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sword, being expert in war: every | than wine! and the smell of thy garman has his sword upon his thigh be- ments than all spices! Thy lips cause of fear by night. King Solo- drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey mon made himself a litter of woods and milk are under thy tongue; and of Lebanon. 10 He made the pillars of the smell of thy garments is as the it silver, the bottom of it gold, the smell of Libanus. 12 My sister, my covering of it scarlet, in the midst of spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden it a pavement of love, for the daugh- enclosed, a fountain sealed. Thy ters of Jerusalem. 11 Go forth, ye shoots are a garden of pomegranates, daughters of Sion, and behold king with the fruit of choice berries; camSolomon, with the crown wherewith phor, with spikenard: 4 spikenard and his mother crowned him, in the day saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with + Comp. Heb. of his espousals, and in all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, the day of the gladness of his heart. with all chief spices: 15 a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus.

4. Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves, beside thy silence, thy hair is as flocks of goats, that have appeared from Galaad. 2 Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them. 3 Thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is thy check without thy silence. Thy neck is as the tower of David, that was built for an armoury: a thousand shields hang upon it, and all darts of mighty men. 5 Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns, that feed among the lilies. Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. Thou art all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in thee.

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5. Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly. I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My kinsman Come from Libanus, my bride, put forth his hand by the hole of the come from Libanus: thou shalt come door, and my belly was moved for him. and pass from the top of Faith, from 5I rose up to open to my kinsman; my +Heb. Amana. the top of Sanir and Her- hands dropped myrrh, my fingers mon, from the lions' dens, from the choice myrrh, on the handles of the mountains of the leopards. My sis- lock. I opened to my kinsman; my ter, my spouse, thou hast ravished my kinsman was gone: + soul failed heart; thou hast ravished my heart at his speech: I sought him, + Gr. went with one of thine eyes, with one chain but found him not; I called forth. of thy neck. 10+ How him, but he answered me not. beautiful are thy breasts, watchmen that go their rounds in the my sister, my spouse! how city found me, they smote me, they much more beautiful are thy breasts wounded me; the keepers of the walls

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Cephaz.

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of scarlet, and thy speech is comely. Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, being seen without thy vail. There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number. My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her. Who is this that looks forth as

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out from myriads. "His the morning, fair as the moon, choice head is as 'very fine gold, his locks are as the sun, terrible as armies set in flowing, black as a raven. His eyes array? are as doves, by the pools of waters, 10 I went down to the garden of nuts washed with milk, sitting by the pools. to look at the fruits of the valley, to 13 His cheeks are as bowls of spices see if the vine flowered, if the pomepouring forth perfumes: his lips are granates blossomed. 11 There I will filies, dropping choice myrrh. 14 His give thee my breasts: my soul knew hands are as turned gold it not: it made me as the chariots of set with beryl: his belly is Aminadab. 12 Return, return, O Suanivory tablet on a sapphire namite; return, return, and we will stone. 15 His legs are marble pillars look at thee. set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars. 16 His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem. 17 Whither is thy kinsman gone, thou beautiful among women? + Gr. looked whither has thy kinsman *turned aside? tell us, and

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6. My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my kinsman's, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies. Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array. 4 Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats that have appeared from Mount Galaad. 5 Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread

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Thy neck is as an ivory tower; thine eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of Heb. Bathmany: thy nose is as the rabbim. tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus. 5 Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries. How beautiful tq. d.corridors. art thou, and how sweet art thou, my love? This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall thy breasts be as clusters of

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CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-20.

1. THE vision which Esaias the son | thou people of Gomorrha. 11 Of what of Amos saw, which he saw against value to me is the abundance of your Juda and against Jerusalem, in the sacrifices? says the Lord: I am full of reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and whole-burnt-offerings of rams; and I Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over delight not in the fat of lambs, and Judea. 2 Hear, O heaven, and hearken, the blood of bulls and goats: 12 neither O earth: for the Lord has spoken, shall ye come with these to appear saying, I have begotten and reared up before me; for who has required these + Or, set me children, but they have re-things at your hands? Ye shall no at nought.' belled against me. 3 The more tread court. my 13 Though ye ox knows his owner, and the ass his bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is master's crib: but Israel does not know an abomination to me; I cannot bear me, and the people has not regarded your new moons, and your sabbaths, me. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people full and the great day; 14 your fasting, of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: and rest from work, your new moons ye have forsaken the Lord, and pro- also, and your feasts my soul hates: voked the Holy One of Israel. 5 Why ye have become loathsome to me; I should ye be smitten any more, trans- will no more pardon your sins. 15 When gressing more and more? the whole ye stretch forth your hands, I will head is pained, and the whole heart turn away mine eyes from you: and sad. From the feet to the head, though ye make many supplications, there is no soundness in them; neither I will not hearken to you; for your wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, are healed: it is not possible to apply be clean; remove your iniquities from a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages. Your your souls before mine eyes; cease land is desolate, your cities burned from your iniquities; learn to do well; with fire: your land, strangers devour diligently seek judgment, deliver it in your presence, and it is made him that is suffering wrong, plead for desolate, overthrown by strange na- the orphan, and obtain justice for the tions. The daughter of Sion shall widow. 18 And come, let us reason be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, together, says the Lord: and though and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden your sins be as purple, I will make of cucumbers, as a besieged city. them white as snow; and though they + Rom. 9. 29. 9+And if the Lord of Sa-be as scarlet, I will make them baoth had not left us a seed, weshould white as wool. 19 And if ye be willhave been as Sodoma, and we should ing, and hearken to me, ye shall have been made like to Gomorrha. eat the good of the land: 20 but if 10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers ye be not willing, nor hearken to of Sodoma; attend to the law of God, me, a sword shall devour you: for

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the mouth of the Lord has spoken | be exalted above the hills; and all this. nations shall come to it. And many 21 How has the faithful city Sion, nations shall go and say, Come, and once full of judgment, become a harlot! let us go up to the mountain of the wherein righteousness lodged, but now Lord, and to the house of the God of murderers. 22 Your silver is worthless, Jacob; and he will tell us his way, thy wine merchants mix the wine and we will walk in it: for out of Sion with water. 23 Thy princes are rebel- shall go forth the law, and the word of lious, companions of thieves, loving the Lord out of Jerusalem. And he bribes, secking after rewards; not shall judge among the nations, and pleading for orphans, and not heeding shall rebuke many people: and they the cause of widows. 24 Therefore thus shall beat their swords into ploughsays the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe shares, and their spears into sickles: to the mighty men of Israel; for my and nation shall not take up sword wrath shall not cease against mine against nation, neither shall they learn adversaries, and I will execute judg- to war any more. 5 And now, Ŏ house ment on mine enemies. 25 And I will of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the bring my hand upon thee, and purge light of the Lord. For he has forGr. to pure. thee completely, and I will saken his people the house of Israel, destroy the rebellious, and because their land is filled as at the will take away from thee all trans- beginning with divinations, as the land 26 And I will establish thy of the Philistines, and +or, aliens, judges as before, and thy counsellors many strange children were see Appendix. as at the beginning: and afterwards born to them. For their land is filled thou shalt be called the city of right- with silver and gold, and there was no eousness, the faithful mother-city Sion. number of their treasures; their land 27 For her captives shall be saved with also is filled with horses, and there was judgment, and with mercy. 28 And no number of their chariots. And the transgressors and the sinners shall their land is filled with abominations, be crushed together, and they that even the works of their hands; and forsake the Lord shall be utterly con- they have worshipped the works which sumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed their fingers made. And the mean. of their idols, which they delighted in, man bows down, and the great man and they are made ashamed of the humbles himself: and I will not pardon gardens which they coveted. 30 For them. they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water. 31 And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench them.

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10 Now therefore enter ye into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth. For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be 13 And upon every brought down. cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and towering, and upon every