Jeremiah 10
1 “Hear the word that Yahweh is announcing to you, house of Israel.
Audite verbum, quod locutus est Dominus super vos domus Israel.
2 Yahweh says this, 'Do not learn the ways of the nations, and do not be dismayed by the signs in the heavens, for the nations are dismayed by these.
Hæc dicit Dominus: Iuxta vias Gentium nolite discere: et a signis cæli nolite metuere, quæ timent Gentes:
3 For the religious customs of these people are worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and the craftsman carves the wood.
quia leges populorum vanæ sunt: quia lignum de saltu præcidit opus manus artificis in ascia.
4 Then they decorate it with silver and gold. They strengthen it with hammer and nails so it will not fall over.
Argento, et auro decoravit illud: clavis et malleis compegit, ut non dissolvatur.
5 What they make with their hands is like scarecrows in a cucumber field, because they, too, can say nothing, and they have to be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they cannot bring about evil, nor are they able to do anything good.'”
In similitudinem palmæ 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 no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in power.
Non est similis tui Domine: magnus es tu, et magnum nomen tuum in fortitudine.
7 Who does not fear you, king of the nations? For this is what you deserve, for there is no one like you among all the wise men of the nations or all their royal kingdoms.
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 They are all the same, they are brutish and stupid, disciples of idols that are nothing but wood.
Pariter insipientes et fatui probabuntur: doctrina vanitatis eorum lignum est.
9 They bring hammered silver from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz made by artificers, the hands of refiners. Their clothes are blue and purple cloth. Their skillful men made all of these things.
Argentum involutum de Tharsis affertur, et aurum de Ophaz: opus artificis, et manus ærarii, hyacinthus et purpura indumentum eorum. Opus artificum universa hæc.
10 But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God and eternal king. The earth quakes at his anger, and the nations cannot endure his anger.
Dominus autem Deus verus est: ipse Deus vivens, et Rex sempiternus. Ab indignatione eius commovebitur terra: et non sustinebunt Gentes comminationem eius.
11 You will speak to them like this, “The gods that did not make the heavens and earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
Sic ergo dicetis eis: dii, qui cælos et terram non fecerunt, pereant de terra, et de his, quæ sub cælo sunt.
12 But it was he who made the earth by his power, and he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.
Qui facit terram in fortitudine sua, præparat orbem in sapientia sua, et prudentia sua extendit cælos.
13 His voice makes the roar of waters in the heavens, and he brings up the mists from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and sends out wind from his storehouse.
Ad vocem suam dat multitudinem aquarum in cælo, et elevat nebulas ab extremitatibus terræ: fulgura in pluviam facit, et educit ventum de thesauris suis.
14 Every man has become ignorant, without knowledge. Every metalworker is put to shame by his idols. For his cast images are frauds; there is no life 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 useless, the work of mockers; they will perish at the time of their punishment.
Vana sunt, et opus risu dignum: in tempore visitationis suæ peribunt.
16 But God, the portion of Jacob, is not like these, for he is the molder of all things. Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; Yahweh 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 your bundle and leave the land, you people who have been living under the siege.
Congrega de terra confusionem tuam, quæ habitas in obsidione:
18 For Yahweh says this, “See, I am about to throw the inhabitants of the land out this time. I will cause them distress, and they will find it to be so.”
Quia hæc dicit Dominus: Ecce ego longe proiiciam habitatores terræ in hac vice: et tribulabo eos ita ut inveniantur.
19 Woe to me! Because of my broken bones, my wound is infected. So I said, “Surely this is agony, but I must bear it.”
Væ mihi super contritione mea, pessima plaga mea. Ego autem dixi: Plane hæc infirmitas mea est, et portabo illam.
20 My tent is devastated, and all of my tent cords are cut in two. They have taken my children away from me, so they no longer exist. There is no longer anyone to spread out my tent or to raise up my tent 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 stupid and they do not seek Yahweh; so they have not prospered, and all their flock has been scattered.
Quia stulte egerunt pastores, et Dominum non quæsierunt: propterea non intellexerunt, et omnis grex eorum dispersus est.
22 The report of news has arrived, “See! It is coming, a great earthquake is coming from the land of the north To make the cities of Judah into ruins, hideouts for jackals.”
Vox auditionis ecce venit, et commotio magna de terra Aquilonis: ut ponat civitates Iuda solitudinem, et habitaculum draconum.
23 I know, Yahweh, that the way of a man does not come from himself. No person walking directs his own steps.
Scio Domine quia non est hominis via eius: nec viri est ut ambulet, et dirigat gressus suos.
24 Discipline me, Yahweh, with justice, not in your anger or you would destroy me.
Corripe me Domine, verumtamen in iudicio: et non in furore tuo, ne forte ad nihilum redigas me.
25 Pour your fury on the nations that do not know you and on the families that do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob and consumed him so as to completely destroy him and demolish his habitation.
Effunde indignationem tuam super Gentes, quæ non cognoverunt te, et super provincias, quæ nomen tuum non invocaverunt: quia comederunt Iacob, et devoraverunt eum, et consumpserunt illum, et decus eius dissipaverunt.
