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CHAP. XI.

WHEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

2 As they called them, so they went from they did not hearken unto him: and they them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burashall be wanderers among the nations. ed incense to graven images.

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CHAP. X.

SRAEL is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that healed them.

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4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

5 ¶ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judg- 7 And my people are bent to backsliding ment springeth up as hemlock in the fur-from me though they cailed them to the rows of the field. most High, none at all would exalt kim,

5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? ha because of the calves of Beth-aven for shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make the people thereof shall mourn over it, thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeand the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, boim? Mine heart is turned within me, my for the glory thereof, because it is departed repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine

from it.

6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall re- for I am God, and not man; the Holy One ceive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of in the midst of thee; and I will not enter into the city.

his own counsel.

7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

10 They shall walk after the LORD; be shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days 12 Ephraim compasseth me about with of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in lies, and the house of Israel with deceit : but Gibeah against the children of iniquity did Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful not overtake am. with the saints.

10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.

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CHAP. XII.

PHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will 2 The LORD hath also a controversy with make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, Judah, and will punish Jacob according to and Jacob shall break his clods. his ways; according to his doings will be recompense him.

12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;

5 Even the LORD God of hosts; The LORD is his memorial.

6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become

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rich, I have found me out substance: in all iny labours they shall find none iniquity in ine that were sin.

9 And I, that am the LORD thy God from the
land of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in
tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feasts.
10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and
I have multiplied visions, and used simili-ing forth of children.

14 I will ransom them from the power of

tudes, by the ministry of the prophets. 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they the grave; I will redeem them from death: are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; O death, I will be thy plagues ; grave, I yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows will be thy destruction: repentance shall be of the fields. hid from mine eyes.

15 ¶ Though he be fruitful among his bre thren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and

13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil he preserved. the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most 16 Samaria shall become desolate, for she bitterly therefore shall he leave his blood hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

return unto him.

12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria; and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

CHAP. XIII.

THEN Ephraim

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CHAP. XIV.

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4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the lend of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour besides me.

5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

he offended in Baal, he died.

2 And now they sin more and more, and quity.

have made them molten images of their sil- 2 Take with you words, and turn to the ver, and idols according to their own under-LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquistanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: ty, and receive us graciously: so will we they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice render the calves of our lips.

kiss the calves.

3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning upon horses; neither will we say any more cloud, and as the early dew that passeth to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: away, as the chaff that is driven with the for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard by the way will I observe them.

8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. 9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.

13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the break

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CHAP. I.

HE word of the LORD that came to Joel

7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these 10 I will be thy king: where is any other things? prudent, and he shall know them? for that may save thee in all thy cities and thy the ways of the LORD are right, and the just judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king shall walk in them: but the transgressors and princes? shall fall therein.

8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.

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3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation:

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, 4 That which the palmer-worm hath all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this left hath the locust eaten; and that which been in your days, or even in the days of the locust hath left hath the canker. your fathers? worm eaten; and that which the canker

worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. been ever the like, neither shall be any more 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and after it, even to the yearsof many generations. bowl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the 3 A fire devoureth before them, and benew wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. hind them a flame burneth: the land is as 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, the garden of Eden before them, and hestrong, and without number, whose teeth are hind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek-nothing shall them. escape teeth of a great lion.

shall they run.

4 The appearance of them is as the ap7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked pearance of horses; and as horsemen, s0 my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. mountains shall they leap, like the noise of 8¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sack-a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, cloth for the husband of her youth. as a strong people set in battle-array. 6 Before their face the people shall be marn pained; all faces shall gather blackness.

9 The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers mourn.

10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; aad they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

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11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen howl, O ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished:

8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb

12 The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree,the palm-up upon the houses; they shall enter in at tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees the windows like a thief. of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining;

13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God.

14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders, and all the inha-rible; and who can abide it? bitants of the land, into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army; for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very ter

12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;

13 And rend your heart, and not your gar ments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to an ger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, erea a meat-offering, and a drink-offering, unto the LORD your God?

15 ¶ Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

16 Gather the people, sanctify the congre

19 O LORD, to thee will I cry for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wil-gation, assemble the elders, gather the chil derness, and the flame hath burned all the dren, and those that suck the breasts; let the trees of the field. bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet:

20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

CHAP. II.

17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 18 ¶ Then will the LORD be jealous for his

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2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, land, and pity his people.

a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as 19 Yea, the LORD will answer, and say unthe morning spread upon the mountains; a to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, great people and a strong: there hath not and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied

therewith; and I will no more make you a 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, reproach among the heathen: O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Pa20 But I will remove far off from you the lestine? will ye render me a recompence? northern arm, and will drive him into a land and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedibarren and desolate, with his face toward ly will I return your recompence upon your the east sea, and his hinder part toward the own head; utmost sea: and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.

21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig-tree, and the vine do yield their strength.

6 The children also of Judah, and the children of Jerusalem, have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

8 And I will sell your sons and your daugh. ters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles : Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up:

24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.

26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall I never be ashamed.

10 Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.

30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars

of smoke.

11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy moun

31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that who-tain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there soever shall call on the name of the LORD shall no strangers pass through her any shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and more. in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with

CHAP. III.

OR, behold, in those days, and in that waters, and a fountain shall come forth of

the shall water

tivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

valley of Shittim.

2 I will also gather all nations, and will 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Ebring them down into the valley of Jehosha- dom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the phat, and will plead with them there for my violence against the children of Judah, bepeople, and for my heritage Israel, whom cause they have shed innocent blood in their they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

land.

20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have Inot cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion

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HE words of Amos, who was among THUS saith the LORD, For three trane. the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw gressions of Moab, and for four, I will concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah not turn away the punishment thereof, beking of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam cause he burned the bones of the king of the son of Joash king of Israel, two years Edom into lime.

before the earthquake.

2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth; and Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and the habitations of the shepherds shall and with the sound of the trumpet: mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. 3 And I will cut off the judge from the 3¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three trans-midst thereof, and will slay all the princes gressions of Damascus, and for four, I will thereof with him, saith the LORD. not turn away the punishment thereof; be- 4 Thus saith the LORD, For three transcause they have thrashed Gilead with thrash-gressions of Judah, and for four, I will not ing instruments of iron: turn away the punishment thereof; because

4 But I will send a fire into the house of they have despised the law of the LORD, and Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of have not kept his commandments, and their Ben-hadad. lies caused them to err, after the which their 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, fathers have walked: and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

6 Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because 6 Thus saith the LORD, For three trans- they sold the righteous for silver, and the gressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not poor for a pair of shoes;

turn away the punishment thereof; because 7 That pant after the dust of the earth they carried away captive the whole capti- on the head of the poor, and turn aside the vity, to deliver them up to Edom: way of the meek: and a man and his father

But I will send a fire on the wall of Ga- will go in unto the same maid, to profane za, which shall devour the palaces thereof: my holy name:

8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from 8 And they lay themselves down upon Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and from Ashkelon; and I will turn mine hand they drink the wine of the condemned in the against Ekron; and the remnant of the Phi-house of their god.

listines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD. 9 Yet destroyed 1 the Amorite before 9 Thus saith the LORD, For three trans- them, whose height was like the height of gressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; turn away the punishment thereof; because yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his they delivered up the whole captivity to roots from beneath. Edom, and remembered not the brotherly

covenant:

10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof. 11 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three trans- 11 And I raised up of your sons for progressions of Edom, and for four, I will not phets, and of your young men for Nazarites. turn away the punishment thereof; because he Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israe!? did pursue his brother with the sword, and saith the LORD.

did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever. drink; and commanded the prophets, say12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, ing, Prophesy not.

which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. 13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a 13 Thus saith the LORD, For three trans-cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. gressions of the children of Ammon, and for 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from four, I will not turn away the punishment the swift, and the strong shall not strengthea thereof; because they have ripped up the his force, neither shall the mighty deliver women with child of Gilead, that they might himself: enlarge their border:

15 Neither shall he stand that handleth 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces there- deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth of, with shouting in the day of battle, with a the horse deliver himself. tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

16 And he that is courageous among the 15 And their king shall go into captivity, mighty shall flee away naked in that day, he and his princes together, saith the LORD. saith the LORD.

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