Isaia 51

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Audite me, qui sequimini iustitiam, qui quaeritis Dominum; attendite ad petram, unde excisi estis, et ad cavernam laci, de qua praecisi estis.	1 Listen to me, you who follow what is just and who seek the Lord. Pay attention to the rock from which you have been hewn, and to the walls of the pit from which you have been dug.
2 Attendite ad Abraham patrem vestrum et ad Saram, quae peperit vos; quia unum vocavi eum et benedixi ei et multiplicavi eum.	2 Pay attention to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.
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.	3 Therefore, the Lord will console Zion, and he will console all its ruins. And he will turn her desert into a place of delights, and her wilderness into a garden of the Lord. Gladness and rejoicing will be found in her, thanksgiving and a voice of praise.
4 Attendite ad me, popule meus; et nationes, me audite, quia lex a me exiet, et iudicium meum in lucem populorum statuam.	4 Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my tribes. For a law will go forth from me, and my judgment will rest as a light for the nations.
5 Prope est iustitia mea, egressa est salus mea, et brachia mea populos iudicabunt; in me insulae sperabunt et ad brachium meum attendent.	5 My just one is near. My savior has gone forth. And my arms will judge the people. The islands will hope in me, and they will patiently wait for my arm.
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.	6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth below. For the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will be worn away like a garment, and its inhabitants will pass away in like manner. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will not fail.
7 Audite me, qui scitis iustitiam, popule, in cuius corde est lex mea: nolite timere opprobrium hominum et blasphemias eorum ne metuatis.	7 Listen to me, you who know what is just, my people who have my law in their heart. Do not be afraid of disgrace among men, and do not dread their blasphemies.
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.	8 For the worm will consume them like a garment, and the moth will devour them like wool. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will be from generation to generation.
9 Consurge, consurge, induere fortitudinem, brachium Domini; consurge sicut in diebus antiquis, in generationibus saeculorum. Numquid non tu percussisti Rahab, vulnerasti draconem?	9 Rise up, Rise up! Clothe yourself in strength, O arm of the Lord! Rise up as in the days of antiquity, as in generations long past. Have you not struck the arrogant one and wounded the dragon?
10 Numquid non tu siccasti mare, aquam abyssi vehementis, qui posuisti profundum maris viam, ut transirent liberati?	10 Have not you dried up the sea, the waters of the great abyss, and turned the depths of the sea into a road, so that the delivered could cross over it?
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.	11 And now, those who have been redeemed by the Lord will return. And they will arrive in Zion, praising. And everlasting rejoicing will be upon their heads. They will take hold of gladness and rejoicing. Anguish and mourning will flee away.
12 Ego, ego ipse consolator vester. Quis tu, ut timeas ab homine mortali et a filio hominis, qui quasi fenum ita arescet?	12 It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?
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?	13 And have you forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who extended the heavens, and who founded the earth? And have you been in constant dread, all day long, at the face of his fury, of the one who afflicted you and who had prepared to destroy you? Where is the fury of the oppressor now?
14 Cito captivus liberabitur et non morietur in fovea, nec deficiet panis eius.	14 Advancing quickly, he will arrive to be revealed, and he will not kill unto utter destruction, nor will his bread fail.
15 Ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui conturbo mare, et intumescunt fluctus eius; Dominus exercituum nomen eius.	15 But I am the Lord, your God, who stirs up the sea, and who makes the waves swell. The Lord of hosts is my name.
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 ”.	16 I have placed my words in your mouth, and I have protected you in the shadow of my hand, so that you might plant the heavens, and found the earth, and so that you might say to Zion, “You are my people.”
17 Elevare, elevare, consurge, Ierusalem, quae bibisti de manu Domini calicem irae eius; poculum soporis bibisti, epotasti.	17 Lift up, Lift up! Arise, O Jerusalem! You drank, from the hand of the Lord, the cup of his wrath. You drank, even to the bottom of the cup of deep sleep. And you were given to drink, all the way to the dregs.
18 Non est qui sustentet eam ex omnibus filiis, quos genuit; et non est qui apprehendat manum eius ex omnibus filiis, quos enutrivit.	18 There is no one who can uphold her, out of all the sons whom she has conceived. And there is no one who would take her by the hand, out of all the sons whom she has raised.
19 Duo sunt quae occurrerunt tibi; quis contristabitur super te? Vastitas et contritio et fames et gladius; quis consolabitur te?	19 There are two things which have happened to you. Who will be saddened over you? There is devastation and destruction, and famine and sword. Who will console you?
20 Filii tui defecerunt, iacent in capite omnium viarum sicut oryx illaqueatus, pleni indignatione Domini, increpatione Dei tui.	20 Your sons have been cast out. They have slept at the head of all the roads, and they have been ensnared like a gazelle. They have been filled by the indignation of the Lord, by the rebuke of your God.
21 Idcirco audi hoc, paupercula et ebria, sed non a vino.	21 Therefore, listen to this, O poor little ones, and you who have been inebriated, but not by wine.
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.	22 Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord, and your God, who will fight on behalf of his people: Behold, I have taken the cup of deep sleep from your hand. You shall no longer drink from the bottom of the cup of my indignation.
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 ”.	23 And I will set it in the hand of those who have humiliated you, and who have said to your soul: “Bow down, so that we pass over.” And you placed your body on the ground, as a path for them to pass over.