Mosaico decorativo

1. Vae, civitas sanguinum, universa mendacii praeda 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 flagellorum et vox strepitus rotarum, equi frementes et quadrigae ferventes, equites irruentes

2. The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

3. et gladii micantes et hastae fulgurantes et multitudo interfectorum et acervi mortuorum; nec est finis cadaverum, et corruunt super corpora.

3. Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end -- they stumble over the bodies!

4. Hoc propter multitudinem fornicationum meretricis speciosae et gratae et habentis maleficia, quae vendidit gentes fornicationibus suis et nationes 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 levabo vestimentum tuum in faciem tuam 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 afficiam; 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 dolebit super eam? 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 quam Noamon, quae habitabat in fluminibus? Aquae in circuitu eius: cuius vallum 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. Chus fuit fortitudo eius et Aegyptus, cuius non est finis; Phut et Libyes fuerunt in auxilio eius.

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, ivit in captivitatem. Parvuli eius elisi sunt in capite omnium viarum; et super inclitos eius miserunt sortem, et omnes optimates eius constricti sunt in compedibus.

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 refugium ab inimico.

11. You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

12. Omnes munitiones tuae sicut ficus cum ficis praecocibus: 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 late patebunt 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, firma munitiones tuas; intra in lutum et calca argillam, tene typum laterum.

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. Augere ut bruchus, multiplicare ut locusta.

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 negotiatores tuos quam stellae sint caeli; bruchus exuit pellem 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 locustae, et scribae tui quasi agmen locustarum, quae considunt in saepibus in die frigoris; sol ortus est, et avolaverunt, 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. Dormiunt pastores tui, rex Assyriae, requiescunt principes tui; dispersus est 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 remedium fracturae tuae, insanabilis est plaga tua; omnes, qui audierint auditionem tuam, plaudent manibus 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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