Sabiduría · Vulgata Clementina
Sabiduría 19 Vulgata Clementina
1 [Impiis autem usque in novissimum sine misericordia ira supervenit. Præsciebat enim et futura illorum:
1 But indignation without mercy came upon the ungodly to the end; for God also foreknew their future,
2 quoniam cum ipsi permisissent ut se educerent, et cum magna sollicitudine præmisissent illos, consequebantur illos, pœnitentia acti.
2 how, having changed their minds to let your people go, and having sped them eagerly on their way, they would change their minds and pursue them.
3 Adhuc enim inter manus habentes luctum, et deplorantes ad monumenta mortuorum, aliam sibi assumpserunt cogitationem inscientiæ, et quos rogantes projecerant, hos tamquam fugitivos persequebantur.
3 For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they made another foolish decision, and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged to leave and driven out.
4 Ducebat enim illos ad hunc finem digna necessitas; et horum quæ acciderant commemorationem amittebant, ut quæ deerant tormentis repleret punitio:
4 For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end, and it made them forget the things that had happened to them, that they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking from their torments,
5 et populus quidem tuus mirabiliter transiret, illi autem novam mortem invenirent.
5 and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road, but they themselves might find a strange death.
6 Omnis enim creatura ad suum genus ab initio refigurabatur, deserviens tuis præceptis, ut pueri tui custodirentur illæsi.
6 For the whole creation, each part in its diverse kind, was made new again, complying with your commandments, that your servants might be kept unharmed.
7 Nam nubes castra eorum obumbrabat, et ex aqua quæ ante erat, terra arida apparuit, et in mari Rubro via sine impedimento, et campus germinans de profundo nimio:
7 Then the cloud that overshadowed the camp was seen, and dry land rising up out of what had been water, out of the Red sea an unhindered highway, and a grassy plain out of the violent surge,
8 per quem omnis natio transivit quæ tegebatur tua manu, videntes tua mirabilia et monstra.
8 by which they passed over with all their army, these who were covered with your hand, having seen strange marvels.
9 Tamquam enim equi depaverunt escam, et tamquam agni exsultaverunt, magnificantes te, Domine, qui liberasti illos.
9 For like horses they roamed at large, and they skipped about like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.
10 Memores enim erant adhuc eorum quæ in incolatu illorum facta fuerant: quemadmodum pro natione animalium eduxit terra muscas, et pro piscibus eructavit fluvius multitudinem ranarum.
10 For they still remembered the things that happened in the time of their sojourning, how instead of bearing cattle, the land brought forth lice, and instead of fish, the river spewed out a multitude of frogs.
11 Novissime autem viderunt novam creaturam avium, cum, adducti concupiscentia, postulaverunt escas epulationis.
11 But afterwards, they also saw a new kind of birds, when, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties;
12 In allocutione enim desiderii ascendit illis de mari ortygometra: et vexationes peccatoribus supervenerunt, non sine illis quæ ante facta erant argumentis per vim fulminum: juste enim patiebantur secundum suas nequitias.]
12 for, to comfort them, quails came up for them from the sea.
13 [Etenim detestabiliorem inhospitalitatem instituerunt: alii quidem ignotos non recipiebant advenas; alii autem bonos hospites in servitutem redigebant.
13 Punishments came upon the sinners, not without the signs that were given beforehand by the violence of the thunder, for they justly suffered through their own wickednesses, for the hatred which they practiced toward guests was grievous indeed.
14 Et non solum hæc, sed et alius quidam respectus illorum erat, quoniam inviti recipiebant extraneos.
14 For while the others didn’t receive the strangers when they came to them, the Egyptians made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
15 Qui autem cum lætitia receperunt hos qui eisdem usi erant justitiis, sævissimis afflixerunt doloribus.
15 And not only so, but while punishment of some sort will come upon the former, since they received as enemies those who were aliens;
16 Percussi sunt autem cæcitate: sicut illi in foribus justi, cum subitaneis cooperti essent tenebris, unusquisque transitum ostii sui quærebat.
16 because these first welcomed with feastings, and then afflicted with dreadful toils, those who had already shared with them in the same rights.
17 In se enim elementa dum convertuntur, sicut in organo qualitatis sonus immutatur, et omnia suum sonum custodiunt: unde æstimari ex ipso visu certo potest.
17 And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight (even as were those others at the righteous man’s doors), when, being surrounded with yawning darkness, they each looked for the passage through his own door.
18 Agrestia enim in aquatica convertebantur, et quæcumque erant natantia, in terram transibant.
18 For as the notes of a lute vary the character of the rhythm, even so the elements, changing their order one with another, continuing always in its sound, as may clearly be conjectured from the sight of the things that have happened.
19 Ignis in aqua valebat supra suam virtutem, et aqua extinguentis naturæ obliviscebatur.
19 For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters, and creatures that swim moved upon the land.
20 Flammæ e contrario corruptibilium animalium non vexaverunt carnes coambulantium, nec dissolvebant illam, quæ facile dissolvebatur sicut glacies, bonam escam. In omnibus enim magnificasti populum tuum, Domine, et honorasti, et non despexisti, in omni tempore et in omni loco assistens eis.]
20 Fire kept the mastery of its own power in water, and water forgot its quenching nature. 21 On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, neither did they melt the crystalline grains of ambrosial food that were melted easily. 22 For in all things, O Lord, you magnified your people, and you glorified them and didn’t lightly regard them, standing by their side in every time and place.