Jeremiah 10
1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel!
Audite verbum, quod locutus est Dominus super vos domus Israel.
2 The LORD says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
Hæc dicit Dominus: Iuxta vias Gentium nolite discere: et a signis cæli nolite metuere, quæ timent Gentes:
3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
quia leges populorum vanæ sunt: quia lignum de saltu præcidit opus manus artificis in ascia.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move.
Argento, et auro decoravit illud: clavis et malleis compegit, ut non dissolvatur.
5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do 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, LORD. You are great, and your name is great in might.
Non est similis tui Domine: magnus es tu, et magnum nomen tuum in fortitudine.
7 Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because amongst all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
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 together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
Pariter insipientes et fatui probabuntur: doctrina vanitatis eorum lignum est.
9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skilful men.
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 the LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand 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 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
Sic ergo dicetis eis: Dii, qui cælos et terram non fecerunt, pereant de terra, et de his, quæ sub cælo sunt.
12 God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.
Qui facit terram in fortitudine sua, præparat orbem in sapientia sua, et prudentia sua extendit cælos.
13 When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
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 brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved 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 will perish.
Vana sunt, et opus risu dignum: in tempore visitationis suæ peribunt.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Armies 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 your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.
Congrega de terra confusionem tuam, quæ habitas in obsidione:
18 For the LORD says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”
quia hæc dicit Dominus: Ecce ego longe proiiciam habitatores terræ in hac vice: et tribulabo eos ita ut inveniantur.
19 Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and 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 has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, 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 have become brutish, and have not enquired of the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.
Quia stulte egerunt pastores, et Dominum non quæsierunt: propterea non intellexerunt, et omnis grex eorum dispersus est.
22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, 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 LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Scio Domine quia non est hominis via eius: nec viri est ut ambulet, et dirigat gressus suos.
24 LORD, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
Corripe me Domine, verumtamen in iudicio: et non in furore tuo, ne forte ad nihilum redigas me.
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste 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.
