Isaiæ 29

1 Vae Ariel, Ariel civitas, quam expugnavit David: additus est annus ad annum: sollemnitates evolutae sunt.

Ah altar, altar of the citie that Dauid dwelt in: adde yere vnto yere: let them kill lambs.

2 Et circumvallabo Ariel, et erit tristis et moerens, et erit mihi quasi Ariel.

But I wil bring the altar into distresse, and there shalbe heauines and sorowe, and it shall be vnto me like an altar.

3 Et circumdabo quasi sphaeram in circuitu tuo, et iaciam contra te aggerem, et munimenta ponam in obsidionem tuam.

And I wil besiege thee as a circle, and fight against thee on a mount, and will cast vp ramparts against thee.

4 Humiliaberis, de terra loqueris, et de humo audietur eloquium tuum: et erit quasi pythonis de terra vox tua, et de humo eloquium tuum mussitabit.

So shalt thou be humbled, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speach shalbe as out of the dust: thy voyce also shall be out of the ground like him that hath a spirite of diuination, and thy talking shall whisper out of the dust.

5 Et erit sicut pulvis tenuis multitudo ventilantium te: et sicut favilla pertransiens multitudo eorum, qui contra te praevaluerunt:

Moreouer, the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the multitude of strong men shalbe as chaffe that passeth away, and it shall be in a moment, euen suddenly.

6 eritque repente confestim. A Domino exercituum visitabitur in tonitruo, et commotione terrae, et voce magna turbinis et tempestatis, et flamma ignis devorantis.

Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hostes with thunder, and shaking, and a great noyse, a whirlewinde, and a tempest, and a flame of a deuouring fire.

7 Et erit sicut somnium visionis nocturnae multitudo omnium Gentium, quae dimicaverunt contra Ariel, et omnes qui militaverunt, et obsederunt, et praevaluerunt adversus eam.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against the altar, shalbe as a dreame or vision by night: euen all they that make the warre against it, and strong holdes against it, and lay siege vnto it.

8 Et sicut somniat esuriens, et comedit, cum autem fuerit expergefactus, vacua est anima eius: et sicut somniat sitiens, et bibit, et postquam fuerit expergefactus, lassus adhuc sitit, et anima eius vacua est: sic erit multitudo omnium Gentium, quae dimicaverunt contra montem Sion.

And it shalbe like as an hungry man dreameth, and beholde, he eateth: and when he awaketh, his soule is emptie: or like as a thirsty man dreameth, and loe, he is drinking, and when he awaketh, beholde, he is faint, and his soule longeth: so shall the multitude of all nations be that fight against mount Zion.

9 Obstupescite, et admiramini, fluctuate, et vacillate: inebriamini, et non a vino: movemini, et non ab ebrietate.

Stay your selues, and wonder: they are blinde, and make you blinde: they are drunken but not with wine: they stagger, but not by strong drinke.

10 Quoniam miscuit vobis Dominus spiritum soporis, claudet oculos vestros, prophetas et principes vestros, qui vident visiones, operiet.

For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, and your chiefe Seers hath he couered.

11 Et erit vobis visio omnium sicut verba libri signati, quem cum dederint scienti litteras, dicent: Lege istum: et respondebit: Non possum, signatus est enim:

And the vision of them all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is sealed vp, which they deliuer to one that can reade, saying, Reade this, I pray thee. Then shall he say, I can not: for it is sealed.

12 Et dabitur liber nescienti litteras, diceturque ei: Lege: et respondebit: Nescio litteras.

And the booke is giuen vnto him that can not reade, saying, Reade this, I pray thee. And he shall say, I can not reade.

13 Et dixit Dominus: Eo quod appropinquat populus iste ore suo, et labiis suis glorificat me, cor autem eius longe est a me, et timuerunt me mandato hominum et doctrinis:

Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,

14 Ideo ecce ego addam ut admirationem faciam populo huic miraculo grandi et stupendo: peribit enim sapientia a sapientibus eius, et intellectus prudentium eius abscondetur.

Therefore behold, I wil againe doe a marueilous worke in this people, euen a marueilous worke, and a wonder: for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shalbe hid.

15 Vae qui profundi estis corde, ut a Domino abscondatis consilium: quorum sunt in tenebris opera, et dicunt: Quis videt nos, et quis novit nos?

Wo vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord: for their workes are in darkenes, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?

16 Perversa est haec vestra cogitatio: quasi si lutum contra figulum cogitet, et dicat opus factori suo: Non fecisti me: et figmentum dicat fictori suo: Non intelligis.

Your turning of deuises shall it not be esteemed as the potters clay? for shall the worke say of him that made it, Hee made me not? or the thing formed, say of him that facioned it, He had none vnderstanding?

17 Nonne adhuc in modico et in brevi convertetur Libanus in charmel, et charmel in saltum reputabitur?

Is it not yet but a litle while, and Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel? and Carmel shall be counted as a forest?

18 Et audient in die illa surdi verba libri, et de tenebris et caligine oculi caecorum videbunt.

And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.

19 Et addent mites in Domino laetitiam, et pauperes homines in sancto Israel exultabunt:

The meeke in the Lord shall receiue ioye againe, and the poore men shall reioyce in the holy one of Israel.

20 quoniam defecit qui praevalebat, consummatus est illusor, et succisi sunt omnes qui vigilabant super iniquitatem:

For the cruel man shall cease, and the scornefull shalbe consumed: and all that hasted to iniquitie, shalbe cut off:

21 qui peccare faciebant homines in verbo, et arguentem in porta supplantabant, et declinaverunt frustra a iusto.

Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.

22 Propter hoc, haec dicit Dominus ad domum Iacob, qui redemit Abraham: Non modo confundetur Iacob, nec modo vultus eius erubescet:

Therefore thus sayth the Lord vnto the house of Iaakob, euen hee that redeemed Abraham, Iaakob shall not now be confounded, neither now shall his face be pale.

23 sed cum viderit filios suos, opera manuum mearum in medio sui sanctificantes nomen meum, et sanctificabunt sanctum Iacob, et Deum Israel praedicabunt,

But when he seeth his children, the worke of mine hands, in the mids of him, they shall sanctifie my Name, and sanctifie the holy one of Iaakob, and shall feare the God of Israel.

24 et scient errantes spiritu intellectum, et mussitatores discent legem.

Then they that erred in spirit, shall haue vnderstanding, and they that murmured, shall learne doctrine.