Liber Ieremiae

Ieremiae, chapter 9, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 9 Vulgate

   1 Quis dabit mihi in solitudine deversorium viatorum, et de relinquam populum meum et recedam ab eis? Quia omnes adulteri sunt, coetus praevaricatorum.
   2 "Et tenderunt linguam suam quasi arcum; mendacium, et non veritas, invaluit in terra, quia de malo ad malum egressi sunt et me non cognoverunt, dicit Dominus.
   3 Unusquisque se a proximo suo custodiat et in omni fratre suo non habeat fiduciam, quia omnis frater supplantat, et omnis amicus fraudulenter incedit,
   4 et vir fratrem suum decipit, et veritatem non loquuntur; docuerunt enim linguam suam loqui mendacium, inique egerunt, noluerunt converti.
   5 Iniuria super iniuriam, dolus super dolum. Renuerunt scire me", dicit Dominus.
   6 Propterea haec dicit Dominus exercituum: "Ecce ego conflabo et probabo eos; quid enim aliud faciam filiae populi mei?
   7 Sagitta vulnerans lingua eorum; dolum locuta est in ore suo: pacem cum amico suo loquitur et occulte ponit ei insidias.
   8 Numquid super his non visitabo eos, dicit Dominus, aut in gente huiusmodi non ulciscetur anima mea?".
   9 Super montes assumam fletum ac lamentum et super pascua deserti planctum, quoniam incensa sunt, eo quod non sit vir pertransiens, et non audiunt vocem gregis; a volucre caeli usque ad pecora transmigraverunt, recesserunt.
   10 "Et dabo Ierusalem in acervos arenae et cubilia thoum, et civitates Iudae dabo in desolationem, eo quod non sit habitator".
   11 Quis est vir sapiens, qui intellegat hoc, et ad quem verbum oris Domini fiat, ut annuntiet istud: Quare perierit terra, exusta sit quasi desertum, eo quod non sit qui pertranseat?
   12 Et dixit Dominus: "Quia dereliquerunt legem meam, quam dedi eis, et non audierunt vocem meam et non ambulaverunt in ea;
   13 et abierunt post pravitatem cordis sui et post Baalim, quos didicerunt a patribus suis".
   14 Idcirco haec dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israel: "Ecce ego cibabo populum istum absinthio et potum dabo eis aquam fellis;
   15 et dispergam eos in gentibus, quas non noverunt ipsi et patres eorum, et mittam post eos gladium, donec consumantur.
   16 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum: Attendite et vocate lamentatrices, et veniant; et ad eas, quae sapientes sunt, mittite, et properent!".
   17 Festinent et assumant super nos lamentum: deducant oculi nostri lacrimas, et palpebrae nostrae defluant aquis.
   18 Quia vox lamentationis audita est de Sion: "Quomodo vastati sumus et confusi vehementer, quia dereliquimus terram, quoniam deiecta sunt tabernacula nostra".
   19 Audite ergo, mulieres, verbum Domini; et assumant aures vestrae sermonem oris eius, et docete filias vestras lamentum, et unaquaeque proximam suam planctum.
   20 Quia ascendit mors per fenestras nostras, ingressa est domos nostras, disperdere parvulos deforis, iuvenes de plateis.
   21 Loquere. Haec dicit Dominus: "Et cadet morticinum hominis quasi stercus super faciem regionis et quasi manipulus post tergum metentis, et non est qui colligat".
   22 Haec dicit Dominus: "Non glorietur sapiens in sapientia sua, et non glorietur fortis in fortitudine sua, et non glorietur dives in divitiis suis;
   23 sed in hoc glorietur, qui gloriatur: scire et nosse me, quia ego sum Dominus, qui facio misericordiam et iudicium et iustitiam in terra; haec enim placent mihi, ait Dominus.
   24 Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et visitabo super omnem, qui circumcisum habet praeputium,
   25 super Aegyptum et super Iudam et super Edom et super filios Ammon et super Moab et super omnes, qui attonsi sunt in comam, habitantes in deserto, quia omnes gentes habent praeputium, omnis autem domus Israel incircumcisi sunt corde".

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 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
   2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
   3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
   4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
   5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
   6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
   7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
   8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
   9 ¶ Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
   10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
   11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
   12 ¶ Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
   13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
   14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
   15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
   16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
   17 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
   18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
   19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
   20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
   21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
   22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
   23 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
   24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
   25 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
   26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.