Ezekiel 19

Ezekiel 19, Catholic Public Domain Version

1. “And as for you, take up a lament over the leaders of Israel,

   Et tu assume planctum super principes Israël,

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   and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions?†

   et dices: Quare mater tua leæna inter leones cubavit? in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos?

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   And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.†

   Et eduxit unum de leunculis suis, et leo factus est: et didicit capere prædam, hominemque comedere.

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   And the Gentiles heard about him, and they seized him, but not without receiving wounds. And they led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.

   Et audierunt de eo gentes: et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum, et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Ægypti.

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   Then, when she had seen that she was weakened, and that her hope had perished, she took one of her little ones, and appointed him as a lion.†

   Quæ cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est, et periit exspectatio ejus, tulit unum de leunculis suis; leonem constituit eum.

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   And he advanced among the lions, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to devour men.

   Qui incedebat inter leones, et factus est leo: et didicit prædam capere, et homines devorare:

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   He learned to make widows, and to lead their citizens into the desert. And the land, with its plenitude, was made desolate by the voice of his roaring.

   didicit viduas facere, et civitates earum in desertum adducere: et desolata est terra et plenitudo ejus a voce rugitus illius.

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   And the Gentiles came together against him, on every side, from the provinces, and they spread their net over him; by their wounds, he was captured.

   Et convenerunt adversus eum gentes undique de provinciis, et expanderunt super eum rete suum: in vulneribus earum captus est,

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   And they put him into a cage; they led him in chains to the king of Babylon. And they cast him into a prison, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

   et miserunt eum in caveam: in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis, miseruntque eum in carcerem, ne audiretur vox ejus ultra super montes Israël.

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    Your mother is like a vine, in your blood, planted by the water; her fruit and her branches have increased because of many waters.

    Mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata est: fructus ejus et frondes ejus creverunt ex aquis multis.

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    And her strong branches were made into scepters for the rulers, and her stature was exalted among the branches. And she saw her own loftiness among the multitude of her branches.

    Et factæ sunt ei virgæ solidæ in sceptra dominantium, et exaltata est statura ejus inter frondes, et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum.

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    But she was uprooted in wrath, and cast upon the ground. And the burning wind dried up her fruit. Her robust branches withered and were dried up. A fire consumed her.

    Et evulsa est in ira, in terramque projecta, et ventus urens siccavit fructum ejus: marcuerunt et arefactæ sunt virgæ roboris ejus: ignis comedit eam.

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    And now she has been transplanted into the desert, into a land impassable and dry.

    Et nunc transplantata est in desertum, in terra invia et sitienti.

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    And a fire has gone forth from a rod of her branches, which has consumed her fruit. And there is no strong branch in her to become a scepter for the rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be a lamentation.”

    Et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum ejus, qui fructum ejus comedit: et non fuit in ea virga fortis, sceptrum dominantium. Planctus est, et erit in planctum.

Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain · Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592)