Isaiæ 24
1 Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram, et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem eius, et disperget habitatores eius.
Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.
2 Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos: et sicut servus, sic dominus eius: sicut ancilla, sic domina eius: sicut emens, sic ille qui vendit: sicut fœnerator, sic is qui mutuum accipit: sicut qui repetit, sic qui debet.
And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.
3 Dissipatione dissipabitur terra, et direptione prædabitur. Dominus enim locutus est verbum hoc.
The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.
4 Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est: defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terræ.
The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.
5 Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis: quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt ius, dissipaverunt fœdus sempiternum.
And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, [even] the everlasting covenant.
6 Propter hoc maledictio vorabit terram, et peccabunt habitatores eius: ideoque insanient cultores eius, et relinquentur homines pauci.
Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.
7 Luxit vindemia, infirmata est vitis, ingemuerunt omnes qui lætabantur corde.
The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
8 Cessavit gaudium tympanorum, quievit sonitus lætantium, conticuit dulcedo citharæ.
The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.
9 Cum cantico non bibent vinum: amara erit potio bibentibus illam.
They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink [it].
10 Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus nullo introeunte.
All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.
11 Clamor erit super vino in plateis: deserta est omnia lætitia: translatum est gaudium terræ.
There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.
12 Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas.
And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.
13 Quia hæc erunt in medio terræ, in medio populorum: quomodo si paucæ olivæ, quæ remanserunt, excutiantur ex olea: et racemi, cum fuerit finita vindemia.
All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,
14 Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt: cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.
these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together in the glory of the Lord: the water of the sea shall be troubled.
15 Propter hoc in doctrinis glorificate Dominum: in insulis maris nomen Domini Dei Israel.
Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.
16 A finibus terræ laudes audivimus, gloriam iusti. Et dixi: Secretum meum mihi, secretum meum mihi, væ mihi: prævaricantes prævaricati sunt, et prævaricatione transgressorum prævaricati sunt.
O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, [and there is] hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.
17 Formido, et fovea, et laqueus super te, qui habitator es terræ.
Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.
18 Et erit: Qui fugerit a voce formidinis, cadet in foveam: et qui se explicaverit de fovea, tenebitur laqueo: quia cataractæ de excelsis apertæ sunt, et concutientur fundamenta terræ.
And it shall come to pass, [that] he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,
19 Confractione confringetur terra, contritione conteretur terra, commotione commovebitur terra,
the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.
20 agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius, et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis: et gravabit eam iniquitas sua, et corruet, et non adiiciet ut resurgat.
It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.
21 Et erit: In die illa visitabit Dominus super militiam cæli in excelso: et super reges terræ, qui sunt super terram.
And God shall bring [his] hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.
22 Et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere: et post multos dies visitabuntur.
And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.
23 Et erubescet luna, et confundetur sol, cum regnaverit Dominus exercituum in monte Sion, et in Ierusalem, et in conspectu senum suorum fuerit glorificatus.
And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before [his] elders.
