1 The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

1 Verbum quod locutus est Dominus de Babylone et de terra Chaldæorum, in manu Jeremiæ prophetæ.

2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

2 ¶ Annuntiate in gentibus, et auditum facite:
levate signum, prædicate, et nolite celare:
dicite: Capta est Babylon,
confusus est Bel, victus est Merodach,
confusa sunt sculptilia ejus,
superata sunt idola eorum.

3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

3 Quoniam ascendit contra eam gens ab aquilone,
quæ ponet terram ejus in solitudinem,
et non erit qui habitet in ea ab homine usque ad pecus:
et moti sunt, et abierunt.

4 ¶ In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God.

4 In diebus illis, et in tempore illo, ait Dominus,
venient filii Israël ipsi et filii Juda simul:
ambulantes et flentes properabunt,
et Dominum Deum suum quærent:

5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

5 in Sion interrogabunt viam, huc facies eorum:
venient, et apponentur ad Dominum fœdere sempiterno,
quod nulla oblivione delebitur.

6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

6 Grex perditus factus est populus meus:
pastores eorum seduxerunt eos,
feceruntque vagari in montibus:
de monte in collem transierunt;
obliti sunt cubilis sui.

7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

7 Omnes qui invenerunt comederunt eos,
et hostes eorum dixerunt: Non peccavimus:
pro eo quod peccaverunt Domino decori justitiæ,
et exspectationi patrum eorum Domino.

8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

8 Recedite de medio Babylonis,
et de terra Chaldæorum egredimini,
et estote quasi hædi ante gregem.

9 ¶ For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

9 Quoniam ecce ego suscito,
et adducam in Babylonem
congregationem gentium magnarum de terra aquilonis,
et præparabuntur adversus eam, et inde capietur:
sagitta ejus quasi viri fortis interfectoris:
non revertetur vacua.

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.

10 Et erit Chaldæa in prædam:
omnes vastantes eam replebuntur, ait Dominus.

11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

11 Quoniam exsultatis, et magna loquimini,
diripientes hæreditatem meam:
quoniam effusi estis sicut vituli super herbam,
et mugistis sicut tauri:

12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

12 confusa est mater vestra nimis,
et adæquata pulveri, quæ genuit vos:
ecce novissima erit in gentibus,
deserta, invia, et arens.

13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

13 Ab ira Domini non habitabitur,
sed redigetur tota in solitudinem:
omnis qui transibit per Babylonem stupebit,
et sibilabit super universis plagis ejus.

14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.

14 Præparamini contra Babylonem per circuitum,
omnes qui tenditis arcum:
debellate eam, non parcatis jaculis,
quia Domino peccavit.

15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

15 Clamate adversus eam,
ubique dedit manum:
ceciderunt fundamenta ejus,
destructi sunt muri ejus,
quoniam ultio Domini est:
ultionem accipite de ea:
sicut fecit, facite ei.

16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

16 Disperdite satorem de Babylone,
et tenentem falcem in tempore messis:
a facie gladii columbæ
unusquisque ad populum suum convertetur,
et singuli ad terram suam fugient.

17 ¶ Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

17 Grex dispersus Israël:
leones ejecerunt eum.
Primus comedit eum rex Assur:
iste novissimus exossavit eum
Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis.

18 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

18 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël:
Ecce ego visitabo regem Babylonis et terram ejus,
sicut visitavi regem Assur:

19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

19 et reducam Israël ad habitaculum suum:
et pascetur Carmelum et Basan,
et in monte Ephraim et Galaad saturabitur anima ejus.

20 In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

20 In diebus illis, et in tempore illo, ait Dominus,
quæretur iniquitas Israël, et non erit,
et peccatum Juda, et non invenietur:
quoniam propitius ero eis quos reliquero.

21 ¶ Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

21 Super terram dominantium ascende,
et super habitatores ejus visita:
dissipa, et interfice quæ post eos sunt, ait Dominus,
et fac juxta omnia quæ præcepi tibi.

22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

22 Vox belli in terra, et contritio magna.

23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

23 Quomodo confractus est et contritus malleus universæ terræ?
quomodo versa est in desertum Babylon in gentibus?

24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

24 Illaqueavi te, et capta es, Babylon,
et nesciebas:
inventa es et apprehensa,
quoniam Dominum provocasti.

25 The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

25 Aperuit Dominus thesaurum suum,
et protulit vasa iræ suæ,
quoniam opus est Domino Deo exercituum,
in terra Chaldæorum.

26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

26 Venite ad eam ab extremis finibus;
aperite ut exeant qui conculcent eam:
tollite de via lapides, et redigite in acervos:
et interficite eam, nec sit quidquam reliquum.

27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

27 Dissipate universos fortes ejus:
descendant in occisionem:
væ eis, quia venit dies eorum,
tempus visitationis eorum!

28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.

28 Vox fugientium,
et eorum qui evaserunt de terra Babylonis,
ut annuntient in Sion ultionem Domini Dei nostri,
ultionem templi ejus.

29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

29 Annuntiate in Babylonem plurimis,
omnibus qui tendunt arcum:
consistite adversus eam per gyrum,
et nullus evadat:
reddite ei secundum opus suum:
juxta omnia quæ fecit, facite illi,
quia contra Dominum erecta est,
adversum Sanctum Israël.

30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.

30 Idcirco cadent juvenes ejus in plateis ejus,
et omnes viri bellatores ejus conticescent in die illa,
ait Dominus.

31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

31 Ecce ego ad te, superbe!
dicit Dominus Deus exercituum:
quia venit dies tuus,
tempus visitationis tuæ.

32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

32 Et cadet superbus, et corruet,
et non erit qui suscitet eum:
et succendam ignem in urbibus ejus,
et devorabit omnia in circuitu ejus.

33 ¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

33 Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum:
Calumniam sustinent filii Israël,
et filii Juda simul:
omnes qui ceperunt eos, tenent:
nolunt dimittere eos.

34 Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

34 Redemptor eorum fortis,
Dominus exercituum nomen ejus:
judicio defendet causam eorum,
ut exterreat terram,
et commoveat habitatores Babylonis.

35 ¶ A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

35 Gladius ad Chaldæos, ait Dominus,
et ad habitatores Babylonis,
et ad principes, et ad sapientes ejus.

36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

36 Gladius ad divinos ejus, qui stulti erunt:
gladius ad fortes illius, qui timebunt.

37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

37 Gladius ad equos ejus, et ad currus ejus,
et ad omne vulgus quod est in medio ejus:
et erunt quasi mulieres:
gladius ad thesauros ejus, qui diripientur.

38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

38 Siccitas super aquas ejus erit, et arescent,
quia terra sculptilium est, et in portentis gloriantur.

39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

39 Propterea habitabunt dracones cum faunis ficariis,
et habitabunt in ea struthiones:
et non inhabitabitur ultra usque in sempiternum,
nec exstruetur usque ad generationem et generationem.

40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

40 Sicut subvertit Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham,
et vicinas ejus, ait Dominus,
non habitabit ibi vir,
et non incolet eam filius hominis.

41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

41 Ecce populus venit ab aquilone,
et gens magna, et reges multi
consurgent a finibus terræ.

42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

42 Arcum et scutum apprehendent:
crudeles sunt, et immisericordes:
vox eorum quasi mare sonabit,
et super equos ascendent,
sicut vir paratus ad prælium contra te, filia Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

43 Audivit rex Babylonis famam eorum,
et dissolutæ sunt manus ejus:
angustia apprehendit eum,
dolor quasi parturientem.

44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

44 Ecce quasi leo ascendet,
de superbia Jordanis ad pulchritudinem robustam,
quia subito currere faciam eum ad illam.
Et quis erit electus, quem præponam ei?
quis est enim similis mei?
et quis sustinebit me?
et quis est iste pastor, qui resistat vultui meo?

45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

45 Propterea audite consilium Domini
quod mente concepit adversum Babylonem,
et cogitationes ejus
quas cogitavit super terram Chaldæorum:
nisi detraxerint eos parvuli gregum,
nisi dissipatum fuerit cum ipsis habitaculum eorum.

46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

46 A voce captivitatis Babylonis commota est terra,
et clamor inter gentes auditus est.