim a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris Manasse una

4 and above the boundary of Naphtali, from the eastern side as far as the side of the sea, one for Manasseh

5 et super terminum Manasse a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris Ephraim una

5 and above the boundary of Manasseh, from the eastern side unto the side of the sea, Ephraim one

6 et super terminum Ephraim a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris Ruben una

6 and over the terminus of Ephraim from the oriental region as far as the region of the sea, Reuben, one

7 et super terminum Ruben a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris Iuda una

7 and over the boundary of Reuben from the eastern side as far as the side of the sea, Judah one

8 et super terminum Iuda a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris erunt primitiae quas separabitis viginti quinque milibus latitudinis et longitudinis sicuti singulae partes a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris et erit sanctuarium in medio eius

8 and upon the border of Judah from the eastern quarter as far as the quarter of the sea there shall be the first-fruits which you shall set apart twenty-five thousand in breadth and in length just like the individual portions from the eastern quarter as far as the quarter of the sea and the sanctuary shall be in its midst

9 primitiae quas separastis Domino longitudo viginti quinque milibus et latitudo decem milibus

9 the first-fruits which you have separated for the Lord: length twenty-five thousand and breadth ten thousand

10 hae autem erunt primitiae sanctuarii sacerdotum ad aquilonem viginti quinque milia et ad mare latitudinis decem milia sed et ad orientem latitudinis decem milia et ad meridiem longitudinis viginti quinque milia et erit sanctuarium Domini in medio eius

10 but these shall be the first-fruits of the sanctuary for the priests: to the north 25,000, and toward the sea a breadth of 10,000, and likewise toward the east a breadth of 10,000, and to the south a length of 25,000; and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in its midst.

11 sacerdotibus sanctuarium erit de filiis Sadoc qui custodierunt caerimonias meas et non erraverunt cum errarent filii Israhel sicut erraverunt et Levitae

11 for the priests there shall be a sanctuary, from the sons of Zadok, who kept my ceremonies and did not err when the sons of Israel were erring, as the Levites also erred

12 et erunt eis primitiae de primitiis terrae sanctum sanctorum iuxta terminum Levitarum

12 and there shall be to them firstfruits from the firstfruits of the land, a holy of holies, beside the boundary of the Levites

13 sed et Levitis similiter iuxta fines sacerdotum viginti quinque milia longitudinis et latitudinis decem milia omnis longitudo viginti et quinque milium et latitudo decem milium

13 but also for the Levites likewise, alongside the boundaries of the priests, twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth—the whole length twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand

14 et non venundabunt ex eo neque mutabunt nec transferentur primitiae terrae quia sanctificatae sunt Domino

14 and they shall not sell from it, nor shall they exchange, nor shall the firstfruits of the land be transferred, because they are sanctified to the Lord

15 quinque milia autem quae supersunt in latitudine per viginti quinque milia profana erunt urbis in habitaculum et in suburbana et erit civitas in medio eius

15 but the five thousand which remain in breadth along the twenty-five thousand shall be profane, of the city for habitation and for the suburbs, and the city shall be in its midst

16 et heae mensurae eius ad plagam septentrionalem quingenti et quattuor milia et ad plagam meridianam quingenti et quattuor milia et ad plagam orientalem quingenti et quattuor milia et ad plagam occidentalem quingenti et quattuor milia

16 and these are its measures: toward the northern side 4,500, and toward the southern side 4,500, and toward the eastern side 4,500, and toward the western side 4,500

17 erunt autem suburbana civitatis ad aquilonem ducenti quinquaginta et in meridie ducenti quinquaginta et ad orientem ducenti quinquaginta et ad mare ducenti quinquaginta

17 but the suburbs of the city shall be to the north two hundred and fifty, and in the south two hundred and fifty, and to the east two hundred and fifty, and to the west two hundred and fifty

18 quod autem reliquum fuerit in longitudine secundum primitias sanctuarii decem milia in orientem et decem milia ad occidentem erunt sicut primitiae sanctuarii et erunt fruges eius in panes his qui serviunt civitati

18 but what shall be left over in length, according to the first-fruits of the sanctuary, ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west, shall be like the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and its fruits shall be for loaves for those who serve the city

19 servientes autem civitati operabuntur ex omnibus tribubus Israhel

19 but those serving the city shall work from all the tribes of Israel

20 omnes primitiae viginti quinque milium per viginti quinque milia in quadrum separabuntur in primitias sanctuarii et possessionem civitatis

20 all the first-fruits of 25,000 by 25,000 shall be separated as a square, for the first-fruits of the sanctuary and the possession of the city

21 quod autem reliquum fuerit principis erit ex omni parte primitiarum sanctuarii et possessionis civitatis e regione viginti quinque milium primitiarum usque ad terminum orientalem sed et ad mare e regione viginti quinque milium usque ad terminum maris similiter in partibus principis erit et erunt primitiae sanctuarii et sanctuarium templi in medio eius

21 but what shall remain will be the prince’s, on every side of the first-fruits of the sanctuary and the possession of the city, over against the twenty-five thousand of the first-fruits up to the eastern boundary, and also toward the sea, over against the twenty-five thousand up to the boundary of the sea; likewise it shall be in the portions of the prince, and the first-fruits of the sanctuary and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in its midst

22 de possessione autem Levitarum et de possessione civitatis in medio partium principis erit inter terminum Iuda et inter terminum Beniamin et ad principem pertinebit

22 But as for the possession of the Levites and the possession of the city, it shall be in the midst of the prince’s portions, between the boundary of Judah and between the boundary of Benjamin, and it shall pertain to the prince.

23 et reliquis tribubus a plaga orientali usque ad plagam occidentalem Beniamin una

23 and for the remaining tribes, from the eastern region to the western region, Benjamin one.

24 et contra terminum Beniamin a plaga orientali usque ad plagam occidentalem Symeon una

24 and opposite the border of Benjamin, from the oriental side unto the occidental side, Simeon one

25 et super terminum Symeonis a plaga orientali usque ad plagam occidentis Isachar una

25 and above the boundary of Simeon, from the eastern quarter unto the quarter of the west, Issachar one

26 et super terminum Isachar a plaga orientali usque ad plagam occidentalem Zabulon una

26 and above the boundary of Issachar, from the oriental quarter unto the occidental quarter, Zebulun one

27 et super terminum Zabulon a plaga orientali usque ad plagam maris Gad una

27 and above the boundary of Zebulun, from the eastern side as far as the side of the sea, Gad one

28 et super terminum Gad ad plagam austri in meridiem et erit finis de Thamar usque ad aquas Contradictionis Cades hereditas contra mare magnum

28 and over the border of Gad toward the south quarter, to the south; and the limit shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Contradiction, Kadesh—the inheritance over against the Great Sea

29 haec est terra quam mittetis in sortem tribubus Israhel et hae partitiones earum ait Dominus Deus

29 This is the land which you shall assign by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their partitions, says the Lord God

30 et hii egressus civitatis a plaga septentrionali quingentos et quattuor milia mensurabis

30 and these are the egresses of the city from the northern side, you shall measure 4,500

31 et portae civitatis in nominibus tribuum Israhel portae tres a septentrione porta Ruben una porta Iudae una porta Levi una

31 and the gates of the city in the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates on the north—one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi

32 et ad plagam orientalem quingentos et quattuor milia et portae tres porta Ioseph una porta Beniamin una porta Dan una

32 and on the eastern quarter, five hundred and four thousand; and three gates: the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan one

33 et ad plagam meridianam quingentos et quattuor milia metieris portam Symeonis unam portam Isachar unam portam Zabulon unam

33 and on the meridian side four thousand five hundred you shall measure, the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one, the gate of Zebulun one

34 et ad plagam occidentalem quingenti et quattuor milia portae eorum tres porta Gad una porta Aser una porta Nepthalim una

34 and toward the western quarter five hundred and four thousand; their gates three: one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali

35 per circuitum decem et octo milia et nomen civitatis ex illa die Dominus ibidem

35 in circumference eighteen thousand, and the name of the city from that day, The Lord is there