Isaiæ 10
1 Væ qui condunt leges iniquas: et scribentes, iniustitiam scripserunt:
Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:
2 ut opprimerent in iudicio pauperes, et vim facerent causæ humilium populi mei: ut essent viduæ præda eorum, et pupillos diriperent.
To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
3 Quid facietis in die visitationis, et calamitatis de longe venientis? Ad cuius confugietis auxilium? Et ubi derelinquetis gloriam vestram,
What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 ne incurvemini sub vinculo, et cum interfectis cadatis? Super omnibus his non est aversus furor eius, sed adhuc manus eius extenta.
That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 Væ Assur, virga furoris mei et baculus ipse est, in manu eorum indignatio mea.
Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.
6 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.
I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Ipse autem non sic arbitrabitur, et cor eius non ita existimabit: sed ad conterendum erit cor eius, et ad internecionem gentium non paucarum.
But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
8 Dicet enim:
For he shall say:
9 Numquid non principes mei simul reges sunt? Numquid non ut Charcamis, sic Calano: et ut Arphad, sic Emath? Numquid non ut Damascus, sic Samaria?
Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 Quomodo invenit manus mea regna idoli, sic et simulachra eorum de Ierusalem, et de Samaria.
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.
11 Numquid non sicut feci Samariæ et idolis eius, sic faciam Ierusalem et simulachris eius?
Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 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.
And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.
13 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.
For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high.
14 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.
And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.
15 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?
Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but wood.
16 Propter hoc mittet dominator Dominus exercituum in pinguibus eius tenuitatem: et subtus gloriam eius succensa ardebit quasi combustio ignis.
Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire.
17 Et erit lumen Israel in igne, et Sanctus eius in flamma: et succendetur, et devorabitur spina eius, et vepres in die una.
And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.
18 Et gloria saltus eius, et carmeli eius ab anima usque ad carnem consumetur, et erit terrore profugus.
And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through fear.
19 Et reliquiæ ligni saltus eius præ paucitate numerabuntur, et puer scribet eos.
And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.
20 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.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 Reliquiæ convertentur, reliquiæ, inquam, Iacob ad Deum fortem.
The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22 Si enim fuerit populus tuus Israel quasi arena maris, reliquiæ convertentur ex eo, consummatio abbreviata inundabit iustitiam.
For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice.
23 Consummationem enim et abbreviationem Dominus Deus exercituum faciet in medio omnis terræ.
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of all the land.
24 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.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.
25 Adhuc enim paululum modicumque et consummabitur indignatio et furor meus super scelus eorum.
For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.
26 Et suscitabit super eum Dominus exercituum flagellum iuxta plagam Madian in Petra Oreb, et virgam suam super mare, et levabit eam in via Ægypti.
And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.
27 Et erit in die illa: Auferetur onus eius de humero tuo, et iugum eius de collo tuo, et computrescet iugum a facie olei.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrify at the presence of the oil.
28 Veniet in Aiath, transibit in Magron: apud Machmas commendabit vasa sua.
He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.
29 Transierunt cursim Gaba sedes nostra: obstupuit Rama, Gabaath Saulis fugit.
They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.
30 Hinni voce tua filia Gallim, attende Laisa, paupercula Anathoth.
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.
31 Migravit Medemena: habitatores Gabim confortamini.
Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage.
32 Adhuc dies est, ut in Nobe stetur: agitabit manum suam super montem filiæ Sion, collem Ierusalem.
It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Ecce dominator Dominus exercituum confringet lagunculam in terrore, et excelsi statura succidentur, et sublimes humiliabuntur.
Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled.
34 Et subvertentur condensa saltus ferro: et Libanus cum excelsis cadet.
And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.
