All sorts of higher and lower degrees transgress God's law: 9. and shall be punished.Al sortes of higher and lower degrees transgresse Gods law: 9. and shal be punished.✦
Go round about the ways of Jerusalem, and look, and consider, and seek in the streets thereof, whether you can find a man that doth judgements, and seeketh fidelity: and I will be propitious unto him.GOE round about the wayes of Ierusalem, and looke, and consider, and seeke in the streetes therof, whether you can finde a man that doth iudgements, and seeketh fidelitie: & I wil be propicious vnto him.Circuite vias Jerusalem, et aspicite, et considerate, et quærite in plateis ejus, an inveniatis virum facientem judicium, et quærentem fidem : et propitius ero ei.
2Yea if they say: Our Lord liveth, this also they will swear falsely.Yea if they say: Our Lord liueth this also they wil sweare falsely.Quod si etiam : Vivit Dominus, dixerint, et hoc falso jurabunt.
3O Lord thine eyes regard fidelity: thou hast stricken them, and they were not sorry: thou hast broken them, and they have refused to receive discipline: they have hardened their faces more than the rock, and they would not return.O Lord thyne eies regard fidelitie: thou hast striken them, & they were not sorie: thou hast broken them, and they haue refused to receiue discipline: they haue hardned their faces more then the rocke, and they would not returne.✦Domine, oculi tui respiciunt fidem : percussisti eos, et non doluerunt ; attrivisti eos, et renuerunt accipere disciplinam : induraverunt facies suas supra petram, et noluerunt reverti.
4But I said: Perhaps they are poor and foolish, not knowing the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.But I said: Perhaps they are poore & foolish, not knowing the way of the Lord, the iudgement of their God.✦Ego autem dixi : Forsitan pauperes sunt et stulti, ignorantes viam Domini, judicium Dei sui.
5I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of their Lord: and behold these altogether have more broken the yoke, have burst the bonds.I wil go therfore to the great men, & wil speake to them: for they haue knowen the way of their Lord: & behold these altogether haue more broken the yoke, haue burst the bondes.✦Ibo igitur ad optimates, et loquar eis : ipsi enim cognoverunt viam Domini, judicium Dei sui : et ecce magis hi simul confregerunt jugum ; ruperunt vincula.
6Therefore hath the lion out of the wood stricken them, the wolf in the evening hath wasted them, the leopard watching upon their cities: every one of them that shall come forth, shall be taken, because their prævaricationes: transgressions, sins, not evasive lying are multiplied, their revoltings are strengthened.Therefore hath the lion out of the wood striken them, the woolf in the euening hath wasted them, the leopard watching vpon their citties: euerie one of them that shal come forth, shal be taken, because their preuarications are multiplied, their reuoltinges are strengthned.✦Idcirco percussit eos leo de silva ; lupus ad vesperam vastavit eos : pardus vigilans super civitates eorum : omnis qui egressus fuerit ex eis capietur : quia multiplicatæ sunt prævaricationes eorum ; confortatæ sunt aversiones eorum.
7Whereupon can I be propitious to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them, that are not gods: I filled them, and they committed adulterium: adultery, and did riotously in the harlots' house.Wherupon can I be propicious to thee? thy children haue forsaken me, and sweare by them, that are not goddes: I filled them, & they committed aduoutrie, and did riotously in the harlots house.✦Super quo propitius tibi esse potero ? filii tui dereliquerunt me, et jurant in his qui non sunt dii. Saturavi eos, et mœchati sunt, et in domo meretricis luxuriabantur.
8They are become as amorous horses, and stallions: every one neighed at his neighbour's wife:They are become as amarous horses, and stalions: euerie one neyed at his neighbours wife:✦Equi amatores et emissarii facti sunt : unusquisque ad uxorem proximi sui hinniebat.
9Why, shall I not visit upon these things, saith our Lord? and on such a nation shall not my soul take revenge?VVhy, shal I not visite vpon these thinges, saith our Lord? and on such a nation shal not my soule take reuenge?Numquid super his non visitabo, dicit Dominus, et in gente tali non ulciscetur anima mea ?
10Scale the walls thereof, and dissipate them, but make not a consummationem: a full end, an utter destruction, not a completing: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.Scale the walles therof, and dissipate them, but make not a consummation: take away the branches therof, because they are not the Lordes.✦Ascendite muros ejus, et dissipate : consummationem autem nolite facere : auferte propagines ejus, quia non sunt Domini.
11For by prevarication hath the house of Israel prevaricated against me, and the house of Juda, saith our Lord.For by preuarication hath the house of Israel preuaricated against me, & the house of Iuda, saith our Lord.Prævaricatione enim prævaricata est in me domus Israël, et domus Juda, ait Dominus.
12They have denied our Lord, and said: It is not he: neither shall the evil come upon us: we shall not see sword and famine.They haue denied our Lord, and saied: It is not he: neither shal the euil come vpon vs: we shal not see sword & famine.✦Negaverunt Dominum, et dixerunt : Non est ipse : neque veniet super nos malum : gladium et famem non videbimus.
13The prophets have spoken into the wind, and there was no answer in them: these things therefore shall happen to them.The prophets haue spoken into the wind, & there was no answer in them: these things therfore shal happen to them.✦Prophetæ fuerunt in ventum locuti, et responsum non fuit in eis : hæc ergo evenient illis.
14Thus saith our Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word: behold, I give my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as sticks, and it shall devour them.Thus saith our Lord the God of hostes: Because you haue spoken this word: behold, I geue my wordes in thy mouth as fire, & this people as stickes, and it shal deuoure them.✦Hæc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum : Quia locuti estis verbum istud, ecce ego do verba mea in ore tuo in ignem, et populum istum in ligna, et vorabit eos.
15Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith our Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not know, nor understand what it speaketh.Behold I wil bring vpon you a nation from a far ô house of Israel, saith our Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not know, nor vnderstand what it speaketh.✦Ecce ego adducam super vos gentem de longinquo, domus Israël, ait Dominus : gentem robustam, gentem antiquam, gentem cujus ignorabis linguam, nec intelliges quid loquatur.
16The quiver thereof is as an open sepulchre, they are all strong.The quiuer thereof is as an open sepulcher, they are al strong.✦Pharetra ejus quasi sepulchrum patens ; universi fortes.
17And it shall eat thy corn, and thy bread: it shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: it shall eat thy flock, and thy herds: it shall eat thy vineyard, and thy fig: and it shall destroy thy fenced cities, wherein thou hast confidence, with the sword.And it shal eate thy corne, and thy bread: it shal deuoure thy sonnes, and thy daughters: it shal eate thy flocke, & thy heards: it shal eate thy vineyard, and thy figge: & it shal destroy thy fenced cities, wherein thou hast confidence, with the sword.✦Et comedet segetes tuas et panem tuum ; devorabit filios tuos et filias tuas ; comedet gregem tuum et armenta tua ; comedet vineam tuam et ficum tuam : et conteret urbes munitas tuas, in quibus tu habes fiduciam, gladio.
18But yet in those days, saith our Lord: I will not bring you into consummation.But yet in those daies, saith our Lord: I wil not bring you into consummation.✦Verumtamen in diebus illis, ait Dominus, non faciam vos in consummationem.
19And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strange ones in a land not your own.And if you shal say: Why hath the Lord our God done al these thinges to vs? thou shalt say to them: As you haue forsaken me, and serued a strange god in your owne land, so shal you serue strange ones in a land not your owne.✦Quod si dixeritis : Quare fecit nobis Dominus Deus noster hæc omnia ? dices ad eos : Sicut dereliquistis me, et servistis deo alieno in terra vestra, sic servietis alienis in terra non vestra.
20Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and make it heard in Juda, saying:Declare ye this to the house of Iacob, and make it heard in Iuda, saying:✦Annuntiate hoc domui Jacob, et auditum facite in Juda, dicentes :
21Hear thou foolish people, that hast no heart, which having eyes, seest not: and ears, and hearest not.Heare thou foolish people, that hast no hart, which hauing eies, seest not: and eares, and hearest not.✦Audi, popule stulte, qui non habes cor : qui habentes oculos, non videtis ; et aures, et non auditis.
22Me then will you not fear, saith our Lord: and at my presence will ye not be sorry? Who have set the sand a limit for the sea, an everlasting precept, that shall not pass, and they shall be moved, and shall not prevail: and the waves thereof shall swell, and shall not pass over it.Me then wil you not feare, saith our Lord: and at my presence wil ye not be sorie? Who haue set the sand a limitie for the sea, an euerlasting precept, that shal not passe, and they shal be moued, and shal not preuaile: and the waues therof shal swel, and shal not passe ouer it.✦Me ergo non timebitis, ait Dominus, et a facie mea non dolebitis ? qui posui arenam terminum mari, præceptum sempiternum quod non præteribit : et commovebuntur, et non poterunt ; et intumescent fluctus ejus, et non transibunt illud.
23But to this people their heart is become incredulous and exasperating, they are revolted and departed.But to this people their hart is become incredulous and exasperating, they are reuolted and departed.✦Populo autem huic factum est cor incredulum et exasperans : recesserunt, et abierunt.
24And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the timely and serotinam: late, of the later season rain in due season: who preserveth the fullness of the yearly harvest unto us.And they haue not said in their hart: Let vs feare the Lord our God, who geueth vs the timely and lateward rayne in due season: who preserueth the fulnes of the yearly haruest vnto vs.✦Et non dixerunt in corde suo : Metuamus Dominum Deum nostrum, qui dat nobis pluviam temporaneam et serotinam in tempore suo, plenitudinem annuæ messis custodientem nobis.
25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have stayed good from you.Your iniquities haue turned away these thinges, and your sinnes haue stayed good from you.✦Iniquitates vestræ declinaverunt hæc, et peccata vestra prohibuerunt bonum a vobis :
26Because there are found impious men in my people, that lie in wait as aucupes: bird-catchers, hunters of birds setting snares and traps to take men.Because there are found impious men in my people, that lye in wate as foulers setting snares & trappes to take men.quia inventi sunt in populo meo impii insidiantes quasi aucupes, laqueos ponentes et pedicas ad capiendos viros.
27As a net full of birds, so their houses are full of guile: therefore are they magnified, and enriched.As a net ful of birdes, so their houses are ful of guile: therefore are they magnified, & enriched.✦Sicut decipula plena avibus, sic domus eorum plenæ dolo : ideo magnificati sunt et ditati.
28They are made gross and fat: and have transgressed my words most wickedly. The cause of the widow they have not judged; the cause of the pupilli: an orphan, a fatherless minor under guardianship, not a schoolchild they have not directed, and the judgement of the poor they have not judged.They are made grosse and fatte: and haue transgressed my wordes most wickedly. The cause of the widow they haue not iudged; the cause of the pupil they haue not directed, and the iudgement of the poore they haue not iudged.✦Incrassati sunt et impinguati, et præterierunt sermones meos pessime. Causam viduæ non judicaverunt, causam pupilli non direxerunt, et judicium pauperum non judicaverunt.
29Shall I not visit upon these things, saith our Lord? or upon such a nation shall not my soul take revenge?Shal I not visite vpon these thinges, saith our Lord? or vpon such a nation shal not my soule take reuenge?Numquid super his non visitabo, dicit Dominus, aut super gentem hujuscemodi non ulciscetur anima mea ?
30Astonishment and mirabilia: wondrous, appalling things things are done in the land.Astonishment and meruelous thinges are done in the land.✦Stupor et mirabilia facta sunt in terra :
31The prophets prophesied a lie, and the priests clapped with their hands: and my people hath loved such things: what shall be done therefore in the later end thereof?The prophets prophecied a lye, & the priests claped with their handes: and my people hath loued such thinges: what shal be done therefore in the later end thereof?✦prophetæ prophetabant mendacium, et sacerdotes applaudebant manibus suis, et populus meus dilexit talia. Quid igitur fiet in novissimo ejus ?
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.