The people by their sins procure their own miseries, 3. not regarding Jacob's virtues.The people by their sinnes procure their owne miseries, 3. not regarding Iacobs vertues.✦
Ephraim feedeth the wind, and followeth the heat: all the day he multiplieth lying and waste: and he hath made a league with the Assyrians, and he carried oil into Egypt.EPHRAIM feedeth the winde, and foloweth the heate: al the day he multiplieth lying and waste: and he hath made a league with the Assyrians, and he caried oyle into Ægypt.✦Ephraim pascit ventum, et sequitur æstum ; tota die mendacium et vastitatem multiplicat : et fœdus cum Assyriis iniit, et oleum in Ægyptum ferebat.
2The judgment therefore of our Lord with Juda, and visitation upon Jacob: according to his ways, and according to his adinventiones: novel creations; devices, schemes, the deeds men contrive he will render to him.The iudgement therfore of our Lord with Iuda, and visitation vpon Iacob: according to his wayes, and according to his inuentions he wil render to him.✦Judicium ergo Domini cum Juda, et visitatio super Jacob : juxta vias ejus, et juxta adinventiones ejus reddet ei.
3In the womb he supplantavit: displaced, ousted; tripped up, took by the heel his brother: and in his strength he was directed with the Angel.In the wombe he supplanted his brother: and in his strength he was directed with the Angel.✦In utero supplantavit fratrem suum, et in fortitudine sua directus est cum angelo.
4And he prevailed against the Angel, and was strengthened: and he wept, and besought him: in Bethel he found him, and there he spake with us.And he preuailed against the Angel, and was strengthened: and he wept, and besought him: in Bethel he found him, an there he spake with vs.✦Et invaluit ad angelum, et confortatus est ; flevit, et rogavit eum. In Bethel invenit eum, et ibi locutus est nobiscum.
5And our Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.And our Lord the God of hostes, the Lord is his memorial.✦Et Dominus Deus exercituum, Dominus memoriale ejus.
6And thou shalt convert to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.And thou shalt conuert to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and hope in thy God alwayes.✦Et tu ad Deum tuum converteris ; misericordiam et judicium custodi, et spera in Deo tuo semper.
7Chanaan in his hand a deceitful balance, he hath loved calumniam: wrongful oppression, extortion, being preyed upon.Chanaan in his hand a deceitful balance, he hath loued calumnie.✦Chanaan, in manu ejus statera dolosa, calumniam dilexit.
8And Ephraim said: But yet I am made rich, I have found an idol to my self: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity, which I have sinned.And Ephraim sayd: But yet I am made rich, I haue found an idol to my self: al my labours shal not finde me the iniquitie, which I haue sinned.✦Et dixit Ephraim : Verumtamen dives effectus sum ; inveni idolum mihi : omnes labores mei non invenient mihi iniquitatem quam peccavi.
9And I the Lord thy God out of the Land of Egypt, I will yet make thee sit in tabernacles, as in the days of festivity.And I the Lord thy God out of the Land of Ægypt, I wil yet make thee sitte in tabernacles, as in the dayes of festiuitie.✦Et ego Dominus Deus tuus ex terra Ægypti : adhuc sedere te faciam in tabernaculis, sicut in diebus festivitatis.
10And I have spoken upon the prophets, and I have multiplied vision, and in the hand of the prophets I have been assimilatus sum: likened, represented in similitudes.And I haue spoken vpon the prophets, and I haue multiplied vision, and in the hand of the prophets I haue bene resembled.✦Et locutus sum super prophetas, et ego visionem multiplicavi, et in manu prophetarum assimilatus sum.
11If an idol in Galaad, then in vain were they in Galgal immolantes: sacrificing, offering up with oxen: for their altars also as heaps upon the furrows of the field.If an idol in Galaad, then in vaine were they in Galgal immolating with oxen: for their altars also as heapes vpon the furrowes of the filde.✦Si Galaad idolum, ergo frustra erant in Galgal bobus immolantes ; nam et altaria eorum quasi acervi super sulcos agri.
12Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept her.Iacob fled into the countrie of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept her.✦Fugit Jacob in regionem Syriæ, et servivit Israël in uxorem, et in uxorem servavit.
13But by a prophet our Lord brought Israel out of Egypt: and by a prophet he was preserved.But by a prophete our Lord brought Israel out of Ægypt: and by a prophete he was preserued.✦In propheta autem eduxit Dominus Israël de Ægypto, et in propheta servatus est.
14Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath in his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his reproach his Lord will restore to him.Ephraim hath prouoked me to wrath in his bitternes, and his bloud shal come vpon him, and his reproch his Lord wil restore to him.Ad iracundiam me provocavit Ephraim in amaritudinibus suis : et sanguis ejus super eum veniet, et opprobrium ejus restituet ei Dominus suus.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.