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1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off in thee the just, and the wicked.
4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the north.
5 That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.
6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them.
7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Say: The sword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished.
10 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may glitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every tree. Thou removest the sceptre of my son... He speaks (according to St. Jerome) to the sword of Nabuchodonosor: which was about to remove the sceptre of Israel, whom God here calls his son.
11 And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, that it may be in the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this sword is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are delivered up to the sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy thigh,
13 Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.
14 Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain be tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them stand amazed,
15 And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is furbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter.
16 Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left, which way soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.
17 And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my indignation: I the Lord have spoken.
18 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 19 And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of the king of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of one land: and with his hand he shall draw lots, he shall consult at the head of the way of the city. 20 Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the strong city. 21 For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails. 22 On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build forts. 23 And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have remembered your iniquity, and have discovered your prevarications, and your sins have appeared in all your devices: because, I say, you have remembered, you shall be taken with the hand. 25 But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come that hath been appointed in the time of iniquity: Thou profane, etc... He speaks to king Sedecias, who had broken his oath, and was otherwise a wicked prince. 26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high? Is it not this that hath exalted the low one... The royal crown of Juda had exalted Sedecias from a private state and condition to the sovereign power, as the loss of it had brought down Jechonias, etc. 27 I will show it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give it him. I will show it to be iniquity, etc... Or, I will overturn it, viz., the crown of Juda for the manifold iniquities of the kings: but it shall not be utterly removed, till Christ come whose right it is: and who shall reign in the spiritual house of Jacob, that is, in his church, for evermore.
28 And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and thou shalt say:
O sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and to glitter, Concerning their reproach... By which they had reproached and insulted over the Jews, at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem.
29 Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose appointed day is come in the time of iniquity.
30 Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. Return into thy sheath, etc... The sword of Babylon, after raging against many nations, was shortly to be judged and destroyed at home by the Medes and Persians.
31 And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy destruction.
32 Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken it.
Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899
1 Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens:
2 Fili hominis, pone faciem tuam ad Jerusalem,
et stilla ad sanctuaria,
et propheta contra humum Israël.
3 Et dices terræ Israël:
Hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Ecce ego ad te,
et ejiciam gladium meum de vagina sua,
et occidam in te justum et impium.
4 Pro eo autem quod occidi in te justum et impium,
idcirco egredietur gladius meus de vagina sua
ad omnem carnem, ab austro usque ad aquilonem:
5 ut sciat omnis caro quia ego Dominus,
eduxi gladium meum de vagina sua irrevocabilem.
6 Et tu, fili hominis, ingemisce in contritione lumborum,
et in amaritudinibus ingemisce coram eis.
7 Cumque dixerint ad te: Quare tu gemis?
dices: Pro auditu:
quia venit, et tabescet omne cor,
et dissolventur universæ manus,
et infirmabitur omnis spiritus,
et per cuncta genua fluent aquæ:
ecce venit, et fiet, ait Dominus Deus.
8 Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens: 9 Fili hominis, propheta, et dices: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: loquere:
Gladius, gladius exacutus est, et limatus:
10 ut cædat victimas, exacutus est:
ut splendeat, limatus est:
qui moves sceptrum filii mei, succidisti omne lignum.
11 Et dedi eum ad levigandum, ut teneatur manu:
iste exacutus est gladius, et iste limatus est,
ut sit in manu interficientis.
12 Clama et ulula, fili hominis,
quia hic factus est in populo meo,
hic in cunctis ducibus Israël qui fugerant:
gladio traditi sunt cum populo meo:
idcirco plaude super femur,
13 quia probatus est:
et hoc, cum sceptrum subverterit, et non erit,
dicit Dominus Deus.
14 Tu ergo, fili hominis, propheta,
et percute manu ad manum:
et duplicetur gladius,
ac triplicetur gladius interfectorum:
hic est gladius occisionis magnæ,
qui obstupescere eos facit
15 et corde tabescere,
et multiplicat ruinas.
In omnibus portis eorum dedi conturbationem gladii acuti,
et limati ad fulgendum,
amicti ad cædem.
16 Exacuere, vade ad dexteram sive ad sinistram,
quocumque faciei tuæ est appetitus.
17 Quin et ego plaudam manu ad manum,
et implebo indignationem meam:
ego Dominus locutus sum.
18 Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens: 19 Et tu, fili hominis, pone tibi duas vias, ut veniat gladius regis Babylonis: de terra una egredientur ambæ: et manu capiet conjecturam; in capite viæ civitatis conjiciet. 20 Viam pones ut veniat gladius ad Rabbath filiorum Ammon, et ad Judam in Jerusalem munitissimam. 21 Stetit enim rex Babylonis in bivio, in capite duarum viarum, divinationem quærens, commiscens sagittas: interrogavit idola, exta consuluit. 22 Ad dexteram ejus facta est divinatio super Jerusalem, ut ponat arietes, ut aperiat os in cæde, ut elevet vocem in ululatu, ut ponat arietes contra portas, ut comportet aggerem, ut ædificet munitiones. 23 Eritque quasi consulens frustra oraculum in oculis eorum, et sabbatorum otium imitans: ipse autem recordabitur iniquitatis ad capiendum. 24 Idcirco hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Pro eo quod recordati estis iniquitatis vestræ, et revelastis prævaricationes vestras, et apparuerunt peccata vestra in omnibus cogitationibus vestris, pro eo, inquam, quod recordati estis, manu capiemini. 25 Tu autem, profane, impie dux Israël, cujus venit dies in tempore iniquitatis præfinita: 26 hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Aufer cidarim, tolle coronam: nonne hæc est quæ humilem sublevavit, et sublimem humiliavit? 27 Iniquitatem, iniquitatem, iniquitatem ponam eam: et hoc non factum est, donec veniret cujus est judicium, et tradam ei.
28 Et tu, fili hominis, propheta, et dic: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus ad filios Ammon, et ad opprobrium eorum: et dices:
Mucro, mucro, evagina te ad occidendum:
lima te ut interficias et fulgeas:
29 cum tibi viderentur vana,
et divinarentur mendacia,
ut dareris super colla vulneratorum impiorum,
quorum venit dies in tempore iniquitatis præfinita.
30 Revertere ad vaginam tuam,
in loco in quo creatus es:
in terra nativitatis tuæ judicabo te.
31 Et effundam super te indignationem meam;
in igne furoris mei sufflabo in te:
daboque te in manus hominum insipientium,
et fabricantium interitum.
32 Igni eris cibus;
sanguis tuus erit in medio terræ;
oblivioni traderis:
quia ego Dominus locutus sum.
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