| 12 πῶς ἐξέπεσεν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὁ ἑωσφόρος ὁ πρωὶ ἀνατέλλων συνετρίβη εἰς τὴν γῆν ὁ ἀποστέλλων πρὸς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη 13 σὺ δὲ εἶπας ἐν τῇ διανοίᾳ σου εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβήσομαι ἐπάνω τῶν ἄστρων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ θήσω τὸν θρόνον μου καθιῶ ἐν ὄρει ὑψηλῷ ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη τὰ ὑψηλὰ τὰ πρὸς βορρᾶν 14 ἀναβήσομαι ἐπάνω τῶν νεφελῶν ἔσομαι ὅμοιος τῷ ὑψίστῳ 15 νῦν δὲ εἰς ᾅδου καταβήσῃ καὶ εἰς τὰ θεμέλια τῆς γῆς 16 οἱ ἰδόντες σε θαυμάσουσιν ἐπὶ σοὶ καὶ ἐροῦσιν οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ παροξύνων τὴν γῆν σείων βασιλεῖς 17 ὁ θεὶς τὴν οἰκουμένην ὅλην ἔρημον καὶ τὰς πόλεις καθεῖλεν τοὺς ἐν ἐπαγωγῇ οὐκ ἔλυσεν 18 πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐκοιμήθησαν ἐν τιμῇ ἄνθρωπος ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ 19 σὺ δὲ ῥιφήσῃ ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν ὡς νεκρὸς ἐβδελυγμένος μετὰ πολλῶν τεθνηκότων ἐκκεκεντημένων μαχαίραις καταβαινόντων εἰς ᾅδου ὃν τρόπον ἱμάτιον ἐν αἵματι πεφυρμένον οὐκ ἔσται καθαρόν 20 οὕτως οὐδὲ σὺ ἔσῃ καθαρός διότι τὴν γῆν μου ἀπώλεσας καὶ τὸν λαόν μου ἀπέκτεινας οὐ μὴ μείνῃς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα χρόνον σπέρμα πονηρόν 21 ἑτοίμασον τὰ τέκνα σου σφαγῆναι ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις τοῦ πατρός σου ἵνα μὴ ἀναστῶσιν καὶ τὴν γῆν κληρονομήσωσιν καὶ ἐμπλήσωσι τὴν γῆν πόλεων 22 καὶ ἐπαναστήσομαι αὐτοῖς λέγει κύριος σαβαωθ καὶ ἀπολῶ αὐτῶν ὄνομα καὶ κατάλειμμα καὶ σπέρμα τάδε λέγει κύριος 23 καὶ θήσω τὴν Βαβυλωνίαν ἔρημον ὥστε κατοικεῖν ἐχίνους καὶ ἔσται εἰς οὐδέν καὶ θήσω αὐτὴν πηλοῦ βάραθρον εἰς ἀπώλειαν |
12 What, fallen from heaven, thou Lucifer, that once didst herald the dawn? Prostrate on the earth, that didst once bring nations to their knees? 13 I will scale the heavens (such was thy thought); I will set my throne higher than God’s stars, take my seat at his own trysting-place, at the meeting of the northern hills;[1] 14 I will soar above the level of the clouds, the rival of the most High. 15 Thine, instead, to be dragged down into the world beneath, into the heart of the abyss. 16 Who that sees thee there, but will peer down at thee and read thy story: Can this be the man who once shook the world, and made thrones totter; 17 who turned earth into a desert, its cities into ruins; never granted prisoner release? 18 For those other kings, honourable burial, each in his own palace; 19 thee the grave itself rejects, like a withered root, like a thing unclean. Rots thy corpse unrecognized, beneath yonder coverlet of men slain, that went down to the deep pit together; 20 no fellowship hast thou with those others, no share in their sepulture, thou who didst lead thy country to ruin, thou, who didst bring destruction on thy people. The posterity of the wicked shall be nameless for ever; 21 for the guilt they have inherited, his sons too must be slain, they must not live to make the land their own, and people the world with cities. 22 A message from the Lord of hosts: Now I mean to take arms against them, to destroy Babylon name and fame, root and branch. 23 I will make the place over to the hedge-hog,[2] turn it into standing pools; I will sweep it clean, the Lord of hosts says, sweep it clean away. |
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Quomodo cecidisti de cælo,
Lucifer, qui mane oriebaris?
corruisti in terram,
qui vulnerabas gentes? 13
Qui dicebas in corde tuo:
In cælum conscendam,
super astra Dei
exaltabo solium meum;
sedebo in monte testamenti,
in lateribus aquilonis; 14
ascendam super altitudinem nubium,
similis ero Altissimo? 15
Verumtamen ad infernum detraheris,
in profundum laci. 16
Qui te viderint, ad te inclinabuntur,
teque prospicient:
Numquid iste est vir qui conturbavit terram,
qui concussit regna, 17
qui posuit orbem desertum,
et urbes ejus destruxit,
vinctis ejus non aperuit carcerem? 18
Omnes reges gentium
universi dormierunt in gloria,
vir in domo sua; 19
tu autem projectus es de sepulchro tuo,
quasi stirps inutilis pollutus,
et obvolutus cum his qui interfecti sunt gladio,
et descenderunt ad fundamenta laci,
quasi cadaver putridum. 20
Non habebis consortium, neque cum eis in sepultura;
tu enim terram tuam disperdidisti,
tu populum tuum occidisti:
non vocabitur in æternum
semen pessimorum. 21
Præparate filios ejus occisioni,
in iniquitate patrum suorum:
non consurgent, nec hæreditabunt terram,
neque implebunt faciem orbis civitatum. 22
Et consurgam super eos,
dicit Dominus exercituum;
et perdam Babylonis nomen, et reliquias,
et germen, et progeniem, dicit Dominus; 23
et ponam eam in possessionem ericii,
et in paludes aquarum,
et scopabo eam in scopa terens,
dicit Dominus exercituum. |