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let him even save thee in all thy cities: | and turn to the Lord your God: speak let him judge thee, of whom thou to him, that ye may not receive the saidst, Give me a king and a prince. reward of unrighteousness, but that "And I gave thee a king in mine ye may receive good things: and we anger, and kept him back in my wrath. will render in return the fruit of our 12 Ephraim has framed a conspiracy lips. Assur shall never save us; we will + Or, bundle of unrighteousness, his sin not mount on horseback; we will no of iniquity. is hidden. 13 Pains as of a longer say to the works of our hands, woman in travail shall come upon him: Our gods. He who is in thee shall pity he is thy wise son, because he shall not the orphan. I will restore their dwellstay in the destruction of thy children. ings, I will love them truly: +Gr. mani14 I will deliver them out of the power 5 for he has turned festly. away my of Hades, and will redeem them from wrath from him. I will be as dew to + Or, cause. death: where is thy penalty, Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and +1 Cor. 15. 55. O death? *O Hades, where is cast forth his roots as Libanus. His thy sting? comfort is hidden from branches shall spread, and he shall be mine eyes. 15 Forasmuch as he will as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall 8 cause a division among his be as the smell of Libanus. They ful per- brethren, the Lord shall shall return, and dwell under his bring upon him an east wind from the shadow: they shall live and be satisdesert and shall dry up his veins, and fied with corn, and he shall flower as a quite drain his fountains: he shall dry up vine: his memorial shall be to Ephrahis land, and spoil all his precious vessels. im as the wine of Libanus. 9 What has he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is thy fruit found. is wise, and will understand these things? or prudent, and will know them? for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the ungodly shall fall therein.

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14. Samaria shall be utterly destroyed; for she has resisted her God: they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

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Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities. Take with you words,

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CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-20.

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1. THE word of the Lord which | sumed: mourn your property on accame to Joel the son of Bathuel. count of the wheat and barley; for 2 Hear these words, ye elders and the harvest has perished or, vintage. hearken, all ye that inhabit the land. from off the field. 12 The vine is + Gr. if. Have such things happened in dried up, and the fig-trees are become your days, or in the days of your few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, fathers? 3 Tell your children con- and apple, and all the trees of the field cerning them, and let your children are dried up: for the sons of men * have tell their children, and their children abolished joy. 13 Gird your- + Gr. disfianother generation. The leavings of selves with sackcloth, and ged, or, disthe caterpillar has the locust eaten, lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that and the leavings of the locust has the serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sack+ It is difficult + palmerworm eaten, and cloths, ye that minister to God: for exact meaning the leavings of the palmer- the meat-offering and drink-offering are worm has the 'cankerworm withheld from the house of eaten. 5 Awake, ye drunk

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God. 14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn Isaiah, 66. 5. ards, from ards, from your wine, service, gather the elders and all the and weep: mourn, all ye that drink inhabitants of the land into the house wine to drunkenness: for joy and of your God, and cry earnestly to the gladness are removed from your mouth. Lord, 15 Alas, alas, alas for the day! For a strong and innumerable nation for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it is come up against my land, their teeth will come as trouble upon trouble. are lion's teeth, and their back teeth 16 Your meat has been destroyed before those of a lion's whelp. He has your eyes, joy and gladness from out ruined my vine, and utterly broken of the house of your God. 17 The my fig-trees: he has utterly searched heifers have started at their mangers, my vine, and cast it down; he has the treasures are abolished, the wine+Gr. whitened, peeled its branches. La-presses are broken down; for the corn Gen. 30. 37. ment to me more than a is withered. 18 What shall we store virgin girded with sackcloth for the up for ourselves? the herds of cattle tie. one who husband of her youth. have mourned, because they had no The meat-offering and pasture; and the flocks of sheep have drink-offering are removed from the been utterly destroyed. 19 To thee, O house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured that serve at the altar of the Lord. the fair places of the wilderness, and 10 For the plains languish: let the a flame has burnt up all the trees of land mourn, for the corn languishes; the field. 20 And the cattle Gr. issues. the wine is dried up, the oil becomes of the field have looked up Ezek. 47. 4. 11 the husbandmen are con- to thee: for the fountains of waters

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sc. the people.

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his host: for his camp is very great:
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12 Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation: 13 and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for

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2. Sound the trumpet in Sion, make a proclamation in my holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded for the day of the Lord is near; for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been he is merciful and compassionate, longfrom the beginning one suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils. 14 Who knows if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God? 15 Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a * solemn service: 16gather the people, see chap. sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17 Between the wall and the 'foot of the altar let + Gr. feet. the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? 18 But the Lord was jealous of his land, and spared his people. 19 And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied with them: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles. 20 And I will chase away from you the northern adversary, and will drive him away into a dry land, Gr. Cause to and I will sink his face in disappear. the former sea, and his back tion. parts in the latter sea, and his +See Job 6.7. ill savour shall come up, fed his works. and his stink shall come up, because

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like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many gene+ Gr. it. sc. rations. Before them is the people. a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain; and + Lit. to him. there shall none of them escape. 4Their appearance is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they pursue. As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle. Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a caldron. 'As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks: and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in nowise be destroyed. They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves. 10 Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars he has wrought great things. shall withdraw their light. 11 And 21 Be of good courage, O land; rethe Lord shall utter his voice before joice and be glad: for the Lord has

+ Or, pot.

+ Gr. corrup

+ Gr. magni

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CHAP. III. v. 13. done great things. "Be of good 3. For, behold, in those days and courage, ye beasts of the plain, for at that time, when I shall have turned the plains of the wilderness have bud- the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem, ded, for the trees have borne their 2 I will also gather all the Gentiles, fruit, the fig-tree and the vine have and bring them down to Or, nations. yielded their strength. 23 Rejoice then the valley of Josaphat, and See Mat. 25.31 and be glad, ye children of Sion, in will plead with them there for my peothe Lord your God: for he has given ple and my heritage Israel, who have you food fully, and he will rain on been dispersed among the Gentiles; you the early and the latter rain, as be- and these Gentiles have divided my fore. 24 And the floors shall be filled land, cast lots over my people, and with corn, and the presses shall over- have given their boys to harlots, and flow with wine and oil. 25 And I will sold their girls for wine, and have recompense you for the years which drunk. And what have ye to do with the locust, and the caterpillar, and the me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galipalmerworm, and the cankerworm lee of the 'Gentiles? do ye ly have eaten, even my great army, which render me a recompense? Philistines. I sent against you. 26 And ye shall or do ye bear malice against me? cat abundantly, and be satisfied, and quickly and speedily will I return shall praise the name of the Lord your your recompense upon your own God for the things which he has heads; because ye have taken my wrought wonderfully with you: and silver and my gold, and ye have my people shall not be ashamed for ever. 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and that there is none else beside me and my people shall no more be ashamed for ever. 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. 29 And on my servants and on my handmaids in those days will I pour out of my Spirit. 30 And I will show wonders in heaven, and upon the earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord come. 32 And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one in the rem- be as the Lord has said, and they that have glad tidings preached to them to whom the Lord has called.

בשרידים*

nant,' read as one word.

brought my choice ornaments into your temples; and ye have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts. Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads. And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken it.

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Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the mighty men of war, draw + Gr. sanctify. near and arise, all ye warriors. Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: +Or, daggers. let the weak say, I am strong. "Gather yourselves together, and go in, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves there: let the *timid become a warrior. 12 Let + Gr. meek. them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about. 13 Bring forth the sickles,

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for the vintage is come: go in, tread | 18 And it shall come to pass in that the grapes, for the press is full: cause day tuat the mountains shall drop the vats to overflow; for their wicked- sweet wine, and the hills shall flow ness is multiplied. 14 Noises have re- with milk, and all the fountains of sounded in the valley of judgment: Juda shall flow with water, +See chap. for the day of the Lord is near in the and a fountain shall go valley of judgment. 15 The sun and forth of the house of the Lord, and the moon shall be darkened, and the shall water the valley of flags. stars shall withdraw their light. 16 And 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and the Lord shall cry out of Sion, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; because of the wrongs of the chiland the heaven and the earth shall be dren of Juda, because they have shed shaken, but the Lord shall spare his righteous blood in their land. 20 But people, and shall strengthen the chil- Judea shall be inhabited for ever, dren of Israel. And ye shall know and Jerusalem to all generations. that I am the Lord your God, who " And I will make inquisition for dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and their blood, and will by no means Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall not pass through her any more. shall dwell in Sion.

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CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-10.

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1. THE words of Amos which came | habitants out of the plain of On, and to him in Accarim out of Thecue, which will cut in pieces 'a tribe ad amhe saw concerning Jerusalem, in the out of the men of Charrhan: biguous. days of Ozias king of Juda, in the and the famous people of Syria shall days of Jeroboam the son of Joas be led captive, says the Lord. Thus king of Israel, two years before the says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, earthquake. And he said, The Lord and for four, I will not turn away has spoken out of Sion, and has uttered from them; because they took prisoners his voice out of Jerusalem; and the the captivity of Solomon, to shut them pastures of the shepherds have mourned, up into Idumea. And I will send and the top of Carmel is dried up. forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and "And the Lord said, For three sins of it shall devour its foundations. And Damascus, and for four, I will not turn I will destroy the inhabitants out of away from it; because they sawed with Azotus, and a tribe shall see v. 5. iron saws the women with child of the be cut off from Ascalon, and I will Galaadites. And I will send a fire on stretch out my hand upon Accaron: the house of Azael, and it shall devour and the remnant of the Philistines the foundations of the son of Ader. shall perish, says the Lord. 9 Thus "And I will break to pieces the bars of says the Lord; For three transDamascus, and will destroy the in-gressions of Tyre, and for four, I will

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