Isaiah Chapter 10

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:
2 To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

5 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.
6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
8 For he shall say:
9 Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.
11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.
13 For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high.
14 And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but wood.
16 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.
18 And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through fear.
19 And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22 For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice. A remnant of them shall be converted... This was partly verified in the children of Israel who remained after the devastations of the Assyrians, in the time of king Ezechias: and partly in the conversion of a remnant of the Jews to the faithful of Christ. -- Ibid. The consumption abridged, etc... That is, the number of them cut short, and reduced to few, shall flourish in abundance of justice.
23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.
25 For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.
26 And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil. At the presence of the oil... That is, by the sweet unction of divine mercy.

28 He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages. Into Aiath, etc... Here the prophet describes the march of the Assyrians under Sennacherib; and the terror they should carry with them; and how they should suddenly be destroyed.
29 They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.
31 Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage.
32 It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled.
34 And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.

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

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Væ qui condunt leges iniquas,
et scribentes injustitiam scripserunt,
2 ut opprimerent in judicio pauperes,
et vim facerent causæ humilium populi mei;
ut essent viduæ præda eorum,
et pupillos diriperent.
3 Quid facietis in die visitationis,
et calamitatis de longe venientis?
ad cujus confugietis auxilium?
et ubi derelinquetis gloriam vestram,
4 ne incurvemini sub vinculo,
et cum interfectis cadatis?
Super omnibus his non est aversus furor ejus,
sed adhuc manus ejus extenta.

5 Væ Assur! virga furoris mei et baculus ipse est;
in manu eorum indignatio mea.
6 Ad gentem fallacem mittam eum,
et contra populum furoris mei mandabo illi,
ut auferat spolia, et diripiat prædam,
et ponat illum in conculcationem quasi lutum platearum.
7 Ipse autem non sic arbitrabitur,
et cor ejus non ita existimabit;
sed ad conterendum erit cor ejus,
et ad internecionem gentium non paucarum.
8 Dicet enim:
9 Numquid non principes mei simul reges sunt?
numquid non ut Charcamis, sic Calano?
et ut Arphad, sic Emath?
numquid non ut Damascus, sic Samaria?
10 Quomodo invenit manus mea regna idoli,
sic et simulacra eorum de Jerusalem et de Samaria.
11 Numquid non sicut feci Samariæ et idolis ejus,
sic faciam Jerusalem et simulacris ejus?
12 Et erit, cum impleverit Dominus
cuncta opera sua
in monte Sion et in Jerusalem,
visitabo super fructum magnifici cordis regis Assur,
et super gloriam altitudinis oculorum ejus.
13 Dixit enim: In fortitudine manus meæ feci,
et in sapientia mea intellexi;
et abstuli terminos populorum,
et principes eorum deprædatus sum,
et detraxi quasi potens in sublimi residentes.
14 Et invenit quasi nidum manus mea
fortitudinem populorum;
et sicut colliguntur ova quæ derelicta sunt,
sic universam terram ego congregavi;
et non fuit qui moveret pennam,
et aperiret os, et ganniret.
15 Numquid gloriabitur securis contra eum qui secat in ea?
aut exaltabitur serra contra eum a quo trahitur?
Quomodo si elevetur virga contra elevantem se,
et exaltetur baculus, qui utique lignum est.
16 Propter hoc mittet Dominator, Dominus exercituum,
in pinguibus ejus tenuitatem;
et subtus gloriam ejus succensa ardebit
quasi combustio ignis.
17 Et erit lumen Israël in igne,
et Sanctus ejus in flamma;
et succendetur, et devorabitur
spina ejus et vepres in die una.
18 Et gloria saltus ejus, et carmeli ejus,
ab anima usque ad carnem consumetur;
et erit terrore profugus.
19 Et reliquiæ ligni saltus ejus præ paucitate numerabuntur,
et puer scribet eos.

20 Et erit in die illa:
non adjiciet residuum Israël,
et hi qui fugerint de domo Jacob,
inniti super eo qui percutit eos;
sed innitetur super Dominum,
Sanctum Israël, in veritate.
21 Reliquiæ convertentur; reliquiæ, inquam, Jacob
ad Deum fortem.
22 Si enim fuerit populus tuus, Israël, quasi arena maris,
reliquiæ convertentur ex eo;
consummatio abbreviata
inundabit justitiam.
23 Consummationem enim et abbreviationem
Dominus Deus exercituum faciet in medio omnis terræ.
24 Propter hoc, hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum:
Noli timere, populus meus,
habitator Sion, ab Assur:
in virga percutiet te,
et baculum suum levabit super te,
in via Ægypti.
25 Adhuc enim paululum modicumque,
et consummabitur indignatio
et furor meus super scelus eorum.
26 Et suscitabit super eum Dominus exercituum flagellum,
juxta plagam Madian in petra Oreb:
et virgam suam super mare,
et levabit eam in via Ægypti.
27 Et erit in die illa:
auferetur onus ejus de humero tuo
et jugum ejus de collo tuo,
et computrescet jugum a facie olei.

28 Veniet in Ajath, transibit in Magron,
apud Machmas commendabit vasa sua.
29 Transierunt cursim,
Gaba sedes nostra;
obstupuit Rama,
Gabaath Saulis fugit.
30 Hinni voce tua, filia Gallim,
attende Laisa, paupercula Anathoth.
31 Migravit Medemena;
habitatores Gabim, confortamini.
32 Adhuc dies est ut in Nobe stetur;
agitabit manum suam super montem filiæ Sion,
collem Jerusalem.
33 Ecce Dominator, Dominus exercituum,
confringet lagunculam in terrore;
et excelsi statura succidentur,
et sublimes humiliabuntur.
34 Et subvertentur condensa saltus ferro;
et Libanus cum excelsis cadet.

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