LORD hath said, and "amongꞌ the remnant those whom the LORD doth' 3*1 call. For, behold, in those days, and

in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, *(2 °I will gather all nations, and will

bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted 3 my land. And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for lan1 harlot, and sold a girl for wine, 4 that they might drink. Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the 'regions' of 'Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head. #5 °Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant 6 things; the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from 7 their border: behold, I will stir them 'up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head; 8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Shebal, to a 'nation far off for the LORD hath spoken it.

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Proclaim ye this among the Inations; prepare war stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war 10 draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let 11) the weak say, I am strong. Haste

yel, and come, all ye nations' round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come 12 down, O LORD. Let the nations bestir themselves', and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the nations' 13 round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, 10 tread ye; for the winepress is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is 14 great. Multitudes, multitudes in the

valley of decision! for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. (15 The sun and the moon are dark

ened, and the stars withdraw their 16 shining. And the LORD shall roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be la refuge unto his people, and 'a strong hold to the children of Israel. 17 °So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass 18 through her any more. And it shall

come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down 'sweet' wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the 'brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water 11the valley 19 of Shittim. °Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their 20 land. But Judah shall 12 abide for

ever, and Jerusalem from generation 21 to generation. And I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

VERSION OF 1611.- in.. shall. Because; 7 raise; 8 Sabeans

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days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years' before the 14earthquake.

And he said, The LORD 'shall roar

10 Or, get you down

11 That is, the valley of acacias.

12 Or, be inhabited

13 Or, hold as innocent

14 See Zech. xiv. 5.

A MOS.-I. 1 year; 2 will. [45]

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from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the "pastures' of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, $lyeal, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing 4 instruments of iron: but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, 'and it shall devour the palaces of Ben5 hadad. And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of "Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

6 Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Gaza, 'yea', for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive 'the whole 'people, to deliver them up to Edom:

7 but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the 8 palaces thereof: and I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn mine hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

9 Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of 'Tyre, yeal, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up "the whole 'people' to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly cove 10 nant but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it' shall devour the palaces thereof.

away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might 14 enlarge their border: but I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: 15 and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.

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Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yeal, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned' the bones of the king of Edom into 2 lime but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the 3 sound of the trumpet: and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

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Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, 'yeal, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have 'rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes', and their lies have caused them to err, after the 5 which their fathers did walk': 'but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

6 Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yeal, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the (7 needy for a pair of shoes: that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go unto the same 10maid, 8) to profane my holy name: and they lay themselves down 'besidel every altar upon clothes taken in' pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have! 9 been fined'. Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his 10 roots from beneath. Also I brought

8 Heb. the covenant of brethren. See 1 Kings v. 1, ix. 11-14.

Heb. corrupted his compassions. 10 Or, young woman

11 See Ex. xxii. 26.

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you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years 'in' the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. 12 But ye gave the 'Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, 13 saying, Prophesy not. "Behold, 11

will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of 14 sheaves. And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall 15 the mighty deliver himself: neither

shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that 16 rideth the horse deliver himself: and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

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Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of 2 Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon 3 you all your iniquities. Shall 'two walk together, except they have 4 agreed? Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, 5) if he have taken nothing? °Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from the 'ground', 6) and have taken nothing at all? Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil 'befall' a city, and the LORD hath not 7 done it? Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret 8 unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

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Publish ye' in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold 'what' great tumults "are therein', and 'what oppressions!

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is pressed; 14 Therefore the.

10 in the midst thereof. For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their 11 palaces. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: An adversary there shall be, even round about the land: and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be 12) spoiled. Thus saith the LORD: As the shepherd rescueth' out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be rescued that 'sit' in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a 13 bed. Hear ye, and testify against! the house of Jacob, saith the Lord 14 GOD, the God of hosts. For in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, 15 and fall to the ground. And I will smite the winter house with 8the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

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Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say unto their 2 lords', Bring, and let us drink. Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your 'residue with 3 fish hooks. And ye shall go out at the breaches, every lone straight' before her; 10and ye shall cast yourselvesꞌ into 'Harmon, saith the LORD. 4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; Ito Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes 'every three *5) days; and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened', and proclaim freewill offerings and publish them: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, 6 saith the Lord GOD. And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 7)°And I also have withholden the

8 See Judg. iii. 20. • Or, Imany! 10 The ancient versions vary in their rendering of this clause. The text is probably corrupt.

11 Heb. offer by burning.

rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not 8 withered. So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 9 the LORD. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees Thath the palmerworm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 10 the LORD. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have 'carried' away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camp' to come up leven into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 11 I have overthrown some among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a 'brand' plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the 12 LORD. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy 13 God, O Israel. For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth; the LORD, the God of hosts, is his

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Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation 'over' you, O house 2 of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she 2is cast down upon her land; there (3 is none to raise her up. °For thus saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have! an hundred 'left', and that which went forth an hundred shall have ten 'left', 4 to the house of Israel. For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5 but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

6)°Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour and there 7 be none to quench it in Beth-el: ye who turn judgement to wormwood, and cast down righteousness tol

8 the earth; seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth 4the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is 9 his name; that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that Idestruction cometh upon the fort10 ress. They hate him that 'reproveth1

in the gate, and they abhor him (11 that speaketh uprightly. Forasmuch therefore as lye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the 12) wine thereof. For I know how manifold are your transgressions and 'how' mighty are your sins; 'ye that' afflict the just, that' take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the 13 gate from their right. Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye Isay!. 15 °Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgement in the gate: it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the rem16) nant of Joseph. Therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets', Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, 6and such as are skilful of lamenta17 tion to wailing. And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the 18) LORD. Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! wherefore would ye havel the day of the LORD? 19 it is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a

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Heb. and proclaim wailing to such as are skilful of lamentation. 7 Or, landl

20 serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no bright21 ness in it? I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight! 22) in your solemn assemblies. Yea', though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the 3peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 °Take thou away from me the noise

of thy songs; for I will not hear the 24 melody of thy viols. But let judgement roll down as waters, and right25 eousness as a mighty stream. Did1 ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O 26 house of Israel? Yea, ye have borne Siccuth your king! and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

61 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, 'the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! 2 °Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater 3 than your border? Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the 'seat 4 of violence to come near; that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves 5 out of the midst of the stall; that Ising idle songs to the sound of the viol; that devise for themselves in6 struments of music, 10like David; that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but they are not grieved for the afflic7 tion of Joseph. Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the revelry! of them that stretched themselves shall 'pass 8 away'. "The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD, the God

1 Heb. will not smell a savour. Or, burnt offerings with your meal offerings Or, thank offerings Or, lever-flowing

Or, meal offerings

of hosts: I abhor the 12excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that 9 is therein. And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one 10 house, that they shall die. ° And when a man's 18uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention 11 of the name of the LORD. °For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and 14the great house shall be smitten' with breaches, and the little house with 12 clefts. Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that! ye have turned judgement into 15gall, and the fruit of righteousness 13 into wormwood: ye which rejoice in

a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own 14 strength? For", behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the 16entering in of 'Hamath unto the 'brook' of the 'Arabah'.

7(1 Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mow(2 ings. And it came to pass that when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: how shall 3 Jacob stand? for he is small. The LORD repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

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Thus the Lord GOD shewed me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up 5 the land'. Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob 'stand? for he is small. 6 The LORD repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

10 Or, like David's\

11 Heb. in bowls of wine.

12 Or, pridel 13 Or, kinsman

14 Or, he will smite the great house 15 See Deut. xxix. 18.

16 See 2 Kings xiv. 25. 17 Heb. portion.