Mosaico decorativo

1. Super custodiam meam stabo et consistam super speculam et contemplabor, ut videam quid dicat mihi et quid respondeat ad querelam meam.

1. I will take my stand to watch, and station myself on the tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

2. Et respondit mihi Dominus et dixit: “Scribe visum et explana eum super tabulas, ut percurrat, qui legerit eum.

2. And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets, so he may run who reads it.

3. Quia adhuc visus ad tempus constitutum, sed anhelat in finem et non mentietur; si moram fecerit, exspecta illum, quia veniens veniet et non tardabit.

3. For still the vision awaits its time; it hastens to the end -- it will not lie. If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.

4. Ecce languidus, in quo non est anima recta; iustus autem in fide sua vivet”.

4. Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

5. Et profecto divitiae decipiunt virum superbum, et non perveniet ad finem; qui dilatat quasi infernus fauces suas et ipse quasi mors et non adimpletur: et congregat ad se omnes gentes et coacervat ad se omnes populos.

5. Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples."

6. Numquid non omnes isti super eum parabolam sument et loquelam aenigmatum dicentes: “Vae ei, qui multiplicat non sua — usquequo? C et aggravat pignora super se!”.

6. Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own -- for how long? -- and loads himself with pledges!"

7. Numquid non repente consurgent, qui mordeant te, et evigilabunt agitantes te, et eris in rapinam eis?

7. Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty for them.

8. Quia tu spoliasti gentes multas, spoliabunt te omnes, qui reliqui fuerint de populis; propter sanguinem hominum et oppressionem terrae, civitatum et omnium habitantium in eis.

8. Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

9. Vae, qui congregat lucrum iniustum in malum domui suae, ut ponat in excelso nidum suum et salvet se de manu mali!

9. Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

10. Consilium cepisti in confusionem domui tuae concidendi populos multos et peccasti in animam tuam.

10. You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

11. Quia lapis de pariete clamabit, et trabes de contignatione respondebit ei.

11. For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.

12. Vae, qui aedificat civitatem in sanguinibus et condit urbem in iniquitate!

12. Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!

13. Numquid non haec a Domino sunt exercituum, ut laborent populi pro igne, et gentes in vacuum fatigentur?

13. Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for nought?

14. Quia replebitur terra cognitione gloriae Domini, sicut aquae operiunt mare.

14. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

15. Vae, qui potum dat amico suo mittens venenum suum et inebrians eum, ut aspiciat nuditatem eius!

15. Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath, and makes them drunk, to gaze on their shame!

16. Repleris ignominia pro gloria; bibe tu quoque et denudare! Transibit ad te calix dexterae Domini, et veniet ignominia super gloriam tuam.

16. You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and stagger! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!

17. Quia vastitas Libani operiet te, et miseria animalium deterrebit te propter sanguinem hominum et oppressionem terrae, civitatum et omnium habitantium in eis.

17. The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

18. Quid prodest sculptile, quia sculpsit illud fictor suus; conflatile et oraculum mendax, quia speravit in figmento fictor eius, ut faceret simulacra muta?

18. What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

19. Vae, qui dicit ligno: “Expergiscere!”, “Surge!” lapidi tacenti! Numquid ipse docere poterit? Ecce iste coopertus est auro et argento, et omnis spiritus non est in visceribus eius.

19. Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a dumb stone, Arise! Can this give revelation? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

20. Dominus autem in templo sancto suo; sileat a facie eius omnis terra.

20. But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.



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