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CHAP. III.

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this word that the LORD hath transgression; and bring ken against you, O children of Israel, your sacrifices every morning, and your against the whole family which I brought tithes after three years; up from the land of Egypt, saying,

5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving You only have I known of all the fami- with leaven, and proclaim and publish the lies of the earth; therefore I will punish you free-offerings; for this liketh you, O ye for all your iniquities. children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

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 he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

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.

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7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest and I 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.

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 LORD.

9 I have smitten you with blasting and

8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? mildew: when your gardens, and your the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but pro- vineyards, and your fig-trees, and your phesy? olive-trees increased, the palmer-worm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

10 I have sent among you the pestilence, after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and 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.

10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD, An 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God adversary there shall be even round about the overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye land; and he shall bring down thy strength were as a firebrand plucked out of the burnfrom thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. ing: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith

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.

12 Thus saith the LORD, As the shepherd the LORD. taketh 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 Ja-man what is his thought, that maketh the cob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, morning darkness, and treadeth upon the 14 That in the day that I shall visit the trans- high places of the earth, The LORD, The gressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit God of hosts, is his name. the altars of Beth-el; and the horns of the

13 For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto

CHAP. V.

altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. HEAR ye this word which I take up

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15 And I will smite the the summer-house; and the houses of ivory house of Israel. shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

CHAP. IV.

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.

GOD,

HEAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, that 3 For thus saith the Lord God, The city oppress the poor, which crush the needy, hundred, and that which went forth by an which say to their masters, Bring, and let hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Isus drink. rael.

2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks.

3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall

4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

cast them into the palace, saith the LORD. 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 i in Beth-el.

7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, 8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth_them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. CHAP. VI.

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7OE to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they bet ter than these kingdoms? or their border

10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh up-greater than your border? rightly.

3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and

11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading cause the seat of violence to come near; is upon the poor, and ye take from him bur- 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch dens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn themselves upon their couches, and eat the stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of nave planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall the midst of the stall; not drink wine of them.

5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and 12 For I know your manifold transgres-invent to themselves instruments of musick, sions and your mighty sins: they afflict the like David; 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, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

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 husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the ban quet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

8 The Lord Gon hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD, the God of hosts, l'abhor the 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.

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 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be dark-one plow there with oxen? for ye have turnness, and not light? even very dark, and no ed judgment into gall, and the fruit of righbrightness in it? teousness into hemlock :

21 ¶ I hate, I despise your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt-offerings, and your meat-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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.

CHAP. VII.

24 But let judgment run down as waters, HUS hath the Lord GOD shewed unto and righteousness as a mighty stream. me; and behold, he formed grasshop25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and pers in the beginning of the shooting up of offerings in the wilderness forty years, O the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

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2 And it came to pass, that when they had howlings in that day, saith the Lord Gon: made an end of eating the grass of the land, there shall be many dead bodies in every place; then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech they shall cast them forth with silence. thee by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the small. needy, even to make the poor of the land to

3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not fail, be, saith the LORD.

5 Saying, when will the new-moon be 4 Thus hath the Lord GoD shewed unto gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabme; and behold, the Lord GoD called to bath, that we may set forth wheat, making contend by fire, and it devoured the great the ephah small, and the shekel great, and deep, and did eat up a part. [falsifying the balances by deceit ?

5 Then said I, O'Lord Gon, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

7 Thus he shewed me; and behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumb- 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and line, with a plumb-line in his hand. every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and

8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumb- Egypt. line in the midst of my people Israel: I will 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, not again pass by them any more: 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:

9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourn ing, and all your songs into lamentation;

10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos and baldness upon every head; and I will hath conspired against thee in the midst of make it as the mourning of an only son, and the house of Israel: the land is not able to the end thereof as a bitter day.

bear all his words.

11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord 11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die GoD, that I will send a famine in the land, by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water away captive out of their own land." but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Ju- and from the north even to the east; they dah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: shall run to and fro to seek the word of the 13 But prophesy not again any more at LORD, and shall not find it. Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

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 Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. CHAP. IX.

6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore-fruit:

15 And the LORD took me as I followed

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the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, SAW the LORD standing upon the altar unto my people Israel. and he said, Smite the of the door, 16 ¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of that the posts may shake and cut them in the LORD; Thou sayest, Prophesy not against the head, all of them; and I will slay the last Israel, and drop not thy word against the of them with the sword: he that fleeth of house of Isaac. them shall not flee away; and he that esca17 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Thy peth of them shall not be delivered. wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, mine hand take them; though they climb up and thy land shall be divided by line; and to heaven, thence will I bring them down: thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel 3 And though they hide themselves in the shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from in the bottom of the thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite

CHAP. VIII.

hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and behold a basket of summer-fruit.

2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And them:

I said, A basket of summer-fruit. Then said 4 And though they go into captivity be the LORD unto me, The end is come upon fore their enemies, thence will I command my people of Israel; I will not again pass by the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will them any more. set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not 3 And the songs of the temple shall be for good.

And the Lord GOD of hosts is he, by the sword, which say, The evil shall not that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, overtake nor prevent us.

and all that dwell therein shall mourn: 11 In that day will I raise up the taberand it shall rise up wholly like a flood; nacle of David that is fallen, and close up and shall be drowned, as by the flood of the breaches thereof; and I will raise up Egypt. his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; The LORD is his name.

7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians 13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, unto me, O children of Israel? saith the that the plowman shall overtake the reaper. LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out and the treader of grapes him that soweth of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines seed; and the mountains shall drop swea from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? wine, and all the hills shall melt.

8 Behold, the 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

12 That they may possess the remuant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

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.

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.

¶ OBADIAH.

TH HE vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the other side, in the day that the strangers carLord GOD concerning Edom, We have ried away captive his forces, and foreigner heard a rumour from the LORD, and an am- entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jebassador is sent among the heathen: Arise rusalem, even thou wast as one of them. ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

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

11 In the day that thou stoodest on the

12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother, in the day that he be came a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou

3¶ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith have spoken proudly in the day of distress. in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into ground? of my people in the day of their ca. 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, lamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked and though thou set thy nest among the on their affliction in the day of their cala. stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith mity, nor have laid hands on their substance the LORD. in the day of their calamity:

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14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the

5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they cross-way, to cut off those of his that did esnot have stolen till they had enough? if the cape; neither shouldest thou have delivered grape-gatherers came to thee, would they up those of his that did remain in the day of not leave some grapes? distress.

6 How are the things of Esau searched out! 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon how are his hidden things sought up! all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy reward shall retura upon thine own head.

7 All the men of thy confederacy 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.

16 For as ye have drunk upon my 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.

8 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?

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

9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the

10 For thy violence against thy brother house of Esau for stubble, and they shall Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt kindle in them, and devour them; and there be cut off for ever. 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 the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Phi- the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in listines: and they shall possess the fields of Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria; and Ben-south. jamin shall possess Gilead.

21 And saviours shall come up on mount 20 And the captivity of this host of Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the the children of Israel shall possess that of kingdom shall be the LORD's.

¶ JONAH.

CHAP. I.

the word the LORD came unto

Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. 15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from her raging.

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

2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went 17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and belly of the fish three days and three nights went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

CHAP. II.
HEN Jonah prayed unto the LORD his

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to the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

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

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

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

6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

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

5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

7 And they said, every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mounknow for whose cause this evil is upon us. tains; the earth with her bars was about me So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life 8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we from corruption, O LORD my God. pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon as: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?

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

8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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

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

10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou

10 And the LORD spake unto the fish,

done this? (for the men knew that he fled and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.)

CHAP. III.

11 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall

AND the word of the LORD came unto

Jonah the second time, saying,

we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, unto us? (for the sea wrought, and was tem- and preach unto it the preaching that I bid pestuous.)

thee.

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

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

14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for

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

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

5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6 For word came unto the king of Nine

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