| 5 κάθισον κατανενυγμένη εἴσελθε εἰς τὸ σκότος θυγάτηρ Χαλδαίων οὐκέτι μὴ κληθῇς ἰσχὺς βασιλείας 6 παρωξύνθην ἐπὶ τῷ λαῷ μου ἐμίανας τὴν κληρονομίαν μου ἐγὼ ἔδωκα εἰς τὴν χεῖρά σου σὺ δὲ οὐκ ἔδωκας αὐτοῖς ἔλεος τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου ἐβάρυνας τὸν ζυγὸν σφόδρα 7 καὶ εἶπας εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔσομαι ἄρχουσα οὐκ ἐνόησας ταῦτα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου οὐδὲ ἐμνήσθης τὰ ἔσχατα 8 νῦν δὲ ἄκουσον ταῦτα ἡ τρυφερὰ ἡ καθημένη πεποιθυῖα ἡ λέγουσα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτῆς ἐγώ εἰμι καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἑτέρα οὐ καθιῶ χήρα οὐδὲ γνώσομαι ὀρφανείαν 9 νῦν δὲ ἥξει ἐξαίφνης ἐπὶ σὲ τὰ δύο ταῦτα ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ χηρεία καὶ ἀτεκνία ἥξει ἐξαίφνης ἐπὶ σὲ ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐν τῇ ἰσχύι τῶν ἐπαοιδῶν σου σφόδρα |
5 Sit dumb, bury thyself in darkness, lady of Chaldea; thou shalt rule the nations no longer. 6 Angry with my people, turned enemy against the land of my choice, I gave them into thy power; and thou, what mercy didst thou shew them? Heavy the yoke thou didst lay on aged shoulders. 7 Thou wouldst surely be a queen for ever; thou didst it light-heartedly, not recking what the end should be. 8 And now, here is a word for those delicate ears, lady of the careless heart, who sittest there telling thyself, I am Babylon, the unrivalled; no lonely widowhood, no childless lot for me. 9 These two things shall fall on thee suddenly in a single day, childlessness and widowhood; fall upon thee in full measure, so blind amid all thy sorceries, through the crass folly of thy wizards so blind. |
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Sede tacens, et intra in tenebras,
filia Chaldæorum,
quia non vocaberis ultra
domina regnorum. 6
Iratus sum super populum meum:
contaminavi hæreditatem meam,
et dedi eos in manu tua:
non posuisti eis misericordias;
super senem aggravasti jugum tuum valde. 7
Et dixisti: In sempiternum ero domina.
Non posuisti hæc super cor tuum,
neque recordata es novissimi tui. 8
Et nunc audi hæc delicata,
et habitans confidenter,
quæ dicis in corde tuo:
Ego sum, et non est præter me amplius;
non sedebo vidua,
et ignorabo sterilitatem. 9
Venient tibi duo hæc
subito in die una,
sterilitas et viduitas:
universa venerunt super te,
propter multitudinem maleficiorum tuorum,
et propter duritiam incantatorum tuorum vehementem. |