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Isaiah Chapter 31

The folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God. He will fight for his people against the Assyrians.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses, and putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many: and in horsemen, because they are very strong: and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord.
2 But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not removed his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work iniquity.
3 Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together.
4 For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth, and the lions whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude of shepherds shall come against him, he will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid of their multitude: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon mount Sion, and upon the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.
6 Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
7 For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin.
8 And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face of the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.
9 And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Væ qui descendunt in Ægyptum ad auxilium,
in equis sperantes,
et habentes fiduciam super quadrigis, quia multæ sunt;
et super equitibus, quia prævalidi nimis;
et non sunt confisi super Sanctum Israël,
et Dominum non requisierunt!
2 Ipse autem sapiens adduxit malum,
et verba sua non abstulit;
et consurget contra domum pessimorum,
et contra auxilium operantium iniquitatem.
3 Ægyptus homo, et non deus;
et equi eorum caro, et non spiritus;
et Dominus inclinabit manum suam,
et corruet auxiliator, et cadet cui præstatur auxilium,
simulque omnes consumentur.
4 Quia hæc dicit Dominus ad me:
Quomodo si rugiat leo
et catulus leonis super prædam suam;
et cum occurrerit ei multitudo pastorum,
a voce eorum non formidabit,
et a multitudine eorum non pavebit:
sic descendet Dominus exercituum ut prælietur
super montem Sion et super collem ejus.
5 Sicut aves volantes,
sic proteget Dominus exercituum Jerusalem,
protegens et liberans, transiens et salvans.
6 Convertimini, sicut in profundum recesseratis,
filii Israël.
7 In die enim illa abjiciet vir
idola argenti sui, et idola auri sui,
quæ fecerunt vobis manus vestræ in peccatum.
8 Et cadet Assur in gladio non viri,
et gladius non hominis vorabit eum:
et fugiet non a facie gladii,
et juvenes ejus vectigales erunt.
9 Et fortitudo ejus a terrore transibit,
et pavebunt fugientes principes ejus,
dixit Dominus: cujus ignis est in Sion
et caminus ejus in Jerusalem.
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