Secondo libro delle Cronache 7

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Cumque complesset Salomon fundens preces, ignis descendit de caelo et devoravit holocaustum et victimas, et maiestas Domini implevit domum.	1 And when Solomon had completed pouring out his prayers, fire descended from heaven, and it devoured the holocausts and the victims. And the majesty of the Lord filled the house.
2 Nec poterant sacerdotes ingredi templum Domini, eo quod implesset maiestas Domini templum Domini.	2 Neither were the priests able to enter into the temple of the Lord, because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.
3 Sed et omnes filii Israel videbant descendentem ignem et gloriam Domini super domum et corruentes proni in terram super pavimentum stratum lapide adoraverunt et laudaverunt Dominum: “ Quoniam bonus, quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius ”.	3 Moreover, all the sons of Israel saw the fire descending, and the glory of the Lord upon the house. And falling prone upon the ground, on the layer of pavement stones, they adored and praised the Lord: “For he is good. For his mercy is everlasting.”
4 Rex autem et omnis populus immolabant victimas coram Domino.	4 Then the king and all the people were immolating victims before the Lord.
5 Mactavit igitur rex Salomon hostias boum viginti duo milia, ovium centum viginti milia, et dedicavit domum Dei rex et universus populus.	5 And so, king Solomon slaughtered victims: twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand rams. And the king and the entire people dedicated the house of God.
6 Sacerdotes autem stabant in officiis suis et Levitae in organis carminum Domini, quae fecit David rex ad laudandum Dominum: “ Quoniam in aeternum misericordia eius ”, hymnos David canentes per manus suas. Porro sacerdotes canebant tubis ante eos, cunctusque Israel stabat.	6 Then the priests and the Levites were standing in their offices, with the instruments of music for the Lord, which king David made in order to praise the Lord: “For his mercy is eternal.” And they were playing the hymns of David with their hands. And the priests were sounding out with trumpets before them, and all of Israel was standing.
7 Sanctificavit quoque Salomon medium atrii ante templum Domini; obtulerat enim ibi holocausta et adipes pacificorum, quia altare aeneum, quod fecerat, non poterat sustinere holocausta et oblationes et adipes.	7 Also, Solomon sanctified the middle of the atrium in front of the temple of the Lord. For he had offered the holocausts and the fat of peace offerings in that place because the bronze altar, which he had made, had not been able to support the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat.
8 Fecit ergo Salomon sollemnitatem in tempore illo septem diebus, et omnis Israel cum eo, ecclesia magna valde ab introitu Emath usque ad torrentem Aegypti.	8 Therefore, Solomon kept the solemnity, at that time, for seven days, and all of Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath, even to the torrent of Egypt.
9 Feceruntque die octavo collectam magnam, eo quod dedicassent altare septem diebus et sollemnitatem celebrassent diebus septem.	9 And on the eighth day, he held a solemn gathering, because he had dedicated the altar over seven days, and he had celebrated the solemnity over seven days.
10 Igitur in die vicesimo tertio mensis septimi dimisit populum ad tabernacula sua, laetantem atque gaudentem super bono, quod fecerat Dominus Davidi et Salomoni et Israeli populo suo.	10 And so, on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he dismissed the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad over the good that the Lord had done for David, and for Solomon, and for his people Israel.
11 Complevitque Salomon domum Domini et domum regis; et in omnibus, quae disposuerat in corde suo, ut faceret in domo Domini et in domo sua, prosperatus est.	11 And Solomon completed the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and all that he had resolved in his heart to do for the house of the Lord, and for his own house. And he prospered.
12 Apparuit autem ei Dominus nocte et ait: “ Audivi orationem tuam et elegi locum istum mihi in domum sacrificii.	12 Then the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: “I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
13 Si clausero caelum, et pluvia non fluxerit, et mandavero et praecepero locustae, ut devoret terram, et misero pestilentiam in populum meum,	13 If I close up heaven, so that no rain will fall, or if I order and instruct the locust to devour the land, or if I send a pestilence among my people,
14 humiliatus autem populus meus, super quos invocatum est nomen meum, deprecatus me fuerit et exquisierit faciem meam et egerit paenitentiam a viis suis pessimis, ego exaudiam de caelo et propitius ero peccatis eorum et sanabo terram eorum.	14 and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.
15 Nunc oculi mei erunt aperti, et aures meae attentae ad orationem eius, qui in loco isto oraverit;	15 Also, my eyes will be open, and my ears will be attentive, to the prayer of him who shall pray in this place.
16 elegi enim et sanctificavi locum istum, ut sit nomen meum ibi in sempiternum, et permaneant oculi mei et cor meum ibi cunctis diebus.	16 For I have chosen and sanctified this place, so that my name may be there continually, and so that my eyes and my heart may remain there, for all days.
17 Tu quoque, si ambulaveris coram me, sicut ambulavit David pater tuus, et feceris iuxta omnia, quae praecepi tibi, et decreta et iudicia mea servaveris,	17 And as for you, if you will walk before me, just as your father David walked, and if you will act in accord with all that I have instructed you, and if you will observe my justices and judgments,
18 stabiliam thronum regni tui, sicut pollicitus sum David patri tuo dicens: Non auferetur de stirpe tua vir, qui sit princeps in Israel.	18 I will raise up the throne of your kingdom, just as I promised to your father David, saying: ‘There shall not be taken away a man from your stock who will be ruler in Israel.’
19 Si autem aversi fueritis et dereliqueritis decreta mea et praecepta mea, quae proposui vobis, et abeuntes servieritis diis alienis et adoraveritis eos,	19 But if you will have turned away, and will have forsaken my justices and my precepts, which I have set before you, and going astray, you serve strange gods, and you adore them,
20 evellam vos de terra mea, quam dedi vobis, et domum hanc, quam sanctificavi nomini meo, proiciam a facie mea et tradam eam in parabolam et in fabulam cunctis populis.	20 I will uproot you from my land, which I gave to you, and from this house, which I sanctified to my name, and I will cast it away from before my face, and I will deliver it to be a parable and an example for all the peoples.
21 Et super domo ista, quae erat excelsa, universi transeuntes stupebunt et dicent: “Quare fecit Dominus sic terrae huic et domui huic?”.	21 And this house will be like a proverb to all who pass by. And being astonished, they shall say: ‘Why has the Lord acted this way toward this land and toward this house?’
22 Respondebuntque: “Quia dereliquerunt Dominum, Deum patrum suorum, qui eduxit eos de terra Aegypti, et apprehenderunt deos alienos et adoraverunt eos et coluerunt, idcirco venerunt super eos universa haec mala” ”.	22 And they shall respond: ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who led them away from the land of Egypt, and they took hold of foreign gods, and they adored and worshipped them. Therefore, all these evils have overwhelmed them.’ ”