Isaia 21

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Oraculum deserti maris. Sicut turbines per austrum transeuntes, de deserto venit, de terra horribili.	1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.
2 Visio dura nuntiata est mihi: praedo praedatur, et vastator vastat. Ascende, Elam; obside, Media; omnem gemitum eius cessare feci.	2 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.
3 Propterea repleti sunt lumbi mei tremore, angustia possedit me sicut angustia parientis; corrui, cum audirem; conturbatus sum, cum viderem.	3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.
4 Vacillat cor meum, pavor invadit me: crepusculum optatum posuit mihi in terrorem.	4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
5 Ponunt mensam, stragulum pandunt, comedunt, bibunt. Surgite, principes, ungite clipeum.	5 Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
6 Haec enim dixit mihi Dominus: “ Vade et pone speculatorem; quodcumque viderit, annuntiet.	6 For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
7 Si viderit currum, bigam equitum, ascensorem asini et ascensorem cameli, intueatur diligenter multo intuitu ”.	7 And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.
8 Et clamavit speculator: “ Super specula, Domine, ego sum stans iugiter per diem, et super custodiam meam ego sum stans totis noctibus.	8 And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
9 Ecce, huc venit agmen virorum, biga equitum ”. Et respondit et dixit: “ Cecidit, cecidit Babylon, et omnia sculptilia deorum eius contrita sunt in terram ”.	9 Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.
10 Tritura mea et fili areae meae, quae audivi a Domino exercituum, Deo Israel, annuntiavi vobis.	10 O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.
11 Oraculum Duma. Ad me clamat ex Seir: “ Custos, quid de nocte? Custos, quid de nocte? ”.	11 The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
12 Dixit custos: “ Venit mane, sed etiam nox; si quaeritis, quaerite, revertimini, venite ”.	12 The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
13 Oraculum in solitudine. In saltu, in solitudine dormietis, turmae Dedanim.	13 The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
14 Occurrentes sitienti ferte aquam, qui habitatis terram Thema; cum panibus occurrite fugienti:	14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
15 a facie enim gladiorum fugerunt, a facie gladii nudati, a facie arcus extenti, a facie gravis proelii.	15 For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.
16 Quoniam haec dicit Dominus ad me: “ Adhuc anno sicut anni mercennarii, etauferetur omnis gloria Cedar;	16 For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.
17 et reliquiae numeri arcuum fortium filiorumCedar imminuentur; Dominus enim, Deus Israel, locutus est ”.	17 And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.