The Prophecies / Les Prophéties English-French Parallel Text Bilingual Edition / Texte Parallèle Anglais-Français Édition Bilingue

The young lion will overcome the older one. On the field of combat in a single battle, he will pierce his eyes through a golden cage. Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.

From the enslaved populace, songs, chants and demands, while princes and lords are held captive in prisons. These will, in the future, by headless idiots, be received as divine prayers.

From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people. He who by his tongue will seduce a great troop. His fame will increase towards the realm of the East.

Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers. The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister. Into a cage of iron will the Great One be drawn, when the child of Germany observes nothing.

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen. Famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

In 1996 Bill Jahao sort of Rockin' sticks war and fire will sweep Over the land And they did like O-Apostrophe-ER Which to me was super legit at the time And then I was convinced that The end of the world Or the end of the city would occur During the 1996 Olympics

Two great rocks will make war For a long time Then Orufsa Will redden a new river

In the city of God There will be a great thunder Two brothers torn apart by chaos While the fortress endures The great leader will succumb The third big war will begin When the big city is burning

It was two steel birds Will fall from the sky on the metropolis The sky will burn at 45 degrees latitude Fire approaches The great new city Immediately a huge scattered flame Leaps up within months Rivers will flow with blood The undead will roam the earth for a little time

Beast wild with hunger shall cross the rivers Most of the fighting shall be close by the Hister It shall result in the great one being dragged In an iron cage while the Germans Shall be watching over the infant Rhine

In 1996, Bill Jahao sort of Rockin' sticks war and fire will sweep Over the land.

Two great rocks will make war For a long time Then Orufsa Will redden a new river

In the city of God There will be a great thunder Two brothers torn apart by chaos While the fortress endures The great leader will succumb The third big war will begin When the big city is burning

Two steel birds Will fall from the sky on the metropolis The sky will burn at 45 degrees latitude Fire approaches The great new city Immediately a huge scattered flame Leaps up within months Rivers will flow with blood The undead will roam the earth for a little time

In the place very near Not far from Venus The two greatest ones of Asia And of Africa From the Rhine and Hister They will be said to have come Cries, tears at Malta And the Ligurian side

In 1555 he published a book called Le Profites, which remains relatively popular even to this day and has been translated into numerous languages.

Today you can find the full copyright free PDF of this in the public domain. You can get it on archive.org, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

And the one that you can find that we mentioned that PDF is completely in French.

And you can just imagine the little nuances they get lost as it gets changed over to English or to Spanish or I mean in the romance languages it might be even more similar, but then imagine if it's translated, let's say, I don't know, to Mandarin or something like that.

They're grouped in four line stanzas, quatrains that observe or maybe warn about vague events or very symbolistic.