Bel, Nabo, and other idols shall be destroyed, 3. Whereupon the Jews are admonished to return from sin, to God's true service. 12. And salvation is promised by Christ.Bel, Nabo, and other idoles shalbe destroyed, 3. VVherupon the Iewes are admonished to returne from sinne, to Gods true seruice. 12. And saluation is promised by Christ.✦
Bel is broken, Nabo is destroyed: their idols are made to beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.BEL is broken, Nabo is destroyed: their idols are made to beastes and cattel, your burdens of heauie weight euen vnto wearines.✦Confractus est Bel, contritus est Nabo ; facta sunt simulacra eorum bestiis et jumentis, onera vestra gravi pondere usque ad lassitudinem.
2They have melted away, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and their soul shall go into captivity.They haue melted away; and are broken together: they could not saue him that caried them, and their soule shal goe into captiuitie.✦Contabuerunt, et contrita sunt simul ; non potuerunt salvare portantem, et anima eorum in captivitatem ibit.
3Hear me O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are carried of my womb, are borne up of my vulva: womb, matrix.Heare me ô house of Iacob, al the remnant of the house of Israel, which are caried of my wombe, are borne vp of my matrice.✦Audite me, domus Jacob, et omne residuum domus Israël ; qui portamini a meo utero, qui gestamini a mea vulva.
4Even unto old age I am the same, and unto canos: grey with age hairs I will carry: I have made, and I will bear: I will carry, and will save.Euen vnto old age I am the same, and vnto hoare heares I wil carie: I haue made, and I wil beare: I wil carie, and wil saue.✦Usque ad senectam ego ipse, et usque ad canos ego portabo ; ego feci, et ego feram ; ego portabo, et salvabo.
5Whereto have you assimilastis: likened, compared me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?Wherto haue you resembled me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?✦Cui assimilastis me, et adæquastis, et comparastis me, et fecistis similem ?
6You that confertis: donate; pour out, heap up, lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver with balance: hiring a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and adore.You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh siluer with balance: hyring a goldsmith to make a god: and they fal downe and adore.✦Qui confertis aurum de sacculo, et argentum statera ponderatis, conducentes aurificem ut faciat deum, et procidunt, et adorant.
7They bear him on their shoulders carrying, and setting him in his place, and he shall stand, and shall not move out of his place: Yea when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: from tribulation he shall not save them.They beare him on their shoulders carying, and setting him in his place, & he shal stand, and shal not moue out of his place: Yea when they shal crie also vnto him, he shal not heare: from tribulation he shal not saue them.Portant illum in humeris gestantes, et ponentes in loco suo, et stabit, ac de loco suo non movebitur : sed et cum clamaverint ad eum, non audiet ; de tribulatione non salvabit eos.
8Remember this, and be confundamini: put to shame, ashamed: return ye transgressors to the heart.Remember this, & be confounded: returne ye transgressors to the hart.✦Mementote istud, et confundamini ; redite, prævaricatores, ad cor.
9Remember the former sæculi: age, former times, because I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me.Remember the former world, because I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me.✦Recordamini prioris sæculi, quoniam ego sum Deus, et non est ultra deus, nec est similis mei.
10Which shew the last thing from the beginning, and from the beginning the things that as yet were not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:Which shew the last thing from the beginning, and from the begynning the thinges that as yet were not done, saying: My counsel shal stand, and al my wil shal be done:Annuntians ab exordio novissimum, et ab initio quæ necdum facta sunt, dicens : Consilium meum stabit, et omnis voluntas mea fiet.
11Which call a bird from the east, and from a far country, the man of mine own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it: I have created, and will do it.Which cal a bird from the east, and from a farre countrie, the man of mine owne wil, and I haue spoken, and wil bring it: I haue created, and wil doe it.✦Vocans ab oriente avem, et de terra longinqua virum voluntatis meæ : et locutus sum, et adducam illud ; creavi et faciam illud.
12Hear me ye hard hearted, which are far from justice.Heare me ye hard harted, which are far from iustice.✦Audite me, duro corde, qui longe estis a justitia.
13I have made my justice near, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory to Israel.I haue made my iustice neere, it shal not be far of, & my saluation shal not tarie. I wil geue saluation in Sion, and my glorie to Israel.✦Prope feci justitiam meam, non elongabitur, et salus mea non morabitur. Dabo in Sion salutem, et in Israël gloriam meam.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.