Jeremiæ 22
1 Haec dicit Dominus: Descende in domum regis Iuda, et loqueris ibi verbum hoc,
This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
2 et dices: Audi verbum Domini rex Iuda, qui sedes super solium David: tu et servi tui, et populus tuus, qui ingredimini per portas istas.
saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
3 Haec dicit Dominus: Facite iudicium et iustitiam, et liberate vi oppressum de manu calumniatoris: et advenam, et pupillum, et viduam nolite contristare, neque opprimatis inique: et sanguinem innocentem ne effundatis in loco isto.
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
4 Si enim facientes feceritis verbum istud: ingredientur per portas domus huius reges sedentes de genere David super thronum eius, et ascendentes currus et equos, ipsi et servi, et populus eorum.
For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
5 Quod si non audieritis verba haec: in memetipso iuravi, dicit Dominus, quia in solitudinem erit domus haec.
But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
6 Quia haec dicit Dominus super domum regis Iuda: Galaad tu mihi caput Libani: si non posuero te solitudinem, urbes inhabitabiles.
For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
7 Et sanctificabo super te interficientem virum et arma eius: et succident electas cedros tuas, et praecipitabunt in ignem.
I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
8 Et pertransibunt gentes multae per civitatem hanc: et dicet unusquisque proximo suo: Quare fecit Dominus sic civitati huic grandi?
And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
9 Et respondebunt: Eo quod dereliquerint pactum Domini Dei sui, et adoraverint deos alienos, et servierint eis.
Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
10 Nolite flere mortuum, neque lugeatis super eum fletu: plangite eum, qui egreditur, quia non revertetur ultra, nec videbit terram nativitatis suae.
Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
11 Quia haec dicit Dominus ad Sellum filium Iosiae regem Iuda, qui regnavit pro Iosia patre suo, qui egressus est de loco isto. Non revertetur huc amplius:
For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
12 sed in loco, ad quem transtuli eum, ibi morietur, et terram istam non videbit amplius.
but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
13 Vae qui aedificat domum suam in iniustitia, et coenacula sua non in iudicio: amicum suum opprimet frustra, et mercedem eius non reddet ei.
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
14 Qui dicit: Aedificabo mihi domum latam, et coenacula spatiosa: qui aperit sibi fenestras, et facit laquearia cedrina, pingitque sinopide.
who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
15 Numquid regnabis, quoniam confers te cedro? pater tuus numquid non comedit et bibit, et fecit iudicium et iustitiam tunc cum bene erat ei?
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
16 Iudicavit causam pauperis et egeni in bonum suum: numquid non ideo quia cognovit me, dicit Dominus?
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
17 Tui vero oculi et cor ad avaritiam, et ad sanguinem innocentem fundendum, et ad calumniam, et ad cursum mali operis.
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
18 Propterea haec dicit Dominus ad Ioakim filium Iosiae regem Iuda: Non plangent eum: Vae frater et vae soror: non concrepabunt ei: Vae Domine, et vae inclyte.
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
19 Sepultura asini sepelietur, putrefactus et proiectus extra portas Ierusalem.
He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Ascende Libanum, et clama: et in Basan da vocem tuam, et clama ad transeuntes, quia contriti sunt omnes amatores tui.
Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
21 Locutus sum ad te in abundantia tua; et dixisti: Non audiam: haec est via tua ab adolescentia tua, quia non audisti vocem meam:
I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
22 Omnes pastores tuos pascet ventus, et amatores tui in captivitatem ibunt: et tunc confunderis, et erubesces ab omni malitia tua.
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
23 Quae sedes in Libano, et nidificas in cedris, quomodo congemuisti cum venissent tibi dolores, quasi dolores parturientis?
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
24 Vivo ego, dicit Dominus: quia si fuerit Iechonias filius Ioakim regis Iuda, annulus in manu dextera mea, inde evellam eum.
“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
25 Et dabo te in manu quaerentium animam tuam, et in manu quorum tu formidas faciem, et in manu Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis, et in manu Chaldaeorum.
In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
26 Et mittam te, et matrem tuam, quae genuit te, in terram alienam, in qua nati non estis, ibique moriemini:
I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
27 et in terram, ad quam ipsi levant animam suam ut revertantur illuc: non revertentur.
You will never return to the land for which you long.”
28 Numquid vas fictile atque contritum vir iste Iechonias? numquid vas absque omni voluptate? quare abiecti sunt ipse et semen eius, et proiecti in terram, quam ignoraverunt?
Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
29 Terra, terra, terra, audi sermonem Domini.
O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
30 Haec dicit Dominus: Scribe virum istum sterilem, virum, qui in diebus suis non prosperabitur: nec enim erit de semine eius vir, qui sedeat super solium David, et potestatem habeat ultra in Iuda.
This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
