1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

1 Audite me, qui sequimini quod justum est,
et quæritis Dominum;
attendite ad petram unde excisi estis,
et ad cavernam laci de qua præcisi estis.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

2 Attendite ad Abraham, patrem vestrum,
et ad Saram, quæ peperit vos:
quia unum vocavi eum,
et benedixi ei, et multiplicavi eum.

3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

3 Consolabitur ergo Dominus Sion,
et consolabitur omnes ruinas ejus:
et ponet desertum ejus quasi delicias,
et solitudinem ejus quasi hortum Domini.
Gaudium et lætitia invenietur in ea,
gratiarum actio et vox laudis.

4 ¶ Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

4 Attendite ad me, popule meus,
et tribus mea, me audite:
quia lex a me exiet,
et judicium meum in lucem populorum requiescet.

5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

5 Prope est justus meus, egressus est salvator meus,
et brachia mea populos judicabunt;
me insulæ exspectabunt,
et brachium meum sustinebunt.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

6 Levate in cælum oculos vestros,
et videte sub terra deorsum:
quia cæli sicut fumus liquescent,
et terra sicut vestimentum atteretur,
et habitatores ejus sicut hæc interibunt:
salus autem mea in sempiternum erit,
et justitia mea non deficiet.

7 ¶ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

7 Audite me, qui scitis justum,
populus meus, lex mea in corde eorum:
nolite timere opprobrium hominum,
et blasphemias eorum ne metuatis:

8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

8 sicut enim vestimentum, sic comedet eos vermis,
et sicut lanam, sic devorabit eos tinea:
salus autem mea in sempiternum erit,
et justitia mea in generationes generationum.

9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

9 Consurge, consurge, induere fortitudinem,
brachium Domini!
consurge sicut in diebus antiquis,
in generationibus sæculorum.
Numquid non tu percussisti superbum,
vulnerasti draconem?

10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

10 numquid non tu siccasti mare,
aquam abyssi vehementis;
qui posuisti profundum maris viam,
ut transirent liberati?

11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

11 Et nunc qui redempti sunt a Domino, revertentur,
et venient in Sion laudantes,
et lætitia sempiterna super capita eorum:
gaudium et lætitiam tenebunt;
fugiet dolor et gemitus.

12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

12 Ego, ego ipse consolabor vos.
Quis tu, ut timeres ab homine mortali,
et a filio hominis qui quasi fœnum ita arescet?

13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

13 Et oblitus es Domini, factoris tui,
qui tetendit cælos et fundavit terram;
et formidasti jugiter tota die
a facie furoris ejus qui te tribulabat,
et paraverat ad perdendum.
Ubi nunc est furor tribulantis?

14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

14 Cito veniet gradiens ad aperiendum;
et non interficiet usque ad internecionem,
nec deficiet panis ejus.

15 But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.

15 Ego autem sum Dominus Deus tuus,
qui conturbo mare, et intumescunt fluctus ejus:
Dominus exercituum nomen meum.

16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

16 Posui verba mea in ore tuo,
et in umbra manus meæ protexi te,
ut plantes cælos, et fundes terram,
et dicas ad Sion: Populus meus es tu.

17 ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

17 ¶ Elevare, elevare,
consurge, Jerusalem,
quæ bibisti de manu Domini
calicem iræ ejus;
usque ad fundum calicis soporis bibisti,
et potasti usque ad fæces.

18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

18 Non est qui sustentet eam,
ex omnibus filiis quos genuit;
et non est qui apprehendat manum ejus,
ex omnibus filiis quos enutrivit.

19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

19 Duo sunt quæ occurrerunt tibi;
quis contristabitur super te?
Vastitas, et contritio, et fames, et gladius;
quis consolabitur te?

20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

20 Filii tui projecti sunt, dormierunt
in capite omnium viarum
sicut oryx illaqueatus,
pleni indignatione Domini,
increpatione Dei tui.

21 ¶ Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

21 Idcirco audi hoc, paupercula,
et ebria non a vino.

22 Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

22 Hæc dicit dominator tuus Dominus,
et Deus tuus, qui pugnabit pro populo suo:
Ecce tuli de manu tua
calicem soporis,
fundum calicis indignationis meæ:
non adjicies ut bibas illum ultra.

23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

23 Et ponam illum in manu eorum qui te humiliaverunt,
et dixerunt animæ tuæ:
Incurvare, ut transeamus;
et posuisti ut terram corpus tuum,
et quasi viam transeuntibus.