God promiseth abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, 4. that shall believe in Christ of all nations: 7. and sincerely serve him.God promiseth abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, 4. that shal beleue in Christ of al nations: 7. and sincerely serue him.✦
All ye that thirst come to the waters: and you that have no silver, make haste, buy, and eat: come, buy without silver, and without any exchange wine and milk.AL YE that thirst come to the waters: and you that haue no siluer, make hast, bye, & eate: come, bye without siluer, and without any exchange wine and milke.✦Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite : venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac.
2Why bestow you silver not for bread, and your labour not for saturitate: a surfeit; fullness, being filled to the full? Hearing hear ye me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.Why bestow you siluer not for bread, & your labour not for saciety? Hearing heare ye me, and eate that which is good, and your soule shal be delighted in fatnes.✦Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate ? Audite, audientes me, et comedite bonum, et delectabitur in crassitudine anima vestra.
3Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.Incline your eare, & come to me: heare, and your soule shal liue, and I wil make an euerlasting couenant with you, the faythful mercies of Dauid.✦Inclinate aurem vestram, et venite ad me ; audite, et vivet anima vestra, et feriam vobiscum pactum sempiternum, misericordias David fideles.
4Behold I have given him for a witness to the peoples, for a prince and master to the Gentiles.Behold I haue geuen him for a witnes to the peoples, for a prince and master to the Gentiles.✦Ecce testem populis dedi eum, ducem ac præceptorem gentibus.
5Behold thou shalt call the nation, which thou knowest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and the holy one of Israel: because he hath glorified thee.Behold thou shalt cal the nation, which thou knowest not: and the nations that knew not thee shal runne to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and the holie one of Israel: because he hath glorified thee.✦Ecce gentem quam nesciebas vocabis, et gentes quæ te non cognoverunt ad te current, propter Dominum Deum tuum, et Sanctum Israël, quia glorificavit te.
6Seek ye our Lord whiles he may be found, invocate: call upon, invoke him, whiles he is near.Seeke ye our Lord whiles he may be found, inuocate him, whiles he is neere.✦Quærite Dominum dum inveniri potest ; invocate eum dum prope est.
7Let the impious forsake his way, and the unjust man his cogitationes: thoughts, devices, purposes, and return to our Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: because he is bountiful to forgive.Let the impious forsake his way, and the vniust man his cogitations, and returne to our Lord, and he wil haue mercie on him, and to our God: because he is bountiful to forgeue.✦Derelinquat impius viam suam, et vir iniquus cogitationes suas, et revertatur ad Dominum, et miserebitur ejus ; et ad Deum nostrum, quoniam multus est ad ignoscendum.
8For my cogitations are not your cogitations: nor your ways my ways, saith our Lord.For my cogitations are not your cogitations: nor your wayes my wayes, sayth our Lord.✦Non enim cogitationes meæ cogitationes vestræ, neque viæ vestræ viæ meæ, dicit Dominus.
9For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my cogitations above your cogitations.For as the heauens are exalted aboue the earth, so are my wayes exalted aboue your wayes, and my cogitations aboue your cogitations.Quia sicut exaltantur cæli a terra, sic exaltatæ sunt viæ meæ a viis vestris, et cogitationes meæ a cogitationibus vestris.
10And as the shower cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth no more thither, but inebriat: maketh drunk; drencheth, watereth abundantly the earth, and watereth it, and maketh it to spring, and giveth seed to the sower, and bread to him that eateth:And as the showre cometh downe, and the snow from heauen, and returneth no more thither, but inebriateth the earth, and watereth it, and maketh it to spring, and geueth seede to the sower, and bread to him that eateth:✦Et quomodo descendit imber et nix de cælo, et illuc ultra non revertitur, sed inebriat terram, et infundit eam, et germinare eam facit, et dat semen serenti, et panem comedenti :
11so shall my word be, which shall proceed from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do what things soever I would, and shall prosper in these things for which I sent it.so shal my word be, which shal proceede from my mouth: it shal not returne to me voyde, but it shal doe what thinges soeuer I would, and shal prosper in these thinges for which I sent it.sic erit verbum meum quod egredietur de ore meo ; non revertetur ad me vacuum, sed faciet quæcumque volui, et prosperabitur in his ad quæ misi illud.
12Because you shall go forth in joy, and in peace shall you be deducemini: managed, directed; led, brought along, the mountains and the little hills shall sing praise before you, and all the wood of the country shall clap the hand.Because you shal goe forth in ioy, and in peace shal you be conducted, the mountaines and the litle hilles shal sing prayse before you, and al the wood of the countrie shal clap the hand.✦Quia in lætitia egrediemini, et in pace deducemini ; montes et colles cantabunt coram vobis laudem, et omnia ligna regionis plaudent manu.
13For the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and for the nettle, shall grow the myrtle tree: and our Lord shall be named for an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.For the shrubbe, shal come vp the firre tree, and for the nettle, shal grow the myrtle tree: and our Lord shal be named for an euerlasting signe, that shal not be taken away.✦Pro saliunca ascendet abies, et pro urtica crescet myrtus ; et erit Dominus nominatus in signum æternum quod non auferetur.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.