8 Then said they unto him, "Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? 9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of Ps. 146. 6. heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land. Acts 17. 24. + Heb. with great fear. + Heb. may be silent from us. Or, grew more and more tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, "Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men † rowed hard to +Heb." bring it to the land; but they could not: for digged. the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against 30. them. • Prov. 21. 14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: Deut. 21.8. for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased ⋅Ps. 115. 3. thee. 15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: 'and the sea † ceased from her raging. u 16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. Ps. 89. 9. Luke 8. 24. + Heb. stood. Acts 5. 11. "Mark 4.41. Heb. sacrificed o sacrifice unto the LORD, and * Matt. 12. 17¶ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was vowed vows. in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. CHAP. II. 1 The prayer of Jonah: 10 he is delivered from the God out of the fish's belly, HEN Jonah prayed unto the LORD his a 40. & 16.4. Luke 11. 30. + Heb. bowels: & 130. 1. & 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine Ps. 120. 1. affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; 142. 1. out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. c 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and waves passed over me. e d 4 Then I said, I am sight; yet I will look again temple. g thy Lam. S. 55, 56. || Or, out of mine affliction. Or, the b Ps. 65. 2. the grave, f cast out of thy heart. toward thy holy Ps. 1. 22. even 5 The waters compassed me about, f 1 Kings 8. 38. Ps. 69. 1. Lam. 3. 54. cuttings off. Ps. 16. 10. Or, the pit. *Kings 17. Ps. 31. 6. Ps. 18. 6. 6 I went down to the t bottoms of the +Heb. 10 Then were the men texceedingly afraid, mountains; the earth with her bars was about and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my For the men knew that he fled from the pre-life "from || corruption, O LORD my God. sence of the LORD, because he had told 7 When my soul fainted within me I rethem. membered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 11 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea † may be calm unto us? for the seat wrought, and was +Heb. went. tempestuous. i 15. Jer. 10. 8. & 16. 19. Ps. 50. 14, 23. & 116. 9 But I will 'sacrifice unto thee with the Hebr. 13.15. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and reJoel 2. 14. pent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? Jer. 18. 8. h palmecrist. 6 And the LORD God prepared a † gourd, Or, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it Heb. might be a shadow over his head, to deliver Kikajon. him from his grief. So Jonah † was exceed +Heb. ing glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. rejoicedwith great joy. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a || vehement east ||Or, silent. wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to ever. 3. die than to live. e 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou Or, Art thou greatly well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, angry? I do well to be angry, even unto death. Ogrently am greatly 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had angry. pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not Or, spared. laboured, neither madest it grow; which tcame +Heb. up in a night, and perished in a night: f was the son of the night. 3. 2, S. 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that ch. 1. & 10 And God saw their works, that they great city, wherein are more than sixscore ¶h Amos 7. 3, turned from their evil way; and God repented thousand persons that cannot discern between Deut. 1.59. of the evil, that he had said that he would do their right hand and their left hand ; and also unto them; and he did it not. much "cattle? 6. Ps. 36, 6. & 145. 9. Micah the Morasthite in the days of * Jer. 26. 18. Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Je-Deut.31. rusalem. ↑ Heb. 2¶ † Hear, all ye people; hearken, Othe earth, and tall that therein is: and let the 57. Lord God be witness against you, the Lord P114 from his holy temple. d Mal. 3. 5. e Jonah Hab. 2. 20. ↑ Heb. a descent. * 2 Kings 19.25. ch. 3. 12. 14. 12. 5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem? 6 Therefore I will make Samaria * as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. 7 And all the graven images thereof shall m Hos. 2 5, be beaten to pieces, and all the "hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they "Isai. 21. 3. & 22.4. Jer. 4. 19. • Isai. 20. 2, 4. shall return to the hire of an harlot. 8 Therefore "I will wail and howl, I will 3,450 29 go stripped and naked: "I will make a wailPs. 102. 6. ing like the dragons, and mourning as the daughters of towls. + Heb. the owl. Or, she is grievously sick of her wounds. 12 Kings 13. 13. 9 For her wound' is incurable: for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. 10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye Isai. 8. 7, 8. not at all: in the house of Aphrah ' roll thyself in the dust. * 2 Sam. 1. 20. That is, dust. * Jer. 6. 26. 11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Or, the Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inthat dwellest habitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of || Beth-ezel; he shall receive of fairly. + Heb. inhabitress. Isai. 20. 4. you his standing. & 47.2, 3. Jer. 13. 22. Nah. 3. 5. country of || Or, the flocks. Or, a place 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but "evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. 13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. 14 Therefore shalt thou' give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel. 15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of a Mareshah: || he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel. 16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for come, &c. thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity Chron. 11.7. Job 1. 20. Isai. 15. 2. from thee. & 22.12. Jer. 7. 29.& 16.6. & 47. 5. & 48. 37. CHAP. II. * Lam. 4. 5. 1 Against oppression. 4 A lamentation. 7 A reproof 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from Jer. 8. 3. which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: 'for this time is evil. 4¶ In that day shall one & take up a parable against you, and "lament † with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: 'he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! | turning away he hath divided our fields. 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. 6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. 70 thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD || straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh † uprightly? 8 Even † of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe † with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. m 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is "polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. 12 TPI will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. Hab. 2. 6. Sam. 1. Heb. with tion of la mentations of resturing. Deut. 32. a lamenta Or, instead 8, 9. Or, not as they Prophesy prophesy. Drop, &c. Isai. 30.10. &7.16. + Heb. Ezek. 21. 2. Amos 2. 12. || Or, Heb. upright. against a garment. m 9. Or, wives. Deut. 12. "Lev. 18. 25, 28. Jer. 3. 2. walk wind, and c with the lie falsely. • Ezek. 13. Pch. 4. 6, 7. Jer. 31. 10. Ezek. 56. 37. 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their Hos. 3. 5. king shall pass before them, and the LORD on Isai.52.12. the head of them. t CHAP. III. 1 The cruelty of the princes. 5 The falsehood of the The falsehood of the prophets. Before CHRIST 710. MICAH. ND I said, Hear, I O heads A pray you, of Jacob, and ye princes of the house Jer. 5. 4,5. of Israel; Is it not for you to know judg*ment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Ps. 14. 4. 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, Ezek. 11. as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 3, 7. Prov. 1. 28. d d Ps. 18. 41. 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but Isai. 1. 15. he will not hear them: he will even hide his Ezek. 18. face from them at that time, as they have beZech. 7. haved themselves ill in their doings. The church's peace, and glory. Before 710. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, CHRIST Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. i Amos 8. 9. 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their † lips; for there is no answer of God. + Heb. upper lip. *Ps. 74.9. Amos 8. 11. b 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 8 ¶ But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of 'Isai. 58. 1. might, 'to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall Zech. 3. 10. make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with "+ blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. q f 5 For all people will walk every one in Jer. 2.11. the name of his god, and we will walk in Zech. 10. the name of the LORD our God for ever and 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, Zeph. S. 3. and the priests thereof teach for hire, and bloods. the prophets thereof divine for money: yet Ezek. 22.12. will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. • Isai. 1. 23. ch. 7. 3. Rom. 2. 17. + Heb. saying. Jer. 26. 18. ch. 1. 6. Ps. 79. 1. tch. 4. 2. Isai. 2. 2, &c, Ezek. 17. $2, 23. r ever. 12. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be t S * plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be- CHAP. IV. af Zepli. 3. 19. Ezek.34.13. b Ps. 147. 2. & 37.21. a ch.2.12. & 5. 3, 7, 8. a &7. 18. k 7 And I will make her that halted remnant, and her that was cast far off strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, Dan. 7, 14, even for ever. Isai. 9. 6. & 24. 23. 27. Luke 1.53. ||Or, Edar: 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the Rev. 11. 15. strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto Gen. 55. 21. thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. 1 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is 'Jer. 8. 19. there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for m pangs have taken thee as a woman Isai. 13.8. in travail. & 21.3. Jer. 30.6. 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, & 5.5. O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail : for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shalt redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 11 ¶ "Now also many nations are gathered Lam. 2. 16. against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. 1 The glory, 3 peace, 8 kingdom, 11 and victory of the floor. the church. 16. B that the mountain of the house make thy beat Dane t 13 'Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: Isai.41.15, for I will make thine horn iron, and I will Jer. 51.3. hoofs brass: and thou shalt in pieces many people: 'and I will consecrate Isai. 18. & their gain unto the LORD, and their substance 60. 6,9. unto "the LORD of the whole earth. & 23. 18. & "Zech. 4. 14.& 6.5. Chris Bel CHR 71 La Matt &27 John Ex 1 The birth of Christ: 4 his kingdom: 8 his work of thine hands. conquest. 710. Or, statues. 14 And I will pluck up thy groves out Isai. 2. 8. cities. NOW gather thyself in troops, O daugh- of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy ter of troops: he hath laid siege against Lam. 3.50. us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a Matt. 5. 39. & 27.30. b Matt. 2. 6. John 7.42. 1 Sam. 23. Exod. 18. 25. • Gen. 49. 10. Isai. 9. 6. f Ps. 90. 2. Prov. 8. 22, 23. John 1. 1. ↑ Heb. rod the cheek. upon Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought the days of forth: then "the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. eternity. & 49. 10. 4 ¶ And he shall stand and 'feed in the Isai 40. 11. Strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the Ezek. 54.23. name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide for now shall he be great unto the Isai. 52. 13. ends of the earth. ch. 7. 11. * Ps. 72.8. Zech. 9. 10. Zech. 9. 10. Luke 2. 14. ↑ Heb. princes of mcn. + Heb. eat up. Gen. 10. 8, 10, 11. Or, with k 5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight † principal men. 6 And they shall † waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of "Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he "deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within "Luke 1.71. our borders. her own nak ed swords. 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in Deut. 32. the midst of many people as a dew from the Ps 72.6. & LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of 110. 3. men. 15 And I will "execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. CHAP. VI. 1 God's controversy for unkindness, 6 for ignorance, 51. & 14.50. Deut. 4. 20. & 20. 2. Amos 2. 10. f Numb. 22. & 24. 10, 11. 5. 4 For I brought thee up out of the land 5. & 28.7. of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house Deut. 23, 4, of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Josh. 24. 9, Aaron, and Miriam. f 5 O my people, remember now Balak king of Moab consulted, and Balaam the son of Beor answered him Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know righteousness of the LORD. 10. Rev. 2. 14. whatNumb, 25. what Josh. 4. 19. from Judg.5.11. the Heb sons 1. & 53.49. h 6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves † of a year old? & 5. 10. of a year? Ps. 50 9. & 51. 16. Isai. 1. 11. * Job 29. 6. 1 Kings 16. 2 3. & 21.6. & Jer. 7. 31. & 19. 5. Ezek. 23.37. + Heb. belly. 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of m Deut. 10. rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? m 12am. 15. 22. 8 ¶ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is "Gen. 18. Or, goats. || sheep who, if he go through, both tread-good; and what doth the LORD require of Isai. 1. 17. eth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, humble thy deliver. and to t walk humbly with thy God? |