The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 vae civitas sanguinum universa mendacii dilaceratione plena non recedet a te rapina
1 Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty--no end to the plunder!
2 vox flagelli et vox impetus rotae et equi frementis et quadrigae ferventis equitis ascendentis
2 The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
3 et micantis gladii et fulgurantis hastae et multitudinis interfectae et gravis ruinae nec est finis cadaverum et corruent in corporibus suis
3 Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end--they stumble over the bodies!
4 propter multitudinem fornicationum meretricis speciosae et gratae et habentis maleficia quae vendidit gentes in fornicationibus suis et familias in maleficiis suis
4 And all for the countless harlotries of the harlot, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her charms.
5 ecce ego ad te dicit Dominus exercituum et revelabo pudenda tua in facie tua et ostendam gentibus nuditatem tuam et regnis ignominiam tuam
5 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.
6 et proiciam super te abominationes et contumeliis te adficiam et ponam te in exemplum
6 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.
7 et erit omnis qui viderit te resiliet a te et dicet vastata est Nineve quis commovebit super te caput unde quaeram consolatorem tibi
7 And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nin'eveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?
8 numquid melior es ab Alexandria populorum quae habitat in fluminibus aqua in circuitu eius cuius divitiae mare aquae muri eius
8 Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?
9 Aethiopia fortitudo et Aegyptus et non est finis Africa et Lybies fuerunt in auxilio tuo
9 Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.
10 sed et ipsa in transmigrationem ducta est in captivitatem parvuli eius elisi sunt in capite omnium viarum et super inclitos eius miserunt sortem et omnes optimates eius confixi sunt in conpedibus
10 Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 et tu ergo inebriaberis eris despecta et tu quaeres auxilium ab inimico
11 You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
12 omnes munitiones tuae sicuti ficus cum grossis suis si concussae fuerint cadent in os comedentis
12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs--if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 ecce populus tuus mulieres in medio tui inimicis tuis adapertione pandentur portae terrae tuae devorabit ignis vectes tuos
13 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured your bars.
14 aquam propter obsidionem hauri tibi extrue munitiones tuas intra in lutum et calca subigens tene laterem
14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!
15 ibi comedet te ignis peribis gladio devorabit te ut bruchus congregare ut bruchus multiplicare ut lucusta
15 There will the fire devour you, the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust, multiply like the grasshopper!
16 plures fecisti negotiationes tuas quam stellae sunt caeli bruchus expansus est et avolavit
16 You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
17 custodes tui quasi lucustae et parvuli tui quasi lucustae lucustarum quae considunt in sepibus in die frigoris sol ortus est et avolaverunt et non est cognitus locus earum ubi fuerint
17 Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold--when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.
18 dormitaverunt pastores tui rex Assur sepelientur principes tui latitavit populus tuus in montibus et non est qui congreget
18 Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.
19 non est obscura contritio tua pessima est plaga tua omnes qui audierunt auditionem tuam conpresserunt manum super te quia super quem non transiit malitia tua semper
19 There is no assuaging your hurt, your wound is grievous. All who hear the news of you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?
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