Ii Paralipomenon 6

1 Tunc Salomon ait: Dominus pollicitus est ut habitaret in caligine:

Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

2 ego autem aedificavi domum nomini eius, ut habitaret ibi in perpetuum.

But I have built a house of habitation for thee, even a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

3 Et convertit rex faciem suam, et benedixit universae multitudini Israel (nam omnis turba stabat intenta) et ait:

And the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel; and the whole congregation of Israel stood.

4 Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, qui quod locutus est David patri meo, opere complevit, dicens:

And he said: Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hands fulfilled it, saying,

5 A die, qua eduxi populum meum de Terra Aegypti, non elegi civitatem de cunctis tribubus Israel, ut aedificaretur in ea domus nomini meo: neque elegi quemquam alium virum, ut esset dux in populo Israel,

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:

6 sed elegi Ierusalem, ut sit nomen meum in ea, et elegi David, ut constituerem eum super populum meum Israel.

but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

7 Cumque fuisset voluntatis David patris mei, ut aedificaret domum nomini Domini Dei Israel,

And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

8 dixit Dominus ad eum: Quia haec fuit voluntas tua, ut aedificares domum nomini meo, bene quidem fecisti huiuscemodi habere voluntatem:

But Jehovah said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;

9 sed non tu aedificabis domum, verum filius tuus, qui egredietur de lumbis tuis, ipse aedificabit domum nomini meo.

nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

10 Complevit ergo Dominus sermonem suum, quem locutus fuerat: et ego surrexi pro David patre meo, et sedi super thronum Israel, sicut locutus est Dominus: et aedificavi domum nomini Domini Dei Israel.

And Jehovah has performed his word which he spoke; and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and I have built the house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

11 Et posui in ea arcam, in qua est pactum Domini, quod pepigit cum filiis Israel.

And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with the children of Israel.

12 Stetit ergo coram altari Domini ex adverso universae multitudinis Israel, et extendit manus suas.

And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands.

13 Siquidem fecerat Salomon basim aeneam, et posuerat eam in medio basilicae, habentem quinque cubitos longitudinis, et quinque cubitos latitudinis, et tres cubitos altitudinis: stetitque super eam: et deinceps flexis genibus contra universam multitudinem Israel, et palmis in caelum levatis,

For Solomon had made a platform of bronze, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and he kneeled down on his knees before the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens,

14 ait: Domine Deus Israel, non est similis tui Deus in caelo et in terra: qui custodis pactum et misericordiam cum servis tuis, qui ambulant coram te in toto corde suo:

and said, Jehovah, God of Israel! there is no God like thee, in the heavens or on the earth, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;

15 Qui praestitisti servo tuo David patri meo quaecumque locutus fueras ei: et quae ore promiseras, opere complesti, sicut et praesens tempus probat.

who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him; thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thy hand as at this day.

16 Nunc ergo Domine Deus Israel, imple servo tuo patri meo David quaecumque locutus es, dicens: Non deficiet ex te vir coram me, qui sedeat super thronum Israel: ita tamen si custodierint filii tui vias meas, et ambulaverint in lege mea, sicut et tu ambulasti coram me.

And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy sons take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

17 Et nunc Domine Deus Israel, firmetur sermo tuus, quem locutus es servo tuo David.

And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, let thy word be verified which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

18 Ergone credibile est ut habitet Deus cum hominibus super terram? Si caelum et caeli caelorum non te capiunt, quanto magis domus ista, quam aedificavi?

But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

19 Sed ad hoc tantum facta est, ut respicias orationem servi tui, et obsecrationem eius, Domine Deus meus: et audias preces, quas fundit famulus tuus coram te:

Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee;

20 ut aperias oculos tuos super domum istam diebus ac noctibus, super locum, in quo pollicitus es ut invocaretur nomen tuum,

that thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place in which thou hast said thou wouldest put thy name: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

21 et exaudires orationem, quam servus tuus orat in eo: et exaudias preces famuli tui, et populi tui Israel. Quicumque oraverit in loco isto, exaudi de habitaculo tuo, id est, de caelis, et propitiare.

And hearken unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall pray toward this place, and hear thou from thy dwelling-place, from the heavens, and when thou hearest, forgive.

22 Si peccaverit quispiam in proximum suum, et iurare contra eum paratus venerit, seque maledicto constrinxerit coram altari in domo ista:

If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

23 tu audies de caelo, et facies iudicium servorum tuorum, ita ut reddas iniquo viam suam in caput proprium, et ulciscaris iustum, retribuens ei secundum iustitiam suam.

then hear thou from the heavens, and do, and judge thy servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his righteousness.

24 Si superatus fuerit populus tuus Israel ab inimicis (peccabunt enim tibi) et conversi egerint poenitentiam, et obsecraverint nomen tuum, et fuerint deprecati in loco isto,

And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication before thee in this house;

25 tu exaudies de caelo, et propitiare peccato populi tui Israel, et reduc eos in terram, quam dedisti eis, et patribus eorum.

then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land that thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

26 Si clauso caelo pluvia non fluxerit propter peccata populi, et deprecati te fuerint in loco isto, et confessi nomini tuo, et conversi a peccatis suis, cum eos afflixeris,

When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;

27 exaudi de caelo Domine, et dimitte peccata servis tuis et populi tui Israel, et doce eos viam bonam, per quam ingrediantur: et da pluviam terrae, quam dedisti populo tuo ad possidendum.

then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

28 Fames si orta fuerit in terra et pestilentia, aerugo, et aurugo, et locusta, et bruchus, et hostes, vastatis regionibus, portas obsederint civitatis, omnisque plaga et infirmitas presserit:

If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be:

29 si quis de populo tuo Israel fuerit deprecatus, cognoscens plagam et infirmitatem suam, et expanderit manus suas in domo hac,

what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man his own plague, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;

30 tu exaudies de caelo, de sublimi scilicet habitaculo tuo, et propitiare, et redde unicuique secundum vias suas, quas nosti eum habere in corde suo: (tu enim solus nosti corda filiorum hominum.)

then hear thou from the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of the children of men),

31 ut timeant te, et ambulent in viis tuis cunctis diebus, quibus vivunt super faciem terrae, quam dedisti patribus nostris.

that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, all the days that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

32 Externum quoque, qui non est de populo tuo Israel, si venerit de terra longinqua, propter nomen tuum magnum, et propter manum tuam robustam, et brachium tuum extentum, et adoraverit in loco isto,

And as to the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand and thy stretched-out arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house,

33 tu exaudies de caelo firmissimo habitaculo tuo, et facies cuncta, pro quibus invocaverit te ille peregrinus: ut sciant omnes populi terrae nomen tuum, et timeant te sicut populus tuus Israel. et cognoscant, quia nomen tuum invocatum est super domum hanc, quam aedificavi.

then hear thou from the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; in order that all peoples of the earth may know thy name, and may fear thee as do thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

34 Si egressus fuerit populus tuus ad bellum contra adversarios suos per viam in qua miseris eos, adorabunt te contra viam, in qua civitas haec est, quam elegisti, et domus, quam aedificavi nomini tuo:

If thy people go out to battle against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

35 tu exaudies de caelo preces eorum, et obsecrationem, et ulciscaris.

then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.

36 Si autem peccaverint tibi (neque enim est homo, qui non peccet) et iratus fueris eis, et tradideris hostibus, et captivos duxerint eos in terram longinquam, vel certe quae iuxta est,

If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto a land far off or near;

37 et conversi in corde suo in terra, ad quam captivi ducti fuerant, egerint poenitentiam, et deprecati te fuerint in terra captivitatis suae, dicentes: Peccavimus, inique fecimus, iniuste egimus:

and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done iniquity and have dealt perversely;

38 et reversi fuerint ad te in toto corde suo, et in tota anima sua, in terra captivitatis suae, ad quam ducti sunt, adorabunt te contra viam terrae suae, quam dedisti patribus eorum, et urbis, quam elegisti, et domus, quam aedificavi nomini tuo:

and if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

39 tu exaudies de caelo, hoc est, de firmo habitaculo tuo preces eorum, et facias iudicium, et dimittas populo tuo, quamvis peccatori:

then hear thou from the heavens, from the settled place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their right, and forgive thy people their sin against thee.

40 tu es enim Deus meus: aperiantur, quaeso, oculi tui, et aures tuae intentae sint ad orationem, quae fit in loco isto.

Now, my God, I beseech thee, let thine eyes be open and let thine ears be attentive unto the prayer [that is made] in this place.

41 Nunc igitur consurge Domine Deus in requiem tuam, tu et arca fortitudinis tuae: Sacerdotes tui Domine Deus induantur salutem, et sancti tui laetentur in bonis.

And now, arise, Jehovah Elohim, into thy resting-place, thou and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, Jehovah Elohim, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in [thy] goodness.

42 Domine Deus ne avertaris faciem christi tui: memento misericordiarum David servi tui.

Jehovah Elohim, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember mercies to David thy servant.