The Chaldees shall miserably waste the kingdom of Juda: 9. take away sacrifice by destroying the temple: 10. and so make the land barren spiritually, and temporally.The Chaldees shal miserably waste the kingdom of Iuda: 9. take away sacrifice by destroying the temple: 10. and so make the land barren spiritually, and temporally.✦
The word of our Lord, that was made to Joel the son of Phatuel.THE word of our Lord, that was made to Ioel the sonne of Phatuel.Verbum Domini, quod factum est ad Joël, filium Phatuel.
2Hear this ye senes: the elders, the senior men, and hearken with your ears all ye inhabitants of the land: if this hath been done in your days, or in the days of your fathers?Heare this ye ancients, and harken with your eares al ye inhabitants of the land : if this hath bene done in your dayes, or in the dayes of your fathers?✦Audite hoc, senes, et auribus percipite, omnes habitatores terræ : si factum est istud in diebus vestris, aut in diebus patrum vestrorum ?
3Upon this tell you to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to another generation.Vpon this tel you to your children, and your children to their children, and their childred to an other generation.✦Super hoc filiis vestris narrate, et filii vestri filiis suis, et filii eorum generationi alteræ.
4The residue of the eruca: the caterpillar, the palmerworm hath the locust eaten, and the residue of the locust hath the bruchus: the chafer, the cankerworm eaten, and the residue of the bruke hath the rubigo: a blight or mildew on crops, not a gust eaten.The residue of the eruke hath the locust eaten, & the residue of the locust hath the bruke eaten, and the residue of the bruke hath the blast eaten.¶✦Residuum erucæ comedit locusta, et residuum locustæ comedit bruchus, et residuum bruchi comedit rubigo.
5Awake you that be drunk, and weep, and howl all ye, that drink wine in sweetness: because it is perished from your mouth.Awake you that be drunke, and weepe, and howle al ye, that drinke wine in sweetnes : because it is perished from your mouth.✦Expergiscimini, ebrii, et flete et ululate, omnes qui bibitis vinum in dulcedine, quoniam periit ab ore vestro.
6For a nation is ascended upon my land, strong and innumerable: his teeth as the teeth of a lion: and his molares: the jaw teeth, the molars as of a lion's whelp.For a nation is ascended vpon my land, strong & innumerable : his teeth as the teeth of a lion : and his cheekteeth as of a lions whelpe.✦Gens enim ascendit super terram meam, fortis et innumerabilis : dentes ejus ut dentes leonis, et molares ejus ut catuli leonis.
7He hath laid my vineyard into a desert, and hath decorticavit: peeled, stripped off of the bark of my fig tree: stripping he hath spoiled it, and cast it forth: the boughs thereof are made white.He hath layd my vineyard into a desert, and hath pilled of the barke of my figtree : stripping he hath spoiled it, and cast it forth : the boughes therof are made white.✦Posuit vineam meam in desertum, et ficum meam decorticavit ; nudans spoliavit eam, et projecit : albi facti sunt rami ejus.
8Mourn as a virgin girded with sackcloth upon the husband of her youth.Mourne as a virgin girded with sackcloth vpon the husband of her youth.✦Plange quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suæ.
9Sacrifice and libatio: a drink offering poured out is perished out of the house of our Lord: the priests our Lord's ministers mourned.Sacrifice and libation is perished out of the house of our Lord : the priests our Lords ministers mourned.✦Periit sacrificium et libatio de domo Domini ; luxerunt sacerdotes, ministri Domini.
10The region is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: because the wheat is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.The region is destroyed, the ground hath mourned : because the wheate is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oyle hath languished.✦Depopulata est regio, luxit humus, quoniam devastatum est triticum, confusum est vinum, elanguit oleum.
11The husbandmen are confounded, the dressers of vines have howled upon the wheat, and the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.The husbandmen are confounded, the dressers of vines haue howled vpon the wheate, and the barley, because the haruest of the filde is perished.Confusi sunt agricolæ, ululaverunt vinitores super frumento et hordeo, quia periit messis agri.
12The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is confounded from the children of men.The vineyard is confounded, and the figtree hath languished : the pomegranet, & the palmetree, and the appletree, and al the trees of the filde are withered : because ioy is confounded from the children of men.Vinea confusa est, et ficus elanguit ; malogranatum, et palma, et malum, et omnia ligna agri aruerunt, quia confusum est gaudium a filiis hominum.
13Gird yourselves, and mourn ye priests, howl ye ministers of the altar: go in, lie in sackcloth ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is perished out of the house of your God.Gird yourselues, and mourne ye priests, howle ye ministers of the altar : goe in, lie in sackeclothe ye ministers of my God : because sacrifice & libation is perished out of the house of your God.Accingite vos, et plangite, sacerdotes : ululate, ministri altaris ; ingredimini, cubate in sacco, ministri Dei mei, quoniam interiit de domo Dei vestri sacrificium et libatio.
14Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to our Lord:Sanctifie ye a fast, cal an assemblie, gather together the ancients, al the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God : and crie ye to our Lord :Sanctificate jejunium, vocate cœtum, congregate senes, omnes habitatores terræ in domum Dei vestri, et clamate ad Dominum :
15A a a, for the day: because the day of our Lord is at hand, and as destruction from the mighty it shall come.A a a, for the day : because the day of our Lord is at hand, and as destruction from the mightie it shal come.✦A, a, a, diei ! quia prope est dies Domini, et quasi vastitas a potente veniet.
16Why, are not the alimenta: the provisions, the food perished before your eyes, joy and exultation out of the house of our God?Why, are not the victuals perished before your eyes, ioy and exultation out of the house of our God?Numquid non coram oculis vestris alimenta perierunt de domo Dei nostri, lætitia et exsultatio ?
17The beasts are rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are dissipated: because the wheat is confounded.The beastes are rotted in their dung, the barnes are destroyed, the storehouses are dissipated : because the wheate is confounded.✦Computruerunt jumenta in stercore suo, demolita sunt horrea, dissipatæ sunt apothecæ, quoniam confusum est triticum.
18Why groaned the beast, why mugierunt: bellowed, mooed the flocks of the herd? because there is no pasture for them: yea and the flocks of the cattle are perished.Why groned the beast, why lowed the flockes of the heard? because there is no pasture for them : yea and the flockes of the cattel are perished.✦Quid ingemuit animal, mugierunt greges armenti ? quia non est pascua eis ; sed et greges pecorum disperierunt.
19To thee O Lord will I cry: because fire hath eaten the beautiful things of the desert, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the region.To thee ô Lord wil I crie : because fire hath eaten the beautiful thinges of the desert, and the flame hath burnt al the trees of the region.✦Ad te, Domine, clamabo, quia ignis comedit speciosa deserti, et flamma succendit omnia ligna regionis.
20Yea and the beasts of the field, as a garden bed thirsting for a shower, have looked up to thee, because the fountains of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful things of the desert.Yea and the beastes of the filde, as a garden bed thirsting for a shower, haue looked vp to thee, because the fountaines of waters are dried vp, & fire hath deuoured the beautiful thinges of the desert.✦Sed et bestiæ agri, quasi area sitiens imbrem, suspexerunt ad te, quoniam exsiccati sunt fontes aquarum, et ignis devoravit speciosa deserti.
Annotationsfrom the original 1609 Douay Old Testament
4The residue of the eruke, locust, bruke, blast. Eruca a worm that destroyeth herbs and fruits, Locusta, a fleeing beast with long hinder legs, destroying corn, and fruit; Bruchus, another fleeing little beast, that devoureth not only fruit, but also the leaves of trees; and Rubigo, the blast, or burning mist, that consumeth the ears of corn even to dust; do metaphorically signify the Chaldees, and other soldiers of sundry nations, in the army of Nabuchodonosor, invading and wasting the kingdom of Juda. And that at four several times ever worse and worse. First when Nabuchodonosor besieging Jerusalem subdued king Joakim and his kingdom, taking hostages for assurance of subjection (amongst which were Daniel, and the other three children) and carried away part of the holy vessel of the Temple. 4. Reg 14 v.1. The second, when eight years after Nabuchodonosor returned, and killed king Joakim for rebelling, and carried his son king Joachin (otherwise called Jechonias) into Babylon, with his mother, and Jeremie the Prophet, also many other principal persons, and much riches (ibidem. v. 10.) The third when eleven years after he took and spoiled Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, killed all king Sedecias sons in his sight, then put out his eyes, and carried him blind into Babylon, with much more people and spoil. 4. Reg 25. Fourthly when shortly after he sent Nabuzardan general of his army, and carried away more men and wealth, leaving only the basest people to till the land. ibidem v. 8. All which sheweth clearly the fulfilling of this Prophecy according to the historical letter. In like sort we might explicate the rest of this, and other prophets, but it is not our purpose to be so large. Much less to prosecute the Mystical sense which is manifold, as appeareth in the works of the ancient Fathers. Whereof see F. Francis Ribera.The residue of the eruke, locust, bruke, blast. Eruca a worme that destroyeth herbes and fruictes, Locusta, a fleing beast with long hinder legges, destroying corne, and fruite; Bruchus, an other fleeing litle beast, that deuoureth not only fruite, but also the leaues of trees; and Rubigo, the blast, or burning myst, that consumeth the eares of corne euen to dust; do metaphorically signifie the Chaldees, and other souldiars of sundrie nations, in the armie of Nabuchodonosor, inuading & wasting the kingdom of Iuda. And that at foure seueral times euer worse & worse. First when Nabuchodonosor beseeging Ierusalé subdued king Ioakim and his kingdom, taking hostages for assurance of subiection (amongst which were Daniel, and the other three children) and caried away part of the holie vessel of the Temple. 4. Reg 14 v.1. The second, when eight yeares after Nabuchodonosor returned, and killed king Ioakim for rebelling, and caried his sonne king Ioachin (otherwise called Iechonias) into Babylon, with his mother, and Ieremie the Prophet, also manie other principal persons, and much riches (ibidem. v. 10.) The third when eleuen yeares after he tooke and spoyled Ierusalem, destroyed the Temple, killed al king Sedecias sonnes in his sight, then put out his eyes, and caried him blinde into Babylon, with much more people and spoyle. 4. Reg 25. Fourthly when shortly after he sent Nabuzardan general of his armie, and caried away more men and wealth, leauing only the basest people to til the land. ibidem v. 8. Al which sheweth clerly the fulfilling of this Prophecie according to the historical letter. In like sorte we might explicate the rest of this, and other prophetes, but it is not our purpose to be so large. Much lesse to prosecute the Mystical sense which is manifold, as appeareth in the workes of the ancient Fathers. Wherof see F. Francis Ribera.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.