Prophetia Ezechielis, 23

1. et factus est sermo Domini ad me dicens

1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.

2. fili hominis duæ mulieres filiæ matris unius fuerunt

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3. et fornicatæ sunt in Ægypto in adulescentia sua fornicatæ sunt ibi subacta sunt ubera earum et fractæ sunt mammæ pubertatis earum

3. And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were bruised.

4. nomina autem earum Oolla major et Ooliba soror ejus et habui eas et pepererunt filios et filias porro earum nomina Samaria Oolla et Hierusalem Ooliba

4. And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba.

5. fornicata est igitur Oolla super me et insanivit in amatores suos in Assyrios propinquantes

5. And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,

6. vestitos hyacintho principes et magistratus juvenes cupidinis universos equites ascensores equorum

6. Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.

7. et dedit fornicationes suas super eos electos filios Assyriorum universos et in omnibus in quos insanivit in inmunditiis eorum polluta est

7. And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.

8. insuper et fornicationes suas quas habuerat in Ægypto non reliquit nam et illi dormierant cum ea in adulescentia ejus et illi confregerant ubera pubertatis ejus et effuderant fornicationem suam super eam

8. Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.

9. propterea tradidi eam in manu amatorum suorum in manus filiorum Assur super quorum insanivit libidinem

9. Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted.

10. ipsi discoperuerunt ignominiam ejus filios et filias illius tulerunt et ipsam occiderunt gladio et factæ sunt famosæ mulieres et judicia perpetrarunt in ea

10. They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they executed judgments in her.

11. quod cum vidisset soror ejus Ooliba plus quam illa insanivit libidine et fornicationem suam super fornicationem sororis suæ

11. And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her sister.

12. ad filios Assyriorum præbuit inpudenter ducibus et magistratibus ad se venientibus indutis veste varia equitibus qui vectabantur equis et adulescentibus forma cunctis egregia

12. Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty.

13. et vidi quod polluta esset via una ambarum

13. And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way.

14. et auxit fornicationes suas cumque vidisset viros depictos in pariete imagines Chaldeorum expressas coloribus

14. And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,

15. et accinctos balteis renes et tiaras tinctas in capitibus eorum formam ducum omnium similitudinem filiorum Babylonis terræque Chaldeorum in qua orti sunt

15. And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,

16. et insanivit super eos concupiscentia oculorum suorum et misit nuntios ad eos in Chaldeam

16. She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17. cumque venissent ad eam filii Babylonis ad cubile mammarum polluerunt eam stupris suis et polluta est ab eis et saturata est anima ejus ab illis

17. And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them.

18. denudavit quoque fornicationes suas et discoperuit ignominiam suam et recessit anima mea ab ea sicut recesserat anima mea a sorore ejus

18. And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.

19. multiplicavit enim fornicationes suas recordans dies adulescentiæ suæ quibus fornicata est in terra Ægypti

19. For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20. et insanivit libidine super concubitu eorum quorum carnes sunt ut carnes asinorum et sicut fluxus equorum fluxus eorum

20. And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.

21. et visitasti scelus adulescentiæ tuæ quando subacta sunt in Ægypto ubera tua et confractæ mammæ pubertatis tuæ

21. And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy virginity broken.

22. propterea Ooliba hæc dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego suscitabo omnes amatores tuos contra te de quibus satiata est anima tua et congregabo eos adversum te in circuitu

22. Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about.

23. filios Babylonis et universos Chaldeos nobiles tyrannosque et principes omnes filios Assyriorum juvenes forma egregia duces et magistratus universos principes principum et nominatos ascensores equorum

23. The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.

24. et venient super te instructi curru et rota multitudo populorum lorica et clypeo et galea armabuntur contra te undique et dabo coram eis judicium et judicabunt te judiciis suis

24. And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments.

25. et ponam zelum meum in te quem exercent tecum in furore nasum tuum et aures tuas præcident et quæ remanserint gladio concident ipsi filios tuos et filias tuas capient et novissimum tuum devorabitur igni

25. And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.

26. et denudabunt te vestimentis tuis et tollent vasa gloriæ tuæ

26. And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the instruments of thy glory.

27. et requiescere faciam scelus tuum de te et fornicationem tuam de terra Ægypti nec levabis oculos tuos ad eos et Ægypti non recordaberis amplius

27. And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28. quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus ecce ego tradam te in manu eorum quos odisti in manu de quibus satiata est anima tua

28. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath been glutted.

29. et agent tecum in odio et tollent omnes labores tuos et dimittent te nudam et ignominia plenam revelabitur ignominia fornicationum tuarum scelus tuum et fornicationes tuæ

29. And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.

30. fecerunt hæc tibi quia fornicata es post gentes inter quas polluta es in idolis eorum

30. They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.

31. in via sororis tuæ ambulasti et dabo calicem ejus in manu tua

31. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I will give her cup into thy hand.

32. hæc dicit Dominus Deus calicem sororis tuæ bibes profundum et latum eris in derisum et in subsannationem quæ es capacissima

32. Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep, and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.

33. ebrietate et dolore repleberis calice mæroris et tristitiæ calice sororis tuæ Samariæ

33. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

34. et bibes illum et epotabis usque ad feces et fragmenta ejus devorabis et ubera tua lacerabis quia ego locutus sum ait Dominus Deus

34. And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

35. propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus quia oblita es mei et projecisti me post corpus tuum tu quoque porta scelus tuum et fornicationes tuas

35. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.

36. et ait Dominus ad me dicens fili hominis numquid judicas Oollam et Oolibam et adnuntias eis scelera earum

36. And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?

37. quia adulteræ sunt et sanguis in manibus earum et cum idolis suis fornicatæ sunt insuper et filios suos quos genuerunt mihi obtulerunt eis ad devorandum

37. Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.

38. sed et hoc fecerunt mihi polluerunt sanctuarium meum in die illa et sabbata mea profanaverunt

38. Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.

39. cumque immolarent filios suos idolis suis et ingrederentur sanctuarium meum in die illa ut polluerent illud etiam hæc fecerunt in medio domus meæ

39. And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.

40. miserunt ad viros venientes de longe ad quos nuntium miserant itaque ecce venerunt quibus te lavisti et circumlevisti stibio oculos tuos et ornata es mundo muliebri

40. They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women's ornaments.

41. sedisti in lecto pulcherrimo et mensa ordinata est ante te thymiama meum et unguentum meum posuisti super eam

41. Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.

42. et vox multitudinis exultantis erat in ea et in viris qui de multitudine hominum adducebantur et veniebant de deserto posuerunt armillas in manibus eorum et coronas speciosas in capitibus eorum

42. And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43. et dixi ei quæ adtrita est in adulteriis nunc fornicabitur in fornicatione sua etiam hæc

43. And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.

44. et ingressi sunt ad eam quasi ad mulierem meretricem sic ingrediebantur ad Oollam et ad Oolibam mulieres nefarias

44. And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.

45. viri ergo justi sunt hii judicabunt eas judicio adulterarum et judicio effundentium sanguinem quia adulteræ sunt et sanguis in manibus earum

45. They therefore are k just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46. hæc enim dicit Dominus Deus adduc ad eas multitudinem et trade eas in tumultum et in rapinam

46. For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:

47. et lapidentur lapidibus populorum et confodiantur gladiis eorum filios et filias earum interficient et domos earum igne succendent

47. And lee the people stone them with stones, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.

48. et auferam scelus de terra et discent omnes mulieres ne faciant secundum scelus earum

48. And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.

49. et dabunt scelus vestrum super vos et peccata idolorum vestrorum portabitis et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus

49. And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.