HE vision of Obadiah. the Lord GOD concerning Edom; a We have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an embassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

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2 Behold, I have made thee small Heb. the among the heathen: thou art greatly de- men of thy spised.

3 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

4 Though thou shalt exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou shalt set 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 grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave 1 some grapes?

peace.

3 Heb. the

men of thy bread.

4 or, of it.

Is. 29. 14.
Jer. 49. 7.

e Gen. 27. 41.

Ezek. 35. 5.
Amos 1. 11.

5 or, carried away his substance.

6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought! 6 or, do not behold, &c. 7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: 2 the 7 Heb. magmen that were at peace with thee have nified thy deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; 3 they that cat thy bread have laids a wound under thee: there is no understanding 4 in him.

8 d 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?

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mouth.

or, forces. or,shut up.

ƒ Ezek. 35. 15.

10

or,sup up.

11 or, they that escape.

12 or, it shall be holy.

13 or, shall possess that

which is in Sepharad. 1 Tim.4.16 James 5. 20. Luke 1. 33.

12 But 6 thou shouldst not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldst thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

13 Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yes, thou shouldst not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their 8 substance in the day of their calamity;

14 Neither shouldst thou have stood in the cross-way, to cut off those of his that escaped; neither shouldst thou have a delivered up those of his that remained in the day of distress.

15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done to thee: thy reward shall return upon thy own head.

16 For as ye have drank upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yes, they shall drink, and they shall 10 swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

17 But upon mount Zion shall be 11 deliverance, and 12 there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

18 And the house of Jacob shall 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.

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.

20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even to Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, 13 which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

21 And saviors shall come upon mount Zion to judge the mount of Esan; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

CHAP. I.

1 Jonah sent to Nineveh, fleeth to Tarshish: 4 A tempest is sent and 11 he is thrown into the sea, 17 and swallowed by a fish.

OW the word of the LORD came to

N1Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish

from the presence of the LORD, and went 2 down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare of it, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

4 But the LORD 2 sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship 3 was in danger of being broken.

5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and cast the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

Before CHRIST,

862.

1 Called,

Matt. 12.39,

Jonas.

a Gen. 10.11,

12.

c. 3. 3.

Heb. cast forth.

Heb. thought to

4 Heb. with

5 Heb. may be silent from us?

or, grew

more and

more lempestuous. 7 Heb. went.

8 Heb.

digged.

6 So the ship-master came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, it may be that God will think upon us, that we per-9 Heb. stood.

ish not.

ficed a sac rifice to the LORD,

7 And they said every one to his fel-10 Heb.sacri low, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

8 Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thy occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?

9 And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

10 Then were the men 4 exceedingly afraid, and said to him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

11 ¶ Then said they to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea s may be calm to us? for the sea 67 wrought, and was tempestuous.

12 And he said to them, Take me, and cast me into the sea; so shall the sea be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

and vowed

vows.

Matt. 12.40. Luke 11.30.

& 16. 4.

11 Heb. bowels.

Ps. 120. 1.

or, out of my afflic

tion. or, the

ate, or, abyss.

1 The prayer of Jonah: 10 He is delivered from the fish.

HEN Jonah prayed to the LORD his
God out of the fish's belly,

2 And said, I cried 1 by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of 2 hell cried I, and thou heardst my voice.

3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the 3 midst of the seas; and the floods waves passed over me. encompassed me: all thy billows and thy

4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again towards thy holy temple.

5 The waters encompassed me, even to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 I went down to the 4 bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from scorruption, O LORD my God.

remembered the LORD: and my prayer 7 When my soul fainted within me I came to thee, into thy holy temple.

8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and be arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and 2 published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his 3 nobles, say-a ing, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: yes, 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 perish not?

Heb. great men. Joel 2. 14.

c. 1.3. Ex. 34. 6. Ps. 86. 5.

Joel 2. 13. 1 or, Art thou great ly angry? or, pulme Heb. Kikajon. Heb. re. joiced with great joy. or, silent. or, Art thou great angry? 7 or, I am greatly an

crist.

3

4

5

6

had

10 T And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he said that he would do to them; and he did it not.

gry. 8 or, spared. 9 Heb. was

the son of the night.

said, I pray thee, O LORD was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest of the evil.

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

4 ¶ Then said the LORD, 1 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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

6 And the LORD God prepared a s gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah 4 was exceeding glad of the gourd. 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 rose that God prepared as vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, 7 I do well to be angry, even to death. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast s had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither made it grow; which 9 came up in a night, and perished in a night:

11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?

CHAP. I.

1 Micah showeth the wrath of God against Jacob for idolatry. 10 He exhorteth to mourn. ing.

HE word of the LORD that came to TH Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

21 Hear, all ye people; a hearken, O earth, and 2 all that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. 3 For behold, & the LORD cometh forth from his place, and will come down, and tread upon the a high places of the earth.

4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down 3a steep place.

5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression 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 down her stones into the valley, and I will lay bare her foundations.

7 And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall

be burned with the fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate: for she gathered it from the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.

8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourn-15 ing as the 4 owls.

9 For 5 her wound is incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of 6 Aphrah & roll thyself in the dust.

Before CHRIST, 750.

4 Heb. daughters of the owl. or, she is grievouswith her ly sick wounds. 2 Sam. 1. That is,

20.

6

7

dust.

that dwell

Jer. 6. 26. 11 Pass ye away, 7 thou 8 inhabitant or, thou of Saphir, having thy a shame exposed: est fairly. the inhabitant of 9 Zaanan came nots Heb. in. forth in the mourning of 10 Beth-ezel; he shall receive from you his standing. 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth 11 waited anxiously for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jeru-10 or, a place

salem.

13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

14 Therefore shalt thou give presents 12 to Moresheth-gath: the houses of 13 Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel. 15 Yet will I bring an heir to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: 14 he shall come to Adullam the glory of Israel.

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

CHAP. II.

habitress. Isa. 47. 3. 9 or, the country of flocks.

near.

11 or, was

a lie.

grieved. 12 or, for. 13 That is, 14 or, the glory of Is rael shall

come, &c. i Isa. 22. 12.

Isa. 5. 8. or, defraud.

2 Heb. with a lamenta.

tion of la
menta

tions. 3 or, instead of restor. ing.

1 Against oppression. 4 A lamentation. 7 Ab Deut. 32. reproof of injustice and idolatry. 12 A promise of restoring Jacob.

8. 9. 4 or, Proph esy not as

5

they proph

&c.

esy. Heb. drop, Isa. 30. 10. 6 or, shortened. Heb. upright.

WE to there vil upon their beds! OE to them that devise iniquity, when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet a fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they 1 oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove 8 Heb. yes. your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. 4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament 2 with a grievous lamentation, and say, We are utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! 3 turning away he hath divided our fields.

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

645 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

7 TO thou that art named the house

8 Even 8 of late my people hath risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse to war.

9 The 10 women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a grievous destruction.

11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood doth lie, saying, I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: 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 passed through the gate, and have gone out by it; and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

CHAP. III.

1 The cruelty of the princes. 5 The falsehood of the prophets. 8 The security of them both.

AND I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads

of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within

the caldron.

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

5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that a 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 to you, 1 that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, 2 that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their 3 lips; for there is no answer of God.

8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the