+ + 8 + Gr. the re gloom without brightness? 21 I hate, I and the neighing of horses shall be cut + Gr. not reject your feasts, and I will off from Ephraim. For the Lord has having light. not smell your meat-offerings sworn by himself, saying, Because I in your general assemblies. 22 Where- abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also fore if ye should bring me your whole-hate his countries, and I will cut off burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I his city with all that inhabit it. And will not accept them: neither will I it shall come to pass, if there be ten +See Hebrew. have respect to your grand men left in one house, that they shall peace-offerings. 23 Remove from me die. 10 But a remnant shall the sound of thy songs, and I will not be left behind, and their maining ones. hear the music of thine instruments. relations shall take them, and shall + Gr. fret. 24 But let judgment roll down strenuously endeavour to carry forth as water, and righteousness as an impas- their bones from the house: and one + Acts 7. 42, 43. sable torrent. 25+ Have ye shall say to the heads of the house, Is offered to me victims and sacrifices, O there yet any one else with thee? house of Israel, forty years in the wilder-"And he shall say, No one else. And ness? 26 Yea ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Ræphan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves. 27 And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, says the Lord, the Almighty God is his name. 6. Woe to them that set at nought Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered the harvest of the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves. 2 O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by thence to Ematrabba; and thence descend to Geth of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts. 3 Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths; who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls; + Alex. Tipo 5 who excel in the sound plauding,' per- of musical instruments; haps beating they have regarded them E. V. margin. as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures; who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment: and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph. Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, τοῦντες, 'ap 6 891 the other shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord. 12 For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents. 13 Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness: 14ye who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength? 15 For, behold, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, says the Lord of hosts; and they shall afflict you so that ye shall not enter into Emath, and as it were from the river of the wilderness. 7. Thus has the Lord God showed me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, Gr. or in the behold, one caterpillar, king morning. Gog. 2And it shall come to pass when he shall have finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number. 3 Repent, O Lord, for this. Gr. on this. And this shall not be, says the Lord. 4 Thus has the Lord showed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion. 5 Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray 58 8 And thee: who shall raise up Jacob? for me. And, behold, a fowler's basket. he is small in number. Repent, O2 And he said, What seest thou, Amos? Lord, for this. This also shall not And I said, A fowler's basket. be, says the Lord. Thus the Lord the Lord said to me, The end is come showed me; and behold, he stood on a upon my people Israel; I will not pass wall of adamant, and adamant was in by them any more. 3 And the ceilings his hand. And the Lord said to me, of the temple shall howl in that day, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, says the Lord God: there shall be many Adamant. And the Lord said to me, a fallen one in every place; I will Behold, I appoint adamant in the midst bring silence upon them. 4 Hear now of my people Israel: I will not pass by this, ye that foppress the Gr. wear them any more. And the joyful poor in the morning, and away. Gr. altars of altars shall be abolished, drive the needy ones by tyranny from and the sacrifices of Israel the earth, saying, When will the shall be set aside; and I month pass away, and we + Or, that we will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. laughter. + Gr. made desolate. 10 Then Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words. "For thus says Amos, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive from his land. 12 And Amasias said to Amos, Go, seer, remove thou into the land of Juda, and live there, and thou shalt prophesy there: 13 but thou shalt no longer prophesy at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house. 14 And Amos answered, and said to Amasias, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits. 15 And the Lord took me from the sheep, and the Lord said to me, Go, and prophesy to my people Israel. 16 And now hear the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not to Israel, and raise not a tumult against the house of Jacob. 17 Therefore thus says the Lord; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured with the line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. 5 shall sell, and the sabbath, may, &c. 8. Thus has the Lord God showed shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst; 14 they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Thy god, O Dan, lives; and, Thy god, O Beersabee, lives; and they shall fall, and shall no more rise again. + Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep? 8 Behold, + Gr. ditch. the eyes of the Lord God are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth; only I 9. I saw the Lord standing on the will not utterly cut off the house of altar: and he said, Smite the mercy- Jacob, says the Lord. + 9 For I will + Alex. altar. seat, and the porch shall give commandment, and sift the house +Lit. plural. be shaken: and cut through of Israel among all the Gentiles, as into the heads of all; and I will slay corn is sifted in a sieve, and yet * a the remnant of them with the sword: fragment shall not in any- Or, particle. no one of them fleeing shall escape, wise fall upon the earth. 10 All the and no one of them striving to deliver sinners of my people shall die by the himself shall be delivered. 2 Though sword, who say, Calamities shall certhey hide themselves in hell, thence tainly not draw near, nor come upon shall my hand drag them forth; and us. 11 In that day I will Acts 15. 16, 17. though they go up to heaven, thence raise up the tabernacle of David that will I bring them down. 3 If they is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of hide themselves in the top of Carmel, it, and will set up the parts thereof thence will I search them out and take that have been broken down, and will them; and if they should go down build it up as in the ancient days of the from my presence into the depths of days: 12 that the remnant of age are. the sea, there will I command the ser- men, and all the Gentiles upon whom pent, and he shall bite them. And if my name is called, may earnestly seek they should go into captivity before me, says the Lord who does all these the face of their enemies, there will I things. 13 Behold, the days come, command the sword, and it shall slay says the Lord, when the harvest shall them: and I will set mine eyes against overtake the vintage, and the grapes them for evil, and not for good. And shall ripen at seedtime; and the the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, is mountains shall drop sweet wine, and he that takes hold of the land, and all the hills shall be planted. 14 And I causes it to shake, and all that inhabit will turn the captivity of my people it shall mourn; and its destruction Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined shall go up as a river, and shall descend cities, and shall inhabit them; and they as the river of Egypt. It is he that shall plant vineyards, and shall drink builds his ascent up to the sky, and the wine from them; and they shall establishes his promise on the earth; form gardens, and eat the fruit of who calls the water of the sea, and them. 15 And I will plant them on pours it out on the face of the earth: their land, and they shall no more be the Lord Almighty is his name. Are plucked up from the land which I not ye to me as the sons of the Ethi- have given them, says the Lord God opians, O children of Israel? says the Almighty. 893 + + Gr. as the OBDIAS. CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-18. 1. THE vision of Obdias. Thus off for ever. 11 From the day that thou 5 says the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations, 2 Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war. 3 Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of have looked on the day of thou, &c. thine heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, says the Lord. If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning? How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected? They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding. In that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau. 9 And thy warriors from Thæman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau. 10 Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut stoodest in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them. 12And thou shouldest not + Look not 7 thy brother in the day of strangers; 15 For the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and Israel shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken. 19 And they that dwell in the south Nayeß, He shall inherit the mount of brew word. Esau, and they in the 'plain the Philistines and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, + Gr. σεφηλά. Heb. and the plain of Samaria, and Benja- JONAS. CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-13. 8 this evil is 1. NOW the word of the Lord let us cast lots, and find out for whose came to Jonas the son of Amathi, say-sake this mischief is ing, Rise, and go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me. But Jonas rose up to flee to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord. 4 And the Lord raised up a wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was in + Or, being danger of going to pieces. broken. 5 And the sailors were alarmed, and cried every one to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonas was + Lit. hollow. gone down into the 'hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored. And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not. And each man said to his neighbour, Come, + upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas. And they said to him, Tell us what is thine occupation, and Alex. + 'for whence comest thou, and of whose cause what country and what peo- upon us.' ple art thou? And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sca, and the dry land. 10 Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this that thou hast done? for the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them. 11 And they said to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea rose, and became yet more rough. 12 And Jonas said to them, Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13 And the men tried hard to return to the Gr.compare land, and were not able: for the sea rose and grew more and Heb. |