The Egyptians, for alluring the two tribes to their confederacy, shall be afflicted, 7. and the Jews return to more sincere service of God.The Ægyptians, for alluring the two tribes to their confederacie, shalbe afflicted, 7. and the Iewes returne to more sincere seruice of God.✦
Woe to the land the cymbal of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,VVOE to the land the cymbal of winges, which is beyond the riuers of Æthiopia,✦Væ terræ cymbalo alarum, quæ est trans flumina Æthiopiæ,
2which sendeth legatos: papal envoys; ambassadors, envoys into the sea, and in the vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go ye swift angels to a nation shaken asunder, and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is none other: to a nation exspectantem: anticipating; waiting for, looking for and trodden under foot, whose land the floods have spoiled:which sendeth legates into the sea, and in the vessels of * bulrushes vpon the waters. Goe ye swift angels to a nation shaken asunder, and torne in peeces: to a terrible people, after which there is none other : to a nation expecting and troden vnder foote, whose land the floodes haue spoiled :✦qui mittit in mare legatos, et in vasis papyri super aquas. Ite, angeli veloces, ad gentem convulsam et dilaceratam ; ad populum terribilem, post quem non est alius ; ad gentem exspectantem et conculcatam, cujus diripuerunt flumina terram ejus.
3All ye inhabitants of the world, which abide in the earth, where the sign shall be lifted up in the mountains, you shall see, and shall hear the sound of the trumpet:Al ye inhabitants of the world, which abide in the earth, where the signe shal be lifted vp in the mountaines, you shal see, and shal heare the sound of the trumpet:✦Omnes habitatores orbis, qui moramini in terra, cum elevatum fuerit signum in montibus, videbitis, et clangorem tubæ audietis.
4because thus saith our Lord to me: I will rest, and consider in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.because thus sayth ourd Lord to me: I wil rest, and consider in my place, as the noone light is cleere, and as a cloud of dew in the day of haruest.Quia hæc dicit Dominus ad me : Quiescam et considerabo in loco meo, sicut meridiana lux clara est, et sicut nubes roris in die messis.
5For before harvest it hath wholly flourished, and unripe perfectio: ripeness, full growth shall spring forth, and the boughs thereof shall be cut off with hooks: and the things that are left, shall be cut off, and shaken out.For before haruest it hath wholly florished, and vnripe perfection shal spring forth, and the boughes therof shal be cut of with hookes: and the thinges that are leaft, shal be cut of, and shaken out.✦Ante messem enim totus effloruit, et immatura perfectio germinabit ; et præcidentur ramusculi ejus falcibus, et quæ derelicta fuerint abscindentur et excutientur.
6And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon it the whole summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon it.And they shal be left together to the birdes of the mountaynes, and beastes of the earth: and the foules shal be vpon it the whole summer, and al the beastes of the earth shal winter vpon it.Et relinquentur simul avibus montium et bestiis terræ ; et æstate perpetua erunt super eum volucres, et omnes bestiæ terræ super illum hiemabunt.
7In that time shall a gift be brought to the Lord of hosts, of a people plucked asunder and rent in pieces: of a terrible people, after which there hath been none other, of a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the floods have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, mount Sion.In that time shal a gift be brought to the Lord of hostes, of a people plucked asunder and rent in peeces: of a terrible people, after which there hath bene none other, of a nation expecting, expecting and troden vnder foote, whose land the floodes haue spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hostes, mount Sion.✦In tempore illo deferetur munus Domino exercituum a populo divulso et dilacerato, a populo terribili, post quem non fuit alius ; a gente exspectante, exspectante et conculcata, cujus diripuerunt flumina terram ejus ; ad locum nominis Domini exercituum, montem Sion.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.