neighbour. 10 6 trodden by all, it fall off; and let the rest eat every | to pass in that day that I will make one the flesh of his + And Jerusalem a trodden stone + Or, a stone I will take my beautiful staff, and cast to all the nations: every &c. it away, that I may break my covenant which I made with all the people. "And it shall be broken in that day; and the Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know that it is the word of the Lord. 12 And I will say to them, If it be good in your eyes, give me my price, or refuse it. And they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace, and I will see if it is good metal, as I was proved +Mat.27.9,10. for their sakes. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the furnace in the house of the Lord. 14 And I cast away my second rod, even Line, that I might + Compare break the possession beHeb. Alex. tween Juda and Israel. And the Lord said to me, 15 Take yet to thee shepherd's implements belonging to an unskilful shepherd. 16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall dislocate the joints of their necks. 17 Alas for the + Or, wring vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! the sword shall be upon the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. διαθήκην, covenant. their necks. + Gr. his arms. one that tramples on it shall utterly 9 11 In construction, lament in separate families, the will bring mine hand upon the little See a similar family of the house of David ones. And it shall come to pass, that Mark 6. 39, 40. by itself, and their wives by in all the land, says the Lord, two themselves; the family of the house of parts thereof shall be cut off and Nathan by itself, and their wives by perish; but the third shall be left themselves; 13 the family of the house therein. And I will bring the third of Levi by itself, and their wives by part through the fire, and I will try themselves; the family of Symeon by them as silver is tried, and I will itself, and their wives by themselves; prove them as gold is proved: they 14 all the families that are left, each shall call upon my name, and I will family by itself, and their wives by hear them, and say, This is my people: themselves. and they shall say, The Lord is my God. 14. Behold the days of the Lord come, and thy spoils shall be divided in thee. 2 And I will gather all the Gentiles to Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but the rest of my people shall not be utterly cut off from the city. 13. In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to tor, departure. the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for * separation. 2 And it shall come to pass in that +Or, of Sabaoth. day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land. And it shall 3 And the Lord shall go forth, and come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, fight with those Gentiles as when he that his father and his mother which fought in the day of war. And his gave birth to him shall say to him, feet shall stand in that day on the Thou shalt not live; for thou hast Mount of Olives, which is before Jespoken lies in the name of the Lord: rusalem on the east, and the Mount of and his father and his mother who Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it him birth shall bind him as he toward the east and the west, a very gave is prophesying. And it shall come to great division; and half the mountain pass in that day, that the prophets shall lean to the north, and half of it shall be ashamed every one of his to the south. And the valley of my vision when he prophesies; and they mountains shall be closed up, and the shall clothe themselves with a garment valley of the mountains shall be joined of hair, because they have lied. And on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up one shall say, I am not a prophet, for as it was blocked up in the days of the I am a tiller of the ground, for a man earthquake, in the days of Ozias king brought me up thus from my youth. of Juda; and the Lord my God shall 6 And I will say to him, What are come, and all the saints with him. these wounds between thine hands? And it shall come to pass in that day and he shall say, Those with which I that there shall be no light, 7 and there was wounded in my be- shall be for one day cold Alex. reads loved house. 7 Awake, O and frost, and that day shall ixos, cold, Alex. shep- sword, against my shep-be known to the Lord, and right reading. herds, and against the man it shall not be day nor night: but who is my citizen, says the Lord towards evening it shall be light. + Mat. 26. 31. Almighty: *smite the shep- And in that day living water shall herds, and draw out the sheep: and I come forth out of Jerusalem; half of + Alex. the house of my beloved. herd. probably the 11 it toward the former sea, and half of it toward the latter sca: and so shall it be in summer and spring. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name One, 10 compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king's winepresses, they shall dwell in the city; and there shall be no more any curse, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely. 12 And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And there shall be in that day a great + Or, aston- *panic from the Lord upon ishment. them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his neighbour. 14 Judas also shall fight in Jerusalem; and God shall gather the strength of all the nations round about, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And this shall be the overthrow of 923 the horses, and mules, and camels, and asses, and all the beasts that are in those camps, according to this overthrow. 16 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall be left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall even come up every year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. Lit. tent"And it shall come to pass, pitching. that whosoever of all the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others. 18And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the overthrow with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations, whosoever shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 20 In that day there shall be upon the bridle of every horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar. 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and shall seethe meat in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty. 60 ed them for MALACHIAS. 1. THE burden of the word of even among you the doors shall be the Lord to Israel by the hand of shut, and one will not kindle the fire his messenger. Lay it, I pray you, to of mine altar for nothing, I have no heart. I have loved you, says the pleasure in you, says the Lord AlLord. And ye said, Wherein hast mighty, and I will not accept a sacrithou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's fice at your hands. For from the brother? says the Lord: yet I loved rising of the sun even to the going + Rom. 9. 13. Jacob, and hated Esau, down thereof my name has been gloriLit. appoint- and laid waste his borders, fied among the Gentiles; and in every desolation. and made his heritage as place incense is offered to my name, dwellings of the wilderness? Be- and a pure offering: for my name is cause one will say, Idumea has been great among the Gentiles, says the overthrown, but let us return and Lord Almighty. 12 But ye profane it, rebuild the desolate places; thus says in that ye say, The table of the Lord the Lord Almighty, They shall build, is polluted, and his meats set thereon but I will throw down; and they shall are despised. 13 And ye said, These be called The borders of wickedness, services are troublesome: therefore I and, The people against whom the have utterly rejected them + Gr. puffed Lord has set himself for ever. And with scorn, says the Lord at them. your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Almighty: and ye brought in torn The Lord has been magnified upon the victims, and lame, and sick: if then + Gr. above. borders of Israel. A son ho- ye should bring an offering, shall I nours his father, and a servant his mas- accept them at your hands? says the ter: if then I am a father, where is mine Lord Almighty. 14 And cursed is the honour? and if I am a master, where man who had the power, and possessed is my fear? says the Lord Almighty. a male in his flock, and whose vow is Ye the priests are they that despise upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt my name: yet ye said, Wherein have thing to the Lord: for I am a great we despised thy name? In that ye King, says the Lord Almighty, and bring to mine altar polluted bread; my name is glorious among the nations. and ye said, Wherein have ye polluted it? In that ye say, The table of the 2. And now, O priests, this comLord is polluted, and that which was mandment is to you. If ye will not set thereon ye have despised. For if hearken, and if ye will not lay it to ye bring a blind victim for sacrifices, heart, to give glory to my name, says is it not evil? and if ye bring the lame the Lord Almighty, then I will send or the sick, is it not evil? offer it now forth the curse upon you, and I will to thy ruler, and see if he will receive bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, thee, if he will accept thy person, says I will curse it, and I will scatter your +Lit. propiti. the Lord Almighty. And blessing, and it shall not exist among now entreat the face of you, because ye lay not this to heart. your God, and make supplication to Behold, I turn my back back+Gr. separate him. These things have been done upon you, and I will scat- from you. by your hands: shall I accept you? ter dung upon your faces, the dung of says the Lord Almighty. 10 Because your feasts, and I will carry you away ate. + 8 9 2 the shoulder or, charge to fear me, &c. + + ἐποίησε, pro bly cor rupted from Alex. reading, bably a corruption of οὐκ ἄλλος the and that pro Heb. i. e. TN at the same time. And ye shall know | and yet she was thy partner, and the that I have sent this commandment to wife of thy covenant. 15 And did he you, that my covenant might be with not do well? and there was † Gr. οὐ καλὸν the sons of Levi, says the Lord Al- the residue of his spirit. mighty. My covenant of life and But ye said, What does peace was with him, and I gave it God seek but a seed? But Or, power, him that he might reverently take ye heed to your spirits, fear me, and that he might and forsake not the wife of + See 2 Cor. be awe-struck at my name. thy youth. 16 But if thou for TN 8. 20. 6 The law of truth was in shouldest hate thy wife and put her his mouth, and iniquity was not found away, says the Lord God of Israel, then in his lips: he walked before me di- ungodliness shall cover thy thoughts, recting his way in peace, and he turned says the Lord Almighty: therefore many from unrighteousness. For the take ye heed to your spirit, and for+ Gr. shall. priest's lips should keep sake them not, 17 ye that have provoked knowledge, and they should seek the God with your words. But ye said, law at his mouth: for he is the mes- Wherein have we provoked him? In senger of the Lord Almighty. But that ye say, Every one that does evil ye have turned aside from the way, is a pleasing object in the sight of the and caused many to fail in following Lord, and he takes pleasure + Or, and, the law: ye have corrupted the cove- in such; and where is the Where, &c. nant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty. God of justice? 9 And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have +Gr. accepted been partial in the law. 10 Have ye not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have ye forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers? 11 Juda has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods. 12 The Lord will utterly destroy the man that does these things, until he be even cast down from out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and from among them that offer sacrifice to the Lord Almighty. 13 And these things which I hated, ye did: ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: is it mect for me to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive anything from your hands as welcome? 14 Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast forsaken, persons. + 3. Behold, I send forth my messenger, and he shall survey + Mat. 11. 10. the way before me and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come into his temple, even the angel of the covenant, whom ye take pleasure in: behold, he is coming, says the Lord Almighty. And who will abide the day of his coming? or who or, wait for. will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers. Gr. them 3 He shall sit to melt and that wash. purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as + Gr. melting gold and silver, and they and purging. shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness. 4And the sacrifice of Juda and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years. 5And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's + |