God promiseth to dwell with those that walk right ways: 8. otherwise the material temple will not save them: 16. neither the prayers of the prophet shall help them, persisting in their sins: 21. nor sacrifice, but obedience to God's law.God promiseth to dwel with those that walke right wayes: 8. otherwise the material temple wil not saue them: 16. neither the prayers of the prophet shal helpe them, persisting in their sinnes: 21. nor sacrifice, but obedience to Gods law.✦
The word, that was made to Jeremie from our Lord, saying:THE word, that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, saying :Verbum quod factum est ad Jeremiam a Domino, dicens :
2Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and preach there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of our Lord all Juda, which go in by these gates, to adore our Lord.Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and preach there this word, and say : Heare ye the word of our Lord al Iuda, which goe in by these gates, to adore our Lord.✦Sta in porta domus Domini, et prædica ibi verbum istud, et dic : Audite verbum Domini, omnis Juda, qui ingredimini per portas has ut adoretis Dominum.
3Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways good, and your studies: and I will dwell with you in this place.Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel : Make your wayes good, and your studies : and I wil dwel with you in this place.Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Bonas facite vias vestras, et studia vestra, et habitabo vobiscum in loco isto.
4Trust not in words of lying, saying: The temple of our Lord, the temple of our Lord, it is the temple of our Lord.Trust not in wordes of lying, saying : The temple of our Lord, the temple of our Lord, it is the temple of our Lord.Nolite confidere in verbis mendacii, dicentes : Templum Domini, templum Domini, templum Domini est !
5For if you shall well direct your ways, and your studies: if you shall do judgement between a man and his neighbour,For if you shal wel direct your waies, & your studies : if you shal doe iudgement between a man and his neighbour,✦Quoniam si bene direxeritis vias vestras, et studia vestra ; si feceritis judicium inter virum et proximum ejus ;
6to the stranger, and to the pupillo: an orphan, a fatherless minor under guardianship, not a schoolchild, and to the widow shall do no oppression, nor shed innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own evil:to the stranger, & to the pupil, & to the widow shal do no oppression, nor shede innocent bloud in this place, & walke not after strange godds to your owne euil :advenæ, et pupillo, et viduæ non feceritis calumniam, nec sanguinem innocentem effuderitis in loco hoc, et post deos alienos non ambulaveritis in malum vobismetipsis :
7I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for ever.I wil dwel with you in this place : in the land, which I gaue to your fathers from the beginning and for euer.✦habitabo vobiscum in loco isto, in terra quam dedi patribus vestris a sæculo et usque in sæculum.
8Behold you trust to yourselves in words of lying: which shall not profit you:Behold you trust to your selues in wordes of lying : which shal not profite you :✦Ecce vos confiditis vobis in sermonibus mendacii, qui non proderunt vobis :
9to steal, to murder, to commit adulterari: adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.to steale, to murder, to committe aduouterie, to sweare falsely, to offer to Baalim, & to go after strange godds, which you know not.furari, occidere, adulterari, jurare mendaciter, libare Baalim, et ire post deos alienos quos ignoratis :
10And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is invocatum: called upon, invoked, and have said: We are delivered because we have done all these abominations.And you haue come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is inuocated, and haue said : We are deliuered because we haue done al these abominations.et venistis, et stetistis coram me in domo hac, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, et dixistis : Liberati sumus, eo quod fecerimus omnes abominationes istas.
11Why, is this house then wherein my name is invocated, in your eyes become a den of thieves? I, even I am: I have seen, saith our Lord.Why, is this house then wherein my name is inuocated, in your eies become a denne of theeues? I, euen I am : I haue seene, saith our Lord.✦Numquid ergo spelunca latronum facta est domus ista, in qua invocatum est nomen meum in oculis vestris ? Ego, ego sum : ego vidi, dicit Dominus.
12Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I have done to it for the malice of my people Israel:Goe ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning : and see what I haue done to it for the malice of my people Israel :✦Ite ad locum meum in Silo, ubi habitavit nomen meum a principio, et videte quæ fecerim ei propter malitiam populi mei Israël.
13and now, because you have done all these works, saith our Lord: and I have spoken to you early rising, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:and now, because you haue done al these workes, saith our Lord : and I haue spoken to you early rising, and speaking, and you haue not heard : and I haue called you, and you haue not answered :✦Et nunc, quia fecistis omnia opera hæc, dicit Dominus, et locutus sum ad vos mane consurgens, et loquens, et non audistis : et vocavi vos, et non respondistis :
14I will do to this house, wherein my name is invocated, and wherein you have confidence: and to the place which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.I wil doe to this house, wherein my name is inuocated, and wherein you haue confidence : and to the place which I haue geuen you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.✦faciam domui huic, in qua invocatum est nomen meum, et in qua vos habetis fiduciam, et loco quem dedi vobis et patribus vestris, sicut feci Silo :
15And I will cast you away from my face, as I have cast away all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.And I wil cast you away from my face, as I haue cast away al your bretheren, the whole seede of Ephraim.✦et projiciam vos a facie mea sicut projeci omnes fratres vestros, universum semen Ephraim.
16Thou therefore pray not for this people, neither take unto thee praise and prayer for them, and resist me not: because I will not hear thee.Thou therefore pray not for this people, neither take vnto thee praise and prayer for them, and resist me not : because I wil not heare thee.✦Tu ergo, noli orare pro populo hoc, nec assumas pro eis laudem et orationem : et non obsistas mihi, quia non exaudiam te.
17Seest thou not what these do in the cities of Juda, and in the street of Jerusalem?Seest thou not what these doe in the cities of Iuda, and in the streete of Ierusalem?Nonne vides quid isti faciunt in civitatibus Juda, et in plateis Jerusalem ?
18The children gather the sticks, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women temper the dough to make cakes unto the queen of heaven, and to offer libent: drink offerings, libations poured out unto strange gods, and to provoke me to wrath.The children gather the stickes, & the fathers kindle the fire, and the wemen temper the dough to make cakes vnto the queene of heauen, & to offer libaments vnto strange goddes, and to prouoke me to wrath.✦Filii colligunt ligna, et patres succendunt ignem, et mulieres conspergunt adipem, ut faciant placentas reginæ cæli, et libent diis alienis, et me ad iracundiam provocent.
19Why do they provoke me to wrath, saith our Lord? and not themselves to the confusion of their own countenance?Why doe they prouoke me to wrath, saith our Lord? and not themselues to the confusion of their owne countenance?✦Numquid me ad iracundiam provocant ? dicit Dominus ; nonne semetipsos in confusionem vultus sui ?
20Therefore this saith our Lord God: Behold my fury, and my indignation is poured upon this place, upon men, and upon beasts, and upon the wood of the country, and upon the fruits of the land, and it shall be kindled, and shall not be quenched.Therefore this saith our Lord God : Behold my furie, and my indignation is powred vpon this place, vpon men, and vpon beastes, and vpon the wood of the countrie, and vpon the fruites of the land, and it shal be kindled, and shal not be quenched.✦Ideo hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Ecce furor meus et indignatio mea conflatur super locum istum, super viros, et super jumenta, et super lignum regionis, et super fruges terræ : et succendetur, et non extinguetur.
21Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel; Add your holocausts to your victims, and eat ye the flesh.Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel ; Adde your holocaustes to your victims, and eate ye the flesh.✦Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Holocautomata vestra addite victimis vestris, et comedite carnes :
22Because I spake not with your fathers, and I commanded them not in the day, that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, touching the word of holocausts and victims.Because I spake not with your fathers, & I commanded them not in the day, that I brought them out of the land of Ægypt, touching the word of holocaustes and victims.✦quia non sum locutus cum patribus vestris, et non præcepi eis, in die qua eduxi eos de terra Ægypti, de verbo holocautomatum et victimarum :
23But this word I commanded them, saying: Hear ye my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way, that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.But this word I commanded them, saying : Heare ye my voice, and I wil be your God, and you shal be my people : and walke ye in al the way, that I haue commanded you, that it may be wel with you.sed hoc verbum præcepi eis, dicens : Audite vocem meam, et ero vobis Deus, et vos eritis mihi populus : et ambulate in omni via quam mandavi vobis, ut bene sit vobis.
24And they heard not, nor inclined their ear: but have gone in their pleasures, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and have been made backward and not forward,And they heard not, nor inclined their eare : but haue gone in their pleasures, and in the peruersitie of their wicked hart : and haue bene made backward and not foreward,✦Et non audierunt, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam : sed abierunt in voluntatibus et in pravitate cordis sui mali : factique sunt retrorsum, et non in ante,
25from the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets by day, rising early, and sending.from the day that their fathers came out of the land of Ægypt, euen to this day. And I haue sent to you al my seruants the prophetes by day, rising early, and sending.a die qua egressi sunt patres eorum de terra Ægypti usque ad diem hanc. Et misi ad vos omnes servos meos prophetas per diem, consurgens diluculo, et mittens :
26And they have not heard me, nor inclined their ear: but they have hardened their neck, and have wrought worse, than their fathers.And they haue not heard me, nor inclined their eare : but they haue hardened their necke, and haue wrought worse, then their fathers.et non audierunt me, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam : sed induraverunt cervicem suam, et pejus operati sunt quam patres eorum.
27And thou shalt speak unto them all these words, and they will not hear thee: and thou shalt call them, and they will not answer thee.And thou shalt speake vnto them al these wordes, & they wil not heare thee : & thou shalt cal them, and they wil not answere thee.Et loqueris ad eos omnia verba hæc, et non audient te : et vocabis eos, et non respondebunt tibi.
28And thou shalt say to them: This is the nation which hath not heard the voice of the Lord their God, nor received discipline: faith is perished, and is taken away out of their mouth.And thou shalt say to them : This is the nation which hath not heard the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiued discipline : faith is perished, and is taken away out of their mouth.✦Et dices ad eos : Hæc est gens quæ non audivit vocem Domini Dei sui, nec recepit disciplinam ; periit fides, et ablata est de ore eorum.
29tonde: to shear or crop the hair thy hair, and cast it away, and take lamentation on high: because our Lord hath cast off, and hath left the generation of his fury,Powle thy heare, & cast it away, and take lamentation on hiegh : because our Lord hath cast of, and hath left the generation of his furie,✦Tonde capillum tuum, et projice, et sume in directum planctum : quia projecit Dominus et reliquit generationem furoris sui ;
30because the children of Juda have done evil in mine eyes, saith our Lord. They have put their stumbling blocks in the house, wherein my name is invocated, that they might pollute it:because the children of Iuda haue done euil in mine eies, saith our Lord. They haue put their stumbling blockes in the house, wherin my name is inuocated, that they might pollute it :✦quia fecerunt filii Juda malum in oculis meis, dicit Dominus. Posuerunt offendicula sua in domo in qua invocatum est nomen meum, ut polluerent eam :
31and they have built the excelsa: the high places, idolatrous hill-shrines of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, that they might burn their sons, and their daughters with fire: which things I commanded not, nor thought in my heart.and they haue built the excelses of Topheth, which is in the valley of the sonne of Ennom, that they might burne their sonnes, and their daughters with fire : which thinges I commanded not, nor thought in my hart.✦et ædificaverunt excelsa Topheth, quæ est in valle filii Ennom, ut incenderent filios suos et filias suas igni, quæ non præcepi, nec cogitavi in corde meo.
32Therefore lo the days shall come, saith our Lord, and it shall no more be said: Topheth, and the valley of the son of Ennom: but the valley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth, because there is no place.Therfore loe the daies shal come, saith our Lord, & it shal no more be said : Topheth, and the valley of the sonne of Ennom : but the valley of slaughter : and They shal burie in Topheth, because there is no place.✦Ideo ecce dies venient, dicit Dominus, et non dicetur amplius Topheth, et vallis filii Ennom, sed vallis interfectionis : et sepelient in Topheth, eo quod non sit locus.
33And the carcase of this people shall be for meats to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the land, and there shall be none to drive them away.And the carcasse of this people shal be for meats to the foules of the ayre, and to the beastes of the land, and there shal be none to driue them away.✦Et erit morticinum populi hujus in cibos volucribus cæli et bestiis terræ, et non erit qui abigat.
34And I will make to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be in desolation.And I wil make to cease out of the cities of Iuda, and out of the streetes of Ierusalem, the voice of ioy, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegroome, and the voice of the bride : for the land shal be in desolation.Et quiescere faciam de urbibus Juda, et de plateis Jerusalem, vocem gaudii et vocem lætitiæ, vocem sponsi et vocem sponsæ : in desolationem enim erit terra.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.