Cântico de Ezequias
I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell:
Ego dixi: In dimídio diérum meórum vadam ad portas ínferi.
I sought for the residue of my years. I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living.
Quaesívi resíduum annórum meórum. Dixi: Non vidébo Dóminum Deum in terra vivéntium.
I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.
Non aspíciam hóminem ultra, et habitatórem quiétis.
My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent.
Generátio mea abláta est, et convolúta est a me, quasi tabernáculum pastórum.
My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
Praecísa est velut a texénte, vita mea: dum adhuc ordírer, succídit me: de mane usque ad vésperam fínies me.
I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones:
Sperábam usque ad mane, quasi leo sic contrívit ómnia ossa mea:
From morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove:
De mane usque ad vésperam fínies me: sicut pullus hirúndinis sic clamábo, meditábor ut colúmba:
My eyes are weakened looking upward:
Attenuáti sunt óculi mei, suspiciéntes in excélsum.
Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me. What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it?
Dómine, vim pátior, respónde pro me. Quid dicam, aut quid respondébit mihi, cum ipse fécerit?
I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Recogitábo tibi omnes annos meos in amaritúdine ánimae meae.
O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live. Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter:
Dómine, si sic vívitur, et in tálibus vita spíritus mei, corrípies me, et vivificábis me. Ecce, in pace amaritúdo mea amaríssima:
But thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Tu autem eruísti ánimam meam ut non períret: proiecísti post tergum tuum ómnia peccáta mea.
For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.
Quia non inférnus confitébitur tibi, neque mors laudábit te: non exspectábunt qui descéndunt in lacum, veritátem tuam.
The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.
Vivens vivens ipse confitébitur tibi, sicut et ego hódie: pater fíliis notam fáciet veritátem tuam.
O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
Dómine, salvum me fac et psalmos nostros cantábimus cunctis diébus vitae nostrae in domo Dómini.
Glória ao Pai
Glória ao Pai, e ao Filho, e ao Espírito Santo.
Assim como era no princípio, agora e sempre, e pelos séculos dos séculos.
Amém.
Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper,
et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.