Isaiah Chapter 59

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.
4 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.
5 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.
6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.
8 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.
10 We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men.
11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.
12 For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us: for our wicked doings are with us, and have known our iniquities:
13 In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in.
15 And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.
16 And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice supported him.
17 He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
18 As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.
19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:
20 And there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. This is my covenant, etc... Note here a clear promise of perpetual orthodoxy to the church of Christ.

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 non est abbreviata manus Domini, ut salvare nequeat,
neque aggravata est auris ejus, ut non exaudiat.
2 Sed iniquitates vestræ diviserunt
inter vos et Deum vestrum;
et peccata vestra absconderunt faciem ejus a vobis,
ne exaudiret.
3 Manus enim vestræ pollutæ sunt sanguine,
et digiti vestri iniquitate;
labia vestra locuta sunt mendacium,
et lingua vestra iniquitatem fatur.
4 Non est qui invocet justitiam,
neque est qui judicet vere:
sed confidunt in nihilo, et loquuntur vanitates;
conceperunt laborem, et pepererunt iniquitatem.
5 Ova aspidum ruperunt,
et telas araneæ texuerunt.
Qui comederit de ovis eorum, morietur;
et quod confotum est, erumpet in regulum.
6 Telæ eorum non erunt in vestimentum,
neque operientur operibus suis;
opera eorum opera inutilia,
et opus iniquitatis in manibus eorum.
7 Pedes eorum ad malum currunt,
et festinant ut effundant sanguinem innocentem;
cogitationes eorum cogitationes inutiles:
vastitas et contritio in viis eorum.
8 Viam pacis nescierunt,
et non est judicium in gressibus eorum;
semitæ eorum incurvatæ sunt eis:
omnis qui calcat in eis, ignorat pacem.
9 Propter hoc elongatum est judicium a nobis,
et non apprehendet nos justitia.
Exspectavimus lucem, et ecce tenebræ;
splendorem, et in tenebris ambulavimus.
10 Palpavimus sicut cæci parietem,
et quasi absque oculis attrectavimus:
impegimus meridie quasi in tenebris;
in caliginosis quasi mortui.
11 Rugiemus quasi ursi omnes,
et quasi columbæ meditantes gememus:
exspectavimus judicium, et non est;
salutem, et elongata est a nobis.
12 Multiplicatæ sunt enim iniquitates nostræ coram te,
et peccata nostra responderunt nobis,
quia scelera nostra nobiscum
et iniquitates nostras cognovimus.
13 Peccare et mentiri contra Dominum,
et aversi sumus ne iremus post tergum Dei nostri,
ut loqueremur calumniam et transgressionem;
concepimus et locuti sumus de corde verba mendacii.
14 Et conversum est retrorsum judicium,
et justitia longe stetit,
quia corruit in platea veritas,
et æquitas non potuit ingredi.
15 Et facta est veritas in oblivionem,
et qui recessit a malo, prædæ patuit.
Et vidit Dominus, et malum apparuit in oculis ejus,
quia non est judicium.
16 Et vidit quia non est vir,
et aporiatus est, quia non est qui occurrat;
et salvavit sibi brachium suum,
et justitia ejus ipsa confirmavit eum.
17 Indutus est justitia ut lorica,
et galea salutis in capite ejus;
indutus est vestimentis ultionis,
et opertus est quasi pallio zeli:
18 sicut ad vindictam quasi ad retributionem
indignationis hostibus suis,
et vicissitudinem inimicis suis;
insulis vicem reddet.
19 Et timebunt qui ab occidente nomen Domini,
et qui ab ortu solis gloriam ejus,
cum venerit quasi fluvius violentus
quem spiritus Domini cogit;
20 et venerit Sion redemptor,
et eis qui redeunt ab iniquitate in Jacob,
dicit Dominus.
21 Hoc fœdus meum cum eis,
dicit Dominus:
spiritus meus qui est in te,
et verba mea quæ posui in ore tuo,
non recedent de ore tuo,
et de ore seminis tui,
et de ore seminis seminis tui, dicit Dominus,
amodo et usque in sempiternum.

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