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veh; and he arose from his throne, and be 4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou wel laid his robe from him, and covered him with to be angry? sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh, (by the decree of the king and his nobles,) saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not feed, nor drink water.

8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat en the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city, 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deEver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

7 But God prepared a worm, when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

8 And it came to pass, when the sun 10 And God saw their works, that they arise, that God prepared a vehement eas turned from their evil way; and God repent-wind; and the sun beat upon the head of ed of the evil that he had said that he would Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in bimdo unto them; and he did it not. self to die, and said, It is better for me t die than to live.

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CHAP. IV.

UT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou wel to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not l boured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

CHAP. I.

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THE word of the LORD that came to

Micah the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

2 ¶ Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GoD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.

3 For behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem ?

6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

they shall return to the hire of an harlot. 8 Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah: he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Sa. phir, having thy shame naked: the inhabit. ant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good; but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

13 0 thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires there- 16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy of shall be burned with the fire, and all delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she the eagle; for they are gone into captivity gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and from thee.

CHAP. II. face from them at that time, as they have 70E to them that devise iniquity, and behaved themselves ill in their doings.

the morning is light they practise it, because it prophets that make my people err, that bite is in the power of their hand. with their teeth, and cry, Peace, and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and against this family do I devise an evil, from the sun shall go down over the prophets, and which ye shall not remove your necks; the day shall be dark over them. neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all co

is evil.

4 In that day shall one take up a para- ver their lips: for there is no answer of God. ble against you, and lament with a doleful 8 But truly I am full of power by the lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled; Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of be hath changed the portion of my people: might, to declare unto Jacob his transgreshow hath he removed it from me! turning sion, and to Israel his sin. away he hath divided our fields.

9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. of the LORD. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

710 thou that art named The house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

9 The women of my people have ye cast out

11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us

12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field; and Jerusalem shall become heaps; and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. CHAP. IV.

from their pleasant houses; from their chil- BUT in the last days it shall come to pass,

that the mountain of the house of the dren have ye taken away my glory for ever. LORD shall be established in the top of the 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not mountains, and it shall be exalted above the your rest: because it is polluted, it shall de-hills; and people shall flow unto it. stroy you, even with a sore destruction. 2 And many nations shall come, and say,

11 If a man, walking in the spirit and Come, and let us go up to the mountain of falsehood, do lie, saying, I will prophesy un- the LORD, and to the house of the God of to thee of wine, and of strong drink; he Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and shall even be the prophet of this people. we will walk in his paths: for the law shall 12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD thee; I will surely gather the remnant of from Jerusalem.

Israel; I will put them together as the sheep 3 ¶ And he shall judge among many peoof Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

CHAP. III.

ple, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

4 But they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

AND I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of 5 For all people will walk every one in the Jacob, and ye princes of the house of name of his god, and we will walk in the Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? name of the LORD our God for ever and ever. 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I aswho pluck off their skin from off them, and semble her that halteth, and I will gather her their flesh from off their bones; that is driven out,and her that I have afflicted;

3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and 7 And I will make her that halted a remflay their skin from off them; and they break nant, and her that was cast far off a strong natheir bones, and chop them in pieces, as for tion: and the LORD shall reign over them in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the he will not hear them; he will even hide his strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto

thee shall it come, even the first dominion; 9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine ad the kingdom shall come to the daughter of versaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut of Jerusalem. 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

9 Now, why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt awell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

11 ¶ Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

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11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: 12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more southsayers:

13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. CHAP. VI. ye what the

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tains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's calltroversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversywith his people, and he will plead with Israel.

30 my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

4 For I brought thee up out of the land of 2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house thou be little among the thousands of Judah, of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that Aaron, and Miriam. is to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth 5 O my people, remember now what Bahave been from of old, from everlasting. lak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.

3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth; then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?

4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide for now shall he be great unto the 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands ends of the earth. of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shali we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

12 For the rich men thereof are full of vi8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be olence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoamong the Gentiles in the midst of many ken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their people, as a lion among the beasts of the fo-mouth.

rest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; 13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in who, if he go through, both treadeth down, smiting thee, in making thee desolate because and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. of thy sins.

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14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORE, thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; because I have sinned against him, until he and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deli- plead my cause, and execute judgment for ver; and that which thou deliverest will I me he will bring me forth to the light, and give up to the sword. I shall behold his righteousness.

15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not 10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou and shame shall cover her which said unto shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes wine, but shalt not drink wine. shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. CHAP. VII.

12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

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70E is me! for I am as when they have
gathered the summer-fruits, as the
grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no
cluster to eat; my soul desired the first ripe
fruit.

2 The good man is perished out of the earth; and there is none upright among men they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

3¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge usketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

4 The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate, because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

16 The nations shall see, and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. 19 He will turn again, he will have com 7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I passion upon us; he will subdue our iniquiwill wait for the God of my salvation: myties: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the God will hear me. depths of the sea.

8 ¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine ene- 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, my: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. 'sworn unto our fathers from the days of old

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CHAP. I.

HE burden of Nineveh. The book of therein.

The vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his pre

sence, yea, the world, and all that dwell

6 Who can stand before his indignation? 2 God is jealous, and the LORD reveng- and who can abide in the fierceness of his eth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and LORD will take vengeance on his adversa- the rocks are thrown down by him.

ries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. 7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great day of trouble; and he knoweth them that in power, and will not at all acquit the wick- trust in him. ed: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind 8 But with an over-running flood he will and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust make an utter end of the place thereof, and of his feet. darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

NAHUM.

There is one come out of thee that ima- the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy the earth, and the voice of thy messengers th evil against the LORD, a wicked coun-young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from

or.

2 Thus saith the LORD, Though they be shall no more be heard.
et, and likewise many, yet thus shall they
cut when he shall

ough I have afflicted thee, I will afflict

e no more.

CHAP. III.

and robbery; the prey departeth nx; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the WOE to the bloody city! it is all full of lies horses, and of the jumping chariots. rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing

3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of

13 For now will I break his yoke from off e, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. 14 And the LORD hath given a commandent concerning thee, that no more of thy me be sown out of the house of thy gods ill I cut off the graven image, and the mol- carcases; and there is none end of their 4 Because of the multitude of the whoren image: I will make thy grave; for thou corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: rt vile. 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of doms of the well-favoured harlot, the misim that bringeth good tidings, that publish- tress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations th peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, through her whoredoms, and families through perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no her witchcrafts. more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. CHAP. II.

E that dasheth in pieces is come up bethe way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine-branches.

5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy na

6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the the sea, and her wall was from the sea? waters round about it, whose rampartes

3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir-trees shall be terribly shaken.

4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets; and all her great men were bound in chains. and they cast lots for her honourable men,

11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they

6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water; yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.

17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps,and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,and his dens with ravin. thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which 13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the camp in the hedges in the cold day; but LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in when the sun ariseth they flee away, and

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13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire are women: the gates of thy land shall be shall devour thy bars.

14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

15 There shall the fire devour thee; the like the canker-worm: make thyself many sword shall cut thee off; it shall eat thee up as the canker-worm, make thyself many as the locusts.

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