Isaiah 1
1 This is the vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Visio Isaiæ filii Amos, quam vidit super Iudam et Ierusalem in diebus Oziæ, Ioathan, Achaz, et Ezechiæ regum Iuda.
2 Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.
Audite cæli, et auribus percipe terra, quoniam Dominus locutus est. Filios enutrivi, et exaltavi: ipsi autem spreverunt me.
3 An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.
Cognovit bos possessorem suum, et asinus præsepe domini sui: Israel autem me non cognovit, et populus meus non intellexit.
4 What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.
Væ genti peccatrici, populo gravi iniquitate, semini nequam, filiis sceleratis: dereliquerunt Dominum, blasphemaverunt Sanctum Israel, abalienati sunt retrorsum.
5 Are you wanting to be punished? Are you going to continue to rebel? The whole of your head is damaged, and your heart is totally giving out.
Super quo percutiam vos ultra, addentes prævaricationem? Omne caput languidum, et omne cor mœrens.
6 You're injured from head to toe, bruised and sore, with open wounds that haven't been cleaned or bandaged or treated with olive oil.
A planta pedis usque ad verticem non est in eo sanitas: vulnus, et livor, et plaga tumens, non est circumligata, nec curata medicamine, neque fota oleo.
7 Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.
Terra vestra deserta, civitates vestræ succensæ igni: regionem vestram coram vobis alieni devorant, et desolabitur sicut in vastitate hostili.
8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.
Et derelinquetur filia Sion ut umbraculum in vinea, et sicut tugurium in cucumerario, et sicut civitas, quæ vastatur.
9 If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Nisi Dominus exercituum reliquisset nobis semen, quasi Sodoma fuissemus, et quasi Gomorrha similes essemus.
10 Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Audite verbum Domini principes Sodomorum, percipite auribus legem Dei nostri populus Gomorrhæ.
11 What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!
Quo mihi multitudinem victimarum vestrarum? dicit Dominus: Plenus sum. Holocausta arietum, et adipem pinguium, et sanguinem vitulorum, et agnorum, et hircorum nolui.
12 When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?
Cum veniretis ante conspectum meum, quis quæsivit hæc de manibus vestris, ut ambularetis in atriis meis?
13 Don't bring me any more meaningless offerings; your incense is offensive to me. Your new moon festivals and Sabbath observations and your calling of special religious meetings—I can't stand them because they're evil, as are your solemn assemblies.
Ne offeratis ultra sacrificium frustra: incensum abominatio est mihi. Neomeniam, et Sabbatum, et festivitates alias non feram, iniqui sunt cœtus vestri:
14 I detest your new moon and yearly festivals with my whole being! They've become just a burden to me—I can't bear them anymore!
calendas vestras, et sollemnitates vestras, odivit anima mea: facta sunt mihi molesta, laboravi sustinens.
15 When you hold up your hands to me in prayer, I'll look away. Even though you pray many prayers, I won't pay attention to them, because your hands are full of blood.
Et cum extenderitis manus vestras, avertam oculos meos a vobis: et cum multiplicaveritis orationem, non exaudiam: manus enim vestræ sanguine plenæ sunt.
16 Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!
Lavamini, mundi estote, auferte malum cogitationum vestrarum ab oculis meis: quiescite agere perverse:
17 Learn to do good; strive for justice, condemn those who oppress others; support the rights of orphans, take up cases to defend widows.
discite benefacere: quærite iudicium, subvenite oppresso, iudicate pupillo, defendite viduam.
18 Come on, let's argue this out, says the Lord. Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will become white like snow. Even though they are red like crimson, they will become like wool.
Et venite, et arguite me, dicit Dominus: si fuerint peccata vestra ut coccinum, quasi nix dealbabuntur: et si fuerint rubra quasi vermiculus, velut lana alba erunt.
19 If you really want this, and if you do as you're told, then you yourselves will eat the best things that the land produces.
Si volueritis, et audieritis me, bona terræ comeditis.
20 But if you are defiant, and if you are rebellious, you'll be killed by the sword. This is what the Lord has declared!
Quod si nolueritis, et me ad iracundiam provocaveritis: gladius devorabit vos, quia os Domini locutum est.
21 The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
Quomodo facta est meretrix civitas fidelis, plena iudicii? Iustitia habitavit in ea, nunc autem homicidæ.
22 Your silver has become worthless waste; you wine has been watered down.
Argentum tuum versum est in scoriam: vinum tuum mistum est aqua.
23 Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.
Principes tui infideles, socii furum: omnes diligunt munera, sequuntur retributiones. Pupillo non iudicant: et causa viduæ non ingreditur ad illos.
24 So this is what the Lord says, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel: Ha! I will take satisfaction in punishing my enemies, by paying back those who hate me!
Propter hoc ait Dominus Deus exercituum Fortis Israel: Heu, consolabor super hostibus meis, et vindicabor de inimicis meis.
25 I will turn against you. I will refine you in a furnace, removing all impurities.
Et convertam manum meam ad te, et excoquam ad puram scoriam tuam, et auferam omne stannum tuum.
26 I will give you good leaders as you used to have before, wise counselors as you had in the beginning. After that you will once again be called the City of Integrity, the Faithful City.
Et restituam iudices tuos ut fuerunt prius, et consiliarios tuos sicut antiquitus: post hæc vocaberis civitas iusti, urbs fidelis.
27 Zion will be rescued by justice, those who repent by doing right.
Sion in iudicio redimetur, et reducent eam in iustita:
28 But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who abandon the Lord will die.
et conteret scelestos, et peccatores simul: et qui dereliquerunt Dominum, consumentur.
29 You will be ashamed about how you enjoyed your pagan worship among the oak trees; you will be embarrassed because you chose the pleasure gardens of idols.
Confundentur enim ab idolis, quibus sacrificaverunt: et erubescetis super hortis, quos elegeratis,
30 As a result you will become like an oak whose leaves have withered, a dried-out garden that has no water.
cum fueritis velut quercus defluentibus foliis, et velut hortus absque aqua.
31 Your strong people will become like tinder, and their work will become like a spark. They will burn together, and nobody will be able to put out the flames.
Et erit fortitudo vestra, ut favilla stuppæ, et opus vestrum quasi scintilla: et succendetur utrumque simul, et non erit qui extinguat.
