¹ Vocavit autem Jacob filios suos, et ait eis : Congregamini, ut annuntiem quæ ventura sunt vobis in diebus novissimis.

² Congregamini, et audite, filii Jacob, audite Israël patrem vestrum :

³ Ruben, primogenitus meus, tu fortitudo mea, et principium doloris mei ; prior in donis, major in imperio.

⁴ Effusus es sicut aqua, non crescas : quia ascendisti cubile patris tui, et maculasti stratum ejus.

⁵ Simeon et Levi fratres vasa iniquitatis bellantia.

⁶ In consilium eorum non veniat anima mea, et in cœtu illorum non sit gloria mea : quia in furore suo occiderunt virum, et in voluntate sua suffoderunt murum.

⁷ Maledictus furor eorum, quia pertinax : et indignatio eorum, quia dura : dividam eos in Jacob, et dispergam eos in Israël.

⁸ Juda, te laudabunt fratres tui : manus tua in cervicibus inimicorum tuorum, adorabunt te filii patris tui.

⁹ Catulus leonis Juda : ad prædam, fili mi, ascendisti : requiescens accubuisti ut leo, et quasi leæna : quis suscitabit eum ?

¹⁰ Non auferetur sceptrum de Juda, et dux de femore ejus, donec veniat qui mittendus est, et ipse erit expectatio gentium.

¹¹ Ligans ad vineam pullum suum, et ad vitem, o fili mi, asinam suam, lavabit in vino stolam suam et in sanguine uvæ pallium suum.

¹² Pulchriores sunt oculi ejus vino, et dentes ejus lacte candidiores.

¹³ Zabulon in littore maris habitabit, et in statione navium pertingens usque ad Sidonem.

¹⁴ Issachar asinus fortis accubans inter terminos.

¹⁵ Vidit requiem, quod esset bona et terram, quod optima : et supposuit humerum suum ad portandum, factusque est tributis serviens.

¹⁶ Dan judicabit populum suum sicut et alia tribus in Israël.

¹⁷ Fiat Dan coluber in via, cerastes in semita, mordens ungulas equi, ut cadat ascensor ejus retro.

¹⁸ Salutare tuum expectabo, Domine.

¹⁹ Gad, accinctus præliabatur ante eum : et ipse accingetur retrorsum.

²⁰ Aser, pinguis panis ejus, et præbebit delicias regibus.

²¹ Nephthali, cervus emissus, et dans eloquia pulchritudinis.

²² Filius accrescens Joseph, Filius accrescens et decorus aspectu : filiæ discurrerunt super murum.

²³ Sed exasperaverunt eum et jurgati sunt, invideruntque illi habentes jacula.

²⁴ Sedit in forti arcus ejus, et dissoluta sunt vincula brachiorum et manuum illius per manus potentis Jacob : inde pastor egressus est, lapis Israël.

²⁵ Deus patris tui erit adjutor tuus, et omnipotens benedicet tibi benedictionibus cæli desuper, benedictionibus abyssi jacentis deorsum, benedictionibus uberum et vulvæ.

²⁶ Benedictiones patris tui confortatæ sunt benedictionibus patrum ejus, donec veniret desiderium collium æternorum : fiant in capite Joseph, et in vertice Nazaræi inter fratres suos.

²⁷ Benjamin lupus rapax, mane comedat prædam, et vespere dividet spolia.

²⁸ Omnes hi in tribubus Israël duodecim : hæc locutus est eis pater suus, benedixitque singulis benedictionibus propriis.

²⁹ Et præcepit eis, dicens : Ego congregor ad populum meum : sepelite me cum patribus meis in spelunca duplici quæ est in agro Ephron Hethæi,

³⁰ contra Mambre in terra Chanaan, quam emit Abraham cum agro ab Ephron Hethæo in possessionem sepulchri.

³¹ Ibi sepelierunt eum, et Saram uxorem ejus : ibi sepultus est Isaac cum Rebecca conjuge sua : ibi et Lia condita jacet.

³² Finitisque mandatis quibus filios instruebat, collegit pedes suos super lectulum, et obiit : appositusque est ad populum suum.

¹ "Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

² (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):

³ I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they happened.

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

⁵ therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.'

⁶ You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? "I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

⁷ They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

⁸ Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.

⁹ For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

¹¹ For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.

¹² "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

¹³ Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

¹⁴ "Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.

¹⁵ I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

¹⁶ "Come near to me and hear this: "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I." Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.

¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

¹⁸ Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:

¹⁹ your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

²⁰ Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.

²¹ They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

²² "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."