Chapter 66 of 66

God who filleth heaven and earth, will dwell in the heart of the humble. 3. For the sins of the Jews Jerusalem shall be destroyed. 5. The faith of Christ shall be propagated by the preaching of the Apostles. 15. And Christ coming to judge, 19. all shall receive according to their deserts.God who filleth heauen and earth, wil dwel in the hart of the humble. 3. For the sinnes of the Iewes Ierusalem shal be destroyed. 5. The faith of Christ shal be propagated by the preaching of the Apostles. 15. And Christ coming to iudge, 19. al shal receiue according to their desertes.✦

Thus saith our Lord: Heaven is my seat, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?*Heauen is my seate.] Lest anie should interprete these prophetical promises (as the Iewes doe) only of the restauration, & reedification of Ierusalem and the Temple, the Prophet here shewveth that albeit God sanctified the temple, and granted manie benefites to those that serued him therein, yet his proper seate is not in anie material temple or terrestrial place, but in heauen. ⟦left margin: As God was serued more specially in the temple, so he is now in Churches, but is in al places. See Act. 7. v. 48.⟧ And therfore Temples and Churches are in deede ordayned for faithful people to serue him in, & to signifie, that as these places are more holie, then ordinarie houses, so heauen is infinitely more glorious then anie earthlie palace: yet God is not conteyned in anie place, but exceedeth al. To which purpose S. Steuen (Act. 7.) alleageth and vrgeth this place: and also S. Paul. Act. 17. that God dwelleth not*, or is not concluded in temples, neither needeth them for his owne vse, but is rightly serued in them, by those that lift vp their mindes to him, as dwelling in heauen, & replenishing al places.¶✦Hæc dicit Dominus : Cælum sedes mea, terra autem scabellum pedum meorum. Quæ est ista domus quam ædificabitis mihi ? et quis est iste locus quietis meæ ?

2My hand hath made all these things, & all these things have been done, saith our Lord. But to whom shall I have respectrespiciam: esteem, deference; regard, look with favour upon, but to the poor little one, and the contrite of spirit, and him that trembleth at my words?My hand hath made al these thinges, & al these thinges haue bene done, sayth our Lord. But to whom shal I haue respect, but to the poore litle one, and the contrite of spirit, and him that trembleth at my wordes?✦Omnia hæc manus mea fecit, et facta sunt universa ista, dicit Dominus ; ad quem autem respiciam, nisi ad pauperculum, et contritum spiritu, et trementem sermones meos ?

3He that immolatethimmolat: sacrificeth, slayeth as a victim an ox, is as he that should slay a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as he that should brainexcerebret: dash out the brains of a dog: he that offereth oblation, as he that should offer swines blood: he that remembreth frankincense, as he that should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and in their abominations their soul is delighted.He that immolateth an oxe, is as he that should slay a man: he that killeth a sheepe in sacrifice, as he that should braine a dog: he that offereth oblation, as he that should offer swines bloud: he that remembreth frankincense, as he that should blesse an idol. Al these thinges haue they chosen in their wayes, and in their abominations their soule is delighted.✦Qui immolat bovem, quasi qui interficiat virum ; qui mactat pecus, quasi qui excerebret canem ; qui offert oblationem, quasi qui sanguinem suillum offerat ; qui recordatur thuris, quasi qui benedicat idolo. Hæc omnia elegerunt in viis suis, et in abominationibus suis anima eorum delectata est.

4Wherefore I also will choose their delusions: and the things that they feared, I will bring to them: because I called, and there was none that would answer: I have spoken, and they heard not: and they have done evil in mine eyes, and have chosen the things that I would not.Wherfore I also wil choose their delusions: and the thinges that they feared, I wil bring to them: because I called, and there was none that would answer: I haue spoken, and they heard not: and they haue done euil in mine eies, and haue chosen the thinges that I would not.✦Unde et ego eligam illusiones eorum, et quæ timebant adducam eis ; quia vocavi, et non erat qui responderet ; locutus sum, et non audierunt ; feceruntque malum in oculis meis, et quæ nolui elegerunt.

5Hear the word of our Lord, ye that tremble at his word: your brethren that hate you, and reject you for my name sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified, & we shall see in your joy: but they shall be confoundedconfundentur: bewildered; put to shame, disappointed of hope.Heare the word of our Lord, ye that tremble at his word: your brethren that hate you, and reiect you for my name sake, haue sayd: Let the Lord be glorified, & we shal see in your ioy: but they shal be counfounded.✦Audite verbum Domini, qui tremitis ad verbum ejus. Dixerunt fratres vestri odientes vos, et abjicientes propter nomen meum : Glorificetur Dominus, et videbimus in lætitia vestra ; ipsi autem confundentur.

6A voice of people from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of our Lord repaying retributionretributionem: punishment, vengeance; recompense, requital, the rendering of what is due to his enemies.A voice of people from the citie, a voice from the temple, the voice of our Lord repaying retribution to his enemies.Vox populi de civitate, vox de templo, vox Domini reddentis retributionem inimicis suis.

7Before she travailedparturiret: journeyed; was in the labour of childbirth, she brought forth, before her time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child.Before she traueled, she brought forth, before her time came to be deliuered, she brought forth a man childe.✦Antequam parturiret, peperit ; antequam veniret partus ejus, peperit masculum.

8Who ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to this? why, shall the earth travail in one day? or shall a nation be brought forth together, because Sion hath travailed, and brought forth her children?Who euer heard such a thing? and who hath sene the like to this? why, shal the earth trauel in one day? or shal a nation be brought forth together, because Sion hath traueled, and brought forth her children?✦Quis audivit umquam tale ? et quis vidit huic simile ? numquid parturiet terra in die una, aut parietur gens simul, quia parturivit et peperit Sion filios suos ?

9Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, my self bring forth, saith the Lord? shall I, that give generation to others, be barren, saith the Lord thy God?Shal not I that make others to bring forth children, my self bring forth, saith the Lord? shal I, that geue generation to others, be barren, sayth the Lord thy God?✦Numquid ego qui alios parere facio, ipse non pariam ? dicit Dominus. Si ego, qui generationem ceteris tribuo, sterilis ero ? ait Dominus Deus tuus.

10Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be joyful in her all ye that love her: be glad with her in gladness all ye, that mourn upon her,Reioyce with Ierusalem, and be ioyful in her al ye that loue her: be glad with her in gladnes al ye, that mourne vpon her,✦Lætamini cum Jerusalem et exsultate in ea, omnes qui diligitis eam ; gaudete cum ea gaudio, universi qui lugetis super eam :

11that you may suck, and be filled of the breast of her consolation: that you may milk, and flow with delights in all manner of her glory.that you may sucke, and be filled of the breast of her consolation: that you may milke, and flow with delightes in al maner of her glorie.✦ut sugatis et repleamini ab ubere consolationis ejus ; ut mulgeatis et deliciis affluatis ab omnimoda gloria ejus.

12Because thus saith our Lord: Behold I will declinedeclinabo: refuse, or fall into decay; turn, bend, direct down upon her as it were a flood of peace, and as a torrent overflowing the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck: at the breasts you shall be carried, & upon the knees they shall speak you fair.Because thus saith our Lord: Behold I wil decline vpon her as it were a floud of peace, and as a torrent ouerflowing the glorie of the Gentiles, which you shal sucke: at the breasts you shal be caried, & vpon the knees they shal speake you fayre.✦Quia hæc dicit Dominus : Ecce ego declinabo super eam quasi fluvium pacis, et quasi torrentem inundantem gloriam gentium, quam sugetis : ad ubera portabimini, et super genua blandientur vobis.

13As if the mother would speak one fair, so will I comfort you, and in Jerusalem you shall be comforted.As if the mother would speake one fayre, so wil I comfort you, and in Ierusalem you shal be comforted.Quomodo si cui mater blandiatur, ita ego consolabor vos, et in Jerusalem consolabimini.

14You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall spring as an herb, and the hand of our Lord shall be known to his servants, and he shall be wrathindignabitur: wroth, angry with his enemies.You shal see, and your hart shal reioyce, and your bones shal spring as an herbe, and the hand of our Lord shal be knowen to his seruants, and he shal be wrath with his enemies.✦Videbitis, et gaudebit cor vestrum, et ossa vestra quasi herba germinabunt : et cognoscetur manus Domini servis ejus, et indignabitur inimicis suis.

15Because lo our Lord will come in fire, and his chariots as a whirlwind, to render his fury in indignation, and his rebuking in flame of fire:Because loe our Lord wil come in fyre, and his chariotes as a whirlewind, to render his furie in indignation, and his rebuking in flame of fyre:✦Quia ecce Dominus in igne veniet, et quasi turbo quadrigæ ejus, reddere in indignatione furorem suum et increpationem suam in flamma ignis :

16because our Lord shall judge in fire, and in his sword to all flesh, and the slain of our Lord shall be multiplied,because our Lord shal iudge in fyre, and in his sword to al flesh, and the slaine of our Lord shal be multiplied,quia in igne Dominus dijudicabit, et in gladio suo ad omnem carnem ; et multiplicabuntur interfecti a Domino,

17they that were sanctified, and thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swines flesh, and abomination and the mouse: they shall be confounded, saith our Lord.they that were sanctified, and thought them selues cleane in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eate swines flesh, and abomination and the mouse: they shal be confounded, sayth our Lord.✦qui sanctificabantur et mundos se putabant in hortis post januam intrinsecus, qui comedebant carnem suillam, et abominationem et murem : simul consumentur, dicit Dominus.

18But I know their works, and their cogitationscogitationes: thoughts: I come that I may gather together, with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.But I know their workes, and their cogitations: I come that I may gather together, with al nations and tongues: and they shal come and shal see my glorie.✦Ego autem opera eorum et cogitationes eorum venio ut congregem, cum omnibus gentibus et linguis : et venient, et videbunt gloriam meam.

19And I will put a signsignum: a token, a mark set upon them in them, and I will send of them, that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that hold the arrow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands far off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall shew forth my glory to the Gentiles:And I wil put a signe in them, and I wil send of them, that shal be saued, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Afrike, and Lydia them that hold the arrow: into Italie, and Greece, to the ilandes farre of, to them that haue not heard of me, and haue not sene my glorie. And they shal shew forth my glorie to the Gentiles:✦Et ponam in eis signum, et mittam ex eis qui salvati fuerint, ad gentes in mare, in Africam, et Lydiam, tendentes sagittam ; in Italiam et Græciam, ad insulas longe, ad eos qui non audierunt de me, et non viderunt gloriam meam. Et annuntiabunt gloriam meam gentibus ;

20and they shall bring all your brethren of all nations a gift to our Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, & in horse litters, & on mules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith our Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring in a gift in a clean vessel into the house of our Lord.and they shal bring al your brethren of al nations a gift to our Lord, vpon horses, and in chariotes, & in horse litters, & on mules, and in coches, to my holie mountaine Ierusalem, sayth our Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring in a gift in a cleane vessel into the house of our Lord.✦et adducent omnes fratres vestros de cunctis gentibus donum Domino, in equis, et in quadrigis, et in lecticis, et in mulis, et in carrucis, ad montem sanctum meum Jerusalem, dicit Dominus : quomodo si inferant filii Israël munus in vase mundo in domum Domini.

21And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith our Lord.I wil take of them to be Priestes.] In the Lavv of Moyses Priestes and Leuites vvere al of one Tribe, by succession of natural kinred, not by election: ⟦left margin: Clergimen in the old law succeded by bloud, in the new by election.⟧ but the lavv being changed, necessarily also Priesthood is changed. And Byshopes, Priestes, Deacons, and other Clergie men, are taken, and ordained not by nerenes of bloud, but by election, according to their merites of vertues.¶✦Et assumam ex eis in sacerdotes et Levitas, dicit Dominus.

22Because as new heavens, and a new earth, which I make to stand before me, saith our Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.Because as new heauens, and a new earth, which I make to stand before me, sayth our Lord: so shal your sede stand, and your name.✦Quia sicut cæli novi et terra nova, quæ ego facio stare coram me, dicit Dominus, sic stabit semen vestrum et nomen vestrum.

23And there shall be month after month, and sabbath after sabbath: all flesh shall come to adore before my face, saith our Lord.And there shal be moneth after moneth, and sabbath after sabbath: al flesh shal come to adore before my face, sayth our Lord.✦Et erit mensis ex mense, et sabbatum ex sabbato : veniet omnis caro ut adoret coram facie mea, dicit Dominus.

24And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men, that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be even unto satietysatietatem: fullness, sight to the full of sight to all flesh.And they shal goe out, and see the carcasses of the men, that haue transgressed against me: their worme shal not die, and their fyre shal not be quenched: and they shal be euen vnto satietie of sight to al flesh.✦Et egredientur, et videbunt cadavera virorum qui prævaricati sunt in me ; vermis eorum non morietur, et ignis eorum non extinguetur : et erunt usque ad satietatem visionis omni carni.