+ Heb. delivereth. Or, on the bed's feet. Or, punish Israel for. 12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd ttaketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch. 13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, 14 That in the day that I shall || visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. 'Jer. 36. 22. 15 And I will smite the winter house with *Judg.3.20. * the summer house; and 'the houses of ivory $9. shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD. 11 Kings 22. • Ps. 22. 12. Ezek. 39. 18. *Ps. 89.35. CHAP. IV. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and q P Deut. 28. 22. Hag. 2. 17. multitude of your gar dens, &c.. palmer & 2.25. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence did the Joel 1.4. way. 60. Ps. 78.50. Heb. with 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye the cat were as a firebrand plucked out of the burn- horses, ing: "yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 7. the LORD. captivity Isai. 13. 19. Jer. 49. 18. 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O 24, 25. Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Zech. 3. 2. 30. 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, See Ezek. 1 He reproveth Israel for oppression, 4 for idolatry, and createth the wind, and declareth unto 15.5. & 22. 6 and for their incorrigibleness. man what is his thought, that maketh the Luke 14.S1, EAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, morning darkness, and treadeth upon the or, spirit. Hatte in the mountain of Samaria, high places of the earth, The LORD, The Fr. 159. God of hosts, is his name. Israel's hypocrisy rejected : CHAP. VI. Before CHRIST her wantonness plagued. O house with night: that 'calleth for the waters of the offerings in the wilderness forty years, 787. sea, and poureth them out upon the face of of Israel? Job 38. 34. the earth: "The LORD is his name: Before CHRIST ch. 9. 6. ch, 4.13. 9 That strengtheneth the †spoiled against Heb. spoil. the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. 10 "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him. burdens of wheat: 'ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted † pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, Mic. 3. 11. shall be with you, 'as ye have spoken. " Ps. 34. 14. & 97. 10. Rom. 12. 9. *Exod. 32. 2 Kings 19. 30. 4. Joel 2. 14. 15 "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious. unto the remnant of Joseph. 16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the Jer. 9. 17. husbandman to mourning, and 'such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. 12. Nah. 1. 12. Z a 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing * Exod. 12. for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of Isai. 5. 19. the LORD! to what end is it for you? the Ezek. 12.22, day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and Jer. 30. 7. a bear met him; or went into the house, and Zeph. 1. 15. leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit 3 Ye that "put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence near; 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 m That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, "like David; 6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the taffliction Joseph. of 7¶ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. first fruits. Isai. 10.9. cir. 794. Kings 18. Taken 34. Nah. 3. 8. 27. n Ezek 12. ich. 5. 18. & 9. 10. ch. 5. 12. . 94. 20. ver. 12. P. Or habitation. || Or, abound with super fluities. Isai. 5. 19. Or, quaver. 1 Chron. 23. 5. Or, in bowls of wine.. Gen. 57. 25. + Heb. breach. Jer. 51.14. 17. 8 P The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the Hebr. 6. 15, excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all † that is therein. 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. Ps. 47.4. ch. 8.7. Ezek. 24.21. + Heb. the fulness thereof. 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, 'Hold thy tongue: for || we may not make mention of the name of the Or, they LORD. rch. 5. 13. $ ch. 8. 3. will not, or, have not. t Isai. 55.11. 11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, "and he will smite the great house with "ch. 3. 15. breaches, and the little house with clefts. droppings. || Or, The certainty of her desolation foretold. CHRIST 787. AMOS. Before 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. I Hos. 4. 3. ch. 9. 5. 791. Job 5. 14. Isai. 13. 10. & 59. 9, 10. Jer. 15. 9. Mic. 3. 6. •Tob. 2. 6. 3. Jer. 48. 37. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10° And I will turn your feasts into mournIsai. 15. 2, ing and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldEzek. 7. 18. ness upon every head; q and I will make it as Jer. 6. 26. the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. & 27.31. Zech. 12. 10 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 1 Sam. 3.1. Water, but' of hearing the 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. Ps. 74. 9. The restoring of the tabernacle of David. CHRIST 787. 5 And the Lord GoD of hosts is he that Before toucheth the land, and it shall melt, " and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall Mic. 1. 4. rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 6 It is he that buildeth his k h ch. 8. 8. spheres. ascensions. stories | Or, in the heaven, and hath founded his troop Heb. in the earth; he that calleth for the wa- P104.3. ters of the sea, and poureth them out upon or, bundle. the face of the earth: The LORD is hisch. 5. 8. name. 13. 'ch. 4. 13. to move. 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will † sift + Heb. cause 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. 14 They that swear by 'the sin of Sama-† Deut. 9.21. ria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The † manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even & 18. 25. & they shall fall, and never rise up again. way: 19. 9, 23. & 24. 14. "ch. 5.5. Or, chapi- u CHAP. IX. r 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. + Heb. stone. ch.6. 3. 16, 17. 11 In that day will I raise up the taber- Acts 15. nacle of David that is fallen, and † close up ↑ Hen. 1 The certainty of the desolation. 11 The restoring the breaches thereof; and I will raise up I a SAW the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, ter, or knop, that the posts may shake: and cut them in them. the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of ch. 2. 14. them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. a Ps. 68. 21. Hab. 3. 13. * Ps. 139. 8, &c. Jer. 51. 53. b 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall Job 20. 6. mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. a 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. * Joel 3. 18. Jer. 30. 3. & 65. 21. -36. Before CHRIST cir. 587. a Isai. 21.11. & 34. 5. 13, 14. Mal. 1. 3. &c. OBADIA H. 1 The destruction of Edom, 3 for their pride, 10 and for their wrong unto Jacob. 17 The salvation and victory of Jacob. a b THE vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We Ezek. 25.12, have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an Joel 3. 19. ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise Jer. 49.14, ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived ¶ 2 Kings 14. thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in 15,14,15 his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 7. ❝ Isai. 14. Rev. 18, 7. d C 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the Hab. 2. 9. stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. Before CHRIST cir. 587. or, do not behold, &c. & r Ps. 22.17. 51.7.& 59.10. 12 But thou shouldest not have 'looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have 'rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have † spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into &7.10.the gate of my people in the day of their ca- & 157.7. lamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked Mic. 7. 8. on their affliction in the day of their calamity, & 24. 17, 18. nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; 6 How are the things of Esau searched + 8 'Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, Job 5. 12, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and Isai. 29. 14. understanding out of the mount of Esau? " 9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall Amos 2.16. be dismayed, to the end that every one of "Jer. 49. 7. the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaugh Ps. 76. 5. Gen. 27. 11. ter. m 10 For thy violence against thy brother Ps. 137. 7. Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt Ezek 25.12. be cut off for ever. & 35.5. Amos 1. 11. P Ezek. 35. 9. Mal. 1. 4. Or, carried away his substance. Noel S. toel 5. 3. * Ezek. 35. 15. Hab. 2. 8. cir. 585. Jer. 25. 28, 29.& 49. 12. 16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink con- Joel 3.17. tinually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall i Pet. 4. 17. || swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. Or,sup up. de a Aruos 9.8. and Joel 2. 32. Or, they Or, it shall 17 ¶ But upon mount Zion shall be liverance, and there shall be holiness; the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. q that escape. be holy. Joel 3. 17. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it. C 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. Zech, 12. 6. 20 And the captivity of this host of the which is in children of Israel shall possess that of the Jer S.44. Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, || m. shall possess the cities of the south. 16. Ps. 22. 26. Dan. 2. 44. & 7. 11, 27. 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zech. 14.2. Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the Rev.11.13 kingdom shall be the LORD's. & 19.6. |