Liber Ieremiae

Ieremiae, chapter 7, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 7 Vulgate

   1 Verbum, quod factum est ad Ieremiam a Domino dicens:
   2 "Sta in porta domus Domini et praedica ibi verbum istud et dic: Audite verbum Domini, omnis Iuda, qui ingredimini per portas has, ut adoretis Dominum.
   3 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israel: Bonas facite vias vestras et opera vestra, et habitare vos faciam in loco isto.
   4 Nolite confidere in verbis mendacii dicentes: "Templum Domini, templum Domini, templum Domini est".
   5 Quoniam, si bene direxeritis vias vestras et opera vestra, si feceritis iudicium inter virum et proximum eius,
   6 advenae et pupillo et viduae non feceritis calumniam nec sanguinem innocentem effuderitis in loco hoc et post deos alienos non ambulaveritis in malum vobismetipsis,
   7 habitare vos faciam in loco isto, in terra, quam dedi patribus vestris a saeculo usque in saeculum.
   8 Ecce vos confiditis vobis in sermonibus mendacii, qui non proderunt.
   9 Quid? Furari, occidere, adulterari, iurare mendaciter, incensum offerre Baal et ire post deos alienos, quos ignoratis;
   10 et venitis et statis coram me in domo hac, super quam invocatum est nomen meum, et dicitis: "Liberati sumus", eo quod faciatis omnes abominationes istas.
   11 Numquid spelunca latronum facta est domus ista, super quam invocatum est nomen meum in oculis vestris? Ecce, etiam ego vidi, dicit Dominus.
   12 Ite ad locum meum in Silo, ubi habitavit nomen meum a principio, et videte, quae fecerim ei propter malitiam populi mei Israel.
   13 Et nunc, quia fecistis omnia opera haec, dicit Dominus, et locutus sum ad vos mane consurgens et loquens, et non audistis, et vocavi vos, et non respondistis,
   14 faciam domui huic, super quam invocatum est nomen meum, et in qua vos habetis fiduciam, et loco, quem dedi vobis et patribus vestris, sicut feci Silo;
   15 et proiciam vos a facie mea, sicut proieci omnes fratres vestros, universum semen Ephraim.
   16 Tu ergo, noli orare pro populo hoc nec assumas pro eis deprecationem et orationem et non obsistas mihi, quia non exaudiam te.
   17 Nonne vides, quid isti faciant in civitatibus Iudae et in plateis Ierusalem?
   18 Filii colligunt ligna, et patres succendunt ignem, et mulieres commiscent farinam, ut faciant placentas reginae caeli et libent diis alienis, ut me ad iracundiam provocent.
   19 Numquid me ad iracundiam provocant, dicit Dominus, nonne semetipsos in confusionem vultus sui?
   20 Ideo haec dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce furor meus et indignatio mea effunditur super locum istum, super homines et super iumenta et super lignum regionis et super fruges terrae et succendetur et non exstinguetur.
   21 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israel: Holocautomata vestra addite victimis vestris et comedite carnes,
   22 quia non sum locutus cum patribus vestris et non praecepi eis in die, qua eduxi eos de terra Aegypti, de verbo holocautomatum et victimarum.
   23 Sed hoc verbum praecepi eis dicens: Audite vocem meam, et ero vobis Deus, et vos eritis mihi populus; et ambulate in omni via, quam mandaverim vobis, ut bene sit vobis.
   24 Et non audierunt nec inclinaverunt aurem suam, sed abierunt in voluntatibus et in pravitate cordis sui mali factique sunt retrorsum et non in ante
   25 a die, qua egressi sunt patres eorum de terra Aegypti, usque ad diem hanc. Et misi ad vos omnes servos meos prophetas, per diem consurgens diluculo et mittens;
   26 et non audierunt me nec inclinaverunt aurem suam, sed induraverunt cervicem suam et peius operati sunt quam patres eorum.
   27 Et loqueris ad eos omnia verba haec, et non audient te; et vocabis eos, et non respondebunt tibi;
   28 et dices ad eos: Haec est gens, quae non audivit vocem Domini Dei sui nec recepit disciplinam. Periit fides et ablata est de ore eorum.
   29 Tonde capillum tuum et proice et sume in collibus planctum, quia sprevit Dominus et proiecit generationem furoris sui.
   30 Quia fecerunt filii Iudae malum in oculis meis, dicit Dominus; posuerunt abominationes suas in domo, super quam invocatum est nomen meum, ut polluerent eam;
   31 et aedificaverunt excelsa Topheth, quae est in valle Benennom, ut incenderent filios suos et filias suas igni: quae non praecepi nec cogitavi in corde meo.
   32 Ideo ecce dies venient, dicit Dominus, et non dicetur amplius Topheth et vallis Benennom sed vallis Interfectionis; et sepelient in Topheth, eo quod non sit locus.
   33 Et erit morticinum populi huius in cibum volucribus caeli et bestiis terrae, et non erit qui abigat.
   34 Et quiescere faciam de urbibus Iudae et de plateis Ierusalem vocem gaudii et vocem laetitiae, vocem sponsi et vocem sponsae: in desolationem enim erit terra".

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 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
   2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
   3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
   4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
   5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
   6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
   7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
   8 ¶ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
   9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
   10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
   11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
   12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
   13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
   14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
   15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
   16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
   17 ¶ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
   18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
   19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
   20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
   21 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
   22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
   23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
   24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
   25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
   26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
   27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
   28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
   29 ¶ Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
   30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
   31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
   32 ¶ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
   33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
   34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.