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NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Super custodiam meam stabo et consistam super speculam et contemplabor, ut videam quid dicat mihi et quid respondeat ad querelam meam.	1 I shal stand at my post, I shall station myself on my watch-tower, watching to see what he wil say tome, what answer he wil make to my complaints.
2 Et respondit mihi Dominus et dixit: “ Scribe visum et explana eum super tabulas, ut percurrat, qui legerit eum.	2 Then Yahweh answered me and said, 'Write the vision down, inscribe it on tablets to be easily read.
3 Quia adhuc visus ad tempus constitutum, sed anhelat in finem et non mentietur; si moram fecerit, exspecta illum, quia veniens veniet et non tardabit.	3 For the vision is for its appointed time, it hastens towards its end and it wil not lie; although it may takesome time, wait for it, for come it certainly will before too long.
4 Ecce languidus, in quo non est anima recta; iustus autem in fide sua vivet ”.	4 'You see, anyone whose heart is not upright wil succumb, but the upright wil live through faithfulness.'
5 Et profecto divitiae decipiunt virum superbum, et non perveniet ad finem; qui dilatat quasi infernus fauces suas et ipse quasi mors et non adimpletur: et congregat ad se omnes gentes et coacervat ad se omnes populos.	5 Now, surely, wealth is treacherous! He is arrogant, for ever on the move, with appetite as large asSheol and as insatiable as Death, gathering in al the nations, and making a harvest of al peoples.
6 Numquid non omnes isti super eum parabolam sument et loquelam aenigmatum dicentes: “ Vae ei, qui multiplicat non sua — usquequo? C et aggravat pignora super se! ”.	6 Are not the peoples al bound to satirise and make up cryptic riddles about him? As for instance:Disaster to anyone who amasses goods not his (for how long?) and to anyone who weighs himself down withgoods taken in pledge!
7 Numquid non repente consurgent, qui mordeant te, et evigilabunt agitantes te, et eris in rapinam eis?	7 Wil not your creditors suddenly stand up, wil not those who make you shiver wake up, and you wil fala prey to them?
8 Quia tu spoliasti gentes multas, spoliabunt te omnes, qui reliqui fuerint de populis; propter sanguinem hominum et oppressionem terrae, civitatum et omnium habitantium in eis.	8 Since you have plundered many nations, al the nations that remain wil plunder you, because of thebloodshed and violence done to the country, to the city and to all who live in it.
9 Vae, qui congregat lucrum iniustum in malum domui suae, ut ponat in excelso nidum suum et salvet se de manu mali!	9 Disaster to anyone who amasses ill-gotten gains for his house, so as to fix his nest on high and soevade the reach of misfortune!
10 Consilium cepisti in confusionem domui tuae concidendi populos multos et peccasti in animam tuam.	10 You have conspired to bring shame on your house: by overthrowing many peoples you have workedyour own ruin.
11 Quia lapis de pariete clamabit, et trabes de contignatione respondebit ei.	11 For the very stone will protest from the wal , and the beam wil respond from the framework.
12 Vae, qui aedificat civitatem in sanguinibus et condit urbem in iniquitate!	12 Disaster to anyone who builds a town with bloodshed and founds a city on wrong-doing!
13 Numquid non haec a Domino sunt exercituum, ut laborent populi pro igne, et gentes in vacuum fatigentur?	13 Is it not thanks to Yahweh Sabaoth that the peoples' toil is fuel for the fire, and the nations' labourcame to nothing?
14 Quia replebitur terra cognitione gloriae Domini, sicut aquae operiunt mare.	14 But the earth wil be full of the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh as the waters cover the depths of thesea.
15 Vae, qui potum dat amico suo mittens venenum suum et inebrians eum, ut aspiciat nuditatem eius!	15 Disaster to anyone who makes his neighbours drink, pouring out his poison until they are drunk, sothat he can see them naked!
16 Repleris ignominia pro gloria; bibe tu quoque et denudare! Transibit ad te calix dexterae Domini, et veniet ignominia super gloriam tuam.	16 You are ful of shame, not glory! Your turn now to drink and show your foreskin. The cup in Yahweh'sright hand comes round to you, and disgrace wil overshadow your glory.
17 Quia vastitas Libani operiet te, et miseria animalium deterrebit te propter sanguinem hominum et oppressionem terrae, civitatum et omnium habitantium in eis.	17 For the violence done to the Lebanon wil overwhelm you and the massacre of animals will terrify you,because of the bloodshed and violence done to the country, to the city and to al who live in it. Disaster toanyone who says to the log, 'Wake up!', to the dumb stone, 'On your feet!' (This is the prophecy!) Look, he isencased in gold and silver, -but not a breath of life inside it!
18 Quid prodest sculptile, quia sculpsit illud fictor suus; conflatile et oraculum mendax, quia speravit in figmento fictor eius, ut faceret simulacra muta?	18 What use is a sculpted image that a sculptor should make it? - a metal image, a lying instructor! Andwhy does the image-maker put his trust in it, that he should make dumb idols?
19 Vae, qui dicit ligno: “ Expergiscere! ”, “ Surge! ” lapidi tacenti! Numquid ipse docere poterit? Ecce iste coopertus est auro et argento, et omnis spiritus non est in visceribus eius.	19
20 Dominus autem in templo sancto suo; sileat a facie eius omnis terra.	20 But Yahweh is in his holy Temple: let the whole earth be silent before him.