Esias 24
1 Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.
Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram: et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem ejus, et disperget habitatores ejus.
2 And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.
Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos; et sicut servus, sic dominus ejus; sicut ancilla, sic domina ejus; sicut emens, sic ille qui vendit; sicut fœnerator, sic is qui mutuum accipit; sicut qui repetit, sic qui debet.
3 The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.
Dissipatione dissipabitur terra, et direptione prædabitur; Dominus enim locutus est verbum hoc.
4 The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.
Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est; defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terræ.
5 And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, [even] the everlasting covenant.
Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis, quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt jus, dissipaverunt fœdus sempiternum.
6 Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.
Propter hoc maledictio vorabit terram, et peccabunt habitatores ejus; ideoque insanient cultores ejus, et relinquentur homines pauci.
7 The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
Luxit vindemia, infirmata est vitis, ingemuerunt omnes qui lætabantur corde;
8 The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.
cessavit gaudium tympanorum, quievit sonitus lætantium, conticuit dulcedo citharæ.
9 They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink [it].
Cum cantico non bibent vinum; amara erit potio bibentibus illam.
10 All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.
Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus, nullo introëunte.
11 There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.
Clamor erit super vino in plateis, deserta est omnia lætitia, translatum est gaudium terræ.
12 And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.
Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas.
13 All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,
Quia hæc erunt in medio terræ in medio populorum, quomodo si paucæ olivæ quæ remanserunt excutiantur ex olea et racemi, cum fuerit finita vindemia.
14 these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together in the glory of the Lord: the water of the sea shall be troubled.
Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt: cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.
15 Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.
Propter hoc in doctrinis glorificate Dominum; in insulis maris nomen Domini Dei Israël.
16 O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, [and there is] hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.
A finibus terræ laudes audivimus, gloriam Justi. Et dixi: Secretum meum mihi, secretum meum mihi. Væ mihi! prævaricantes prævaricati sunt, et prævaricatione transgressorum prævaricati sunt.
17 Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.
Formido, et fovea, et laqueus super te, qui habitator es terræ.
18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,
Et erit: qui fugerit a voce formidinis cadet in foveam; et qui se explicaverit de fovea tenebitur laqueo; quia cataractæ de excelsis apertæ sunt et concutientur fundamenta terræ.
19 the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.
Confractione confringetur terra, contritione conteretur terra, commotione commovebitur terra;
20 It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.
agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius, et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis; et gravabit eam iniquitas sua, et corruet, et non adjiciet ut resurgat.
21 And God shall bring [his] hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.
Et erit: in die illa visitabit Dominus super militiam cæli in excelso, et super reges terræ qui sunt super terram;
22 And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.
et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere, et post multos dies visitabuntur.
23 And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before [his] elders.
Et erubescet luna, et confundetur sol, cum regnaverit Dominus exercituum in monte Sion et in Jerusalem et in conspectu senum suorum fuerit glorificatus.
