The prophet reprehendeth the priests, and princes of both kingdoms, for drawing the people to idolatry. 8. denouncing captivity for the same.The prophet reprehendeth the priestes, and princes of both kingdomes, for drawing the people to idolatrie. 8. denouncing captiuitie for the same.✦
Hear ye this ô priests, and attend ye house of Israel, and you the king's house hearken: because there is judgement for you, because you are become a snare to speculationi: a watch-post: a place of watching, and a net spread upon Thabor.HEARE ye this ô priestes, and attend ye house of Israel, and you the kinges house harken: because there is iudgement for you, because you are become a snare to speculation, and a nette spred vpon Thabor.✦Audite hoc, sacerdotes, et attendite, domus Israël, et domus regis, auscultate : quia vobis judicium est, quoniam laqueus facti estis speculationi, et rete expansum super Thabor.
2And victimas: sacrificial victims: not persons harmed you have declined into the depth: and I the teacher of them all.And victims you haue declined into the depth: and I the teacher of them al.✦Et victimas declinastis in profundum ; et ego eruditor omnium eorum.
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: because now hath Ephraim fornicated, Israel is contaminated.I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: because now hath Ephraim fornicated, Israel is contaminated.✦Ego scio Ephraim, et Israël non est absconditus a me : quia nunc fornicatus est Ephraim ; contaminatus est Israël.
4They will not give their cogitations to return to their God: because the spirit of fornications is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.They wil not geue their cogitations to returne to their God: because the spirit of fornications is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.✦Non dabunt cogitationes suas ut revertantur ad Deum suum, quia spiritus fornicationum in medio eorum, et Dominum non cognoverunt.
5And the arrogancy of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel, and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Judas also shall fall with them.And the arrogancie of Israel shal answere in his face: and Israel, and Ephraim shal fal in their iniquitie, Iudas also shal fal with them.✦Et respondebit arrogantia Israël in facie ejus, et Israël et Ephraim ruent in iniquitate sua : ruet etiam Judas cum eis.
6In their flocks, and in their herds they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find: he is taken away from them.In their flockes, and in their heardes they shal goe to seeke the Lord, and shal not finde: he is taken away from them.In gregibus suis et in armentis suis vadent ad quærendum Dominum, et non invenient : ablatus est ab eis.
7They have praevaricati: transgressed: dealt falsely against the Lord, because they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their parts.They haue preuaricated against the Lord, because they haue begotten strange children: now shal a moneth deuoure them with their partes.In Dominum prævaricati sunt, quia filios alienos genuerunt : nunc devorabit eos mensis, cum partibus suis.
8Sound with the trumpet in Gabaa, and with the tuba: a wind instrument, here the trumpet or war-horn in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back ô Benjamin.Sound with the trumpet in Gabaa, and with the shaulme in Rama: howle ye in Bethauen, behind thy backe ô Beniamin.✦Clangite buccina in Gabaa, tuba in Rama ; ululate in Bethaven, post tergum tuum, Benjamin.
9Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of correction: in the tribes of Israel I have shewed faith.Ephraim shal be in desolation in the day of correction: in the tribes of Israel I haue shewed faith.✦Ephraim in desolatione erit in die correptionis ; in tribubus Israël ostendi fidem.
10The princes of Juda are become as they that take the terminum: a boundary-mark: a landmark: I will pour out my wrath as water upon them.The princes of Iuda are become as they that take the bound: I wil power out my wrath as water vpon them.✦Facti sunt principes Juda quasi assumentes terminum ; super eos effundam quasi aquam iram meam.
11Ephraim is suffering calumniam: oppression: wrong suffered, broken in judgement: because he began to go after filthiness,Ephraim is suffering calumnie, broken in iudgement: because he began to goe after filthines,✦Calumniam patiens est Ephraim, fractus judicio, quoniam cœpit abire post sordes.
12And I as it were a moth to Ephraim: and as the rot to the house of Juda.And I as it were a mothe to Ephraim: and as the rotte to the house of Iuda.✦Et ego quasi tinea Ephraim, et quasi putredo domui Juda.
13And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his vinculum: a bond: a fetter: and Ephraim went to Assur, and sent to the king revenger: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to loose the band from you.And Ephraim saw his sicknes, and Iuda his band: and Ephraim went to Assur, and sent to the king reuenger: and he shal not be able to heale you, neither shal he be able to loose the band from you.✦Et vidit Ephraim languorem suum, et Juda vinculum suum ; et abiit Ephraim ad Assur, et misit ad regem ultorem : et ipse non poterit sanare vos, nec solvere poterit a vobis vinculum.
14Because I as it were a lioness to Ephraim, and as a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will take, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can deliver.Because I as it were a lionesse to Ephraim, and as a lions whelpe to the house of Iuda: I, I wil take, and goe: I wil take away, and there is none that can deliuer.✦Quoniam ego quasi leæna Ephraim, et quasi catulus leonis domui Juda. Ego, ego capiam, et vadam ; tollam, et non est qui eruat.
15Going I will return to my place: until you fail and seek my face,Going I wil returne to my place: vntil you fayle and seeke my face,✦Vadens revertar ad locum meum, donec deficiatis, et quæratis faciem meam.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.