The prophet lamenteth the future calamity of the people, and their false dealing each with others. 12. willing all to consider that their wickedness is the cause of their misery, 17. and to mourn, 23. and return to God: 25. who otherwise will punish both Gentiles, and Jews not circumcised in heart.The prophet lamenteth the future calamitie of the people, and their false dealing ech with others. 12. willing al to consider that their wickednes is the cause of their miserie, 17. and to mourne, 23. and returne to God: 25. who otherwise wil punish both Gentiles, and Iewes not circumcised in hart.✦
Who will give water to my head, and to mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.WHo wil geue water to my head, and to mine eies a fountaine of teares? and I wil weepe day & night for the slaine of the daughter of my people.Quis dabit capiti meo aquam, et oculis meis fontem lacrimarum, et plorabo die ac nocte interfectos filiæ populi mei ?
2Who will give me in the wilderness an inn of wayfaring men, and I will forsake my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.Who wil geue me in the wildernes an inne of wayfaring men, and I wil forsake my people, and depart from them? because they are al adulterers, an assemblie of transgressors.✦Quis dabit me in solitudine diversorium viatorum, et derelinquam populum meum, et recedam ab eis ? quia omnes adulteri sunt, cœtus prævaricatorum.
3And they have bent their tongue, as a bow of lying and not of truth: they have taken courage in the land, because they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith our Lord.And they haue bent their tongue, as a bowe of lying and not of truth: they haue taken courege in the land, because they haue proceeded from euil to euil, and me they haue not knowen, saith our Lord.✦Et extenderunt linguam suam quasi arcum mendacii et non veritatis : confortati sunt in terra, quia de malo ad malum egressi sunt, et me non cognoverunt, dicit Dominus.
4Let every man take heed to himself of his neighbour, and in every brother of his, let him not have fiduciam: trust, confidence: because every brother supplantabit: trip up, overthrow by guileing will supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.Let euerie man take heede to himself of his neighbour, and in euerie brother of his, let him not haue affiance : because euerie brother supplanting wil supplant, and euerie freind wil walke deceitfully.✦Unusquisque se a proximo suo custodiat, et in omni fratre suo non habeat fiduciam : quia omnis frater supplantans supplantabit, et omnis amicus fraudulenter incedet.
5And man shall scorn his brother, and they will not speak truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to do unjustly.And man shal scorne his brother, and they wil not speake truth : for they haue taught their tongue to speake lies : they haue laboured to doe vniustly.Et vir fratrem suum deridebit, et veritatem non loquentur : docuerunt enim linguam suam loqui mendacium ; ut inique agerent laboraverunt.
6Thine inhabitation is in the midst of deceit: in deceit they have refused to know me, saith our Lord.Thine inhabitation is in the middes of deceipt : in deceipte they haue refused to know me, saith our Lord.✦Habitatio tua in medio doli : in dolo renuerunt scire me, dicit Dominus.
7Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and will try them: for what else shall I do at the face of the daughter of my people?Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes : Behold I wil melt, and wil trie them : for what els shal I doe at the face of the daughter of my people?✦Propterea hæc dicit Dominus exercituum : Ecce ego conflabo, et probabo eos : quid enim aliud faciam a facie filiæ populi mei ?
8Their tongue is a wandering arrow, it hath spoken guile: in his mouth he hath spoken peace with his friend, and secretly he layeth wait for him.Their tongue is a wandring arrow, it hath spoken guile : in his mouth he hath spoken peace with his freind, and secretly he layeth waite for him.✦Sagitta vulnerans lingua eorum, dolum locuta est. In ore suo pacem cum amico suo loquitur, et occulte ponit ei insidias.
9Shall I not visit upon these things, saith our Lord? or upon such a nation shall not my soul be revenged?Shal I not visite vpon these thinges, saith our Lord? or vpon such a nation shal not my soule be reuenged?Numquid super his non visitabo, dicit Dominus, aut in gente hujusmodi non ulciscetur anima mea ?
10Upon the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and upon the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt, for that there is not a man that passeth through: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air unto the beasts they are gone away and departed.Vpon the mountaines I wil take vp weeping and lamentation, & vpon the beautiful places of the desert, mourning : because they are burnt, for that there is not a man that passeth through : & they haue not heard the voice of the owner : from the foule of the ayre vnto the beastes they are gone away and departed.✦Super montes assumam fletum ac lamentum, et super speciosa deserti planctum, quoniam incensa sunt, eo quod non sit vir pertransiens, et non audierunt vocem possidentis : a volucre cæli usque ad pecora transmigraverunt et recesserunt.
11And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of draconum: monsters, serpents of the wilderness: and I will give the cities of Juda into desolation, because there is not an inhabiter.And I wil make Ierusalem to be heapes of sand, and dennes of dragons : and I wil geue the cities of Iuda into desolation, because there is not an inhabiter.✦Et dabo Jerusalem in acervos arenæ, et cubilia draconum : et civitates Juda dabo in desolationem, eo quod non sit habitator.
12Who is a wise man, that can understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of our Lord may be made, that he may declare this, why the earth hath perished, and is burnt as a desert, because there is none that passeth through?Who is a wise man, that can vnderstand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of our Lord may be made, that he may declare this, why the earth hath perished, and is burnt as a desert, because there is none that passeth through?✦Quis est vir sapiens qui intelligat hoc, et ad quem verbum oris Domini fiat, ut annuntiet istud, quare perierit terra, et exusta sit quasi desertum, eo quod non sit qui pertranseat ?
13And our Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.And our Lord said : Because they haue forsaken my law, which I gaue them, and haue not heard my voice, and haue not walked in it.Et dixit Dominus : Quia dereliquerunt legem meam quam dedi eis, et non audierunt vocem meam, et non ambulaverunt in ea,
14And they have gone after the perversity of their own heart, and after Baalim, which they learned of their fathers.And they haue gone after the peruersitie of their owne hart, and after Baalim, which they learned of their fathers.✦et abierunt post pravitatem cordis sui, et post Baalim, quod didicerunt a patribus suis :
15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with absinthio: bitter herb (absinth), figuratively bitterness, and give them water of fellis: bitter poison, not the modern impudence to drink.Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel : Behold I wil feede this people with wormewood, and geue them water of gaule to drinke.✦idcirco hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Ecce ego cibabo populum istum absinthio, et potum dabo eis aquam fellis.
16And I will disperse them in the Nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them, till they be consumed.And I wil disperse them in the Nations, which they and their fathers haue not knowen : and I wil send the sword after them, til they be consumed.✦Et dispergam eos in gentibus quas non noverunt ipsi et patres eorum, et mittam post eos gladium, donec consumantur.
17Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider and call ye lamenting women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise, and let them make haste:Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel : Consider and cal ye lamenting wemen, and let them come : & send to them that are wise, and let them make haste :✦Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Contemplamini, et vocate lamentatrices, et veniant : et ad eas quæ sapientes sunt mittite, et properent :
18let them hasten and take up a lamentation upon us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.let them hasten & take vp a lamentation vpon vs : let our eies shede teares, & our eielids runne downe with waters.✦festinent, et assumant super nos lamentum : deducant oculi nostri lacrimas, et palpebræ nostræ defluant aquis.
19Because a voice of lamentation is heard from Sion: How are we wasted and confounded exceedingly? because we have left the land, because our tabernacles are cast down.Because a voice of lamentation is heard from Sion : How are we wasted and confounded exceedingly? because we haue left the land, because our tabernacles are cast downe.Quia vox lamentationis audita est de Sion : Quomodo vastati sumus, et confusi vehementer ? quia dereliquimus terram ; quoniam dejecta sunt tabernacula nostra.
20Hear therefore ye women the word of our Lord: and let your ears take of the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters lamentation: and every one her neighbour mourning:Heare therefore ye wemen the word of our Lord : and let your eares take of the word of his mouth : and teach your daughters lamentation : and euerie one her neighbour mourning :✦Audite ergo, mulieres, verbum Domini, et assumant aures vestræ sermonem oris ejus, et docete filias vestras lamentum, et unaquæque proximam suam planctum :
21for death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses, to destroy the children from without, the young men out of the streets.for death is come vp through our windowes, it is entred into our houses, to destroy the children from without, the young men out of the streetes.✦quia ascendit mors per fenestras nostras ; ingressa est domos nostras, disperdere parvulos deforis, juvenes de plateis.
22Speak: Thus saith our Lord: And the carcase of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as a grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.Speake : Thus saith our Lord : And the carcasse of man shal fal as dung vpon the face of the countrie, and as a grasse behind the backe of the mower, and there is none to gather it.Loquere : Hæc dicit Dominus : Et cadet morticinum hominis quasi stercus super faciem regionis, et quasi fœnum post tergum metentis, et non est qui colligat.
23Thus saith our Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:Thus saith our Lord : Let not the wiseman glorie in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glorie in his strength, & let not the rich man glorie in his riches :✦Hæc dicit Dominus : Non glorietur sapiens in sapientia sua, et non glorietur fortis in fortitudine sua, et non glorietur dives in divitiis suis :
24but he that glorieth, let him glory in this, to understand and know me, because I am the Lord that do mercy and judgement, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith our Lord.but he that glorieth, let him glorie in this, to vnderstand & know me, because I am the Lord that do mercie and iudgement, and iustice in the earth : for these thinges please me, saith our Lord.sed in hoc glorietur, qui gloriatur, scire et nosse me, quia ego sum Dominus qui facio misericordiam, et judicium, et justitiam in terra : hæc enim placent mihi, ait Dominus.
25Behold, the days come, saith our Lord; and I will visit upon every one, that hath the praeputium: the foreskin circumcised,Behold, the daies come, saith our Lord; and I wil visite vpon euerie one, that hath the prepuce circumcised,✦Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et visitabo super omnem qui circumcisum habet præputium,
26upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair attonsi: shorn, the hair cut short or cropped, dwelling in the desert: because all nations have the prepuce, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.vpon Ægypt, and vpon Iuda, and vpon Edom, and vpon the children of Ammon, and vpon Moab, and vpon al that haue their heare powled, dwelling in the desert : because al nations haue the prepuce, but al the house of Israel are vncircumcised in the hart.✦super Ægyptum, et super Juda, et super Edom, et super filios Ammon, et super Moab ; et super omnes qui attonsi sunt in comam, habitantes in deserto : quia omnes gentes habent præputium, omnis autem domus Israël incircumcisi sunt corde.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.