The prophet forewarning the people of their future afflictions, 2. exhorteth them to repentance, and confession of their sins: 5. foreshewing that God will give much grace to the penitent. 10. All which mysteries only the godly wise shall understand.The prophet forewarning the people of their future afflictions, 2. exhorteth them to repentance, and confession of their sinnes: 5. foreshewing that God wil geue much grace to the penitent. 10. Al which mysteries only the godlie wise shal vnderstand.✦
Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be cut in discindantur: asunder, apart, in two.LEt Samaria a perish, because she hath stirred vp her God to bitternes: let them perish by the sword, let their litle ones be dashed, and let the wemen with child be cut in sunder.✦Pereat Samaria, quoniam ad amaritudinem concitavit Deum suum ! in gladio pereant, parvuli eorum elidantur, et fœtæ ejus discindantur !
2Convert O Israel to our Lord thy God: because thou art fallen in thine iniquity.Conuert ô Israel to our Lord thy God: because thou art fallen in thine iniquitie.✦Convertere, Israël, ad Dominum Deum tuum, quoniam corruisti in iniquitate tua.
3Take words with you, and convert to our Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive good: and we will render the calves of our lips.Take wordes with you, and conuert to our Lord, and say to him: Take away al iniquitie, and receiue good: and we wil render the calues of our lippes.✦Tollite vobiscum verba, et convertimini ad Dominum ; et dicite ei : Omnem aufer iniquitatem, accipe bonum, et reddemus vitulos labiorum nostrorum.
4Assur shall not save us, we will not mount upon horse: neither will we say any more: Our gods the work of our hands: because thou wilt have mercy on that pupillus: an orphan, a fatherless ward, which is in thee.Assur shal not saue vs, we wil not mount vpon horse: neither wil we say any more: Our goddes the worke of our handes: because thou wilt haue mercie on that pupil, which is in thee.Assur non salvabit nos : super equum non ascendemus, nec dicemus ultra, Dii nostri opera manuum nostrarum : quia ejus, qui in te est, misereberis pupilli.
5I will heal their contritiones: breakings, bruises, I will love them voluntarily: because my fury is averted from them.I b wil heale their confractions, I wil loue them voluntarily: because my furie is auerted from them.✦Sanabo contritiones eorum ; diligam eos spontanee : quia aversus est furor meus ab eis.
6I will be as dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall break forth as that of Libanus.I wil be as dew, Israel shal spring as the lillie, and his roote shal breake forth as that of Libanus.✦Ero quasi ros ; Israël germinabit sicut lilium, et erumpet radix ejus ut Libani.
7His boughs shall go, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as of Libanus.His boughes shal goe, and his glorie shal be as the oliuetree: and his smel as of Libanus.✦Ibunt rami ejus, et erit quasi oliva gloria ejus, et odor ejus ut Libani.
8They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live with wheat, and they shall spring as a vine: his memorial as the wine of Libanus.They shal be conuerted that sitte vnder his shadow: they shal liue with wheate, and they shal spring as a vine: his memorial as the wine of Libanus.✦Convertentur sedentes in umbra ejus ; vivent tritico, et germinabunt quasi vinea ; memoriale ejus sicut vinum Libani.
9Ephraim what have I to do any more with idols? I will hear, and I will direct him as a verdant fir tree: out of me thy fruit is found.Ephraim what haue I to doe any more with idols? I wil heare, and I wil direct him as a verdant firretree: out of me thy fruit is found.✦Ephraim, quid mihi ultra idola ? Ego exaudiam, et dirigam eum ego ut abietem virentem ; ex me fructus tuus inventus est.
10Who is wise, and shall understand these things? of understanding, and shall know these things? because the ways of our Lord be right, and the just shall walk in them: but prævaricatores: transgressors, breakers of God's law shall fall in them.c Who is wise, and shal vnderstand these thinges? of vnderstanding, and shal know these thinges? because the wayes of our Lord be right, and the iust shal walke in them: but preuaricatours shal fal in them.✦Quis sapiens, et intelliget ista ? intelligens, et sciet hæc ? quia rectæ viæ Domini, et justi ambulabunt in eis ; prævaricatores vero corruent in eis.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.