Comparison
Micah 2
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. | Vae qui cogitatis inutile, et operamini malum in cubilibus vestris! In luce matutina faciunt illud, quoniam contra Deum est manus eorum. |
| 2 | And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. | Et concupierunt agros, et violenter tulerunt: et rapuerunt domos, et calumniabantur virum, et domum eius: virum, et haereditatem eius. |
| 3 | Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time. | Idcirco haec dicit Dominus: Ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum, unde non auferetis colla vestra, et non ambulabitis superbi: quoniam tempus pessimum est. |
| 4 | In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land? | In die illa sumetur super vos parabola, et cantabitur canticum cum suavitate, dicentium: Depopulatione vastati sumus; pars populi mei commutata est: quomodo recedet a me, cum revertatur, qui regiones nostras dividat? |
| 5 | Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord. | Propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in coetu Domini. |
| 6 | Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them. | Ne loquamini loquentes; non stillabit super istos, non comprehendet confusio. |
| 7 | The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly? | Dicit domus Iacob: Numquid abbreviatus est spiritus Domini, aut tales sunt cogitationes eius? nonne verba mea bona sunt cum eo qui recte graditur? |
| 8 | But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war. | et e contrario populus meus in adversarium consurrexit. Desuper tunica pallium sustulistis: et eos qui transibant simpliciter convertistis in bellum. |
| 9 | You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children. | Mulieres populi mei eiecistis de domo deliciarum suarum; a parvulis earum tulistis laudem meam in perpetuum. |
| 10 | Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption. | Surgite, et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem: propter immunditiam eius corrumpetur putredine pessima. |
| 11 | Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop. | Utinam non essem vir habens spiritum, et mendacium potius loquerer! Stillabo tibi in vinum et in ebrietatem; et erit super quem stillatur populus iste. |
| 12 | I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men. | Congregatione congregabo, Iacob, totum te; in unum conducam reliquias Israël: pariter ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili, quasi pecus in medio caularum: tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum. |
| 13 | For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them. | Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos: divident, et transibunt portam, et ingredientur per eam: et transibit rex eorum coram eis, et Dominus in capite eorum. |
