Isaiah 10
1 Woe [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
Væ qui condunt leges iniquas: et scribentes, iniustitiam scripserunt:
2 To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
ut opprimerent in iudicio pauperes, et vim facerent causæ humilium populi mei: ut essent viduæ præda eorum, et pupillos diriperent.
3 And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? — from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?
Quid facietis in die visitationis, et calamitatis de longe venientis? ad cuius confugietis auxilium? et ubi derelinquetis gloriam vestram,
4 Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one, And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
ne incurvemini sub vinculo, et cum interfectis cadatis? Super omnibus his non est aversus furor eius, sed adhuc manus eius extenta.
5 Woe [to] Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand [is] Mine indignation.
Væ Assur, virga furoris mei et baculus ipse est, in manu eorum indignatio mea.
6 Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.
Ad gentem fallacem mittam eum, et contra populum furoris mei mandabo illi, ut auferat spolia, et diripiat prædam, et ponat illum in conculcationem quasi lutum platearum.
7 And he — he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For — to destroy [is] in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.
Ipse autem non sic arbitrabitur, et cor eius non ita existimabit: sed ad conterendum erit cor eius, et ad internecionem gentium non paucarum.
8 For he saith, 'Are not my princes altogether kings?
Dicet enim:
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Numquid non principes mei simul reges sunt? numquid non ut Charcamis, sic Calano: et ut Arphad, sic Emath? numquid non ut Damascus, sic Samaria?
10 As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, [Greater] than Jerusalem and than Samaria,
Quomodo invenit manus mea regna idoli, sic et simulachra eorum de Ierusalem, et de Samaria.
11 Do I not — as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?
Numquid non sicut feci Samariæ et idolis eius, sic faciam Ierusalem et simulachris eius?
12 And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.
Et erit: cum impleverit Dominus cuncta opera sua in monte Sion, et in Ierusalem, visitabo super fructum magnifici cordis regis Assur, et super gloriam altitudinis oculorum eius.
13 For he hath said, 'By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,
Dixit enim: In fortitudine manus meæ feci, et in sapientia mea intellexi: et abstuli terminos populorum, et principes eorum deprædatus sum, et detraxi quasi potens in sublimi residentes.
14 And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I — I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.'
Et invenit quasi nidum manus mea fortitudinem populorum: et sicut colliguntur ova, quæ derelicta sunt, sic universam terram ego congregavi: et non fuit qui moveret pennam, et aperiret os, et ganniret.
15 — Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
Numquid gloriabitur securis contra eum, qui secat in ea? aut exaltabitur serra contra eum, a quo trahitur? quomodo si elevetur virga contra elevantem se, et exaltetur baculus, qui utique lignum est.
16 Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.
Propter hoc mittet dominator Dominus exercituum in pinguibus eius tenuitatem: et subtus gloriam eius succensa ardebit quasi combustio ignis.
17 And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day.
Et erit lumen Israel in igne, et Sanctus eius in flamma: et succendetur, et devorabitur spina eius, et vepres in die una.
18 And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer.
Et gloria saltus eius, et carmeli eius ab anima usque ad carnem consumetur, et erit terrore profugus.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest [are] few, And a youth doth write them.
Et reliquiæ ligni saltus eius præ paucitate numerabuntur, et puer scribet eos.
20 And it hath come to pass, in that day, The remnant of Israel, And the escaped of the house of Jacob, Do not add any more to lean on its smiter, And have leant on Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Et erit in die illa: non adiiciet residuum Israel, et hi, qui fugerint de domo Iacob, inniti super eo, qui percutit eos: sed innitetur super Dominum sanctum Israel in veritate.
21 A remnant returneth — a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty God.
Reliquiæ convertentur, reliquiæ, inquam, Iacob ad Deum fortem.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A remnant doth return of it, A consumption determined, Overflowing [with] righteousness.
Si enim fuerit populus tuus Israel quasi arena maris, reliquiæ convertentur ex eo, consummatio abbreviata inundabit iustitiam.
23 For a consumption that is determined, The Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is making in the midst of all the land.
Consummationem enim et abbreviationem Dominus Deus exercituum faciet in medio omnis terræ.
24 Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, 'Be not afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee, in the way of Egypt.
Propter hoc, hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum: Noli timere populus meus habitator Sion, ab Assur: in virga percutiet te, et baculum suum levabit super te in via Ægypti.
25 For yet a very little, And the indignation hath been completed, And Mine anger by their wearing out.
Adhuc enim paululum modicumque et consummabitur indignatio et furor meus super scelus eorum.
26 And awaking for him is Jehovah of Hosts, A scourge like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, And his rod [is] over the sea, And he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt.
Et suscitabit super eum Dominus exercituum flagellum iuxta plagam Madian in Petra Oreb, et virgam suam super mare, et levabit eam in via Ægypti.
27 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Turned is his burden from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And destroyed hath been the yoke, because of prosperity.
Et erit in die illa: Auferetur onus eius de humero tuo, et iugum eius de collo tuo, et computrescet iugum a facie olei.
28 He hath come in against Aiath, He hath passed over into Migron, At Michmash he looketh after his vessels.
Veniet in Aiath, transibit in Magron: apud Machmas commendabit vasa sua.
29 They have gone over the passage, Geba they have made a lodging place, Trembled hath Rama, Gibeah of Saul fled.
Transierunt cursim Gaba sedes nostra: obstupuit Rama, Gabaath Saulis fugit.
30 Cry aloud [with] thy voice, daughter of Gallim, Give attention, Laish! answer her, Anathoth.
Hinni voce tua filia Gallim, attende Laisa, paupercula Anathoth.
31 Fled away hath Madmenah, The inhabitants of the high places have hardened themselves.
Migravit Medemena: habitatores Gabim confortamini.
32 Yet to-day in Nob to remain, Wave its hand doth the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.
Adhuc dies est, ut in Nobe stetur: agitabit manum suam super montem filiæ Sion, collem Ierusalem.
33 Lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is lopping a branch with violence, And the high of stature are cut down, And the lofty are become low,
Ecce dominator Dominus exercituum confringet lagunculam in terrore, et excelsi statura succidentur, et sublimes humiliabuntur.
34 And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!
Et subvertentur condensa saltus ferro: et Libanus cum excelsis cadet.
