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

3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwelleft in the cletts of the rock, whofe habitation is high; that faith in is heart, Who fhall bring me down to the ground?

4 Though thou exalt thyfelf as the eagle, And though thou fet thy net among the trars, thence will I bring thee down, faith

the LORD.

5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut on!) would they not have tolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave fome grapes?

6 How are the things of Efau fearched out! How are his hidden things fought up!

All the men of thy contederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

8 shall I not in that day, faith the JORD, even deftroy the wife men out of dom, and understanding out of the mount of Efau?

9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, fhall be difmayed, to the end that every one of the Iount of Efau may be cut off by laughter.

10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob thame thall cover thee, and thou shalt be cit oft for ever.

11 In the day that thou ftoodeft on the other fide, in the day that the ftrangers carried away captive his forces, and toreigners entered into his gates, and cart lots upon Jerufalem, even thou wat as one of

tem.

12 But thou fhouldeft not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he be came a ftranger; neither thouldeft thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither fhould thou day

diftrefs.

13 Thou shoulddeft not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calami ty; yea, thou thouldeft not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their fubftance in the day of their calamity;

14 Neither shouldeft thou have flood in the crossway, to cut off thofe of his that did efcape; neither thouldeft thou have delivered up thofe of his that did remain in the day of distress.

15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thon haft done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, fo ihall all the heathen drink co tinually, yea, they shall drink, and they tha fwallow down, and they thall be as though they had not been.

17 But upon mount Zion fhall be deli verance, and there shall be holiness; and the houfe of Jacob shall poffefs their poffelfions.

18 And the houfe of Jacob shall be a fire, and the houfe of Jofeph a fame, and the houfe of Efau for ftubble, and they shall kindle is them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the houfe of Efau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

19 And they of the fouth thall poffefs the mount of Efau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they fhall poffefs the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria; and Benjamin ball poffefs Gilead.

20 And the captivity of this hoft of the children of Ifrael ball pofejs that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerufalem, which is in Sepharad, thall poffefs the cities of the fouth.

21 And faviours thall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Elau; and the kingdom thall be the LoxD's.

СНА Р. 1.

¶ JONAH.

СНАР. 11.

from the fift.

Jonah, fent to Nineveh, fleeth to Tarfish: The prayer of Jonah: 10 he is deliveret 4 he is bewrayed by a tempeft, 11 thrown into the fea, 17 and swallowed by a fifb. Now the word of the LORD came unto

Jonah the fon of Amittai, faying,

2 Arife, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up

before me.

3 But Jonah rofe up to flee unto Tarshish from the prefence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarthith: fo he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarthith from the prefence of the LORD.

4 But the LORD fent out a great wind into the fea, and there was a mighty tempeft in the fea, fo that the ship was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god,and cant forth the wares that were in the ship into the fea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the fides of the ship; and he lay, and was faft asleep.

6 So the shipmafter came to him, and faid unto him, What meaneft thou, Ó fleeper? arife, call upon thy God, if fo be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

7 And they faid every one to his fellow, Come, and let us caft lots, that we may know for whofe caufe this evil is upon us. So they caft lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

8 Then faid they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whofe caufe this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation and whence comen thou? what is thy country and of what people art thou?

And he faid unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the fea and the dry land.

10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and faid unto him, Why haft thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the pre. fence of the LORD, because he had told them. 11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the fea may be calm unto us for the fea wrought, and was tempertuous.

12 And he faid unto them, Take me up, and caft me forth into the fea; fo fhall the fea be calm unto you: for I know that for my fake this great tempelt is upon you.

13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the fea wrought, and was tempestuous against

them.

14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and faid, We beleech thee, O LORD, we be feech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, haft done as it pleafed thee.

15 So they took up Jonah, and cat him forth into the fea: and the sea ceafed from her raging.

16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a facrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fith to fwallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three Lights,

THEN Jonah prayed unto the LORD his
God out of the nth's belly.

2 And faid, I cried by reafon of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardeft my voice.

3 For thou hadst caft me into the deep, in the midst of the feas; and the floods compaired me about: all thy billows and thy waves paffed over me.

4 Then I faid, I am caft out of thy fight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple." 5 The waters compaffed me about, even to the foul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet haft thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

7 When my foul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple:

8 They that obferve lying vanities forfake their own mercy.

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

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

CHAP. III.

3 So Jonah arofe, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an excceding great city of three days' journey.

4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and faid, Yet forty days, and Nineveh fhall be overthrows.

5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a faft, and put on fackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the lead of them..

6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arofe from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with fackcloth, and fat in athes.

7 And he caufed it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, faying, Let neither man nor beaft, herd nor flock, tarte any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

8 But let man and beast be covered with fackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every 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 turn away from his fierce anger, that we perith not?

13¶ And God faw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had faid that he would de unto them and he did it not.

Fonab reproved by

CHA P. IV.

MICAH

the type of a gourd. be a fhadow over his head, to deliver him Jonah, repining at Gol's mercy, 4 is reproved from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad by the type of a gourd. of the gourd.

BUT it difpleafed Jonah exceedingly, and he

was very angry.

2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and faid, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my faying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I Яed before unto Tarthith: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, dow to an. ger, and of great kindness, and repenteft thee of the evil.

3 Therefore now, O 1.ORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

4¶ Then faid the LORD, Doeft thou well to be angry?

So Jonah went out of the city, and fat on the cat fide of the city, and there made him a booth, and fat under it in the shadow, till he might fee what would become of the city,

6 And the Lord GOD prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might

THE

CHAP I.

7 But God prepared a worm when the morn ing rofe the next day, and it fmote the gourd that it withered.

8 And it came to pafs, when the fun did arife, that God prepared a vehement eaft wind; and the fun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wifhed in himself to die, and faid, It is better for me to die than to live.

9 And God faid to Jonah, Doeft thou well to be angry for the gourd And he faid, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

10 Then faid the LORD, Thou haft had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hatt not la boured, neither madeft it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

11 And 1hould not I fpare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than fixfcore thousand perfons that cannot difcern between their right hand and their left hand; and alje much cattle?

IMICA H.

Micah beweth the wrath of God againfi Jacob for idolatry: 10 he exhorteth to mourning. HE word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morathite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he faw concerning Samaria and Jerufalem:

Hear, all ye people; hearken, Oeurth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Gon be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys fhall be cleft, as wax be. 1ore the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

5 For the tranfgreftion of Jacob is all this, and tor the fins of the house or ifrael. What the tranfgreifion of Jacob is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerufalem.

6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the tones thereof into ane valley, and I will difcover the foundations

thereof.

7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof hall be burned with the fire, and all the idols 1ereof will ay defolate: for the gathered it <f the hire of an harlot, and they fhall return to the hire of an harlot.

8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will Ko ftripped and naked: I will make a wail. ng like the dragons, and mourning as the wwls.

9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerufalem,

To Declare ye if not at Gath, weep ye not at all, in the house of Aphrah roll thy felf in the duft.

Pals ye away, thou inhabitant of Sa.

phir, having thy fhame naked: the inhabi tant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourn ing of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerufalem.

130 thou inhabitant of Lachith, bind the chariot to the fwift beaft: the is the beginning of the fin to the daughter of Zion: for the tranfgreffions of Ifrael were found in thee.

14 Therefore halt thou give preferts to Moretheth-gath: the houfos of Achziv feall be a lie to the kings of Ifrael.

15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Marethah: he thall come unto Adullam the glory of Ifrael.

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.

CHAP. II.

1 Against oppreffion. 4 A lamentation. 74 reproof of injustice and idolatry. 13 Apr mife of refioring Jacob.

WOE to them that devife iniqy, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practife it, because it is in the power of their hand.

2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houfes, and take them away! fo they opprefs a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

3 Therefore thus faith the LORD; Behold, againft this family do I devife an evil, from which ye thall not remove your necks; neither fhall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

4 In that day thall one take up a parable againit you, and lament with a doleful la mentation, and fay, We be utterly fpoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our helds.

5 Therefore thou shalt have none that thail cait a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

6 Prophefy ye not, fay they to them that and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophefy: they thall not prophefy to them, prophets thereof divine for money: yet will that they fhall not take thame. they lean upon the LORD, and fay, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

70 thou that art named the houfe of Jacob, is the fpirit of the LORD traitened? are thefe his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

8 Even of late my people is rifen up as an enemy: ve pull ort the robe with the garment from them that pafs by fecurely as inen averfe from war.

9 The women of my people have ye caft out

from their pleafant houfes; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

10 Arife ye, and depart; for this is not your rent: because it is polluted, it thall defroy you, even with a fore destruction.

ti If a man walking in the spirit and falfehood do lie, faying, I will prophefy unto thee of wine and of itrong drink; he thall even be the prophet of this people.

121 will furely affemble, O Jacob, all of thee; ill furely gather the remnant of If rael; I will put them together as the theep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midft of their told: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up and have paited through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king thall pafs before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

CHAP. III.

The cruelty of the princes. 5 The falsehood of
the prophets. 8 Their ill grounded fecurity.

AND I faid, Hear, I pray you, O heads of
Jacob, and ye princes of the houfe of
Ifrael; Is it not for you to know judgment?.
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil
who pluck off their skin from off them; and
their fleth from off their bones;

3 Who alfo eat the neth of my people, and flay their ikin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as fiefh within the cal.

dron.

4 Then fhall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will ever hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

5 Thus faith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye thall not have a vifion; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye fhall not divine; and the fuu shall go down over the prophets, and the day thall be dark over them.

7 Then thall the feers be afhamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they fhail all cover their lips; for there is no answer of

God.

8 But truly I am full of power by the fpirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his tranfgreffion, and to Ifrael his fin.

9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the houfe of Jacob, and princes of the house of Ifrael, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerufalem with iniquity.

II The heads thereof judge for reward,

12 Therefore fhali Zion for your fake be plowed as a field, and Jerufalem thall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

CHAP. IV.

1 The glory, 3 peace, 8 kingdom, 11 and victory of the church.

Bar the mountain of the house of the UT in the last days it shall come to pafs, LORD thall be established in the top of the mountains, and it thall be exalted above the hills; and people thall How unto it.

2 And many nations thall 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 fhall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerufalem.

3And he thall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they fhall beat their fwords into plowthares, and their pears into pruning hooks: nation thali not lift up a fword against ion, neither shall they "learn war any more.

4 But they thall fit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none thall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hofts hath spoken it.

5 For all people will walk every one in

the name of his god, and we will walk in the name or the LORD our God for ever and

ever.

6 In that day, faith the LORD, will I af. femble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was caft far off a trong nation: and the LORD fhall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the trong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee fhall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom fhall come to the daughter of Jeru falem.

9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor pe rifhed for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now thalt thou go forth cut of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there thalt thou be de. fivered: there the LORD fhall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

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

12 Bu. they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counfel: for he thall gather them as the fheaves into the floor.

13 Arife and threth, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brafs: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will confe. crate their gain unto the LORD, and their

Chrifi's birth, kingdom, &c.

MICA B.

God's controverfy fubftance unto the LORD of the whole for the LORD hath a controverfy with his pes ple, and he will plead with Ifrael.

earth.

CHAP. V.

3 O my people, what have I done unto thee! 1 The birth of Chrift: 4 his kingdom: 8 his and wherein have I wearied thee? teftiff against me,

conquest.

Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid fiege againft us: they shall fmite the judge of Ifrael with a rod upon the cheek.

2 But, thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee thall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Ifrael; whofe goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that the which travaileth hath brought forth then the remnant of his brethren fhall return unto the children of

Ifrael.

4 And he thall ftand and feed in the ftrength of the LORD, in the majetty of the name of the LORD his God, and they hall abide for now thall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

s And this man fhall be the peace, when the Affyrian fall come into our land; and when he thall tread in our palaces, then fhall we raife against him feven thepherds, and eight princips nen.

And they hall wafte the land of Affyria with the fword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus thall he deliver from the Affyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

7. And the remnant of Jacob fhal! be in the midit of many people as a dew from the 1.ORD, as the showers upon the grafs, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the fons of

cut off.

to And it shall come to pafs in that day, faith the LORD, that I will cut off thy hories out of the midst of thee, and I will deftroy thy chariots:

II And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and thr w down all thy ftrong holds.

12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more foothfayers:

13 Thy graven images alfo will I cut off, and thy ftanding images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of

the midst of thee: fo will I deftroy thy cities. 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and rury upon the heathen, fuch as they have

not heard.

СНАР. VI.

1 God's controverfy for unkindness, 6 for ignorance, 10 for injuflice, 16 and for idolatry HEAR ye now Where the Rofaith; Arife,

contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controverty, and ye ftrong foundations of the earth:

4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the houfe of fervants; and I fent before thee Mofes, Aaron, and Miriam.

5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab confulted, and what Balaam the fon of Beor anfwered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousnefs of the LORD.

6 Wherewith fhall I come before the LORD, and bow my felf before the high God? fhall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old!

7 Will the LORD be pleafed with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? thall I give my firitborn for my tranf greffion, the fruit of my body for the fin of my foul?

8 He hath thewed thee, O man, what it good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do juttly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom fhall fee thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

10 Are there yet the treatures of wick. edness in the houfe of the wicked, and the fcant measure that is abominable?

11 Shall I count them pure with the wick. ed balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

12 For the rich men thereof are full of vio lence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their

mouth.

13 Therefore alfo will I make thee fick in fmiting thee, in making thee defolate becault of thy fins.

14 Thou shalt eat, but not be fatisfied; and thy cafting down feall be in the midft of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the fword.

15 Thou shalt fow, but thou shalt not reap thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and fweet wine, but that not drink wine.

all the works of the houfe of Ahab, and se 16 For the ftatutes of Omri are kept, and thee a defolation, and the inhabitants thereof walk in their counfels; that I thould make an hilfing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

CHAP. VII. The church, complaining of her small nut ber, 3 and the general corruption, 5 putteth her confidence in God.

WOE is me! for I am as when they have gathered the fummer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluner to eat my foul defired the first-ripe fruit.

2 The good man is perithed 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.

3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince afketh, and the judge heth for a reward; and the great man,

he