The fast of the fifth and seventh month observed in the captivity, being good, 5. was unperfect, 8. fasting from sin is always more necessary.The fast of the fift and seuenth moneth obserued in the captiuitie, being good, 5. was vnperfect, 8. fasting from sinne is alwayes more necessarie.✦
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie, in the fourth of the ninth month, which is Casleu.AND it came to passe in the fourth yeare of Darius the king, the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie, in the fourth of the ninth moneth, which is Casleu.✦Et factum est in anno quarto Darii regis, factum est verbum Domini ad Zachariam, in quarta mensis noni, qui est Casleu.
2And Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to beseech the face of our Lord:And Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to besech the face of our Lord:✦Et miserunt ad domum Dei Sarasar et Rogommelech, et viri qui erant cum eo, ad deprecandam faciem Domini :
3that they should say to the priests of the house of the Lord of exercituum: armies: the heavenly armies, not guests, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as now I have done many years?that they should say to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weepe in a the fifth moneth, or must I sanctifie myself as now I haue done manie yeares?✦ut dicerent sacerdotibus domus Domini exercituum, et prophetis, loquentes : Numquid flendum est mihi in quinto mense, vel sanctificare me debeo, sicut jam feci multis annis ?
4And the word of the Lord of hosts was made to me, saying:And the word of the Lord of hosts was made to me, saying:Et factum est verbum Domini exercituum ad me, dicens :
5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh for these seventy years: did you fast a fast unto me?Speake to al the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seuenth for these seuentie yeares: b did you fast a fast vnto me?✦Loquere ad omnem populum terræ, et ad sacerdotes, dicens : Cum jejunaretis, et plangeretis in quinto et septimo per hos septuaginta annos, numquid jejunium jejunastis mihi ?
6and when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?and when you did eate and drinke, did you not eate for your selues, and drinke for your selues?et cum comedistis et bibistis, numquid non vobis comedistis et vobismetipsis bibistis ?
7Why, are they not the words, which our Lord spake in the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, itself and the cities round about it, and toward the South, and in the campestribus: open level country, the plain there was dwelling?Why, are they not the wordes, which our Lord spake in the hand of the former prophets, when Ierusalem as yet was inhabited, and was welthie, it self and the cities round about it, and toward the South, and in the champine there was dwelling?✦numquid non sunt verba quæ locutus est Dominus in manu prophetarum priorum, cum adhuc Jerusalem habitaretur ut esset opulenta, ipsa et urbes in circuitu ejus, et ad austrum, et in campestribus habitaretur ?
8And the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie, saying:And the word of our Lord was made to Zacharie, saying:Et factum est verbum Domini ad Zachariam, dicens :
9Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true Judgement, and do ye mercy, and miserationes: tender mercies, acts of compassion every man with his brother.Thus sayth the Lord of hosts, saying: c Iudge ye true Iudgement, and doe ye mercie, & miserations euerie man with his brother.✦Hæc ait Dominus exercituum, dicens : Judicium verum judicate, et misericordiam et miserationes facite, unusquisque cum fratre suo.
10And the widow, and the pupillum: orphan, fatherless ward, and the stranger, and the poor do not calumniari: oppress, defraud, wrong: and let not a man think in his heart evil to his brother.And the widow, and the pupil, and the stranger, and the poore doe not calumniate: and let not a man thinke in his hart euil to his brother.✦Et viduam, et pupillum, et advenam, et pauperem nolite calumniari : et malum vir fratri suo non cogitet in corde suo.
11And they would not attendere: give heed, hearken, and they turned away the shoulder departing: and they aggravaverunt: made heavy, made dull their ears, not to hear.And they would not attend, and they turned away the shoulder departing: and they aggrauated their eares, not to heare.✦Et noluerunt attendere, et averterunt scapulam recedentem, et aures suas aggravaverunt ne audirent.
12And they made their heart as the adamantem: a diamond-hard stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: and there was great indignation made from the Lord of hosts.And they made their hart as the adamant, lest they should heare the law, & the wordes which the Lord sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophetes: and there was great indignation made from the Lord of hosts.✦Et cor suum posuerunt ut adamantem, ne audirent legem, et verba quæ misit Dominus exercituum in spiritu suo per manum prophetarum priorum : et facta est indignatio magna a Domino exercituum.
13And it came to pass as he spake, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.And it came to passe as he spake, and they heard not: so shal they crie, & I wil not heare, sayth the Lord of hosts.✦Et factum est sicut locutus est, et non audierunt : sic clamabunt et non exaudiam, dicit Dominus exercituum.
14And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate of them, for that there was none passing and returning: and the land to be desired they laid into a desert.And I dispersed them through out al kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate of them, for that there was none passing & returning: and the land to be desired they layd into a desert.✦Et dispersi eos per omnia regna quæ nesciunt : et terra desolata est ab eis, eo quod non esset transiens et revertens : et posuerunt terram desiderabilem in desertum.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.