Jeremias 6
1 Strengthen yourselves, you children of Benjamin, [to flee] out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.
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.
2 And [your] pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.
Speciosae et delicatae assimilavi filiam Sion.
3 The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about, and shall feed [their flocks] each with his hand.
Ad eam venient pastores, et greges eorum: fixerunt in ea tentoria in circuitu: pascet unusquisque eos, qui sub manu sua sunt.
4 Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.
Sanctificate super eam bellum: consurgite, et ascendamus in meridie: vae nobis, quia declinavit dies, quia longiores factae sunt umbrae vesperi.
5 Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
Surgite, et ascendamus in nocte, et dissipemus domus eius.
6 For thus says the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; [there is] all oppression in her.
Quia haec dicit Dominus exercituum: Caedite lignum eius, et fundite circa Ierusalem aggerem: haec est civitas visitationis, omnis calumnia in medio eius.
7 As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, [as] continually before her.
Sicut frigidam facit cisterna aquam suam, sic frigidam fecit malitiam suam: iniquitas et vastitas audietur in ea, coram me semper infirmitas et plaga.
8 You shall be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.
Erudire Ierusalem, ne forte recedat anima mea a te, ne forte ponam te desertam terram inhabitabilem.
9 For thus says the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back [your hands] as a grape-gatherer to his basket.
Haec dicit Dominus exercituum: Usque ad racemum colligent quasi in vinea reliquias Israel: converte manum tuam quasi vindemiator ad cartallum.
10 To whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may listen? behold, your ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear: behold, the word of the Lord is become to them a reproach, they will not at all desire it.
Cui loquar? et quem contestabor ut audiat? ecce incircumcisae aures eorum, et audire non possunt: ecce verbum Domini factum est eis in opprobrium: et non suscipient illud.
11 And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept [it] in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.
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.
12 And their houses shall be turned to others, [with] their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of this land, says the Lord.
Et transibunt domus eorum ad alteros, agri et uxores pariter: quia extendam manum meam super habitantes terram, dicit Dominus.
13 For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all wrought falsely.
A minore quippe usque ad maiorem omnes avaritiae student: et a propheta usque ad sacerdotem cuncti faciunt dolum.
14 And they healed the breach of my people [imperfectly], making light [of it], and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?
Et curabant contritionem filiae populi mei cum ignominia, dicentes: Pax, pax: et non erat pax.
15 They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are [truly] ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they [utterly] fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.
Confusi sunt, quia abominationem fecerunt: quin potius confusione non sunt confusi, et erubescere nescierunt. quam ob rem cadent inter ruentes: in tempore visitationis suae corruent, dicit Dominus.
16 Thus says the Lord, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and you shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in them].
Haec dicit Dominus: State super vias, et videte, et interrogate de semitis antiquis, quae sit via bona, et ambulate in ea: et invenietis refrigerium animabus vestris. Et dixerunt: Non ambulabimus.
17 I have set watchmen over you, [saying], Hear you the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear [it].
Et constitui super vos speculatores. Audite vocem tubae. Et dixerunt: Non audiemus.
18 Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
Ideo audite Gentes, et cognosce congregatio, quanta ego faciam eis.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, [even] the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.
Audi terra: Ecce ego adducam mala super populum istum, fructum cogitationum eius: quia verba mea non audierunt, et legem meam proiecerunt.
20 Therefore do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.
Ut quid mihi thus de Saba affertis, et calamum suave olentem de terra longinqua? holocaustomata vestra non sunt accepta, et victimae vestrae non placuerunt mihi.
21 Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I [will] bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
Propterea haec dicit Dominus: Ecce ego dabo in populum istum ruinas, et ruent in eis patres et filii simul, vicinus, et proximus peribunt.
22 Thus says the Lord, Behold, a people comes from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.
Haec dicit Dominus: Ecce populus venit de terra Aquilonis, et gens magna consurget a finibus terrae.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; [the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against you as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.
Sagittam et scutum arripiet: crudelis est, et non miserebitur. vox eius quasi mare sonabit: et super equos ascendent, praeparati quasi vir ad praelium, adversum te filia Sion.
24 We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
Audivimus famam eius, dissolutae sunt manus nostrae: tribulatio apprehendit nos, dolores ut parturientem.
25 Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.
Nolite exire ad agros, et in via ne ambuletis: quoniam gladius inimici pavor in circuitu.
26 O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth: sprinkle [yourself] with ashes; make for yourself pitiable lamentation, [as] the mourning for a beloved [son]: for misery will come suddenly upon you.
Filia populi mei accingere cilicio, et conspergere cinere: luctum unigeniti fac tibi, planctum amarum, quia repente veniet vastator super vos.
27 I have caused you to be tried among tried nations, and you shall know me when I have tried their way.
Probatorem dedi te in populo meo robustum: et scies, et probabis viam eorum.
28 [They are] all disobedient, walking perversely: [they are] brass and iron; they are all corrupted.
Omnes isti principes declinantes, ambulantes fraudulenter, aes et ferrum: universi corrupti sunt.
29 The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.
Defecit sufflatorium, in igne consumptum est plumbum, frustra conflavit conflator: malitiae enim eorum non sunt consumptae.
30 Call you them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
Argentum reprobum vocate eos, quia Dominus proiecit illos.
