The people repenting in fasting and sackcloth, put away their wives of strange nations. 5. Esdras confesseth God's benefits, and the people's ingratitude. 32. prayeth for them, and maketh league with God.The people repenting in fasting and sakcloth, put away their wiues of strange nations. 5. Esdras confesseth Gods benefites, and the peoples ingratitude. 32. prayeth for them, and maketh league with God.✦
And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together in fasting and sackcloths, and humus: dust strewn on the head upon them.AND in the soure and twenteth day of the moneth the children of Israel came together in fasting and sacke-clothes, and earth vpon them.✦In die autem vigesimo quarto mensis hujus, convenerunt filii Israël in jejunio et in saccis, et humus super eos.
2And the seed of the children of Israel was separated from every strange child: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.And the seede of the children of Israel was ⟦right-margin (at 9:2)⟧ seperated from euerie strange childe: and they stood, and confessed their sinnes, and the iniquities of their fathers.✦Et separatum est semen filiorum Israël ab omni filio alienigena : et steterunt, et confitebantur peccata sua, et iniquitates patrum suorum.
3And they rose up to stand: and they read in the volume of the law of our Lord their God, four times in a day, and four times they confessed, and adored our Lord their God.And they rose vp to stand: and they read in the volume of the law of our Lord their God, foure times in a day, and foure times they confessed, and adored our Lord their God.✦Et consurrexerunt ad standum : et legerunt in volumine legis Domini Dei sui, quater in die, et quater confitebantur, et adorabant Dominum Deum suum.
4And there arose upon the gradum: raised stand, platform of the Levites Josue, and Bani, Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they cried with a loud voice to our Lord their God.And there arose vpon the steppe of the Leuites Iosue, and Bani, Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they cried with a lowde voice to our Lord their God.Surrexerunt autem super gradum Levitarum Josue, et Bani, et Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, et Chanani : et clamaverunt voce magna ad Dominum Deum suum.
5And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Odaia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, Bless our Lord your God from eternity to eternity: and let them bless the high name of thy glory in all blessing and praise.And the Leuites Iosue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Odaia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, Blesse our Lord your God from eternitie to eternitie: and let them blesse the high name of thy glorie in al blessing & praise.Et dixerunt Levitæ Josue, et Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Odaia, Sebnia, Phathathia : Surgite, benedicite Domino Deo vestro ab æterno usque in æternum : et benedicant nomini gloriæ tuæ excelso in omni benedictione et laude.
6Thou the same O Lord, alone thou hast made heaven, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are in it: the seas and all things that are therein: and thou dost give life to all these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.Thou the same o Lord, alone thou hast made heauen, & al the host therof: the earth & al thinges that are in it: the seas and al thinges that are therin: and thou dost giue life to al these thinges, and the host of heauē adoreth thee.✦Tu ipse, Domine, solus, tu fecisti cælum, et cælum cælorum, et omnem exercitum eorum : terram, et universa quæ in ea sunt : maria, et omnia quæ in eis sunt : et tu vivificas omnia hæc, et exercitus cæli te adorat.
7Thou the same O Lord God, which didst choose Abram, and broughtest him out of the fire of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name Abraham.Thou the same o Lord God, which didst choose Abram, & broughtest him out of the fire of the Chaldees, and gauest him the ⟦right-margin (at 9:7)⟧ name Abraham.✦Tu ipse, Domine Deus, qui elegisti Abram, et eduxisti eum de igne Chaldæorum, et posuisti nomen ejus Abraham :
8And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, that thou wouldest give him the land of the Chananite, of the Hetheite, and of the Amorrheite, and of the Pherezeite, and of the Jebuseite, and of the Gergeseite, to give unto his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.And thou didst finde his hart faithful before thee: and thou madest a couenante with him, that thou wouldest geue him the land of the Chananite, of the Hetheite, and of the Amorrheite, and of the Pherezeite, and of the Iebuseite, & of the Gergeseite, to geue vnto his seede: and thou hast fulfilled thy wordes, because thou art iust.et invenisti cor ejus fidele coram te, et percussisti cum eo fœdus ut dares ei terram Chananæi, Hethæi, et Amorrhæi, et Pherezæi, et Jebusæi, et Gergesæi, ut dares semini ejus : et implesti verba tua, quoniam justus es.
9And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and their cry thou didst hear upon the Red sea.And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Ægypt: & their crie thou didst heare vpon the Read sea.Et vidisti afflictionem patrum nostrorum in Ægypto, clamoremque eorum audisti super mare Rubrum.
10And thou gavest signs and wonders in Pharao, and in all his servants, and in all the people of his land: for thou didst know that they had done proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as also at this day.And thou gauest signes & wonders in Pharao, and in al his seruants, and in al the people of his land: for thou didst know that they had done proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as also at this day.✦Et dedisti signa atque portenta in Pharaone, et in universis servis ejus, et in omni populo terræ illius : cognovisti enim quia superbe egerant contra eos : et fecisti tibi nomen, sicut et in hac die.
11And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea in dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into the rough waters.And thou didst diuide the sea before them, and they passed throught the midst of the sea in drie land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into the rough waters.Et mare divisisti ante eos, et transierunt per medium maris in sicco : persecutores autem eorum projecisti in profundum, quasi lapidem in aquas validas.
12And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that the way might appear to them, by the which they went.And in a piller of a cloude thou wast their leader by day, and in a piller of fire by night, that the way might appeare to them, by the which they went.Et in columna nubis ductor eorum fuisti per diem, et in columna ignis per noctem, ut appareret eis via per quam ingrediebantur.
13To mount Sinai also thou didst descend, and spakest with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgements, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.To mount Sinai also thou didst descend, and spakest with them from heauen, and thou gauest them right iudgements, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good preceptes.Ad montem quoque Sinai descendisti, et locutus es cum eis de cælo, et dedisti eis judicia recta, et legem veritatis, cæremonias, et præcepta bona :
14Thy sanctified Sabbath thou didst shew them, and the commandements, and ceremonies, and the law thou didst command them in the hand of Moyses thy servant.Thy sanctified Sabbath thou didst shew them, and the commandements, and ceremonies, and the law thou didst command them in the hand of Moyses thy seruant.et sabbatum sanctificatum tuum ostendisti eis : et mandata, et cæremonias, et legem præcepisti eis in manu Moysi servi tui.
15Bread also from heaven thou gavest them in their hunger, and water out of the rock thou didst bring forth to them thirsting, and thou saidest to them that they should enter in, and possess the land, upon which thou didst lift up thy hand to deliver it them.Bread also from heauen thou gauest them in their hunger, and water out of the rocke thou didst bring forth to them thirsting, and thou saidest to them that they should enter in, and possesse the land, vpon which thou didst lift vp thy hand to diliuer it them.✦Panem quoque de cælo dedisti eis in fame eorum, et aquam de petra eduxisti eis sitientibus, et dixisti eis ut ingrederentur et possiderent terram, super quam levasti manum tuam ut traderes eis.
16But they and our fathers did proudly, and hardened their necks and heard not thy commandements.But they and our fathers did proudly, and hardned their neckes and heard not thy comandements.Ipsi vero et patres nostri superbe egerunt, et induraverunt cervices suas, et non audierunt mandata tua.
17And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy marvellous works which thou hast done to them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their servitude, as it were by contention. But thou a propitious God, and gracious, and merciful, long suffering and of much compassion, didst not forsake them.And they ⟦left-margin (at 9:17)⟧ would not heare, and they remembred not thy merueylous workes which thou hast done to them. And they hardned their neckes, and gaue the head ⟦right-margin (at 9:17)⟧ to returne to their seruitude, as it were by contention. But thou a propitious God, and gratious, and merciful, long suffering and of much compassion, didst not forsake them.✦Et noluerunt audire, et non sunt recordati mirabilium tuorum quæ feceras eis. Et induraverunt cervices suas, et dederunt caput ut converterentur ad servitutem suam, quasi per contentionem. Tu autem, Deus propitius, clemens, et misericors, longanimis, et multæ miserationis, non dereliquisti eos,
18Yea and when they had made to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, which brought thee out of Egypt: and they did great blasphemies.Yea and when they had made to them selues a molten calfe, and had said: This is thy God, which brought thee out of Ægypt: and they did great blasphemies.et quidem cum fecissent sibi vitulum conflatilem, et dixissent : Iste est deus tuus, qui eduxit te de Ægypto : feceruntque blasphemias magnas :
19But thou in thy many mercies didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them into the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.But thou in thy manie mercies didst not leaue them in the desert: the piller of the cloude departed not from them by day to lead them into the way, and the piller of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should goe.tu autem in misericordiis tuis multis non dimisisti eos in deserto : columna nubis non recessit ab eis per diem ut duceret eos in viam, et columna ignis per noctem ut ostenderet eis iter per quod ingrederentur.
20And thou gavest them thy good spirit, which should teach them, and thy Manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water in thirst.And thou gauest them thy good spirite, which should teach them, and thy Manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gauest them water in thirst.Et spiritum tuum bonum dedisti, qui doceret eos : et manna tuum non prohibuisti ab ore eorum, et aquam dedisti eis in siti.
21Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them, their garments waxed not old, and their feet nor worn.Fourtie yeares didst thou feede them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them, their garmentes waxed not old, and their feete nor worne.Quadraginta annis pavisti eos in deserto, nihilque eis defuit : vestimenta eorum non inveteraverunt, et pedes eorum non sunt attriti.
22And thou gavest them kingdoms, and peoples, and didst part lots unto them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king Hesebon, and the land of Og the king of Basan.And thou gauest them kingdomes, and peoples, and didst part lottes vnto them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king Hesebon, and the land of Og the king of Basan.Et dedisti eis regna, et populos, et partitus es eis sortes : et possederunt terram Sehon, et terram regis Hesebon, et terram Og regis Basan.
23And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them to the land whereof thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should enter and possess it.And thou didst multiplie their children as the starres of heauen, & brought them to the land wherof thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should enter and possesse it.Et multiplicasti filios eorum sicut stellas cæli, et adduxisti eos ad terram de qua dixeras patribus eorum ut ingrederentur et possiderent.
24And the children came, and possessed the land, and thou didst humble before them the inhabiters of the land, the Chananeites, and gavest them into their hand, and their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do to them as it pleased them.And the children came, and possessed the land, and thou didst humble before them the inhabiters of the land, the Chananeites, and gauest them into their hand, and their kinges, and the peoples of the land, that they might doe to them as it pleased them.Et venerunt filii, et possederunt terram, et humiliasti coram eis habitatores terræ Chananæos, et dedisti eos in manu eorum, et reges eorum, et populos terræ, ut facerent eis sicut placebat illis.
25They therefore took the munitas: enclosed with a fence; fortified, walled cities and fat ground, and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveta: olive groves, and many trees that bare fruit: and they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and abounded with delicious things in thy great goodness.They therfore tooke the fensed cities and fatte ground, and possessed houses ful of al goodes: cesternes made by others, vineyardes, and oliuetes, & manie trees that bare fruite: and they did eate, and were filled, and became fatte, and abounded with delicious thinges in thy great goodnes.Ceperunt itaque urbes munitas et humum pinguem, et possederunt domos plenas cunctis bonis : cisternas ab aliis fabricatas, vineas, et oliveta, et ligna pomifera multa : et comederunt, et saturati sunt, et impinguati sunt, et abundaverunt deliciis in bonitate tua magna.
26But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, which admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they did great blasphemies.But they prouoked thee to wrath, & departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backes: & they killed thy prophetes, which admonished them ernestly to returne to thee: and they did great blasphemies.Provocaverunt autem te ad iracundiam, et recesserunt a te, et projecerunt legem tuam post terga sua : et prophetas tuos occiderunt, qui contestabantur eos ut reverterentur ad te : feceruntque blasphemias grandes.
27And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee, and thou from heaven didst hear, and according to thy many compassions gavest them saviours, that should save them from the hand of their enemies.And thou gauest them into the handes of their enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee, & thou from heauen didst heare, and according to thy manie compassions gauest them sauiours, that should saue them from the hand of their enemies.Et dedisti eos in manu hostium suorum, et afflixerunt eos. Et in tempore tribulationis suæ clamaverunt ad te, et tu de cælo audisti, et secundum miserationes tuas multas dedisti eis salvatores, qui salvarent eos de manu hostium suorum.
28And when they had rested, they returned to do evil in thy sight: and thou didst leave them in the land of their enemies, and they possessed them. And they returned, and cried to thee: and thou heardest from heaven, and deliveredst them in thy mercies, many times.And when they had rested, they returned to do euil in thy sight: & thou didst leaue them in the land of their enemies, and they possessed them. And they returned, & cried to thee: & thou heardest from heauen, and deliueredst thē in thy mercies, manie times.Cumque requievissent, reversi sunt ut facerent malum in conspectu tuo, et dereliquisti eos in manu inimicorum suorum, et possederunt eos. Conversique sunt, et clamaverunt ad te : tu autem de cælo exaudisti, et liberasti eos in misericordiis tuis, multis temporibus.
29And thou didst admonish them that they should return to thy law. But they did proudly, and heard not thy commandements, and sinned in thy judgements, which a man should do, and shall live in them, and they gave the revolting shoulder, and hardened their neck, neither did they hear.And thou didst admonish them that they should returne to thy law. But they did proudly, & heard not thy comandemētes, and sinned in thy iudgementes, which a man should do, and shal liue in them, and they gaue the reuolting shoulder, and hardned their necke, neither did they heare.Et contestatus es eos ut reverterentur ad legem tuam. Ipsi vero superbe egerunt, et non audierunt mandata tua, et in judiciis tuis peccaverunt, quæ faciet homo, et vivet in eis : et dederunt humerum recedentem, et cervicem suam induraverunt, nec audierunt.
30And thou didst prolong many years over them, and didst testify to charge them in thy spirit by the hand of thy Prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the peoples of the nations.And thou didst prolong manie yeares ouer them, and didst testifie to charge them in thy spirit by the hand of thy Prophetes: and they heard not, and thou didst deliuer them into the hand of the peoples of the nations.Et protraxisti super eos annos multos, et contestatus es eos in spiritu tuo per manum prophetarum tuorum : et non audierunt, et tradidisti eos in manu populorum terrarum.
31But in thy very many mercies thou madest them not into consumption, neither didst thou forsake them: because a God of compassions and gracious art thou.But in thy very many mercies thou madest them not into consumption, neither didst thou forsake them: because a God of compassions and gratious art thou.In misericordiis autem tuis plurimis non fecisti eos in consumptionem, nec dereliquisti eos : quoniam Deus miserationum et clemens es tu.
32Now therefore O our God, great, strong, and terrible, keeping covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour, which hath found us, our Kings, and our Princes, and our Priests, and our Prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.Now therfore O our God, great, strong, and terrible, keeping couenant and mercie, turne not away from thy face al the labour, which hath found vs, our Kinges, and our Princes, and our Priests, and our Prophetes, and our fathers, and al the people from the daies of the king of Assur, vntil this day.✦Nunc itaque Deus noster magne, fortis et terribilis, custodiens pactum et misericordiam, ne avertas a facie tua omnem laborem, qui invenit nos, reges nostros, et principes nostros, et sacerdotes nostros, et prophetas nostros, et patres nostros, et omnem populum tuum a diebus regis Assur usque in diem hanc.
33And thou art just in all things, that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.And thou art iust in al thinges, that haue come vpon vs: because thou hast done truth, but we haue done wickedly.✦Et tu justus es in omnibus quæ venerunt super nos : quia veritatem fecisti, nos autem impie egimus.
34Our Kings, our Princes, our Priests, and our fathers have not done thy law, and have not attended thy commandements, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.Our Kinges, our Princes, our Priestes, and our fathers haue not done thy law, and haue not attended thy commandmentes, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.Reges nostri, principes nostri, sacerdotes nostri et patres nostri non fecerunt legem tuam, et non attenderunt mandata tua, et testimonia tua quæ testificatus es in eis.
35And they in their reigns, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the land most large and fat, which thou didst deliver in their sight, served not thee, nor returned from their most wicked devices.And they in their reignes, and in thy manifold goodnes, which thou gauest them, and in the land most large and fatte, which thou didst deliuer in their sight, serued not thee, nor returned from their most wicked deuises.Et ipsi in regnis suis, et in bonitate tua multa quam dederas eis, et in terra latissima et pingui quam tradideras in conspectu eorum, non servierunt tibi, nec reversi sunt a studiis suis pessimis.
36Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, that they should eat the bread thereof, and the good things that are thereof, and ourselves are servants in it.Behold we our selues this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gauest our fathers, that they should eate the bread therof, and the good thinges that are therof, and our selues are seruantes in it.Ecce nos ipsi hodie servi sumus : et terra quam dedisti patribus nostris ut comederent panem ejus, et quæ bona sunt ejus, et nos ipsi servi sumus in ea.
37And the fruits thereof are multiplied to the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.And the fruites therof are multiplied to the kinges, whom thou hast sette ouer vs for our sinnes, and they haue dominion ouer our bodies, and ouer our beastes, according to their wil, and we are in great tribulation.✦Et fruges ejus multiplicantur regibus quos posuisti super nos propter peccata nostra : et corporibus nostris dominantur, et jumentis nostris secundum voluntatem suam : et in tribulatione magna sumus.
38Therefore upon all these things we ourselves make a covenant, and write, and our Princes, our Levites, and our Priests sign it.Therfore vpon al these thinges we our selues make a couenant, and write, and our Princes, our Leuites, and our Priestes signe it.✦Super omnibus ergo his nos ipsi percutimus fœdus, et scribimus : et signant principes nostri, Levitæ nostri, et sacerdotes nostri.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.