Jonah sent to Nineveh.

cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

11 But thou moulded not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger j neither fhouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction j neither .fhouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

i j Thou wouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou Ihouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hamit on their substance in the day of their calamity;

14. Neither fhouldest thou have stood In the crossway, to cut off thole of his that did escape; neither Ihouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done it (hall be done unto thee: thy reward Jiall return upon thine own head.

16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, fa shall all the heathen

drink continually, yea, they (hall drink, and they (hall swallow down, and they (hall be as though they had not been.

17 «J But upon mount Zion (hall be deliverance; and there mall be holiness: and the house of Jacob (hail possess their possessions.

i8Andthehouseof Jacob (hall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they lhall kindle in them, and devour them j and there (hall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lorb hath sr.oken it.

19 And they of the south mall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain, the Philistines: and they (hall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samsria: and Benjamin shall pc/fcss Gilead.

20 And the captivity of this host ot tie children of MrwlJhaU poffifs that of the Canaanites,<"i>;»untoZarephath;andthc captivityof Jerusalem, which is in Sepha. ran, (hall possess the cities of the south.

11 And saviours (hall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esou; and the kingdom (hall be the Lord's

CHAP. I. 1 "Jonahsent to Nineve/i,steeth to Tarshijh. 4-He ii discoveredby a tempest, wthrorwn into the sea, and swallowed by a fish.

NOV/ the word of the Lor D came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, faying, a Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarsliilh from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa: and he found a ship going to Tarfhilh: so he paid the {are thereof; and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarfhilh from the presence of the Lord.

4 tj But the Lor D sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the (hip into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

7 And they said every one to hi» fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil u upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot sell upon Jonah.

8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: What is thine occupation! and whence come ft thou? what u thy country? and of what people art thou!

9 And he said unto them, I «» »n Hebrew; and I fear the Lord the God of heaven, which hath made the lea inJ the dry land.

10 Then were the- mea exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why »>« thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

11 «J Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

i» And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; f» shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my fake this great tempest is upon you.

13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and Mi tempestuous against them, 1 ■ ,+ What?

Jmdh'sprayer in the whale's belly. Chap

14. Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon vts innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, haft done as it pleased thee.

15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.

17 Now the Lord had prepared a great riili to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

CHAP. II.

i Tke prayer rf Jonah. 10 He is delivered

from thejijh.

THEN Jonah prayed nnto the Lor D his God out of the filh's belly,

2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction-unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

3 For thou hadft cast me into the deep, m the midst of the seas; and the floods compalfed me about: all thy billows and thy waves pasted over me.

4 Then I said, I am cast: out of thy fight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

j The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the rfepth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars aim about me for ever-, yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord ray God.

7 When my foul fainted' within m« I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

% They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lor D.

10 ff And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Chap. rn.

1 Jmahsent again, preacheth lo the Ninevites. 5 Upon their repentance, ro God repertteth.

AND the word os the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, say

ing»

* Arise-, go-unto Nineveh, that great

. 5v. ■ The Nirtevites* repentance.

city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lo R D. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three dxys" journey.

4 And Jon?.h began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and slid, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

5 ft So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a salt, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest ot them even to the least of them.

6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered Aim with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 And he caused // to be proclaimed and publilhed 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 front 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 perilh not?

10 f| And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had slid that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

CHAP. IV.

r Jonah repining at God's mercy, 4 //

reproved by the type of a gourd.

BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 1 And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, Olord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? therefore I fled before unto Tarstiifh: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, aud repentelt 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.

4 ff Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?

5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on 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 os the city.

6 And the Lord God prepared a

gourd,

gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver 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 fun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the fun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, // is better for me to die than to live.

9AndGodsaid to Jonah,Doest thou well 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 laboured, neither nudes. 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 sixlcore thousand persons that cannot dis cern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

CHAP. I.

1 Micah /heiveth the wrath os God against Jacob for idolatry, Io He exhort eth to mourning.

THE word osthe Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, andHezekiah, kings ofJudah, 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 Lo R D cometh forth •ut 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?

fi 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.

7 And all the graven images thereof (hall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof (hall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and 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 inourable; for it is come unto Judah ; he is com* unto the gate of ray people, even to Jerusalem.

Jo fl 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 Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

i a For the inhabitant ofMaroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.

13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is tie 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 Morefheth-gath: the houses of Achzib /hall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee,

0 inhabitant of Marefhah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

C H A P. II.

1 Against oppression. 4 A lamentation. 7 A reproof of injustice and idolatry, n A promise os restoring Jacob.

WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their bedi! when the morning is light.theypractiseit, because it is in the power of their hand.

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

1 Therefore thus faith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye (hall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

4 fl In that day (hall one take up * Pj*

The thkrch's peace, &c. MIC

{hall make them afraid: for t!ie mouth of the Lord of holts hath spoken it.

5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lo R D our God for ever and ever.

6 In that day, faith the Lor D, will I assemble her that halteth, and 1 will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast afar off a strong nation: and the Lor D shall reign over them in mount Zion horn henceforth, even for ever.

S f And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, ■unto thee (hall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud ? is {hire no king in thee? is thy counseller 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 dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Loud shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

11 f Now also m any nations are gathered against thee, that fay, Let her be defiled, and let our ey»look upon Zion.

ta But they know not the thoughts of the Lor D, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the (heaves into the floor.

13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine lioi n iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

CHAP. V.

1 The birth of Chrifl. 4 His kingdom. 8

His conquest.

NOW gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

* But thou, Betb-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

3 Therefore will he give them up fenfil the time that (he which travaileth fiath brought forth: then -the remnant a

A it Christ's birth, iingJeM, (ft.

of his brethren shall return unto the children os Israel.

4 f And he lhall stand and seed in the strength of the Lo R D , 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 th is man (ball be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our Jandv and when he shall tread in out palaces, then shall 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.

1 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lo rt D, as the showers upon the grafs, that farrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

8 f And the remnant of Jacob (hall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young linn among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

p Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, aud all thine enemies (hall be cut off.

10 And it (hall come to pass in th3t day, faith the Lor D, that I will cut off thy horses out of thy midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

1J And I will cut off the cities r>f thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

1 1 And I will cut off witchcrafts mit of thine hand; and thou (halt have to more soothsayers:

13 Thy graven images also will 1 tot off, and thy standing images out of th; midst of thee; and thou shalt no mere worship the work os thine hands.

14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destrry thy cities.

15 And I will execute vengeance til anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

CHAP. VI. 1 Cod's controversy fir nnkindr.fp, 6 fir ignorance, io for injustice, 16 an/fir idolatry.

HEAR ye now what the Lo R D faith; Arise, contend thou before tht mountains, and let the hills hear thy Voice.

i Hear ye, O mountains, theLoRt>'»

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