Ezechiele 33

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Et factum est verbum Do mini ad me dicens:	1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 “ Fili ho minis, loqueread filios populi tui et dices ad eos: Terra, cum induxero super eam gladium, ettulerit populus terrae virum unum de finibus suis et constituerit eum sibispeculatorem,	2 “Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and you shall say to them: Concerning the land, when I will have led the sword over it: if the people of the land take a man, one of their least, and appoint him over themselves as a watchman,
3 et ille viderit gladium venientem super terram et cecineritbucina et annuntiaverit populo;	3 and if he sees the sword approaching over the land, and he sounds the trumpet, and he announces to the people,
4 audiens autem quisquis ille est sonum bucinae,non se observaverit, veneritque gladius et tulerit eum: sanguis ipsius supercaput eius erit;	4 then, having heard the sound of the trumpet, whoever he is, if he also does not take care of himself, and the sword arrives and takes him: his blood will be upon his own head.
5 sonum bucinae audivit et non se observavit, sanguis eius inipso erit. Si autem se custodierit, animam suam salvavit.	5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and he did not take care of himself, so his blood will be upon him. But if he guards himself, he will save his own life.
6 Quod si speculatorviderit gladium venientem et non insonuerit bucina, et populus non secustodierit; veneritque gladius et tulerit de eis animam: ille quidem ininiquitate sua captus est, sanguinem autem eius de manu speculatoris requiram.	6 And if the watchman sees the sword approaching, and he does not sound the trumpet, and so the people do not guard themselves, and the sword arrives and takes some of their lives, certainly these have been taken due to their own iniquity. But I will attribute their blood to the hand of the watchman.
7 Te autem, fili hominis, speculatorem dedi domui Israel. Audiens ergo ex oremeo sermonem, commonebis eos ex me.	7 And as for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore, having heard the word from my mouth, you shall announce it to them from me.
8 Si, me dicente ad impium: Impie, mortemorieris, non fueris locutus, ut se custodiat impius a via sua, ipse impius ininiquitate sua morietur, sanguinem autem eius de manu tua requiram.	8 When I say to the impious, ‘O impious man, you will die a death,’ if you have not spoken so that the impious man will keep himself from his way, then that impious man will die in his iniquity. But I will attribute his blood to your hand.
9 Si autemcommonueris impium, ut a viis suis convertatur, et ille non fuerit conversus avia sua, ipse in iniquitate sua morietur, porro tu animam tuam liberasti.	9 But if you have announced to the impious man, so that he may be converted from his ways, and he has not converted from his way, then he will die in his iniquity. Yet you will have freed your own soul.
10 Tu ergo, fili hominis, dic ad domum Israel: Sic locuti estis, dicentes: “Iniquitatesnostrae et peccata nostra super nos sunt, et in ipsis nos tabescimus; quomodoergo vivere poterimus?”.	10 You, therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: You have spoken in this way, saying: ‘Our iniquities and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them. So then, how would we be able to live?’
11 Dic ad eos: Vivo ego, dicit Dominus Deus; nolomortem impii, sed ut revertatur impius a via sua et vivat. Convertimini,convertimini a viis vestris pessimis; et quare moriemini, domus Israel?	11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I do not desire the death of the impious, but that the impious should convert from his way and live. Be converted, be converted from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?
12 Tu itaque, fili hominis, dic ad filios populi tui: Iustitia iusti nonliberabit eum in quacumque die praevaricatus fuerit; et impietas impii nonnocebit ei in quacumque die conversus fuerit ab impietate sua; et iustus nonpoterit vivere in iustitia sua in quacumque die peccaverit.	12 And as for you then, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The justice of the just man will not deliver him, on whatever day he will have sinned. And the impiety of the impius man will not harm him, on whatever day he will have been converted from his impiety. And the just man will not be able to live by his justice, on whatever day he will have sinned.
13 Etiamsi dixeroiusto quod vita vivat, et, confisus in iustitia sua, fecerit iniquitatem, omnesiustitiae eius oblivioni tradentur, et in iniquitate sua, quam operatus est, inipsa morietur.	13 Even now, if I say to the just man that he shall certainly live, and so, with confidence in his justice, he commits iniquity, all his justices will be delivered into oblivion, and by his iniquity, which he has done, by this he shall die.
14 Sin autem dixero impio: Morte morieris, et egerit paenitentiama peccato suo feceritque iudicium et iustitiam,	14 And if I say to the impious man, ‘You shall certainly die,’ and yet he repents from his sin, and he does judgment and justice,
15 pignus restituerit illeimpius rapinamque reddiderit, in mandatis vitae ambulaverit nec fecerit quidquaminiustum, vita vivet et non morietur;	15 and if that impious man returns the collateral, and repays what he has taken by force, and if he walks in the commandments of life, and does not do anything unjust, then he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.
16 omnia peccata eius, quae peccavit, nonimputabuntur ei: iudicium et iustitiam fecit, vita vivet.	16 None of his sins, which he has committed, will be imputed to him. He has done judgment and justice, so he shall certainly live.
17 Et dicunt filii populi tui: “Non est aequa via Domini”; et ipsorum viainiqua est.	17 And the sons of your people have said, ‘The way of the Lord is not a fair balance,’ even while their own way is unjust.
18 Cum enim recesserit iustus a iustitia sua feceritque iniquitates,morietur in eis;	18 For when the just man will have withdraw from his justice, and committed iniquities, he shall die by these.
19 et cum recesserit impius ab impietate sua feceritqueiudicium et iustitiam, vivet in eis.	19 And when the impious man will have withdrawn from his impiety, and have done judgment and justice, he shall live by these.
20 Et dicitis: “Non est recta via Domini”.Unumquemque iuxta vias suas iudicabo de vobis, domus Israel ”.	20 And yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ But I shall judge each one of you according to his own ways, O house of Israel.”
21 Et factum est in duodecimo anno, in decimo, in quinta mensis transmigrationisnostrae, venit ad me, qui fugerat de Ierusalem, dicens: “ Vastata est civitas”.	21 And it happened that, in the twelfth year of our transmigration, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, one who had fled from Jerusalem arrived saying, “The city has been laid waste.”
22 Manus autem Domini facta fuerat ad me vespere, antequam veniret quifugerat; aperuitque os meum, donec veniret ad me mane, et, aperto ore meo, nonsilui amplius.	22 But the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before the one who had fled arrived. And he opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning. And since my mouth had been opened, I was no longer silent.
23 Et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens:	23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24 “ Fili hominis,qui habitant in ruinosis his super humum Israel, loquentes aiunt: “Unus eratAbraham et hereditate possedit terram; nos autem multi, nobis data est terra inpossessionem”.	24 “Son of man, as for those who live in these ruinous ways on the soil of Israel, when speaking, they say: ‘Abraham was one man, and he possessed the land as an inheritance. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.’
25 Idcirco dices ad eos: Haec dicit Dominus Deus: Qui insanguine comeditis et oculos vestros levatis ad idola vestra et sanguinemfunditis, numquid terram hereditate possidebitis?	25 Therefore, you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You who eat even the blood, and who lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and who shed blood: will you possess the land as an inheritance?
26 Stetistis in gladiisvestris, fecistis abominationes, et unusquisque uxorem proximi sui polluit, etterram hereditate possidebitis?	26 You stood by your swords, you committed abominations, and each one has defiled his neighbor’s wife. And will you possess the land as an inheritance?
27 Haec dices ad eos: Sic dicit Dominus Deus:Vivo ego, qui in ruinosis habitant, gladio cadent; et, qui in agro est, bestiistradetur ad devorandum; qui autem in praesidiis et in speluncis sunt, pestemorientur.	27 You shall say these things to them: So says the Lord God: As I live, those who live in ruinous ways will fall by the sword. And whoever is in the field will be delivered over to wild beasts to be devoured. But those who are in fortresses and in caves will die of the pestilence.
28 Et dabo terram in solitudinem et desertum, et deficiet superbafortitudo eius, et desolabuntur montes Israel, ita ut nullus sit qui per eostranseat;	28 And I will make the land into a wilderness and a desert. And its arrogant strength will fail. And the mountains of Israel will be desolate; for there will be no one who crosses through them.
29 et scient quia ego Dominus, cum dedero terram desolatam et desertampropter universas abominationes suas, quas operati sunt.	29 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have make their land desolate and deserted, because of all their abominations, which they have worked.
30 Et tu, fili hominis, filii populi tui, qui loquuntur de te iuxta parietes etin ostiis domorum et dicunt unus ad alterum, vir ad fratrem suum, loquentes: “Veniteet audite, qui sit sermo egrediens a Domino”.	30 And as for you, O son of man: the sons of your people speak about you beside the walls and in the doorways of houses. And they speak to one another, each man to his neighbor, saying: ‘Come, and let us hear what may be the word going forth from the Lord.’
31 Et veniunt ad te quasi siconveniat populus, et sedent coram te populus meus; et audiunt sermones tuos etnon faciunt eos, quia quasi amatores loquuntur, et avaritiam suam sequitur coreorum.	31 And they come to you, as if the people were entering, and my people sit before you. And they listen to your words, but they do not do them. For they turn them into a song for their mouth, but their heart pursues their own avarice.
32 Et es eis quasi carmen amatorum, quod suavi voce et cum dulcichordarum sono canitur, et audiunt verba tua et non faciunt ea.	32 And you are to them like a verse set to music, which is sung with a sweet and pleasing voice. And they hear your words, but they do not do them.
33 Et cumvenerit, quod praedictum est — ecce enim venit — tunc scient quod prophetesfuerit inter eos ”.	33 And when what has been predicted occurs, for behold it is approaching, then they shall know that a prophet was among them.”