Isaiah 51

NEW JERUSALEM	NOVA VULGATA
1 Listen to me, you who pursue saving justice, you who seek Yahweh. Consider the rock from which youwere hewn, the quarry from which you were dug.	1 Audite me, qui sequimini iustitiam, qui quaeritis Dominum; attendite ad petram, unde excisi estis, et ad cavernam laci, de qua praecisi estis.
2 Consider Abraham your father and Sarah who gave you birth. When I cal ed him he was the only onebut I blessed him and made him numerous.	2 Attendite ad Abraham patrem vestrum et ad Saram, quae peperit vos; quia unum vocavi eum et benedixi ei et multiplicavi eum.
3 Yes, Yahweh has pity on Zion, has pity on al her ruins; he wil turn her desert into an Eden and herwastelands into the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness wil be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound ofmusic.	3 Consolatur enim Dominus Sion, consolatur omnes ruinas eius; et ponit desertum eius quasi Eden et solitudinem eius quasi hortum Domini. Gaudium et laetitia invenietur in ea, gratiarum actio et vox laudis.
4 Pay attention to me, my people, listen to me, my nation, for a law will come from me, and I shall makemy saving justice the light of peoples.	4 Attendite ad me, popule meus; et nationes, me audite, quia lex a me exiet, et iudicium meum in lucem populorum statuam.
5 My justice is suddenly approaching, my salvation appears, my arm is about to judge the peoples. Thecoasts and islands wil put their hope in me and put their trust in my arm.	5 Prope est iustitia mea, egressa est salus mea, et brachia mea populos iudicabunt; in me insulae sperabunt et ad brachium meum attendent.
6 Raise your eyes to the heavens, look down at the earth; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, theearth wear out like clothing and its inhabitants die like vermin, but my salvation wil last for ever and my savingjustice remain inviolable.	6 Levate in caelum oculos vestros et inspicite in terram deorsum, quia caeli sicut fumus liquescent, et terra sicut vestimentum atteretur, et habitatores eius sicut haec interibunt. Salus autem mea in sempiternum erit, et iustitia mea non deficiet.
7 Listen to me, you who know what saving justice means, a people who take my laws to heart: do notfear people's taunts, do not be alarmed by their insults,	7 Audite me, qui scitis iustitiam, popule, in cuius corde est lex mea: nolite timere opprobrium hominum et blasphemias eorum ne metuatis.
8 for the moth wil eat them like clothing, the grub wil devour them like wool, but my saving justice willast for ever and my salvation for al generations.	8 Sicut enim vestimentum sic comedet eos vermis, et sicut lanam sic devorabit eos tinea; iustitia autem mea in sempiternum erit, et salus mea in generationes generationum.
9 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself in strength, arm of Yahweh. Awake, as in the olden days, generationslong ago! Was it not you who split Rahab in half, who pierced the Dragon through?	9 Consurge, consurge, induere fortitudinem, brachium Domini; consurge sicut in diebus antiquis, in generationibus saeculorum. Numquid non tu percussisti Rahab, vulnerasti draconem?
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great Abyss; who made the sea-bed into a roadfor the redeemed to go across?	10 Numquid non tu siccasti mare, aquam abyssi vehementis, qui posuisti profundum maris viam, ut transirent liberati?
11 This is why those whom Yahweh has ransomed wil return, they wil enter Zion shouting for joy, theirheads crowned with a joy unending; joy and gladness wil escort them and sorrow and sighing wil take flight.	11 Et redempti a Domino revertentur et venient in Sion laudantes; et laetitia sempiterna super capita eorum, gaudium et laetitiam obtinebunt; fugiet dolor et gemitus.
12 I, I am your consoler. Why then should you be afraid of mortal human beings, of a child of man, whosefate is that of the grass?	12 Ego, ego ipse consolator vester. Quis tu, ut timeas ab homine mortali et a filio hominis, qui quasi fenum ita arescet?
13 You forget about Yahweh your Creator who spread out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations;you have never stopped trembling al day long before the fury of the oppressor when he was bent on destruction.Where is the oppressor's fury now?	13 Et oblitus es Domini factoris tui, qui tetendit caelos et fundavit terram; et formidasti iugiter tota die a facie furoris eius, qui te tribulabat, cum parabat ad perdendum. Ubi nunc est furor tribulantis?
14 The despairing captive is soon to be set free; he will not die in the dungeon, nor wil his food run out.	14 Cito captivus liberabitur et non morietur in fovea, nec deficiet panis eius.
15 I am Yahweh your God who stirs up the sea, making its waves roar -- Yahweh Sabaoth is my name.	15 Ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui conturbo mare, et intumescunt fluctus eius; Dominus exercituum nomen eius.
16 I put my words into your mouth, I hid you in the shadow of my hand, to spread out the heavens andlay the earth's foundations and say to Zion, 'You are my people.'	16 Posui verba mea in ore tuo et in umbra manus meae protexi te, cum extendebam caelos et fundabam terram et dicebam ad Sion: “Populus meus es tu ”.
17 Awake, awake! To your feet, Jerusalem! You who from Yahweh's hand have drunk the cup of hiswrath. The chalice, the stupefying cup, you have drained to the dregs.	17 Elevare, elevare, consurge, Ierusalem, quae bibisti de manu Domini calicem irae eius; poculum soporis bibisti, epotasti.
18 There is no one to guide her of al the children she has borne, no one to grasp her hand of al thechildren she has reared.	18 Non est qui sustentet eam ex omnibus filiis, quos genuit; et non est qui apprehendat manum eius ex omnibus filiis, quos enutrivit.
19 Double disaster has befal en you -- who is there to sympathise? Pillage and ruin, famine and sword --who is there to console you?	19 Duo sunt quae occurrerunt tibi; quis contristabitur super te? Vastitas et contritio et fames et gladius; quis consolabitur te?
20 Your children are lying helpless at the end of every street like an antelope trapped in a net; they arefilled to the brim with Yahweh's wrath, with the rebuke of your God.	20 Filii tui defecerunt, iacent in capite omnium viarum sicut oryx illaqueatus, pleni indignatione Domini, increpatione Dei tui.
21 So listen to this, afflicted one, drunk, though not with wine.	21 Idcirco audi hoc, paupercula et ebria, sed non a vino.
22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, your God, defender of your people: Look, I am taking the stupefyingcup from your hand, the chalice, the cup of my wrath, you wil not have to drink again.	22 Haec dicit dominator tuus, Dominus et Deus tuus, qui contendit pro populo suo: “ Ecce tuli de manu tua calicem soporis, poculum indignationis meae; non adicies, ut bibas illum ultra.
23 I shal hand it to your tormentors who used to say to you, 'On the ground! So that we can walk overyou!' And you would flatten your back like the ground, like a street for them to walk on.	23 Et ponam illum in manu eorum, qui te humiliaverunt et dixerunt tibi: “Incurvare, ut transeamus”; et ponebas ut terram dorsum tuum et quasi viam transeuntibus ”.