The prophet continueth his alphabetical lamentation: how our Lord in his fury hath covered and cast down the daughter of Sion, destroyed her sanctuary, walls, and solemnities: 11. the miseries of the famine, the mothers eating their own children: 14. how her false prophets deceived her, and her enemies rejoice over her: 18. he exhorteth her to cry unto our Lord day and night.The prophet continueth his alphabetical lamentation: how our Lord in his furie hath couered and cast downe the daughter of Sion, destroyed her sanctuarie, walles, and solemnities: 11. the miseries of the famine, the mothers eating their owne children: 14. how her false prophets deceiued her, and her enemies reioyce ouer her: 18. he exhorteth her to crie vnto our Lord day and night.✦
How hath our Lord in his fury covered the daughter of Sion with darkness: cast forth the noble one of Israel from heaven to the earth, and hath not remembered the footstool of his feet in the day of his fury.HOw hath our Lord in his furie couered the daughter of Sion with darknes: cast forth the noble one of Israel from heauen to the earth, and hath not remembred the footestoole of his feete in the day of his furie.✦Aleph. Quomodo obtexit caligine in furore suo Dominus filiam Sion ; projecit de cælo in terram inclytam Israël, et non est recordatus scabelli pedum suorum in die furoris sui !
2Our Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all the beautiful things of Jacob: he hath destroyed in his fury the munitiones: the strongholds, fortifications of the virgin of Juda, and cast it down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom, and the princes thereof.Our Lord hath cast downe headlong, and hath not spared, al the beautiful thinges of Iacob: he hath destroyed in his furie the munitions of the virgin of Iuda, and cast it downe to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom, and the princes therof.✦Beth. Præcipitavit Dominus, nec pepercit omnia speciosa Jacob : destruxit in furore suo munitiones virginis Juda, et dejecit in terram ; polluit regnum et principes ejus.
3He hath broken every horn of Israel in the wrath of fury: he hath turned away his right hand backward from the face of the enemy: and he hath kindled in Jacob as it were the fire of a flame devouring round about.He hath broken euerie horne of Israel in the wrath of furie: he hath turned away his right hand backward from the face of the enemie: and he hath kinled in Iacob as it were the fyre of a flame deuouring round about.✦Ghimel. Confregit in ira furoris sui omne cornu Israël ; avertit retrorsum dexteram suam a facie inimici, et succendit in Jacob quasi ignem flammæ devorantis in gyro.
4He hath bent his bow as an enemy, he hath fastened his right hand as an adversary: and he hath killed all, that was fair to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath poured out his indignation as fire.He hath bent his bow as an enemie, he hath fastned his right hand as an aduersarie: and he hath killed al, that was fayre to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath powred out his indignation as fyre.✦Daleth. Tetendit arcum suum quasi inimicus, firmavit dexteram suam quasi hostis, et occidit omne quod pulchrum erat visu in tabernaculo filiæ Sion ; effudit quasi ignem indignationem suam.
5Our Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath cast down headlong all her walls: he hath destroyed the munitions thereof, and hath replenished in the daughter of Juda the humbled man and humbled woman.Our Lord is become as an enemie: he hath cast downe Israel headlong, he hath cast downe headlong al her walles: he hath destroyed the munitions therof, and hath replenished in the daughter of Iuda the humbled man and humbled woman.✦He. Factus est Dominus velut inimicus, præcipitavit Israël : præcipitavit omnia mœnia ejus, dissipavit munitiones ejus, et replevit in filia Juda humiliatum et humiliatam.
6And he hath destroyed his tent as a garden, he hath thrown down his tabernacle: our Lord hath brought festivity and sabbath in Sion to oblivion: and king and priest into reproach, and into the indignation of his fury.And he hath destroyed his tent as a garden, he hath throwen downe his tabernacle: our Lord hath brought festiuitie and sabbath in Sion to obliuion: and king and priest into reproch, and into the indignation of his furie.✦Vau. Et dissipavit quasi hortum tentorium suum ; demolitus est tabernaculum suum. Oblivioni tradidit Dominus in Sion festivitatem et sabbatum ; et in opprobrium, et in indignationem furoris sui, regem et sacerdotem.
7Our Lord hath rejected, he hath cursed his sanctification: he hath delivered the walls of the towers thereof into the hand of the enemy: they have made a noise in the house of our Lord, as in a solemn solemni: an appointed festal day, a feast.Our Lord hath reiected, he hath cursed his sanctification: he hath deliuered the walles of the towers therof into the hand of the enemie: they haue made a noyse in the house of our Lord, as in a solemne day.✦Zain. Repulit Dominus altare suum ; maledixit sanctificationi suæ : tradidit in manu inimici muros turrium ejus. Vocem dederunt in domo Domini sicut in die solemni.
8Our Lord hath meant to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he hath stretched out his cord, and hath not turned away his hand from destruction: and the forewall hath mourned, and the wall is destroyed together.Our Lord hath meant to destroy the wal of the daughter of Sion: he hath streched out his corde, and hath not turned away his hand from destruction: and the forewal hath mourned, and the wal is destroyed together.✦Heth. Cogitavit Dominus dissipare murum filiæ Sion ; tetendit funiculum suum, et non avertit manum suam a perditione : luxitque antemurale, et murus pariter dissipatus est.
9Her gates are fastened in the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes in the Gentiles: there is no law, and her prophets have not found vision from our Lord.Her gates are fastned in the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her barres: her king and her princes in the Gentiles: there is no law, and her prophets haue not found vision from our Lord.✦Teth. Defixæ sunt in terra portæ ejus, perdidit et contrivit vectes ejus ; regem ejus et principes ejus in gentibus : non est lex, et prophetæ ejus non invenerunt visionem a Domino.
10The senes: the elders, the aged men of the daughter of Sion have sitten on the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with hair ciliciis: haircloth, sackcloth of coarse hair, the virgins of Jerusalem have cast down their heads to the ground.The ancients of the daughter of Sion haue sitten on the ground, they haue held their peace: they haue sprinkled their heades with dust, they are girded with heare clothes, the virgins of Ierusalem haue cast downe their heades to the ground.Jod. Sederunt in terra, conticuerunt senes filiæ Sion ; consperserunt cinere capita sua, accincti sunt ciliciis : abjecerunt in terram capita sua virgines Jerusalem.
11Mine eyes have failed for tears, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the little one, and the sucking fainted in the streets of the town.Myne eies haue fayled for teares, my bowels are trubled: my liuer is powred out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the litle one, and the sucking faynted in the streetes of the towne.✦Caph. Defecerunt præ lacrimis oculi mei, conturbata sunt viscera mea ; effusum est in terra jecur meum super contritione filiæ populi mei, cum deficeret parvulus et lactens in plateis oppidi.
12They said to their mothers: Where is wheat and wine? when they fainted as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they yielded up the ghosts in the bosom of their mothers.They sayd to their mothers: Where is wheate and wyne? when they faynted as the wounded in the streets of the citie: when they yelded vp the ghostes in the bosome of their mothers.✦Lamed. Matribus suis dixerunt : Ubi est triticum et vinum ? cum deficerent quasi vulnerati in plateis civitatis, cum exhalarent animas suas in sinu matrum suarum.
13Whereto shall I compare thee? or whereto shall I liken thee O daughter of Jerusalem: whereto shall I make thee equal, and comfort thee O virgin daughter of Sion? For great is thy destruction as the sea: who shall heal thee?Wherto shal I compare thee? or wherto shal I liken thee ô daughter of Ierusalem: wherto shal I make thee equal, and comfort thee ô virgin daughter of Sion? For great is thy destruction as the sea: who shal heale thee?✦Mem. Cui comparabo te, vel cui assimilabo te, filia Jerusalem ? cui exæquabo te, et consolabor te, virgo, filia Sion ? magna est enim velut mare contritio tua : quis medebitur tui ?
14Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: neither have they opened thine iniquity, to provoke thee to penance, but they have seen false burdens and banishments for thee.Thy prophetes haue sene false and foolish thinges for thee: neither haue they opened thyne iniquitie, to prouoke thee to penance, but they haue sene false burdens and banishements for thee.✦Nun. Prophetæ tui viderunt tibi falsa et stulta ; nec aperiebant iniquitatem tuam, ut te ad pœnitentiam provocarent ; viderunt autem tibi assumptiones falsas, et ejectiones.
15All that passed by the way have clapped their hands upon thee: they have hissed, and moved their head upon the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?Al that passed by the way haue clapped their handes vpon thee: they haue hissed, and moued their head vpon the daughter of Ierusalem, saying: Is this the citie of perfect beautie, the ioy of al the earth?✦Samech. Plauserunt super te manibus omnes transeuntes per viam ; sibilaverunt et moverunt caput suum super filiam Jerusalem : Hæccine est urbs, dicentes, perfecti decoris, gaudium universæ terræ ?
16All thine enemies have opened their mouth upon thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will devour: Lo this is the day, which we expected: we have found it, we have seen it.Al thyne enemies haue opened their mouth vpon thee: they haue hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and haue sayd: We wil deuour: Loe this is the day, which we expected: we haue found it, we haue sene it.✦Phe. Aperuerunt super te os suum omnes inimici tui : sibilaverunt, et fremuerunt dentibus, et dixerunt : Devorabimus : en ista est dies quam exspectabamus ; invenimus, vidimus.
17Our Lord hath done the things that he meant, he hath accomplished his word, which he commanded from the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath made the enemy joyful over thee, and hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.Our Lord hath done the thinges that he meant, he hath accomplished his word, which he commanded from the dayes of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath made the enemie ioyful ouer thee, and hath exalted the horne of thine aduersaries.✦Ain. Fecit Dominus quæ cogitavit ; complevit sermonem suum, quem præceperat a diebus antiquis : destruxit, et non pepercit, et lætificavit super te inimicum, et exaltavit cornu hostium tuorum.
18Their heart hath cried to our Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Shed tears as a torrent by day, and night: give no rest to thyself, neither let the apple of thine eye cease.Their hart hath cryed to our Lord vpon the walles of the daughter of Sion: Shede teares as a torrent by day, and night: geue no rest to thyself, neither let the aple of thyne eye cease.✦Sade. Clamavit cor eorum ad Dominum super muros filiæ Sion : Deduc quasi torrentem lacrimas per diem et noctem ; non des requiem tibi, neque taceat pupilla oculi tui.
19Arise, praise in the night in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart as waters before the sight of our Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little ones, which have fainted for famine in the head of all high ways.Arise, prayse in the night in the beginning of the watches: powre out thy hart as waters before the sight of our Lord: lift vp thy handes to him for the life of thy litle ones, which haue fainted for famine in the head of al high wayes.✦Coph. Consurge, lauda in nocte, in principio vigiliarum ; effunde sicut aquam cor tuum ante conspectum Domini : leva ad eum manus tuas pro anima parvulorum tuorum, qui defecerunt in fame in capite omnium compitorum.
20See O Lord, and consider whom thou hast vindemiaveris: cut down and gathered as at the grape-harvest thus: shall women then eat their own fruit, little ones of the measure of a span? is the priest, and the prophet slain in the sanctuary of our Lord?See ô Lord, and consider whom thou hast vintaged thus: shal wemen then eate their owne fruite, litle ones of the measure of a spanne? is the priest, and the prophet slaine in the sanctuarie of our Lord?✦Res. Vide, Domine, et considera quem vindemiaveris ita. Ergone comedent mulieres fructum suum, parvulos ad mensuram palmæ ? si occiditur in sanctuario Domini sacerdos et propheta ?
21The child and the old man lay on the ground without: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast killed in the day of thy fury: thou hast stricken, neither hast thou had mercy.The childe and the old man lay on the ground without: my virgins and my yongmen are fallen by the sword: thou hast killed in the day of thy furie: thou hast strooken, neither hast thou had mercie.✦Sin. Jacuerunt in terra foris puer et senex ; virgines meæ et juvenes mei ceciderunt in gladio : interfecisti in die furoris tui, percussisti, nec misertus es.
22Thou hast called as it were to a solemn day, those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the fury of our Lord, that escaped and was left: whom I brought up, and nourished, mine enemy hath consumed them.Thou hast called as it were to a solemne day, those that should terrifie me round about, and there was none in the day of the furie of our Lord, that escaped and was left: whom I brought vp, & nourished, mine enemie hath consumed them.✦Thau. Vocasti quasi ad diem solemnem, qui terrerent me de circuitu ; et non fuit in die furoris Domini qui effugeret, et relinqueretur : quos educavi et enutrivi, inimicus meus consumpsit eos.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.