Isaiæ 22

1 Onus vallis visionis. Quidnam quoque tibi est, quia ascendisti et tu omnis in tecta?

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee nowe that thou art wholy gone vp vnto the house toppes?

2 clamoris plena, urbs frequens, civitas exultans: interfecti tui, non interfecti gladio, nec mortui in bello.

Thou that art full of noise, a citie full of brute, a ioyous citie: thy slaine men shall not bee slaine with sworde, nor die in battell.

3 Cuncti principes tui fugerunt simul, dureque ligati sunt: omnes, qui inventi sunt, vincti sunt pariter, procul fugerunt.

All thy princes shall flee together from the bowe: they shalbe bound: all that shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which haue fled from farre.

4 Propterea dixi: Recedite a me, amare flebo: nolite incumbere ut consolemini me super vastitate filiæ populi mei.

Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

5 Dies enim interfectionis, et conculcationis, et fletuum Domino Deo exercituum in valle visionis scrutans murum, et magnificus super montem.

For it is a day of trouble, and of ruine, and of perplexitie by the Lord God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the citie: and a crying vnto the mountaines.

6 Et Ælam sumpsit pharetram, currum hominis equitis, et parietem nudavit clypeus.

And Elam bare the quiuer in a mans charet with horsemen, and Kir vncouered the shield.

7 Et erunt electæ valles tuæ plenæ quadrigarum, et equites ponent sedes suas in porta.

And thy chiefe valleis were full of charets, and the horsemen set themselues in aray against the gate.

8 Et revelabitur operimentum Iudæ, et videbis in die illa armamentarium domus saltus.

And hee discouered the couering of Iudah: and thou didest looke in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

9 Et scissuras civitatis David videbitis, quia multiplicatæ sunt: et congregastis aquas piscinæ inferioris,

And ye haue seene the breaches of the citie of Dauid: for they were many, and ye gathered the waters of the lower poole.

10 et domos Ierusalem numerastis, et destruxistis domos ad muniendum murum.

And yee nombred the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses haue yee broken downe to fortifie the wall,

11 Et lacum fecistis inter duos muros ad aquam piscinæ veteris: et non suspexistis ad eum, qui fecerat eam, et operatorem eius de longe non vidistis.

And haue also made a ditche betweene the two walles, for the waters of the olde poole, and haue not looked vnto the maker thereof, neither had respect vnto him that formed it of olde.

12 Et vocabit Dominus Deus exercituum in die illa ad fletum, et ad planctum, ad calvitium, et ad cingulum sacci:

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.

13 et ecce gaudium et lætitia, occidere vitulos, et iugulare arietes, comedere carnes, et bibere vinum: Comedamus, et bibamus: cras enim moriemur.

And beholde, ioy and gladnes, slaying oxen and killing sheepe, eating flesh, and drinking wine, eating and drinking: for to morowe we shall die.

14 Et revelata est in auribus meis vox Domini exercituum. Si dimittetur iniquitas hæc vobis donec moriamini, dicit Dominus Deus exercituum.

And it was declared in ye eares of the Lord of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.

15 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum: Vade, ingredere ad eum, qui habitat in tabernaculo, ad Sobnam præpositum templi, et dices ad eum:

Thus sayeth the Lord God of hostes, Goe, get thee to that treasurer, to Shebna, the steward of the house, and say,

16 Quid tu hic, aut quasi quis hic? quia excidisti tibi hic sepulchrum, excidisti in excelso memoriale diligenter, in petra tabernaculum tibi.

What haste thou to doe here? and whome hast thou here? that thou shouldest here hewe thee out a sepulchre, as he that heweth out his sepulchre in an hie place, or that graueth an habitation for him selfe in a rocke?

17 Ecce Dominus asportari te faciet, sicut asportatur gallus gallinaceus, et quasi amictum sic sublevabit te.

Beholde, the Lord wil carie thee away with a great captiuitie, and will surely couer thee.

18 Coronas cornonabit te tribulatione, quasi pilam mittet te in terram latam et spatiosam: ibi morieris, et ibi erit currus gloriæ tuæ, ignominia domus Domini tui.

He wil surely rolle and turne thee like a bal in a large countrey: there shalt thou die, and there the charets of thy glory shalbe the shame of thy lordes house.

19 Et expellam te de statione tua, et de ministerio tuo deponam te.

And I wil driue thee from thy station, and out of thy dwelling will he destroy thee.

20 Et erit in die illa: Vocabo servum meum Eliacim filium Helciæ,

And in that day will I call my seruant Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah,

21 et induam illum tunica tua, et cingulo tuo confortabo eum, et potestatem tuam dabo in manu eius: et erit quasi pater habitantibus Ierusalem, et domui Iuda.

And with thy garments will I clothe him, and with thy girdle will I strengthen him: thy power also will I commit into his hande, and hee shalbe a father of the inhabitats of Ierusalem, and of the house of Iudah.

22 Et dabo clavem domus David super humerum eius: et aperiet, et non erit qui claudat: et claudet, et non erit qui aperiat.

And the key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder: so hee shall open, and no man shall shut: and he shall shut, and no man shall open.

23 Et figam illum paxillum in loco fideli, et erit in solium gloriæ domui patris eius.

And I will fasten him as a naile in a sure place, and hee shall be for the throne of glorie to his fathers house.

24 Et suspendent super eum omnem gloriam domus patris eius, vasorum diversa genera, omne vas parvulum a vasis craterarum usque ad omne vas musicorum.

And they shall hang vpon him all the glorie of his fathers house, euen of the nephewes and posteritie all small vessels, from the vessels of the cuppes, euen to all the instruments of musike.

25 In die illa dicit Dominus exercituum: Auferetur paxillus, qui fixus fuerat in loco fideli: et frangetur, et cadet, et peribit quod pependerat in eo, quia Dominus locutus est.

In that day, sayeth the Lord of hostes, shall the naile, that is fastned in the sure place, depart and shall be broken, and fall: and the burden, that was vpon it, shall bee cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.