Jeremiah 10
1 Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.
Audite verbum, quod locutus est Dominus super vos domus Israel.
2 Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.
Haec dicit Dominus: Iuxta vias Gentium nolite discere: et a signis caeli nolite metuere, quae timent Gentes:
3 For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;
quia leges populorum vanae sunt: quia lignum de saltu praecidit opus manus artificis in ascia.
4 they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Argento, et auro decoravit illud: clavis et malleis compegit, ut non dissolvatur.
5 They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
In similitudinem palmae fabricata sunt, et non loquentur: portata tollentur, quia incedere non valent. nolite ergo timere ea, quia nec male possunt facere, nec bene.
6 There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Non est similis tui Domine: magnus es tu, et magnum nomen tuum in fortitudine.
7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
Quis non timebit te o rex Gentium? tuum est enim decus: inter cunctos sapientes Gentium, et in universis regnis eorum nullus est similis tui.
8 But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
Pariter insipientes et fatui probabuntur: doctrina vanitatis eorum lignum est.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful [men].
Argentum involutum de Tharsis affertur, et aurum de Ophaz: opus artificis, et manus aerarii, hyacinthus et purpura indumentum eorum. opus artificum universa haec.
10 But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.
Dominus autem Deus verus est: ipse Deus vivens, et rex sempiternus. ab indignatione eius commovebitur terra: et non sustinebunt Gentes comminationem eius.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
Sic ergo dicetis eis: Dii, qui caelos et terram non fecerunt, pereant de terra, et de his, quae sub caelo sunt.
12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
Qui facit terram in fortitudine sua, praeparat orbem in sapientia sua, et prudentia sua extendit caelos.
13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
Ad vocem suam dat multitudinem aquarum in caelo, et elevat nebulas ab extremitatibus terrae: fulgura in pluviam facit, et educit ventum de thesauris suis.
14 Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Stultus factus est omnis homo a scientia, confusus est artifex omnis in sculptili: quoniam falsum est quod conflavit, et non est spiritus in eis.
15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Vana sunt, et opus risu dignum: in tempore visitationis suae peribunt.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
Non est his similis pars Iacob: qui enim formavit omnia, ipse est: et Israel virga hereditatis eius: Dominus exercituum nomen illi.
17 Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.
Congrega de terra confusionem tuam, quae habitas in obsidione:
18 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.
quia haec dicit Dominus: Ecce ego longe proiiciam habitatores terrae in hac vice: et tribulabo eos ita ut non inveniantur.
19 Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.
Vae mihi super contritione mea, pessima plaga mea. Ego autem dixi: Plane haec infirmitas mea est, et portabo illam.
20 My tent is despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my children are gone forth from me, and they are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Tabernaculum meum vastatum est, omnes funiculi mei dirupti sunt, filii mei exierunt a me, et non subsistunt: non est qui extendat ultra tentorium meum, et erigat pelles meas.
21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.
Quia stulte egerunt pastores, et Dominum non quaesierunt: propterea non intellexerunt, et omnis grex eorum dispersus est.
22 The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
Vox auditionis ecce venit, et commotio magna de terra Aquilonis: ut ponat civitates Iuda solitudinem, et habitaculum draconum.
23 I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
Scio Domine quia non est hominis via eius: nec viri est ut ambulet, et dirigat gressus suos.
24 Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Corripe me Domine, verumtamen in iudicio: et non in furore tuo, ne forte ad nihilum redigas me.
25 Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.
Effunde indignationem tuam super Gentes, quae non cognoverunt te, et super provincias, quae nomen tuum non invocaverunt: quia comederunt Iacob, et devoraverunt eum, et consumpserunt illum, et decus eius dissipaverunt.
