1 Come near ye Gentiles, and hear, and ye peoples attend: let the earth hear, & the fullness thereof, the round world, and every spring thereof.
1 Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and everything that cometh forth of it.
2 Because the indignation of our Lord is upon all Gentiles, and fury upon all their hosts: he hath killed them, & given them into slaughter.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall melt with their blood.
3 Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of the heavens shall melt away, and the heavens shall be folded together as a book: and all their host shall fall away as the leaf falleth from the vine, & from the fig tree.
4 And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the heavens shall be folded together as a book: and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine, and from the fig tree.
5 Because my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall descend upon Idumæa, and upon the peoples of my slaughter to judgement.
5 For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment.
6 The sword of our Lord is filled with blood, it is fatted of the blood of lambs and buckgoats, of the blood of rams full of marrow: for the victim of our Lord is in Bosra, & a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, & the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be drunk with blood, & their ground with the fatness of fat ones.
7 And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.
8 Because it is the day of the revenge of our Lord, the year of retributions of the judgement of Sion.
8 For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.
9 And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall be into burning pitch.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation unto generation it shall be desolate, there shall none pass by it world without end.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 The onocrotalus, and hedgehog shall possess it: & the ibis, and the raven shall dwell in it: & a measure shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plum line unto desolation.
11 The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.
12 The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be as nothing.
12 The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.
13 And thorns and nettles shall grow up in the houses thereof, & the thistles in the munitions thereof: and it shall be the couch of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.
13 And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.
14 And spirits shall meet the onocentaurus, and the satyr shall cry one to the other, there hath the lamia lien, and found herself rest.
14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for herself.
15 There hath the hedgehog had an hole, and brought up whelps, and digged round about, and cherished them in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered together, one to another.
15 There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its young ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another.
16 Search ye diligently in the book of our Lord, and read: one of them hath not wanted, one hath not sought for the other, because that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit the same hath gathered them.
16 Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast them a lot, and his hand hath divided it unto them by measure: they shall possess it for ever, in generation and generation they shall dwell therein.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.