Comparison
Deuteronomy 32
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
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| 1 | Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. | Audite, caeli, quae loquor: audiat terra verba oris mei. |
| 2 | Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass. | Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea, fluat ut ros eloquium meum, quasi imber super herbam, et quasi stillae super gramina. |
| 3 | Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God. | Quia nomen Domini invocabo: date magnificentiam Deo nostro. |
| 4 | The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right. | Dei perfecta sunt opera, et omnes viae eius iudicia: Deus fidelis, et absque ulla iniquitate, iustus et rectus. |
| 5 | They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation. | Peccaverunt ei, et non filii eius in sordibus: generatio prava atque perversa. |
| 6 | Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee? | Haeccine reddis Domino, popule stulte et insipiens? numquid non ipse est pater tuus, qui possedit te, et fecit, et creavit te? |
| 7 | Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee. | Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas: interroga patrem tuum, et annuntiabit tibi: maiores tuos, et dicent tibi. |
| 8 | When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel. | Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes, quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum iuxta numerum filiorum Israël. |
| 9 | But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance. | Pars autem Domini, populus eius: Iacob funiculus haereditatis eius. |
| 10 | He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye. | Invenit eum in terra deserta, in loco horroris, et vastae solitudinis: circumduxit eum, et docuit: et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui. |
| 11 | As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders. | Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos, et super eos volitans, expandit alas suas, et assumpsit eum, atque portavit in humeris suis. |
| 12 | The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him. | Dominus solus dux eius fuit, et non erat cum eo deus alienus: |
| 13 | He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone, | constituit eum super excelsam terram, ut comederet fructus agrorum: ut sugeret mel de petra, oleumque de saxo durissimo; |
| 14 | Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape. | butyrum de armento, et lac de ovibus cum adipe agnorum, et arietum filiorum Basan: et hircos cum medulla tritici, et sanguinem uvae biberet meracissimum. |
| 15 | The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. | Incrassatus est dilectus, et recalcitravit: incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus, dereliquit Deum factorem suum, et recessit a Deo salutari suo. |
| 16 | They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. | Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt. |
| 17 | They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not. | Immolaverunt daemoniis et non Deo, diis quos ignorabant: novi recentesque venerunt, quos non coluerunt patres eorum: |
| 18 | Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee. | Deum qui te genuit dereliquisti, et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui. |
| 19 | The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. | Vidit Dominus, et ad iracundiam concitatus est: quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiae. |
| 20 | And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children. | Et ait: Abscondam faciem meam ab eis, et considerabo novissima eorum: generatio enim perversa est, et infideles filii. |
| 21 | They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation. | Ipsi me provocaverunt in eo qui non erat Deus, et irritaverunt in vanitatibus suis: et ego provocabo eos in eo qui non est populus, et in gente stulta irritabo illos. |
| 22 | A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains. | Ignis succensus est in furore meo, et ardebit usque ad inferni novissima: devorabitque terram cum germine suo, et montium fundamenta comburet. |
| 23 | I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them. | Congregabo super eos mala, et sagittas meas complebo in eis. |
| 24 | They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents. | Consumentur fame, et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo: dentes bestiarum immittam in eos, cum furore trahentium super terram, atque serpentium. |
| 25 | Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years. | Foris vastabit eos gladius, et intus pavor, iuvenem simul ac virginem, lactentem cum homine sene. |
| 26 | I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. | Dixi: Ubinam sunt? cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum. |
| 27 | But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things. | Sed propter iram inimicorum distuli: ne forte superbirent hostes eorum, et dicerent: Manus nostra excelsa, et non Dominus, fecit haec omnia. |
| 28 | They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom. | Gens absque consilio est, et sine prudentia. |
| 29 | O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end. | Utinam saperent, et intelligerent, ac novissima providerent. |
| 30 | How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? | Quomodo persequatur unus mille, et duo fugent decem millia? nonne ideo, quia Deus suus vendidit eos, et Dominus conclusit illos? |
| 31 | For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges. | Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum: et inimici nostri sunt iudices. |
| 32 | Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter. | De vinea Sodomorum, vinea eorum, et de suburbanis Gomorrhae: uva eorum, uva fellis, et botri amarissimi. |
| 33 | Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable. | Fel draconum vinum eorum, et venenum aspidum insanabile. |
| 34 | Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures? | Nonne haec condita sunt apud me, et signata in thesauris meis? |
| 35 | Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come. | Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam in tempore, ut labatur pes eorum: iuxta est dies perditionis, et adesse festinant tempora. |
| 36 | The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed. | Iudicabit Dominus populum suum, et in servis suis miserebitur: videbit quod infirmata sit manus, et clausi quoque defecerunt, residuique consumpti sunt. |
| 37 | And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted? | Et dicet: Ubi sunt dii eorum, in quibus habebant fiduciam? |
| 38 | Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress. | de quorum victimis comedebant adipes, et bibebant vinum libaminum: surgant, et opitulentur vobis, et in necessitate vos protegant. |
| 39 | See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. | Videte quod ego sim solus, et non sit alius deus praeter me: ego occidam, et ego vivere faciam: percutiam, et ego sanabo, et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere. |
| 40 | I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever. | Levabo ad caelum manum meam, et dicam: Vivo ego in aeternum. |
| 41 | If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me. | Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum, et arripuerit iudicium manus mea: reddam ultionem hostibus meis, et his qui oderunt me retribuam. |
| 42 | I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies. | Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine, et gladius meus devorabit carnes; de cruore occisorum et de captivitate, nudati inimicorum capitis. |
| 43 | Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people. | Laudate, gentes, populum eius, quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur: et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum, et propitius erit terrae populi sui. |
| 44 | So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun. | Venit ergo Moyses, et locutus est omnia verba cantici huius in auribus populi, ipse et Iosue filius Nun. |
| 45 | And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel. | Complevitque omnes sermones istos, loquens ad universum Israël, |
| 46 | And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfill all that is written in this law: | et dixit ad eos: Ponite corda vestra in omnia verba, quae ego testificor vobis hodie: ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere, et implere universa quae scripta sunt legis huius: |
| 47 | For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it. | quia non incassum praecepta sunt vobis, sed ut singuli in eis viverent: quae facientes longo perseveretis tempore in terra, ad quam, Iordane transmisso, ingredimini possidendam. |
| 48 | And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying: | Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die, dicens: |
| 49 | Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain. | Ascende in montem istum Abarim, id est, transitum, in montem Nebo, qui est in terra Moab contra Iericho: et vide terram Chanaan, quam ego tradam filiis Israël obtinendam, et morere in monte. |
| 50 | When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Her, and was gathered to his people: | Quem conscendens iungeris populis tuis, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor, et appositus populis suis: |
| 51 | Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel. | quia praevaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Israël ad aquas contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin: et non sanctificastis me inter filios Israël. |
| 52 | Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it. | E contra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israël. |
