The synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities. 4. Christ will omit no ordinary means, but for her sake will endure ignominious afflictions. 10. All which she contemning shall perish.The sinagogue shal be diuorced for her iniquities. 4. Christ wil omitte no ordinarie meanes, but for her sake wil indure ignominious afflictions. 10. Al which she contemning shal perish.✦
Thus saith our Lord: What is this liber: an invoice or a legislative draft; a written certificate, a deed of the divorce of our mother, wherewith I have dismissed her? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you? Lo you are sold for your wicked deeds, I have dismissed your mother.THVS sayth our Lord: What is this bill of the diuorce of our mother, wherwith I haue dismissed her? or who is my creditour, to whom I sold you? Loe you are solde for your wicked deedes, I haue dismist your mother.✦Hæc dicit Dominus : Quis est hic liber repudii matris vestræ, quo dimisi eam ? aut quis est creditor meus, cui vendidi vos ? Ecce in iniquitatibus vestris venditi estis, et in sceleribus vestris dimisi matrem vestram.
2Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Why, is mine hand abbreviata: cut short, shortened, not condensed as a book and made a little one, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold, in my rebuke I will make the sea desert, I will turn the floods into dry land: the fishes shall rot without water, and shall die for thirst.Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would heare. Why, is myne hand abridged and made a litle one, that I can not redeme? or is there no strength in me to deliuer? Behold, in my rebuke I wil make the sea desert, I wil turne the floodes into drie land: the fishes shal rot without water, and shal dye for thirst.✦Quia veni, et non erat vir ; vocavi, et non erat qui audiret. Numquid abbreviata et parvula facta est manus mea, ut non possim redimere ? aut non est in me virtus ad liberandum ? Ecce in increpatione mea desertum faciam mare, ponam flumina in siccum ; computrescent pisces sine aqua, et morientur in siti.
3I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.I wil clothe the heauens with darknes, and wil make sackcloth their couering.✦Induam cælos tenebris, et saccum ponam operimentum eorum.
4The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I may know to sustentare: to remain or to halt; to hold up, support, sustain him up that is weary, with a word: he stirreth up in the morning, in the morning he stirreth up mine ear, that I may hear him as a master.The Lord hath geuen me a learned tongue, that I may know to stay him vp that is wearie, with a word: he stirreth vp in the morning, in the morning he stirreth vp mine eare, that I may heare him as a master.✦Dominus dedit mihi linguam eruditam, ut sciam sustentare eum qui lassus est verbo. Erigit mane, mane erigit mihi aurem, ut audiam quasi magistrum.
5The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I do not contradico: contradict, oppose? I am not gone backward.The Lord God hath opened mine eare, and I doe not gaynsay? I am not gone backward.✦Dominus Deus aperuit mihi aurem, ego autem non contradico : retrorsum non abii.
6I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to the pluckers: I have not turned away my face from the rebukers and spitters.I haue geuen my bodie to the strikers, & my cheekes to the pluckers: I haue not turned away my face from the rebukers & spitters.✦Corpus meum dedi percutientibus, et genas meas vellentibus ; faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus et conspuentibus in me.
7The Lord God is mine helper, therefore am I not confusus: put to shame, ashamed: therefore have I set my face, as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.The Lord God is mine helper, therfore am I not confounded: therfore haue I set my face, as a most hard rocke, and I know that I shal not be confounded.✦Dominus Deus auxiliator meus, ideo non sum confusus ; ideo posui faciem meam ut petram durissimam, et scio quoniam non confundar.
8He is near that justifieth me, who shall gainsay me? let us stand together. who is mine adversary? let him come to me.He is neere that iustifieth me, who shal gaynesay me? let vs stand together. who is myne aduersarie? let him come to me.✦Juxta est qui justificat me ; quis contradicet mihi ? Stemus simul ; quis est adversarius meus ? accedat ad me.
9Behold the Lord God, my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them.Behold the Lord God, my helper: who is he that shal condemne me? Loe they shal al be destroyed as a garment, the mothe shal eate them.✦Ecce Dominus Deus auxiliator meus ; quis est qui condemnet me ? Ecce omnes quasi vestimentum conterentur ; tinea comedet eos.
10Which of you feareth our Lord, heareth the voice of his servant, who hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of our Lord, and lean upon his God.Which of you feareth our Lord, heareth the voice of his seruant, who hath walked in darkenes, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of our Lord, and leane vpon his God.✦Quis ex vobis timens Dominum, audiens vocem servi sui ? Qui ambulavit in tenebris, et non est lumen ei, speret in nomine Domini, et innitatur super Deum suum.
11Lo all you do kindle a fire, are accincti: girded about, encircled, not measured with a compass with flames, walk in the light of your fire, and in the flames which you have kindled: of my hand is this done to you, you shall sleep in sorrows.Loe al you doe kindle a fyre, are compassed with flames, walke in the light of your fyre, and in the flames which you haue kindled: of my hand is this done to you, you shal sleepe in sorrowes.✦Ecce vos omnes accendentes ignem, accincti flammis : ambulate in lumine ignis vestri, et in flammis quas succendistis ; de manu mea factum est hoc vobis : in doloribus dormietis.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.