The Message Bible MSG
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 Sing the blues over the princes of Israel.
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et tu adsume planctum super principes Israhel
2 Say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She crouched in a pride of young lions. Her cubs grew large.
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et dices quare mater tua leaena inter leones cubavit in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos
3 She reared one of her cubs to maturity, a robust young lion. He learned to hunt. He ate men.
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et eduxit unum de leunculis suis leo factus est et didicit capere praedam hominemque comedere
4 Nations sounded the alarm. He was caught in a trap. They took him with hooks and dragged him to Egypt.
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et audierunt de eo gentes et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Aegypti
5 When the lioness saw she was luckless, that her hope for that cub was gone, She took her other cub and made him a strong young lion.
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quae cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est et periit expectatio eius tulit unum de leunculis suis leonem constituit eum
6 He prowled with the lions, a robust young lion. He learned to hunt. He ate men.
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qui incedebat inter leones et factus est leo didicit praedam capere et homines devorare
7 He rampaged through their defenses, left their cities in ruins. The country and everyone in it was terrorized by the roars of the lion.
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didicit viduas facere et civitates eorum in desertum adducere et desolata est terra et plenitudo eius a voce rugitus illius
8 The nations got together to hunt him. Everyone joined the hunt. They set out their traps and caught him.
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et convenerunt adversum eum gentes undique de provinciis et expanderunt super eum rete suum in vulneribus earum captus est
9 They put a wooden collar on him and took him to the king of Babylon. No more would that voice be heard disturbing the peace in the mountains of Israel!
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et miserunt eum in caveam in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis miseruntque eum in carcerem ne audiretur vox eius ultra super montes Israhel
10 Here's another way to put it: Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard, transplanted alongside streams of water, Luxurious in branches and grapes because of the ample water.
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mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata fructus eius et frondes eius creverunt ex aquis multis
11 It grew sturdy branches fit to be carved into a royal scepter. It grew high, reaching into the clouds. Its branches filled the horizon, and everyone could see it.
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et factae sunt ei virgae solidae in sceptra dominantium et exaltata est statura eius inter frondes et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum
12 Then it was ripped up in a rage and thrown to the ground. The hot east wind shriveled it up and stripped its fruit. The sturdy branches dried out, fit for nothing but kindling.
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et evulsa est in ira in terramque proiecta et ventus urens siccavit fructum eius marcuerunt et arefactae sunt virgae roboris eius ignis comedit eam
13 Now it's a stick stuck out in the desert, a bare stick in a desert of death,
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et nunc transplantata est in desertum in terra invia et sitienti
14 Good for nothing but making fires, campfires in the desert. Not a hint now of those sturdy branches fit for use as a royal scepter! (This is a sad song, a text for singing the blues.)
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et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum eius qui fructum eius comedit et non fuit in ea virga fortis sceptrum dominantium planctus est et erit in planctum
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