1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

1 Prope est ut veniat tempus ejus,
et dies ejus non elongabuntur.
Miserebitur enim Dominus Jacob,
et eliget adhuc de Israël,
et requiescere eos faciet super humum suam;
adjungetur advena ad eos,
et adhærebit domui Jacob.

2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

2 Et tenebunt eos populi,
et adducent eos in locum suum;
et possidebit eos domus Israël
super terram Domini
in servos et ancillas:
et erunt capientes eos qui se ceperant,
et subjicient exactores suos.

3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

3 ¶ Et erit in die illa: cum requiem dederit tibi Deus
a labore tuo, et a concussione tua,
et a servitute dura qua ante servisti,

4 ¶ That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

4 sumes parabolam istam
contra regem Babylonis, et dices:
Quomodo cessavit exactor;
quievit tributum?

5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

5 Contrivit Dominus baculum impiorum,
virgam dominantium,

6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

6 cædentem populos in indignatione
plaga insanabili,
subjicientem in furore gentes,
persequentem crudeliter.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

7 Conquievit et siluit omnis terra,
gavisa est et exsultavit;

8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

8 abietes quoque lætatæ sunt super te,
et cedri Libani:
ex quo dormisti, non ascendet
qui succidat nos.

9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

9 Infernus subter conturbatus est
in occursum adventus tui;
suscitavit tibi gigantes.
Omnes principes terræ
surrexerunt de soliis suis,
omnes principes nationum.

10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

10 Universi respondebunt, et dicent tibi:
Et tu vulneratus es sicut et nos;
nostri similis effectus es.

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

11 Detracta est ad inferos superbia tua,
concidit cadaver tuum;
subter te sternetur tinea,
et operimentum tuum erunt vermes.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

12 Quomodo cecidisti de cælo,
Lucifer, qui mane oriebaris?
corruisti in terram,
qui vulnerabas gentes?

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

13 Qui dicebas in corde tuo:
In cælum conscendam,
super astra Dei
exaltabo solium meum;
sedebo in monte testamenti,
in lateribus aquilonis;

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

14 ascendam super altitudinem nubium,
similis ero Altissimo?

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

15 Verumtamen ad infernum detraheris,
in profundum laci.

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

16 Qui te viderint, ad te inclinabuntur,
teque prospicient:
Numquid iste est vir qui conturbavit terram,
qui concussit regna,

17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

17 qui posuit orbem desertum,
et urbes ejus destruxit,
vinctis ejus non aperuit carcerem?

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

18 Omnes reges gentium
universi dormierunt in gloria,
vir in domo sua;

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

19 tu autem projectus es de sepulchro tuo,
quasi stirps inutilis pollutus,
et obvolutus cum his qui interfecti sunt gladio,
et descenderunt ad fundamenta laci,
quasi cadaver putridum.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

20 Non habebis consortium, neque cum eis in sepultura;
tu enim terram tuam disperdidisti,
tu populum tuum occidisti:
non vocabitur in æternum
semen pessimorum.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

21 Præparate filios ejus occisioni,
in iniquitate patrum suorum:
non consurgent, nec hæreditabunt terram,
neque implebunt faciem orbis civitatum.

22 For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

22 Et consurgam super eos,
dicit Dominus exercituum;
et perdam Babylonis nomen, et reliquias,
et germen, et progeniem, dicit Dominus;

23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.

23 et ponam eam in possessionem ericii,
et in paludes aquarum,
et scopabo eam in scopa terens,
dicit Dominus exercituum.

24 ¶ The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

24 ¶ Juravit Dominus exercituum, dicens:
Si non, ut putavi, ita erit;
et quomodo mente tractavi,

25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

25 sic eveniet:
ut conteram Assyrium in terra mea,
et in montibus meis conculcem eum;
et auferetur ab eis jugum ejus,
et onus illius ab humero eorum tolletur.

26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

26 Hoc consilium quod cogitavi super omnem terram;
et hæc est manus extenta super universas gentes.

27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

27 Dominus enim exercituum decrevit; et quis poterit infirmare?
et manus ejus extenta; et quis avertet eam?

28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

28 ¶ In anno quo mortuus est rex Achaz, factum est onus istud:

29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

29 ¶ Ne læteris, Philisthæa omnis tu,
quoniam comminuta est virga percussoris tui;
de radice enim colubri egredietur regulus,
et semen ejus absorbens volucrem.

30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

30 Et pascentur primogeniti pauperum,
et pauperes fiducialiter requiescent;
et interire faciam in fame radicem tuam,
et reliquias tuas interficiam.

31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

31 Ulula, porta; clama civitas;
prostrata est Philisthæa omnis;
ab aquilone enim fumus veniet,
et non est qui effugiet agmen ejus.

32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

32 Et quid respondebitur nuntiis gentis?
Quia Dominus fundavit Sion,
et in ipso sperabunt pauperes populi ejus.