Isaia 17

NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Oraculum Damasci. “ Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas et erit sicut acervus ruinarum.	1 Proclamation about Damascus: Damascus wil soon cease to be a city, it wil become a heap of ruins.
2 Derelictae civitates Aroer gregibus erunt; et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.	2 Its towns, abandoned for ever, wil be pastures for flocks; there they wil rest with no one to disturbthem.
3 Et auferetur munimentum ab Ephraim et regnum a Damasco, et reliquiae Syriae sicut gloria filiorum Israel erunt, dicit Dominus exercituum.	3 Ephraim wil be stripped of its defences and Damascus of its sovereignty; and the remnant of Aram wilbe treated like the glory of the Israelites -- declares Yahweh Sabaoth.
4 Et erit in die illa: attenuabitur gloria Iacob, et pinguedo carnis eius marcescet;	4 When that day comes, Jacob's glory wil diminish, from being fat he wil grow lean;
5 et erit, sicut cum messor arripit culmos, et brachium eius spicas legit; et erit, sicut cum quis quaerit spicas in valle Raphaim.	5 as when a reaper gathers in the standing corn, harvesting the ears of corn with his arm, or when theyglean the ears in the Val ey of Rephaim,
6 Et relinquetur in eo racemus, et sicut cum excutitur olea: duae vel tres olivae in summitate rami sive quattuor aut quinque in cacuminibus arboris fructiferae ”, dicit Dominus Deus Israel.	6 nothing wil remain but pickings, as when an olive tree is beaten; two or three berries left on thetopmost bough, four or five berries on the branches of the tree -- declares Yahweh, God of Israel.
7 In die illa attendet homo ad factorem suum, et oculi eius ad Sanctum Israel respicient;	7 That day, a man wil look to his Creator and his eyes wil turn to the Holy One of Israel.
8 et non attendet ad altaria, quae fecerunt manus eius, et quae operati sunt digiti eius; non respiciet lucos et thymiateria.	8 He will no longer look to altars, his own handiwork, or to what his own fingers have made: the sacredpoles and incense-altars.
9 In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis eius derelictae, sicut civitates, quas dereliquerunt Hevaei et Amorraei a facie filiorum Israel; et erit desolatio,	9 That day, its cities of refuge wil be abandoned as were the woods and heaths at the Israelites'advance: there wil be desolation.
10 quia oblita es Dei salutis tuae et petrae fortitudinis tuae non es recordata: propterea plantabis plantationes iucundas et germen alienum seminabis.	10 Since you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and failed to keep the Rock, your refuge, in mind,you plant pleasure-gardens, you sow exotic seeds;
11 In ipso die plantationis tuae saepies eas et mane semen tuum florere facies; evanescet messis in die penuriae, et dolor insanabilis erit.	11 the day you plant them, you get them to sprout, and, next morning, your seedlings are in flower; butthe harvest wil vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
12 Heu!, strepitus populorum multorum; strepunt quasi strepitu maris, et tumultus turbarum quasi sonitu aquarum sonabunt.	12 Disaster! The thunder of vast hordes, a thunder like the thunder of the seas, the roar of nationsroaring like the roar of mighty floods,
13 Sonabunt populi sicut sonitus aquarum inundantium, et increpabit eum, et fugiet procul; et rapietur sicut pulvis montium a facie venti et sicut turbo coram tempestate.	13 of nations roaring like the roar of ocean! He rebukes them and far away they flee, driven like chaff onthe mountains before the wind, like an eddy of dust before the storm.
14 In tempore vespere, et ecce turbatio, ante matutinum non subsistet: haec est pars eorum, qui vastaverunt nos, et sors diripientium nos.	14 At evening al is terror, by morning al have disappeared. Such wil be the lot of those who plunder us,such, the fate of our despoilers.