Hiezechielis Prophetæ 11

1 Et elevavit me spiritus, et introduxit me ad portam domus Domini orientalem, quæ respicit ad solis ortum: et ecce in introitu portæ viginti quinque viri: et vidi in medio eorum Jezoniam filium Azur, et Pheltiam filium Banaiæ, principes populi.

Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the LORD’S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

2 Dixitque ad me: Fili hominis, hi sunt viri qui cogitant iniquitatem, et tractant consilium pessimum in urbe ista,

Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that plot mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

3 dicentes: Nonne dudum ædificatæ sunt domus? hæc est lebes, nos autem carnes.

Who say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

4 Idcirco vaticinare de eis, vaticinare, fili hominis.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

5 Et irruit in me spiritus Domini, et dixit ad me: Loquere: Hæc dicit Dominus: Sic locuti estis, domus Israël, et cogitationes cordis vestri ego novi.

And the spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said to me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

6 Plurimos occidistis in urbe hac, et implestis vias ejus interfectis.

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled its streets with the slain.

7 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Interfecti vestri, quos posuistis in medio ejus, hi sunt carnes, et hæc est lebes: et educam vos de medio ejus.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

8 Gladium metuistis, et gladium inducam super vos, ait Dominus Deus.

Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.

9 Et ejiciam vos de medio ejus, daboque vos in manu hostium, et faciam in vobis judicia.

And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

10 Gladio cadetis: in finibus Israël judicabo vos, et scietis quia ego Dominus.

Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

11 Hæc non erit vobis in lebetem, et vos non eritis in medio ejus in carnes: in finibus Israël judicabo vos,

This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst of it; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:

12 et scietis quia ego Dominus: quia in præceptis meis non ambulastis, et judicia mea non fecistis, sed juxta judicia gentium quæ in circuitu vestro sunt estis operati.

And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are around you.

13 Et factum est cum prophetarem, Pheltias filius Banaiæ mortuus est: et cecidi in faciem meam clamans voce magna, et dixi: Heu! heu! heu! Domine Deus, consummationem tu facis reliquiarum Israël?

And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

14 Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens:

Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

15 Fili hominis, fratres tui, fratres tui, viri propinqui tui, et omnis domus Israël, universi quibus dixerunt habitatores Jerusalem: Longe recedite a Domino: nobis data est terra in possessionem.

Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far from the LORD: to us is this land given in possession.

16 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Quia longe feci eos in gentibus, et quia dispersi eos in terris: ero eis in sanctificationem modicam in terris ad quas venerunt.

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

17 Propterea loquere: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Congregabo vos de populis, et adunabo de terris in quibus dispersi estis, daboque vobis humum Israël.

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

18 Et ingredientur illuc, et auferent omnes offensiones, cunctasque abominationes ejus de illa.

And they shall come there, and they shall take away from there all its detestable things and all its abominations.

19 Et dabo eis cor unum, et spiritum novum tribuam in visceribus eorum: et auferam cor lapideum de carne eorum, et dabo eis cor carneum,

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

20 ut in præceptis meis ambulent, et judicia mea custodiant, faciantque ea, et sint mihi in populum, et ego sim eis in Deum.

That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

21 Quorum cor post offendicula et abominationes suas ambulat, horum viam in capite suo ponam, dicit Dominus Deus.

But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

22 Et elevaverunt cherubim alas suas, et rotæ cum eis, et gloria Dei Israël erat super ea:

Then the cherubim raised their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

23 et ascendit gloria Domini de medio civitatis, stetitque super montem qui est ad orientem urbis.

And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

24 Et spiritus levavit me, adduxitque in Chaldæam ad transmigrationem, in visione, in spiritu Dei: et sublata est a me visio quam videram.

Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

25 Et locutus sum ad transmigrationem omnia verba Domini quæ ostenderat mihi.

Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.