| 1 λῆμμα λόγου κυρίου ἐπὶ τὸν Ισραηλ λέγει κύριος ἐκτείνων οὐρανὸν καὶ θεμελιῶν γῆν καὶ πλάσσων πνεῦμα ἀνθρώπου ἐν αὐτῷ 2 ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ τίθημι τὴν Ιερουσαλημ ὡς πρόθυρα σαλευόμενα πᾶσι τοῖς λαοῖς κύκλῳ καὶ ἐν τῇ Ιουδαίᾳ ἔσται περιοχὴ ἐπὶ Ιερουσαλημ 3 καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ θήσομαι τὴν Ιερουσαλημ λίθον καταπατούμενον πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν πᾶς ὁ καταπατῶν αὐτὴν ἐμπαίζων ἐμπαίξεται καὶ ἐπισυναχθήσονται ἐ{P'} αὐτὴν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη τῆς γῆς 4 ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ πατάξω πάντα ἵππον ἐν ἐκστάσει καὶ τὸν ἀναβάτην αὐτοῦ ἐν παραφρονήσει ἐπὶ δὲ τὸν οἶκον Ιουδα διανοίξω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἵππους τῶν λαῶν πατάξω ἐν ἀποτυφλώσει 5 καὶ ἐροῦσιν οἱ χιλίαρχοι Ιουδα ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν εὑρήσομεν ἑαυτοῖς τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Ιερουσαλημ ἐν κυρίῳ παντοκράτορι θεῷ αὐτῶν 6 ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ θήσομαι τοὺς χιλιάρχους Ιουδα ὡς δαλὸν πυρὸς ἐν ξύλοις καὶ ὡς λαμπάδα πυρὸς ἐν καλάμῃ καὶ καταφάγονται ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ ἐξ εὐωνύμων πάντας τοὺς λαοὺς κυκλόθεν καὶ κατοικήσει Ιερουσαλημ ἔτι κα{Q'} ἑαυτήν 7 καὶ σώσει κύριος τὰ σκηνώματα Ιουδα καθὼς ἀ{P'} ἀρχῆς ὅπως μὴ μεγαλύνηται καύχημα οἴκου Δαυιδ καὶ ἔπαρσις τῶν κατοικούντων Ιερουσαλημ ἐπὶ τὸν Ιουδαν |
1 Burden of the Lord’s doom, where falls it now? On Israel. Word from the Lord, who spread heaven out, founded earth, fashions the life that beats in man! 2 This is my decree, that Jerusalem’s walls (ay, and the whole of Juda shall man those ramparts) be offered to all the nations round about for a fatal cup;[1] 3 to all the world Jerusalem shall be a stone immoveable; lift it who will, shall be torn unmercifully. See where they muster to the attack, all the kingdoms of the world! 4 Time now, the Lord says, to dazzle steed and craze rider’s wits; for Juda, the sunshine of my regard, the heathen must ride in darkness. 5 Vainly do yonder chieftains of Juda look to the garrison of Jerusalem to be their succour, in the strength of the Lord their God; 6 chieftains of Juda themselves shall be my instruments then, fire-brand in the forest, spark among the dry sheaves, to devour all the nations right and left of them. Jerusalem shall stand, when all is over, where Jerusalem stood; 7 but to the country folk of Juda the Lord grants deliverance first; clan of David, citizens of Jerusalem shall not boast themselves better than the rest.[2] |
1 Onus verbi Domini super Israël.
Dicit Dominus extendens cælum, et fundans terram,
et fingens spiritum hominis in eo: 2
Ecce ego ponam Jerusalem superliminare crapulæ
omnibus populis in circuitu:
sed et Juda erit in obsidione contra Jerusalem. 3
Et erit: in die illa ponam Jerusalem lapidem oneris cunctis populis:
omnes qui levabunt eam concisione lacerabuntur,
et colligentur adversus eam omnia regna terræ. 4
In die illa, dicit Dominus,
percutiam omnem equum in stuporem,
et ascensorem ejus in amentiam:
et super domum Juda aperiam oculos meos,
et omnem equum populorum percutiam cæcitate. 5
Et dicent duces Juda in corde suo:
Confortentur mihi habitatores Jerusalem
in Domino exercituum, Deo eorum! 6
In die illa ponam duces Juda
sicut caminum ignis in lignis,
et sicut facem ignis in fœno:
et devorabunt ad dexteram et ad sinistram omnes populos in circuitu,
et habitabitur Jerusalem rursus in loco suo in Jerusalem. 7
Et salvabit Dominus tabernacula Juda, sicut in principio,
ut non magnifice glorietur domus David,
et gloria habitantium Jerusalem contra Judam. |