For their obstinacy in idolatry, 7. greatest plagues are threatened: 10. from which none shall be able to deliver them. 14. But at last Christ coming will redeem all by his death.For their obstinacie in idolatrie, 7. greatest plagues are threatned: 10. from which none shal be able to deliuer them. 14. But at last Christ coming wil redeme al by his death.✦
Ephraim speaking, horror invaded Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.EPHRAIM a speaking, horrour inuaded Israel: and he sinned b in Baal, and died.✦Loquente Ephraim, horror invasit Israël ; et deliquit in Baal, et mortuus est.
2And now they have added to sin: and they have made to themselves a conflatile: a cast-metal idol of their silver as it were the similitude of idols, the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these they say: immolate: sacrifice, offer up men adoring calves.And now they haue added to sinne: and they haue made to themselues c a molten of their siluer as it were the similitude of idols, the whole is the worke of craftesmen: to these they say: Immolate men adoring calues.✦Et nunc addiderunt ad peccandum ; feceruntque sibi conflatile de argento suo quasi similitudinem idolorum : factura artificum totum est : his ipsi dicunt : Immolate homines, vitulos adorantes.
3Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as a morning dew passing away, as dust caught with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as smoke out of the chimney.Therfore they shal be as a morning cloude, and as a morning dew passing away, as dust caught with a whirlewind out of the floore, and as smoke out of the chimnie.✦Idcirco erunt quasi nubes matutina, et sicut ros matutinus præteriens ; sicut pulvis turbine raptus ex area, et sicut fumus de fumario.
4But I the Lord thy God out of the Land of Egypt: and God beside me thou shalt not know, and there is no Saviour beside me.But I the Lord thy God out of the Land of Ægypt: and God beside me thou shalt not know, and there is no Sauiour beside me.✦Ego autem Dominus Deus tuus, ex terra Ægypti ; et Deum absque me nescies, et salvator non est præter me.
5I knew thee in the desert, in the land of wilderness.I knew thee in the desert, in the land of wildernes.✦Ego cognovi te in deserto, in terra solitudinis.
6According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: they have lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.According to their pastures they were filled, and were made ful: they haue lifted vp their hart, and haue forgotten me.✦Juxta pascua sua adimpleti sunt et saturati sunt ; et levaverunt cor suum, et obliti sunt mei.
7And I will be unto them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.And I wil be vnto them as a lionesse, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.✦Et ego ero eis quasi leæna, sicut pardus in via Assyriorum.
8I will meet them as a bear her young being violently taken away, and I will break in sunder the inner parts of their liver: and will consume them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.I wil meete them as a beare her yong being violently taken away, and I wil breake in sunder the inner partes of their liuer: and wil consume them there as a lion, the beast of the filde shal teare them.✦Occurram eis quasi ursa raptis catulis, et dirumpam interiora jecoris eorum, et consumam eos ibi quasi leo : bestia agri scindet eos.
9Perdition is thine O Israel: only in me thy help.d Perdition is thine ô Israel: e onlie in me thy helpe.✦Perditio tua, Israël : tantummodo in me auxilium tuum.
10Where is thy king? Now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: & thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Give me kings, and princes.Where is thy king? Now especially let him saue thee in al thy cities: & thy iudges, of whom thou saydst: Geue me kinges, and princes.✦Ubi est rex tuus ? maxime nunc salvet te in omnibus urbibus tuis ; et judices tui, de quibus dixisti : Da mihi regem et principes.
11I will give thee a king in my fury, and will take him away in mine indignation.I wil geue thee a king in my furie, and wil take him away in mine indignation.✦Dabo tibi regem in furore meo, et auferam in indignatione mea.
12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound together, his sin is hidden.The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound together, his sinne is hidden.✦Colligata est iniquitas Ephraim ; absconditum peccatum ejus.
13The sorrows of a woman in parturientis: a journey; the pains of childbirth shall come to him, he a son not wise: for now he shall not stand the contritione: the breaking, the crushing of the children.The sorowes of a woman in trauel shal come to him, he a sonne not wise: for now he shal not stand the confraction of the children.✦Dolores parturientis venient ei : ipse filius non sapiens : nunc enim non stabit in contritione filiorum.
14Out of the hand of death I will deliver them, from death I will redeem them: I will be thy death O death, thy bite will I be O hell, consolation is hidden from mine eyes.f Out of the hand of death I wil deliuer them, from death I wil redeme them: I wil be thy death ô death, thy bitte wil I be ô hel, consolation is hidden from mine eyes.✦De manu mortis liberabo eos ; de morte redimam eos. Ero mors tua, o mors ! morsus tuus ero, inferne ! consolatio abscondita est ab oculis meis.
15Because he shall divide between brethren: our Lord will bring a burning wind rising from the desert: and it shall dry up his veins, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall diripiet: plunder, pillage the treasure of every vessel that is to be desired.Because he shal diuide betwen bretheren: our Lord wil bring a burning winde rising from the desert: and it shal drie vp his vaines, and shal make his fountaine desolate, and he shal spoyle the treasure of euerie vessel that is to be desired.✦Quia ipse inter fratres dividet : adducet urentem ventum Dominus de deserto ascendentem, et siccabit venas ejus, et desolabit fontem ejus : et ipse diripiet thesaurum omnis vasis desiderabilis.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.