1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

1 Quis dabit capiti meo aquam,
et oculis meis fontem lacrimarum,
et plorabo die ac nocte interfectos filiæ populi mei?

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

2 Quis dabit me in solitudine diversorium viatorum,
et derelinquam populum meum,
et recedam ab eis?
quia omnes adulteri sunt,
cœtus prævaricatorum.

3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

3 Et extenderunt linguam suam
quasi arcum mendacii et non veritatis:
confortati sunt in terra,
quia de malo ad malum egressi sunt,
et me non cognoverunt, dicit Dominus.

4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

4 Unusquisque se a proximo suo custodiat,
et in omni fratre suo non habeat fiduciam:
quia omnis frater supplantans supplantabit,
et omnis amicus fraudulenter incedet.

5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

5 Et vir fratrem suum deridebit,
et veritatem non loquentur:
docuerunt enim linguam suam loqui mendacium;
ut inique agerent laboraverunt.

6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

6 Habitatio tua in medio doli:
in dolo renuerunt scire me, dicit Dominus.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

7 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus exercituum:
Ecce ego conflabo, et probabo eos:
quid enim aliud faciam a facie filiæ populi mei?

8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

8 Sagitta vulnerans lingua eorum,
dolum locuta est.
In ore suo pacem cum amico suo loquitur,
et occulte ponit ei insidias.

9 ¶ Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

9 Numquid super his non visitabo, dicit Dominus,
aut in gente hujusmodi non ulciscetur anima mea?

10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

10 Super montes assumam fletum ac lamentum,
et super speciosa deserti planctum,
quoniam incensa sunt, eo quod non sit vir pertransiens,
et non audierunt vocem possidentis:
a volucre cæli usque ad pecora transmigraverunt et recesserunt.

11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

11 Et dabo Jerusalem in acervos arenæ,
et cubilia draconum:
et civitates Juda dabo in desolationem,
eo quod non sit habitator.

12 ¶ Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

12 Quis est vir sapiens qui intelligat hoc,
et ad quem verbum oris Domini fiat, ut annuntiet istud,
quare perierit terra, et exusta sit quasi desertum,
eo quod non sit qui pertranseat?

13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

13 Et dixit Dominus:
Quia dereliquerunt legem meam quam dedi eis,
et non audierunt vocem meam,
et non ambulaverunt in ea,

14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

14 et abierunt post pravitatem cordis sui,
et post Baalim, quod didicerunt a patribus suis:

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

15 idcirco hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël:
Ecce ego cibabo populum istum absinthio,
et potum dabo eis aquam fellis.

16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

16 Et dispergam eos in gentibus
quas non noverunt ipsi et patres eorum,
et mittam post eos gladium,
donec consumantur.

17 ¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

17 Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël:
Contemplamini, et vocate lamentatrices, et veniant:
et ad eas quæ sapientes sunt mittite, et properent:

18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

18 festinent, et assumant super nos lamentum:
deducant oculi nostri lacrimas,
et palpebræ nostræ defluant aquis.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

19 Quia vox lamentationis audita est de Sion:
Quomodo vastati sumus,
et confusi vehementer?
quia dereliquimus terram;
quoniam dejecta sunt tabernacula nostra.

20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

20 Audite ergo, mulieres, verbum Domini,
et assumant aures vestræ sermonem oris ejus,
et docete filias vestras lamentum,
et unaquæque proximam suam planctum:

21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

21 quia ascendit mors per fenestras nostras;
ingressa est domos nostras,
disperdere parvulos deforis,
juvenes de plateis.

22 Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

22 ¶ Loquere: Hæc dicit Dominus:
Et cadet morticinum hominis
quasi stercus super faciem regionis,
et quasi fœnum post tergum metentis,
et non est qui colligat.

23 ¶ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

23 Hæc dicit Dominus:
Non glorietur sapiens in sapientia sua,
et non glorietur fortis in fortitudine sua,
et non glorietur dives in divitiis suis:

24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

24 sed in hoc glorietur, qui gloriatur,
scire et nosse me,
quia ego sum Dominus qui facio misericordiam,
et judicium, et justitiam in terra:
hæc enim placent mihi, ait Dominus.

25 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

25 Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus,
et visitabo super omnem qui circumcisum habet præputium,

26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

26 super Ægyptum, et super Juda, et super Edom,
et super filios Ammon, et super Moab;
et super omnes qui attonsi sunt in comam,
habitantes in deserto:
quia omnes gentes habent præputium,
omnis autem domus Israël incircumcisi sunt corde.