The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. / A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

by Nostradamus

XCVI.

French.

La Synagogue sterile sans nul fruit,

Sera receue entre les Infideles,

De Babylon la fille du poursuit,

Misere & triste luy trenchera les Aisles.

English.

The Synagogue barren, without fruit,

Shall be received among the Infidels,

In Babylon, the daughter of the persecuted,

Miserable and sad shall cut her wings.

ANNOT.

A Synagogue is a place where the Jews assemble for Divine Worship, as the Christians do in Churches or Temples, the said Jews Synagogue is threatned here to be unfruitful and barren, and chiefly in Babylon, by the means of a woman, daughter of one persecuted; belike of some of their own tribe, whom the rest did persecute.