and to him that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee? and awake, that shall vexe thee? and thou shalt be for booties unto them? Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoile thee: because of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, of the citie, and of all that dwell therein.

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Woe to him that coveteth an evill covetousnesse to his house, for covetousthat he may set his nest on high, that hee may be delivered from nesse, the power of evill. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soule. For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shall answere it.

Woe to him that buildeth a towne with blood, and stablisheth for crueltie, a citie by iniquitie. Behold, is it not of the LORD of hostes, that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shal wearie themselves for very vanitie? For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the Sea.

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drinke: that puttest for drunkenthy bottell to him, and makest him drunken also; that thou nesse, mayest looke on their nakednesse. Thou art filled with shame for glory drinke thou also, and let thy foreskin bee uncovered : the cup of the LORDS right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shamefull spewing shalbe on thy glory. For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee: and the spoile of beasts, which made them afraide, because of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of al that dwel therin.

What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath and for graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker idolatrie. of his worke, trusteth therin, to make dumbe idoles. Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake: to the dumbe stone, Arise, it shall teach: behold, it is layed over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the middest of it. But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.

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A PRAYER of Habakkuk the prophet upon Sigionoth.

O

LORD, I have heard thy speach, and was afraide:

Habakkuk in his prayer, trembleth at

O LORD, revive thy worke in the midst of the yeeres, Gods Maiestie.
In the midst of the yeeres make knowen;

In wrath remember mercy.

God came from Teman,

And the holy one from mount Paran. Selah.

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His glory covered the heavens
And the earth was full of his praise.
And his brightnesse was as the light:
He had hornes comming out of his hand,
And there was the hiding of his power:
Before him went the pestilence,

And burning coales went forth at his feete.
He stood and measured the earth:

Hee beheld and drove asunder the nations,
And the everlasting mountaines were scattered,
The perpetuall hilles did bowe:

His wayes are everlasting.

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction:

And the curtaines of the land of Midian did tremble.

Was the LORD displeased against the rivers?

Was thine anger against the rivers?

Was thy wrath against the Sea,

That thou didst ride upon thine horses,

And thy charets of salvation?

Thy bow was made quite naked

According to the oathes of the tribes, even thy word. Selah.

Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

The mountaines sawe thee, and they trembled:

The overflowing of the water passed by:

The deepe uttered his voyce,

And lift up his hands on high.

The Sunne and Moone stood still in their habitation:

At the light of thine arrowes they went,

And at the shining of thy glittering speare.

Thou didst march through the land in indignation,

Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,

Even for salvation with thine Anointed,

Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked,

By discovering the foundation unto the necke. Selah.

Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his

villages:

They came out as a whirle-winde to scatter me:

Their reioycing was as to devoure the poore secretly.

Thou didst walke through the Sea with thine horses,

Through the heape of great waters.

When I heard, my belly trembled:
My lips quivered at the voice:

Rottennesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, CHAPTER That I might rest in the day of trouble:

When hee commeth up unto the people, he wil invade them

with his troupes.

Although the fig tree shall not blossome,

Neither shall fruite bee in the vines:
The labour of the Olive shall faile,
And the fields shal yeeld no meat,

The flocke shall be cut off from the folde,

And there shalbe no heard in the stalles:
Yet I will reioyce in the LORD:

I will ioy in the God of my salvation.

The LORD God is my strength,

And he will make my feet like hindes feet,

And he will make me to walke upon mine high places.
To the chiefe singer on my stringed instruments.

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The confidence

of his faith.

ZEPHANIAH

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for divers

HE worde of the LORD which came unto Zepha- Gods severe niah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, iudgement the sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Hizkiah, against Iudah in the dayes of Iosiah, the sonne of Amon sinnes. king of Iudah. I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. I will consume man and beast: I will consume the foules of the heaven and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. I will also stretch out mine hand upon Iudah, and upon all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests: and them that worship the hoste of heaven upon the house tops, and them that worship, and that sweare by the LORD, and that sweare by Malcham: and them that are turned backe from the LORD, and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for

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An exhortation to repentance.

him. Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the
day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice:
he hath bid his ghests. And it shall come to passe in the day of
the LORDS Sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the kings
children, and al such as are clothed with strange apparell.
the same day also wil I punish all those that leape on the
threshold, which fill their masters houses with violence and
deceit. And it shall come to passe in that day, saith the LORD,
that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an
howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hils.
Howle yee inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people
are cut downe: all they that beare silver are cut off. And it
shall come to passe at that time, that I wil search Ierusalem with
candles, and punish the men that are setled on their lees, that
say in their heart, The LORD will not doe good, neither will he
doe evill. Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their
houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite
them, and they shall plant Vineyards, but not drinke the wine
thereof. The great day of the LORD is neere, it is neere, and
hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the
mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath,
a day of trouble and distresse, a day of wastenesse and desolation,
a day of darknesse and gloominesse, a day of cloudes and thicke
darkenesse; a day of the trumpet and alarme against the fenced
cities, and against the high towres. And I will bring distresse
upon men, that they shall walke like blinde men, because they
have sinned against the LORD, and their blood shall bee powred
out as dust, and their flesh as the doung. Neither their silver nor
their golde shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORDS
wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his
iealousie: for hee shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that
dwell in the land.

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|ATHER your selves together, yea gather together, O nation not desired. Before the decree bring foorth, before the day passe as the chaffe, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORDS anger come upon you. Seeke ye the LORD all ye meeke of the earth, which have wrought his iudgement, seeke righteousnesse, seeke meeknesse: it may be, ye shall be hid in the day of the LORDS anger.

For Gaza shall bee forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noone day, and Ekron shall be rooted

tines,

up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast: the nation of CHAPTER the Cherethites, the word of the LORD is against you: O Canaan, II the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there The iudgement shal be no inhabitant. And the sea coast shall be dwellings and of the Philiscottages for shepheards, and foldes for flockes. And the coast shall bee for the remnant of the house of Iudah, they shall feede thereupon, in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie downe in the evening for the LORD their God shall visite them, and turne away their captivitie.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the chil- Of Moab dren of Ammon, whereby they have reproched my people, and mag. and Ammon, nified themselves against their border. Therefore, as I live, saith the LORD of hostes the God of Israel, surely Moab shalbe as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of netles, and salt pits, and a perpetuall desolation, the residue of my people shall spoile them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them. This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproched and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hostes. The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the Iles of the heathen.

Ye Ethiopians also, ye shalbe slaine by my sword. And he wil Of Ethiopia stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, and and Assyria. wil make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wildernes. And flocks shall lie downe in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the Cormorant, and the Bitterne, shall lodge in the upper lintels of it: their voice shal sing in the windowes, desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the Cedar worke. This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelessely, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is shee become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie downe in! every one that passeth by her, shall hisse and wagge his hand.

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Ierusalem for

TOE to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing A sharpe citie. She obeyed not the voice: she received not cor- reproofe of rection she trusted not in the LORD: she drew not divers sinnes. neere to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lyons; her Iudges are evening wolves, they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the Sanctuarie, they have done violence to the Law. The iust LORD is in the middest thereof: he will not doe iniquitie: 4: UU 337