Commentary on Isaiah Volume 1 John Calvin
JOHN CALVIN
7. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
7. Avari arma sunt mala (vel, mensurœ sunt malœ) ipse pravitates excogitat, ut circumveniat simplices verbis mendacibus, et loquatur contra pauperem in judicio.
8. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
8. At liberalis liberalia agitabit, et liberaliter agendo progredietur. 9. Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
9. Mulieres quitæ, surgite; audite vocem meam, filiæ confidentes; auscultate sermonem meum.
10. Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
10. Dies super annum expavescetis, confidentes; quia deficiet vindemia, et collectio non veniet.
11. Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
11. Contremiscite, quietæ; trepidate, confidentes; spoliate, nudate, accingite lumbos.
12. They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
12. Super ubera plangentes, super agros desideratos, super vitem frugiferam.
13. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briars; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
13. Super terram populi mei ascendet spina et vepris; etiam super omnes domos lætitæ in urbe exultationis.
14. Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
14. Quoniam palatium desertum, strepitus urbis relictus, turris et propugnaculum redigentur in speluncas in perpetuum, ubi gaudeant onagri, et pascantur greges.
15. Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
15. Donec super nos effundatur Spiritus ex alto, et ponatur desertum in agrum cultum, et ager cultus instar sylvæ reputetur.
16. Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
16. Et habitabit in deserto judicium, et justitia in agro culto sedebit. 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.
17. Et erit opus justitæ pax; effectus, inquam, justitæ, securitas et quies