Comparison
Jeremiah 18
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The word that came from Jeremias to the Lord, saying: | Verbum quod factum est ad Ieremiam a Domino, dicens: |
| 2 | Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words. | Surge, et descende in domum figuli, et ibi audies verba mea. |
| 3 | And I went down into the potter’s house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel. | Et descendi in domum figuli, et ecce ipse faciebat opus super rotam. |
| 4 | And the vessel was broken which he was making with clay with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it. | Et dissipatum est vas quod ipse faciebat e luto manibus suis: conversusque fecit illud vas alterum, sicut placuerat in oculis eius ut faceret. |
| 5 | Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: | Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens: |
| 6 | Cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. | Numquid sicut figulus iste, non potero vobis facere, domus Israël? ait Dominus: ecce sicut lutum in manu figuli, sic vos in manu mea, domus Israël. |
| 7 | I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. | Repente loquar adversum gentem et adversus regnum, ut eradicem, et destruam, et disperdam illud: |
| 8 | If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them. | si poenitentiam egerit gens illa a malo suo quod locutus sum adversus eam, agam et ego poenitentiam super malo quod cogitavi ut facerem ei. |
| 9 | And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it. | Et subito loquar de gente et de regno, ut aedificem et plantem illud. |
| 10 | If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it. | Si fecerit malum in oculis meis, ut non audiat vocem meam, poenitentiam agam super bono quod locutus sum ut facerem ei. |
| 11 | Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good. | Nunc ergo dic viro Iuda, et habitatoribus Ierusalem, dicens: Haec dicit Dominus: Ecce ego fingo contra vos malum, et cogito contra vos cogitationem: revertatur unusquisque a via sua mala, et dirigite vias vestras et studia vestra. |
| 12 | And they said: We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart. | Qui dixerunt: Desperavimus: post cogitationes enim nostras ibimus, et unusquisque pravitatem cordis sui mali faciemus. |
| 13 | Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess? | Ideo haec dicit Dominus: Interrogate gentes: Quis audivit talia horribilia, quae fecit nimis virgo Israël? |
| 14 | Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away? | Numquid deficiet de petra agri nix Libani? aut evelli possunt aquae erumpentes frigidae, et defluentes? |
| 15 | Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden: | Quia oblitus est mei populus meus, frustra libantes, et impingentes in viis suis, in semitis saeculi, ut ambularent per eas in itinere non trito, |
| 16 | That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head. | ut fieret terra eorum in desolationem, et in sibilum sempiternum: omnis qui praeterierit per eam obstupescet, et movebit caput suum. |
| 17 | As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction. | Sicut ventus urens dispergam eos coram inimico: dorsum, et non faciem, ostendam eis in die perditionis eorum. |
| 18 | And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. | Et dixerunt: Venite, et cogitemus contra Ieremiam cogitationes: non enim peribit lex a sacerdote, neque consilium a sapiente, nec sermo a propheta: venite, et percutiamus eum lingua, et non attendamus ad universos sermones eius. |
| 19 | Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. | Attende, Domine, ad me, et audi vocem adversariorum meorum. |
| 20 | Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them. | Numquid redditur pro bono malum, quia foderunt foveam animae meae? Recordare quod steterim in conspectu tuo ut loquerer pro eis bonum, et averterem indignationem tuam ab eis. |
| 21 | Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle. | Propterea da filios eorum in famem, et deduc eos in manus gladii: fiant uxores eorum absque liberis, et viduae: et viri earum interficiantur morte: iuvenes eorum confodiantur gladio in praelio: |
| 22 | Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet. | audiatur clamor de domibus eorum: adduces enim super eos latronem repente, quia foderunt foveam ut caperent me, et laqueos absconderunt pedibus meis. |
| 23 | But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them. | Tu autem, Domine, scis omne consilium eorum adversum me in mortem: ne propitieris iniquitati eorum, et peccatum eorum a facie tua non deleatur: fiant corruentes in conspectu tuo; in tempore furoris tui abutere eis. |
