Isaiæ 55
1 Omnes sitientes venite ad aquas: et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite: venite, emite absque argento, et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac.
You that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go [and] buy; and eat [and drink] wine and fat without money or price.
2 Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate? Audite audientes me, et comedite bonum, et delectabitur in crassitudine anima vestra.
Therefore do you value at the price of money, and [give] your labor for that which will not satisfy? listen to me, and you shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.
3 Inclinate aurem vestram, et venite ad me: audite, et vivet anima vestra, et feriam vobiscum pactum sempiternum, misericordias David fideles.
Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: listen to me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.
4 Ecce testem populis dedi eum, ducem ac praeceptorem Gentibus.
Behold I have made him a testimony among the Gentiles, a prince and commander to the Gentiles.
5 Ecce gentem, quam nesciebas, vocabis: et Gentes, quae te non cognoverunt, ad te current propter Dominum Deum tuum, et sanctum Israel, qui glorificavit te.
Nations which know you not, shall call upon you, and peoples which are not acquainted with you, shall flee to you for refuge, for the sake of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.
6 Quaerite Dominum, dum inveniri potest: invocate eum, dum prope est.
Seek you the Lord, and when you find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw near to you,
7 Derelinquat impius viam suam, et vir iniquus cogitationes suas, et revertatur ad Dominum, et miserebitur eius, et ad Deum nostrum: quoniam multus est ad ignoscendum.
let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.
8 Non enim cogitationes meae, cogitationes vestrae: neque viae vestrae, viae meae, dicit Dominus.
For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, says the Lord.
9 Quia sicut exaltantur caeli a terra, sic exaltatae sunt viae meae a viis vestris, et cogitationes meae a cogitationibus vestris.
But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.
10 Et quomodo descendit imber, et nix de caelo, et illuc ultra non revertitur, sed inebriat terram, et infundit eam, et germinare eam facit, et dat semen serenti, et panem comedenti:
For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until it have saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and give seed to the sower, and bread for food:
11 Sic erit verbum meum, quod egredietur de ore meo: non revertetur ad me vacuum, sed faciet quaecumque volui, et prosperabitur in his, ad quae misi illud.
so shall my word be, whatever shall proceed out of my mouth, it shall by no means turn back, until all the things which I willed shall have been accomplished; and I will make your ways prosperous, and [will effect] my commands.
12 Quia in laetitia egrediemini, et in pace deducemini: montes et colles cantabunt coram vobis laudem, et omnia ligna regionis plaudent manu.
For you shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.
13 Pro saliunca ascendet abies, et pro urtica crescet myrtus: et erit Dominus nominatus in signum aeternum, quod non auferetur.
And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle: and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.
