28 — Isaias

1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.Guai alla corona di superbia, agli ubriachi di Efraim; al fiore cadente della gloria, e della allegrezza di lui, a que', che stavan sull'alto di fertilissima valle, istupiditi dal vino.VVOE to the crowne of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the flowre falling downe from the glorie of his exultation, which were in the toppe of the most fatte valley, erring by wine.Væ coronæ superbiæ, ebriis Ephraim, / et flori decidenti, gloriæ exsultationis ejus, / qui erant in vertice vallis pinguissimæ, / errantes a vino. 2Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and sent forth upon a spacious land.Ecco il Signore forte, e possente come grandine impetuosa, come turbine, che devasta, come massa grande d'acque, che inondano, e allagano spazioso terreno.Behold our Lord is valiant and strong, as the violence of hayle: a whirle wind breaking, the violence of manie waters ouerflowing, & sent forth vpon a large ground.Ecce validus et fortis Dominus / sicut impetus grandinis; turbo confringens, / sicut impetus aquarum multarum inundantium / et emissarum super terram spatiosam. 3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.La superba corona degli ubriachi di Efraim sarà pestata co' piedi.The crowne of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shal be troden vnder feete.Pedibus conculcabitur / corona superbiæ ebriorum Ephraim. 4And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn: which when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon as he taketh it in his hand, he will eat it up.E il fior cadente della gloria, e della letizia di lui, che sta sull'alto di fertilissima valle, sarà come un frutto primaticcio, maturato avanti l'autunno, il quale chiunque lo vede, subitamente lo coglie, e lo divora.And the flowre of the glorie of his exultation, which is vpon the toppe of the valley of fatte ones, shal be falling as a timely fruite before the ripenesse of autumme: which when he that seeth it shal behold, as soone as he taketh it in his hand, he wil deuoure it.Et erit flos decidens gloriæ exsultationis ejus, / qui est super verticem vallis pinguium, / quasi temporaneum ante maturitatem autumni, / quod, cum aspexerit videns, / statim ut manu tenuerit, devorabit illud. 5In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory, and a garland of joy to the residue of his people:In quel giorno il Signore degli eserciti sarà corona di gloria, e ghirlanda di letizia alle reliquie del popol suo:In that day the Lord of hostes shal be a crowne of glorie, and a garland of exultation to the residue of his people:In die illa erit Dominus exercituum corona gloriæ, / et sertum exsultationis residuo populi sui;

6And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that return out of the battle to the gate.E sarà spirito di giustizia per colui, che siede per far giustizia, e fortezza a quegli, che in città tornano dalla guerra.and a spirit of iudgement to him that sitteth in iudgement, and strength to them that returne out of battel to the gate.et spiritus judicii sedenti super judicium, / et fortitudo revertentibus de bello ad portam. 7But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.Ma questi ancora han perduto l'intelletto pel troppo bere, e per l'ubriachezza sono usciti di strada. Il sacerdote, ed il profeta han perduto l'intelletto per l'ubriachezza, sono dominati dal vino, l'ubriachezza li fe' uscire di strada, non vogliono saper nulla de' profeti, non conoscono giustizia.But these also haue bene ignorant because of wine, and by drunkennes haue erred: the priest and the prophete haue bene ignorant because of drunkennes, they are swalowed vp with wine, they haue erred in drunkennes, they haue not knowne him that seeth, they haue bene ignorant of iudgement.Verum hi quoque præ vino nescierunt, et præ ebrietate erraverunt; / sacerdos et propheta nescierunt præ ebrietate; / absorpti sunt a vino, erraverunt in ebrietate, / nescierunt videntem, ignoraverunt judicium. 8For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was no more place.Perocché le mense tutte sono piene di reciticci, e di sporcizie, sicché nissun luogo vi resti netto.For al tables were filled with vomiting and filth, so that there was no more place.Omnes enim mensæ repletæ sunt vomitu sordiumque, / ita ut non esset ultra locus. 9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.A chi comunicherà egli la scienza, ed a chi darai intelligenza delle cose udite? A que', che son divezzati dal latte, a que', che sono staccati dalle mammelle.Whom shal he teach knowledge? and whom shal he make to vnderstand the thing heard? them that are weyned from the milke, that are plucked away from the breasts.Quem docebit scientiam ? / et quem intelligere faciet auditum ? / Ablactatos a lacte, / avulsos ab uberibus.

10For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there.Perocché ordina, e riordina, ordina, e riordina, aspetta, e riaspetta, aspetta, e riaspetta, un poco qui, un poco qui.For command recommand, command recommand; expect reexpect, expect reexpect; a litle there, a litle there.Quia manda, remanda; manda, remanda; / exspecta, reexspecta; exspecta, reexspecta; / modicum ibi, modicum ibi. 11For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.Ma per altre labbra, e con altro linguaggio parlerà a questo popolo,For in the speach of lippe, and in an other tougue he wil speake to his people.In loquela enim labii, / et lingua altera / loquetur ad populum istum. 12To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.A cui egli disse: Qui è il mio riposo: ristorate il debole; e questo è il mio refrigerio: e non hanno voluto ascoltare.To whom he sayd: This is my rest, refresh the wearie, and this is my refreshing: & they would not heare.Cui dixit: Hæc est requies mea, / reficite lassum; / et hoc est meum refrigerium: / et noluerunt audire. 13And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.E il Signore dirà ad essi: Ordina, e riordina, ordina, e riordina, aspetta, e riaspetta, aspetta, e riaspetta, un poco qui, un poco qui: affinchè vadano, e cadano all'indietro, e siano pestati, e diano nel laccio, e siano presi.And the word of our Lord shal be to them; command recommand, command recommand; expect reexpect, expect reexpect; a litle there a litle there: that they may goe, and fal backward, and be destroyed, and snared, and taken.Et erit eis verbum Domini: / Manda, remanda; manda, remanda; / exspecta, reexspecta; exspecta, reexspecta; / modicum ibi, modicum ibi; / ut vadant, et cadant retrorsum, / et conterantur, et illaqueentur, et capiantur. 14Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.Per questo udite la parola del Signore, o uomini beffeggiatori, che dominate il mio popolo, che è in Gerusalemme.For this cause heare the word of our Lord ye scorneful men, which rule ouer my people, that is in Ierusalem.Propter hoc audite verbum Domini, viri illusores, / qui dominamini super populum meum, qui est in Jerusalem. 15For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected.Perocché avete detto: Abbiam contrattato con la morte, e abbiam fatta una convenzione coll'inferno: quando venga il flagello come torrente, non arriverà a noi, perchè ci siamo affidati alla menzogna, e la menzogna ci protegge.For you haue sayd: We haue stroken a league with death, and with hel we haue made a couenant. The scourge ouerflowing when it shal passe, shal not come vpon vs: because we haue made lying our hope, and with lying we are protected.Dixistis enim: Percussimus fœdus cum morte, / et cum inferno fecimus pactum: / flagellum inundans cum transierit, non veniet super nos / quia posuimus mendacium spem nostram, / et mendacio protecti sumus.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.Per questo dice così il Signore Dio: Ecco, che io pongo ne' fondamenti di Sion una pietra, pietra eletta, angolare, preziosa, saldissimo fonda mento: chi crede, non abbia fretta.Therfore thus sayth our Lord God: Behold I wil send in the foundations of Sion a stone, an approued stone, a corner stone, pretious founded in the foundation. He that beleueth, let him not make hast.Idcirco hæc dicit Dominus Deus: / Ecce ego mittam in fundamentis Sion lapidem, / lapidem probatum, / angularem, pretiosum, in fundamento fundatum; / qui crediderit, non festinet. 17And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.E farò giudizio a peso, e giustizia con misura: e la grandine distruggerà la speranza posta nella menzogna, e la vostra difesa sarà sepolta nelle acque.And I wil put iudgement in weight, and iustice in measure: and haile shal ouerthrow the hope of lying: and waters shal ouerflow the protection.Et ponam in pondere judicium, / et justitiam in mensura; / et subvertet grando spem mendacii, / et protectionem aquæ inundabunt. 18And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.E sarà cancellato il contratto vostro colla morte, e il vostro patto coll'inferno non reggerà: allorché il flagello verrà guai torrente, vi strascinerà seco.And your league with death shal be abolished, and your couenant with hel shal not stand: when the scourge ouerflowing shal passe, you shal be troden downe of it.Et delebitur fœdus vestrum cum morte, / et pactum vestrum cum inferno non stabit: / flagellum inundans cum transierit, eritis ei in conculcationem. 19Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.Subito ch'ei verrà, vi porterà via: imperocché di gran mattino verrà, e continuerà i dì, e le notti: e la sola afflizione farà intendere le cose ascoltate.Whensoeuer it shal passe through, it shal take you away: because in the morning early it shal passe through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shal geue vnderstanding in the hearing.Quandocumque pertransierit, tollet vos, / quoniam in mane diluculo pertransibit in die et in nocte; / et tantummodo sola vexatio intellectum dabit auditui.

20For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.Imperocché il letto è stretto talmente, che l'uno dee cadere; e la coperta, che è piccola, non può servire per l'uno, e per l'altro.For the bed is streitened, so that one must fal out, and a short mantel can not couer both.Coangustatum est enim stratum, ita ut alter decidat; / et pallium breve utrumque operire non potest. 21For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.Imperocché il Signore si alzerà come già sul monte delle divisioni: si adirerà come nella valle di Gabaon: per fare l'opera sua, opera sua, ch'ei non ama, per fare l'opera sua, che è straniera per lui.For our Lord shal stand as in the mount of diuisions: as in the valley, which is in Gabaon, shal he be angrie: that he may doe his worke, his strange worke: that he may worke, his worke is strange from him.Sicut enim in monte divisionum stabit Dominus; / sicut in valle quæ est in Gabaon irascetur, / ut faciat opus suum, alienum opus ejus: / ut operetur opus suum, peregrinum est opus ejus ab eo. 22And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.Or adunque non ischernite più, affinchè non si stringano i vostri legami: perocché dal Signore Dio degli eserciti ho udita la distruzione, che sarà in breve per tutta la terra.And now mocke not, lest perhaps your bonds be tied strayte. For I haue heard of our Lord the God of hostes consummation and abridgement vpon al the earth.Et nunc nolite illudere, / ne forte constringantur vincula vestra; / consummationem enim et abbreviationem audivi / a Domino Deo exercituum, super universam terram. 23Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.Prestate le orecchie, e udite la mia voce: ponete mente, e date retta alla mia parola.Harken with your eares, and heare my voice, attend, and heare my speach.Auribus percipite, et audite vocem meam: / attendite, et audite eloquium meum. 24Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?Forsechè l'aratore sempre ara per seminare, e rompe, e fende il suo campo?Wil the ploughman plowe al the day to sow, wil he cut and harrow his ground?Numquid tota die arabit arans ut serat ? / proscindet et sarriet humum suam ? 25Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds?Agguagliata, che ha la superficie, non vi semina egli il gith, e sparge il cumino, e mette ordinatamente, e a luoghi loro il frumento, l'orzo, è il miglio, e la vezza?Wil he not when he hath made euen the face therof, sprinkle cummine, and place the wheate by order, and the barley, and millet, and vetche, in their bondes?Nonne cum adæquaverit faciem ejus, / seret gith et cyminum sparget ? / et ponet triticum per ordinem, et hordeum, / et milium, et viciam in finibus suis ?

26For he will instruct him in judgment: his God will teach him.Imperocché il suo Dio gli dà conoscimento, e lo ammaestra.And his God wil instruct him in iudgement: he wil teach him.Et erudiet illum in judicio; / Deus suus docebit illum. 27For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a staff.Il gith non si tribbierà per via di tavole co' denti di ferro, né la ruota del carro andrà in volta sopra il cumino; ma il gith si batterà con una verga, e il cumino con uno scudiscio.For gith shal not be threshed with instruments that haue teeth, neither shal the wayne wheele turne about vpon cummine: but gith shal be beaten out with a rodde, and cummine with a staffe.Non enim in serris triturabitur gith, / nec rota plaustri super cyminum circuibit; / sed in virga excutietur gith, / et cyminum in baculo. 28But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.Le grasce poi si batteranno; ma non senza termine le batterà colui, che le batte, né sempre saran premute dalla ruota del carro, né pestate dagli zoccoli delle bestie.But bread corne shal be broken smal: but the thresher shal not thresh it for euer, neither shal the wayne wheele vexe it, nor breake it with the teeth therof.Panis autem comminuetur; / verum non in perpetuum triturans triturabit illum, / neque vexabit eum rota plaustri, / neque ungulis suis comminuet eum. 29This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.Questo pure è venuto dal Signore Dio degli eserciti, che ha renduti ammirabili i suoi consigli, ed ha segnalata la sua giustizia.And this is come forth from our Lord the God of hostes, that he might make his counsel meruelous, and magnifie iustice.Et hoc a Domino Deo exercituum exivit, / ut mirabile faceret consilium, et magnificaret justitiam.