The ten tribes shall suffer famine: 12. be deprived of their children: 15. and made captive.The tenne tribes shal suffer famine: 12. be depriued of their children: 15. and made captiue.✦
Be not glad Israel, rejoice not as the peoples: because thou hast fornicated from thy God, thou hast loved mercedem: a harlot's hire, wages above all the areas: threshing-floors of wheat.BE not glad Israel, reioyce not as the peoples: because thou hast fornicated from thy God, thou hast loued reward aboue al the flores of wheate.✦Noli lætari, Israël ; noli exsultare sicut populi : quia fornicatus es a Deo tuo ; dilexisti mercedem super omnes areas tritici.
2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall lie to them.The flore and the winepresse shal not feede them, and the wine shal lie to them.✦Area et torcular non pascet eos, et vinum mentietur eis :
3They shall not dwell in the land of our Lord: Ephraim is returned into Egypt, and among the Assyrians he hath eaten the thing polluted.They shal not dwel in the land of our Lord: Ephraim is returned into Ægypt, and among the Assyrians he hath eaten the thing polluted.non habitabunt in terra Domini. Reversus est Ephraim in Ægyptum, et in Assyriis pollutum comedit.
4They shall not offer wine to our Lord, and they shall not please him: their sacrifices as the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it, shall be contaminated: because their bread for their soul, shall not enter into the house of our Lord.They shal not offer wine to our Lord, and they shal not please him: their sacrifices as the bread of mourners: al that shal eate it, shal be contaminated: because their bread for their soule, shal not enter into the house of our Lord.✦Non libabunt Domino vinum, et non placebunt ei. Sacrificia eorum quasi panis lugentium ; omnes qui comedent eum, contaminabuntur : quia panis eorum animæ ipsorum : non intrabit in domum Domini.
5What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the festivity of our Lord?what wil you doe in the solemne day, in the day of the festiuitie of our Lord?✦Quid facietis in die solemni, in die festivitatis Domini ?
6For behold they are gone forth from destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: their silver to be desired the nettle shall inherit, the burr in their tabernacles.For behold they are gone forth from destruction: Ægypt shal gather them together, Memphis shal burie them: their siluer to be desyred the nettle shal inherite, the burre in their tabernacles.Ecce enim profecti sunt a vastitate : Ægyptus congregabit eos ; Memphis sepeliet eos : desiderabile argentum eorum urtica hæreditabit, lappa in tabernaculis eorum.
7The days of visitationis: reckoning, judgement are come, the days are come of retributions: know O Israel the foolish prophet, the mad spiritual man, for the multitude of thine iniquity, the multitude also madness.The dayes of visitation are come, the dayes are come of retributions: know ô Israel the foolish prophete, the mad spiritual man, for the multitude of thine iniquitie, the multitude also madnes.✦Venerunt dies visitationis, venerunt dies retributionis. Scitote, Israël, stultum prophetam, insanum virum spiritualem, propter multitudinem iniquitatis tuæ, et multitudinem amentiæ.
8The watchman of Ephraim with my God: the prophet is made a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness in the house of his God.The watchman of Ephraim with my God: the prophete is made a snare of ruine vpon al his wayes, madnes in the house of his God.✦Speculator Ephraim cum Deo meo, propheta laqueus ruinæ factus est super omnes vias ejus ; insania in domo Dei ejus.
9They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.They haue sinned deeply, as in the dayes of Gabaa: he wil remember their iniquitie, and wil visite their sinne.✦Profunde peccaverunt, sicut in diebus Gabaa. Recordabitur iniquitatis eorum, et visitabit peccata eorum.
10As grapes in the desert I found Israel: as the first fruits of the fig tree in the top thereof I saw their fathers: but they have entered into Beelphegor, and are alienated into confusion, and are become abominable, as those things, which they loved.As grapes in the desert I found Israel: as the first fruites of the figtree in the toppe therof I saw their fathers: but they haue entered into Beelphegor, and are alienated into confusion, and are become abominable, as those thinges, which they loued.✦Quasi uvas in deserto inveni Israël, quasi prima poma ficulneæ in cacumine ejus vidi patres eorum : ipsi autem intraverunt ad Beelphegor, et abalienati sunt in confusionem, et facti sunt abominabiles sicut ea quæ dilexerunt.
11Ephraim as a bird hath flown away, their glory from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.Ephraim as a bird hath flowen away, their glorie from birth, and from the wombe, and from conception.✦Ephraim quasi avis avolavit ; gloria eorum a partu, et ab utero, et a conceptu.
12But if they shall nourish up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.But if they shal nourish vp their children, I wil make them without children among men: yea & wo to them, when I shal depart from them.✦Quod etsi enutrierint filios suos, absque liberis eos faciam in hominibus ; sed et væ eis cum recessero ab eis !
13Ephraim, as I saw, was Tyre founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall lead out his children to the murderer.Ephraim, as I saw, was Tyre founded in beautie: and Ephraim shal lead out his children to the murderer.✦Ephraim, ut vidi, Tyrus erat fundata in pulchritudine ; et Ephraim educet ad interfectorem filios suos.
14Give them O Lord, what wilt thou give to them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.Geue them ô Lord, what wilt thou geue to them? Geue them a wombe without children, and drie brests.✦Da eis, Domine. Quid dabis eis ? da eis vulvam sine liberis, et ubera arentia.
15All their wicked in Galgal, because there I hated them: for the malice of their adinventionum: schemes, devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will not add to love them, all their princes revolters.Al their wicked in Galgal, because there I hated them: for the malice of their inentions I wil cast them forth out of my house: I wil not adde to loue them, al their princes reuolters.✦Omnes nequitiæ eorum in Galgal, quia ibi exosos habui eos. Propter malitiam adinventionum eorum, de domo mea ejiciam eos ; non addam ut diligam eos : omnes principes eorum recedentes.
16Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall yield no fruit. But and if they shall have genuerint: offspring, children, I will kill the best beloved things of their womb.Ephraim is strooken, their roote is dried vp, they shal yeld no fruite. But and if they shal haue issue, I wil kil the best beloued things of their wombe.✦Percussus est Ephraim ; radix eorum exsiccata est : fructum nequaquam facient, quod etsi genuerint, interficiam amantissima uteri eorum.
17My God will cast them away, because they hear him not: and they shall be vagi: wanderers, fugitives in the nations.My God wil cast them away, because they heare him not: and they shal be vagabunds in the nations.✦Abjiciet eos Deus meus, quia non audierunt eum, et erunt vagi in nationibus.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.