By a parable of good and evil figs, is signified, 5. the reduction of the penitent from captivity: 8. and the vexation of those, that stayed in Jerusalem, or fled into Egypt.By a parable of good and euil figges, is signified, 5. the reduction of the penitent from captiuitie: 8. and the vexation of those, that stayed in Ierusalem, or fled into Ægypt.✦
Our Lord showed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of our Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon transtulit: carried by vehicle; carried away, deported into exile Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his princes, and the craftsman, and inclusorem: one who fences in land; a smith, a maker of locks and enclosures, an armourer of Jerusalem, and had brought them into Babylon.OVr Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets ful of figges, set before the temple of our Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon transported Iechonias the sonne of Ioakim the king of Iuda, and his princes, and the craftesman, and incloser of Ierusalem, and had brought them into Babylon.✦Ostendit mihi Dominus : et ecce duo calathi pleni ficis, positi ante templum Domini, postquam transtulit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis Jechoniam filium Joakim, regem Juda, et principes ejus, et fabrum, et inclusorem, de Jerusalem, et adduxit eos in Babylonem.
2One basket had very good figs: as the figs of the prime time are solent: accustomed, in the habit to be: and one basket had very malas: mischievous, playful; bad, worthless, evil figs, which could not be eaten, because they were naught.One basket had very good figges: as the figges of the prime time are wont to be: and one basket had very naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, because they were naught.✦Calathus unus ficus bonas habebat nimis, ut solent ficus esse primi temporis : et calathus unus ficus habebat malas nimis, quæ comedi non poterant eo quod essent malæ.
3And our Lord said to me: What seest thou Jeremie? And I said: Figs: the good figs, exceeding good, and the naughty figs, exceeding naught: which cannot be eaten because they are naught.And our Lord said to me: What seest thou Ieremie? And I said: Figges: the good figges, exceeding good, and the naughtie figges, exceeding naught: which can not be eaten because they are naught.Et dixit Dominus ad me : Quid tu vides, Jeremia ? Et dixi : Ficus, ficus bonas, bonas valde : et malas, malas valde, quæ comedi non possunt eo quod sint malæ.
4And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :
5Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: As are these good figs: so will I know the transmigrationem: the deportation, the carrying away into exile, the Babylonian captivity of Juda, which I have sent forth out of this place into the land of Chaldees, unto good.Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: As are these good figges: so wil I know the transmigration of Iuda, which I haue sent forth out of this place into the land of Chaldees, vnto good.✦Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël : Sicut ficus hæ bonæ, sic cognoscam transmigrationem Juda, quam emisi de loco isto in terram Chaldæorum, in bonum.
6And I will set mine eyes upon them to be placandum: made favourable, appeased toward them, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will build them, and not destroy: and I will plant them and not pluck them up.And I wil set mine eies vpon them to be pacified, & I wil bring them againe into this land: and I wil build them, and not destroy: and I wil plant them and not plucke them vp.✦Et ponam oculos meos super eos ad placandum, et reducam eos in terram hanc : et ædificabo eos, et non destruam : et plantabo eos, et non evellam.
7And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me in all their heart.And I wil geue them an hart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shal be my people, and I wil be their God: because they shal returne to me in al their hart.Et dabo eis cor ut sciant me, quia ego sum Dominus : et erunt mihi in populum, et ego ero eis in Deum, quia revertentur ad me in toto corde suo.
8And as are the very naughty figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are naught: thus saith our Lord, so will I give Sedecias the king of Juda: and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell in the Land of Egypt.And as are the very naughtie figges, that can not be eaten, because they are naught: thus saith our Lord, so wil I geue Sedecias the king of Iuda: and his princes, and the rest of Ierusalem, that haue remained in this citie, and that dwel in the Land of Ægypt.✦Et sicut ficus pessimæ quæ comedi non possunt eo quod sint malæ, hæc dicit Dominus : Sic dabo Sedeciam regem Juda, et principes ejus, et reliquos de Jerusalem, qui remanserunt in urbe hac, et qui habitant in terra Ægypti.
9And I will give them into vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: into opprobrium: disgrace, a shame put upon them, and to be a parabolam: a short moral story; a byword, an object of mockery, and into a proverb, and into maledictionem: a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.And I wil geue them into vexation, and affliction, to al the kingdomes of the earth: into reproch, and to be a parable, and into a prouerbe, and into malediction in al places, to which I haue cast them out.✦Et dabo eos in vexationem, afflictionemque omnibus regnis terræ, in opprobrium, et in parabolam, et in proverbium, et in maledictionem in universis locis ad quæ ejeci eos.
10And I will send among them the sword, famine, and pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land, which I gave them, and their fathers.And I wil send among them the sword, famine, and pestilence: til they be consumed out of the land, which I gaue them, and their fathers.Et mittam in eis gladium, et famem, et pestem, donec consumantur de terra quam dedi eis et patribus eorum.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.