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The prophecy of Obadiah

CHAP. IX.

against Edom. 12 That they may possess the remnant of 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my Edom, and of all the heathen which are called people of Israel, and they shall build the waste by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant 13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and also make gardens, and eat the fruit of thein. the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land all the hills shall melt. which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

1OBADIAН.

The destruction of Edom, &c. stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced HE vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord over the children of Judah in the day of their Gov concerning Edom; We have heard a destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is proudly in the day of distress. sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands 31 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, on their substance in the day of their calamity; thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who cross-way, to cut off those of his that did escape; shall bring me down to the ground? neither shouldest thou have delivered up those 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and of his that did remain in the day of distress. though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done 5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine (how art thou cut off!) would they not have own head. stolen till they had enough? if the grape-ga- 16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy moun→ therers came to thee, would they not leave some tain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, grapes? yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow 6 Ilow are the things of Esau searched out! down, and they shall be as though they had not how are his hidden things sought up! been.

7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought 17 T But upon mount Zion shall be delivethee even to the border: the men that were at rance, and there shall be holiness; and the peace with thee have deceived thee, and pre-house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. vailed against thee; they that eat thy bread 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and have laid a wound under thee: there is none the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of understanding in him. Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them,

8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even and devour thein; and there shall not be any destroy the wise men out of Edom, and under-remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD standing out of the mount of Esau ? hath spoken it.

9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dis- 19 And they of the south shall possess the mayed, to the end that every one of the mount mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Phi of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. listines: and they shall possess the fields of 10 ¶ For thy violence against thy brother Ja-Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Ben cob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt bejamin shall possess Gilead. cut off for ever.

20 And the captivity of this host of the chil11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other dren of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanside, in the day that the strangers carried away|ites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of captive his forces, and foreigners entered into Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even the cities of the south.

thou wast as one of them.

21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the to judge the_mount of Esau; and the kingdom day of thy brother in the day that he became a shall be the LORD'S.

CHAP. I.

Jonah's commission to Nineveh.

¶ JONAH.

NOW the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

2 Arise, go to Nineveh, tha great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Jarise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come,

and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; the presence of the LORD, and went down to What is thine occupation? and whence comest Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: thou? what is thy country? and of what peoso he paid the fare thereof, and went down into ple art thou?

it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the pre- 9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and sence of the LORD. I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath

4 T But the LORD sent out a great wind into made the sea and the dry land. the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried For the men knew that he fled from the preevery man unto his god, and cast forth the wares sence of the LORD, because he had told them. that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. 6 So the ship-master came to him, and said 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be

Jonah is thrown into the sea.

MICAH.

He preaches to the Ninevites calm unto you: for I know that for my sake the greatest of them even to the least of them. this great tempest is upon you. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and

13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from it to the land; but they could not: for the sea him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in wrought, and was tempestuous against them. ashes.

14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and pubsaid, We beseech thee, O LORD, we bescech lished through Nineveh by the decree of the thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, Onor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. them not feed, nor drink water:

15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackInto the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. cloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them 16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, turn every one from his evil way, and from the and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and 17 1 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the not? belly of the fish three days and three nights.

VOWS.

CHAP. II.

Jonah's prayer and deliverance.

THEN

10 ¶ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto CHAP. IV.

Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God them; and he did it not. out of the fish's belly,

2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction

Jonah repineth at God's mercy.
QUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he

unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the was very angry.

belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the scas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed

over me.

4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

4 ! Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about melangry? for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from 5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on corruption, O LORD my God. the east side of the city, and there made him a 7 When my soul fainted within me I remem-booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he bered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto might see what would become of the city. thee, into thy holy temple." 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and

8 They that observe lying vanities, forsake made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be their own mercy.

9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

10 1 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

CHAP. III.

The Ninevites repent.

a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding 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.

8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he

AND the word of the LORD came unto Jonah fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,

the second time, saying,

is better for me to die than to

to be angry, even unto death.

2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and 9 And God said to Jonan, Doest thou well to preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nine- 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity veh was an exceeding great city of three days' on the gourd, for the which thou hast not lajourney. boured, neither madest it grow; which came up 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a in a night, and perished in a night: day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand 51 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and persons that cannot discern between their right proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from hand and their left hand, and also much cattie?

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fore the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

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

2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and they not Jerusalem ? all that therein is: and let the Lord God be wit- 6 Therefore, I will make Samaria as a heap of ness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I 3 For behold, the LORD cometh forth out of will pour down the stones thereof into the valhis place, and will come down, and tread upon ley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. the high places of the earth. 7 And all the graven images thereof shall be

4 And the mountains shall be molten under beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall bim, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax be-jbe burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof

Micah exhorteth to mourning.

CHAP. II, III, IV.

The church's peace and glory will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the 13 The breaker is come up before them: they hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the have broken up, and have passed through the hire of a harlot. gate, and are gone out by it; and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. CHAP. III.

8 Therefore, I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked: 1 will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come

unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my

people, even to Jerusalem.

The cruelty of the princes, &c.

AND I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Ja

cob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who 11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, pluck off their skin from off them, and their having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of flesh from off their bones; Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing. their skin from off them; and they break their 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited care-bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, fully for good: but evil came down from the and as flesh within the caldron.

LORD unto the gate of Jerusalein.

4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he 13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the cha-will not hear them: he will even hide his face riot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of from them at that time, as they have behaved the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the trans- themselves ill in their doings. gressions of Israel were found in thee.

5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the pro

14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Mo-phets that make my people err, that bite with resheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth lie to the kings of Israel. not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

Therefore, night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto deli-you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shail go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy cate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

CHAP. II.

Against oppression, injustice, &c.

7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover

W evil upon their beds when the morning 8 1 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit

O to them that devise iniquity, and work their lips; for there is no answer of God.

is light, they practise it, because it is in the pow-of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to er of their hand. declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Is

2 And they covet fields, and take them by vio-rael his sin. lence; and houses, and take them away: so 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house they oppress a man and his house, even a man of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, and his heritage. that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jernagainst this family do I devise an evil, from salem with iniquity.

which ye shall not remove your necks; neither 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. the priests thereof teach for hire, and the pro4 In that day shall one take up a parable phets thereof divine for money: yet will they against you, and lament with a doleful lamentalean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD tion, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath among us? none evil can come upon us. changed the portion of my people: how hath he 12 Therefore, shall Zion for your sake be removed it from me! turning away he hath di-ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become vided our fields. heaps, and the mountain of the house as the 5 Therefore, thou shalt have none that shall high places of the forest. cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. 6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that pro

phesy: 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 thein 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.

CHAP. IV.

Establishment of Christ's kingdom.
UT in the last days it shall come to pass,

Bhat the mountain of the house of the LORD

shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

2 And many nations shall come, and say, 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. 3 And he shall judge among many people, 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and even with a sore destruction. their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall

11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood not lift up a sword against nation, neither shal do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine they learn war any more. and of strong drink; he shall even be the pro- 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine phet of this people. and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them 12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Is-spoken it.

rael; I will put them together as the sheep of 5 For all people will walk every one in the name Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: of his god, and we will walk in the name of the they shall make great noise by reason of the LORD our God for ever and ever. 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble

multitude of men.

The victory of the church.

MICAH.

Injustice and idolatry of Israel.

her that halteth, and I will gather her that is 13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and driven out, and her that I have afflicted; thy standing images out of the midst of thee; 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

8 1 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

hands.

14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fary upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. CHAP. VI.

God's controversy with Israel. HEAR ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let

9 Now, why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. the hills hear thy voice. 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controverdaughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for sy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou the LORD hath a controversy with his people, shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to and he will plead with Israel.

Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of and wherein have I wearied thee? testify thine enemies. against me.

11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for ne shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and Isert before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for 1 that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD. will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs 6 1 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD,and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth. CHAP. V.

and bow myself before the high God? shall i come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?

7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of The birth of Christ foretold. rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? No WOW gather thyself in troops, O daughter of shall I give my first-born for my transgression, troops: he hath laid siege against us: they the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul! shall smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; the cheek. and what doth the LORD require of thee, but 2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out humbly with thy God?

of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be 9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye from of old, from everlasting. the rod, and who hath appointed it.

3 Therefore, will he give them up, until the 10 1 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness time that she which travaileth hath brought in the house of the wicked, and the scant meaforth: then the remnant of his brethren shall sure that is abominable? return unto the children of Israel.

11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked 4 T And he shall stand and feed in the strength balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 5 And this man shall be the peace, when the 13 Therefore, also will I make thee sick in smi Assyrian shall come into our land: and when ting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise sins.

against him seven shepherds, and eight princi- 14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy pal men. casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the that which thou deliverest will I give up to the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from sword. the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

16 T For the statutes of Omri are kept, and al the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among their counsels; that I should make thee a desothe Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go! through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

CHAP. VII.

The complaint of the church.

9 Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adver- Woisme: for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleansaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. ings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith my soul desired the first ripe fruit. the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: 11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

2 The good mun is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy 3 T That they may do evil with both hands band; and thou shalt have no more sooth-sayers: earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh

The church confideth in God.

CHAP. VII. for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

God comforteth the church 12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright from the fortress even to the river, and from sea is sharper than a thorn-hedge: the day of thy to sea, and from mountain to mountain. watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

5 T Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

13 Notwithstanding, the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvel

6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daugh1er-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. 7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will lous things. wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

81 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, 17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they the LORD shall be a light unto me. shall move out of their holes like worms of the 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, be-earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, cause I have sinned against him, until he plead and shall fear because of thee. any cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

CHAP. I.

The majesty of God, &c.

18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

TNAHUM.

Tvision of Nalium the Elkoshite.
HE burden of Nineveh. The book of the

2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the
LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will
take vengeance on his adversaries, and he re-
serveth wrath for his enemies.

3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

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6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth thein that trust in him. 8 But, with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee: he is utterly cut off.

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CHAP. II.

God's armies against Nineveh.

E that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine-branches.

3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir-trees shall be terribly shaken. 4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

5 Heshall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved,

7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their

ic For while they be folden together as thorns, breasts. and while they are drunken as drunkards, they 8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagin-cry; but none shall look back.

eth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. 9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of 12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, gold: for there is none end of the store and gloand likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut ry out of all the pleasant furniture. down, when he shall pass through. Though I 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and 13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them and will burst thy bonds in sunder. all gather blackness.

14 And the LORD hath given a commandment 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the concerning thee, that no more of thy name be feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, sown out of the house of thy gods will I cut off even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, the graven image and the molten image: I will and none made them afraid? make thy grave; for thou art vile.

12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his

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