Geremia 3

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Si dimiserit vir uxorem suam, et recedens ab eo duxerit virum alterum, numquid revertetur ad eam ultra? Numquid non polluta et contaminata est terra illa? Tu autem fornicata es cum amatoribus multis et reverteris ad me?, dicit Dominus.	1 It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.
2 Leva oculos tuos ad colles et vide, ubi non prostrata sis. In viis sedebas exspectans eos quasi Arabs in solitudine; et polluisti terram in fornicationibus tuis et in malitia tua.	2 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostuted thyself: Thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.
3 Quam ob rem prohibitae sunt stillae pluviarum, et serotinus imber non fuit. Frons mulieris meretricis facta est tibi; noluisti erubescere.	3 Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.
4 Nonne amodo vocas me: “Pater meus, dux adulescentiae meae tu es!	4 Therefore at least at this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity:
5 Numquid irascetur in perpetuum aut perseverabit in finem?”. Ecce locuta es et fecisti mala et praevaluisti ”.	5 Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue until the end? Behold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been able.
6 Et dixit Dominus ad me in diebus Iosiae regis: “ Numquid vidisti, quaefecerit aversatrix Israel? Abiit sibimet super omnem montem excelsum et sub omniligno frondoso et fornicata est ibi.	6 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hast done? she hath gone out of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.
7 Et dixi: “Cum fecerit haec omnia, ad merevertetur”; et non est reversa. Et vidit praevaricatrix soror eius, Iuda;	7 And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,
8 et vidit quia pro eo quod moechata esset aversatrix Israel, dimisissem eam etdedissem ei libellum repudii, et non timuit praevaricatrix Iuda, soror eius, sedabiit et fornicata est etiam ipsa;	8 That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and had given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.
9 et facilitate fornicationis suaecontaminavit terram et moechata est cum lapide et ligno.	9 And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
10 Sed in omnibus hisnon est reversa ad me praevaricatrix soror eius Iuda in toto corde suo sed inmendacio ”, ait Dominus.	10 And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.
11 Et dixit Dominus ad me: “ Iustificavit animam suam aversatrix Israelcomparatione praevaricatricis Iudae.	11 And the Lord said to me: The rebellious Israel hath justified her soul, in comparison of the treacherous Juda.
12 Vade et clama sermones istos contraaquilonem et dices: Revertere, aversatrix Israel, ait Dominus, et non avertam faciem meam a vobis, quia pius ego sum, dicit Dominus, et non irascar in perpetuum.	12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and thou shalt say: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn away my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry for ever.
13 Verumtamen scito iniquitatem tuam, quia in Dominum Deum tuum praevaricata es et dispersisti vias tuas alienis sub omni ligno frondoso; et vocem meam non audistis, ait Dominus.	13 But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.
14 Convertimini, filii, qui aversi estis a me, dicit Dominus, quia ego Dominusvester sum; et assumam vos unum de civitate et duos de cognatione et introducamvos in Sion;	14 Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and will bring you into Sion.
15 et dabo vobis pastores iuxta cor meum, et pascent vos scientiaet doctrina.	15 And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.
16 Cumque multiplicati fueritis et creveritis in terra in diebusillis, ait Dominus, non dicent ultra: “Arca testamenti Domini”, nequeascendet super cor, neque recordabuntur illius, nec requiretur, nec fiet ultra.	16 And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither shall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that be done any more.
17 In tempore illo vocabunt Ierusalem Solium Domini, et congregabuntur ad eamomnes gentes in nomine Domini in Ierusalem; et non ambulabunt ultra postpravitatem cordis sui pessimi.	17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the thrown of the Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their most wicked heart.
18 In diebus illis ibit domus Iudae ad domumIsrael, et venient simul de terra aquilonis ad terram, quam dedi in hereditatempatribus vestris.	18 In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I gave to your fathers.
19 Ego autem dixi: Quomodo ponam te in filiis et tribuam tibi terram desiderabilem, hereditatem praeclarissimam inter gentes? Et dixi: Patrem vocabitis me et post me ingredi non cessabitis.	19 But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt cease to walk after me.
20 Sed, quomodo contemnit mulier amatorem suum, sic contempsistis me, domus Israel ”, dicit Dominus.	20 But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.
21 Vox in collibus audita est, ploratus et supplicatio filiorum Israel, quoniam iniquam fecerunt viam suam, obliti sunt Domini Dei sui.	21 A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22 “ Convertimini, filii, qui aversi estis a me, et sanabo aversiones vestras ”. “ Ecce nos venimus ad te; tu enim es Dominus Deus noster.	22 Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.
23 Vere mendaces erant colles et tumultus montium; vere in Domino Deo nostro salus Israel.	23 In very deed the hills were liars. and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 Confusio comedit laborem patrum nostrorum ab adulescentia nostra, greges eorum et armenta eorum, filios eorum et filias eorum.	24 Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 Dormiemus in confusione nostra, et operiet nos ignominia nostra, quoniam Domino Deo nostro peccavimus nos et patres nostri ab adulescentia nostra usque ad hanc diem et non audivimus vocem Domini Dei nostri ”.	25 We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of theLord our God.