Isaiæ 22
1 Onus vallis visionis. Quidnam quoque tibi est, quia ascendisti et tu omnis in tecta?
A declaration about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that you have all gone up to the housetops?
2 Clamoris plena, urbs frequens, civitas exultans: interfecti tui, non interfecti gladio, nec mortui in bello.
Is it so you may hear a city full of noises, a town full of revelry? Your dead were not killed with the sword, and they did not die in battle.
3 Cuncti principes tui fugerunt simul, dureque ligati sunt: omnes, qui inventi sunt, vincti sunt pariter, procul fugerunt.
All your rulers fled away together, but they were captured without using a bow; all of them were captured together, though they had fled far away.
4 Propterea dixi: Recedite a me, amare flebo: nolite incumbere ut consolemini me super vastitate filiæ populi mei.
Therefore I said, “Do not look at me, I will weep bitterly; do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 Dies enim interfectionis, et conculcationis, et fletuum Domino Deo exercituum in valle visionis scrutans murum, et magnificus super montem.
For there is a day of tumult, treading down, and confusion for the Lord Yahweh of hosts, in the Valley of Vision, a breaking down of the walls, and people crying out to the mountains.
6 Et Ælam sumpsit pharetram, currum hominis equitis, et parietem nudavit clypeus.
Elam takes up the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir lays the shield bare.
7 Et erunt electæ valles tuæ plenæ quadrigarum, et equites ponent sedes suas in porta.
It will come about that your choicest valleys will be full of chariots, and the horsemen will take their positions at the gate.
8 Et revelabitur operimentum Iudæ, et videbis in die illa armamentarium domus saltus.
He took away the protection of Judah; and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9 Et scissuras civitatis David videbitis, quia multiplicatæ sunt: et congregastis aquas piscinæ inferioris,
You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many, and you collected the water of the lower pool.
10 et domos Ierusalem numerastis, et destruxistis domos ad muniendum murum.
You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you tore down the houses to fortify the wall.
11 Et lacum fecistis inter duos muros ad aquam piscinæ veteris: et non suspexistis ad eum, qui fecerat eam, et Operatorem eius de longe non vidistis.
You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not consider the city's maker, who had planned it long ago.
12 Et vocabit Dominus Deus exercituum in die illa ad fletum, et ad planctum, ad calvitium, et ad cingulum sacci:
The Lord Yahweh of hosts called on that day for weeping, for mourning, for shaved heads, and the wearing of sackcloth.
13 Et ecce gaudium et lætitia, occidere vitulos, et iugulare arietes, comedere carnes, et bibere vinum: Comedamus, et bibamus: cras enim moriemur.
But look, instead, celebration and gladness, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.
14 Et revelata est in auribus meis vox Domini exercituum. Si dimittetur iniquitas hæc vobis donec moriamini, dicit Dominus Deus exercituum.
This was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts: “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you, even when you die,” says the Lord Yahweh of hosts.
15 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum: Vade, ingredere ad eum, qui habitat in tabernaculo, ad Sobnam præpositum templi, et dices ad eum:
The Lord Yahweh of hosts, says this, “Go to this administrator, to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
16 Quid tu hic, aut quasi quis hic? Quia excidisti tibi hic sepulchrum, excidisti in excelso memoriale diligenter in petra, tabernaculum tibi.
'What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a tomb for yourself, hewing out a grave on the heights and carving out a resting place in the rock?'”
17 Ecce Dominus asportari te faciet, sicut asportatur gallus gallinaceus, et quasi amictum sic sublevabit te.
See, Yahweh is about to throw you, a mighty man, about to throw you down; he will grasp you tightly.
18 Coronas cornonabit te tribulatione, quasi pilam mittet te in terram latam et spatiosam: ibi morieris, et ibi erit currus gloriæ tuæ, ignominia domus Domini tui.
He will surely wind you round and round, and toss you like a ball into a vast country. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be; you will be the shame of your master's house!
19 Et expellam te de statione tua, et de ministerio tuo deponam te.
“I will thrust you from your office and from your station. You will be pulled down.
20 Et erit in die illa: Vocabo servum meum Eliacim filium Helciæ,
It will come about on that day that I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
21 et induam illum tunica tua, et cingulo tuo confortabo eum, et potestatem tuam dabo in manu eius: et erit quasi pater habitantibus Ierusalem, et domui Iuda.
I will clothe him with your tunic and put on him your sash, and I will transfer your authority into his hand. He will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 Et dabo clavem domus David super humerum eius: et aperiet, et non erit qui claudat: et claudet, et non erit qui aperiat.
I will place the key of the house of David on his shoulder; he will open, and none will shut; he will shut, and none will open.
23 Et figam illum paxillum in loco fideli, et erit in solium gloriæ domui patris eius.
I will fasten him, a peg in a secure place, and he will become a seat of glory for his father's house.
24 Et suspendent super eum omnem gloriam domus patris eius, vasorum diversa genera, omne vas parvulum a vasis craterarum usque ad omne vas musicorum.
They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and descendants, every small container from the cups to all the jugs.
25 In die illa dicit Dominus exercituum: Auferetur paxillus, qui fixus fuerat in loco fideli: et frangetur, et cadet, et peribit quod pependerat in eo, quia Dominus locutus est.
On that day—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—the peg driven in a firm place will give way, break off, and fall, and the weight that was on it will be cut off—for Yahweh has spoken.
