Isaiah Chapter 16

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.
2 And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.
4 My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a covert to them from the face of the destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the wretch is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth under foot.
5 And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and quickly rendering that which is just.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his pride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more than his strength.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes.
8 For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the branches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the vineyard of Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest.
10 And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away. Carmel... This name is often taken to signify a fair and fruitful hill or field, such as mount Carmel is.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is wearied on his high places, that he shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and shall not prevail.

13 This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time: 14 And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.

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 Emitte agnum, Domine, dominatorem terræ,
de petra deserti
ad montem filiæ Sion.
2 Et erit: sicut avis fugiens,
et pulli de nido avolantes,
sic erunt filiæ Moab
in transcensu Arnon.
3 Ini consilium,
coge concilium;
pone quasi noctem umbram tuam
in meridie;
absconde fugientes, et vagos ne prodas.
4 Habitabunt apud te profugi mei;
Moab, esto latibulum eorum a facie vastatoris:
finitus est enim pulvis, consummatus est miser,
defecit qui conculcabat terram.
5 Et præparabitur in misericordia solium,
et sedebit super illud in veritate
in tabernaculo David,
judicans et quærens judicium,
et velociter reddens quod justum est.
6 Audivimus superbiam Moab:
superbus est valde;
superbia ejus, et arrogantia ejus, et indignatio ejus
plus quam fortitudo ejus.
7 Idcirco ululabit Moab ad Moab;
universus ululabit:
his qui lætantur super muros cocti lateris,
loquimini plagas suas.
8 Quoniam suburbana Hesebon deserta sunt,
et vineam Sabama
domini gentium exciderunt:
flagella ejus usque ad Jazer pervenerunt,
erraverunt in deserto;
propagines ejus relictæ sunt,
transierunt mare.
9 Super hoc plorabo in fletu Jazer
vineam Sabama;
inebriabo de lacrima mea,
Hesebon et Eleale,
quoniam super vindemiam tuam et super messem tuam
vox calcantium irruit.
10 Et auferetur lætitia et exsultatio de Carmelo,
et in vineis non exsultabit neque jubilabit.
Vinum in torculari non calcabit qui calcare consueverat;
vocem calcantium abstuli.
11 Super hoc venter meus ad Moab
quasi cithara sonabit,
et viscera mea ad murum cocti lateris.
12 Et erit: cum apparuerit quod laboravit Moab
super excelsis suis,
ingredietur ad sancta sua ut obsecret,
et non valebit.

13 Hoc verbum quod locutus est Dominus ad Moab ex tunc. 14 Et nunc locutus est Dominus, dicens: In tribus annis, quasi anni mercenarii, auferetur gloria Moab super omni populo multo, et relinquetur parvus et modicus, nequaquam multus.

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