Liber Isaiae

Isaiae, chapter 28, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 28 Vulgate

   1 Vae coronae superbiae ebriorum Ephraim et flori decidenti gloriae maiestatis eius, qui erant in vertice vallis pinguissimae, errantes a vino!
   2 Ecce validus et fortis Domino sicut impetus grandinis, turbo confringens, sicut impetus aquarum multarum inundantium, et deiciet in terram violenter.
   3 Pedibus conculcabitur corona superbiae ebriorum Ephraim;
   4 et erit flos decidens gloriae maiestatis eius, qui est super verticem vallis pinguium, quasi ficus praecox ante messem, quam quis, ut viderit, manu statim arreptam devorabit.
   5 In die illa erit Dominus exercituum corona gloriae et sertum maiestatis residuo populi sui
   6 et spiritus iudicii sedenti ad iudicandum et fortitudo vertentibus proelium usque ad portam.
   7 Verum hi quoque prae vino vacillant et prae ebrietate nutant; sacerdos et propheta vacillant prae ebrietate, absorpti sunt a vino, nutant in ebrietate, vacillant in visione, fluctuant in iudicio.
   8 Omnes enim mensae repletae sunt vomitu sordiumque, ita ut non esset ultra locus.
   9 Quem docebit scientiam? Et quem intellegere faciet auditum? Ablactatos a lacte, avulsos ab uberibus.
   10 Etenim praeceptum ad praeceptum, praeceptum ad praeceptum, regula ad regulam, regula ad regulam, modicum ibi, modicum ibi.
   11 Balbis enim labiis et lingua altera loquetur ad populum istum,
   12 cui dixerat: "Haec requies, reficite lassum; et hoc est refrigerium". Et noluerunt audire.
   13 Et erit eis verbum Domini: "Praeceptum ad praeceptum, praeceptum ad praeceptum, regula ad regulam, regula ad regulam, modicum ibi, modicum ibi", ut vadant et cadant retrorsum et conterantur et illaqueentur et capiantur.
   14 Propter hoc audite verbum Domini, viri illusores, qui dominamini super populum meum, qui est in Ierusalem.
   15 Dixistis enim: "Percussimus foedus cum morte et cum inferno fecimus pactum; flagellum inundans cum transierit, non veniet super nos, quia posuimus mendacium spem nostram et in fallacia absconditi sumus".
   16 Idcirco haec dicit Dominus Deus: "Ecce ego fundamentum ponam in Sion, lapidem, lapidem probatum, angularem, pretiosum, fundatum; qui crediderit, non turbabitur.
   17 Et ponam iudicium tamquam normam et iustitiam tamquam perpendiculum; et subvertet grando spem mendacii, et latibulum aquae inundabunt.
   18 Et delebitur foedus vestrum cum morte, et pactum vestrum cum inferno non stabit; flagellum inundans cum transierit, eritis ei in conculcationem.
   19 Quandocumque pertransierit, tollet vos; quoniam mane diluculo pertransibit, in die et in nocte, et erit tantummodo horrendum intellegere auditum".
   20 Coangustatum est enim stratum, ut quis se extendat, et pallium brevius, ut quis se operire possit.
   21 Sicut enim in monte Pharasim stabit Dominus, sicut in valle, quae est in Gabaon, irascetur, ut faciat opus suum, novum opus suum, ut operetur operationem suam, peregrinam operationem suam.
   22 Et nunc nolite illudere, ne forte constringantur vincula vestra; decretum enim destructionis audivi a Domino, Deo exercituum, super universam terram.
   23 Auribus percipite et audite vocem meam, attendite et audite eloquium meum.
   24 Numquid tota die arat arans, ut serat, proscindit et sarrit humum suam?
   25 Nonne, cum adaequaverit faciem eius, spargit nigellam et serit cuminum, ponit triticum et hordeum et far in finibus suis?
   26 Erudit enim illum recte, Deus suus docet illum.
   27 Non enim in serris trituratur nigella, nec rota plaustri super cuminum circuit; sed in virga excutitur nigella, et cuminum in baculo.
   28 Numquid comminuitur triticum? Verum non in perpetuum triturans triturabit illum, neque vexabit eum rota plaustri, nec ungulis suis comminuet eum.
   29 Et hoc a Domino, Deo exercituum, exivit; mirabile fecit consilium, magnificavit sapientiam.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
   2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
   3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
   4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
   5 ¶ In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
   6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
   7 ¶ But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
   8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
   9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
   10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
   11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
   12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
   13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
   14 ¶ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
   15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
   16 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
   17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
   18 ¶ And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
   19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
   20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
   21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
   22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
   23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
   24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
   25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
   26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
   27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
   28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
   29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.