Isaiæ 29
1 Vae Ariel, Ariel civitas, quam expugnavit David: additus est annus ad annum: sollemnitates evolutae sunt.
[This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.
2 Et circumvallabo Ariel, et erit tristis et moerens, et erit mihi quasi Ariel.
But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].
3 Et circumdabo quasi sphaeram in circuitu tuo, et iaciam contra te aggerem, et munimenta ponam in obsidionem tuam.
I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.
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.
Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.
5 Et erit sicut pulvis tenuis multitudo ventilantium te: et sicut favilla pertransiens multitudo eorum, qui contra te praevaluerunt:
But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.
6 eritque repente confestim. A Domino exercituum visitabitur in tonitruo, et commotione terrae, et voce magna turbinis et tempestatis, et flamma ignis devorantis.
The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.
7 Et erit sicut somnium visionis nocturnae multitudo omnium Gentium, quae dimicaverunt contra Ariel, et omnes qui militaverunt, et obsederunt, et praevaluerunt adversus eam.
[Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.
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.
People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].
9 Obstupescite, et admiramini, fluctuate, et vacillate: inebriamini, et non a vino: movemini, et non ab ebrietate.
You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.
10 Quoniam miscuit vobis Dominus spiritum soporis, claudet oculos vestros, prophetas et principes vestros, qui vident visiones, operiet.
Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.
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:
[Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is sealed.”
12 Et dabitur liber nescienti litteras, diceturque ei: Lege: et respondebit: Nescio litteras.
When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
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:
[So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.
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, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.
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?
Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’
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.
They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”
17 Nonne adhuc in modico et in brevi convertetur Libanus in charmel, et charmel in saltum reputabitur?
Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
18 Et audient in die illa surdi verba libri, et de tenebris et caligine oculi caecorum videbunt.
At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.
19 Et addent mites in Domino laetitiam, et pauperes homines in sancto Israel exultabunt:
Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
20 quoniam defecit qui praevalebat, consummatus est illusor, et succisi sunt omnes qui vigilabant super iniquitatem:
There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.
21 qui peccare faciebant homines in verbo, et arguentem in porta supplantabant, et declinaverunt frustra a iusto.
Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.
22 Propter hoc, haec dicit Dominus ad domum Iacob, qui redemit Abraham: Non modo confundetur Iacob, nec modo vultus eius erubescet:
That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.
23 sed cum viderit filios suos, opera manuum mearum in medio sui sanctificantes nomen meum, et sanctificabunt sanctum Iacob, et Deum Israel praedicabunt,
When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.
24 et scient errantes spiritu intellectum, et mussitatores discent legem.
When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”
