Jeremiæ 21
1 Verbum, quod factum est ad Ieremiam a Domino, quando misit ad eum rex Sedecias Phassur filium Melchiæ, et Sophoniam filium Maasiæ sacerdotem, dicens:
THE WORD THAT CAME FROM THE LORD TO JEREMIAS, WHEN KING SEDEKIAS SENT TO HIM PASCHOR THE SON OF MELCHIAS, AND SOPHONIAS SON OF BASAEAS, THE PRIEST, SAYING,
2 Interroga pro nobis Dominum, quia Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis præliatur adversum nos: si forte faciat Dominus nobiscum secundum omnia mirabilia sua, et recedat a nobis.
Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and [the king] shall depart from us.
3 Et dixit Ieremias ad eos: Sic dicetis Sedeciæ:
And Jeremias said to them, Thus shall ye say to Sedekias king of Juda,
4 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israel: Ecce ego convertam vasa belli, quæ in manibus vestris sunt, et quibus vos pugnatis adversum regem Babylonis, et Chaldæos, qui obsident vos in circuitu murorum: et congregabo ea in medio civitatis huius.
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I [will] turn back the weapons of war wherewith ye fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
5 Et debellabo ego vos in manu extenta, et in brachio forti, et in furore, et in indignatione, et in ira grandi.
And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.
6 Et percutiam habitatores civitatis huius, homines et bestiæ pestilentia magna morientur.
And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, [both] men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.
7 Et post hæc ait Dominus: dabo Sedeciam regem Iuda, et servos eius, et populum eius, et qui derelicti sunt in civitate hac a peste et gladio, et fame, in manu Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis, et in manu inimicorum eorum, et in manu quærentium animam eorum, et percutiet eos in ore gladii, et non flectetur, neque parcet, nec miserebitur.
And after this, thus saith the Lord; I will give Sedekias king of Juda, and his servants, and the people that is left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them.
8 Et ad populum hunc dices: Hæc dicit Dominus: Ecce ego do coram vobis viam vitæ, et viam mortis.
And thou shalt say to this people, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9 Qui habitaverit in urbe hac, morietur gladio, et fame, et peste: qui autem egressus fuerit, et transfugerit ad Chaldæos, qui obsident vos, vivet, et erit ei anima sua, quasi spolium.
He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live.
10 Posui enim faciem meam super civitatem hanc in malum, et non in bonum, ait Dominus: in manu regis Babylonis dabitur, et exuret eam igni.
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.
11 Et domui regis Iuda: Audite verba Domini,
O house of the king of Juda, hear ye the word of the Lord.
12 domus David, hæc dicit Dominus: Iudicate mane iudicium, et eruite vi oppressum de manu calumniantis: ne forte egrediatur ut ignis indignatio mea, et succendatur, et non sit qui extinguat propter malitiam studiorum vestrorum.
O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest mine anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench [it].
13 Ecce ego ad te habitatricem vallis solidæ atque campestris, ait Dominus: qui dicitis: Quis percutiet nos? Et quis ingredietur domos nostras?
Behold, I am against thee that dwellest in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, [even against] them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation?
14 Et visitabo super vos iuxta fructum studiorum vestrorum, dicit Dominus: et succendam ignem in saltu eius: et devorabit omnia in circuitu eius.
And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
