The coming of Chrift. will fmite her power in the fea; hall be devoured with fire.

The refloration of Judah. falfe dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no thepherd.

Chap. x, x 1. and the 5 Afhkelon thall fee it, and fear; Gaza alfo fal fee it, and be very forrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation thall be ashamed; and the king thall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon hall not be inhabited.

6 And a battard thall dwell in Ashdod, and will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from be. tween his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he thali be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jeb. ufite.

8 And I will encamp about mine houfe be. caufe of the army, because of him that paffeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppreffor thall pass through them any more: for now have I feen with mine eyes.

9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; fhout, O daughter of Jerufalem: Behold, thy king cometh unto thee: he is juft, and having falvation; lowly, and riding upon an afs, and upon a colt the foal of an

afs.

10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerufalem, and the battle bow fhall be cut off: and he fhall fpeak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion fhall be from fea even to fea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

11 As for thee alfo, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prifoners of hope: even to day do I declare that 1 will render double unto thee;

13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy fons, O Zion, against thy fons, O Greece, and made thee as the fword of a mighty

man.

14 And the LORD shall be feen over them, and his arrow fhall go forth as the light ning: and the Lord GoD shall blow the trumpet, and fhall go with whirlwinds of the fouth.

15 The LORD of hofts fhall defend them; and they shall devour, and fubdue with fling ftones; and they shall drink, and make a noife as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the

altar.

16 And the LORD their God shall fave them

3 Mine anger was kindled against the fhepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hofts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horfe in the battle.

4 Out of hini came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppreffor together.

S And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they fhall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses thall be confounde 1.

6 And I will strengthen the houfe of Ju dah, and I will fave the house of Jofeph, and I will bring them again to place them; for 1 have mercy upon them: and they thall be as though I had not caft them off: for I am the LORD their Goa, and will hear them.

7 And they of Ephraim fhall be like a mighty man, and their heart thall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children fhall fee if and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.

8 I will hifs for them, and gather them, for I have redeemed them; and they shall increase as they have increased.

9 And I will fow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they thall live with their children, and turn again.

10 I will bring them again alfo out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Affy ria: and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place fhall not be found for them.

11 And he thall pass through the fea with affiction, and thall fmite the waves in the fea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Affyria fhall be brought down, and the fceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

12 And I will ftrengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, faith the LORD.

CHAP. XI.

The deftruction of Ferufalem. 4 Under the type of Zechariah is fhewed Chrift's care for the flock, the Jews; and their rejection for ingratitude and light eftimation of bim. 15 The type and curse of a foolish shepherd.

in that day as the flock of his people; for the OPEN thy doors, o Lebanon, that the fire

fall be as the ftones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn thall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

may devour thy cedars.

2 How!, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen, because the mighty are fpeiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bathan; for the foreft of the vintage is come down.

3 There is a voice of the howling of the thepherds; for their glory is fpoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is fpoiled.

4 Thus faith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the daughter;

5 Whofe poffeffors day them, and hold themselves not guilty and they that fell them fay, Bleffed be the ORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants

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The flaves, Beauty, and Bands.

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The repentance of Ferujalen, of the land, faith the LORD: but, lo I will And the governors of Judah fhall fay in deliver the men every one into his neighbour's their heart, The inhabitants of Jerufalem al hand, and into the hand of his king: and be my strength in the LORD of hosts their they fhall fmite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

7 And I will feed the flock of flaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two faves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the fock.

8 Three hepherds alfo I cut off in one month; and my foul lothed them, and their foul alfo abhorred me.

9 Then faid I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the reft eat every one

the flesh of another.

10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it afunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

11 And it was broken in that day: and fo the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

12 And I said unto them, if ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of filver.

13 And the LORD faid unto me, Caft it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of filver, and caft them to the potter in the houfe of the LORD.

14 Then I cut afunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Ifrael.

15 And the LORD faid unto me, Take unto thee yet the inftruments of a foolish thepherd.

16 For, lo, I will raife up a fhepherd in the land, which fhall not visit thofe that be cut off, neither fhall feek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that ftandeth till: but he thall cat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

17 Woe to the idol thepherd that leaveth the flock! the fword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm thall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

God.

6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a theaf; and they thall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerufalem fhall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerufalem.

7 The LORD alfo fhall fave the tents of Judah firit, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerufalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

8 In that day fhall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerufalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day thall be as David; and the houfe of David ball be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

9. And it shall come to pafs in that day, that I will feek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerufalem.

10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerufalem, the fpirit of grace, and of fupplications: and they fhall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they hall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only jon, and thall be in bitternefs for him, as che that is in bitternefs for his firstborn.

11 In that day fhall there be a great mourning in Jerufalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

12 And the land fhall mourn, every fam ly apart; the family of the houfe of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the houfe of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

13 The family of the houfe of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shemei apart, and their wives apart;

14 All the families that remain, every fa mily apart, and their wives apart. CHAP. Xiti. 1 The fountain of purgation for ferufalem 2 The extirpation of idolatry and faile phecy 1 the death of chrift, and the jav ing of a third part after a fevere trial. Ferufalem a cup of trembling, and burden- IN that day there shall be a fountain openJome ftone to her adverfaries. 6 The victo.ed to the house of David and to the inrious restoring of Judah. 10 The repentance habitants of Jerufalem for fin and fer un of Ferufalem.

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CHAP. XII.

HE burden of the word of the LORD for Ifrael, faith the LORD, which ftretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the fpirit of man

within him.

2 Behold, I will make Jerufalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the iiege both against Judah and against Jerufalem.

3 And in that day will I make Jerufalem a burdenfome ftone for all people: all that burden themselves with it fhall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

4 In that day, faith the LORD, I will fmite every horfe with aftonishment, and his rider with madnefs: and I will open mine eyes upon the boufe of Judah, and will fmite every horfe of the people with blindaefs.

cleanness.

2 And it thall come to pafs in that day, faith the LORD of hots, that 1. will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and alfo! will caufe the prophets and the unclean fpitit to pafs out of the land.

3 And it fhall come to pass, that when any fhall yet prophefy, then his father and his mother that begat him thall fay. unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou fpeakett lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his n:other that begat him thall thrust him through when he pro-j phefieth.

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4 And it shall come to pafs in that day, that the prophets thail be afhamed every one of his vifion, when he hath prophefied; thall they wear a rough garment to de ceive

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Chap. xiv. 5 But he fhall fay, I am no prophet, I am Ja hufbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

6 And on hall fay unto him, What are thefe wounds in thine hands? Then he thall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

7 Awake, O fword, againft my thep herd, and againit the man that is my fel low', faith the LORD of hosts: fmite the thepherd, and the sheep fhall be fcattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little

17 And it shall be, that whos will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerufalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will fmite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

19 This fhall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feaft of taber. nacles.

20 In that day fhall there be upon the bells of the horfes, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's houfe that be like the bowls before the altar.

21 Yea, every pot in Jerufalem and in Judah thall be holinefs unto the LORD of hofts; and all they that facrifice fhail come and take of them, and feethe therein: and in that day there fhall be 1.0 more the Canaanite in the houfe of the Louv e! hofts

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CHAP. I.

covenant, 11 and the people for idolatry, 14 adultery, 17 and infidelity.

Malachi complaineth of Ifrael's unkindness, x He reproveth the priests for neglecting their
6 irel gion, 12 and profaneness.
HE burden of the word of the LORD to
Ifrael by Malachi.

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21 have loved you, faith the LORD. Yet ye fay, Wherein hatt theu loved us? Was not Efau Jacob's brother? faith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

3 And I hated Efau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

4 Whereas FJom faith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the defolate places; thus faith the LORD of hosts, They ihall build, but I will throw down; and they thall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath Indignation for ever.

5 And your eyes fhail fee, and ye shall fay, The LORD will be magnified from the border of lfrael.

6A fon honoureth his father, and a
Servant his mafter: if then I be a father,
where is mine honour! and if I be a mafter,

where is my fear? faith the LORD of hosts
unto you, O prichs, that defpife my name,
And ye fay, Wherein have we defpifed thy

name?

We offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye fay, wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye fay, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

mind if ye offer the blind for facrifice, Is if not evil! and if ye offer the lame and lick, Is it not evil? offer it now unto the governor; will he be pleafed with thee, or accept thy perfon? faith the LORD of

hofts.

9 And now, I pray you, befeech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will be regard your perfons! faith the LORD of hosts.

10 Who is there even among you that would fhut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine aitar for nought. I have no pleure in you, faith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your

hand.

II For from the rifing of the fun even unto the going down of the fame, my name fall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incenfe ball be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, faith the LORD of

hotts.

12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye fay, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

13 Ye faid alfo, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have fnufed at it, faith the LORD of hoits; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the fick; thus ye brought an offering: Should I accept this of your hand? faith the LORD.

14 But curfed be the deceiver, which hath in e Pack a male, and voweth and facrificeth unto the Lop a corrupt thing: for I o a great xing, aith the LORD of hofts, and my name is dreadful among the hea

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ND now, O ye priests, this command. ment is for you.

2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, faith the LORD of bofts, I will even fend a curfe upon you, and I will curfe your bleifings: yea, I have curfed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

3 Behold, I will corrupt your feed, and fr read dung upon your faces, even the dung of your folemn feafts; and one shall take you away with it.

4 And ye thall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant! might be with Levi, faith the LORD of horts

My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the feat wherewith he feared me, and was afraid be fore my name,

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, an

iniquity was not found in his lips: he walke with me in peace and equity, and did tur many away from iniquity.

7 For the prien's lips thould keep know ledge, and they fhould feek the law at hi mouth: for he is the meffenger of the Lor of hofts.

8 But ye are departed out of the way; have caufed many to ftumble at the law; have corrupted the covenant of Levi, faith LORD of hosts.

9 Therefore have I alfo made you temptible and bafe before all the people, a cording as ye have not kept my ways, have been partial in the law.

10 Have we not all one father hath notont

God created us? why do we deal treachery every man against his brother, by profging the covenant of our fathers?

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Ifrael and in Jerufalem; for Judah hath profaned the holinefs of the LORD which he loved, and god. hath married the daughter of a frange

12 The LORD will eut off the man that doeth this, the mafter and the fcholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

ing the altar of the LORD with tears, with
13 And this have ye done again, eover.
weeping, and with crying out, infomuch
that he regardeth not
the offering any
hand.
more, or receiveth it with good will at your

LORD hath been witnefs between thee and
14 Yet ye fay, Wherefore? Because the
the wife of thy youth, against whom tho
haft dealt treacherouily: yet is the thy com
panion, and the wife of thy covenant.

he the refidue of the fpirit. And wherefo 15 And did not he make one? Yet ha one? That he might feex a godly fee Therefore take heed to your fpirit, and none dest treacherously against the wile of

youth.

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The people's rebellion, &c.

Chap. iii, iv. 16 For the LORD, the God of Ifrael, faith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, faith the LORD of hotts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

17¶Ye have wearied the LORD with your Words. Yet ye fay, Wherein have we wearied bim? When ye fay, Every one that doeth evil is good in the fight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

CHA P. III.

Of the messenger, majefty, and grace of Chrift. Of the rebellion, 8 facrilege, 13 and infidelity of the people. 16 The promise of blefng to them that fear God.

BEHOLD, I will fee way meffenger, and he fhall prepare the way before me, and the LORD, whom ye feek, thall fuddenly come to his temple, even the meffenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, faith the LORD of hosts.

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and, Who fhall ftand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's foap:

And he diall fit as a refiner and purifier of filver: and he fhall purify the fons of Levi, and purge them as gold and filver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in rightteousness.

4 Then fhall the offering of Judah and Jerufalem be pleafant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a fwift witnefs against the forcerers, and against the adulterers, and against falfe fwearers, and against thofe that opprefs the hireling in his wages, the widow, and

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atherlefs, and that turn' afide the transer from bis right, and fear not me, faith the LORD of holts.

6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye fons of Jacob are not confumed.

7¶ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, faith the LORD, of hofts. But ye faid, Wherein fhall we

return?

8 Will a man roh God! yet ye have robbed me. But ye fay, Wherein have we sobbed thee? In titles and offerings.

9 Ye are curfed with a curfe: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

10 Bring ye all the tithes into the florehoufe, that there may be meat in mine houfe, and prove me now herewith, faith the LORD of hofts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a bleffing, that there fall not be room enough to receive it.

Elijab coming and office. II And I will rebuke the devourer for votiz fakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither fhall your vine caft her fruit before the time in the field, faith the LORD of hosts..

12 And all nations fhall call you bleffed for ye shall be a delightfome land, faith the LORD of hosts.

13 Your words have been fout against me, faith the LORD. Yet ye fay, What have we spoken fo much again: thee?

14 Ye have faid, It is vain to ferve God: and, What profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mourn. fully, before the LORD of hosts!

15 And now we call the proud happy;

yea, they that work wickedness aen de up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of re membrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

17 And they fhall be mine, faith the LORD of hofts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will fpare them, as a man fpareth his own fon that ferveth him.

18 Then fhall ye return, and difcern be. tween the righteous and the wicked, between him that ferveth God and him that terveth him not.

CHAP. IV.

1 God's judgment on the wicked, 2 and his bleing on the good: he tellet of Elijah's coming.

FOR, behold, the day cometh, that fhall Surn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, fhall be stubble; and the day that cometh fhall burn them up, faith the LORD of hosts, that it fhall leave them neither root nor branch.

2. But unto you that fear my name fall the Sun of righteoufnefs arife with healing in his wings; and ye thall go forth, and grow up as calves of the fall.

3 And ye thall tread down the wicked; for they thall be athes under the foles of your teet in the day that I shall do this, faith the LORD of hofts.

4 Remember ye the law of Mofes my fervant, which I commanded unto him ja Horeb for all Ifrael, with the ftatutes and judgments.

Behold, I will fend you Elijah h pro. phet before the coming of the great and dread. ful day of the LORD:"

6 And he fhall turn the heart of the fa-thers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, leg I come and fmite the earth with a curíe

THE END OF THE PROPHETS.