Isaiæ 43
1 Et nunc hæc dicit Dominus creans te, Jacob, et formans te, Israël: Noli timere, quia redemi te, et vocavi te nomine tuo: meus es tu.
But now thus says Jehovah who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name, Thou are mine.
2 Cum transieris per aquas, tecum ero, et flumina non operient te; cum ambulaveris in igne, non combureris, et flamma non ardebit in te.
When thou pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walk through the fire, thou shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle upon thee.
3 Quia ego Dominus Deus tuus, Sanctus Israël, salvator tuus, dedi propitiationem tuam Ægyptum, Æthopiam, et Saba, pro te.
For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.
4 Ex quo honorabilis factus es in oculis meis, et gloriosus, ego dilexi te, et dabo homines pro te, et populos pro anima tua.
Since thou have been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved thee, therefore I will give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.
5 Noli timere, quia ego tecum sum; ab oriente adducam semen tuum, et ab occidente congregabo te.
Fear not, for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west.
6 Dicam aquiloni: Da; et austro: Noli prohibere: affer filios meos de longinquo, et filias meas ab extremis terræ.
I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back. Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth,
7 Et omnem qui invocat nomen meum, in gloriam meam creavi eum, formavi eum, et feci eum.
everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made.
8 Educ foras populum cæcum, et oculos habentem; surdum, et aures ei sunt.
Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
9 Omnes gentes congregatæ sunt simul, et collectæ sunt tribus. Quis in vobis annuntiet istud, et quæ prima sunt audire nos faciet? Dent testes eorum, justificentur, et audiant, et dicant: Vere.
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10 Vos testes mei, dicit Dominus, et servus meus quem elegi: ut sciatis, et credatis mihi, et intelligatis quia ego ipse sum; ante me non est formatus Deus, et post me non erit.
Ye are my witnesses, says Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after me.
11 Ego sum, ego sum Dominus, et non est absque me salvator.
I, even I, am Jehovah, and besides me there is no savior.
12 Ego annuntiavi, et salvavi; auditum feci, et non fuit in vobis alienus: vos testes mei, dicit Dominus, et ego Deus.
I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god among you. Therefore ye are my witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God.
13 Et ab initio ego ipse, et non est qui de manu mea eruat. Operabor, et quis avertet illud?
Yea, since the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?
14 Hæc dicit Dominus, redemptor vester, Sanctus Israël: Propter vos misi in Babylonem, et detraxi vectes universos, et Chaldæos in navibus suis gloriantes.
Thus says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
15 Ego Dominus, Sanctus vester, creans Israël, rex vester.
I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
16 Hæc dicit Dominus, qui dedit in mari viam, et in aquis torrentibus semitam;
Thus says Jehovah, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,
17 qui eduxit quadrigam et equum, agmen et robustum: simul obdormierunt, nec resurgent; contriti sunt quasi linum, et extincti sunt.
who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together; they shall not rise; they are extinct; they are quenched as a wick):
18 Ne memineritis priorum, et antiqua ne intueamini.
Do not remember ye the former things, nor consider the things of old.
19 Ecce ego facio nova, et nunc orientur, utique cognoscetis ea: ponam in deserto viam, et in invio flumina.
Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. Shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 Glorificabit me bestia agri, dracones, et struthiones: quia dedi in deserto aquas, flumina in invio, ut darem potum populo meo, electo meo.
The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21 Populum istum formavi mihi: laudem meam narrabit.
the people whom I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
22 Non me invocasti, Jacob, nec laborasti in me, Israël.
Yet thou have not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou have been weary of me, O Israel.
23 Non obtulisti mihi arietem holocausti tui, et victimis tuis non glorificasti me; non te servire feci in oblatione, nec laborem tibi præbui in thure.
Thou have not brought me from thy sheep for burnt offerings, nor have thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense.
24 Non emisti mihi argento calamum, et adipe victimarum tuarum non inebriasti me: verumtamen servire me fecisti in peccatis tuis; præbuisti mihi laborem in iniquitatibus tuis.
Thou have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices. But thou have burdened me with thy sins. Thou have wearied me with thine iniquities.
25 Ego sum, ego sum ipse qui deleo iniquitates tuas propter me, et peccatorum tuorum non recordabor.
I, even I, am he who blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
26 Reduc me in memoriam, et judicemur simul: narra si quid habes ut justificeris.
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set thou forth thy case that thou may be justified.
27 Pater tuus primus peccavit, et interpretes tui prævaricati sunt in me:
Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
28 et contaminavi principes sanctos; dedi ad internecionem Jacob, et Israël in blasphemiam.
Therefore I will profane the rulers of the sanctuary, and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.
