k John 3. 16. 1 Matt. 28. 18. 1 Cor. 15. 25. m Judg. 13. 18. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, with judg to order it, and to establish it Eph. 2. 14. ment and with justice from henceforth p Dan. 2. 44. even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. n Tit. 2. 13. Luke 1.32, 33. cir. 738. q 2 Kings 19. 31. ch. 37. 32. + Heb. mingle. 8 ¶ The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and †join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand r ch. 5. 25. & 10.4. Jer. 4. is stretched out still. + Heb. with whole mouth. 8. s Jer. 5. 3. Hos. 7. 10. 13 ¶ For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and ch. 10. 17. rush, tin one day. Rev. 18. 8. u ch. 3. 12. Or, they that call them blessed. 1 Or, they that are called blessed of them. ↑ Heb. swallowed up. x Ps. 14710, 11. y Mic. 7. 2. 2 ver. 12, 21. 10.4. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For "the leaders of this people cause them to err; and || they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: OE unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and ||that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ch. 5. 25. & cir. 713a Pr. 58. 2. 6 I will send him against 'an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 "Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither Ges. doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart 12 to destroy and cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno 1as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria m Damascus? as 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven im for every one is an hypocrite and an evil-ages did excel them of Jerusalem and of doer, and every mouth speaketh || folly. Or, villany. For all this his anger is not turned ach. 5. 25. & way, but his hand is stretched out still. 18 For wickedness "burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have re- &c. Ime. moved the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants ||like a valiant man: 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one any people gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. q Job 31. 25. r Jer. 51. 20. Or, as if shake them red should that lift it Or, that which is not wood. 15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up || itself, as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his 'fat ones leansch. 5. 17. ness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: ch. 9. 18. t and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; & 27-4 18 And shall consume the glory of his Kings 19 forest, and of "his fruitful field, + both *Heb from soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 23 the wal, and en to the Part ber. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest Heb. num shall be +few, that a child may write them. 20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 1 See Kings 2 Chron. 28. 20. y cb. 7.3. 1 Rem-9 27. cb. 6. 13 or, among ch.22 ↑ Heb. in, 1 Or, in. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Before + Heb. Cry shrill with 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabit-hoice. ants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day; he shall "shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 18. s Josh. 15 31. t1 Sam. 21. 1. & 22. 19 Neh. 11. 39 x ch.37.22. 33 Behold the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and 'the u ch. 13. 2. high ones of stature shall be hewn down, y See Amos and the haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. 2.9. Or, mightily. 3 And shall make him of quick tun- the scent, 22 For though thy people Israel be as 4 But with righteousness shall he 24 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest d cb. 37-6 in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: Or the he shall smite thee with a rod, || and shall hstag for lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up Kings 19. ba scourge for him according to the Jadg.7.25 slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that 1 day, that 'his burden †shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be P1515 destroyed because of "the anointing. 28 ¶ He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the Hos. 2. 18. lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 1. 11. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall 17, 22. Hos. depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: t+they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon "shall obey them. + Heb, the children of the east. t Dan. 11. 41. +Heb. Edom and Moab shall be the Laying on of their hand. + Heb. the children of Ammon their obedience. u ch.60.14 x Zech. 10. 11. y Rev. 16. 12. + Heb. in shoes. z ch. 19. 23. Exod. 14. 29. ch.51.10. & 63. 12, 13. a ch. 2. 11. b. Ps. 83. 18. e Exod. 15. 15 And the LORD shall utterly deStroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over †dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; "like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. CHAP. XII. A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the ND in that day thou shalt say, O Before Destruction of Babylon threatened. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, CHRIST I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that 'rejoice in e Joel 3. 11. my highness. cir. 712. + Heb. the 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; f a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. Rev. 17. 6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD & Zeph is at hand; it shall come as a destruc- Job. tion from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands || be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: 'pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed tone at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be "darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. Joel 1.15 or fall down. 23. Ezek. Jd. &315 Matt. 2. Mark 13.24 11 And I will punish the world for Lakes their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low A Loan, I will raise thee, though the haughtiness of the andible. thou wast angry with me, thine anger is 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD 2. Ps. 118. 14. JEHOVAH is my strength and my 4.&7.37, song; he also is become my salvation. b 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw d water out of the wells of salvation. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. n cb. t. 17 13 Therefore I will shake the hea- lag. 2. & vens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own peo f P. 1454, his doings among the people, make men-ple, and flee every one into his own land. tion that his name is exalted. $51.9 Nab 16 Their children also shall be 'dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses Zeck. 24 shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes Jer. Sh against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 31. 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye. shall not spare children. t ch. 14. + Heb. s ererth Gen. 19 ¶ And Babylon, the glory of king- ing doms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excel- D lency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. u 49. ང་། 21 But wild beasts of the desert 18.2. shall lie there; and their houses shall be Heb. Zum. full of +doleful creatures; and towls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their | desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and +Heb. fim. her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. | Or," ostriches. ↑ Heb. daughters of the onl Or, pa laces. z Jer. 51.33 a Pa. 102. 13. b Zech. 1.17. & 2. 12. NOR the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, c ch. 60. 4, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 5,10. Eph. 2. 12, 13, &c. ieb. 55. 12. Etek, 31. 16. 21. Ezek. 33.. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, "I will ascend into heaven, "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: Or, O day star. m Matt. 11. o Ps. 48. 2. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. pch. 47.8. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke de- 2 ch. 10. 27. 9 Hell from beneath is moved for part from off them, and his burden depart thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stir-from off their shoulders. reth up the dead for thee, even all the + Heb, Lead-+|| chief ones of the earth; it hath raised Or, great up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. The lamentable state of Moab. 2.1. 28. c ch. 16. 12. d See Lev. 21.5 ch. 3. 24 & 22. 12. Jer. 47. 5. & 48.1, 37, 38. Ezek. 7. 18. ⚫ Jer. 48.38. + Heb.de 2 He is gone to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. selves with sackcloth: " 3 In their streets they shall gird themtheir houses, and in their streets, every on the tops of scending into one shall howl, †weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Élealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto f ch. 16. 9. Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. weeping, or, coming down with weep ing. eb. 16. 11. Jer. 48. 31. Or to the borders thereof, even 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an as an heifer mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall heifer of three years old: for by the Jer. 48.34 they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. h ch. 16. 14. i Jer. 48. 5. + Heb. breaking. k Numb. 32. 36. lations. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be +desolate: for the hay is withered away, Heb. deo- the grass faileth, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, Or, valley shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. of the bians. tions. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be + Heb. addi- full of blood: for I will bring +more 12 Kings 17. upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. 25. CHAP. XVI. . 578 joy out of the plentiful field; and in the like an harp for Moab, and mine inward J£7 12 And it shall come to pass, when it spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, very a |