Jeremiæ 50
1 Verbum, quod locutus est Dominus de Babylone, et de terra Chaldaeorum in manu Ieremiae prophetae.
The word that the Lord spake, concerning Babel, and cocerning the land of the Caldeans by the ministerie of Ieremiah the Prophet.
2 Annunciate in Gentibus, et auditum facite: levate signum, praedicate, et nolite celare: dicite: Capta est Babylon, confusus est Bel, victus est Merodach, confusa sunt sculptilia eorum, superata sunt idola eorum.
Declare among the nations, and publish it, and set vp a standart, proclaime it and conceale it not: say, Babel is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken downe: her idols are confounded, and their images are burst in pieces.
3 Quoniam ascendit contra eam gens ab Aquilone, quae ponet terram eius in solitudinem: et non erit qui habitet in ea ab homine usque ad pecus: et moti sunt, et abierunt.
For out of the North there commeth vp a nation against her, which shall make her lande waste, and none shall dwel therein: they shall flee, and depart, both man and beast.
4 In diebus illis, et in tempore illo, ait Dominus: venient filii Israel, ipsi et filii Iuda simul: ambulantes et flentes properabunt, et Dominum Deum suum quaerent.
In those daies, and at that time, sayeth the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they, and the children of Iudah together, going, and weeping shall they goe, and seeke the Lord their God.
5 In Sion interrogabunt viam, huc facies eorum. Venient, et apponentur ad Dominum foedere sempiterno, quod nulla oblivione delebitur.
They shall aske the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let vs cleaue to the Lord in a perpetuall couenant that shall not be forgotten.
6 Grex perditus factus est populus meus: pastores eorum seduxerunt eos, feceruntque vagari in montibus: de monte in collem transierunt, obliti sunt cubilis sui.
My people hath beene as lost sheepe: their shepheards haue caused them to goe astray, and haue turned them away to the mountaines: they haue gone from mountaine to hil, and forgotten their resting place.
7 Omnes, qui invenerunt, comederunt eos: et hostes eorum dixerunt: Non peccavimus: pro eo quod peccaverunt Domino decori iustitiae, et expectationi patrum eorum Domino.
Al that found them, haue deuoured them, and their enemies saide, We offende not, because they haue sinned against the Lord, the habitation of iustice, euen the Lord the hope of their fathers.
8 Recedite de medio Babylonis, et de terra Chaldaeorum egredimini: et estote quasi hoedi ante gregem.
Flee from the middes of Babel, and depart out of the lande of the Caldeans, and be ye as the hee goates before the flocke.
9 Quoniam ecce ego suscito, et adducam in Babylonem congregationem Gentium magnarum de terra Aquilonis: et praeparabuntur adversus eam, et inde capietur: sagitta eius quasi viri fortis interfectoris, non revertetur vacua.
For loe, I will raise, and cause to come vp against Babel a multitude of mightie natios from the North countrey, and they shall set themselues in aray against her, whereby shee shall be taken: their arrowes shall be as of a strong man, which is expert, for none shall returne in vaine.
10 Et erit Chaldaea in praedam: omnes vastantes eam replebuntur, ait Dominus.
And Caldea shalbe a spoyle: all that spoyle her, shalbe satisfied, sayth the Lord.
11 Quoniam exultatis, et magna loquimini, diripientes hereditatem meam: quoniam effusi estis sicut vituli super herbam, et mugistis sicut tauri.
Because yee were glad and reioyced in destroying mine heritage, and because ye are growen fatte, as the calues in the grasse, and neied like strong horses,
12 Confusa est mater vestra nimis, et adaequata pulveri, quae genuit vos: ecce novissima erit in Gentibus, deserta, invia, et arens.
Therefore your mother shall bee sore confounded, and she that bare you, shall be ashamed: beholde, the vttermost of the nations shalbe a desert, a drie land, and a wildernes.
13 Ab ira Domini non habitabitur, sed redigetur tota in solitudinem: omnis, qui transibit per Babylonem, stupebit, et sibilabit super universis plagis eius.
Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but shall be wholy desolate: euery one that goeth by Babel, shall be astonished, and hisse at all her plagues.
14 Praeparamini contra Babylonem per circuitum omnes qui tenditis arcum; debellate eam, non parcatis iaculis: quia Domino peccavit.
Put your selues in aray against Babel rounde about: all ye that bende the bowe, shoote at her, spare no arrowes: for shee hath sinned against the Lord.
15 Clamate adversus eam, ubique dedit manum, ceciderunt fundamenta eius, destructi sunt muri eius, quoniam ultio Domini est: ultionem accipite de ea, sicut fecit, facite ei.
Crie against her round about: she hath giuen her hand: her foundations are fallen, and her walles are destroyed: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance vpon her: as she hath done, doe vnto her.
16 Disperdite satorem de Babylone, et tenentem falcem in tempore messis: a facie gladii columbae unusquisque ad populum suum convertetur, et singuli ad terram suam fugient.
Destroy the sower from Babel, and him that handleth the sieth in the time of haruest: because of the sworde of the oppressor they shall turne euery one to his people, and they shall flee euery one to his owne land.
17 Grex dispersus Israel, leones eiecerunt eum: primus comedit eum rex Assur: iste novissimus exossavit eum Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis.
Israel is like scattered sheepe: the lions haue dispersed them: first the King of Asshur hath deuoured him, and last this Nebuchad-nezzar King, of Babel hath broken his bones.
18 Propterea haec dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Ecce ego visitabo regem Babylonis, et terram eius, sicut visitavi regem Assur:
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Behold, I wil visit ye King of Babel, and his land, as I haue visited the King of Asshur.
19 et reducam Israel ad habitaculum suum: et pascetur Carmelus, et Basan, et in monte Ephraim, et Galaad saturabitur anima eius.
And I will bring Israel againe to his habitation: hee shall feede on Carmel and Bashan, and his soule shall be satisfied vpon the mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20 In diebus illis, et in tempore illo, ait Dominus: quaeretur iniquitas Israel, et non erit: et peccatum Iuda, et non invenietur: quoniam propitius ero eis, quos reliquero.
In those daies, and at that time, sayeth the Lord, the iniquitie of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sinnes of Iudah, and they shall not be founde: for I will be mercifull vnto them, whome I reserue.
21 Super terram dominantium ascende, et super habitatores eius visita, dissipa, et interfice quae post eos sunt, ait Dominus: et fac iuxta omnia quae praecepi tibi.
Goe vp against the lande of the rebelles, euen against it, and against the inhabitantes of Pekod: destroy, and lay it waste after them, saieth the Lord, and doe according to all that I haue commanded thee.
22 Vox belli in terra, et contritio magna.
A crie of battell is in the land, and of great destruction.
23 Quomodo confractus est, et contritus malleus universae terrae? quomodo versa est in desertum Babylon in Gentibus?
Howe is the hammer of the whole world destroied, and broken! howe is Babel become desolate among the nations!
24 Illaqueavi te, et capta es Babylon, et nesciebas: inventa es et apprehensa: quoniam Dominum provocasti.
I haue snared thee, and thou art taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striuen against the Lord.
25 Aperuit Dominus thesaurum suum, et protulit vasa irae suae: quoniam opus est Domino Deo exercituum in terra Chaldaeorum.
The Lord hath opened his treasure, and hath brought foorth the weapons of his wrath: for this is the woorke of the Lord God of hostes in the lande of the Caldeans.
26 Venite ad eam ab extremis finibus, aperite ut exeant qui conculcent eam: tollite de via lapides, et redigite in acervos, et interficite eam: nec sit quidquam reliquum.
Come against her from the vtmost border: open her store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Dissipate universos fortes eius, descendant in occisionem: vae eis, quia venit dies eorum, tempus visitationis eorum.
Destroy all her bullockes: let them goe downe to the slaughter. Wo vnto them, for their day is come, and the time of their visitation.
28 Vox fugientium, et eorum, qui evaserunt de terra Babylonis, ut annuncient in Sion ultionem Domini Dei nostri, ultionem templi eius.
The voyce of them that flee, and escape out of the lande of Babel to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, and the vengeance of his Temple.
29 Annunciate in Babylonem plurimis omnibus, qui tendunt arcum: consistite adversus eam per gyrum, et nullus evadat: reddite ei secundum opus suum: iuxta omnia quae fecit, facite illi: quia contra Dominum erecta est, adversum sanctum Israel.
Call vp the archers against Babel: al ye that bend the bow, besiege it rounde about: let none thereof escape: recompence her according to her worke, and according to all that she hath done, doe vnto her: for she hath bene proud against the Lord, euen against the holy one of Israel.
30 Idcirco cadent iuvenes eius in plateis eius: et omnes viri bellatores eius conticescent in die illa, ait Dominus.
Therefore shall her yong men fall in the streetes, and al her men of warre shalbe destroied in that day, sayeth the Lord.
31 Ecce ego ad te superbe, dicit Dominus Deus exercituum: quia venit dies tuus, tempus visitationis tuae.
Beholde, I come vnto thee, O proude man, saith the Lord God of hostes: for thy day is come, euen the time that I will visite thee.
32 Et cadet superbus, et corruet, et non erit qui suscitet eum: et succendam ignem in urbibus eius, et devorabit omnia in circuitu eius.
And the proude shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him vp: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall deuoure all round about him.
33 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum: Calumniam sustinent filii Israel, et filii Iuda simul: omnes, qui ceperunt eos, tenent, nolunt dimittere eos.
Thus saieth the Lord of hosts, The children of Israel, and the children of Iudah were oppressed together: and all that tooke them captiues, held them, and would not let them goe.
34 Redemptor eorum fortis, Dominus exercituum nomen eius, iudicio defendet causam eorum, ut exterreat terram, et commoveat habitatores Babylonis.
But their strong redeemer, whose Name is the Lord of hostes, he shall maintaine their cause, that he may giue rest to the lande, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babel.
35 Gladius ad Chaldaeos, ait Dominus, et ad habitatores Babylonis, et ad principes, et ad sapientes eius.
A sworde is vpon the Caldeans, sayeth the Lord, and vpon the inhabitants of Babel, and vpon her princes, and vpon her wise men.
36 Gladius ad divinos eius, qui stulti erunt: gladius ad fortes illius, qui timebunt.
A sworde is vpon the soothsaiers, and they shall dote: a sword is vpon her strong men, and they shalbe afraide.
37 Gladius ad equos eius, et ad currus eius, et ad omne vulgus, quod est in medio eius: et erunt quasi mulieres: gladius ad thesauros eius, qui diripientur.
A sworde is vpon their horses and vpon their charets, and vpon all the multitude that are in the middes of her, and they shall be like women: a sworde is vpon her treasures, and they shall be spoyled.
38 Siccitas super aquas eius erit, et arescent: quia terra sculptilium est, et in portentis gloriantur.
A drought is vpon her waters, and they shall be dried vp: for it is the lande of grauen images, and they dote vpon their idoles.
39 propterea habitabunt dracones cum faunis sicariis: et habitabunt in ea struthiones: et non inhabitabitur ultra usque in sempiternum, nec extruetur usque ad generationem, et generationem.
Therefore the Ziims with the Iims shall dwel there, and the ostriches shall dwel therein: for it shall be no more inhabited, neither shall it be inhabited from generation vnto generation.
40 Sicut subvertit Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham, et vicinas eius, ait Dominus: non habitabit ibi vir, et non incolet eam filius hominis.
As God destroied Sodom and Gomorah with the places thereof neere about, sayeth the Lord: so shall no man dwell theere, neither shall the sonne of man remaine therein.
41 Ecce populus venit ab Aquilone, et gens magna, et reges multi consurgent a finibus terrae.
Beholde, a people shall come from the North, and a great nation, and many Kings shall be raised vp from the coastes of the earth.
42 Arcum et scutum apprehendent: crudeles sunt et immisericordes: vox eorum quasi mare sonabit, et super equos ascendent: sicut vir paratus ad praelium contra te filia Babylon.
They shall holde the bowe and the buckeler: they are cruell and vnmercifull: their voyce shall roare like the sea, and they shall ride vpon horses, and be put in aray like men to the battell against thee, O daughter of Babel.
43 Audivit rex Babylonis famam eorum, et dissolutae sunt manus eius: angustia apprehendit eum, dolor quasi parturientem.
The King of Babel hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: sorow came vpon him, euen sorowe as of a woman in trauaile.
44 Ecce quasi leo ascendet de superbia Iordanis ad pulchritudinem robustam: quia subito currere faciam eum ad illam: et quis erit electus, quem praeponam ei? quis est enim similis mei? et quis sustinebit me? et quis est iste pastor, qui resistat vultui meo?
Beholde, hee shall come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iorden vnto the strong habitation: for I will make Israel to rest, and I will make them to haste away from her: and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt against her? for who is like me, and who will appoynt me the time? and who is the shepheard that will stande before me?
45 Propterea audite consilium Domini, quod mente concepit adversum Babylonem: et cogitationes eius, quas cogitavit super terram Chaldaeorum: Nisi detraxerint eos parvuli gregum, nisi dissipatum fuerit cum ipsis habitaculum eorum.
Therefore heare the counsell of the Lord that hee hath deuised against Babel, and his purpose that hee hath conceiued against the lande of the Caldeans: surely the least of the flocke shall drawe them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 A voce captivitatis Babylonis commota est terra, et clamor inter Gentes auditus est.
At the noyse of the winning of Babel the earth is moued, and the crye is heard among the nations.
