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against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a 2snare under thee: there is none 8 understanding in him. Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau 10 by slaughter. For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut 11 off for ever. In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jeru salem, even thou wast as one of 12 them. But look not thou on the day

of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the 13 day of distress. Enter not into the

gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance 14 in the day of their calamity. And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the 15 day of distress. For the day of the LORD

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is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine 16 own head. For as ye have drunk upon pence my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be 8 Or, 17 as though they had not been. But in foolishly mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their pos18 sessions. 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 burn among them, and devour them: and there shall not be any remaining to 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 lowland the Philistines: and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria: and Benjamin 20 shall possess Gilead. And the capt-hat ivity of this 9host of the children of Israel, 10 which are among the Canaanites, shall possess even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities Or, which 21 of the South. And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

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JONAH.

1 Now the word of the LORD came unto 2 Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is 3 come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence 4 of the LORD. But the LORD 1sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the 5 ship was like to be broken. Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he 6 lay, and was fast asleep. 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. 7 And they said every one to his fellow,

Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and 8 the lot fell upon Jonah. Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and 9 of what people art thou? 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 10 dry land. Then were the men exceed. ingly afraid, and said unto him, What is this that thou hast done? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had 11 told them. Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tem13 pest is upon you. Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to

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[Ch. ii. 1 in Heb.]

1 Or, out of mine

affliction

2 Heb. Sheol.

3 Or, cor

ruption

4 Or, cry See ch. 1.2.

5 Heb. a city great

unto God.

the land; but they could not: for the sea grew more and more tempestuous 14 against them. 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 thou, O 15 LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from 16 her raging. Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made 17 vows. And the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days 2 and three nights. Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the 2 fish's belly. And he said,

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reached the king of Nineveh, and he
arose from his throne, and laid his robe
from him, and covered him with sack-
7 cloth, and sat in ashes. And he made
proclamation and 7published through He
Nineveh by the decree of the king and
his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor
beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing:
8 let them not feed, nor drink water: but
let them be covered with sackcloth.
both man and beast, and let them cry
mightily unto God: yea, let them turn
every one from his evil way, and from
9 the violence that is in their hands. Who
knoweth whether God will not turn and
repent, and turn away from his fierce

I called 1by reason of mine affliction 10 anger, that we perish not? And God
unto the LORD,

And he answered me;

Out of the belly of 2hell cried I,
And thou heardest my voice.
For thou didst cast me into the

depth, in the heart of the seas,
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The earth with her bars closed upon
me for ever:

Yet hast thou brought up my life

from the pit, O LORD my God.
When my soul fainted within me, I
remembered the LORD:

And my prayer came in unto thee,
into thine holy temple.

8 They that regard lying vanities
Forsake their own mercy.

9

But I will sacrifice unto thee with
the voice of thanksgiving;

I will pay that which I have vowed.
Salvation is of the LORD.

10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and
it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
3 And the word of the LORD came unto
2 Jonah the second time, saying, Arise,
go unto Nineveh, that great city, and
preach unto it the preaching that I
3 bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went
unto Nineveh, according to the word
of the LORD. Now Nineveh was 5 an
exceeding great city, of three days'
4 journey. And Jonah began to enter
into the city a day's journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and
5 Nineveh shall be overthrown. And the
people of Nineveh believed God; and

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saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which he said he would do unto 4 them; and he did it not. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was 2 angry. And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I 8hasted to flee Or, unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and full of com-iecing passion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repentest thee of the 3 evil. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 And the LORD said, "Doest thou well to Or 5 be angry? Then 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 shadow, till he might 6 see what would become of the city. And the LORD God prepared a 10 gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it isti might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of 7 the gourd. 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 arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than 9 to live. And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry 10 even unto death. And the LORD said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city; wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

MICAH.

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

2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and 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 out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that 5 are poured down a steep place. 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 Jerusa6 lem? Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as the plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. 7 And all her graven images shall be beat

2

vulture

10 Or, with the

lament ation. It

is done; and say &c

11 Or, depart

thee for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for Or. they are gone into captivity from thee. Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, 3 even a man and his heritage. Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily: 4 for it is an evil time. In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament 10 with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields. 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congreg-from 6 ation of the LORD. 12 Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy 18to these: reproaches shall 7 not depart. 14 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the spirit of the LORD 15 straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walk-See 8 eth uprightly? But 16 of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from 9 war. The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my 10 glory for ever. Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because of uncleanness 17 that destroyeth, even 11 with a grievous destruction. If a man walking 18 in wind and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of ened. wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

en to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate for of the hire of an harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of an harlot shall they return. 8 For this will I wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a mourning like 9 the ostriches. For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, 10 even to Jerusalem. Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-Aphrah 11 4have I rolled myself in the dust. Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you 12 the stay thereof. For the inhabitant of Marothwaiteth anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the 13 LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were 14 found in thee. Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath the houses of Achzib shall be a deceit15 ful thing unto the kings of Israel. I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even 16 unto Adullam. Make thee bald, and poll

12 Or, they are phesy ing Heb.

Prophesy ye not,

ever pro

say they. Drop &c.

Amos

vii. 16.

13 Or, of these

things:

their re proaches never cea so

14 Or, O thou that art

named the house

of Jacob

15 Or, impatient Heb.

short

16 Heb. yesterday. 17 The

Sept.

shall be de

stroyed with &c.

18 Or, in a spirit

12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnanthas, ye of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah: as a flock in the midst of their pasture, they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude 13 of men. The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat: and their king is passed on before them, and the LORD at the head of them.

3 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you

of false

hood

1 Heb. sanctify.

2 Or,
even the
spirit

3 See Is.
ii. 2-4

4 Or, at
the head

5 Or, instruction

6 Or.
among

7 Or,
great
* Or.
decide
concern

ing

2 to know judgement? who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their 3 flesh from off their bones; who also eat the flesh of my people; and they flay their skin from off them, and break their bones: yea, they chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh with4 in the caldron. Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not answer them: yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings. 5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war a6 gainst him: Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day 7 shall be black over them. And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips: for there is no answer 8 of God. But I truly am full of power 2 by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgement, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel 9 his sin. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor judgement, 10 and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with 11 iniquity. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. 4 But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples 2 shall flow unto it. And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word 3 of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge between 7many peoples, and shall reprove strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall 4 they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD

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5 of hosts hath spoken it. For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever. 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven away, and her 7 that I have afflicted; and I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever. 8 And thou, O tower of 10 the flock, 11 the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto theese Gen. shall it come; yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the 9 daughter of Jerusalem. Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a 10 woman in travail? Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon; there shalt thou be rescued; there shall the LORD redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. And now many nations are assembled against thee, that Let say, her be defiled, and let our eye 13 see its 5 Or. 12 desire upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thyesions hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in Hebrew pieces many peoples: and 18 thou shalt devote their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

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2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, (C which art little to be among the 14thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from 15 3 of old, 15 from everlasting. Therefore, will he give them up, until the time ancient that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the residue of his brethren shall return 16 unto the children of Is. Or. 4rael. And he shall stand, and shall feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto 5 the ends of the earth. And this man shall be our peace: when the Assyrian r shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, 6 and eight 17 principal men. And they shall 18 waste the land of Assyria with

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2 See Ex. χαχίν. 13.

3 Or, enemies

1 Or, such as they have Hot heard

the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when 7 he treadeth within our border. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from the LORD, as showers upon the grass; that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth 8 for the sons of men. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none 9 to deliver. Let thine hand be lifted up above thine adversaries, and let all thine enemies be cut off.

10 And it shall come to pass in that day,

saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and 11 will destroy thy chariots: and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will 12 throw down all thy strong holds: and I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more 13 soothsayers: and I will cut off thy graven images and thy 1pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. 14 And I will pluck up thine 2 Asherim out

of the midst of thee: and I will de15 stroy thy cities. And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the nations which hearkened not.

6 Hear ye now what the LORD saith:

Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear, O ye mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will 3 plead with Israel. O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against 4 me. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 50 my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; remember from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of 6 the LORD. Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a 7 year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit 8 of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Some versions read, fear.

ancient

ephah.

9 The voice of the LORD crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and 10 who hath appointed it. Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant 116measure that is abominable? Shall Heb. I be pure with wicked balances, and 12 with a bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceit. 13 ful in their mouth. Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate be14 cause of thy sins. Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation 7 Or, shall be in the midst of thee: and thou empti shalt remove, but shalt not carry away safe; and that which thou carriest a15 way will I give up to the sword. Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt 16 not drink the wine. For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels that I should make thee 8a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

ness

8 Or, an astonishment

Or, nor which firstripe

my soul desired

10 Or, Both

are put forth for eril to do it &c.

7 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; 9my soul desireth the 2 firstripe fig. The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his 3 brother with a net. 10 Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligent-hands ly; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his soul: thus 4 they weave it together. The best of them is as a brier: 11 the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; 5 now shall be their perplexity. Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a 12 guide: keep the doors of thy mouth 6 from her that lieth in thy bosom. For friend the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

11 Or, the straight

ext is as

it were taken

from &c.

12 Or, familiar

the LORD will I watch

ver. 10.

7 But as for me, 18 I will look unto the 13 Or, in LORD; I will wait for the God of my 8 salvation: my God will hear me. Re-keep joice not against me, O 14 mine enemy: 14 See when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light 9 unto me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him; until he plead my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall 10 behold his righteousness. Then mine

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