+ Lit. pests. Alex. not + + broken, yet not 21 One Gr. lit. in faces. king of the south shall be greatly en-days shall he be raged, and shall come forth, and shall openly, nor in war. 21 One war with the king of the north: and shall stand on his place, he shall raise a great multitude; but who has been set at nought, and they the multitude shall be delivered into have not put upon him the honour of his hand. 12 And he shall take the the kingdom: but he shall come in multitude, and his heart shall be ex- prosperously, and obtain the kingdom alted; and he shall cast down many by deceitful ways. 22 And the arms of + Gr. myriads. thousands: but he shall not him that overflows shall be washed prevail. 13 For the king of the north away as with a flood from before him, shall return, and bring a multitude and shall be broken, and so shall be greater than the former, and at the the head of the covenant. 23 And beend of the times of years an invading cause of the leagues made with him he army shall come on with a great force, shall work deceit: and he shall come and with much substance. And in up, and overpower them with a small those times many shall rise up against nation. 24 And he shall enter with the king of the south; and the children prosperity, and that into fertile disof the 'spoilers of thy people tricts; and he shall do what his fathers shall exalt themselves to establish the and his fathers' fathers have not done; vision; and they shall fail. 15 And the he shall scatter among them plunder, king of the north shall come in, and and spoils, and wealth; and he shall cast up a mound, and take strong cities: devise plans against Egypt, even for a and the arms of the king of the south time. 25 And his strength and his Gr. stand. shall withstand, and his heart shall be stirred up against the stand. chosen ones shall rise up, king of the south with a great force; but there shall be no strength to stand. and the king of the south shall engage 16 And he that comes in against him in war with a great and very strong shall do according to his will, and force; but his forces shall not stand, there is no one to stand before him: for they shall devise plans against him and he shall stand in the land of 26 and they shall cat his provisions, and + Heb. word beauty, and it shall be shall crush him, and he shall carry in Gr. letters. consumed by his hand. away armies as with a flood, and many 17And he shall set his face to come in shall fall down slain. 27 And as for with the force of his whole kingdom, and shall cause everything to prosper with him: and he shall give him the daughter of women to corrupt her but she shall not continue, neither be on his side. 18 And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, and cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless his own reproach shall return to him. 19 Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of his own land: but he shall become weak, and fall, and not be found. 20 And there shall arise out of his root one that shall cause a plant of the kingdom to pass over his place, earning kingly glory: and yet in those + Or, do all things that seemed right with him. 2 : both the kings, their hearts are set venant. + slightly altered. them that have forsaken the holy co-ships; and they shall enter into the land: and he shall break in pieces, and pass on: 41 and he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many + Gr. Sabaim, shall fail: but these shall Heb. word, escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 And he shall stretch forth his hand over the land; and the land of Egypt shall not escape. + Lit. be for 43 And he shall have the deliverance. mastery over the secret treasures of gold and silver, and over all the desirable possessions of Egypt, and of the Libyans, and Ethiopians, in their strongholds. But rumours and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many. 45 And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the Heb. word. seas in the holy mountain of beauty: but he shall come to his portion, and there is none to deliver him. 31 And *seeds shall spring up out of +See v. 6, note. him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual sacrifice, and make the abomination desolate. 32 And the transgressors shall bring about a covenant by deceitful ways: but a people knowing their God shall prevail, and do valiantly. 33 And the intelligent of the people shall understand much: yet they shall fall by the Gr. be weak. sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by spoil of many days. 34 And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery. 35 And some of them that understand shall fall, to try them as with fire, and to test them, and that they may be manifested at the time of the end, for the matter is yet for a set time. alted and mag nified. μίαν. + + + 44 2 + Or, arise. 36 And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and 12. And at that time Michael the + Gr. be ex- magnify himself against great prince shall stand up, that stands over the children of thyor, for. every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper people: and there shall be a time until the indignation shall be accom-of tribulation, such tribulation as has + Or, it is to plished: for it is coming not been from the time that there was be ended. to an end. 37 And he shall a nation on the earth until that time: not regard any gods of his fathers, nor at that time thy people shall be deAlex. eo- the desire of women, nei-livered, even every one that is written ther shall he regard any in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame. 3 And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous as the stars for ever and Lit. for the ever. And thou, Daniel, ages and yet close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased. And I Daniel saw, and, behold, two others stood, one on one side of the bank of the river, and the other on the other side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed in deity: for he shall magnify himself above all. 38 And he shall honour the + Gr, Maozim. god of forces on his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things. 39 And he shall do thus in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts. 40And at the end of the time he shall conflict with the king of the south: and the Gr. be ga king of the north shall *come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many thered against t him. + more. linen, who was over the water of the end. 10 Many must be tested, and tho+ Gr. until river, When will be the roughly whitened, and tried + Rather when? end of the wonders which with fire, and sanctified; 'chosen out.' thou hast mentioned? And I heard but the transgressors shall transgress: the man clothed in linen, who was and none of the transgressors shall unover the water of the river, and he derstand; but the wise shall understand. lifted up his right hand and his left "And from the time of the removal hand to heaven, and swore by him of the perpetual sacrifice, Gr. change. that lives for ever, that it should be for when the abomination of desolation a time of times and half a time: when shall be set up, there shall be a thousand the dispersion is ended they shall two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessby read know all these things. And ed is he that waits, and comes to the as if one word. I heard, but I understood thousand three hundred and thirty-five not: and I said, O Lord, what will be days. 13 But go thou, and rest: for the end of these things? And he there are yet days and seasons to the said, Go, Daniel: for the words are fulfilment of the end; and thou shalt closed and sealed up to the time of the stand in thy lot at the end of the days. 9 O SEE. CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-11. And he said to him, Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set myself in array against them. But I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen. And she weaned Unpitied; and she conceived again, and bore a son. 9 And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God. "And the children of Juda shall 1. THE word of the Lord which | bore a daughter. came to Osee the son of Beeri, in the days of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas, king of Israel. The beginning of the word of the Lord by Osee. And the Lord said to Osee, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go awhoring in departing from the Lord. So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Debelaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son. And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Juda, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. And it shall be, in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael. And she conceived again, and 3 6 + Rom. 9. 26. be gathered, and the children of Israel | baths, and all her solemn assemblies together, and shall appoint themselves 12 And I will utterly destroy her vines, one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezrael. + heart. Hebra and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts 2. Say to your brother, My people, of the field, and the birds of the sky, and to your sister, Pitied. 2 Plead and the reptiles of the earth shall dewith your mother, plead: for she is vour them. 13 And I will recompense not my wife, and I am not her hus- on her the days of Baalim, wherein band: and I will remove her fornica- she sacrificed to them, and put on her tion out of my presence, and her adul-ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went tery from between her breasts; that after her lovers, and forgot me, says I may strip her naked, and make her the Lord. again as she was at the day of her 14 Therefore, behold, I will cause birth: and I will make her desolate, her to err, and will make her as desoand make her as a dry land, and will late, and will speak com- + Gr. to her kill her with thirst. And I will not fortably to her. 15 And I ism. have mercy upon her children; for will give her her possessions from they are children of fornication. And thence, and the valley of Achor to their mother went a-whoring: she that open her understanding: and she shall bore them disgraced them: for she be afflicted there according to the days said, I will go after my lovers, that of her infancy, and according to the give me my bread and my water, and days of her coming up out of the land my garments, and my linen clothes, of Egypt. 16 And it shall come to my oil and all my necessaries. There- pass in that day, says the Lord, that fore, behold, I hedge up her way with she shall call me, My husband, and + Gr. build up. thorns, and will stop the shall no longer call me Baalim. 17 And ways, and she shall not find her path. I will take away the names of Baalim And she shall follow after her lovers, out of her mouth, and their names and shall not overtake them; and she shall be remembered no more at all. shall seek them, but shall not find 18 And I will make for them in that them and she shall say, I will go, day a covenant with the wild beasts of and return to my former husband; the field, and with the birds of the sky, + Gr. well for for it was better with and with the reptiles of the earth: and me than now. 8 And she I will break the bow and the sword knew not that I gave her her corn, and the battle from off the earth, and and wine, and oil, and multiplied sil- will cause thee to dwell 'safely. 19 And ver to her: but she made silver and I will betroth thee to myself Gr. in hope. + Or, orna- gold images for Baal. There- for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to fore I will return, and take myself in righteousness, and in judgaway my corn in its season, and my ment, and in mercy, and in tender wine in its time; and I will take away compassions; 20 and I will betroth thee my raiment and my linen clothes, so to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth; 22 and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael. 23 And I will sow me. ments. + that she shall not cover her nakedness. 10 And now I will expose her uncleanness, before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand. "And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sab the unpitied one. + + Rom. 9. 25. not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God. 7 + Gr. likened, her to me on the earth; and will love | *by day, and the prophet with thee shall Alex. pity her that was not loved, and fall: I have compared thy + Or, certain will say to that which was mother tonight. "My people days. are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou Heb. 07 hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame. They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their + Gr. souls, hearts on their iniquities. see E. V. and And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels. 10 And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have meats with dried grapes. 8 margin. † αὐτὸν, δε. the people, or, him the priest. 3. And the Lord said to me, Go yet, and love a woman that loves evil things, and an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and +Gr. cooked love cakes of dried grapes. 2 So I hired her to myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine. And I said to her, Thou shalt wait for me many days; and thou shalt not commit fornication, neither shalt thou be for another man; and I will be for thee. For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without gone a-whoring, and shall by no a prince, and without a sacrifice, and means prosper: because they have without an altar, and without a priest- left off to take heed to the Lord. +Gr. Snav, hood, and without mani- The heart of my people has gladly festations. And afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the latter days. 4 Urim and probably meant, or rather Urim only. 4. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail: that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove another: but my people are as a priest spoken against. 5 Therefore they shall fall 4 + engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink. 12 They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their Gr. him, his, staves: they have gone sc. the people. astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God. 13 They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery. And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with harlot. 14 i. e. a sin of a 15 But thou, Israel, 'be not. Or, sin not, ignorant, and go ye not, men ignorance. of Juda, to Galgala; and go not up |