Sins do separate men from God: 3. as manslaughter, theft, and lying, with contempt of judgement and justice. 12. Men are otherwise judged just or unjust in the world, then in deed they are before God: 16. who seeth and judgeth all rightly.Sinnes do separate men from God: 3. as manslaughter, theift, and lying, with contempt of iudgement and iustice. 12. Men are otherwise iudged iust or vniust in the world, then in dede they are before God: 16. who seeth and iudgeth al rightly.✦
Behold the hand of our Lord is not abbreviata: shortened that he cannot save, neither is his ear made heavy that it cannot hear.BEHOLD the hand of our Lord is not abridged that he can not saue, neither is his eare made heauie that it can not heare.✦Ecce non est abbreviata manus Domini, ut salvare nequeat, neque aggravata est auris ejus, ut non exaudiat.
2But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he would not hear.But your iniquities haue deuided betwen you and your God, and your sinnes haue hid his face from you that he would not heare.✦Sed iniquitates vestræ diviserunt inter vos et Deum vestrum ; et peccata vestra absconderunt faciem ejus a vobis, ne exaudiret.
3For your hands are polluted with blood and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lie, and your tongue speaketh iniquity.For your handes are polluted with bloud and your fingeres with iniquitie: your lippes haue spoken lie, and your tongue speaketh iniquitie.✦Manus enim vestræ pollutæ sunt sanguine, et digiti vestri iniquitate ; labia vestra locuta sunt mendacium, et lingua vestra iniquitatem fatur.
4There is none that doth invocet: call upon justice, neither is there any that judgeth truly: but they trust in things of nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.There is none that doth inuocate iustice, neither is there any that iudgeth truly: but they trust in thinges of nothing, and speake vanities: they haue conceiued labour, and brought forth iniquitie.✦Non est qui invocet justitiam, neque est qui judicet vere : sed confidunt in nihilo, et loquuntur vanitates ; conceperunt laborem, et pepererunt iniquitatem.
5They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the spiders' webs: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is nourished, shall be hatched into a regulum: a venomous serpent: basilisk.They haue broken the egges of aspes, and haue wouen the spiders webbes: he that shal eate of their egges, shal die: and that which is nourished, shal be hatched into a cockatrice.✦Ova aspidum ruperunt, et telas araneæ texuerunt. Qui comederit de ovis eorum, morietur ; et quod confotum est, erumpet in regulum.
6Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they be covered with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.Their webbes shal not be for clothing, neither shal they be couered with their workes: their workes are vnprofitable workes, and the worke of iniquitie is in their handes.✦Telæ eorum non erunt in vestimentum, neque operientur operibus suis ; opera eorum opera inutilia, et opus iniquitatis in manibus eorum.
7Their feet run to evil, and hasten to shed innocent blood: their cogitations are unprofitable cogitations: waste and destruction are in their ways.Their feete runne to euil, & hasten to shede innocent bloud: their cogitations are vnprofitable cogitations: waste and destruction are in their wayes.✦Pedes eorum ad malum currunt, et festinant ut effundant sanguinem innocentem ; cogitationes eorum cogitationes inutiles : vastitas et contritio in viis eorum.
8They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgement in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them: every one that treadeth in them, knoweth not peace.They haue not knowen the way of peace, and there is no iudgement in their steppes: their pathes are become croked to them: euerie one that treadeth in them, knoweth not peace.✦Viam pacis nescierunt, et non est judicium in gressibus eorum ; semitæ eorum incurvatæ sunt eis : omnis qui calcat in eis, ignorat pacem.
9For this cause is judgement far from us, and justice shall not apprehendet: arrest: understand; overtake: lay hold of us. We expected light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in darkness.For this cause is iudgement far from vs, & iustice shal not apprehend vs. We expected light, and behold darkenesse: brightnes, & we haue walked in darkenes.✦Propter hoc elongatum est judicium a nobis, et non apprehendet nos justitia. Exspectavimus lucem, et ecce tenebræ ; splendorem, et in tenebris ambulavimus.
10We have groped as blind men, for the wall, and as without eyes have feeled: we have stumbled at noon day as in darkness, in dark places as the dead.We haue groped as blind men, for the wal, and as without eies haue feeled: we haue stumbled at noone day as in darkenes, in darke places as the dead.✦Palpavimus sicut cæci parietem, et quasi absque oculis attrectavimus : impegimus meridie quasi in tenebris ; in caliginosis quasi mortui.
11We all shall roar as bears, and as mourning doves we shall lament. We have expected judgement, and there is none: salvation, and it is far from us.We al shal roare as beares, and as mourning doues we shal lament. We haue expected iudgement, and there is none: saluation, and it is far from vs.✦Rugiemus quasi ursi omnes, et quasi columbæ meditantes gememus : exspectavimus judicium, et non est ; salutem, et elongata est a nobis.
12For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have answered to us: because our wicked doings are with us, and our iniquities we have known,For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sinnes haue answered to vs: because our wicked doings are with vs, & our iniquities we haue knowen,✦Multiplicatæ sunt enim iniquitates nostræ coram te, et peccata nostra responderunt nobis, quia scelera nostra nobiscum et iniquitates nostras cognovimus.
13to sin and lie against our Lord: and we were turned away so that we went not after our God, that we spake calumny and transgression: we conceived, and spake from the heart words of lying.to sinne and lie against our Lord: and we were turned away so that we went not after our God, that we spake calumnie and trangression: we conceiued, and spake from the hart words of lying.Peccare et mentiri contra Dominum, et aversi sumus ne iremus post tergum Dei nostri, ut loqueremur calumniam et transgressionem ; concepimus et locuti sumus de corde verba mendacii.
14And judgement was turned backward, and justice stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not enter in.And iudgement was turned backward, and iustice stood far of: because truth hath fallen downe in the streete, and equitie could not enter in.✦Et conversum est retrorsum judicium, et justitia longe stetit, quia corruit in platea veritas, et æquitas non potuit ingredi.
15And truth grew into oblivion: and he that departed from evil, lay open to the prædæ: plunder: spoil: and our Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgement.And truth grew into obliuion: and he that departed from euil, lay open to the praye: and our Lord saw, and it appeared euil in his eies, because there is no iudgement.✦Et facta est veritas in oblivionem, et qui recessit a malo, prædæ patuit. Et vidit Dominus, et malum apparuit in oculis ejus, quia non est judicium.
16And he saw that there is not a man: and he was aporiatus: struck dumb: dismayed, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm saved to himself, and his justice itself confirmed him.And he saw that there is not a man: and he was astoined, because there is none to oppose himself: and his owne arme saued to himself, and his iustice it self confirmed him.✦Et vidit quia non est vir, et aporiatus est, quia non est qui occurrat ; et salvavit sibi brachium suum, et justitia ejus ipsa confirmavit eum.
17He is clothed with justice as with a breastplate, and is an helmet of salvation on his head: he is clothed with garments of revenge, and is covered as with a mantle of zeal.He is clothed with iustice as with a brestplate, and is an helmet of saluation on his head: he is clothed with garments of reuenge, and is couered as with a mantel of zele.✦Indutus est justitia ut lorica, et galea salutis in capite ejus ; indutus est vestimentis ultionis, et opertus est quasi pallio zeli :
18As unto revenge, as it were unto retribution of indignation to his adversaries, and recompense to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.As vnto reuenge, as it were vnto retribution of indignation to his aduersaries, and recompence to his enemies: he wil repay the like to the ilandes.✦sicut ad vindictam quasi ad retributionem indignationis hostibus suis, et vicissitudinem inimicis suis ; insulis vicem reddet.
19And they of the West, shall fear the name of our Lord: and they of the rising of the sun, his glory: when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of our Lord driveth:And they of the West, shal feare the name of our Lord: and they of the rysing of the sunne, his glorie: when he shal come as a violent streame, which the spirit of our Lord driueth:✦Et timebunt qui ab occidente nomen Domini, et qui ab ortu solis gloriam ejus, cum venerit quasi fluvius violentus quem spiritus Domini cogit ;
20and there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them, that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith our Lord.and there shal come a redemer to Sion, and to them, that returne from iniquitie in Iacob, sayth our Lord.✦et venerit Sion redemptor, et eis qui redeunt ab iniquitate in Jacob, dicit Dominus.
21This is my covenant with them, saith our Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, and out of the mouth of thy seed, and out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith our Lord, from this present and for ever.This is my couenant with them, sayth our Lord My spirit that is in thee, and my wordes that I haue put in thy mouth, shal not depart out of thy mouth, and out of the mouth of thy seede, and out of the mouth of thy seedes seede, sayth our Lord, from this present and for euer.✦Hoc fœdus meum cum eis, dicit Dominus : spiritus meus qui est in te, et verba mea quæ posui in ore tuo, non recedent de ore tuo, et de ore seminis tui, et de ore seminis seminis tui, dicit Dominus, amodo et usque in sempiternum.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.