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more tempestuous against them. 14 And they cried to the Lord, and said, ' For+ Gr. by no bid it, Lord: let us not Acts 10. 14. perish for the sake of this man's life, and bring not righteous blood upon us: for thou, Lord, hast done as thou wouldest. 15 So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 And the men feared the Lord very + Or, their greatly, and offered sacrifices to the Lord, and

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3. And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying, 2 Rise, go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to thee of. And Jonas arose, and went to Nineve, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineve was an exceeding great city to God. city, of about three days' Acts 7.20. journey. 4 And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown. 5 And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths, from the greatest of them to the least of them. And the word reached the king of Nineve, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes. And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water. men and cattle were clothed with sackcloths, and cried earnestly to God: and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying, Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and so we shall not perish? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did it not.

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2. Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights. And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale, 3 and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell; thou heardest my voice. Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me. 5 And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple? Water was poured around me to the soul: the + Gr. last. lowest deep compassed me, my head went down to the bottoms of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored. When + Gr. from me. my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to thee into thy holy 4. But Jonas was very deeply temple. They that observe vanities grieved, and he was confounded. Gr. vain and and lies have forsaken their And he prayed to the Lord, and false things. own mercy. 10 But I will said, O Lord, were not these my words sacrifice to thee with the voice of when I was yet in my land? therefore praise and thanksgiving: all that II made haste to flee to + Gr. anticihave vowed I will pay Tharsis; because I knew pated. thank-offering to thee the Lord of my that thou art merciful and compasAlex. eis our salvation. "And the whale sionate, long-suffering, and abundant was commanded by the in kindness, and repentest or, sovereign Lord, and it cast up Jonas on the dry of evil. 3 And now, Lord Lord. land. God, take my life from me; for it is

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of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired
of his life, and said, It is better for
me to die than to live. And God
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better for me to die than to live. And the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved? 5 And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city. And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd. And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away. And twelve myriads of human beings, it came to pass at the rising of the sun, who do not know their right hand that God commanded a burning cast or their left hand; and also much wind; and the sun smote on the head cattle?

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1. AND the word of the Lord came | ria? and what is the sin of the house to Michæas the son of Morasthi, in the of Juda? is it not Jerusalem? Theredays of Joatham, and Achaz, and Eze- fore I will make Samaria as a storekias, kings of Juda, concerning what house of the fruits of the field, and as he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusa- a planting of a vineyard: and I will lem. 2 Hear these words, ye people; 'utterly demolish her stones, + + Gr. plural. and let the earth give heed, and I will expose her founda- fusion. and all that are in it: and the Lord tions. And they shall cut in picces God shall be among you for a testi- all the graven images, and all that mony, the Lord out of his holy habita- she has hired they shall Gr. or all her tion. For, behold, the Lord comes burn with fire, and I will hires. forth out of his place, and will come utterly destroy all her idols: because down, and will go upon the high places she has gathered of the hires of forniof the earth. 4 And the mountains cation, and of the hires of fornication shall be shaken under him, and the has she amassed wealth. Therefore valleys shall melt like wax before the shall she lament and wail, she shall go fire, and as water rushing down a de- barefooted, and being naked she shall clivity. All these calamities are for make lamentation as that of serpents, the transgression of Jacob, and for the and mourning as of the daughters of sin of the house of Israel. What is the sirens. For her plague has become transgression of Jacob? is it not Sama- grievous; for it has come even to Juda;

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and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. 10 Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye Enakim, do not rebuild from the ruins of the house in derision: sprinkle dust in the place of your laughter. " The inhabitant of Sennaar, fairly inhabiting her cities, came not forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief. 12 Who has begun to act for good to her that dwells in sorrow? for calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem, 13 even a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion: for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel. 14 Therefore shall he cause men to be sent forth as far as the inheritance of Geth, even vain houses; they are become vanity to the kings of Israel; 15 until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel. 16 Shave thine + Gr. shear hair, and *make thyself bald thyself. for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.

2. They meditated troubles, and + Gr. plural. Wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God. 2 And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance. Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which ye shall not lift up your necks, neither + Gr.suddenly. shall ye walk upright speedily for the time is evil.

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has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided. Therefore thou shalt have no one to cast a line for the lot. 6 Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches, 7 who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not the Lord's words right with him? and have they not proceeded correctly? 8 Even before time my

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people withstood him as an enemy against his peace; mity. they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war. The leaders of my people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw ye near to the everlasting mountains.

10 Arise thou, and depart; for this is not thy rest because of uncleanness: ye have been utterly destroyed; ye have fled, no one pursuing you: thy spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on thee for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people, + See Heb. 12 Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; Or, wait for. I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them: 13 they have broken through, and passed the gate, and gone out by it: and their king has gone out before them, and the Lord shall lead them.

3. And he shall say, Hear now these words, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment? who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones: even as they

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exalted above the hills; and the peoples
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devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the + Or, tub. *pot, thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not hearken to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because will walk in his paths: for out of Sion they have done wickedly in their prac-shall go forth a law, and the word of tices against themselves. Thus says the Lord from Jerusalem. And he the Lord concerning the prophets that shall judge among many peoples, and lead my people astray, that bite with shall rebuke strong nations + Gr. even to their teeth, and proclaim peace to afar off; and they shall a distance. them; and when nothing was put into beat their swords into ploughshares, their mouth, they raised up war against and their spears into sickles; and nation them: therefore there shall be night shall no more lift up sword against + Gr. out of. to you instead of a vision, nation, neither shall they learn to war and there shall be to you darkness in- any more. 4 And every one shall rest stead of prophecy; and the sun shall under his vine, and every one under go down upon the prophets, and the his fig-tree; and there shall be none day shall be dark upon them. And to alarm them for the mouth of the the seers of night-visions shall be Lord Almighty has spoken these words. ashamed, and the prophets shall be 5 For all other nations shall walk every laughed to scorn: and all the people one in his own way, but we will walk shall speak against them, because there in the name of the Lord our God for shall be none to hearken to them. ever and ever. 6 In that Gr. for the Surely I will strengthen myself with day, says the Lord, I will yond. the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, gather her that is bruised, and will and of power, to declare to Jacob his receive her that is cast out, and those transgressions, and to Israel his sins. whom I rejected. And I will make 9 Hear now these words, ye chiefs of her that was bruised a remnant, and the house of Jacob, and the remnant her that was rejected a mighty nation: of the house of Israel, who hate judg- and the Lord shall reign over them in ment, and pervert all righteousness; Mount Sion from henceforth, even for 10 who build up Sion with blood, and ever. And thou, + dark or, gloomy, Jerusalem with iniquity. "The heads tower of the flock, daughter thereof have judged for gifts, and the of Sion, on thee the dominion shall priests thereof have answered for hire, come and enter in, even the first kingand her prophets have divined for dom from Babylon to the daughter of silver: and yet they have rested on Jerusalem. And now, why hast thou the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord known calamities? was there not a among us? no evil shall come upon king to thee? or has thy counsel us. Therefore on your account Sion perished that pangs as of a woman in shall be ploughed as a field, and Je- travail have seized upon thee? 10 Be rusalem shall be as a storehouse of in pain, and strengthen thyself, and fruits, and the mountain of the house draw near, O daughter of +se. the time, as a grove of the forest. Sion, as a woman in travail : 'draw near.' for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee,

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and thence shall he redeem thee out of among the Gentiles in the midst of the hand of thine enemies. "And many peoples, as dew falling from the now have many nations gathered against Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our none may assemble nor resist among eyes shall look 12 Sion. upon But they the sons of men. And the remnant know not the thought of the Lord,

5. Now shall the daughter of Sion be completely hedged in: he has laid + See Heb. siege against us: they shall smite the tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles and have not understood his counsel: in the midst of many nations, as a lion for he has gathered them as sheaves of in the forest among cattle, and as a the floor. 13 Arise, and thresh them, lion's whelp among flocks of sheep, O daughter of Sion: for I will make even as when he goes through, and thine horns iron, and I will make thine selects, and carries off his prey, and hoofs brass and thou shalt utterly there is none to deliver. 9 Thine hand destroy many nations, and shalt con- shall be lifted up against them that + Or, the mul- secrate their abundance to afflict thee, and all thine enemies shall titude of them. the Lord, and their strength be utterly destroyed. 10And it shall to the Lord of all the earth. come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of thee, and destroy thy chariots: and I will utterly destroy the cities of thy land, and demolish all thy strong-holds: 12 and I will utterly destroy thy sor2+And thou, Bethleem, house of Eph-ceries out of thine hands; and there + Mat. 2.6. ratha, art few in number to be shall be no soothsayers in thee. 13 And reckoned among the thousands of Juda; I will utterly destroy thy graven yet out of thee shall one come forth to images, and thy statues out of the me, to be a ruler of Israel; and his midst of thee; and thou shalt never goings forth were from the beginning, any more worship the works of thine + Gr. from even from eternity. There- hands. 14And I will cut off the groves days of the age. fore shall he appoint them out of the midst of thee, and I will to wait till the time of her that travails: abolish thy cities. 15And I will exeshe shall bring forth, and then the cute vengeance on the heathen in anger remnant of their brethren shall return and wrath, because they hearkened to the children of Israel. And the not. Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth. And she shall have peace when Assur shall come into your land, and when he shall come up upon your country; and there shall be raised up against him seven shepherds, and eight attacks of men. And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts. "And the remnant of Jacob shall be

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