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their place is not known where they are. 19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy 18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of As-wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit syria; thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for people is scattered upon the mountains, and upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed no man gathereth them. continually?

¶ HABAKKUK.

CHAP. I.
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17 Shall they therefore empty their net, 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and and not spare continually to slay the nations? thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

CHAP. II.

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3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it

5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously; for I will will surely come, it will not tarry. work a work in your days, which ye will 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not not believe, though it be told you. upright in him: but the just shall live by his

6 For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that faith. bitter and hasty nation, which shall march 5 ¶ Yea also, because he transgresseth by through the breadth of the land, to possess wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at the dwelling-places that are not theirs. home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people;

7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come fromfar; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

12 ¶ Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler

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by them their portion is fat, and their meat

15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag; therefore they rejoice and are glad.

8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

9 T Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

12 T Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts, that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

15 T Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou

16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because mayest look on their nakedness!

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16 Thou art filled with shame for glory :rivers? was thine anger against the riven? drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be un-as thy wrath against the sea, that thes covered: the cup of the LORD's right hand didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spew- of salvation? ing shall be on thy glory.

9 Thy bow was made quite naked, accord

17 For the violence of Lebanon shall covering to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers, them afraid, because of men's blood, and for 10 The mountains saw thee, and they the violence of the land, of the city, and of trembled; the overflowing of the water pass all that dwell therein. ed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. 12 Thou didst march through the land indignation, thou didst thrash the heathenin anger.

13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. 14 Thou didst strike through with his

A PRAYER of Habakkuk the prophet up-staves the head of his villages, they came

out as a whirlwind to scatter me: rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great

waters.

16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness enter ed into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: whes he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

20 But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. CHAP. III.

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2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

3¶ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

17 Although the fig-tree shall not blossom.

5 Before him went the pestilence, and burn-neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of ing coals went forth at his feet. the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

6 He stood, and measured the earth: he heheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are ever-joy in the God of my salvation. lasting.

7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

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19 The Lord GOD is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine higi places. To the chief singer on my stringed

¶ ZEPHANIAH.

CHAP. I.

5 And them that worship the host of bea

the LORD which came ven upon the house and them that wor unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son ship and that swear by the LORD, and that of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of swear by Malcham; Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.

2I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the 8 And it shall come to pass in the day of land, saith the LORD. the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the

7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD; for the day of the LORD is al hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.

4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon princes, and the king's children, and all such Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jeru-las are clothed with strange apparel. salem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal 9 In the same day also will I punish all those from this place, and the name of the Chema- that leap on the threshold, which fill their rims with the priests; masters' houses with violence and deceit,

10 And it shall come to pass in that day,saith 9 Therefore, as I live, saith the LORD of the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall from the fish-gate, and an howling from the be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as second, and a great crashing from the hills. Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and 11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the reall the merchant-people are cut down; all sidue of my people shall spoil them, and the they that bear silver are cut off. remnant of my people shall possess them.

10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD

12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees; that say in their heart, The LORD will not of hosts. do good, neither will he do evil.

13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. 12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

13 T And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of 14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cordesolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, morant and the bittern shall lodge in the upa day of clouds and thick darkness, per lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against windows; desolation shall be in the thresh the fenced cities, and against the high towers. olds: for he shall uncover the cedar-work.

17 And I will bring distress upon men, 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt that they shall walk like blind men, because carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and they have sinned against the LORD: and their there is none besides me: how is she become blood shall be poured out as dust, and their a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down flesh as the dung. in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss;

18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall and wag his hand. be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's but the whole be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

CHAP. II.

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CHAP. III.

WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to

the oppressing city!

2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.

4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

3 Seek ye the LORD,all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger. 41For Gaza shall be forsaken,and Ashkelon 6 I have cut off the nations: their towers a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at are desolate; I made their streets waste, that the noon-day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coasts, so that there is no man, that there is none the nation of the Cherethites! the word of inhabitant.

the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling that there shall be no inhabitant. should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

6 And the sea-coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. 7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of 8 Therefore wait ye upor me, saith the the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey; in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down for my determination is to gather the nations, in the evening; for the LORD their God shall that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour visit them, and turn away their captivity. upon them mine indignation, even all my 8¶I have heard the reproach of Moab, and fierce anger: for all the earth shall be dethe revilings of the children of Ammon, voured with the fire of my jealousy. whereby they have reproached my people, 9 For then will I turn to the people a pure and magnified themselves against their border. language, that they may all call upon the

name of the LORD, to serve him with one ments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst 10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

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suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not; and to Zion, Let not thise hands be slack.

11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast trans- 17 The LORD thy God in the midst of ther gressed against me: for then I will take is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over away out of the midst of thee them that re- thee with joy; he will rest in his love; be joice in thy pride; and thou shalt no more be will joy over thee with singing.

haughty because of my holy mountain.

12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

18 will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, ta whom the reproach of it was a burden. 19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that 13 ¶ The remnant of Israel shall not do afflict thee; and I will save her that halteth. iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a de- and gather her that was driven out; and I ceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for will get them praise and fame in every land they shall feed and lie down, and none shall where they have been put to shame. make them afraid. 20 At that time will I bring you agris, 14 Sing, O daughter of Zion: shout, O even in the time that I gather you: for I wil Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, make you a name and a praise among all O daughter of Jerusalem. people of the earth, when I turn back your 15 The LORD hath taken away thy judg-captivity before your eyes, saith the LOED.

CHAP. I.

¶ HAGGAI.

Jand Joshua the son of Josedech, the high the second year of Darius the king, in priest, with all the remnant of the people, this month, in the first day of the obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, month, came the word of the LORD by Hag-the words of Haggai the prophet, (as the gai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of LORD their God had sent him,) and the peoShealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua ple did fear before the LORD.

the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's mes 2¶ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, say-senger in the LORD's message unto the peoing, This people say, The time is not come, ple, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. the time that the LORD's house should be built. 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?" 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider your ways.

6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that carneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts their God,

15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Dariss the king.

CHAP. II.

N the seventh month, in the one and twen tieth day of the month, came the word of

7 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consi-the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, der your ways. 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua and build the house; and I will take pleasure the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. the residue of the people, saying, 9 Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to 3 Who is left among you that saw this little; and when ye brought it home, I did house in her first glory? and how do ye see blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison Because of mine house that is waste, and ye of it as nothing? run every man unto his own house."

10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,

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4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son ef Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts.

5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the

heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the 16 Since those days were, when one came dry land; to an heap of twenty measures, there were 7 And I will shake all nations, and the De- but ten: when one came to the press-fat, for sire of all nations shall come: and I will fill to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. there were hut twenty. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

17 I smote you with blasting, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.

19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai, in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

21 Speak to Zerubbabel,governor ofJudah, 13 Then said Haggai, If one that is un-saying, Iwill shake the heavens and the earth; clean by a dead body touch any of these, 22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingshall it be unclean? And the priests answer-doms; and I will destroy the strength of the ed and said, It shall be unclean.

14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and day and upward, from before a stone was laid will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen upon a stone in the temple of the LORD; thee, saith the LORD of hosts.

¶ ZECHARIAH.

CHAP. I.

8 I saw by night, and behold a man rithe eighth month, in the second year of ding upon a red horse, and he stood among I Darius, came the word of the LUX un- the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom

to Zechariah the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

2 The LORD hath been sore displeased

with your fathers.

and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.

3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, turn ye unto me,| 10 And the man that stood among the saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn un-myrtle-trees answered and said, These are to you, saith the LORD of hosts. they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned, and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words, and comfortable words.

14 So the angel that communed with me 7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the LORD of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusathe second year of Darius, came the word lem and for Zion with a great jealousy. of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Ba- 15 And I am very sore displeased with the rachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, heathen that are at ease: for I was but a

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