Isaiæ 13
1 Onus Babylonis, quod vidit Isaias filius Amos.
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 Super montem caliginosum levate signum, exaltate vocem, levate manum, et ingrediantur portas duces.
Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 Ego mandavi sanctificatis meis, et vocavi fortes meos in ira mea, exultantes in gloria mea.
I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
4 Vox multitudinis in montibus, quasi populorum frequentium: vox sonitus regum, gentium congregatarum: Dominus exercituum præcepit militiæ belli,
The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! The LORD of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
5 venientibus de terra procul, a summitate cæli: Dominus, et vasa furoris eius, ut disperdat omnem terram.
They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Ululate, quia prope est dies Domini: quasi vastitas a Domino veniet.
Wail, for the LORD’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7 Propter hoc, omnes manus dissolventur, et omne cor hominis contabescet, et conteretur.
Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
8 Torsiones et dolores tenebunt, quasi parturiens, dolebunt: unusquisque ad proximum suum stupebit, facies combustæ vultus eorum.
They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
9 Ecce dies Domini veniet, crudelis, et indignationis plenus, et iræ, furorisque ad ponendam terram in solitudinem, et peccatores eius conterendos de ea.
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
10 Quoniam stellæ cæli, et splendor earum non expandent lumen suum: obtenebratus est sol in ortu suo, et luna non splendebit in lumine suo.
For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 Et visitabo super orbis mala, et contra impios iniquitatem eorum, et quiscere faciam superbiam infidelium, et arrogantiam fortium humiliabo.
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
12 Pretiosior erit vir auro, et homo mundo obrizo.
I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
13 Super hoc cælum turbabo: et movebitur terra de loco suo propter indignationem Domini exercituum, et propter diem iræ furoris eius.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the LORD of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 Et erit quasi damula fugiens, et quasi ovis: et non erit qui congreget: unusquisque ad populum suum convertetur, et singuli ad terram suam fugient.
It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
15 Omnis, qui inventus fuerit, occidetur: et omnis, qui supervenerit, cadet in gladio.
Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Infantes eorum allidentur in oculis eorum: diripientur domus eorum, et uxores eorum violabuntur.
Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
17 Ecce ego suscitabo super eos Medos, qui argentum non quærant, nec aurum velint:
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 sed sagittis parvulos interficient, et lactantibus uteris non miserebuntur, et super filios non parcet oculus eorum.
Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
19 Et erit Babylon illa gloriosa in regnis, inclyta superbia Chaldæorum: sicut subvertit Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham.
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 Non habitabitur usque in finem, et non fundabitur usque ad generationem et generationem: nec ponet ibi tentoria Arabs, nec pastores requiescent ibi.
It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 Sed requiescent ibi bestiæ, et replebuntur domus eorum draconibus: et habitabunt ibi struthiones, et pilosi saltabunt ibi:
But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
22 et respondebunt ibi ululæ in ædibus eius, et sirenes in delubris voluptatis.
Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
