Under the figure of a barren vineyard, is prophesied the rejection of the Jews, 7. for their sins of avarice, 11. intemperance, and other wickedness, 18. one iniquity drawing another, 20. judging good to be evil, and evil good. 25. for which the Gentiles of divers nations shall afflict them.Vnder the figure of a barren vineyard, is prophecied the reiection of the Iewes, 7. for their sinnes of auarice, 11. intemperance, & other wickednes, 18. one iniquitie drawing an other, 20. iudging good to be euil, and euil good. 25. for which the Gentiles of diuers nations shal afflict them.✦
I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my patruelis: a kinsman concerning his vineyard. A vineyard was made to my beloved in cornu: a hill: a fertile height the son of oil.I wil sing to my beloued the canticle of my cosin concerning his vinyard. A vineyard was made to my beloued in horne the sonne of oile.✦Cantabo dilecto meo canticum patruelis mei vineæ suæ. Vinea facta est dilecto meo in cornu filio olei.
2And he hedged it, and chose stones out of it, and planted it elect, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a torcular: a winepress therein: and looked that it should yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes.And he hedged it, and chose stones out of it, and planted it elect, and built a towre in the middes thereof, and set vp a presse therein: and looked that it should yeld grapes, and it yelded wilde grapes.✦Et sepivit eam, et lapides elegit ex illa, et plantavit eam electam ; et ædificavit turrim in medio ejus, et torcular exstruxit in ea ; et exspectavit ut faceret uvas, et fecit labruscas.
3Now therefore ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.Now therfore ye inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iuda, iudge betwen me and my vineyard.✦Nunc ergo, habitatores Jerusalem et viri Juda, judicate inter me et vineam meam.
4What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, and have not done to it? Whether that I looked, it should yield grapes, and it hath yielded wild grapes?What is there that I ought to doe more to my vineyard, and haue not done to it? Whether that I looked, it should yeld grapes, and it hath yelded wilde grapes?✦Quid est quod debui ultra facere vineæ meæ, et non feci ei ? an quod exspectavi ut faceret uvas, et fecit labruscas ?
5And now I will show you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be into spoil: I will throw down the wall thereof, and it shall be to be trodden upon.And now I wil shew you what I wil doe to my vineyard. I wil take away the hedge therof, and it shal be into spoile: I wil throw downe the wal thereof, and it shal be to be troden vpon.✦Et nunc ostendam vobis quid ego faciam vineæ meæ : auferam sepem ejus, et erit in direptionem ; diruam maceriam ejus, et erit in conculcationem.
6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: and briers and thorns shall overgrow it: and I will command the clouds that they rain no shower upon it.And I wil lay it waist: it shal not be pruned, and it shal not be digged: and bryers and thornes shal ouergrowe it: and I wil command the cloudes that they rayne no shower vpon it.✦Et ponam eam desertam ; non putabitur et non fodietur : et ascendent vepres et spinæ, et nubibus mandabo ne pluant super eam imbrem.
7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts, is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his delectable bud: and I looked that it should do judgement, and behold iniquity: and justice, and behold clamour.For the vineyarde of the Lord of hostes, is the house of Israel: and the man of Iuda, his delectable bud: & I looked that it should doe iudgement, and behold iniquitie: and iustice, and behold clamour.✦Vinea enim Domini exercituum domus Israël est ; et vir Juda germen ejus delectabile : et exspectavi ut faceret judicium, et ecce iniquitas ; et justitiam, et ecce clamor.
8Woe to you that join house to house, and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: why shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?Woe to you that ioyne house to house, and lay filde to filde, euen to the end of the place: why shal you alone dwel in the middes of the earth?✦Væ qui conjungitis domum ad domum, et agrum agro copulatis usque ad terminum loci ! Numquid habitabitis vos soli in medio terræ ?
9These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: unless many great and fair houses become desolate, without an inhabiter.These thinges are in my eares, sayth the Lord of hostes: vnles manie great and fayre houses become desolate, without an inhabiter.✦In auribus meis sunt hæc, dicit Dominus exercituum ; nisi domus multæ desertæ fuerint, grandes et pulchræ, absque habitatore.
10For ten acres of the vineyards shall yield one little flagon, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.For ten acres of the vineyards shal yeld one litle flagon, and thirtie busheles of seede shal yeld three busheles.Decem enim jugera vinearum facient lagunculam unam, et triginta modii sementis facient modios tres.
11Woe to you that rise up early to follow drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, that you may be inflamed with wine.Woe to you that rise vp early to folow drunkennes, and to drinke euen vntil euening, that you may be inflamed with wine.✦Væ qui consurgitis mane ad ebrietatem sectandam, et potandum usque ad vesperam, ut vino æstuetis !
12Harp, and viol, and timbrel, and shawm, and wine in your feasts: and the work of our Lord you regard not, nor consider the works of his hands.Harpe, and viole, & timbrel, and shalme, and wine in your feastes: and the worke of our Lord you regard not, nor consider the workes of his handes.✦Cithara, et lyra, et tympanum, et tibia, et vinum in conviviis vestris ; et opus Domini non respicitis, nec opera manuum ejus consideratis.
13Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles died with famine, and the multitude thereof dried away with thirst.Therfore is my people led away captiue, because they had not knowlege, and their nobles died with famine, and the multitude thereof dried away with thirst.✦Propterea captivus ductus est populus meus, quia non habuit scientiam, et nobiles ejus interierunt fame, et multitudo ejus siti exaruit.
14Therefore hath hell dilated his soul, and opened his mouth without any limit, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall descend into it.Therfore hath hel dilated his soule, and opened his mouth without anie limite, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shal descend into it.✦Propterea dilatavit infernus animam suam, et aperuit os suum absque ullo termino ; et descendent fortes ejus, et populus ejus, et sublimes gloriosique ejus, ad eum.
15And man shall be bowed, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.And man shal be bowed, and man shal be humbled, and the eies of the loftie shal be brought law.✦Et incurvabitur homo, et humiliabitur vir, et oculi sublimium deprimentur.
16And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgement, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.And the Lord of hostes shal be exalted in iudgement, and the holie God shal be sanctified in iustice.Et exaltabitur Dominus exercituum in judicio ; et Deus sanctus sanctificabitur in justitia.
17And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserta: waste places, wastelands turned into fruitfulness.And the lambes shal feede according to their order, and strangers shal eate the desertes turned into frutefulnes.✦Et pascentur agni juxta ordinem suum, et deserta in ubertatem versa advenæ comedent.
18Woe to you that draw iniquity in cords of vanity, and sin as the link of a plaustri: a wagon, a cart.Woe to you that draw iniquitie in cordes of vanitie, & sinne as the linke of a wayne.✦Væ qui trahitis iniquitatem in funiculis vanitatis, et quasi vinculum plaustri peccatum !
19Which say: let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the holy one of Israel come, and we shall know it.Which say: let him make hast, & let his worke come quickly, that we may see it: & let the counsel of the holie one of Israel come, and we shal know it.✦qui dicitis : Festinet, et cito veniat opus ejus, ut videamus ; et appropiet, et veniat consilium sancti Israël, et sciemus illud !
20Woe unto you that call evil good, and good evil: putting darkness light, and light darkness: putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.Woe vnto you that cal euil good, and good euil: putting darknes light, and light darknes: putting bitter for swete, & swete for bitter.✦Væ qui dicitis malum bonum, et bonum malum ; ponentes tenebras lucem, et lucem tenebras ; ponentes amarum in dulce, et dulce in amarum !
21Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent before yourselves.Woe to you that are wise in your owne eies, and prudent before yourselues.✦Væ qui sapientes estis in oculis vestris, et coram vobismetipsis prudentes.
22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men in drunkenness.Woe to you that are mightie to drinke wine, & stout men in drunkennes.✦Væ qui potentes estis ad bibendum vinum, et viri fortes ad miscendam ebrietatem !
23Which justify the impious for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from them.Which iustifie the impious for giftes, and take away the iustice of the iust from them.qui justificatis impium pro muneribus, et justitiam justi aufertis ab eo !
24For this, even as the tongue of fire devoureth stubble, and the heat of the flame burneth it up: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall rise up as dust, for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the holy one of Israel.For this, euen as the tongue of fire deuoureth stuble, and the heate of the flame burneth it vp: so shal their roote be as ashes, and their bud shal rise vp as dust, for they haue cast away the law of the Lord of hostes, and haue blasphemed the word of the holie one of Israel.✦Propter hoc, sicut devorat stipulam lingua ignis, et calor flammæ exurit, sic radix eorum quasi favilla erit, et germen eorum ut pulvis ascendet ; abjecerunt enim legem Domini exercituum, et eloquium sancti Israël blasphemaverunt.
25Therefore is the fury of our Lord wrath against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and stricken them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses were made as dung in the midst of the streets. In all these things his fury is not turned away, but yet is his hand stretched forth.Therfore is the furie of our Lord wrath against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand vpon them, and striken them: and the mountaines were trubled, and their carcasses were made as dung in the middes of the streates. In al these thinges his furie is not turned away, but yet is his hand stretched forth.✦Ideo iratus est furor Domini in populum suum, et extendit manum suam super eum, et percussit eum : et conturbati sunt montes, et facta sunt morticina eorum quasi stercus in medio platearum. In his omnibus non est adversus furor ejus, sed adhuc manus ejus extenta.
26And he shall lift up a sign in the nations afar, and shall whistle to him of the ends of the earth: and behold he shall come in haste speedily.And he shal lift vp a signe in the nations a farre, and shal whistle to him of the ends of the earth: and behold he shal come in hast spedely.✦Et elevabit signum in nationibus procul, et sibilabit ad eum de finibus terræ : et ecce festinus velociter veniet.
27There is none that fainteth, nor that laboureth in them, he will not slumber, nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of his reins be loosed, neither shall the latchet of his shoe be broken.There is none that faynteth, nor that laboreth in them, he wil not slumber, nor sleepe, neither shal the girdle of his reines be loosed, neither shal the latchet of his shoe be broken.✦Non est deficiens neque laborans in eo ; non dormitabit, neque dormiet ; neque solvetur cingulum renum ejus, nec rumpetur corrigia calceamenti ejus.
28His arrows sharp, and all his bows bent. The hoofs of his horses as the flint, and his wheels as the violence of a tempest.His arrowes sharpe, and al his bowes bent. The hoofes of his horses as the flint, & his wheeles as the violence of a tempest.✦Sagittæ ejus acutæ, et omnes arcus ejus extenti. Ungulæ equorum ejus ut silex, et rotæ ejus quasi impetus tempestatis.
29His roaring as a lion's, he shall roar as lions' whelps: and he will gnash, and hold the prey, and clasp it, and there shall be none to pluck it away.His roaring as a lions, he shal roare as lions whelpes: and he wil gnash, and hold the praye, and claspe it, and there shal be none to plucke it away.Rugitus ejus ut leonis ; rugiet ut catuli leonum : et frendet, et tenebit prædam, et amplexabitur, et non erit qui eruat.
30And it shall sound upon him in that day, as the sound of the sea: we shall look towards the earth, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened in the mist thereof.And it shal sound vpon him in that day, as the sound of the sea: we shal looke towards the earth, and behold darkenes of tribulation, and the light is darkened in the mist therof.✦Et sonabit super eum in die illa sicut sonitus maris : aspiciemus in terram, et ecce tenebræ tribulationis, et lux obtenebrata est in caligine ejus.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.