God comforteth the faithful, promising to destroy the wicked. 3. Christ's coming is again prophesied, with propagation of his Gospel, and conversion of all nations.God comforteth the faithful, promising to destroy the wicked. 3. Christs coming is againe prophecied, with propagation of his Gospel, and conuersion of al nations.✦
In that day our Lord will visit with his sore, and great, and strong sword upon Leviathan the serpent, the bar, and upon Leviathan the crooked serpent; and shall kill the whale that is in the sea.IN that day our Lord wil visite with his sore, and great, and strong sword vpon Leuiathan the serpent, the barre, and vpon Leuiathan the crooked serpent; and shal kil the whale that is in the sea.✦In die illa visitabit Dominus in gladio suo duro, et grandi, et forti, super Leviathan, serpentem vectem, et super Leviathan, serpentem tortuosum, et occidet cetum qui in mari est.
2In that day the vineyard of pure wine shall sing to it.In that day the vineyard of pure wine shal sing to it.✦In die illa vinea meri cantabit ei.
3I the Lord that keep propinabo: not toast or pledge a health; give it drink, water it, I will suddenly drink to it: lest perhaps there be visitation against it, night and day I keep it.I the Lord that keepe it, I wil sodenly drinke to it: lest perhaps there be visitation agaynst it, night and day I kepe it.✦Ego Dominus qui servo eam ; repente propinabo ei. Ne forte visitetur contra eam, nocte et die servo eam.
4There is no indignation in me: who will give me to be thorn and brier in battle: to go upon it, to set it on fire together?There is no indignation in me: who wil geue me to be thorne and bryer in battel: to goe vpon it, to set it on fyre together?✦Indignatio non est mihi. Quis dabit me spinam et veprem in prælio ? gradiar super eam, succendam eam pariter.
5Or rather shall he hold my strength, shall he make peace with me, shall he make peace with me?Or rather shal he hold my strength, shal he make peace with me, shal he make peace with me?✦An potius tenebit fortitudinem meam ? faciet pacem mihi, pacem faciet mihi.
6They that go in with violence to Jacob, Israel shall flourish and spring, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.They that goe in with violence to Iacob, Israel shal florish and spring, and they shal fil the face of the world with seede.✦Qui ingrediuntur impetu ad Jacob, florebit et germinabit Israël, et implebunt faciem orbis semine.
7Hath he stricken him according to his stroke that stroke him? or as he killed his slain, is he killed?Hath he striken him according to his stroke that stroke him? or as he killed his slaine, is he killed?✦Numquid juxta plagam percutientis se percussit eum ? aut sicut occidit interfectos ejus, sic occisus est ?
8In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated in his hard spirit during the day of heat.In measure against measure, when it shal be cast of, thou shalt iudge it. He hath meditated in his hard spirite during the day of heate.✦In mensura contra mensuram, cum abjecta fuerit, judicabis eam ; meditatus est in spiritu suo duro per diem æstus.
9Therefore upon this shall the iniquity be forgiven to the house of Jacob: and this is all the fruit that the sin thereof be taken away, when he shall have laid all the stones of the altar, as stones of ashes broken, the luci: idol-groves, the sacred groves of pagan worship & temples shall not stand.Therfore vpon this shal the iniquitie be forgeuen to the house of Iacob: and this is al the fruite that the sinne therof be taken away, when he shal haue layd al the stones of the altar, as stones of ashes broken, the groues & temples shal not stand.✦Idcirco super hoc dimittetur iniquitas domui Jacob ; et iste omnis fructus : ut auferatur peccatum ejus, cum posuerit omnes lapides altaris sicut lapides cineris allisos : non stabunt luci et delubra.
10For the munita: fortified, walled, strongly defended city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a desert, there shall the calf feed, and there he shall lie, and shall consume the tops thereof.For the defensed citie shal be desolate, the beautiful citie shal be forsaken, and shal be left as a desert, there shal the calfe feede, and there he shal lie, and shal consume the toppes therof.✦Civitas enim munita desolata erit ; speciosa relinquetur, et dimittetur quasi desertum ; ibi pascetur vitulus, et ibi accubabit, et consumet summitates ejus.
11The harvests thereof shall be destroyed in drought, women coming and teaching it: for it is not a wise people, therefore shall not he that made it, have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.The haruests therof shal be destroyed in drught, wemen coming and teaching it: for it is not a wise people, therfore shal not he that made it, haue mercie on it: and he that formed it, shal not spare it.✦In siccitate messes illius conterentur. Mulieres venientes, et docentes eam ; non est enim populus sapiens : propterea non miserebitur ejus qui fecit eum, et qui formavit eum non parcet ei.
12And it shall be, in that day our Lord will strike from the channel of the river, even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one and one O children of Israel.And it shal be, in that day our Lord wil strike from the chanel of the riuer, euen to the torrent of Ægypt, and you shal be gathered together one and one ô children of Israel.✦Et erit : in die illa percutiet Dominus ab alveo fluminis usque ad torrentem Ægypti ; et vos congregabimini unus et unus, filii Israël.
13And it shall be: in that day a sound shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and that were cast out, from the land of Egypt; and shall adore our Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.And it shal be: in that day a sound shal be made with a great trompet, and they that were lost, shal come from the land of the Assirians, and that were cast out, from the land of Ægypt; and shal adore our Lord in the holie mount in Ierusalem.✦Et erit : in die illa clangetur in tuba magna ; et venient qui perditi fuerant de terra Assyriorum, et qui ejecti erant in terra Ægypti, et adorabunt Dominum in monte sancto in Jerusalem.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.