Isaie prophesying in the days of four kings of Juda, 2. admonisheth both princes and people of their ingratitude, and other sins against God. 7. for which they shall be led captive. 11. Neither shall sacrifices, nor prayers save them, 16. except they cleanse their souls from sins. 20. which they not doing shall be severely punished. 26. Whereby the reliques shall be purged, and the Church shall flourish.Isaie prophecying in the dayes of foure kinges of Iuda, 2. admonisheth both princes and people of their ingratitude, and other sinnes against God. 7. for which they shal be led captiue. 11. Neither shal sacrifices, nor prayers saue them, 16. except they cleanse their soules from sinnes. 20. which they not doing shal be seuerely punished. 26. Wherby the reliques shal be purged, and the Church shal flourish.✦
The first part. The kingdom of Juda shall be captive in Babylon, for their ingratitude towards God, and other sins.The first part. The kingdom of Iuda shal be captiue in Babylon, for their ingratitude towards Gods, and other sinnes.
The vision of Isaie the son of Amos, which he saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias kings of Juda.THE vision of Isaie the sonne of Amos, which he sawe, concerning Iuda and Ierusalem in the dayes of Ozias, Ioathan, Achaz, and Ezechias kinges of Iuda.✦Visio Isaiæ, filii Amos, quam vidit super Judam et Jerusalem, in diebus Oziæ, Joathan, Achaz, et Ezechiæ, regum Juda.
2Hear ye heavens, and give ear O earth, because our Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.Heare ye heauens, & geue eare ô earth, because our Lord hath spoken. I haue brought vp children, and exalted them: but they haue despised me.✦Audite, cæli, et auribus percipe, terra, quoniam Dominus locutus est. Filios enutrivi, et exaltavi ; ipsi autem spreverunt me.
3The ox hath known his owner, and the ass his master's praesepe: a manger, a feeding-trough: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.The oxe hath knowen his owner, and the asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not knowen me, and my people hath not vnderstood.Cognovit bos possessorem suum, et asinus præsepe domini sui ; Israël autem me non cognovit, et populus meus non intellexit.
4Woe to the sinful nation, the people laden with grievous iniquity, the wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken our Lord, they have blasphemed the holy one of Israel, they are revolted backwards.Woe to the sinful nation, the people loden with grieuous iniquitie, the wicked seede, vngracious children: they haue forsaken our Lord, they haue blasphemed the holie one of Israel, they are reuolted backewards.✦Væ genti peccatrici, populo gravi iniquitate, semini nequam, filiis sceleratis ! dereliquerunt Dominum ; blasphemaverunt Sanctum Israël ; abalienati sunt retrorsum.
5For what shall I strike you any more, which add prevarication? every head is sick, and every heart in heaviness.For what shal I strike you anie more, which adde preuarication? euerie head is sicke, & euerie hart in heauines.✦Super quo percutiam vos ultra, addentes prævaricationem ? omne caput languidum, et omne cor mœrens.
6From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no health therein: wound, and livor: a weal, a livid bruise, and swelling stroke: it is not bound up, nor cured, with medicine, nor mollified with oil.From the sole of the foote vnto the toppe of the head, there is no health therein: wound, and wayle, and swelling stroke: it is not bound vp, nor cured, with medicine, nor mollified with oile.A planta pedis usque ad verticem, non est in eo sanitas ; vulnus, et livor, et plaga tumens, non est circumligata, nec curata medicamine, neque fota oleo.
7Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be made desolate as in the spoil of enemies.Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire: your countrie strangers deuoure before your face, and it shal be made desolate as in the spoile of enemies.✦Terra vestra deserta ; civitates vestræ succensæ igni : regionem vestram coram vobis alieni devorant, et desolabitur sicut in vastitate hostili.
8And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a vineyard, and as a cottage in a place of cucumbers, and as a city that is wasted.And the daughter of Sion shal be left as a vineyard, and as a cottage in a place of cucumbers, and as a citie that is wasted.✦Et derelinquetur filia Sion ut umbraculum in vinea, et sicut tugurium in cucumerario, et sicut civitas quæ vastatur.
9Unless the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should be like to Gomorrha.Vnlesse the Lord of hostes had lefte vs seed, we had beene as Sodom, and we should be like to Gomorrha.✦Nisi Dominus exercituum reliquisset nobis semen, quasi Sodoma fuissemus, et quasi Gomorrha similes essemus.
10Hear the word of our Lord ye princes of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God ye people of Gomorrha.Heare the word of our Lord ye princes of Sodom, geue eare to the law of our God ye people of Gomorrha.✦Audite verbum Domini, principes Sodomorum ; percipite auribus legem Dei nostri, populus Gomorrhæ.
11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victima: sacrificial offerings, not persons wronged, saith our Lord? I am full. the holocaustum: a whole burnt sacrifice, not mass slaughter of rams, and the fat of pinguia: fatted beasts, and the blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats I have not desired.To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victimes, saith our Lord? I am ful. the holocaust of rammes, and the fatte of fatlings, and the bloud of calues, and lambes, and buck goates I haue not desired.✦Quo mihi multitudinem victimarum vestrarum ? dicit Dominus. Plenus sum : holocausta arietum, et adipem pinguium, et sanguinem vitulorum et agnorum et hircorum, nolui.
12When you should have come before my sight, who sought for these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?When you should haue come before my sight, who sought for these thinges at your handes, that you should walke in my courtes?✦Cum veniretis ante conspectum meum, quis quæsivit hæc de manibus vestris, ut ambularetis in atriis meis ?
13Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is abomination to me. The New moon, and the Sabbath, and other festivities I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.Offer sacrifice no more in vaine: incense is abomination to me. The Newe moone, and the Sabbath, and other festiuities I wil not abide, your assemblies are wicked.✦Ne offeratis ultra sacrificium frustra : incensum abominatio est mihi. Neomeniam et sabbatum, et festivitates alias, non feram ; iniqui sunt cœtus vestri.
14My soul hateth your calendas: the new-moon feast days, the first of the month, and your solemnitas: appointed festivals, not gravity: they are become tedious to me, I have laboured in sustaining.My soule hateth your Calendes, and your solemnities: they are become tedious to me, I haue laboured in susteyning.✦Calendas vestras, et solemnitates vestras odivit anima mea : facta sunt mihi molesta ; laboravi sustinens.
15And when you shall stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and when you shall multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood;And when you shal streach forth your hands, I wil turne away mine eies from you: & when you shal multiplie prayer, I wil not heare: for your handes are ful of bloud;✦Et cum extenderitis manus vestras, avertam oculos meos a vobis, et cum multiplicaveritis orationem, non exaudiam : manus enim vestræ sanguine plenæ sunt.
16Wash you, be clean, take away the evil of your cogitationum: the thoughts, the devisings from mine eyes: cease to do perversely.Wash you, be cleane, take away the euil of your cogitations from mine eies: cease to doe peruersely.✦Lavamini, mundi estote ; auferte malum cogitationum vestrarum ab oculis meis : quiescite agere perverse,
17Learn to do good: seek judgement, succour the oppressed, judge for the pupillus: the orphan, the fatherless; not a schoolchild, defend the widow.Lerne to doe good: seeke iudgement, succour the oppressed, iudge for the pupil, defend the widow.✦discite benefacere ; quærite judicium, subvenite oppresso, judicate pupillo, defendite viduam.
18And come, and accuse me, saith our Lord: if your sins shall be as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow: and if they be red as vermilion, they shall be white as wool.And come, and accuse me, sayth our Lord: if your sinnes shal be as scarlet, they shal be made white as snow: and if they be red as vermelon, they shal be white as wooll.✦Et venite, et arguite me, dicit Dominus. Si fuerint peccata vestra ut coccinum, quasi nix dealbabuntur ; et si fuerint rubra quasi vermiculus, velut lana alba erunt.
19If you be willing, and will hear me, you shall eat the good things of the earth.If you be willing, and wil heare me, you shal eate the good thinges of the earth.Si volueritis, et audieritis me, bona terræ comedetis.
20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you, because the mouth of our Lord hath spoken.But if you wil not, and wil prouoke me to wrath: the sword shal deuoure you, because the mouth of our Lord hath spoken.Quod si nolueritis, et me ad iracundiam provocaveritis, gladius devorabit vos, quia os Domini locutum est.
21How is the faithful city, full of judgement, become an harlot? justice hath dwelled in it, but now homicidae: murderers.How is the faythful citie, ful of iudgement, become an harlot? iustice hath dwelled in it, but now mankillers.✦Quomodo facta est meretrix civitas fidelis, plena judicii ? justitia habitavit in ea, nunc autem homicidæ.
22Thy silver is turned into scoria: the slag, the refuse of smelted metal: thy wine is mingled with water.Thy siluer is turned into drosse: thy wine is mingled with water.✦Argentum tuum versum est in scoriam ; vinum tuum mistum est aqua.
23Thy princes are unfaithful, companions of thieves: all love gifts, follow rewards: They judge not for the pupil: and the widow's cause goeth not in to them.Thy princes are vnfaithful, companions of theues: al loue giftes, folow rewardes: They iudge not for the pupil: and the widowes cause goeth not in to them.Principes tui infideles, socii furum. Omnes diligunt munera, sequuntur retributiones. Pupillo non judicant, et causa viduæ non ingreditur ad illos.
24For this cause saith our Lord the God of hosts the mighty one of Israel: Alas; I will comfort myself upon mine adversaries: and will be revenged of mine enemies.For this cause sayth our Lord the God of hostes the mightie one of Israel: Alas; I wil comfort myselfe vpon mine aduersaries: and wil be reuenged of mine enemies.✦Propter hoc ait Dominus, Deus exercituum, Fortis Israël : Heu ! consolabor super hostibus meis, et vindicabor de inimicis meis.
25And I will turn mine hand to thee, and I will boil out thy dross till it be pure, and will take away all thy stannum: base alloy, dross.And I wil turne mine hand to thee, and I wil boyle out thy drosse til it be pure, & wil take away al thy tinne.Et convertam manum meam ad te, et excoquam ad puram scoriam tuam, et auferam omne stannum tuum.
26And I will restore thy judges as they have been before, and thy counsellors as of old. After these things thou shalt be called the just, a faithful city.And I wil restore thy iudges as they haue beene before, and thy counselers as of old. After these thinges thou shalt be called the iust, a faithful citie.✦Et restituam judices tuos ut fuerunt prius, et consiliarios tuos sicut antiquitus ; post hæc vocaberis civitas justi, urbs fidelis.
27Sion shall be redeemed in judgement, and they shall bring her back in justice.Sion shal be redemed in iudgement, and they shal bring her backe in iustice.✦Sion in judicio redimetur, et reducent eam in justitia.
28And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken our Lord, shall be consumed.And he shal destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that haue forsaken our Lord, shal be consumed.✦Et conteret scelestos, et peccatores simul ; et qui dereliquerunt Dominum consumentur.
29For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens, which you chose.For they shal be confounded for the idols, to which they haue sacrificed: and you shal be ashamed of the gardens, which you chose.Confundentur enim ab idolis quibus sacrificaverunt, et erubescetis super hortis quos elegeratis,
30When you shall be as an oak the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.When you shal be as an oke the leaues falling of, and as a garden without water.cum fueritis velut quercus defluentibus foliis, et velut hortus absque aqua.
31And your strength shall be, as the ashes of stuppa: coarse broken flax fibre, and your work as a spark: and both shall be set on fire together, and there shall be none to quench it.And your strength shal be, as the ashes of towe, and your worke as a sparke: and both shal be set on fire together, and there shal be none to quench it.✦Et erit fortitudo vestra ut favilla stuppæ, et opus vestrum quasi scintilla, et succendetur utrumque simul, et non erit qui extinguat.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.