and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely Wo to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust Lake 12,17,

go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. 6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break g Mal. 4, 1. out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Judgments of the grasshoppers, &c.

Before HRIST 787.

CHAPTER VII....VIII....IX.

CHAPTER VIII.

Oppression reproved.

Before

pression of the poor reproved.

12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into 1 By a basket of summer-fruit is shewed Israel's end....4 Opgall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock. 13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which pHos. 10, 4 say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own 917. 23, 5. Strength?

o ba.35 11. Zach. 1, 6.

r Dun. 4, 30.

14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD,the God of hosts; Jer. 5, 16 and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of the wilderness..

Isa. 5, 5.

3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, Psal. 12, 1. saith the LORD.

e Jam. 5,18.

12 Kings 15,

16. & 16, 9.

17.

Ps. 102,

Jer. 14,9.

h2 Kings 24, 13.

chap. 8, 2

41 Thus hath the Lord GoD shewed unto me; and,
behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and
it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord Gop, cease, I beseech thee;
by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall
not be, saith the Lord GOD.

7 Thus he shewed me; and, behold, the LORD
stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line," with a
plumb-line in his hand.

8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them Isa. 34, 11. any more:

11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, P flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there :

13 But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: 125 for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son: but 21 Cor. 1, I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore-fruit: 15 And the LORD took me "as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my uch. 1, 1. people Israel.

16 Now, therefore, hear thou the word of the y Mat. 144 LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac. 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Thy wife shall Jer. 28,12. be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters Lan. 4, 11. shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided 2 Kings by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

15, 29. & 17.

THU

HUS hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and,
behold," a basket of summer-fruit.

CHRIST

787.

e

20 & 19, 15. c Jer. 5, 11 Ezek. 7, 6,7 Rev. 10, 6.

d ch. 5, 25.

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth Ps. 79, 2. with silence.

4 1 Hear this, O ye that' swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

f Ps. 14, 4. James 5. 6.

4,

5 Saying. When will the new moon be gone, that g2 Kings we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set 12:23. forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel Isa. 58, 3. great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

13.
Mal. 1, 18.

39.

6 That we may "buy the poor for silver, and the h Lev. 25, needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of Neh. 5, 1, & the wheat?

chap. 2, 5.

Jer. 9, 12.

7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. i Ps. 60, 2. 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

Hos. 4, 1, 2

3.

Ezek. 29,

1 Ps. 37, 13.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the 1 Thes. 5, 3. Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down "at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day : 6.

m Micah 3

10 And I will turn your feasts" into mourning, and n Jam. 5,6. all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

© Ezek. 27, 80, 51.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the p verse 5. words of the LORD:

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall 'not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

The restoring of the

Before slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them evil, and not for good.

CHRIST

737.

g Lev. 17, 10.

Jer. 21, 6. & 4.1, 11.

for 10 All the P sinners of my people shall die by the
{
sword, which say, The evil shall a not overtake nor
prevent us.

5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like a flood, h Jer. 5, 22. and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and bath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them k Gen. 2, 1. out upon the face of the earth; The LORD is his

chap. 3, 6. & 8, 8.

2.

I Jer. 3, 13.

name.

k

i

S

Before CHRIST 787.

P

14.

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches q ch. 6.3. thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

13. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, sand inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians 'unto me," O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Gep are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the n Acts 15, face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

m verse 4.

16.

o Dan. 12,2. Mat. 3, 12.

m

9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house? of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they y Isaiah 30, shall no more be pulled up out of their land which 29. & 55, 10. have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

I

¶ OBADIAH.

1 The destruction of Edon for their pride....17 The salvation
and victory of Jacob.

a

8

& 60, 21. Joel S, 20.

Micah 7.8

12 But thou shouldest not have 'looked on the day r Ps. 22, 17 of thy brother, in the day that he became a stranger; Mat. 27, 38 THE vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the chil- Job 51, 29. s GOD concerning Edom, We have heard a ru- dren of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither mour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of 1 Sam. 5, among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up distress. against her in battle.

c

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

3.

13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate Ps. 187, 7 of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou Zech. 12,2 shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the 3 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habita-substance in the day of their calamity: tion is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and Isaiah 14, though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and Amos 9, 12. the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour under-them; and there shall not be any remaining of the 10, 17 house of Esau : for the LORD hath spoken it.

8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even 1 Job 5, 12, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and standing out of the mount of Esau?

13.

m 1 Sam.

28, 20.

P'sal. 76, 6.

n Ps. 187, 7. Jer. 51 35.

m

9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

n

10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, Amos 1, 1. shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off ° for

19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

24.

& 29,
Joel 3, 19.
Heb. 12, 20.

20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which 26. & 32, 44 is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the 'kingdom shall be the LORD's.

Joel, It.

Rev. 14, 1.

f. 74

Dan.

2 Tim. 4, 1.

Kev. 11, 15.

¶ JONAH.

Before

CHRIST

802.

a 2 Kings

14, 25.

Mat. 12, 40.

Before CHRIST

1. Jonah, sent to Nineveh, fleeth to Tarshish: 4 He is over- 1 The prayer of Jonah: 10 He is delivered out of the belly .862
taken by a tempest, and thrown into the sea, &c.
of the fish.

NOW the word of the LORD came unto Jonah, T

the son of Amittai, saying,

b

2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry Zeph. 2,15. against it; for their wickedness is come up before

b Ps. 127, 2.

c Gen. 18, 20. James. 5, 4.

d Neh. 6, 11.

me.

d

e

& 142, 3.

HEN Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out & Ps. 130, 1. of the fish's belly,

2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly b Ps. 65, 2 of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

d

2 Chr. 33,

12.

3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the ers. 32, 4. the presence of the LORD, and went down to Jop-midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me a Ps 42, 7. James 5, 17. pa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I e Ps. 31, 22. with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the will look again toward thy holy temple. Phil. verse LORD.

3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, accord-b Jer. 1, 17 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, anding to the word of the LORD. (Now Nineveh was said unto him, Why hast thou done this? (for the an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.) Gen. 39,3 men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.)

4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey; and he cried, and said, "Yet forty days, 12 Kings and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

20, 1, E. Jer. 18, 8. e Mat. 11, 2 Cor. 10, 4

5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put en sackcloth, from the 21. 12, 41 greatest of them even to the least of them.

Jer. 3, 13.

6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from Ex. 8, 8. him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh, (by the decree of the king and his nobles,) saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not feed, nor drink water:

Jer. 5. 5. 2Chr. 20, 3

Joel 2, 12.

h Gen, 6,

8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every 102 one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and Joel 2, 13. turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? chap. 1,6. 10 And God saw their works, that they turned Rev. 2, 2 from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

Jonah reproved, &c.

Before CHRIST

CHAPTER IV.

MICAH.
God s wrath against Jacob.
{over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jo- Before
nah was 'exceeding glad of the gourd.

rir. 852. Jonah, repining at God's mercy, is reproved by the type of a gourd.

a Mat. 20, 15.

Luke 15, 13.

b Jer. 20, 7

1 Pet. 5, 7. Mat 20,

15.

d 2 Kings 19, 4

a

UT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he

was very angry.

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 e Eccl. 7, 1. life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the LORD, 'Doest thou well to be angry? 5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what Would become of the city.

(Mat. 20,
15.
James 1, 19.
g Isa. 48,
20.

h Acts 20,

i ch. 1, 17.

cir. 750.

a 2 Chr. 36,

15.

CHRIST cir. 862

k Isa. 57,

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, 1Amos 6, 13. that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and 16. wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for men Ps. 121,6. to die than to live.

m Hosea 6,

o 2 Sam. 15

9 And God said to Jonah, P Doest thou well to be 25. angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be p Mat. 5. angry, even unto death.

r

22.
q 1 Kings

10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on 3,46 the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, nei- Mat. 1 ther madest it grow; which came up in a night, and $2 perished in a night:

s Neh. 9, 31.

11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great 2 Cor. 1, 4. city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand per- teh. 1,2 sons that cannot discern between their "right hand & 3,5,4 and their left hand; and also much cattle?

¶ MICAH.
ག

1 Micah sheweth the wrath of God against Jacob for idolatry:
10 He exhorteth to mourning.

HE word of the LORD that came to a Micah the

u Job 6, 24 & 40, 5.

13 0 thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the char- y2 Kings iot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the of Israel were found in thee.

Torostite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and sin to the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions is 107,2

b

14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Morc- 23, 35. 21 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and shethgath the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the all that therein is: and let the Lord God be wit-kings of Israel. ness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.

3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his e I. 26, 21. place, and will come down, and 'tread upon the high f Is 63, 3. places of the earth.

5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for Mal 2,17. the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transi1 Kings gression 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 'a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard and I will pour 12 Kings down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will chup. 3, 12. m discover the foundations thereof.

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

ل

e

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

CHAPTER II.

1 Against oppression....7 A reproof of injustice and idolatry.
12 A promise of restoring Jacob.

a

b2 Kings 14, 19.

2 Kings

17,4 & 18,

24

Wo
TO to them that devise iniquity, and work evil cr. 730.

b

a Estb. 5, 8, Rom. 1, 30.

upon their beds! when the morning is light 9. they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

c

b Neh. 5, 1,

2

2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence: Prov. 3, 27. and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a £1 Kings man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

21, 2.

Isa. 5, 8.

d Ps. 18, 26.

3 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall verse 1. not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haugh- Mat. 7, 2 tily for this time is evil.

e

f

4 In that day shall one take up a parable against
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go strip- you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say,
ped and naked: I will make a wailing like the drag-We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion
ons, and mourning as the owls.
of my people: how hath he removed it from me!
turning away he hath divided our fields.

9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto 1. 8, 7. 8. Judah: he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

e Ps. 50, 21

Ezek. 7,5

Amos 5, 13. g 2 Kings

17, 24

h Jer. 2, 11