| 1 παρακαλεῖτε παρακαλεῖτε τὸν λαόν μου λέγει ὁ θεός 2 ἱερεῖς λαλήσατε εἰς τὴν καρδίαν Ιερουσαλημ παρακαλέσατε αὐτήν ὅτι ἐπλήσθη ἡ ταπείνωσις αὐτῆς λέλυται αὐτῆς ἡ ἁμαρτία ὅτι ἐδέξατο ἐκ χειρὸς κυρίου διπλᾶ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα αὐτῆς 3 φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν ὁδὸν κυρίου εὐθείας ποιεῖτε τὰς τρίβους τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν 4 πᾶσα φάραγξ πληρωθήσεται καὶ πᾶν ὄρος καὶ βουνὸς ταπεινωθήσεται καὶ ἔσται πάντα τὰ σκολιὰ εἰς εὐθεῖαν καὶ ἡ τραχεῖα εἰς πεδία 5 καὶ ὀφθήσεται ἡ δόξα κυρίου καὶ ὄψεται πᾶσα σὰρξ τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ θεοῦ ὅτι κύριος ἐλάλησεν 6 φωνὴ λέγοντος βόησον καὶ εἶπα τί βοήσω πᾶσα σὰρξ χόρτος καὶ πᾶσα δόξα ἀνθρώπου ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου 7 ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν 8 τὸ δὲ ῥῆμα τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα 9 ἐ{P'} ὄρος ὑψηλὸν ἀνάβηθι ὁ εὐαγγελιζόμενος Σιων ὕψωσον τῇ ἰσχύι τὴν φωνήν σου ὁ εὐαγγελιζόμενος Ιερουσαλημ ὑψώσατε μὴ φοβεῖσθε εἰπὸν ταῖς πόλεσιν Ιουδα ἰδοὺ ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν 10 ἰδοὺ κύριος μετὰ ἰσχύος ἔρχεται καὶ ὁ βραχίων μετὰ κυριείας ἰδοὺ ὁ μισθὸς αὐτοῦ με{T'} αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ἔργον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ 11 ὡς ποιμὴν ποιμανεῖ τὸ ποίμνιον αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ βραχίονι αὐτοῦ συνάξει ἄρνας καὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσας παρακαλέσει |
1 Take heart again, my people, says your God, take heart again. 2 Speak Jerusalem fair, cry aloud to her that her woes are at an end, her guilt is pardoned; double toll the Lord has taken for all her sins. 3 A cry, there, out in the wilderness, Make way for the Lord’s coming; a straight road for our God through the desert! 4 Bridged every valley must be, every mountain and hill levelled; windings cut straight, and the rough paths paved; 5 the Lord’s glory is to be revealed for all mankind to witness; it is his own decree.[1] 6 A voice came, bidding me cry aloud; asked I in what words, in these: Mortal things are but grass, the glory of them is but grass in flower; 7 grass that withers, a flower that fades, when the Lord’s breath blows upon it. The whole people, what is it but grass? 8 Grass that withers, a flower that fades; but the word of our Lord stands for ever. 9 Good news for Sion, take thy stand, herald, on some high mountain; good news for Jerusalem, proclaim it, herald, aloud; louder still, no cause now for fear;[2] tell the cities of Juda, See, your God comes! 10 See, the Lord God is coming, revealed in power, with his own strong arm for warrant; and see, they come with him, they walk before him, the reward of his labour, the achievement of his task,[3] 11 his own flock! Like a shepherd he tends them, gathers up the lambs and carries them in his bosom, helps the ewes in milk forward on their way. |
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Consolamini, consolamini, popule meus,
dicit Deus vester. 2
Loquimini ad cor Jerusalem,
et advocate eam,
quoniam completa est malitia ejus,
dimissa est iniquitas illius:
suscepit de manu Domini duplicia
pro omnibus peccatis suis. 3
Vox clamantis in deserto:
Parate viam Domini,
rectas facite in solitudine semitas Dei nostri. 4
Omnis vallis exaltabitur,
et omnis mons et collis humiliabitur,
et erunt prava in directa,
et aspera in vias planas: 5
et revelabitur gloria Domini,
et videbit omnis caro pariter
quod os Domini locutum est. 6
Vox dicentis: Clama.
Et dixi: Quid clamabo?
Omnis caro fœnum,
et omnis gloria ejus quasi flos agri. 7
Exsiccatum est fœnum, et cecidit flos,
quia spiritus Domini sufflavit in eo.
Vere fœnum est populus: 8
exsiccatum est fœnum, et cecidit flos;
verbum autem Domini nostri manet in æternum. 9
Super montem excelsum ascende,
tu qui evangelizas Sion;
exalta in fortitudine vocem tuam,
qui evangelizas Jerusalem:
exalta, noli timere.
Dic civitatibus Juda:
Ecce Deus vester: 10
ecce Dominus Deus in fortitudine veniet,
et brachium ejus dominabitur:
ecce merces ejus cum eo,
et opus illius coram illo. 11
Sicut pastor gregem suum pascet,
in brachio suo congregabit agnos,
et in sinu suo levabit;
fœtas ipse portabit. |