Isaiæ 57
1 Iustus perit, et non est qui recogitet in corde suo: et viri misericordiae colliguntur, quia non est qui intelligat, a facie enim malitiae collectus est iustus.
The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
2 Veniat pax, requiescat in cubili suo qui ambulavit in directione sua.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
3 Vos autem accedite huc filii auguratricis: semen adulteri, et fornicariae.
But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
4 Super quem lusistis? super quem dilatastis os, et eiecistis linguam? numquid non vos filii scelesti, semen mendax?
Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
5 qui consolamini in diis subter omne lignum frondosum, immolantes parvulos in torrentibus, subter eminentes petras?
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
6 In partibus torrentis pars tua, haec est sors tua: et ipsis effudisti libamen, obtulisti sacrificium. numquid super his non indignabor?
Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot: even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Super montem excelsum et sublimem posuisti cubile tuum, et illuc ascendisti ut immolares hostias.
On a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither went you up to offer sacrifice.
8 Et post ostium, et retro postem posuisti memoriale tuum: quia iuxta me discooperuisti, et suscepisti adulterum: dilatasti cubile tuum, et pepigisti cum eis foedus: dilexisti stratum eorum manu aperta.
Behind the doors also and the posts have you set up your remembrance: for you have discovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it.
9 Et ornasti te regio unguento, et multiplicasti pigmenta tua. Misisti legatos tuos procul, et humiliata es usque ad inferos. (Sheol h7585)
And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase yourself even to hell. (Sheol h7585)
10 In multitudine viae tuae laborasti: non dixisti: Quiescam: vitam manus tuae invenisti, propterea non rogasti.
You are wearied in the greatness of your way; yet said you not, There is no hope: you have found the life of your hand; therefore you were not grieved.
11 Pro quo solicita timuisti, quia mentita es, et mei non es recordata, neque cogitasti in corde tuo? quia ego tacens, et quasi non videns, et mei oblita es.
And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and you fear me not?
12 Ego annunciabo iustitiam tuam, et opera tua non proderunt tibi.
I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
13 Cum clamaveris, liberent te congregati tui, et omnes eos auferet ventus, tollet aura: Qui autem fiduciam habet mei, hereditabit terram, et possidebit montem sanctum meum.
When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 Et dicam: Viam facite, praebete iter, declinate de semita, auferte offendicula de via populi mei.
And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.
15 Quia haec dicit Excelsus, et sublimis habitans aeternitatem: et sanctum nomen eius in excelso et in sancto habitans, et cum contrito et humili spiritu: ut vivificet spiritum humilium, et vivificet cor contritorum.
For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 Non enim in sempiternum litigabo, neque usque ad finem irascar: quia spiritus a facie mea egredietur, et flatus ego faciam.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 Propter iniquitatem avaritiae eius iratus sum, et percussi eum: abscondi a te faciem meam, et indignatus sum: et abiit vagus in via cordis sui.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
18 Vias eius vidi, et sanavi eum, et reduxi eum, et reddidi consolationes ipsi, et lugentibus eius.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
19 Creavi fructum labiorum pacem, pacem ei, qui longe est, et qui prope, dixit Dominus, et sanavi eum.
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 Impii autem quasi mare fervens, quod quiescere non potest, et redundant fluctus eius in conculcationem et lutum.
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 Non est pax impiis, dicit Dominus Deus.
There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
