Israel reproved day, and in the day of the feast of the [cording to the multitude of his fruit he Lond? hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tabernacles. 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is inad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 2 Their heart is divided; now shal they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lono; what then should a king do to us? 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus 8 The watchman of Ephraim was judgment springeth up as hemlock in with my God; but the phrophet is a the furrows of the field. snare of a fowler in all his ways, and 5 The inhabitants of Samaria sbali batred in the house of bis God. fear because of the calves of Beth9 They have deeply corrupted them-aven: for the people thereof shall selves, as in the days of Gibéal; there mourn over it, and the priests thereof fore he will remember their iniquity, that rejoice on it, for the glory there The will visit their sins. lof, because it is departed from it. 6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 8 The high places also of Aven, the 11 ds for Ephraim, their glory shall sin of Israel, shall be destroyed the fly away like a bird, from the birth, thorn and the thistle shall come up on and from the womb, and from the their altars; and they shall say to the conception. mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; andtheir abominations were according as they loved. 12 Though they bring up their chil-Fall on us. dren, yet will I bereave them, that 90 Israel, thou hast sinned from the there shall not be a man left: yea, wo days of Gibeah; there they stood: the also to them when I depart from them! tattle in Gibeah against the children 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is plant-ļof iniquity did not overtake them. ed in a pleasant paace: but Ephraim 10 It is in my desire that I should shall bring forth his children to the chastise them; and the people shall murderer. be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two 14 Give them, O Lond; what wit thou give? give them a miscarrying furrows. womb and dry breasts. 11 And Ephraim is as a heifer that 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: is taught, and loveth to tread out the for there 1 hated them: for the wick-corn, but I passed over upon her fair edness of their doings I will drive them neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; out of my house, I will love them no Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall more: all their princes are revolters. break his clods. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousdried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, ness, reap in mercy; break up your though they bring forth, yet will I slay fallow ground: for it is time to seek even the beloved fruit of their womb. the LORD, till he come and rain right17 My God will cast them away, be cousness upon you. cause they did not hearken unto him : and they shall be wanderers among the nations. JERA CHAP. X. 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, je have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. ERAEL is an empty vine, be bringeth forth fruit unto himself; ac-1 14 Therefore shall a tummuk arise Isract & ingratitude. HOSEA. A reproof of Ephraim. among thy people, and all thy fort, daily increaseth lies and desolation i sesses shall be spoiled, as Shalman and they do make a covenant with the spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of bat- Assyrians,and oil is carried into Egypt. tle: the mother was dashed in pieces 2 The LORD hath also a controversy upou her children. with Judah, and will punish Jacobac 15 So shall Beth-el do unto you be-cording to his ways; according to his cause of your great wickedness: in a doings will he recompeuse him. morning shall the king of Israel utter- 3 T He took his brother by the heel ly be cut off. in the womb, and by his strength he bad power with God: CHAP. XI. WHEN Larael was a child, then 11 Yea, he had power over the angel loved him, and called my son and prevailed: he wept, and made out of Egypt. supplication unto him; he found him 2 As they called them, so they went in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; from them: they sacrificeduntoBaalim, 6 Even the LORD God of hosts; the and burued incense to graven images. LORD is his memorial. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: them by their arms; but they knew keep mercy and judgment, and wait not that I healed them. on thy God continually, 4 I drew them with cords of a man, 7 He is a merchant, the balances of with bands of love: and I was to then deceit are in his hand he loveth to as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. 5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume lus branches, and devourthem, because of their own counsels. oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. 9 And I that am the Lono thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. 7 And my people, are bent to back- JÚ I have also spoken by the prophsliding from ine: though they called ets, and I have multiplied visions, and them to the Most High, none at all used similitudes, by the ministry of the would exalt him. prophets. 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?||11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surehow shall I deliver thee, Israel? howly they are vanity: they sacrifice bulshall I make thee as Adinali? how locks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are shall I set thee as Zeboim? my heart as heaps in the furrows of the fields. is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not enter into the city. 10 They shall walk after the LORD; he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. 11 They shall tremble as a bird out 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. 13 And by a prophet the Loadbrought Israel out of Egypt, and by a propliet was he preserved. 14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lond return unto him. CHAP. XIII, of Egypt, and as a dove out of the hut WHEN 12 Ephrain compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. CHAP. XII. Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; bût when he offended in Baal, he died. 2 And now they ein more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and the calves. followeth after the cast wind: be] 3 Therefore they shall be as the God's promise CHAP. I. to Israel. morning cloud, and as the early dew,shall become dry, and his fountain that passeth away, as the chaff that is shall be dried up: be shall spoil the driven with the whirlwind out of the treasure of all pleasant vessels. floor, and as the smoke out of the 16 Samaria shall become desolate; chimney. for she bath rebelled against her God; 4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from [they shall fall by the sword: their inthe land of Egypt, and thou shalt fants shall be dashed in pieces, and know no God but ine: for there is no their women with child shall be ripsaviour besides me. 5 ¶ 1 did know thee in the wilder ness, in the land of great drought. 6. According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. 7 Therefore will I be unto them as a lion. as a leopard by the way will 1 observe them. ped up. O CHAP. XIV. ISRAEL, return unto the Lond thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously so will we render the calves of our lips. 8 I will meet them as a bear that is] 3 Assnur shall not save us; we will bereaved of her whelps, and will rend not ride upon horses: neither will we the caul of their heart, and there will say any more to the work of our hands, I devour them like a lion; the wild Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatlıbeast shall tear them. Terless findeth mercy. 9 TO Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self; but in me is thy help. 10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou sridst, Give me a king and princes? 11 1 gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is bid. 4 T 1 will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine auger is turned away from him 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he sball grow as the lily,and cast fortu his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches eball spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, an·l his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow 13 The sorrows of a travailing wo-shall return; they shall revive as the mau shall come upon him; he is an corn, and grow as the vine: the scent unwise son; for he should not stay thereof shall be as the wine of Lebalong in the place of the breaking forth non. of children. 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I 14 1 will rausom them from the to do any more with idols? I have power of the grave; I will redeem heard him, and observed him: I am them from death: O death, I will be like a green fir-tree. From me is thy thy plagues ; Ò grave, I will be thy fruit found. destruction: repentance shall be hid 9 Who is wise, and he shall underfrom mine eyes. stand these things? prudent, and he 15 T Though he be fruitful among shall know them? for the ways of the his brethren, an east wind shall come, LORD are right, and the just shall the wind of the Lord shall come up walk in them: but the transgressors from the wilderness, and his spring shall fall therein. ¶ JOEL. CHAP. I. THE 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? your children tell their children, and Tell ye your children of it, and let caterpillar eaten. God's judgment JOEL. for sin. 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; the wilderness, and the flame hata and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, be-burned all the trees of the field. cause of the new wine; for it is cut 20 The beasts of the field cry also oll from your mouth. unto thee: for the rivers of waters are 6 For a nation is come up upon my dried up, and the tire hath devoured land, strong, and without number, the pastures of the wilderness. whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek-teeth of a great lion. CHAP. II. BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy moun 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree; he hath made it tain; let all the inhabitants of the land clean bare, and cast it away; the tremble; for the day of the LORD branches thereof are made white. cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 8 T Lament like a virgin girded with 2 A day of darkness and of gloomi sackcloth for the husband of her youth.ness, a day of clouds and of thick 9 The meat-offering and the drink-darkness, as the morning spread upon offering is cut off from the house of the mountains: a great people and a the LORD; the priests, the Lonu's strong; there hath not been ever the ministers, mouro. like, neither shall be any more after 10 The field is wasted, the land it, even to the years of many genera mourneth; for the corn is wasted:tions. the new wine is dried up, the oil lan- 3 A fire devoureth before them, and guisheth. behind them a flame burneth: the land 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husband is as the garden of Eden before them, men; howl, O ye vine dressers, for and behind them a desolate wilder the wheat and for the barley; because uess; yea, and nothing shall escape the harvest of the field is perished. them. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig- 4 The appearance of them is as the tree languisheth; the pomegranate-appearance of horses; and as horsetree, the palm-tree also,and the apple-men, so shall they run. tree, even all the trees of the field, are 6 Like the noise of chariots on the withered: because joy is withered tops of mountains shall they leap, like away from the sons of men, the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,as a strong people set in battle array. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, 6 Before their face the people shall ye ministers of my God: for the meat-be much pained; all faces shall gather offering and the drink-offering is with-blackness. holden from the house of your God. 7 They shall run like mighty men; 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn they shall climb the wall like men of assembly, gather the elders, and all war; and they shall march every one the inhabitants of the land, into the on his ways, and they shall not break house of the Lond your God, and cry |their ranks: unto the Lono, 8 Neither shall one thrust another; 15 Alas for the day! for the day of they shall walk every one in his path: the Lond is at hand, and as a destruc-and when they fall upon the sword, tion from the Almighty shall it come. they shall not be wounded. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the nouse of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate,the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble; the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining; 11. And the Lord shall utter his voice before bis army; for his camp is very 19 0 Lond. to thee will I cry: for great: for he is strong that executeth the fire hath devoured the pastures of This word: for the day of the Loan & 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. A fast prescribca. great and very terrible; and who can down for you the rain, the formez abide it? rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 12 ¶ Therefore also now, saith the Lond, Turu ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning; 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat,and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 13 And rend your heart,and not your 25 And I will restore to you the garments, and turn unto the LORD your years that the locust bath eaten, the God: for he is gracious and merciful, canker worm, and the caterpillar, and slow to auger, and of great kindness, the paliner-worm, my great army and repeuteth bin of the evil. which I sent among you. 14 Who knoweth if he will return 26 And ye shall eat in pleuty, and be and repent, and leave a blessing be-satisfied, and praise the name of the hind him: even a meat-offering, and LORD your God, that hath dealt wona drink-offering, unto the LORD your drously with you: and my people shall God? never be ashamed. 15 ¶ Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet: 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. 28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions; 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare 29 And also upon the servants and thy people, O LORD, and give not thy upon the handmaids in those days heritage to reproach, that the heathen will I pour out my Spirit. should rule over them: wherefore 30 And I will show wonders in the should they say among the people, heavens and in the earth, blood, and Where is their God? fire, and pillars of smoke 18 ¶ Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19 Yea, the LORD will answer, and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you coru, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen ; 31 The sun shall be turned into dark ness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be 20 But I will remove far off from you deliverance, as the Lord hath said, the northern army, and will drive and in the remnant whom the LORD him into a land barren and desolate, shall call. with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea: and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. 21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice for the LonD will do great Lings. CHAP. III. FOR, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 21 will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scat|tered among the nations, and parted 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilder uess do spring, for the tree beareth] my land. her fruit, the 6g-tree and the vine do yield their strength. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a Be glad then, ye children of Zion, harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that an I rejoice in the LORD your God; for they might drink. he hath given you the former rain 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with nioderately, and he will cause to comelme, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the |