God expostulateth with the chief of the Jews, 3. and with the whole people, their ingratitude, for his singular benefits: 6. who is not pacified with sacrifices, 8. but by doing justice. 9. which they not doing, 13. shall be afflicted by their enemies.God expostulateth with the chiefe of the Iewes, 3. and with the whole people, their ingratitude, for his singular benefites: 6. who is not pacified with sacrifices, 8. but by doing iustice. 9. which they not doing, 13. shal be afflicted by their enimies.✦
Hear ye what our Lord speaketh: Arise, contend in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.HEARE ye what our Lord speaketh: Arise, contend in iudgement against the mountaines, & let the hilles heare thy voice.✦Audite quæ Dominus loquitur : Surge, contende judicio adversum montes, et audiant colles vocem tuam.
2Let the mountains hear the judgment of our Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: because the judgment of our Lord is with his people, and with Israel he will be judged.Let the mountaynes heare the iudgement of our Lord, & the strong fundations of the earth: because the iudgement of our Lord is with his people, and with Israel he wil be iudged.✦Audiant montes judicium Domini, et fortia fundamenta terræ ; quia judicium Domini cum populo suo, et cum Israël dijudicabitur.
3My people, what have I done to thee, or what have I molestus fui: burdened or wearied thee thee? answer me.a My people what haue I done to thee, or what haue I molested thee? answer me.✦Popule meus, quid feci tibi ? aut quid molestus fui tibi ? Responde mihi.
4Because I brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of them that served: and sent before thy face Moyses, and Aaron, and Marie?Because I brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt, & deliuered thee out of the house of them that serued: and sent before thy face Moyses, and Aaron, and b Marie?✦Quia eduxi te de terra Ægypti, et de domo servientium liberavi te, et misi ante faciem tuam Moysen, et Aaron, et Mariam.
5My people, remember I pray thee, what Balach the king of Moab purposed: and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him: from Setim even to Galgal; that thou mightst know the justitias: the righteous acts and judgments of our Lord.My people remember I pray thee, what Balach the king of Moab purposed: and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him: from Setim euen to Galgal; that thou mightst know the iustices of our Lord.✦Popule meus, memento, quæso, quid cogitaverit Balach, rex Moab, et quid responderit ei Balaam, filius Beor, de Setim usque ad Galgalam, ut cognosceres justitias Domini.
6What worthy thing shall I offer to our Lord? shall I bow the knee to the high God? What shall I offer unto him holocautomata: whole burnt sacrifices: not devastation, and calves of a year old?What worthie thing shal I offer to our Lord? shal I bow the knee to the high God? What shal I offer vnto him holocausts, & calues of a yeare old?✦Quid dignum offeram Domino ? curvabo genu Deo excelso ? Numquid offeram ei holocautomata et vitulos anniculos ?
7Why, can our Lord be pacified with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat hircorum: he-goats: male goats? Why, shall I give my first born for my wickedness, the fruit of my womb for the sin of my soul?Why, can our Lord be pacified with thousandes of rammes, or with manie thousandes of fatte buckgoates? Why, shal I geue my first borne for my wickednes, the fruite of my womb for the sinne of my soule?✦numquid placari potest Dominus in millibus arietum, aut in multis millibus hircorum pinguium ? numquid dabo primogenitum meum pro scelere meo, fructum ventris mei pro peccato animæ meæ ?
8I will show thee O man what is good, and what our Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk sollicitum: attentively careful: not anxious or importuning with thy God.I wil shew thee ô man what is good, and what our Lord requireth of thee: Verely c to do iudgement, and to loue mercie, and to walke solicitous with thy God.✦Indicabo tibi, o homo, quid sit bonum, et quid Dominus requirat a te : utique facere judicium, et diligere misericordiam, et sollicitum ambulare cum Deo tuo.
9The voice of our Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear ye O tribes, and who shall approve it?The voice of our Lord crieth to the citie, and saluation shal be to them that feare thy name: heare ye ô tribes, and who shal approue it?✦Vox Domini ad civitatem clamat, et salus erit timentibus nomen tuum : audite, tribus, et quis approbabit illud ?
10As yet there is fire in the house of the impious, treasures of iniquity, and a lesser measure full of wrath.As yet there is fire in the house of the impious, treasures of iniquitie, and a lesser measure ful of wrath.✦Adhuc ignis in domo impii thesauri iniquitatis, et mensura minor iræ plena.
11Why, shall I justify an impious balance, and the deceitful weights of the bag?Why, shal I iustifie an impious balance, and the deceitful weights of the bag?✦Numquid justificabo stateram impiam, et saccelli pondera dolosa ?
12By which her rich men were replenished with iniquity, and the inhabitants therein spake lies, and their tongue was fraudulent in their mouth.By which her richmen were replenished with iniquitie, and the inhabitants therin spake lies, and their tongue was fraudulent in their mouth.✦In quibus divites ejus repleti sunt iniquitate, et habitantes in ea loquebantur mendacium, et lingua eorum fraudulenta in ore eorum.
13And I therefore began to strike thee with perdition for thy sins.And I therfore begane to strike thee with perdition for thy sinnes.Et ego ergo cœpi percutere te perditione super peccatis tuis.
14Thou shalt eat, and shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation in the midst of thee: and thou shalt apprehend, and shalt not save: and whom thou shalt save, I will give unto the sword.Thou shalt eate, & shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation in the middes of thee: and thou shalt apprehend, and shalt not saue: and whom thou shalt saue, I wil geue vnto the sword.Tu comedes, et non saturaberis, et humiliatio tua in medio tui : et apprehendes, et non salvabis, et quos salvaveris, in gladium dabo.
15Thou shalt sow, and shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olive, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: and press mustum: new unfermented wine, and shalt not drink the wine.Thou shalt sow, and shalt not reape: thou shalt tread the oliue, and shalt not be anoynted with the oyle: and presse muste, & shalt not drinke the wine.Tu seminabis, et non metes : tu calcabis olivam, et non ungeris oleo ; et mustum, et non bibes vinum.
16And thou hast kept the precepts of Amri, and all the work of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked in their wills, that I might give thee into perdition, and the inhabitants therein into hissing, and the reproach of my people you shall bear.And thou hast kept the precepts d of Amri, and al the worke of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked in their willes, that I might geue thee into perdition, and the inhabitants therin into hissing, and the reproch of my people you shal beare.Et custodisti præcepta Amri, et omne opus domus Achab, et ambulasti in voluntatibus eorum : ut darem te in perditionem, et habitantes in ea in sibilum, et opprobrium populi mei portabitis.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.