1This is the book of God’s commandments and the law that endures forever. All those who hold it fast will live, but those who leave it will die. 2Turn, O Jacob, and take hold of it. Walk toward the shining of its light. 3Don’t give your glory to another, nor the things that are to your advantage to a foreign nation. 4O Israel, we are happy; for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.
5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel. 6You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries. 7For you provoked Him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God. 8You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you. 9For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, “Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning. 10For I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them. 11For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning. 12Let no man rejoice over me, a widow and forsaken by many. For the sins of my children, I am left desolate, because they turned away from the law of God 13and had no regard for His statutes. They didn’t walk in the ways of God’s commandments or tread in the paths of discipline in His righteousness. 14Let those who dwell near Zion come and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them. 15For He has brought a nation upon them from afar, a shameless nation with a strange language, who didn’t respect old men or pity children. 16They have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her who was alone desolate of her daughters.”
17But I—how can I help you? 18For He who brought these calamities upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies. 19Go your way, O my children. Go your way, for I am left desolate. 20I have put off the garment of peace, and put on the sackcloth of my petition. I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.
21Take courage, my children. Cry to God, and He will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies. 22For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that He will save you; and joy has come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy that will soon come to you from your Everlasting Savior. 23For I sent you out with mourning and weeping, but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever. 24For as now those who dwell near Zion have seen your captivity, so they will shortly see your salvation from our God which will come upon you with great glory and brightness of the Everlasting. 25My children, suffer patiently the wrath that has come upon you from God, for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you will see his destruction and will tread upon their necks. 26My delicate ones have traveled rough roads. They were taken away like a flock carried off by enemies.
27Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by Him who has brought this upon you. 28For as it was your decision to go astray from God, return and seek Him ten times more. 29For He who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation. 30Take courage, O Jerusalem, for He who called you by name will comfort you. 31Miserable are those who afflicted you and rejoiced at your fall. 32Miserable are the cities which your children served. Miserable is she who received your sons. 33For as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad of your ruin, so she will be grieved at her own desolation. 34And I will take away her pride in her great multitude and her boasting will be turned into mourning. 35For fire will come upon her from the Everlasting for many days; and she will be inhabited by demons for a long time.
36O Jerusalem, look around you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God. 37Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away. They come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
1Hic liber mandatorum Dei, et lex quæ est in æternum: omnes qui tenent eam pervenient ad vitam: qui autem dereliquerunt eam, in mortem. 2Convertere, Jacob, et apprehende eam: ambula per viam ad splendorem ejus contra lumen ejus. 3Ne tradas alteri gloriam tuam, et dignitatem tuam genti alienæ. 4Beati sumus, Israël, quia quæ Deo placent manifesta sunt nobis. 5Animæquior esto, populus Dei, memorabilis Israël: 6venundati estis gentibus non in perditionem: sed propter quod in ira ad iracundiam provocastis Deum, traditi estis adversariis. 7Exacerbastis enim eum qui fecit vos, Deum æternum, immolantes dæmoniis, et non Deo. 8Obliti enim estis Deum qui nutrivit vos, et contristastis nutricem vestram Jerusalem. 9Vidit enim iracundiam a Deo venientem vobis, et dixit: Audite, confines Sion: adduxit enim mihi Deus luctum magnum. 10Vidi enim captivitatem populi mei, filiorum meorum et filiarum, quam superduxit illis Æternus. 11Nutrivi enim illos cum jucunditate; dimisi autem illos cum fletu et luctu. 12Nemo gaudeat super me viduam et desolatam: a multis derelicta sum propter peccata filiorum meorum, quia declinaverunt a lege Dei. 13Justitias autem ipsius nescierunt, nec ambulaverunt per vias mandatorum Dei, neque per semitas veritatis ejus cum justitia ingressi sunt. 14Veniant confines Sion, et memorentur captivitatem filiorum et filiarum mearum, quam superduxit illis Æternus. 15Adduxit enim super illos gentem de longinquo, gentem improbam, et alterius linguæ, 16qui non sunt reveriti senem, neque puerorum miserti sunt, et abduxerunt dilectos viduæ, et a filiis unicam desolaverunt. 17Ego autem, quid possum adjuvare vos? 18qui enim adduxit super vos mala, ipse vos eripiet de manibus inimicorum vestrorum. 19Ambulate, filii, ambulate: ego enim derelicta sum sola. 20Exui me stola pacis, indui autem me sacco obsecrationis, et clamabo ad Altissimum in diebus meis. 21Animæquiores estote, filii; clamate ad Dominum, et eripiet vos de manu principum inimicorum. 22Ego enim speravi in æternum salutem vestram, et venit mihi gaudium a Sancto, super misericordia quæ veniet vobis ab æterno salutari nostro. 23Emisi enim vos cum luctu et ploratu: reducet autem vos mihi Dominus cum gaudio et jucunditate in sempiternum. 24Sicut enim viderunt vicinæ Sion captivitatem vestram a Deo, sic videbunt et in celeritate salutem vestram a Deo, quæ superveniet vobis cum honore magno et splendore æterno. 25Filii, patienter sustinete iram quæ supervenit vobis: persecutus est enim te inimicus tuus: sed cito videbis perditionem ipsius, et super cervices ipsius ascendes. 26Delicati mei ambulaverunt vias asperas: ducti sunt enim ut grex direptus ab inimicis. 27Animæquiores estote, filii, et proclamate ad Dominum: erit enim memoria vestra ab eo qui duxit vos. 28Sicut enim fuit sensus vester ut erraretis a Deo, decies tantum iterum convertentes requiretis eum: 29qui enim induxit vobis mala, ipse rursum adducet vobis sempiternam jucunditatem cum salute vestra. 30Animæquior esto, Jerusalem: exhortatur enim te, qui te nominavit. 31Nocentes peribunt, qui te vexaverunt: et qui gratulati sunt in tua ruina, punientur. 32Civitates quibus servierunt filii tui, punientur, et quæ accepit filios tuos. 33Sicut enim gavisa est in tua ruina, et lætata est in casu tuo, sic contristabitur in sua desolatione, 34et amputabitur exsultatio multitudinis ejus, et gaudimonium ejus erit in luctum. 35Ignis enim superveniet ei ab Æterno in longiturnis diebus, et habitabitur a dæmoniis in multitudine temporis. 36Circumspice, Jerusalem, ad orientem, et vide jucunditatem a Deo tibi venientem. 37Ecce enim veniunt filii tui, quos dimisisti dispersos: veniunt collecti ab oriente usque ad occidentem, in verbo Sancti, gaudentes in honorem Dei.