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| [1]Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that announceth peace! Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. |
[1]The destroyer is come vp before thy face, kepe thy forte, see to the way, strenghten [thy] loynes, increase [thy] strength mightyly |
| [2]A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily!— |
[2]For the Lord restores againe the glorious estate of Iacob, as [also] the glorious estate of Israel: for spoylers hath spoyled them, and hath wasted their braunches |
| [3]For 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 restoreth the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine-branches.— |
[3]The shielde of his valiaunt souldiours [is] died red, his captaynes of warre are clad with scarlet: the charret is [compassed] with flammig torches in the day of his expedition, and the firre staues are drenched in poyson |
| [4]The shield of hi mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet; the chariots are fire of steel in the day of preparation, and the cypress spears are made to quiver. |
[4]The charrets shal rage in the streetes, they shall make a terrible noyse in the broade wayes, to loke to like [flaming] cressets, shooting as lightning |
| [5]The chariots rush madly in the streets, they jostle one against another in the broad places; the appearance of them is like torches, they run to and fro like the lightnings. |
[5]He shall remember his notable souldiours, they shal stumble in goyng, they shall hasten to the wall, the couering fence is prepared |
| [6]He bethinketh himself of his worthies; they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared. |
[6]The riuer gates are opened, and the palace dissolued |
| [7]The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. |
[7]Huzab is brought foorth captiue, made to ascend [into the charets] her handmaydens also leading [one another] as in the voyce of doues, knocking vpon their brestes |
| [8]And the queen is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. |
[8]Yea many a day Niniue was as a ponde full of water, yet [now] they flee, Stand ye, stande ye, and no man loketh backe |
| [9]But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water; yet they flee away; 'Stand, stand'; but none looketh back. |
[9]Take your spoyle of siluer, take your spoyle of golde, for there is no ende of riches: treasure, pashing all treasure |
| [10]Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, rich with all precious vessels. |
[10]Sacking, resacking, rasing, a dissolued heart and collision of knees, sorow in all loynes also, and the faces of them all as blacke as a pot |
| [11]She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness. |
[11]Where is the abiding place of lions, and the feding plot of lions whelpes [become,] whyther the young and olde lion had their resort? there dwelt the lion, & there was no man to put him in feare |
| [12]Where is the den of the lions, which was the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? |
[12]The lion made his praye aboundauntly for his whelpes, and strangled for his she lions, and hath filled his dennes with pray, and his abyding places with spoyle |
| [13]The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin. |
[13]Behold me against thee sayth the Lord of hoastes, & I will burne in smoke her charets, and the sworde shall deuoure thy lions, I will roote out also from the earth thy spoyling, and the voyce of thy messengers shalbe hearde no more |
| [14]Behold, I am against thee, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard. |
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