a Deut. 7. 6. & 10. 15. Ps.147.19,20. b See Dan, 9. 12. Matt. 11. 22. HEAR this word that the LORD spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 a You only have I known of all the families of the earth: b therefore I will † punish you for all your iniquities. 3 Can two walk together, except Luke 12. 47. they be agreed? Rom. 2. 9. 1 Pet. 4. 17. † Heb, visit upon. † Heb, give forth his voice. Or, not run together. c Is. 45. 7. Or, and shall not the LORDdo somewhat? d Gen. 6. 13.& 18. 17. Ps. 25. 14. John 15. 15. ech. 1. 2. If Acts 4. 20. & 5, 20, 29, 1 Cor. 9. 16. Or, oppressions. g Jer. 4. 22. Or, spoil. h2 Kin. 17.3, 6. & 18. 9, 10, 11. † Heb. delivereth. 1 Or, on the bed's feet. || Or, punish Israel for. i Jer. 36. 22. kJudg. 3. 20. 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion † cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people || not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, || and the LORD hath not done it? 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but dhe revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, f who can but prophesy? 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble your selves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the || oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and || robbery in their pal aces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; h An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. 12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd + taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an car; 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. 15 And I will smite ithe winter house with k the summer house; and 11 Kin. 22. 39. 1 the houses of ivory shall perish, and uses shall have an end, bleness. Israel reproved for oppression. akine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which HEAR this word, ye say to their masters, Bring, and let drink. Before CHRIST 787. A Ps. 22. 12. Ez. 39, 18. 2 b The Lord Gor hath sworn by Ps. 89, 35. his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. 3 And dye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and || ye shall cast them | into the palace, saith the LORD. 4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at f Gilgal multiply transgression; and & bring your sacrifices every morning, hand your tithes after † three years: 5 i And toffer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish k the free offerings: Ifor this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.. m 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and J caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. Jer. 16. 16. Hab. 1. 15. d Ez. 12. 5, 12. Or, yo shall cast away the things of the palace. e Ez. 20. 39. fHos. 4. 15, & 12.11. ch. 5. 5. g.Num.28.3,4. h Deut. 14.28. Heb. three years of days. i Lev. 7. 13, & 23. 17. Heb. offer by burning. k Lev. 22. 18, 21. Deut. 12. 6. 1Ps. 81. 12. + Heb, so ye love. m Is. 26. 11. Jer. 5. 3. ver. 8, 9. Hag. 2. 17. nver, 6,10,11. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Hag. 2. 17. LORD. o Deut. 28. 22. || Or, the multitude of your gardens, fe, did the palmerworm, fe. 9o I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: || when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, Or, in the saith the LORD. p Joell. 4. & 2. 25. way. 12.29. Deut. 28.27, 60. Ps. 78. 50. 10 I have sent among you the pesti-x.9.3.6. lence || 4 after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, tand have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: "yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, tand ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: "yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the || wind, Yand declareth unto man what is his thought, " that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon † Heb, with the captivity of your horses, 2 Kin. 13. 7. rver. 6. s Gen. 19, 24, 25. Is. 13. 19. Jer. 49. 18. t Zech. 3. 2. Jude 23. u ver. 6. x See Ez. 13. 5. & 22. 30. Luke 14. 31. 32. || Or, spirit. y Ps. 139. 2. Dan. 2. 28. z ch.5.8. & 8.9. a Deut. 32.13. & 33.29. Mic. 1. 3. A lamentation for Israel. AMOS. Israel's hypocritical service rejected. Before the high places of the earth, b The CHRIST LORD, The God of hosts, is his 787. b 13. 47. 4. Jer. 10. 16. ch.5.8. & 9.6. a Jer, 7. 29. Ez. 19. 1. & 27. 2. a EAR ye this word which I take tion, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. 4 For thus saith the LORD unto b2 Chr. 15. 2. the house of Israel, b Seek ye me, Jer, 29. 13. ver. 6. c Is. 55. 3. dch. 4. 4. ech. 8. 14, f Hos. 4. 15. & 10.8. g ver. 4. h ch. 6. 12. i Job 9, 9, & 38, 31. k Ps. 104. 20. 1 Job 38, 34. ch. 9. 6, mch. 4. 13. † Heb. spoil. n Is, 29. 21, o I Kin. 22, 8. and ye shall live: 5 But seek not d Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and 'f Beth-el shall come to nought. 6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el. 7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, 8 Seek him that maketh the iseven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, kand maketh the day dark with night: that I calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: m his name: The LORD is 9 That strengtheneth the † spoiled against 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: p Deut. 23.30, Pye have built houses of hewn stone, 38, 29. † IHeb. Before hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing 787. to mourning, and such as are skil- y Jer. 9. 17. z Ex. 12. 12. Nah. 1. 13. 18 a Woe unto you that desire the & Is. 5. 19. day of the LORD! to what end is it Jer. 17. 15. 2 Pet. 3. 4. b Jer. 30. 7. Joel 2. 2 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the Zeph. 1. 15. house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? c Jer. 48. 44. 21 T dI hate, I despise your feast d Prov. 21.27. Is. 1. 11--16. Hos. 8. 13. e Lov. 26. 31. Or, smell your holy 22 f Though ye offer me burnt offer- fIx. 66. 3. Mic. 6. 6, 7. Or, thank offerings. 23 Take thou away from me the 25 h Have ye offered unto me sacri- but ye shall not dwell in them; ye | b || chief of the nations, to whom the have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transvineyards of gressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take || a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. house of Israel came! 2 Pass ye unto d Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to f Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? 3 Ye that hput far away the ievil day, kand cause the || seat of violence to come 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; 5m That || chant to the sound of the hosts will be gracious unto the rem-struments of music, like David; 6 That drink || wine in bowls, and g Hos. 6. 6. Mic. 6. 8. h Deut. 32.17. Acts 7. 42,43. Or, Siccuth your king. i l Kin. 11.33. k 2 Kin. 17.6. 1 ch. 4. 13. a Luke 6, 24. Or, are securre. b Ex. 19. 5. Or, frst fruitu. cJer. 2. 10. d Is. 10. 9. Taken about 794, 02 Kin, 18.34. f2 Chr. 26. 6. g Nah. 3. 8. h Ez, 12. 27. i ch. 5. 18. & 9.10. kch. 5. 12. ver. 12. 1 Ps. 94. 20. Or, habitation. Or, abound with super Auities. m Is. 5. 12. Or, quaver. nl Chr. 23.5. Or, in bowls of wine. Her wantonness shall be plagued. Before AMOS. Amaziah complaineth of Amos. | ointments: but they are not grieved | I beseech thee: by whom shall Ja- Before HRIST for the affliction of Joseph. 787. o Gen. 37. 25. + Heb.breach. p Jer. 51. 14. Heb. 6.13.17. Ps. 47. 4. Ez. 24. 21. ch. 8. 7. CHRIST 787, cob arise? for he is small. 6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. 71 Thus he shewed me: and, be c ver. 2, 3. 7 Therefore now shall they go moved. 8 P The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with Heb.theful-all & that is therein. ness thereof. 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 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 LORD. 11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, "and he will smite the great house with || breaches, and the little house with clefts. 12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plough there with oxen? for xye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: 13 Ye which rejoice in A thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? 14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the || river of the wilderness. CHAPTER VII. 1 The judgments of the grasshoppers, 4 and of the fire, are diverted by the prayer of Amos. 1 By the wall of a plumbline is signified the rejection of Israel. 10 Amaziah complaineth of Amos. 14 Amos sheweth his calling, 16 and Amaziah's judgment. CHUS hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed || grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: " || by whom shall Jacob arise ? for he is small. 36 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. 4 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 GOD, cease, made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. 8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in d See 2 Kings the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: e 21. 13. Is. 28. 17. & 34. 11. Lam. 2. 8. Mic. 7. 18. 9f And the high places of Isaac shall ech. 8.2. be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to i Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 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, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 13 But k prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: lfor 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 ima prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of || sycamore fruit: 15 And the LORD took me tas I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. 16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac. 17 P Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. f Beer-sheba, Gen. 26.23, & 46. 1. ch. 5. 5. & 8. 14. g Fulfilled, 2 Kin. 15. 10. h1 Kin. 12.32. i 2 Kin. 14.23. kch. 2,12. 11 Kin, 12.32. 13. 1. Or, sanctu ary. + Heb, house of the kingdom. m1 Kin. 20, 35. 2 Kin. 2.5. & 4. 38. & 6. 1. nch. 1.1. Zech. 13. 5. || Or, wild fiys. + Heb. from behind. ο Ez. 21. 2. Mic. 2. 6. pSee Jer. 28. 12. & 20. 21, 25, 31, 32. q Is. 13. 16. a Ez. 7. 2. people of Israel; bI will not again | 2 CHRIST pass by them any more. 787. bch. 7.8. cch. 5. 23. + Heb. shall howl, dch. 6.9, 10. † Heb. be silent, o Ps. 14. 4. Prov. 30. 14. | Or, month. 3 And the songs of the temple tshall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; dthey shall cast them forth with silence. 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the || new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and f Neh. 13. 15, f the sabbath, that we may tset forth wheat, & making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and † falsifying the balances by deceit? 16. † Heb. open. g Mic.6.10,11. † Hob, per verting the deceit, Hos. 12. 7. heh. 2. 6. i ch. 6. 8. k Hos, 8.13 & 9.9. 1 Hos. 4. 3. meh. 9. 5. 791. n Job 5. 14. Is. 13, 10, & 59. 9. 10. Jer. 15. 9. Mic. 3. 6. o Is. 15. 2, 3. Jer. 48. 37. Ez. 7. 18. & 27. 31. p Jer. 6. 26. Zech. 12. 10. 6 That we may buy the poor for hsilver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The LORD hath sworn by ithe excellency of Jacob, Surely kI will never forget any of their works. 8 1 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, mas by the flood of Egypt. 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 mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; Pand I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of q1 Sam. 3. 1. bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: Ps. 74. 9. Ez. 7. 26. rHos. 4. 15. s Deut. 9. 21. † Heb. way: See Acts 9.2. & 18. 25. & 19. 9, 23. & 24. 14. tch, 5.5. 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east 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. 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. CHAPTER IX. 1 The certainty of the desolation. 11 The restoring of the tabernacle of David. I SAW the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite Or,chapitor, the || lintel of the door, that the or, knop. posts may shake: and || cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: bhe that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Certainty of Israel's desolation. Though they dig into hell, Before thence shall mine hand take them; CHRIST dthough 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 shall bite them: 787. c Ps. 139, 8, &e. d Job 20. 6. Jer. 51. 53. Obad. 4. 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 in Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians n Deut. 2. 23 from Kir? 8 Behold, Pthe eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. 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. 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. 11 "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and tclose up the breaches 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, twhich are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. 13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the ploughman 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 Or, wound them. R Ps. 68. 21. Hab. 3. 13. bch. 2. 14. z Jer. 30. 3, Before CHRIST about 587. The salvation of Jacob. 787. 15 And I will plant them upon Before OBADIAH. 1 The destruction of Edom, 3 for their Jacob. Thus b Is. CO. 21. Before about 587. || Or, do not behold, &c. 12 But || thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother CHRIST in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have trejoiced over the children of Judah in the CHE vision of Obadiah. saith the Lord GOD #concern-day of their destruction; neither E.25.12,13, ing Edom; b We have heard a ru-shouldest thou have † spoken proudmour from the LORD, and an am-ly in the day of distress. bassador is sent among the heathen, 13 Thou shouldest not have entered a Is. 21. 11. & 14. Joel3. 19. Mal. 1, 3. b Jer. 49. 14, &e. c2 Kin, 14. 7. THE Arise ye, and let us rise up against 2 Behold, I have made thee small 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts.c s. of the rock, whose d.Is. 14. 13,14, habitation is high; dthat saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 15. Rev. 18.7. e Job 20, 6, Jer. 49, 16. & fHab. 2. 9. g Jer. 19.9. 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou fset thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. 5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers h Deut. 24.21. came to thee, h would they not leave Is. 17. 6. & 24. 13. || Or, gleanings. + Heb, the men of thy peace. i Jer. 38. 22. + Heb, the men of thy bread. k Is. 19. 11,12. Or, of it. 1 Job 5. 12, 13. Is. 29. 14. Jer. 49. 7. m Ps. 76. 5. || some grapes? 6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! 7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: tithe 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: k there is none understanding || in him. 81 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 9 And thy m mighty men, On TeAmos 2. 16. man, shall be dismayed, to the_end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. Or, carried away his substance. q Joel 3. 3. Nah, 3.'10. ever. 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. into the gate of my people in the day 14 Neither shouldest thou have 15 "For the day of the LORD is г Гл. 22. 17. & 54.7. & 59.10. Mic. 4. 11. & 7. 10. sPs. 37. 13. & 137.7. t Job 31. 29. Prov. 17. 5. & 24. 17, 18. Mic. 7. 8. † Heb. magnified thy mouth. Or, forces. Or, shut up, Ps. 31. 8. u Ez, 30. 3. Joel 3. 14. x Ex. 35. 15. Hab. 2. 8. about 585. 29. & 49. 12. 16 y For as ye have drunk upon my y Jer. 25. 28, holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and they shall || swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. 17" But upon mount Zion ashall be || deliverance, and || there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob bshall be a 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. |