Isaiæ 57
1 Iustus perit, et non est qui recogitet in corde suo: et viri misericordiæ colliguntur, quia non est qui intelligat, a facie enim malitiæ collectus est iustus.
See how the just man has perished, and no one lays [it] to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.
2 Veniat pax, requiescat in cubili suo qui ambulavit in directione sua.
His burial shall be in peace: he has been removed out of the way.
3 Vos autem accedite huc filii auguratricis: semen adulteri, et fornicariæ.
But draw you near hither, you lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.
4 Super quem lusistis? Super quem dilatastis os, et eiecistis linguam? Numquid non vos filii scelesti, semen mendax?
Wherein have you been rioting? and against whom have you opened your mouth, and against whom have you loosed your tongue? are you not children of perdition? a lawless seed?
5 Qui consolamini in diis subter omne lignum frondosum, immolantes parvulos in torrentibus, subter eminentes petras?
who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying your children in the valleys among the rocks?
6 In partibus torrentis pars tua, hæc est sors tua: et ipsis effudisti libamen, obtulisti sacrificium. Numquid super his non indignabor?
That is your portion, this is your lot: and to them have you poured forth drink-offerings, and to these have you offered meat-offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?
7 Super montem excelsum et sublimem posuisti cubile tuum, et illuc ascendisti ut immolares hostias.
On a lofty and high mountain, there is your bed, and there you carried up your meat-offerings:
8 Et post ostium, et retro postem posuisti memoriale tuum: quia iuxta me discooperuisti, et suscepisti adulterum: dilatasti cubile tuum, et pepigisti cum eis fœdus: dilexisti stratum eorum manu aperta.
and behind the posts of your door you did place your memorials. Did you think that if you should depart from me, you would gain? you have loved those that lay with you;
9 Et ornasti te regi unguento, et multiplicasti pigmenta tua. Misisti legatos tuos procul, et humiliata es usque ad inferos. (Sheol h7585)
and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased even to hell. (Sheol h7585)
10 In multitudine viæ tuæ laborasti: non dixisti: Quiescam: vitam manus tuæ invenisti, propterea non rogasti.
You has wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease to strengthen myself: for you has done these things; therefore you has not supplicated me.
11 Pro quo solicita timuisti, quia mentita es, et mei non es recordata, neque cogitasti in corde tuo? Quia ego tacens, et quasi non videns, et mei oblita es.
Through dread of whom have you feared, and lied against me, and has not remembered, nor considered me, nor regarded me, yes, though when I see you I pass you by, yet you has not feared me.
12 Ego annunciabo iustitiam tuam, et opera tua non proderunt tibi.
And I will declare your righteousness, and your sins, which shall not profit you.
13 Cum clamaveris, liberent te congregati tui, et omnes eos auferet ventus, tollet aura: Qui autem fiduciam habet mei, hereditabit terram, et possidebit montem sanctum meum.
When you cry out, let them deliver you in your affliction: for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry [them] away: but they that cleave to me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
14 Et dicam: Viam facite, præbete iter, declinate de semita, auferte offendicula de via populi mei.
And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of my people.
15 Quia hæc dicit Excelsus, et Sublimis habitans æternitatem: et sanctum nomen eius in excelso et in sancto habitans, et cum contrito et humili spiritu: ut vivificet spiritum humilium, et vivificet cor contritorum.
Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:
16 Non enim in sempiternum litigabo, neque usque ad finem irascar: quia Spiritus a facie mea egredietur, et flatus ego faciam.
I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.
17 Propter iniquitatem avaritiæ eius iratus sum, et percussi eum: abscondi a te faciem meam, et indignatus sum: et abiit vagus in via cordis sui.
On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and struck him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.
18 Vias eius vidi, et sanavi eum, et reduxi eum, et reddidi consolationes ipsi, et lugentibus eius.
I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;
19 Creavi fructum labiorum pacem, pacem ei, qui longe est, et qui prope, dixit Dominus, et sanavi eum.
peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are near: and the Lord has said, I will heal them.
20 Impii autem quasi mare fervens, quod quiescere non potest, et redundant fluctus eius in conculcationem et lutum.
But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest.
21 Non est pax impiis, dicit Dominus Deus.
There is no joy to the ungodly, said God.
