| 8 ἀ{F'} ἡμερῶν πλειόνων ἑτοιμασθήσεται καὶ ἐ{P'} ἐσχάτου ἐτῶν ἐλεύσεται καὶ ἥξει εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν ἀπεστραμμένην ἀπὸ μαχαίρας συνηγμένων ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν πολλῶν ἐπὶ γῆν Ισραηλ ἣ ἐγενήθη ἔρημος δ{I'} ὅλου καὶ οὗτος ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐξελήλυθεν καὶ κατοικήσουσιν ἐ{P'} εἰρήνης ἅπαντες 9 καὶ ἀναβήσῃ ὡς ὑετὸς καὶ ἥξεις ὡς νεφέλη κατακαλύψαι γῆν καὶ ἔσῃ σὺ καὶ πάντες οἱ περὶ σὲ καὶ ἔθνη πολλὰ μετὰ σοῦ 10 τάδε λέγει κύριος κύριος καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἀναβήσεται ῥήματα ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν σου καὶ λογιῇ λογισμοὺς πονηροὺς 11 καὶ ἐρεῖς ἀναβήσομαι ἐπὶ γῆν ἀπερριμμένην ἥξω ἐπὶ ἡσυχάζοντας ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ καὶ οἰκοῦντας ἐ{P'} εἰρήνης πάντας κατοικοῦντας γῆν ἐν ᾗ οὐχ ὑπάρχει τεῖχος οὐδὲ μοχλοί καὶ θύραι οὐκ εἰσὶν αὐτοῖς 12 προνομεῦσαι προνομὴν καὶ σκυλεῦσαι σκῦλα αὐτῶν τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι χεῖρά σου εἰς τὴν ἠρημωμένην ἣ κατῳκίσθη καὶ ἐ{P'} ἔθνος συνηγμένον ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν πολλῶν πεποιηκότας κτήσεις κατοικοῦντας ἐπὶ τὸν ὀμφαλὸν τῆς γῆς 13 Σαβα καὶ Δαιδαν καὶ ἔμποροι Καρχηδόνιοι καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ κῶμαι αὐτῶν ἐροῦσίν σοι εἰς προνομὴν τοῦ προνομεῦσαι σὺ ἔρχῃ καὶ σκυλεῦσαι σκῦλα συνήγαγες συναγωγήν σου λαβεῖν ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον ἀπενέγκασθαι κτῆσιν τοῦ σκυλεῦσαι σκῦλα |
8 Long hence thy turn shall come; long years must pass before thou dost march on Israel; a land, now, recovered from its blood-letting; its hills, desolate till now, are repeopled with exiles from many shores, come back to dwell there in security. 9 Storm never rose so suddenly, cloud-wrack never darkened it so fearsomely, as thou with that host of thine, those confederate hordes. 10 What thoughts will be in thy heart that day, the Lord God says, what foul design will be a-brewing? 11 Why, thou wilt think to march on a land unfortified, a people dwelling free from all alarms, that walls about them have none, bolt nor bar to shut them in; 12 spoil for thy spoiling, plunder for thy plundering. Easily enough they are like to fall into thy hand, the ruins so lately rebuilt; the men restored from exile, that hold but the heart of the country,[2] and are already enriched! 13 Small wonder if the traders of Saba, Dedan and Tharsis, ravenous lions all, would know whether it is plunder thy heart is set on? Such a muster of men, it can but mean spoil; silver and gold to rifle, stock and stuff to carry away, ay, there is spoil behind this, and spoil worth the taking! |
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Post dies multos visitaberis:
in novissimo annorum venies ad terram quæ reversa est a gladio,
et congregata est de populis multis ad montes Israël,
qui fuerunt deserti jugiter:
hæc de populis educta est,
et habitabunt in ea confidenter universi. 9
Ascendens autem quasi tempestas venies,
et quasi nubes, ut operias terram:
tu et omnia agmina tua,
et populi multi tecum. 10
Hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
In die illa, ascendent sermones super cor tuum,
et cogitabis cogitationem pessimam: 11
et dices: Ascendam ad terram absque muro:
veniam ad quiescentes habitantesque secure:
hi omnes habitant sine muro;
vectes et portæ non sunt eis: 12
ut diripias spolia, et invadas prædam;
ut inferas manum tuam super eos qui deserti fuerant, et postea restituti,
et super populum qui est congregatus ex gentibus,
qui possidere cœpit et esse habitator umbilici terræ. 13
Saba, et Dedan, et negotiatores Tharsis,
et omnes leones ejus, dicent tibi:
Numquid ad sumenda spolia tu venis?
ecce ad diripiendam prædam congregasti multitudinem tuam,
ut tollas argentum et aurum,
et auferas supellectilem atque substantiam,
et diripias manubias infinitas. |