1   It ^note is neere that the time therof shal come, and the daies therof shal not be porlonged. For our Lord wil haue mercie on Iacob, and wil yet choose out of Israel, and wil make them rest vpon their owne ground: the stranger shal be ioyned to them, & shal sticke to the house of Iacob.

2   And peoples shal hold them, and bring them into their place: and the house of Israel shal possesse them vpon the land of our Lord for seruants and handmaides: and they shal lead captiue those that had taken them, & shal subdewe their exactours.

3   And it shal be in that day, when God shal geue thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the sore seruitude, which thou didst serue before.

4   Thou shalt take this parable

against ehe king of Babylon, and shalt say: How hath the exactour ceased, the tribute rested:

5   Our Lord hath broken the staffe of the impious, the rodde of the rulers,

6   that did beate peoples in indignation with vncurable wound, subdewing nations in furie, persecuting cruelly.

7   Al earth is quiet and stil, is glad & hath reioyced.

8   The firre trees also haue reioyeed ouer thee, and the ceders of Libanus: since thou hast slept, there hath none come vp to hewe vs.

9   Hel beneath is trubled to meete thy coming, it hath raysed vp the giants for thee. Al the princes of the earth are risen vp from their thrones, al the princes of nations.

10   Al shal answere, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded euen as we, made like vnto vs.

11   Thy pride is drawen downe to hel, thy carcasse is fallen: vnder thee shal the mothe be strawed, and wormes shal be thy couering.

12    ^noteHow art thou fallen from heauen Lucifer, which didst rise in the morning? art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound nations?

13   Which didst say in thy hart: I wil ascend into heauen, aboue the starres of God wil I exalt my throne, I wil sitte in the mount of the testament, in the sides of the North.

14   I wil ascend aboue the height of the cloudes, I wil be like to the Highest.

15   But yet thou shalt be drawen downe to hel, into the depth oh the lake.

16   They that shal see thee, shal turne to ward thee, & behold thee: Is this the man, that trubled the earth, that shaked kingdomes,

17   that made the world a desert, & destroyed the cities therof, opened not the prison to his prisoners?

18   Al the kinges of the nations euerie one haue slept in glorie, eche man in his owne house.

19   But thou art cast forth out of thy sepulchre, as an vnprofitable branche polluted, and wrapped vp with them that were slaine by the sword, and are gone downe to the fundations of the lake, as a rotten carcasse.

20   Thou shalt not keepe companie with them, neither in burial, for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shal not be named for euer.

21   Prepare his children to slaughter in the iniquitie of their fathers: they shal not rise vp, nor inherite the land, nor fil the world with cities.

22   And I wil rise ouer them, sayth the Lord of hostes: & I wil destroy the name of Babylon, and the remaynes, and bud, and progenie: sayth our Lord.

23   And I wil make it the possession of the hedgehog, & marrices of waters, & I wil sweepe it with besome wearing it, sayth the Lord of hostes.

24   The Lord of hostes hath sworne,

saying: If it shal not be, as I haue thought: and so fal out, as I haue in mind consulted:

25   That I ^note destroy the Assirian in my land, and in my mountaines tread vpon him: and his yoke shal be taken away from them, and his burden taken of from their shoulder.

26   This is the counsel, that I haue deuised vpon al the earth, and this is the hand stretched forth vpon al nations.

27   For the Lord of hostes hath decreed, and who can weaken it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shal turne it away?

28    ^noteIn the yeare, that king Achaz died, was this burden made.

29   Reioyce not thou whole Philistaea, that ^note the rod of thy striker is broken in peeces: for from the roote of the serpent shal issue forth a cockatrice, and his seede swalowing the bird.

30   And the first borne of the poore shal be fed, & the poore shal rest confidently: and I wil make thy roote to perish in famine, and wil kil thy remnant.

31   Howle thou gate, crie out ô citie: al Philisthaea is throwen downe: for a smoke shal come from ^note the North, and there is none that shal escape his troupe.

32   And what shal be answered to the messengers of nations? That our Lord hath founded Sion, and the poore of his people shal hope in him.

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