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-ecísti enim pópulum tuum, domum Jacob, quia repléti sunt ut olim, et áugeres habuérunt ut Philísthiim, et púeris aliénis adhæsérunt. Repléta est terra argénto et auro, et non est finis thesaurórum ejus. Et repléta est terra ejus equis, et innumerábiles quadrígæ ejus. Et repléta est terra ejus idólis; opus mánuum suárum adoravérunt, quod fecérunt dígiti eórum. Et incurvávit se homo, et humiliátus est vir; ne ergo dimíttas eis. Ingrédere in petram, et abscóndere in fossa humo a fácie timóris Dómini, et a glória majestátis ejus. Óculi sublímes hóminis humiliáti sunt, et incurvábitur altitúdo virórum; exaltábitur autem Dóminus solus in die illa. Quia dies Dómini exercítuum super omnem supérbum, et excélsum, et super omnem arrogántem, et humiliábitur; et super omnes cedros Líbani sublímes et eréctas, et super omnes quercus Basan, et super omnes montes excélsos, et super omnes colles elevátos, et super omnem turrim excélsam, et super omnem murum munítum, et super omnes naves Tharsis, et super omne quod visu pulchrum est, et incurvábitur sublímitas hóminum, et humiliábitur altitúdo virórum, et elevábitur Dóminus solus in die illa; et idóla pénitus conteréntur; et introíbunt in spelúncas petrárum, et in vorágines terræ, a fácie formídinis Dómini et a glória majestátis ejus, cum surréxerit percútere terram. In die illa projíciet homo idóla argénti sui, et simulácra auri sui, quæ fécerat sibi ut adoráret, talpas et vespertiliónes. Et ingréditur scissúras petrárum et in cavérnas saxórum, a fácie formídinis Dómini, et a glória majestátis ejus, cum surréxerit percútere terram. Quiéscite ergo ab hómine, cujus spíritus in náribus ejus est, quia excélsus reputátus est ipse. III. Ecce enim Dominátor, Dóminus exercítuum, áuferet a Jerúsalem et a Juda válidum et fortem, omne robur panis, et omne robor aquæ; fortem, et virum bellatórem, júdicem, et prophétam, et aríolum, et senem; príncipem super quinquagínta, et honorábilem vultu et consiliárium, et sapiéntem de architéctis, et prudéntem elóquii mýstici. Et dabo púeros príncipes eórum, et effemináti dominabúntur eis; et írruet pópulus, vir ad virum, et unusquísque ad próximum suum; tumultuábitur puer contra senem, et ignóbilis contra nóbilem. Apprehéndet enim vir fratrem suum, domésticum patris sui: Vestiméntum tibi est, princeps esto noster, ruína autem hæc sub manu tua. Respondébit in die illa, dicens: Non sum médicus, et in domo mea non est panis neque vestiméntum: nolíte constitúere me príncipem pópuli. Ruit enim Jerúsalem, et Judas concídit, quia lingua eórum et adinventiónes eórum contra Dóminum, ut provocárent óculos majestátis ejus. Agnítio vultus eórum respóndit eis; et peccátum suum quasi Sodóma prædicavérunt, nec abscondérunt. Væ ánimæ eórum,

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quóniam réddita sunt eis mala! Dícite justo quóniam bene, quóniam fructum adinventiónum suárum cómedet. Væ ímpio in malum! retribútio enim mánuum ejus fiet ei. Pópulum meum exactóres sui spoliavérunt, et mulíeres dominátæ sunt eis. Pópule meus, qui te beátum dicunt, ipsi te decípiunt, et viam gréssuum tuórum díssipant. Stat ad judicándum Dóminus, et stat ad judicándos pópulos. Dóminus ad judícium véniet cum sénibus pópuli sui, et princípibus ejus; vos enim depásti estis víneam, et rapína páuperis in domo vestra. Quare attéritis pópulum meum, et fácies páuperum commólitis? dicit Dóminus Deus exercítuum. Et dixit Dóminus: Pro eo quod elevátæ sunt fíliæ Sion, et ambulavérunt exténto collo, et nútibus oculórum ibant, et plaudébant, ambulábant pédibus suis, et compósito gradu incedébant; decalvábit Dóminus vérticem filiárum Sion, et Dóminus crinem eárum nudábit. In die illa áuferet Dóminus ornaméntum calceaméntum, et lúnulas, et torques, et monília, et armíllas, et mitras, et discriminália, et periscélidas, et murénulas, et olfactoríola, et ináures, et ánnulos, et gemmas in fronte pendéntes, et mutatória, et pallíola, et linteámina, et acus, et spécula, et síndones, et vittas, et therístra. Et erit pro suávi odóre fœtor, et pro zona funículus, et pro crispánti crine calvítium, et pro fáscia pectoráli cilícium. Pulchérrimi quoque viri tui gládio cadent, et fortes tui in praelio. Et mœrébunt atque lugébunt portæ ejus, et desoláta in terra sedébit. IIII. Et apprehéndent septem mulíeres virum unum in die illa, dicéntes: Panem nostrum comedémus, et vestiméntis nostris operiémur: tantúmmodo invocétur nomen tuum super nos; aufer oppróbrium nostrum. In die illa, erit germen Dómini in magnificéntia et glória, et fructus terræ sublímis, et exsultátio his qui salváti fúerint de Israël. Et erit: omnis qui relíctus fúerit in Sion, et resíduus in Jerúsalem, Sanctus vocábitur, omnis qui scriptus est in vita in Jerúsalem. Si ablúerit Dóminus sordes filiárum Sion, et sánguinem Jerúsalem láverit de médio ejus, in spíritu judícii, et spíritu ardóris. Et creábit Dóminus super omnem locum montis Sion, et ubi invocátus est, nubem per diem et fumum, et splendórem ignis flammántis in nocte: super omnem enim glóriam protéctio. Et tabernáculum erit in umbráculum, diéi ab æstu, et in securitátem et absconsiónem a túrbine et a plúvia. V. Cantábo dilécto meo cánticum patrúelis mei víneæ suæ. Vínea facta est dilécto meo in cornu fílio ólei. Et sepívit eam, et lápides elégit ex illa, et plantávit eam eléctam; et ædificávit turrim in médio ejus, et tórcular exstrúxit in ea;

[Isaiah 2:6-5:2]

...cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children. 7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures. 8 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made. 9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not. 10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled. 13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan. 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated hills. 15 And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall. 16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold. 17 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed. 19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats. 21 And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth. 22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

1 For behold the sovereign the Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of water. 2 The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the cunning man, and the ancient. 3 The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. 6 For a man shall take hold or his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand. 7 In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty. 9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them. 10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. 11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps. 13 The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people. 14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house. 15 Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts. 16 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: 17 The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and little moons, 19 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets, 20 And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet balls, and earrings, 21 And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead, 22 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and crisping pins, 23 And looking-glasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils. 24 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth. 25 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach. 2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written in life in Jerusalem. 4 If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.

1 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. 2 And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked...

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ut fáceret uvas, et fecit labrúscas. Nunc ergo, habitatóres Jerúsalem et viri Juda, judicáte inter me et víneam meam. Quid est quod débui ultra fácere víneæ meæ, et non feci ei? an quod exspectávi ut fáceret uvas, et fecit labrúscas? Et nunc osténdam vobis quid ego fáciam víneæ meæ: áuferam sepem ejus, et erit in direptiónem; díruam macériam ejus, et erit in conculcatiónem. Et ponam eam desértam; non putábitur et non fodiétur: et ascéndent vepres et spinæ, et núbibus mandábo ne pluant super eam imbrem. Vínea enim Dómini exercítuum domus Israël est; et vir Juda germen ejus delectábile: et exspectávi ut fáceret judícium, et ecce iníquitas; et justítiam, et ecce clamor. Væ qui conjúngitis domum ad domum, et agrum agro copulátis usque ad términum loci! Numquid habitábitis vos soli in médio terræ? In áuribus meis sunt hæc, dicit Dóminus exercítuum; nisi domus multæ desértæ fúerint, grandes et pulchræ, absque habitatóre. Decem enim júgera vineárum fácient lagúnculam unam, et trigínta módii seméntis fácient módios tres. Væ qui consúrgitis mane ad ebrietátem sectándam, et potándum usque ad vésperam, ut vino æstuétis! Cíthara, et lyra, et týmpanum, et tíbia, et vinum in convíviis vestris; et opus Dómini non respícitis, nec ópera mánuum ejus considerátis. Proptérea captívus ductus est pópulus meus, quia non hábuit sciéntiam, et nóbiles ejus interiérunt fame, et multitúdo ejus siti exáruit. Proptérea dilatávit inférnus ánimam suam, et apéruit os suum absque ullo término; et descéndent fortes ejus, et pópulus ejus, et sublímes gloriosíque ejus, ad eum. Et incurvábitur homo, et humiliábitur vir, et óculi sublímium depriméntur. Et exaltábitur Dóminus exercítuum in judício; et Deus sanctus sanctificábitur in justítia. Et pascéntur agni juxta órdinem suum, et desérta in ubertátem versa advénæ cómedent. Væ qui tráhitis iniquitátem in funículis vanitátis, et quasi vínculum plaustri peccátum! qui dícitis: Festínet, et cito véniat opus ejus, ut videámus; et apprópiet, et véniat consílium sancti Israël, et sciémus illud! Væ qui dícitis malum bonum, et bonum malum; ponéntes ténebras lucem, et lucem ténebras; ponéntes amárum in dulce, et dulce in amárum! Væ qui sapiéntes estis in óculis vestris, et coram vobismetípsis prudéntes. Væ qui poténtes estis ad bibéndum vinum, et viri fortes ad miscéndam ebrietátem! qui justificátis ímpium pro munéribus, et justítiam justi aufértis ab eo! Propter hoc, sicut dévorat stípulam lingua ignis, et calor flammæ exúrit, sic radix eórum quasi favílla erit, et germen eórum ut pul-

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-vis ascéndet; abjecérunt enim legem Dómini exercítuum, et elóquium sancti Israël blasphemavérunt. Ídeo irátus est furor Dómini in pópulum suum, et exténdit manum suam super eum, et percússit eum: et conturbáti sunt montes, et facta sunt morticína eórum quasi stercus in médio plateárum. In his ómnibus non est advérsus furor ejus, sed adhuc manus ejus exténta. Et elevábit signum in natiónibus procul, et sibilábit ad eum de fínibus terræ: et ecce festínus velóciter véniet. Non est defíciens neque labórans in eo; non dormitábit, neque dórmiet; neque solvétur cíngulum renum ejus, nec rumpétur corrígia calceaménti ejus. Sagíttæ ejus acútæ, et omnes arcus ejus exténti. Úngulæ equórum ejus ut silex, et rotæ ejus quasi ímpetus tempestátis. Rúgitus ejus ut leónis; rúgiet ut cátuli leónum: et frendet, et tenébit prædam, et amplexábitur, et non erit qui éruat. Et sonábit super eum in die illa sicut sónitus maris: aspiciémus in terram, et ecce ténebræ tribulatiónis, et lux obtenebráta est in calígine ejus. VI. In anno quo mórtuus est rex Ozías, vidi Dóminum sedéntem super sólium excélsum et elevátum; et ea quæ sub ipso erant replébant templum. Séraphim stabant super illud: sex alæ uni, et sex alæ álteri; duábus velábant fáciem ejus, et duábus velábant pedes ejus, et duábus volábant. Et clamábant alter ad álterum, et dicébant: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dóminus, Deus exercítuum; plena est omnis terra glória ejus. Et commóta sunt superliminária cárdinum a voce clamántis, et domus repléta est fumo. Et dixi: Væ mihi, quia tácui, quia vir pollútus lábiis ego sum, et in médio pópuli pollúta lábia habéntis ego hábito, et regem Dóminum exercítuum vidi óculis meis. Et volávit ad me unus de séraphim, et in manu ejus cálculus, quem fórcipe túlerat de altári, et tétigit os meum, et dixit: Ecce tétigit hoc lábia tua, et auferétur iníquitas tua, et peccátum tuum mundábitur. Et audívi vocem Dómini dicéntis: Quem mittam? et quis ibit nobis? Et dixi: Ecce ego, mitte me. Et dixit: Vade, et dices pópulo huic: Audíte audiéntes, et nolíte intellígere; et vidéte visiónem, et nolíte cognóscere. Excaeca cor pópuli hujus, et aures ejus aggráva, et óculos ejus claude: ne forte vídeat óculis suis, et áuribus suis áudiat, et corde suo intélligat, et convertátur, et sanem eum. Et dixi: Úsquequo, Dómine? Et dixit: Donec desoléntur civitátes absque habitatóre, et domus sine hómine, et terra relinquétur desérta. Et longe fáciet Dóminus hómines, et multiplicábitur quæ derelícta fúerat in médio terræ. Et adhuc in ea decimátio, et convertétur, et erit in ostensiónem sicut terebínthus, et sicut quercus quæ expándit

[Isaiah 5:2-6:13]

...that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes? 5 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. 6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry. 8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth? 9 These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels. 11 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine. 12 The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands. 13 Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it. 15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low. 16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice. 17 And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness. 18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. 19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it. 20 Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. 21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits. 22 Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness. 23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him. 24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. 27 There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken. 28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest. 29 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it. 30 And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.

1 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. 2 Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew. 3 And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory. 4 And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts. 6 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed. 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me. 9 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not. 10 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them. 11 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate. 12 And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth. 13 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth...