Isaiæ 13
1 Onus Babylonis, quod vidit Isaias filius Amos.
THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS SON OF AMOS SAW AGAINST BABYLON.
2 Super montem caliginosum levate signum, exaltate vocem, levate manum, et ingrediantur portas duces.
Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open [the gates], you rulers.
3 Ego mandavi sanctificatis meis, et vocavi fortes meos in ira mea, exultantes in gloria mea.
I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.
4 Vox multitudinis in montibus, quasi populorum frequentium: vox sonitus regum, et gentium congregatarum: Dominus exercituum praecepit militiae belli,
A voice of many nations on the mountains, [even] like [to that] of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a warlike nation,
5 venientibus de terra procul, a summitate caeli: Dominus, et vasa furoris eius, ut disperdat omnem terram.
to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors [are coming] to destroy all the world.
6 Ululate, quia prope est dies Domini: quasi vastitas a Domino veniet.
Howl you, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.
7 Propter hoc, omnes manus dissolventur, et omne cor hominis contabescet,
Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
8 et conteretur. Torsiones et dolores tenebunt, quasi parturiens, dolebunt: unusquisque ad proximum suum stupebit, facies combustae vultus eorum.
The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
9 Ecce dies Domini veniet, crudelis, et indignationis plenus, et irae, furorisque ad ponendam terram in solitudinem, et peccatores eius conterendos de ea.
For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which can’t be escaped, [a day] of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.
10 Quoniam stellae caeli, et splendor earum non expandent lumen suum: obtenebratus est sol in ortu suo, et luna non splendebit in lumine suo.
For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.
11 Et visitabo super orbis mala, et contra impios iniquitatem eorum, et quiescere faciam superbiam infidelium, et arrogantiam fortium humiliabo.
And I will command evils for the whole world, and [will visit] their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.
12 Pretiosior erit vir auro, et homo mundo obrizo.
And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.
13 Super hoc caelum turbabo: et movebitur terra de loco suo propter indignationem Domini exercituum, et propter diem irae furoris eius.
For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.
14 Et erit quasi damula fugiens, et quasi ovis: et non erit qui congreget: unusquisque ad populum suum convertetur, et singuli ad terram suam fugient.
And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather [them]: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.
15 Omnis, qui inventus fuerit, occidetur: et omnis, qui supervenerit, cadet in gladio.
For whoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.
16 Infantes eorum allidentur in oculis eorum: diripientur domus eorum, et uxores eorum violabuntur.
And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.
17 Ecce ego suscitabo super eos Medos, qui argentum non quaerant, nec aurum velint:
Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.
18 sed sagittis parvulos interficient, et lactantibus uteris non miserebuntur, et super filios non parcet oculus eorum.
They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare your children.
19 Et erit Babylon illa gloriosa in regnis, inclyta superbia Chaldaeorum: sicut subvertit Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham.
And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as [when] God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.
20 Non habitabitur usque in finem, et non fundabitur usque ad generationem et generationem: nec ponet ibi tentoria Arabs, nec pastores requiescent ibi.
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.
21 Sed requiescent ibi bestiae, et replebuntur domus eorum draconibus: et habitabunt ibi struthiones, et pilosi saltabunt ibi:
But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there, and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not wait.
22 et respondebunt ibi ululae in aedibus eius, et sirenes in delubris voluptatis.
