| 11 καὶ σὺ ἐν αἵματι διαθήκης ἐξαπέστειλας δεσμίους σου ἐκ λάκκου οὐκ ἔχοντος ὕδωρ 12 καθήσεσθε ἐν ὀχυρώματι δέσμιοι τῆς συναγωγῆς καὶ ἀντὶ μιᾶς ἡμέρας παροικεσίας σου διπλᾶ ἀνταποδώσω σοι 13 διότι ἐνέτεινά σε Ιουδα ἐμαυτῷ τόξον ἔπλησα τὸν Εφραιμ καὶ ἐπεγερῶ τὰ τέκνα σου Σιων ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα τῶν Ἑλλήνων καὶ ψηλαφήσω σε ὡς ῥομφαίαν μαχητοῦ 14 καὶ κύριος ἔσται ἐ{P'} αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐξελεύσεται ὡς ἀστραπὴ βολίς καὶ κύριος παντοκράτωρ ἐν σάλπιγγι σαλπιεῖ καὶ πορεύσεται ἐν σάλῳ ἀπειλῆς αὐτοῦ 15 κύριος παντοκράτωρ ὑπερασπιεῖ αὐτῶν καὶ καταναλώσουσιν αὐτοὺς καὶ καταχώσουσιν αὐτοὺς ἐν λίθοις σφενδόνης καὶ ἐκπίονται αὐτοὺς ὡς οἶνον καὶ πλήσουσιν ὡς φιάλας θυσιαστήριον 16 καὶ σώσει αὐτοὺς κύριος ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ὡς πρόβατα λαὸν αὐτοῦ διότι λίθοι ἅγιοι κυλίονται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς αὐτοῦ 17 ὅτι εἴ τι ἀγαθὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ εἴ τι καλὸν πα{R'} αὐτοῦ σῖτος νεανίσκοις καὶ οἶνος εὐωδιάζων εἰς παρθένους |
11 How should they be ransomed, but by the blood of thy covenant with me, those thy fellow-countrymen, in waterless dungeons bound? 12 To these sheltering walls, O patient prisoners, return; you have my warrant, double recompense shall be granted you. 13 Bow of mine is Juda, Ephraim my shafts employ; Greece, look to thy sons when I match the sons of Sion against them, sword in a warrior’s hand! 14 See him there, in visible form, high above them, the Lord God, that volleys down shaft of his lightning, sounds with the trumpet, rides on the storm-wind of the south! 15 He, the Lord of hosts, will be their protection; with sling-stones for teeth, flesh of men eat they, drink blood like revellers at their wine; not sacrificial bowl, nor altar’s horns, so drenched with blood. 16 His own people, his own sheep, will not the Lord God in that hour defend them? His own sacred trophy themselves shall be, to this land of his beckoning all men’s eyes;[5] 17 a people how blessed and how fair![6] So well with corn and wine furnished, both man and maid shall thrive.[7] |
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Tu quoque in sanguine testamenti tui
emisisti vinctos tuos de lacu in quo non est aqua. 12
Convertimini ad munitionem, vincti spei:
hodie quoque annuntians duplicia reddam tibi. 13
Quoniam extendi mihi Judam quasi arcum:
implevi Ephraim:
et suscitabo filios tuos, Sion,
super filios tuos, Græcia:
et ponam te quasi gladium fortium. 14
Et Dominus Deus super eos videbitur,
et exibit ut fulgur jaculum ejus:
et Dominus Deus in tuba canet,
et vadet in turbine austri. 15
Dominus exercituum proteget eos:
et devorabunt, et subjicient lapidibus fundæ:
et bibentes inebriabuntur quasi a vino,
et replebuntur ut phialæ,
et quasi cornua altaris. 16
Et salvabit eos Dominus Deus eorum in die illa,
ut gregem populi sui,
quia lapides sancti elevabuntur super terram ejus. 17
Quid enim bonum ejus est,
et quid pulchrum ejus,
nisi frumentum electorum,
et vinum germinans virgines? |