Isaiah 21
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
1Onus deserti maris. [Sicut turbines ab africo veniunt, de deserto venit, de terra horribili.
2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
2Visio dura nuntiata est mihi: qui incredulus est infideliter agit; et qui depopulator est vastat. Ascende, Ælam; obside, Mede; omnem gemitum ejus cessare feci.
3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.
3Propterea repleti sunt lumbi mei dolore; angustia possedit me sicut angustia parturientis; corrui cum audirem, conturbatus sum cum viderem.
4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
4Emarcuit cor meum; tenebræ stupefecerunt me: Babylon dilecta mea posita est mihi in miraculum.
5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
5Pone mensam, contemplare in specula comedentes et bibentes: surgite, principes, arripite clypeum.
6For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
6Hæc enim dixit mihi Dominus: Vade, et pone speculatorem, et quodcumque viderit annuntiet.
7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
7Et vidit currum duorum equitum, ascensorem asini, et ascensorem cameli; et contemplatus est diligenter multo intuitu.
8He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
8Et clamavit leo: Super speculam Domini ego sum, stans jugiter per diem; et super custodiam meam ego sum, stans totis noctibus.
9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
9Ecce iste venit ascensor vir bigæ equitum; et respondit, et dixit: Cecidit, cecidit Babylon, et omnia sculptilia deorum ejus contrita sunt in terram.
10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
10Tritura mea et filii areæ meæ, quæ audivi a Domino exercituum, Deo Israël, annuntiavi vobis.]
11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
11Onus Duma. [Ad me clamat ex Seir: Custos, quid de nocte? custos, quid de nocte?
12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
12Dixit custos: Venit mane et nox; si quæritis, quærite; convertimini, venite.]
13The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
13Onus in Arabia. [In saltu ad vesperam dormietis, in semitis Dedanim.
14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
14Occurrentes sitienti ferte aquam, qui habitatis terram austri; cum panibus occurrite fugienti.
15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
15A facie enim gladiorum fugerunt, a facie gladii imminentis, a facie arcus extenti, a facie gravis prælii.
16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
16Quoniam hæc dicit Dominus ad me: Adhuc in uno anno, quasi in anno mercenarii, et auferetur omnis gloria Cedar.
17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
17Et reliquiæ numeri sagittariorum fortium de filiis Cedar imminuentur; Dominus enim Deus Israël locutus est.]
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