A blessing is promised.

JOEL.

God's judgment on his enemes.

them wherefore should they say among the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, the people, Where is their God? 2 I will also gather all nations, and will

13 T Then will the LORD be jealous for bring them down into the 'valley of Jehohis land, and pity his people.

shaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more 3 And they have cast lots for my people; make you a reproach among the heathen: and have given a boy for a harlot, and 20 But I will remove far off from you the sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. northern army, and will drive him into a 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me. land barren and desolate, with his face to- O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of ward the east sea, and his hinder part to- Palestine? will ye render me a recomward the utmost sea; and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.

23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

pence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.

6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, 9 Proclaim ye this among the Genand the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, tiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty my great army which I sent among you. men, let all the men of war draw near; let 26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be sa- them come up:

tisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your 10 Beat your plough-shares into swords, God, that hath dealt wondrously with you and your pruning-hooks into spears: let and my people shall never be ashamed. the weak say, I am strong.

27 And ye shall know that I am in the 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD ye heathen, and gather yourselves together your God, and none else: and my people round about: thither cause thy mighty shall never be ashamed. ones to come down, O LORD.

28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there and your sons and your daughters shall will I sit to judge all the heathen round prophesy, your old men shall dream about.

dreams, your young men shall see visions: 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest 29 And also upon the servants and upon is ripe: come, get you down; for the press the handmaids in those days will I pour is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedout my Spirit. ness is great.

30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

32 And it shall come to pass, that who- 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, soever shall call on the name of the LORD and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and heavens and the earth shall shake: but the in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD will be the hope of his people, and LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the strength of the children of Israel. the LORD shall call.

CHAP. III.

17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion my holy mounFOR behold, in those days, and in tain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there that time, when I shall bring again shall no strangers pass through her any more.

God's judgment on Syria, & c.

CHAP. I, II.

God's wrath against Moab.

18 T And it shall come to pass in that lence against the children of Judah, beday, that the mountains shall drop down cause they have shed innocent blood in new wine, and the hills shall flow with their land.

milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, with waters, and a fountain shall come and Jerusalem from generation to geneforth of the house of the LORD, and shall ration.

water the valley of Shittim.

21 For I will cleanse their blood that I 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth shall be a desolate wilderness, for the vio- in Zion.

¶ AMOS.

CHAP. I.

Janger did tear perpetually, and he kept his

HE words of Amos, who was among wrath for ever:

The herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw

12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. king of Judah, and in the days of Jero- 13 Thus saith the LORD; For three boam the son of Joash king of Israel, two transgressions of the children of Ammon, years before the earthquake. and for four, I will not turn away the

2 And he said, The LORD will roar from punishment thereof: because they have Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; ripped up the women with child, of Giand the habitations of the shepherds shall lead, that they might enlarge their border: mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of 3 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans- Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces gressions of Damascus, and for four, I will thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, not turn away the punishment thereof; be- with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: cause they have threshed Gilead with 15 And their king shall go into captivity, threshing instruments of iron: he and his princes together, saith the LORD. CHAP. II.

4 But I will send a fire into the house of

Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of TH

Ben-hadad.

HUS saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, will not turn away the punishment thereof, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain because he burned the bones of the king of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre of Edom into lime:

from the house of Eden: and the people 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and saith the LORD. Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting,

6 Thus saith the LORD; For three and with the sound of the trumpet: transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will 3 And I will cut off the judge from the not turn away the punishment thereof: be-midst thereof, and will slay all the princes cause they carried away captive the whole thereof with him, saith the Lord. captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: 4 Thus saith the LORD; For three 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of transgressions of Judah, and for four, I Gaza, which shall devour the palaces will not turn away the punishment thereof: thereof: because they have despised the law of the 8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from LORD, and have not kept his commandAshdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre ments, and their lies caused them to err, from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand after the which their fathers have walked against Ekron: and the remnant of the 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God. it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 9 Thus saith the LORD; For three 6 T Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof: will not turn away the punishment thereof: because they delivered up the whole cap-because they sold the righteous for silver, tivity to Edom, and remembered not the and the poor for a pair of shoes; brotherly covenant: 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of on the head of the poor, and turn aside the Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces way of the meek and a man and his fathereof. ther will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name :

7 That pant after the dust of the earth

11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will 8 And they lay themselves down upon not turn away the punishment thereof: be- clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and cause he did pursue his brother with the they drink the wine of the condemned in sword, and did cast off all pity, and his the house of their god.

God's judgment against Israel.

AMOS.

Israel reproved for oppression.

9 ¶ Yet destroyed I the Amorite before 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; them, whose height was like the height of An adversary there shall be even round the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; about the land; and he shall bring down yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and thy strength from thee, and thy palaces his roots from beneath. shall be spoiled. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of 12 Thus saith the LORD: As the shepEgypt, and led you forty years through the herd taketh out of the mouth of the lion wilderness, to possess the land of the two legs, or a piece of an ear: so shall the Amorite. children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GoD, the God of hosts, 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to 14 That,in the day that I shall visit the drink; and commanded the prophets, say-transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also ing, Prophesy not. visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of 13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. ground.

14 Therefore the flight shall perish from 15 And I will smite the winter-house the swift, and the strong shall not strength-with the summer-house; and the houses of en his force, neither shall the mighty deli- ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD. CHAP. IV.

ver himself:

15 Neither shall he stand that handleth

the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

CHAP. III.

HEAR are in the mountain of Samaria,

this word, ye kine of Bashan,

that

which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks.

HEAD EAR this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, every cow at that which is before her; and 2 You only have I known of all the fa- ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the milies of the earth: therefore I will punish LORD. you for all your iniquities.

4 T Come to Beth-el and transgress: at 3 Can two walk together, except they Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring be agreed? your sacrifices every morning, and your

4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he tithes after three years: hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving his den, if he have taken nothing? with leaven, and proclaim and publish the 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the free-offerings: for this liketh you, O ye earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

6¶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not 7 And also I have withholden the rain done it? from you, when there were yet three months 7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upbut he revealeth his secret unto his ser- on one city, and caused it not to rain upon vants the prophets. another city one piece was rained upon, 8 The lion hath roared, who will not and the piece whereupon it rained not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can withered." but prophesy?

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8 So two or three cities wandered unto 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, one city, to drink water; but they were and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unand say, Assemble yourselves upon the to me, saith the LORD.

mountains of Samaria, and behold the great 9 I have smitten you with blasting and tumults in the midst thereof, and the op- mildew: when your gardens and your pressed in the midst thereof. vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive10 For they know not to do right, saith trees increased, the palmer-worm devourthe LORD, who store up violence and rob-ed them: yet have ye not returned unto bery in their palaces. me, saith the LORD."

A lamentation for Israel.

CHAP V, VI. An exhortation to repentance. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence sions and your mighty sins: they afflict the after the manner of Egypt: your young just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside men have I slain with the sword, and have the poor in the gate from their right. taken away your horses; and I have made 13 Therefore, the prudent shall keep the stink of your camps to come up unto silence in that time; for it is an evil time. your nostrils: yet have ye not returned 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may unto me, saith the LORD. live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, 11 I have overthrown some of you, as shall be with you, as ye have spoken. God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and ye were as a fire-brand plucked out of the establish judgment in the gate: it may be burning: yet have ye not returned unto that the LORD God of hosts will be grame, saith the LORD. cious unto the remnant of Joseph.

12 Therefore, thus will I do unto thee, 16 Therefore, the LORD, the God of O Israel: and because I will do this unto hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. be in all streets; and they shall say in all 13 For fo, he that formeth the mountains, the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall and createth the wind, and declareth unto call the husbandman to mourning, and such man what is his thought, that maketh the as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

HEA

CHAP. V.

[EAR ye this word which I take against you, even a lamentation, house of Israel.

2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

18 Wo unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

21 ¶ I hate, I despise your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assem blies.

22 Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-ofinto ferings of your fat beasts.

5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; 24 But let judgment run down as walest he break out like fire in the house of ters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Joseph, and devour it, and there be none 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices to quench it in Beth-el. and offerings in the wilderness forty years,

7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, O house of Israel? and leave off righteousness in the earth, 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of 8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars your Moloch and Chiun your images, the and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death star of your god, which ye made to yourinto the morning, and maketh the day selves.

dark with night: that calleth for the waters 27 Therefore, will I cause you to go into of the sea, and poureth them out upon the captivity beyond Damascus, saith the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

CHAP. VI.

Wo to that areountain of Sama

TO to them that are at ease in Zion,

10 They hate him that rebuketh in the ria, which are named chief of the nations, gate, and they abhor him that speaketh to whom the house of Israel came! uprightly. 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and 11 Forasmuch,therefore, as your tread- from thence go ye to Hamath the great: ing is upon the poor, and ye take from him then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of they better than these kingdoms? or their hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in border greater than your border? them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

12 For I know your manifold transgres

3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the scat of violence to come near; 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and

Israel threatened with desolation.

AMOS. Amaziah complains of Amos.

stretch themselves upon their couches, and] 6 The LORD repented for this: This eat the lambs out of the flock, and the also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. calves out of the midst of the stall; 7 Thus he shewed me: and behold, 5 That chant to the sound of the viol, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a and invent to themselves instruments of plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. music, like David; 8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, 6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint what seest thou? and I said, A plumb-line. themselves with the chief ointments: but Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a they are not grieved for, the affliction of plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: Joseph. will not again pass by them any more: 9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

7 Therefore,now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

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8 The Lord God hath sworn by himself, 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethsaith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, the excellency of Jacob, and hate his Amos hath conspired against thee in the palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city midst of the house of Israel: the land is with all that is therein. not able to bear all his words.

9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

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11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

12 Also, Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

13 But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

14 Then answered Amos, and said to 11 For behold, the LORD commandeth, Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I and he will smite the great house with a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, breaches, and the little house with clefts. and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:

12 Shall horses run upon the rock? 15 And the LORD took me as I followed will one plough there with oxen? for ye the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, have turned judgment into gall, and the prophesy unto my people Israel. fruit of righteousness into hemlock :

16 Now,therefore, hear thou the word 13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not which say, Have we not taken to us horns against Israel, and drop not thy word by our own strength? against the house of Isaac.

14 But behold, I will raise up against 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of the wilderness.

CHAP. VII.

Tme, and behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

HUS hath the Lord GoD shewed unto

wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

2 And it came to pass, that when they 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? had made an end of eating the grass of the And I said, A basket of summer fruit. land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, IThen said the LORD unto me, The end is beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

for he is small.

3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GoD: 4 Thus hath the Lord Gon shewed there shall be many dead bodies in every unto me and behold, the Lord GOD called place; they shall cast them forth with to contend by fire, and it devoured the silence. great deep, and did eat up a part.

4 T Hear this, O ye that swallow up the

5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I needy, even to make the poor of the land beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? to fail, for he is small.

5 Saying, When will the new-moon be