Isaiæ 55

VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite : venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac.	1 Oh, come to the water al you who are thirsty; though you have no money, come! Buy and eat; come,buy wine and milk without money, free!
2 Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate ? Audite, audientes me, et comedite bonum, et delectabitur in crassitudine anima vestra.	2 Why spend money on what cannot nourish and your wages on what fails to satisfy? Listen carefully tome, and you wil have good things to eat and rich food to enjoy.
3 Inclinate aurem vestram, et venite ad me ; audite, et vivet anima vestra, et feriam vobiscum pactum sempiternum, misericordias David fideles.	3 Pay attention, come to me; listen, and you wil live. I shall make an everlasting covenant with you infulfilment of the favours promised to David.
4 Ecce testem populis dedi eum, ducem ac præceptorem gentibus.	4 Look, I have made him a witness to peoples, a leader and lawgiver to peoples.
5 Ecce gentem quam nesciebas vocabis, et gentes quæ te non cognoverunt ad te current, propter Dominum Deum tuum, et Sanctum Israël, quia glorificavit te.	5 Look, you wil summon a nation unknown to you, a nation unknown to you will hurry to you for the sakeof Yahweh your God, because the Holy One of Israel has glorified you.
6 Quærite Dominum dum inveniri potest ; invocate eum dum prope est.	6 Seek out Yahweh while he is stil to be found, cal to him while he is still near.
7 Derelinquat impius viam suam, et vir iniquus cogitationes suas, et revertatur ad Dominum, et miserebitur ejus ; et ad Deum nostrum, quoniam multus est ad ignoscendum.	7 Let the wicked abandon his way and the evil one his thoughts. Let him turn back to Yahweh who willtake pity on him, to our God, for he is rich in forgiveness;
8 Non enim cogitationes meæ cogitationes vestræ, neque viæ vestræ viæ meæ, dicit Dominus.	8 for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways, declares Yahweh.
9 Quia sicut exaltantur cæli a terra, sic exaltatæ sunt viæ meæ a viis vestris, et cogitationes meæ a cogitationibus vestris.	9 For the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above yourthoughts.
10 Et quomodo descendit imber et nix de cælo, et illuc ultra non revertitur, sed inebriat terram, et infundit eam, et germinare eam facit, et dat semen serenti, et panem comedenti :	10 For, as the rain and the snow come down from the sky and do not return before having watered theearth, fertilising it and making it germinate to provide seed for the sower and food to eat,
11 sic erit verbum meum quod egredietur de ore meo ; non revertetur ad me vacuum, sed faciet quæcumque volui, et prosperabitur in his ad quæ misi illud.	11 so it is with the word that goes from my mouth: it wil not return to me unfulfilled or before havingcarried out my good pleasure and having achieved what it was sent to do.
12 Quia in lætitia egrediemini, et in pace deducemini ; montes et colles cantabunt coram vobis laudem, et omnia ligna regionis plaudent manu.	12 Yes, you wil go out with joy and be led away in safety. Mountains and hil s wil break into joyful criesbefore you and all the trees of the countryside clap their hands.
13 Pro saliunca ascendet abies, et pro urtica crescet myrtus ; et erit Dominus nominatus in signum æternum quod non auferetur.	13 Cypress wil grow instead of thorns, myrtle instead of nettles. And this wil be fame for Yahweh, aneternal monument never to be effaced.