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Lunedi, 29 aprile 2024 - Santa Caterina da Siena ( Letture di oggi)

Amos 6

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VULGATANEW JERUSALEM
1 Væ qui opulenti estis in Sion,
et confiditis in monte Samariæ :
optimates capita populorum,
ingredientes pompatice domum Israël !
1 Disaster for those so comfortable in Zion and for those so confident on the hil of Samaria, the notablesof this first of nations, those to whom the House of Israel has recourse!
2 Transite in Chalane, et videte,
et ite inde in Emath magnam,
et descendite in Geth Palæstinorum,
et ad optima quæque regna horum :
si latior terminus eorum termino vestro est.
2 Travel to Calneh and look, go on from there to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath in Philistia. Arethey more powerful than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
3 Qui separati estis in diem malum,
et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis ;
3 Thinking to defer the evil day, you are hastening the reign of violence.
4 qui dormitis in lectis eburneis,
et lascivitis in stratis vestris ;
qui comeditis agnum de grege,
et vitulos de medio armenti ;
4 Lying on ivory beds and sprawling on their divans, they dine on lambs from the flock, and stal -fattened veal;
5 qui canitis ad vocem psalterii,
sicut David putaverunt se habere vasa cantici,
5 they bawl to the sound of the lyre and, like David, they invent musical instruments;
6 bibentes vinum in phialis,
et optimo unguento delibuti,
et nihil patiebantur super contritione Joseph.
6 they drink wine by the bowlful, and lard themselves with the finest oils, but for the ruin of Joseph theycare nothing.
7 Quapropter nunc migrabunt in capite transmigrantium,
et auferetur factio lascivientium.
7 That is why they wil now go into captivity, heading the column of captives. The sprawlers' revelry isover.
8 Juravit Dominus Deus in anima sua,
dicit Dominus Deus exercituum :
Detestor ego superbiam Jacob,
et domos ejus odi,
et tradam civitatem cum habitatoribus suis.
8 Lord Yahweh has sworn by his own self -declares Yahweh, God Sabaoth: I detest the pride of Jacob, Ihate his palaces, I shal hand over the city and al in it.
9 Quod si reliqui fuerint decem viri in domo una,
et ipsi morientur.
9 If ten people are left in a single house, they wil die
10 Et tollet eum propinquus suus, et comburet eum,
ut efferat ossa de domo ;
et dicet ei, qui in penetralibus domus est :
Numquid adhuc est penes te ?
10 and a few will be left to carry the bones from the house, and they will say to anyone deep inside thehouse, 'Any more there?' and he wil answer, 'No.' Then he wil say, 'Hush!-Yahweh's name must not bementioned.'
11 Et respondebit : Finis est.
Et dicet ei : Tace,
et non recorderis nominis Domini.
11 For look, Yahweh gives the command: as he strikes, the great house fal s to pieces and the smalhouse is in fragments.
12 Quia ecce Dominus mandabit,
et percutiet domum majorem ruinis,
et domum minorem scissionibus.
12 Can horses gal op over rocks? Can the sea be ploughed with oxen? Yet you have changed justiceinto poison, and the fruit of uprightness into wormwood,
13 Numquid currere queunt in petris equi,
aut arari potest in bubalis ?
quoniam convertistis in amaritudinem judicium,
et fructum justitiæ in absinthium.
13 while rejoicing over Lo-Debar and saying, 'Wasn't it by our own strength that we captured Karnaim?'
14 Qui lætamini in nihilo ; qui dicitis :
Numquid non in fortitudine nostra assumpsimus nobis cornua ?
14 But look, House of Israel, against you -declares Yahweh, God Sabaoth- I am raising a nation tooppress you from the Pass of Hamath to the Gorge of the Arabah.
15 Ecce enim suscitabo super vos, domus Israël,
dicit Dominus Deus exercituum, gentem,
et conteret vos ab introitu Emath usque ad torrentem deserti.