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the fair virgins and the young men | Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out faint for thirst; 14 they who swear by of the land of Egypt, and the Philisthe propitiation of Samaria, and who tines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians say, Thy god, O Dan, lives; and, Thy out of the deep? Behold, Gr. ditch. god, O Beersabee, lives; and they the eyes of the Lord God are upon the shall fall, and shall no more rise again. kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth; only I will not utterly cut off the house of Jacob, says the Lord. 9 For I will give commandment, and sift the house. of Israel among all the Gentiles, as corn is sifted in a sieve, and yet * a fragment shall not in any- Or, particle. wise fall upon the earth. 10 All the

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9. I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the mercy+Alex. altar. seat, and the porch shall +Lit. plural. be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, 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. 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: 12that 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. 14And 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.

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OBDIAS.

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CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-18.

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1. THE vision of Obdias. Thus off for ever. 11 From the day that thou says the Lord God to Idumea; I have stoodest in opposition to him, in the heard a report from the Lord, and he days when foreigners were taking caphas sent forth a message to the nations, tive his forces, and strangers entered 2 Arise ye, and let us rise up against into his gates, and cast lots on Jeruher to war. 3 Behold, I have made salem, thou also wast as one of them. thee small among the Gentiles: thou 12And thou shouldest not + Look not art greatly dishonoured. The pride of have looked on the day of thou, &c. thine heart has elated thee, dwelling thy brother in the day of strangers; as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against as one that exalts his habitation, saying the children of Juda in the day of in his heart, Who will bring me down their destruction; neither shouldest 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 Thaman 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

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thou have boasted against them in the
day of affliction. 13 Neither shouldest
thou have gone into the gates of the
people in the day of their troubles;
nor yet shouldest thou have looked
upon their gathering in the day of
their destruction, nor shouldest thou
have attacked their host in the day of
their perishing. 14 Neither shouldest
thou have stood at the opening of their
passages, to destroy utterly those of
them that were escaping; neither
shouldest thou have shut up his fugi-
tives in the day of affliction.
15 For
the day of the Lord is near upon all
the Gentiles: as thou hast done, so
shall it be done to thee: thy recom-
pense shall be returned on thine own
head. 16 For as thou hast drunk upon
my holy mountains, so shall all the
nations drink wine; they shall drink,
and go down, and be as if they were
not. 17 But on Mount Sion there
shall be deliverance, and there shall be
a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob
shall take for an inheritance those that
took them for an inheritance. 18 And

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 Nayes, He shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the 'plain the Philistines and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim,

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Heb.

and the plain of Samaria, and Benja-
min, and the land of Galaad. 20 And
this shall be the domain of the capti-
vity of the children of Israel, the land
of the Chananites as far as Sarepta;
and the captives of Jerusalem shall
inherit as far as Ephratha; they shall
inherit the cities of the south.
21 And
they that escape shall come up from
Mount Sion, to take vengeance on the
mount of Esau; and the kingdom
shall be the Lord's.

JONAS.

CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-13.

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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 upon us. ing, 2 Rise, and go to Nineve, the great cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas. city, and preach in it; for the cry of And they said to him, Tell us * what its wickedness is come up to me. But is thine occupation, and Aler. + ‘for Jonas rose up to flee to Tharsis from whence comest thou, and of whose cause the presence of the Lord. And he what country and what peo- upon us.' went down to Joppa, and found a ship ple art thou? And he said to them, I going to Tharsis: and he paid his fare, am a servant of the Lord; and I worship and went up into it, to sail with them the Lord God of heaven, who made to Tharsis from the presence of the the sea, and the dry land. 10 Then Lord. And the Lord raised up a the men feared exceedingly, and said wind on the sea, and there was a great to him, What is this that thou hast storm on the sea, and the ship was in done? for the men knew that he was + Or, being danger of going to pieces. 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

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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 go to Nineve, the great city, and 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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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. 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 sack-
cloth, and sat on ashes. And pro-
clamation was made, and it was com-
manded 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 sack-
cloths, 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
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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. 4 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 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 or- 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. And now, Lord Lord. God, take my life from me; for it is

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better for me to die than to live. And of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very of his life, and said, It is better for much grieved? And Jonas went out me to die than to live. And God from the city, and sat over against the said to Jonas, Art thou very much city; and he made for himself there a grieved for the gourd? And he said, booth, and he sat under it, until he I am very much grieved, even to should perceive what would become of death. 10 And the Lord said, Thou the city. And the Lord God com- hadst pity on the gourd, for which manded a gourd, and it came up over thou hast not suffered, neither didst the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over thou rear it; which came up behis head, to shade him from his calami- fore night, and perished or, little beties: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy before another night: and fore." for the gourd. And God commanded shall not I spare Nineve, the great a worm the next morning, and it smote city, in which dwell more than 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 east or their left hand; and also much wind; and the sun smote on the head cattle?

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MICHEAS.

CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-9.

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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 days of Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, concerning what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem. 2 Hear these words, ye people; + Gr. plural. and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation. 3 For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and will go upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity. All these calamities are for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Sama

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of Juda? is it not Jerusalem? There-
fore I will make Samaria as a store-
house of the fruits of the field, and as
a planting of a vineyard: and I will
'utterly demolish her stones, down to con-
and I will expose her founda- fusion.
tions. And they shall cut in pieces
all the graven images, and 'all that
she has hired they shall Gr. or all her
burn with fire, and I will hires.
utterly destroy all her idols: because
she has gathered of the hires of forni-
cation, and of the hires of fornication
has she amassed wealth. Therefore
shall she lament and wail, she shall go
barefooted, and being naked she shall
make lamentation as that of serpents,
and mourning as of the daughters of
sirens. For her plague has become
grievous; for it has come even to Juda;

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