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NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Domine omnipotens, Deus Is rael, anima in angustiis et spiri tus anxiusclamat ad te.	1 Almighty Lord, God of Israel, a soul in anguish, a troubled heart now cries to you:
2 Audi, Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus in conspectu tuo;	2 Listen and have pity, Lord, for we have sinned before you.
3 quia tu sedens es in aeternum, et nos pereuntes in aeternum.	3 You sit enthroned for ever, while we are perishing for ever.
4 Domineomnipotens, Deus Israel, audi nunc orationem defunctorum Israel et filiorumeorum, qui peccaverunt in conspectu tuo, qui non audierunt vocem Domini Dei sui,et adhaeserunt nobis mala.	4 Almighty Lord, God of Israel, hear the prayer of the dead of Israel, of the children of those who havesinned against you and have not listened to the voice of the Lord their God; hence the disasters which dog us.
5 Noli memor esse iniquitatum patrum nostrorum, sedmemor esto manus tuae et nominis tui in hoc tempore,	5 Do not cal to mind the misdeeds of our ancestors, but remember instead your power and your name.
6 quia tu es Dominus Deusnoster, et laudabimus te, Domine,	6 You are indeed the Lord our God and we wil praise you, Lord,
7 quia propter hoc dedisti timorem tuum in cornostrum, ut invocaremus nomen tuum; et laudabimus te in captivitate nostra, quiaavertimus a corde nostro omnem iniquitatem patrum nostrorum, qui peccaverunt inconspectu tuo.	7 since you have put respect for you in our hearts to encourage us to cal on your name. We long topraise you in our exile, for we have rid our hearts of the wickedness of our ancestors who sinned against you.
8 Ecce nos hodie in captivitate nostra, quo nos dispersisti inopprobrium et in maledictum et in expiationem, secundum omnes iniquitates patrumnostrorum, qui discesserunt a Domino Deo nostro ”.	8 Look, today we are still in exile where you have scattered us as something contemptible, accursed,condemned, for al the misdeeds of our ancestors who had abandoned the Lord our God.
9 Audi, Israel, mandata vitae; auribus percipite, ut sciatis prudentiam.	9 Listen, Israel, to commands that bring life; hear, and learn what knowledge means.
10 Quid est, Israel? Quid est quod in terra es inimicorum?	10 Why, Israel, why are you in the country of your enemies, growing older and older in an alien land,
11 Inveterasti in terra aliena, coinquinatus es mortuis, reputatus es cum eis, qui apud inferos sunt.	11 defiling yourselves with the dead, reckoned with those who go to Sheol?
12 Dereliquisti fontem sapientiae!	12 It is because you have forsaken the fountain of wisdom!
13 Si in via Dei ambulasses, habitasses in pace in aeternum.	13 Had you walked in the way of God, you would be living in peace for ever.
14 Disce, ubi sit prudentia, ubi fortitudo, ubi sit intellectus, ut scias simul, ubi sit longiturnitas dierum et vita, ubi sit lumen oculorum et pax.	14 Learn where knowledge is, where strength, where understanding, and so learn where length of days is,where life, where the light of the eyes and where peace.
15 Quis invenit locum eius? Et quis intravit in thesauros eius?	15 But who has found out where she lives, who has entered her treasure house?
16 Ubi sunt principes gentium et qui dominantur bestiis, quae sunt super terram,	16 Where now are the leaders of the nations and those who ruled even the beasts of earth,
17 qui in avibus caeli ludunt,	17 those who sported with the birds of heaven, those who accumulated silver and gold on which alpeople rely, and whose possessions had no end,
18 qui argentum thesaurizant et aurum, in quo confidunt homines, neque est finis acquisitionis eorum; qui argentum fabricant et solliciti sunt, nec est inquisitio operum illorum?	18 those who worked so carefully in silver -but of whose works no trace is to be found?
19 Exterminati sunt et ad inferos descenderunt, et alii loco eorum surrexerunt.	19 They have vanished, gone down to Sheol. Others have risen to their places,
20 Iuvenes viderunt lumen et habitaverunt super terram; viam autem disciplinae non cognoverunt	20 more recent generations have seen the day and peopled the earth in their turn, but the way ofknowledge they have not found;
21 nec intellexerunt semitas eius; neque susceperunt eam filii eorum, a via eorum longe facti sunt.	21 they have not recognised the paths she treads. Nor have their children had any grasp of her, remainingfar from her way.
22 Neque audita est in Chanaan neque visa est in Theman.	22 Nothing has been heard of her in Canaan, nothing has been seen of her in Teman;
23 Filii quoque Agar, qui exquirunt sapientiam super terram, negotiatores Merran et Theman et fabulatores et inquisitores prudentiae: viam autem sapientiae non cognoverunt neque commemorati sunt semitas eius.	23 the children of Hagar in search of worldly wisdom, the merchants of Midian and Teman, the tale-spinners and the philosophers have none of them found the way to wisdom or remembered the paths shetreads.
24 O Israel, quam magna est domus Dei, et ingens locus possessionis eius!	24 How great, Israel, is the house of God, how wide his domain,
25 Magnus est et non habet finem, excelsus est et immensus.	25 immeasurably wide, infinitely lofty!
26 Ibi fuerunt gigantes nominati illi, qui ab initio fuerunt, statura magna, scientes bellum.	26 In it were born the giants, famous from the beginning, immensely tal , expert in war;
27 Non illos elegit Deus neque viam disciplinae dedit illis;	27 God's choice did not fall on these, he did not show them the way of knowledge;
28 et perierunt, quia non habuerunt prudentiam, perierunt propter insipientiam suam.	28 they perished for lack of wisdom, perished by their own folly.
29 Quis ascendit in caelum et accepit eam et deduxit eam de nubibus?	29 Who has ever climbed the sky and seized her to bring her down from the clouds?
30 Quis transfretavit mare et invenit eam et apportabit eam auro electo?	30 Who has ever crossed the ocean and found her to bring her back in exchange for the finest gold?
31 Non est qui noverit viam eius, neque qui cogitet semitam eius.	31 No one can learn the way to her, no one can understand the path she treads.
32 Sed qui scit omnia, novit eam, adinvenit eam prudentia sua; qui composuit terram in aeternum tempus, implevit eam iumentis quadrupedibus;	32 But the One who knows al discovers her, he has grasped her with his own intel ect, he has set theearth firm for evermore and filled it with four-footed beasts,
33 qui mittit lumen et vadit, vocavit illud, et oboedivit ei in tremore.	33 he sends the light -- and it goes, he recal s it -- and trembling it obeys;
34 Stellae autem splenduerunt in custodiis suis et laetatae sunt.	34 the stars shine joyful y at their posts;
35 Vocavit eas, et dixerunt: “Adsumus”; luxerunt cum laetitia ei, qui fecit eas.	35 when he cal s them, they answer, 'Here we are'; they shine to delight their Creator.
36 Hic est Deus noster, non aestimabitur alter adversus eum.	36 It is he who is our God, no other can compare with him.
37 Invenit omnem viam disciplinae et dedit eam Iacob puero suo et Israel dilecto suo.	37 He has uncovered the whole way of knowledge and shown it to his servant Jacob, to Israel his wel -beloved;
38 Post haec super terram visa est et inter homines conversata est. 38 only then did she appear on earth and live among human beings.