The Chaldees shall mightily invade the Assyrians, 5. take and ransack Ninive.The Chaldees shal mightely inuade the Assirians, 5. take and ransacke Niniue.✦
He is come up that shall scatter before thee, that shall keep the siege: behold the way, fortify the loins, strengthen force exceedingly.HE is come vp that a shal scatter before thee, that shal keepe the seige: behold the way, fortifie the loynes, strengthen force exceedingly.✦Ascendit qui dispergat coram te, qui custodiat obsidionem : contemplare viam, conforta lumbos, robora virtutem valde.
2Because our Lord hath reddidit: depicted, translated; given back, requited the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: because the waters have dissipated them, and have marred their branches.Because our Lord hath rendered b the pride of Iacob, as the pride of Israel: because the waters haue dissipated them, and haue marred their branches.✦Quia reddidit Dominus superbiam Jacob, sicut superbiam Israël ; quia vastatores dissipaverunt eos, et propagines eorum corruperunt.
3The clypeus: a small round shield borne on the arm of his fortium: mighty men, valiant ones fiery, the men of the army in scarlets, the reins of the chariot fiery in the day of his preparation, and the drivers are brought asleep.The buckler of his valiants fyrie, the men of the armie in scarlets, the raynes of the chariot fyrie in the day of his preparation, and the driuers are brougt asleepe.✦Clypeus fortium ejus ignitus, viri exercitus in coccineis ; igneæ habenæ currus in die præparationis ejus, et agitatores consopiti sunt.
4In the ways they are troubled, the chariots collisæ: struck, dashed together one against another in the streets: their appearance are as it were lamps, as it were lightning running to and fro.In the wayes they are trubled, the chariots strooke one agaynst an other in the streetes: their appearance are as it were lampes, as it were lightning running to and fro.✦In itineribus conturbati sunt ; quadrigæ collisæ sunt in plateis : aspectus eorum quasi lampades, quasi fulgura discurrentia.
5He will remember his valiants, they shall fall in their ways: they shall quickly scale the walls thereof, and a bower shall be prepared.He wil remember his valiants, they shal fal in their wayes: they shal quickly scale the walles therof, and a bowre shal be prepared.✦Recordabitur fortium suorum ; ruent in itineribus suis : velociter ascendent muros ejus, et præparabitur umbraculum.
6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple thrown down to the ground.The gates of the riuers are opened, and the temple throwen downe to the ground.✦Portæ fluviorum apertæ sunt, et templum ad solum dirutum.
7And the soldier is led away captive: and her handmaids were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.And the souldiar is led away captiue: and her handmayds were led away mourning as doues, murmuring in their hartes.✦Et miles captivus abductus est, et ancillæ ejus minabantur gementes ut columbæ, murmurantes in cordibus suis.
8And Ninive her waters as it were a fishpool of waters: but themselves are fled Stand stand, and there is none that will return.And Niniue c her waters as it were a fishpoole of waters: but themselues are fled d Stand stand, & there is none that wil returne.✦Et Ninive quasi piscina aquarum aquæ ejus ; ipsi vero fugerunt. State, state ! et non est qui revertatur.
9Spoil the silver, spoil the gold: and there is no end of the riches of all vessels that are to be desired.Spoile the siluer, spoile the gold: and there is no end of the riches of al vessels that are to be desired.✦Diripite argentum, diripite aurum : et non est finis divitiarum ex omnibus vasis desiderabilibus.
10She is dissipated, and rent, and torn: and tabescens: wasting, languishing heart, and dissolution of the knees, and defect in all renibus: the kidneys, the inmost parts: and the faces of them all as the blackness of a pot.She is dissipated, and rent, and torne: and pyning hart, and dissolution of the knees, and defect in al reynes: and the faces of them al as the blacknes of a pot.✦Dissipata est, et scissa, et dilacerata ; et cor tabescens, et dissolutio geniculorum, et defectio in cunctis renibus, et facies omnium eorum sicut nigredo ollæ.
11Where is the habitation of lions, and the pasture of lions' whelps, to which the lion went, to go in thither, the lion's whelp, and is there none to make them afraid?e Where is the habitation of lions, & the pasture of lions welps, to which the lion went, to goe in thither, the lions whelpe, and is there none to make them afrayd?✦Ubi est habitaculum leonum, et pascua catulorum leonum, ad quam ivit leo ut ingrederetur illuc catulus leonis, et non est qui exterreat ?
12The lion hath caught sufficiently for his whelps, and hath killed for his lionesses: and he hath filled his dens with præda: spoil, booty taken, and his couch with rapina: ravenous plunder, devouring of prey.The lion hath caught sufficiently for his welpes, and hath killed for his lionesses: and he hath filled his dennes with praye, and his couch with rauening.✦Leo cepit sufficienter catulis suis, et necavit leænis suis, et implevit præda speluncas suas, et cubile suum rapina.
13Behold I to thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn thy chariots even to smoke, and the sword shall eat thy little lions: and I will destroy thy prey out of the land, and the voice of thy messengers shall be heard no more.Behold I to thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I wil burne thy chariots euen to smoke, and the sword shal eate thy litle lions: and I wil destroy thy praye out of the land, and the voice of thy messengers shal be heard no more.✦Ecce ego ad te, dicit Dominus exercituum, et succendam usque ad fumum quadrigas tuas, et leunculos tuos comedet gladius, et exterminabo de terra prædam tuam, et non audietur ultra vox nuntiorum tuorum.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.