Jeremiæ 6
1 Confortamini filii Beniamin in medio Ierusalem, et in Thecua clangite buccina, et super Bethacarem levate vexillum: quia malum visum est ab Aquilone, et contritio magna.
O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the middle of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.
2 Speciosæ et delicatæ assimilavi filiam Sion.
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
3 Ad eam venient pastores, et greges eorum: fixerunt in ea tentoria in circuitu: pascet unusquisque eos, qui sub manu sua sunt.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4 Sanctificate super eam bellum: consurgite, et ascendamus in meridie: væ nobis, quia declinavit dies, quia longiores factæ sunt umbræ vesperi.
Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 Surgite, et ascendamus in nocte, et dissipemus domus eius.
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6 Quia hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Cædite lignum eius, et fundite circa Ierusalem aggerem: hæc est civitas visitationis, omnis calumnia in medio eius.
For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the middle of her.
7 Sicut frigidam fecit cisterna aquam suam, sic frigidum fecit malitiam suam: iniquitas et vastitas audietur in ea, coram me semper infirmitas et plaga.
As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
8 Erudire Ierusalem, ne forte recedat anima mea a te, ne forte ponam te desertam terram inhabitabilem.
Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Usque ad racemum colligent quasi in vinea reliquias Israel: converte manum tuam quasi vindemiator ad cartallum.
Thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.
10 Cui loquar? et quem contestabor ut audiat? ecce incircumcisæ aures eorum, et audire non possunt: ecce verbum Domini factum est eis in opprobrium: et non suscipient illud.
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot listen: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11 Idcirco furore Domini plenus sum, laboravi sustinens: effunde super parvulum foris, et super consilium iuvenum simul: vir enim cum muliere capietur, senex cum pleno dierum.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out on the children abroad, and on the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
12 Et transibunt domus eorum ad alteros, agri et uxores pariter: quia extendam manum meam super habitantes terram, dicit Dominus.
And their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.
13 A minore quippe usque ad maiorem omnes avaritiæ student: et a propheta usque ad sacerdotem cuncti faciunt dolum.
For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
14 Et curabant contritionem filiæ populi mei cum ignominia, dicentes: Pax, pax: et non erat pax.
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15 Confusi sunt, quia abominationem fecerunt: quin potius confusione non sunt confusi, et erubescere nescierunt. quam ob rem cadent inter ruentes: in tempore visitationis suæ corruent, dicit Dominus.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
16 Hæc dicit Dominus: State super vias, et videte, et interrogate de semitis antiquis, quæ sit via bona, et ambulate in ea: et invenietis refrigerium animabus vestris. Et dixerunt: Non ambulabimus.
Thus says the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Et constitui super vos speculatores. Audite vocem tubæ. Et dixerunt: Non audiemus.
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not listen.
18 Ideo audite Gentes, et cognosce congregatio, quanta ego faciam eis.
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Audi terra: Ecce ego adducam mala super populum istum, fructum cogitationum eius: quia verba mea non audierunt, et legem meam proiecerunt.
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 Ut quid mihi thus de Saba affertis, et calamum suave olentem de terra longinqua? holocautomata vestra non sunt accepta, et victimæ vestræ non placuerunt mihi.
To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.
21 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus: Ecce ego dabo in populum istum ruinas, et ruent in eis patres et filii simul, vicinus, et proximus peribunt.
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
22 Hæc dicit Dominus: Ecce populus venit de terra Aquilonis, et gens magna consurget a finibus terræ.
Thus says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23 Sagittam et scutum arripiet: crudelis est, et non miserebitur. vox eius quasi mare sonabit: et super equos ascendent, præparati quasi vir ad prælium, adversum te filia Sion.
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.
24 Audivimus famam eius, dissolutæ sunt manus nostræ: tribulatio apprehendit nos, dolores ut parturientem.
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
25 Nolite exire ad agros, et in via ne ambuletis: quoniam gladius inimici pavor in circuitu.
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
26 Filia populi mei accingere cilicio, et conspergere cinere: luctum unigeniti fac tibi, planctum amarum, quia repente veniet vastator super nos.
O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come on us.
27 Probatorem dedi te in populo meo robustum: et scies, et probabis viam eorum.
I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.
28 Omnes isti principes declinantes, ambulantes fraudulenter, æs et ferrum: universi corrupta sunt.
They are all grievous rebels, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
29 Defecit sufflatorium, in igne consumptum est plumbum, frustra conflavit conflator: malitiæ enim eorum non sunt consumptæ.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30 Argentum reprobum vocate eos, quia Dominus proiecit illos.
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.
