Isaiæ 24
1 Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram: et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem ejus, et disperget habitatores ejus.
Look, Yahweh is about to empty the earth, to devastate it, mar its surface, and scatter its inhabitants.
2 Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos; et sicut servus, sic dominus ejus; sicut ancilla, sic domina ejus; sicut emens, sic ille qui vendit; sicut fœnerator, sic is qui mutuum accipit; sicut qui repetit, sic qui debet.
It will come about that, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the receiver of interest, so with the giver of interest.
3 Dissipatione dissipabitur terra, et direptione prædabitur; Dominus enim locutus est verbum hoc.
The earth will be completely devastated and completely stripped; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
4 Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est; defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terræ.
The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and fades away, the prominent people of the earth waste away.
5 Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis, quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt jus, dissipaverunt fœdus sempiternum.
The earth is polluted by its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Propter hoc maledictio vorabit terram, et peccabunt habitatores ejus; ideoque insanient cultores ejus, et relinquentur homines pauci.
Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants are found guilty. The inhabitants of the earth burn up, and few people are left.
7 Luxit vindemia, infirmata est vitis, ingemuerunt omnes qui lætabantur corde;
The new wine dries up, the vine withers, all the merry-hearted groan.
8 cessavit gaudium tympanorum, quievit sonitus lætantium, conticuit dulcedo citharæ.
The happy sound of the tambourines stops, and the revelry of those who rejoice; the joy of the lyre ceases.
9 Cum cantico non bibent vinum; amara erit potio bibentibus illam.
They no longer drink wine and sing, and the beer is bitter to those who drink it.
10 Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus, nullo introëunte.
The city of chaos has been broken down; every house is closed up and empty.
11 Clamor erit super vino in plateis, deserta est omnia lætitia, translatum est gaudium terræ.
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the gladness of the land has disappeared.
12 Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas.
In the city is left a desolation, and the gate is broken into a 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.
For this is how it will be on the whole earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as the gleanings when the grape harvest is done.
14 Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt: cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.
They will lift up their voices and shout the majesty of Yahweh, and will joyfully shout from the sea.
15 Propter hoc in doctrinis glorificate Dominum; in insulis maris nomen Domini Dei Israël.
Therefore in the east glorify Yahweh, and in the isles of the sea give glory to the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
16 A finibus terræ laudes audivimus, gloriam Justi. Et dixi: Secretum meum mihi, secretum meum mihi. Væ mihi! prævaricantes prævaricati sunt, et prævaricatione transgressorum prævaricati sunt.
From the farthest part of the earth we have heard songs, “Glory to the righteous one!” But I said, “I have wasted away, I have wasted away, woe is me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.”
17 Formido, et fovea, et laqueus super te, qui habitator es terræ.
Terror, the pit, and the snare are upon you, inhabitants of 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.
He who flees from the sound of terror will fall into the pit, and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be caught in the snare. The windows of the heavens will be opened, and the foundations of the earth will shake.
19 Confractione confringetur terra, contritione conteretur terra, commotione commovebitur terra;
The earth will be completely broken, the earth ripped apart; the earth will be violently shaken.
20 agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius, et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis; et gravabit eam iniquitas sua, et corruet, et non adjiciet ut resurgat.
The earth will stagger like a drunken man and it will sway back and forth like a hut. Its sin will be heavy on it and it will fall and never rise again.
21 Et erit: in die illa visitabit Dominus super militiam cæli in excelso, et super reges terræ qui sunt super terram;
On that day Yahweh will punish the host of the heaven in the heavens, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
22 et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere, et post multos dies visitabuntur.
They will be gathered together, prisoners in a pit, and will be shut up in a prison; and after many days they will be punished.
23 Et erubescet luna, et confundetur sol, cum regnaverit Dominus exercituum in monte Sion et in Jerusalem et in conspectu senum suorum fuerit glorificatus.
Then the moon will be ashamed, and the sun disgraced, for Yahweh of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory.
