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1 And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias. 3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey. 4 For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians.
5 And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:
6 Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia:
7 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks.
8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.
9 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.
11 For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
12 Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.
19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living or the dead? Seek of pythons... That is, people pretending to tell future things by a prophesying spirit. -- Ibid. Should not the people seek of their God, for the living or the dead?... Here is signified, that it is to God we should pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of fortune-tellers dead in sin), for the health of the living.
20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.
21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.
22 And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.
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 dixit Dominus ad me: Sume tibi librum grandem, et scribe in eo stylo hominis: Velociter spolia detrahe, cito prædare. 2 Et adhibui mihi testes fideles, Uriam sacerdotem, et Zachariam, filium Barachiæ: 3 et accessi ad prophetissam, et concepit, et peperit filium. Et dixit Dominus ad me: Voca nomen ejus: Accelera spolia detrahere; Festina prædari: 4 quia antequam sciat puer vocare patrem suum et matrem suam, auferetur fortitudo Damasci, et spolia Samariæ, coram rege Assyriorum.
5 Et adjecit Dominus loqui ad me adhuc, dicens:
6 Pro eo quod abjecit populus iste
aquas Siloë, quæ vadunt cum silentio,
et assumpsit magis Rasin,
et filium Romeliæ:
7 propter hoc ecce Dominus adducet super eos
aquas fluminis fortes et multas,
regem Assyriorum, et omnem gloriam ejus,
et ascendet super omnes rivos ejus,
et fluet super universas ripas ejus;
8 et ibit per Judam, inundans, et transiens:
usque ad collum veniet.
Et erit extensio alarum ejus
implens latitudinem terræ tuæ, o Emmanuel!
9 Congregamini, populi, et vincimini;
et audite, universæ procul terræ:
confortamini, et vincimini;
accingite vos, et vincimini.
10 Inite consilium, et dissipabitur;
loquimini verbum, et non fiet:
quia nobiscum Deus.
11 Hæc enim ait Dominus ad me: Sicut in manu forti erudivit me,
ne irem in via populi hujus, dicens:
12 Non dicatis: Conjuratio;
omnia enim quæ loquitur populus iste, conjuratio est:
et timorem ejus ne timeatis, neque paveatis.
13 Dominum exercituum ipsum sanctificate;
ipse pavor vester, et ipse terror vester:
14 et erit vobis in sanctificationem;
in lapidem autem offensionis, et in petram scandali,
duabus domibus Israël;
in laqueum et in ruinam habitantibus Jerusalem.
15 Et offendent ex eis plurimi,
et cadent, et conterentur,
et irretientur, et capientur.
16 Liga testimonium,
signa legem in discipulis meis.
17 Et exspectabo Dominum qui abscondit faciem suam
a domo Jacob, et præstolabor eum.
18 Ecce ego et pueri mei quos dedit mihi Dominus
in signum, et in portentum Israël
a Domino exercituum,
qui habitat in monte Sion:
19 et cum dixerint ad vos:
Quærite a pythonibus
et a divinis qui strident in incantationibus suis:
numquid non populus a Deo suo requiret,
pro vivis a mortuis?
20 ad legem magis et ad testimonium.
Quod si non dixerint juxta verbum hoc,
non erit eis matutina lux.
21 Et transibit per eam, corruet, et esuriet;
et cum esurierit, irascetur.
Et maledicet regi suo, et Deo suo,
et suscipiet sursum,
22 et ad terram intuebitur;
et ecce tribulatio et tenebræ,
dissolutio et angustia,
et caligo persequens,
et non poterit avolare de angustia sua.
Transcribed as part of the Clementine Vulgate Project
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