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Isaiah 27

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1 τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐπάξει ὁ θεὸς τὴν μάχαιραν τὴν ἁγίαν καὶ τὴν μεγάλην καὶ τὴν ἰσχυρὰν ἐπὶ τὸν δράκοντα ὄφιν φεύγοντα ἐπὶ τὸν δράκοντα ὄφιν σκολιὸν καὶ ἀνελεῖ τὸν δράκοντα 2 τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἀμπελὼν καλός ἐπιθύμημα ἐξάρχειν κα{T'} αὐτῆς

1 Hard and heavy and strong that sword is which the Lord carries; shall he not wreak his vengeance, in due time, upon the monstrous serpent that bars the gate, and the monstrous serpent that coils up yonder;[1] shall he not deal death to the great beast of the sea? 2 And the praise of his doings shall be sung by his own vineyard, a vineyard rich in wine.

1

In die illa visitabit Dominus
in gladio suo duro, et grandi, et forti,
super Leviathan, serpentem vectem,
et super Leviathan, serpentem tortuosum,
et occidet cetum qui in mari est. 2
In die illa vinea meri cantabit ei.

3 ἐγὼ πόλις ἰσχυρά πόλις πολιορκουμένη μάτην ποτιῶ αὐτήν ἁλώσεται γὰρ νυκτός ἡμέρας δὲ πεσεῖται τὸ τεῖχος 4 οὐκ ἔστιν ἣ οὐκ ἐπελάβετο αὐτῆς τίς με θήσει φυλάσσειν καλάμην ἐν ἀγρῷ διὰ τὴν πολεμίαν ταύτην ἠθέτηκα αὐτήν τοίνυν διὰ τοῦτο ἐποίησεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς πάντα ὅσα συνέταξεν κατακέκαυμαι 5 βοήσονται οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν αὐτῇ ποιήσωμεν εἰρήνην αὐτῷ ποιήσωμεν εἰρήνην 6 οἱ ἐρχόμενοι τέκνα Ιακωβ βλαστήσει καὶ ἐξανθήσει Ισραηλ καὶ ἐμπλησθήσεται ἡ οἰκουμένη τοῦ καρποῦ αὐτοῦ

3 I, the Lord, am the keeper of this vineyard; I come soon to water it. Day by day I watch over it, to shield it from attack, 4 nor any grudge my hearts bears it. Would I were an enemy as relentless as thorns and briars are![2] Then I would trample it down and make a bonfire of it. 5 But now, see how it clings to my protection! Ay, it shall have peace, it shall make its peace with me. 6 Israel shall flourish and put forth shoots, multitudes that shall be added to the number of Jacob; with its offspring the wide face of earth shall be peopled.

3
Ego Dominus qui servo eam;
repente propinabo ei.
Ne forte visitetur contra eam,
nocte et die servo eam. 4
Indignatio non est mihi.
Quis dabit me spinam et veprem in prælio?
gradiar super eam,
succendam eam pariter. 5
An potius tenebit fortitudinem meam?
faciet pacem mihi,
pacem faciet mihi. 6
Qui ingrediuntur impetu ad Jacob,
florebit et germinabit Israël,
et implebunt faciem orbis semine.

7 μὴ ὡς αὐτὸς ἐπάταξεν καὶ αὐτὸς οὕτως πληγήσεται καὶ ὡς αὐτὸς ἀνεῖλεν οὕτως ἀναιρεθήσεται 8 μαχόμενος καὶ ὀνειδίζων ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτούς οὐ σὺ ἦσθα ὁ μελετῶν τῷ πνεύματι τῷ σκληρῷ ἀνελεῖν αὐτοὺς πνεύματι θυμοῦ 9 διὰ τοῦτο ἀφαιρεθήσεται ἡ ἀνομία Ιακωβ καὶ τοῦτό ἐστιν ἡ εὐλογία αὐτοῦ ὅταν ἀφέλωμαι αὐτοῦ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ὅταν θῶσιν πάντας τοὺς λίθους τῶν βωμῶν κατακεκομμένους ὡς κονίαν λεπτήν καὶ οὐ μὴ μείνῃ τὰ δένδρα αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ εἴδωλα αὐτῶν ἐκκεκομμένα ὥσπερ δρυμὸς μακράν

7 What, should the Lord smite Israel as he smote his enemies? Destroy it, like those others he doomed to overthrow? 8 Nay, cast her away he might, but there should be due measure in her punishment; not for nothing did he expose her to cruel wind and burning heat;[3] 9 so should the race of Jacob find pardon for its sins. Cleansed now from guilt, to bear fruit in full abundance; ground fine as chalk the altar-stones, pillar and shrine raised up no more!

7
Numquid juxta plagam percutientis se percussit eum?
aut sicut occidit interfectos ejus, sic occisus est? 8
In mensura contra mensuram,
cum abjecta fuerit, judicabis eam;
meditatus est in spiritu suo duro
per diem æstus. 9
Idcirco super hoc dimittetur iniquitas domui Jacob;
et iste omnis fructus: ut auferatur peccatum ejus,
cum posuerit omnes lapides altaris
sicut lapides cineris allisos:
non stabunt luci et delubra.

10 τὸ κατοικούμενον ποίμνιον ἀνειμένον ἔσται ὡς ποίμνιον καταλελειμμένον καὶ ἔσται πολὺν χρόνον εἰς βόσκημα καὶ ἐκεῖ ἀναπαύσονται 11 καὶ μετὰ χρόνον οὐκ ἔσται ἐν αὐτῇ πᾶν χλωρὸν διὰ τὸ ξηρανθῆναι γυναῖκες ἐρχόμεναι ἀπὸ θέας δεῦτε οὐ γὰρ λαός ἐστιν ἔχων σύνεσιν διὰ τοῦτο οὐ μὴ οἰκτιρήσῃ ὁ ποιήσας αὐτούς οὐδὲ ὁ πλάσας αὐτοὺς οὐ μὴ ἐλεήσῃ 12 καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ συμφράξει κύριος ἀπὸ τῆς διώρυγος τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἕως Ῥινοκορούρων ὑμεῖς δὲ συναγάγετε τοὺς υἱοὺς Ισραηλ κατὰ ἕνα ἕνα 13 καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ σαλπιοῦσιν τῇ σάλπιγγι τῇ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἥξουσιν οἱ ἀπολόμενοι ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων καὶ οἱ ἀπολόμενοι ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν τῷ κυρίῳ ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος τὸ ἅγιον ἐν Ιερουσαλημ

10 Meanwhile, the city that once was fortified must lie desolate, forsaken, that fair dwelling-place, abandoned, part of the wilderness; cattle will browse and lie down, and crop the tall bushes on it; 11 nothing that grows there but will wither and be snapped off. Women shall be their teachers,[4] so foolish has this nation grown, too foolish for its own maker to pity, for its own creator to spare. 12 But a time is coming, when the Lord will beat the fruit from his trees,[5] as far away as the bed of Euphrates and the river of Egypt, and you, sons of Israel, shall be gathered in one by one. 13 That day, a call will be sounded on a great trumpet, and men long lost will come from Assyria, and exiles from Egypt, to worship the Lord on his holy mountain, in Jerusalem.

10
Civitas enim munita desolata erit;
speciosa relinquetur, et dimittetur quasi desertum;
ibi pascetur vitulus,
et ibi accubabit, et consumet summitates ejus. 11
In siccitate messes illius conterentur.
Mulieres venientes, et docentes eam;
non est enim populus sapiens:
propterea non miserebitur ejus qui fecit eum,
et qui formavit eum non parcet ei. 12
Et erit: in die illa
percutiet Dominus
ab alveo fluminis usque ad torrentem Ægypti;
et vos congregabimini unus et unus, filii Israël. 13
Et erit: in die illa clangetur in tuba magna;
et venient qui perditi fuerant de terra Assyriorum,
et qui ejecti erant in terra Ægypti,
et adorabunt Dominum
in monte sancto in Jerusalem.

[1] The enemies of Israel are probably alluded to here under symbolic names, but they cannot be identified with any certainty.

[2] So the Latin version, which seems to suggest, rhetorically, that God is reluctantly unable to abandon his people. Some, supposing a very unusual construction in the Hebrew, translate, ‘Would that I had thorns and briars for my enemies’.

[3] In the Latin, the second half of this verse reads literally, ‘he meditated with his hard breath in the day of heat’. The Hebrew seems to mean, ‘he removed (her) with his fierce wind, at the season of the sirocco’.

[4] ‘Women shall be their teachers’; in the Hebrew text, the meaning generally understood is ‘women shall come and set it (i.e. the vegetation just mentioned) on fire’.

[5] Or possibly ‘beat out (instead of threshing) his ears of corn’.

Knox Translation Copyright © 2013 Westminster Diocese
Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
Re-typeset and published in 2012 by Baronius Press Ltd