Commentary on Isaiah Volume 1 John Calvin
JOHN CALVIN
yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
15. Cum expanderitis manus vestras, abscondam oculos meos a vobis. Etiamsi multiplicaveritis orationem, ego non exaudiam. Manus vestrae sanguine plenae sunt.
16. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
16. Lavate, mundemini, auferte malitiam studiorum vestrorum a conspectu oculorum meorum, desinite mala facere.
17. Learn to do well; seek judgment; relieve the oppressed; judge the fatherless; plead for the widow.
17. Discite benefacere: quaerite judicium: restituite (vel, dirigite) oppressum: jus dicite pupillo: tuemini viduam.
18. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
18. Venite, agedum, et disceptemus, dixit Dominus: si fuerint peccata vestra ut coccinum, quasi nix dealbabuntur: si rubicunda fuerint instar purpurae, quasi lana erunt.
19. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 19. Si volueritis, et audieritis, bonum terrae comedetis. 20. But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it
20. Quod si nolueritis, et rebelles fueritis, gladio consummemini: quoniam os Domini loquutum est.
21. How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
21. Quomodo facta est meretrix civitas fidelis? plena judicio fuit: et aequitas pernoctavit (vel, habitavit) in ea; nunc autem homicidae.
22. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 22. Argentum tuum versum est in scoriam, et vinum tuum est aqua mixtum.
23. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
23. Principes tui perversi, et socii furum: unusquisque diligit munus, et inhiat mercedibus: causam pupilli non judicant, nec causa viduae pervenit ad eos.
24. Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
24. Propterea dicit Dominus, (vel, Dominator,) Iehovah exercituum, fortis Israel, Heu! consolationem capiam super hostibus meis, vindicabor de inimicis meis.
25. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross,