Isaiah Chapter 32

The blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation of the Jews, and prosperity of the Church of Christ.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.
3 The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken diligently.
4 And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain.
5 The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great:
6 For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.
7 The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man speaketh judgment.
8 But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.

9 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.
10 For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.
11 Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.
12 Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.
13 Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?
14 For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.
16 A judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel.
17 And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.
18 And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.
19 But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city shall be made very low.
20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

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 Ecce in justitia regnabit rex,
et principes in judicio præerunt.
2 Et erit vir sicut qui absconditur a vento,
et celat se a tempestate;
sicut rivi aquarum in siti,
et umbra petræ prominentis in terra deserta.
3 Non caligabunt oculi videntium,
et aures audientium diligenter auscultabunt.
4 Et cor stultorum intelliget scientiam,
et lingua balborum velociter loquetur et plane.
5 Non vocabitur ultra is qui insipiens est, princeps,
neque fraudulentus appellabitur major;
6 stultus enim fatua loquetur,
et cor ejus faciet iniquitatem,
ut perficiat simulationem,
et loquatur ad Dominum fraudulenter,
et vacuam faciat animam esurientis,
et potum sitienti auferat.
7 Fraudulenti vasa pessima sunt;
ipse enim cogitationes concinnavit
ad perdendos mites in sermone mendacii,
cum loqueretur pauper judicium.
8 Princeps vero ea quæ digna sunt principe cogitabit,
et ipse super duces stabit.

9 Mulieres opulentæ, surgite,
et audite vocem meam;
filiæ confidentes,
percipite auribus eloquium meum.
10 Post dies enim et annum,
vos conturbabimini confidentes;
consummata est enim vindemia,
collectio ultra non veniet.
11 Obstupescite, opulentæ;
conturbamini, confidentes:
exuite vos et confundimini;
accingite lumbos vestros.
12 Super ubera plangite,
super regione desiderabili,
super vinea fertili.
13 Super humum populi mei
spinæ et vepres ascendent:
quanto magis super omnes domos gaudii
civitatis exultantis!
14 Domus enim dimissa est,
multitudo urbis relicta est,
tenebræ et palpatio
factæ sunt super speluncas usque in æternum;
gaudium onagrorum,
pascua gregum.
15 Donec effundatur super nos
spiritus de excelso,
et erit desertum in carmel,
et carmel in saltum reputabitur.
16 Et habitabit in solitudine judicium,
et justitia in carmel sedebit.
17 Et erit opus justitiæ pax,
et cultus justitiæ silentium,
et securitas usque in sempiternum.
18 Et sedebit populus meus in pulchritudine pacis,
et in tabernaculis fiduciæ,
et in requie opulenta.
19 Grando autem in descensione saltus,
et humilitate humiliabitur civitas.
20 Beati qui seminatis super omnes aquas,
immittentes pedem bovis et asini.

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