Jeremiæ 22
1 Haec dicit Dominus: Descende in domum regis Iuda, et loqueris ibi verbum hoc,
Thus said the Lord, Goe downe to the house of the King of Iudah, and speake there this thing,
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.
And say, Heare the worde of the Lord, O King of Iudah, that sittest vpon the throne of Dauid, thou and thy seruants, and thy people that enter in by 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.
Thus saith the Lord, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnes, and deliuer the oppressed from the hande of the oppressor, and vexe not the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe: doe no violence, nor sheade 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 ye do this thing, then shall the kings sitting vpon the throne of Dauid enter in by the gates of this House, and ride vpon charets, and vpon horses, both he and his seruants and his people.
5 Quod si non audieritis verba haec: in memetipso iuravi, dicit Dominus, quia in solitudinem erit domus haec.
But if ye will not heare these wordes, I sweare by my selfe, saith the Lord, that this House shalbe waste.
6 Quia haec dicit Dominus super domum regis Iuda: Galaad tu mihi caput Libani: si non posuero te solitudinem, urbes inhabitabiles.
For thus hath the Lord spoken vpon the Kings house of Iudah, Thou art Gilead vnto me, and the head of Lebanon, yet surely I wil make thee a wildernes and as cities not inhabited,
7 Et sanctificabo super te interficientem virum et arma eius: et succident electas cedros tuas, et praecipitabunt in ignem.
And I will prepare destroyers against thee, euery one with his weapons, and they shall cut downe thy chiefe cedar trees, and cast them in 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 shall passe by this citie, and they shall say euery man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus vnto this great citie?
9 Et respondebunt: Eo quod dereliquerint pactum Domini Dei sui, et adoraverint deos alienos, et servierint eis.
Then shall they answere, Because they haue forsaken the couenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and serued them.
10 Nolite flere mortuum, neque lugeatis super eum fletu: plangite eum, qui egreditur, quia non revertetur ultra, nec videbit terram nativitatis suae.
Weepe not for the dead, and be not moued for them, but weepe for him that goeth out: for he shall returne no more, nor see his natiue countrey.
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 thus saith ye Lord, As touching Shallum the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah, which reigned for Iosiah his father, which went out of this place, he shall not returne thither,
12 sed in loco, ad quem transtuli eum, ibi morietur, et terram istam non videbit amplius.
But he shall die in the place, whither they haue ledde him captiue, and shall see this lande no more.
13 Vae qui aedificat domum suam in iniustitia, et coenacula sua non in iudicio: amicum suum opprimet frustra, et mercedem eius non reddet ei.
Wo vnto him that buildeth his house by vnrighteousnesse, and his chambers without equitie: he vseth his neighbour without wages, and giueth him not for his worke.
14 Qui dicit: Aedificabo mihi domum latam, et coenacula spatiosa: qui aperit sibi fenestras, et facit laquearia cedrina, pingitque sinopide.
He saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers: so he will make him selfe large windowes, and feeling with cedar, and paint them 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?
Shalt thou reigne, because thou closest thy selfe in cedar? did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper, when he executed iudgement and iustice?
16 Iudicavit causam pauperis et egeni in bonum suum: numquid non ideo quia cognovit me, dicit Dominus?
When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lord?
17 Tui vero oculi et cor ad avaritiam, et ad sanguinem innocentem fundendum, et ad calumniam, et ad cursum mali operis.
But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.
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 thus saith the Lord against Iehoiakim, the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, They shall not lament him, saying, Ah, my brother, or ah, sister: neither shall they mourne for him, saying, Ah, lord, or ah, his glorie.
19 Sepultura asini sepelietur, putrefactus et proiectus extra portas Ierusalem.
He shalbe buryed, as an asse is buryed, euen drawen and cast foorth without the gates of Ierusalem.
20 Ascende Libanum, et clama: et in Basan da vocem tuam, et clama ad transeuntes, quia contriti sunt omnes amatores tui.
Goe vp to Lebanon, and cry: showte in Bashan and crye by the passages: for all thy louers are destroyed.
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 spake vnto thee when thou wast in prosperitie: but thou saidest, I will not heare: this hath bene thy maner from thy youth, that thou wouldest not obey my voyce.
22 Omnes pastores tuos pascet ventus, et amatores tui in captivitatem ibunt: et tunc confunderis, et erubesces ab omni malitia tua.
The wind shall feede all thy pastors, and thy louers shall goe into captiuitie: and then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded of al thy wickednesse.
23 Quae sedes in Libano, et nidificas in cedris, quomodo congemuisti cum venissent tibi dolores, quasi dolores parturientis?
Thou that dwellest in Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the cedars, howe beautiful shalt thou be when sorowes come vpon thee, as the sorowe of a woman in trauaile?
24 Vivo ego, dicit Dominus: quia si fuerit Iechonias filius Ioakim regis Iuda, annulus in manu dextera mea, inde evellam eum.
As I liue, saith the Lord, though Coniah the sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, were the signet of my right hand, yet would I plucke thee thence.
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.
And I will giue thee into the hande of them that seeke thy life, and into the hande of them, whose face thou fearest, euen into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babel, and into the hande of the Caldeans.
26 Et mittam te, et matrem tuam, quae genuit te, in terram alienam, in qua nati non estis, ibique moriemini:
And I will cause them to cary thee away, and thy mother that bare thee, into another countrey, where ye were not borne, and there shall ye die.
27 et in terram, ad quam ipsi levant animam suam ut revertantur illuc: non revertentur.
But to the lande, whereunto they desire to returne, they shall not returne thither.
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 not this man Coniah as a despised and broken idole? or as a vessell, wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they caryed away, hee and his seede, and cast out into a lande that they knowe not?
29 Terra, terra, terra, audi sermonem Domini.
O earth, earth, earth, heare the worde 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.
Thus saith the Lord, Write this man destitute of children, a man that shall not prosper in his dayes: for there shall be no man of his seede that shall prosper and sit vpon the throne of Dauid, or beare rule any more in Iudah.
