Jeremiæ 22
1 Hæc dicit Dominus: Descende in domum regis Iuda, et loqueris ibi verbum hoc,
Thus says the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
2 et dices: Audi verbum Domini rex Iuda, qui sedes super solium David: tu et servi tui, et populus tuus, qui ingredimini per portas istas.
And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sit on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people that enter in by these gates:
3 Hæc dicit Dominus: Facite iudicium et iustitiam, et liberate vi oppressum de manu calumniatoris: et advenam, et pupillum, et viduam nolite contristare, neque opprimatis inique: et sanguinem innocentem ne effundatis in loco isto.
Thus says the LORD; Execute you judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
4 Si enim facientes feceritis verbum istud: ingredientur per portas domus huius reges sedentes de genere David super thronum eius, et ascendentes currus et equos, ipsi et servi, et populus eorum.
For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
5 Quod si non audieritis verba hæc: in memetipso iuravi, dicit Dominus, quia in solitudinem erit domus hæc.
But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
6 Quia hæc dicit Dominus super domum regis Iuda: Galaad tu mihi caput Libani: si non posuero te solitudinem, urbes inhabitabiles.
For thus says the LORD to the king’s house of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
7 Et sanctificabo super te interficientem virum et arma eius: et succident electas cedros tuas, et præcipitabunt in ignem.
And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
8 Et pertransibunt gentes multæ per civitatem hanc: et dicet unusquisque proximo suo: Quare fecit Dominus sic civitati huic grandi?
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?
9 Et respondebunt: Eo quod dereliquerint pactum Domini Dei sui, et adoraverint deos alienos, et servierint eis.
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
10 Nolite flere mortuum, neque lugeatis super eum fletu: plangite eum, qui egreditur, quia non revertetur ultra, nec videbit terram nativitatis suæ.
Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
11 Quia hæc dicit Dominus ad Sellum filium Iosiæ regem Iuda, qui regnavit pro Iosia patre suo, qui egressus est de loco isto. Non revertetur huc amplius:
For thus says the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
12 sed in loco, ad quem transtuli eum, ibi morietur, et terram istam non videbit amplius.
But he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
13 Væ qui ædificat domum suam in iniustitia, et cœnacula sua non in iudicio: amicum suum opprimet frustra, et mercedem eius non reddet ei.
Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him not for his work;
14 Qui dicit: Ædificabo mihi domum latam, et cœnacula spatiosa: qui aperit sibi fenestras, et facit laquearia cedrina, pingitque sinopide.
That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15 Numquid regnabis, quoniam confers te cedro? pater tuus numquid non comedit et bibit, et fecit iudicium et iustitiam tunc cum bene erat ei?
Shall you reign, because you close yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
16 Iudicavit causam pauperis et egeni in bonum suum: numquid non ideo quia cognovit me, dicit Dominus?
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
17 Tui vero oculi et cor ad avaritiam, et ad sanguinem innocentem fundendum, et ad calumniam, et ad cursum mali operis.
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
18 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus ad Ioakim filium Iosiæ regem Iuda: Non plangent eum: Væ frater et væ soror: non concrepabunt ei: Væ Domine, et væ inclyte.
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
19 Sepultura asini sepelietur, putrefactus et proiectus extra portas Ierusalem.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Ascende Libanum, et clama: et in Basan da vocem tuam, et clama ad transeuntes, quia contriti sunt omnes amatores tui.
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all your lovers are destroyed.
21 Locutus sum ad te in abundantia tua; et dixisti: Non audiam: hæc est via tua ab adolescentia tua, quia non audisti vocem meam:
I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.
22 Omnes pastores tuos pascet ventus, et amatores tui in captivitatem ibunt: et tunc confunderis, et erubesces ab omni malitia tua.
The wind shall eat up all your pastors, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
23 Quæ sedes in Libano, et nidificas in cedris, quomodo congemuisti cum venissent tibi dolores, quasi dolores parturientis?
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that make your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
24 Vivo ego, dicit Dominus: quia si fuerit Iechonias filius Ioakim regis Iuda, annulus in manu dextera mea, inde evellam eum.
As I live, says the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;
25 Et dabo te in manu quærentium animam tuam, et in manu quorum tu formidas faciem, et in manu Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis, et in manu Chaldæorum.
And I will give you into the hand of them that seek your life, and into the hand of them whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 Et mittam te, et matrem tuam, quæ genuit te, in terram alienam, in qua nati non estis, ibique moriemini:
And I will cast you out, and your mother that bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die.
27 et in terram, ad quam ipsi levant animam suam ut revertantur illuc: non revertentur.
But to the land where they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
28 Numquid vas fictile atque contritum vir iste Iechonias? numquid vas absque omni voluptate? quare abiecti sunt ipse et semen eius, et proiecti in terram, quam ignoraverunt?
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
29 Terra, terra, terra, audi sermonem Domini.
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
30 Hæc dicit Dominus: Scribe virum istum sterilem, virum, qui in diebus suis non prosperabitur: nec enim erit de semine eius vir, qui sedeat super solium David, et potestatem habeat ultra in Iuda.
Thus says the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
