The fulschood MICAH. 3 Who also eat the 'flesh of my peo ple, and flay their skin from oll them; and they break their bones, and chop them in peices, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. of the prophets. Behold, against this family do I devise of them, and their flesh from off their an evil, from which ye shall not re-bones: move your necks; neither shall ye go naughtily: for this time is evil. 4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful Tamentation, and say, We be atterly spoiled; be bath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away be hath divided our fields. 4 Then shall they cry unto the Lonn, but he will not hear them. he will even bide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves none fill in their doings. 5 Therefore thou shalt have that shalt cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord. 5 Prophesy ve not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not proph esy to them, that they shall not take shame. 7 ¶ O thou that art named The house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lond 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 from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. 5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not intʊ their mouths, they even prepare war against him: 6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. S T But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of judg ment, and of might, to declare unfo Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the 11 If a man walking in the spirit and house of Israel, that abhor judgment, falsehood do lie, saying, I will proph-and pervert all equity. esy unto thee of wine and of strong 10 They build up Zion with blood, drink; he shall even be the prophet and Jerusalem with iuiquity, of this people. 11 The heads thereof judge for re 12 TT will surely assemble, O Jacob, ward, and the priests thereof teach all of thee; I will surely gather the for hire, and the prophets thereof remnant of Israel; I will put them divine for money: yet wall they lean together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the upon the Loan, and say, Is not the flock in the midst of their fold: they Lond among us? none evil can come shall make great uoise by reason of Jupon us. the multitude of men. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake 13 The breaker is come up before be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem them: they have broken up, and have shall become heaps, and the mountain passed through the gate, and are gone of the house as the bigh places of the out by it: and their King shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. CHAP. III. ND I said, Hear, I pray you, O beads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you o know judgment? forest. CHAP. IV. UT in the last days it shall come B to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Load shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2 Who hate the good, and love the 2 And many nations shall come, and vil; who pluck off their skin from¦say, Come, and let us go up to the The glory of CHAP. V the Church. mountain of the Lonr, and to the and I will consecrate their gain untó house of the God of Jacob; and he the LORD, and their substance unto will teach us of his ways, and we will the Lord of the whole earth. walk in bis paths: for the w sball CHAP. V. go forth of Zion, and the word of the NOW gather thyself in troops, LORD from Jerusalem. daughter of troops: he hathi Inid 3 T And he shal! judge among many siege against us: they shall smite the people, and rebuke strong nations afar Judge of Israel with a rod upon the "off"; and they shall beat their swords cheek. juto plowshares, and their spears into 2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratali, pruning-hooks: nation ehalt not lift though thou be little among the thou up a sword against nation, neither sands of Judah, yet out of thee shall shall they learn war any more. be come forth unto me, that is to be But they shall sit every man under Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth his vine and under bis fig-tree; and have been from of old, from everlastnone shall make them afraid for the ing. mouth of the LonD of hosts bath 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travailspoken it. 5 For all people will walk every one eth hath brought forth: then the remin the name of his god, and we will nant of his brethren shall return unto walk in the name of the Lond our the children of Israel. God for ever and ever. 6. In that day, saith the Lond, will assemble her that halfeth, and 1 will gather her that is driven out, and her that I bave afflicted; 7 And I will make her that balted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Loup shall reign over them in mount Zion from benceforth, even for ever. ST And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LonD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. 5 And this man shall be the peace when the Assyrians shall come irto our land; and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, aud eight princi pal men. 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: 9. Now why dost thou cry out aloud ? thus shall be deliver us from the Asis there no king in thee? is thy coun-syrian, when he cometh into our land, scilor perished? for pangs have taken and when he treadeth within our bor thee as a woman in travail. ders. 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring| 7. And the remuant of Jacob shall forth, O daughter of Zion, like a wo-be in the midst of many people as a man in travail: for now shalt thou goldew from the LORD, as the showers forth out of the city, and thou shalt upon the grass, that tarrieth not for dwell in the field, and thou shalt go man, nor waiteih for the sons of men, evento Babylon ;there shalt thou be de- 8 T And the remnant of Jacob shall livered; there the LORD shall redeem be among the Gentiles in the midst of thee from the band of thine enemies. many people as a lion among the beaste 11 ¶ Now also many nations are gath-of the forest, as a young lion among ered against thee, that say, Let her the flocks of sheep: who, if he ga be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. 12 But they knew not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thy horn iron, and 1 will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people:] through, both treadeth down, and tear- 10. And it shall come to pass in that The church's MICAH. complaint. land, and throw down all thy strong and the scant measure that is aboinin holds: 12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand: and thou shalt bave no more soothsayers: 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 thy hands. able ? with the 11 Shall I count them wicked balances, and with the bag of pure deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are ful! of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 14 And I will pluck up thy groves 13 Therefore also will I make thee out of the midst of thee: so will I de-sick in smiting thee, in making thee stroy thy cities. desolate because of thy sins. 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. 14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which EAR ye now what the LORD thou deliverest will I give up to the saith; Arise, contend thou be-sword. HEA CHAP. VI. fore the mountains, and let the hills 15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not hear thy voice. 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth; for the LORD bath a controversy with his people, and be will plead with Israel. 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. 16 T For the statues of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Aliab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: 4 For 1 brought thee up out of the therefore ye shall bear the reproach of land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out my people. of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. CHAP. VII. 5 O my people, remember now wint Wis me! for I am as when they have gathered the summerBalak king of Moab.consulted, and fruit, as the grape-gleanings of the what Balaam the sonof Beor answered vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that soul desired the first-ripe fruit. ye may know the righteousness of the LORD. 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 mau his broth 6 ¶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and how myself before the high God? shall I come before himer with a net. with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old ? 3 T That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and 7 Will the LORD be pleased with the judge asketh for a reward; and the thousands of rams, or with ten thou-great man, he uttereth his mischiev sands of rivera of oil? shall I give my ous desire: so they wrap it up. first-born for my transgression, the 4 The best of them is as a brier: the fruit of my body for the sin of my sou!? 8 He hath showed 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? most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. 5 T 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. 9 The Lond's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, thy name hear ye the rod, and who the daughter riseth up against her hath appointed it. mother, the daughter-in-law against 10 T Are there yet the treasures of her mother-in-law; a man's enemies wickedness in the house of the wicked,' are the men of his own house. God's goodness 7 Therefore 1 will look unto the, 14 T Feed thy people with thy rod, LORD; I will wait for the God of my the flock of thy heritage, which dwell salvation: my God will hear me. solitary in the wood, in the midst of 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and enemy: when I fall, 1 shall arise; Gilead, as in the days of old. when I sit in darkness, the Lond shall 15 According to the days of thy combe a light unto me. ing out of the land of Egypt will 1 9 I will bear the indignation of the show unto him marvellous things. LORD, because I have sinned against 16 T The nations shall see and be him, until he plead my cause, and ex-confounded at all their might: they ecute judgment for me; he will bring shall lay their hand upon their mouth, me forth to the light, and I shall be their ears shall be deaf. hold his righteousness. 10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes 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. 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 Lond 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 bis anger for eter, because he delighteth in mercy, 12 In that day also he shall come 19 He will turn again, he will have even to thee from Assyria, and from compassion upon us; he will subdue the fortified cities, and from the fort-Jour iniquities; and thou wilt cast al. ress even to the river, and from sea to their sius into the depths of the sea. sea, and from mountain to mountain. 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to 13 Notwithstanding the land shall be Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, desolate because of them that dwell which thou hast sworn unto our fa therein, for the fruit of their doings. thers from the days of old. CHAP. I. T NAHUM. out like fire, and the rocks are thrown book down by him. THE burden of Nineveh the The Lomp is good, a strong hold in koshite. the day of trouble; and be knoweth 8 But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and 9 What do ye imagine against the great in power, and will not at all ac-LORD? he will make an utter end: quit the wicked: the LORD hath his affliction shall not rise up the second way in the whirlwind and in the time. storm, and the clouds are the dust of iis feet. 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 mountams quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the LORD,Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall 6 Who can stand before his indigna-pass through. Though I have afflicted tion? and who can abide in the fierce. thee, 1 wili afflict thee no more. cess of his anger? his fury is poured| 13 For now will I break his yoke The miserable ruin NAHUM. of Nineveh. from off thee, and will burst thy bonds 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, in sunder. and the feeding place of the young 14 And the LORD hath given a com- lions, where the lion, even the old mandment concerning thee, that nojlion, walked, and the lion's whelp, more of thy name be sown out of and none made them afraid ? the house of thy gods will I cut off the 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough graven image, and the molten image: for his whelps, and strangled for his I will make thy grave; for thou art lionesses, and filled his holes with vile. prey, and his dens with ravin. 13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn ber chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and í will cut of thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall [no more be heard. 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut ofl: CHAP. II. W CHAP. III. O to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; HE that dasheth in pieces is come НЕ up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the LORDhath turned away the 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise excellency of Jacob as the excellency of the rattling of the wheels, and of of Israel: for the emptiers have emp-the prancing horses, and of the jump tied them out, and marred their vine-ing chariots. 3 The horsemen lifteth up both the branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is brigot sword and the glittering spear: made red, the valiant men are in and there is a multitude of slain, and a scarlet: the chariots shall be with great number of carcases; and there is flaming torches in the day of his none end of their corpses; they stun preparation, and the fir-trees shall be ble upon their corpses: terribly shaken. 4 Because of the multitude of the The chariots shall rage in the whoredoms of the well-favoured harstreets, they shall justle one against lot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that another in the broad ways: they shall selleth nations through her whoreseem like torches, they shall run like doms, and families through her witchthe 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. 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be disBolved. crafts. 5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discov. er thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and 7 And Huzzab shall be led away cap-will set thee as a gazing-stock. tive, she shall be brought up, and her 7 And it shall come to pass, that all maids shall lead her as with the voice they that look upon thee shall flee of doves, tabering upon their breasts. from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid 8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of waste: who will bemoan her? whence water; yet they shall flec away. Stand, shall I seek comforters for thee? stand, shall they cry; but none shall 8 Art thou better than populous No, look back. that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 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, 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite: Put and Lubiin were thy helpers 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young chil dren also were dashed in pieces at the |