Isaiæ 14

VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Prope est ut veniat tempus ejus, et dies ejus non elongabuntur. Miserebitur enim Dominus Jacob, et eliget adhuc de Israël, et requiescere eos faciet super humum suam ; adjungetur advena ad eos, et adhærebit domui Jacob.	1 When the LORD has pity on Jacob and again chooses Israel and settles them on their own soil, the aliens will join them and be counted with the house of Jacob.
2 Et tenebunt eos populi, et adducent eos in locum suum ; et possidebit eos domus Israël super terram Domini in servos et ancillas : et erunt capientes eos qui se ceperant, et subjicient exactores suos.	2 The house of Israel will take them and bring them along to its place, and possess them as male and female slaves on the Lord's soil, making captives of its captors and ruling over its oppressors.
3 Et erit in die illa : cum requiem dederit tibi Deus a labore tuo, et a concussione tua, et a servitute dura qua ante servisti,	3 On the day the LORD relieves you of sorrow and unrest and the hard service in which you have been enslaved,
4 sumes parabolam istam contra regem Babylonis, et dices : Quomodo cessavit exactor ; quievit tributum ?	4 you will take up this taunt-song against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has reached his end! how the turmoil is stilled!
5 Contrivit Dominus baculum impiorum, virgam dominantium,	5 The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of the tyrants
6 cædentem populos in indignatione plaga insanabili, subjicientem in furore gentes, persequentem crudeliter.	6 That struck the peoples in wrath relentless blows; That beat down the nations in anger, with oppression unchecked.
7 Conquievit et siluit omnis terra, gavisa est et exsultavit ;	7 The whole earth rests peacefully, song breaks forth;
8 abietes quoque lætatæ sunt super te, et cedri Libani : ex quo dormisti, non ascendet qui succidat nos.	8 The very cypresses rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon: "Now that you are laid to rest, there will be none to cut us down."
9 Infernus subter conturbatus est in occursum adventus tui ; suscitavit tibi gigantes. Omnes principes terræ surrexerunt de soliis suis, omnes principes nationum.	9 The nether world below is all astir preparing for your coming; It awakens the shades to greet you, all the leaders of the earth; It has the kings of all nations rise from their thrones.
10 Universi respondebunt, et dicent tibi : Et tu vulneratus es sicut et nos ; nostri similis effectus es.	10 All of them speak out and say to you, "You too have become weak like us, you are the same as we.
11 Detracta est ad inferos superbia tua, concidit cadaver tuum ; subter te sternetur tinea, et operimentum tuum erunt vermes.	11 Down to the nether world your pomp is brought, the music of your harps. The couch beneath you is the maggot, your covering, the worm."
12 Quomodo cecidisti de cælo, Lucifer, qui mane oriebaris ? corruisti in terram, qui vulnerabas gentes ?	12 How have you fallen from the heavens, O morning star, son of the dawn! How are you cut down to the ground, you who mowed down the nations!
13 Qui dicebas in corde tuo : In cælum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum ; sedebo in monte testamenti, in lateribus aquilonis ;	13 You said in your heart: "I will scale the heavens; Above the stars of God I will set up my throne; I will take my seat on the Mount of Assembly, in the recesses of the North.
14 ascendam super altitudinem nubium, similis ero Altissimo ?	14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will be like the Most High!"
15 Verumtamen ad infernum detraheris, in profundum laci.	15 Yet down to the nether world you go to the recesses of the pit!
16 Qui te viderint, ad te inclinabuntur, teque prospicient : Numquid iste est vir qui conturbavit terram, qui concussit regna,	16 When they see you they will stare, pondering over you: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, and kingdoms quake?
17 qui posuit orbem desertum, et urbes ejus destruxit, vinctis ejus non aperuit carcerem ?	17 Who made the world a desert, razed its cities, and gave his captives no release?
18 Omnes reges gentium universi dormierunt in gloria, vir in domo sua ;	18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
19 tu autem projectus es de sepulchro tuo, quasi stirps inutilis pollutus, et obvolutus cum his qui interfecti sunt gladio, et descenderunt ad fundamenta laci, quasi cadaver putridum.	19 But you are cast forth without burial, loathsome and corrupt, Clothed as those slain at sword-point, a trampled corpse. Going down to the pavement of the pit,
20 Non habebis consortium, neque cum eis in sepultura ; tu enim terram tuam disperdidisti, tu populum tuum occidisti : non vocabitur in æternum semen pessimorum.	20 you will never be one with them in the grave." For you have ruined your land, you have slain your people! Let him not be named forever, that scion of an evil race!
21 Præparate filios ejus occisioni, in iniquitate patrum suorum : non consurgent, nec hæreditabunt terram, neque implebunt faciem orbis civitatum.	21 He shall pass through it hard-pressed and hungry, and in his hunger he shall become enraged, and curse his king and his gods. He shall look upward, but there shall be strict darkness without any dawn;
22 Et consurgam super eos, dicit Dominus exercituum ; et perdam Babylonis nomen, et reliquias, et germen, et progeniem, dicit Dominus ;	22 He shall gaze at the earth, but there shall be distress and darkness, with the light blacked out by its clouds.
23 et ponam eam in possessionem ericii, et in paludes aquarum, et scopabo eam in scopa terens, dicit Dominus exercituum.	23 I will make it a haunt of hoot owls and a marshland; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.
24 Juravit Dominus exercituum, dicens : Si non, ut putavi, ita erit ; et quomodo mente tractavi,	24 The LORD of hosts has sworn: As I have resolved, so shall it be; As I have proposed, so shall it stand:
25 sic eveniet : ut conteram Assyrium in terra mea, et in montibus meis conculcem eum ; et auferetur ab eis jugum ejus, et onus illius ab humero eorum tolletur.	25 Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden from their shoulder.
26 Hoc consilium quod cogitavi super omnem terram ; et hæc est manus extenta super universas gentes.	26 This is the plan proposed for the whole earth, and this the hand outstretched over all nations.
27 Dominus enim exercituum decrevit ; et quis poterit infirmare ? et manus ejus extenta ; et quis avertet eam ?	27 The LORD of hosts has planned; who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out; who can turn it back?
28 In anno quo mortuus est rex Achaz, factum est onus istud :	28 In the year that King Ahaz died, there came this oracle:
29 Ne lætaris, Philisthæa omnis tu, quoniam comminuta est virga percussoris tui ; de radice enim colubri egredietur regulus, et semen ejus absorbens volucrem.	29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, not a man of you, that the rod which smote you is broken; For out of the serpent's root shall come an adder, its fruit shall be a flying saraph.
30 Et pascentur primogeniti pauperum, et pauperes fiducialiter requiescent ; et interire faciam in fame radicem tuam, et reliquias tuas interficiam.	30 In my pastures the poor shall eat, and the needy lie down in safety; But I will kill your root with famine that shall slay even your remnant.
31 Ulula, porta ; clama civitas ; prostrata est Philisthæa omnis ; ab aquilone enim fumus veniet, et non est qui effugiet agmen ejus.	31 Howl, O gate; cry out, O city! Philistia, all of you melts away! For there comes a smoke from the north, without a straggler in the ranks.
32 Et quid respondebitur nuntiis gentis ? Quia Dominus fundavit Sion, et in ipso sperabunt pauperes populi ejus.	32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has established Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."