For divers enormous sins, 14. Jerusalem, and all Israel shall be plagued: 25. namely false prophets, priests, ravening princes, and wicked people.For diuers enormious sinnes, 14. Ierusalem, and al Israel shal be plaged: 25. namely false prophets, priestes, rauening princes, and wicked people.✦
And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:AND the woord of our Lord was made to me, saying:Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :
2And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?And thou sonne of man doest thou not iudge, doest thou not iudge the citie of bloud?✦Et tu, fili hominis, nonne judicas, nonne judicas civitatem sanguinum ?
3And thou shalt show her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith our Lord God: The city shedding blood in the midst of it, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself,And thou shalt shew her al her abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith our Lord God: The citie shedding bloud in the middes of it, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herselfe,✦Et ostendes ei omnes abominationes suas, et dices : Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Civitas effundens sanguinem in medio sui, ut veniat tempus ejus : et quæ fecit idola contra semetipsam, ut pollueretur.
4that she might be polluted. In thy blood, which is shed by thee, thou hast offended: and in thine idols, which thou hast made, thou art polluted: and thou hast made thy days to approach, and hast brought the time of thy years: therefore have I given thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all lands.that she might be polluted. In thy bloud, which is shed by thee, thou hast offended: and in thine idols, which thou hast made, thou art polluted: and thou hast made thy dayes to approch, and hast brought the time of thy yeares: therfore haue I geuen thee a reproch to the Gentils, and a mockerie to al landes.✦In sanguine tuo, qui a te effusus est, deliquisti, et in idolis tuis, quæ fecisti, polluta es : et appropinquare fecisti dies tuos, et adduxisti tempus annorum tuorum : propterea dedi te opprobrium gentibus, et irrisionem universis terris.
5Those that are near, and that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, noble, great in destruction.Those that are nere, and that are far from thee, shal triumph ouer thee: thou filthie one, noble, great in destruction.✦Quæ juxta sunt, et quæ procul a te, triumphabunt de te, sordida, nobilis, grandis interitu.
6Behold the princes of Israel, every one in his arm, have been in thee, to shed blood.Behold the princes of Israel, euerie one in his arme, haue bene in thee, to shede bloud.✦Ecce principes Israël singuli in brachio suo fuerunt in te, ad effundendum sanguinem.
7Father and mother they have abused with contumeliis: insults, abuses in thee, the stranger they have calumniati sunt: slandered; wronged, dealt injuriously with in the midst of thee, the pupillum: a schoolchild; the fatherless, an orphan and widow they have made sorrowful in thee.Father and mother they haue abused with contumelies in thee, the stranger they haue calumniated in the middes of thee, the pupil and widow they haue made sorowful in thee.Patrem et matrem contumeliis affecerunt : in te advenam calumniati sunt in medio tui : pupillum et viduam contristaverunt apud te.
8My sanctuaries you have despised, and my sabbaths you have polluted.My sanctuaries you haue despised, and my sabbathes you haue polluted.Sanctuaria mea sprevisti, et sabbata mea polluisti.
9Detracting men have been in thee to shed blood, and upon the mountains they have eaten in thee, they have wrought wickedness in the midst of thee.Detracting men haue bene in thee to shede bloud, and vpon the mountaynes they haue eaten in thee, they haue wrought wickednes in the middes of thee.✦Viri detractores fuerunt in te ad effundendum sanguinem, et super montes comederunt in te : scelus operati sunt in medio tui.
10The father's shame they have discovered in thee, the uncleanness of the menstruous woman they have humbled in thee.The fathers shame they haue discouered in thee, the vncleannes of the menstruous woman they haue humbled in thee.✦Verecundiora patris discooperuerunt in te ; immunditiam menstruatæ humiliaverunt in te :
11And every one hath wrought abomination upon his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath polluted his daughter in law wickedly, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.And euerie one hath wrought abomination vpon his neighbours wife, and the father in law hath polluted his daughter inlaw wickedly, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.et unusquisque in uxorem proximi sui operatus est abominationem, et socer nurum suam polluit nefarie : frater sororem suam, filiam patris sui, oppressit in te.
12They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usuram: excessive interest; any lending at interest and superabundantiam: the surplus exacted above the principal, and didst calumniate thy neighbours covetously: and thou hast forgotten me, saith our Lord God.They haue taken giftes in thee to shede bloud: thou hast taken vsurie and ouerplus, and didst calumniate thy neighbours couetously: and thou hast forgotten me, saith our Lord God.✦Munera acceperunt apud te ad effundendum sanguinem : usuram et superabundantiam accepisti, et avare proximos tuos calumniabaris : meique oblita es, ait Dominus Deus.
13Behold, I have complosi: clapped together in indignation my hands upon thy covetousness, which thou hast done, and upon the blood that hath been shed in the midst of thee.Behold, I haue wrong my handes vpon thy couetousnes, which thou hast done, and vpon the bloud that hath bene shed in the middes of thee.✦Ecce complosi manus meas super avaritiam tuam quam fecisti, et super sanguinem qui effusus est in medio tui.
14Why, shall thy heart abide, or shall thy hands prevail in the days, which I shall make to thee? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.Why, shal thy hart abide, or shal thy handes preuaile in the dayes, which I shal make to thee? I the Lord haue spoken, and wil doe it.✦Numquid sustinebit cor tuum, aut prævalebunt manus tuæ, in diebus quos ego faciam tibi ? Ego Dominus locutus sum, et faciam.
15And I will disperse thee into nations, and will scatter thee into lands, and will make thy uncleanness to fail from thee.And I wil disperse thee into nations, & wil scatter thee into landes, and wil make thy vncleannes to faile from thee.Et dispergam te in nationes, et ventilabo te in terras, et deficere faciam immunditiam tuam a te.
16And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.And I wil possesse thee in the sight of the Gentils: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.Et possidebo te in conspectu gentium : et scies quia ego Dominus.
17And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :
18Son of man, the house of Israel is turned into scoriam: the scum or refuse of metal to me: all these are become brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, and dross of silver, in the midst of the furnace.Sonne of man, the house of Israel is turned into drosse to me: al these are becóme brasse, and tinne, and yron, and lead, & drosse of siluer, in the middes of the fornace.✦Fili hominis, versa est mihi domus Israël in scoriam : omnes isti æs, et stannum, et ferrum, et plumbum in medio fornacis : scoria argenti facti sunt.
19Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Because you are all turned into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem,Therfore thus saith our Lord God: Because you are al turned into drosse, therfore behold I wil gather you together in the middes of Ierusalem,Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Eo quod versi estis omnes in scoriam, propterea ecce ego congregabo vos in medio Jerusalem,
20with the gathering of silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of a furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury, and in my wrath, and will rest: and I will melt you.with the gathering of siluer, and brasse, and tinne, & yron, and lead in the middes of a fornace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so wil I gather you together in my furie, and in my wrath, and wil rest: and I wil melt you.✦congregatione argenti, et æris, et stanni, et ferri, et plumbi, in medio fornacis, ut succendam in ea ignem ad conflandum. Sic congregabo in furore meo, et in ira mea : et requiescam, et conflabo vos.
21And I will gather you together, and will set you on fire, in the fire of my fury, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.And I wil gather you together, and wil set you on fire, in the fire of my furie, and you shal be melted in the middes therof.Et congregabo vos, et succendam vos in igne furoris mei, et conflabimini in medio ejus.
22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have poured out mine indignation upon you.As siluer is melted in the middes of the fornace, so shal you be in the middes therof: and you shal know that I am the Lord, when I haue powred out mine indignation vpon you.Ut conflatur argentum in medio fornacis, sic eritis in medio ejus : et scietis quia ego Dominus cum effuderim indignationem meam super vos.
23And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :
24Son of man, say to it: Thou art an unclean land, and not rained upon in the day of fury.Sonne of man, say to it: Thou art an vncleane land, and not rayned vpon in the day of furie.✦Fili hominis, dic ei : Tu es terra immunda, et non compluta in die furoris.
25A conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: as a lion roaring, and ravening the prey, have they devoured souls, they have taken the riches and the price, her widows they have multiplied in the midst thereof.A conspiracie of prophets in the middes therof: as a lion roaring, and rauening the praye, haue they deuoured soules, they haue taken the riches and the price, her widowes they haue multiplied in the middes therof.✦Conjuratio prophetarum in medio ejus : sicut leo rugiens, rapiensque prædam, animas devoraverunt : opes et pretium acceperunt : viduas ejus multiplicaverunt in medio illius.
26Her priests have contemned my law, and have polluted my sanctuaries: between a holy thing and profane they have put no difference: and between the polluted and the clean they understood not: and from my sabbaths they have turned away their eyes, and I was defiled in the midst of them.Her priests haue contemned my law, and haue polluted my sanctuaries: betwen a holie thing and prophane they haue put no difference: and betwen the polluted and the cleane they vnderstood not: and from my sabbathes they haue turned away their eyes, and I was defiled in the middes of them.✦Sacerdotes ejus contempserunt legem meam, et polluerunt sanctuaria mea : inter sanctum et profanum non habuerunt distantiam, et inter pollutum et mundum non intellexerunt : et a sabbatis meis averterunt oculos suos, et coinquinabar in medio eorum.
27Her princes in the midst of her, as wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to pursue gains covetously.Her princes in the middes of her, as wolues rauening the praye to shede bloud, and to destroy soules, and to pursew gaynes couetously.✦Principes ejus in medio illius quasi lupi rapientes prædam ad effundendum sanguinem, et ad perdendas animas, et avare ad sectanda lucra.
28And her prophets daubed them without temperamento: the mortar or binding of plaster, seeing vain things, and divining lies to them, saying: Thus saith our Lord God: whereas our Lord hath not spoken.And her prophetes dawbed them without tempering, seing vayne thinges, and diuining lies to them, saying: Thus saith our Lord God: wheras our Lord hath not spoken.✦Prophetæ autem ejus liniebant eos absque temperamento, videntes vana, et divinantes eis mendacium, dicentes : Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : cum Dominus non sit locutus.
29The people of the land they oppressed by calumny, and took away violently: the needy and poor they afflicted, and the stranger they oppressed by calumny without judgement.The people of the land they oppressed by calumnie, and tooke away violently: the needie and poore they afflicted, and the stranger they oppressed by calumnie without iudgement.✦Populi terræ calumniabantur calumniam, et rapiebant violenter : egenum et pauperem affligebant, et advenam opprimebant calumnia absque judicio.
30And I sought of them a man that might interponeret: interpose, stand in the gap a hedge, and stand opposite against me for the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found not.And I sought of them a man that might enterpose an hedge, and stand opposite agaynst me for the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found not.✦Et quæsivi de eis virum qui interponeret sepem, et staret oppositus contra me pro terra, ne dissiparem eam : et non inveni.
31And I poured out mine indignation upon them, in the fire of my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their head, saith our Lord God.And I powred out mine indignation vpon them, in the fire of my wrath I consumed them: I haue rendered their way vpon their head, saith our Lord God.✦Et effudi super eos indignationem meam ; in igne iræ meæ consumpsi eos : viam eorum in caput eorum reddidi, ait Dominus Deus.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.