27 4 † ἀλλοφύλων, done great things. 22 Be of good 3. For, behold, in those days and courage, ye beasts of the plain, for at that time, when I shall have turned the plains of the wilderness have bud- the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem, ded, for the trees have borne their I will also gather all the Gentiles, fruit, the fig-tree and the vine have and bring them down to + Or, nations. yielded their strength. 23 Rejoice then the valley of Josaphat, and See Mat. 25.31. and be glad, ye children of Sion, in will plead with them there for my peothe Lord your God: for he has given ple and my heritage Israel, who have you food fully, and he will rain on been dispersed among the Gentiles; you the early and the latter rain, as be- and these Gentiles have divided my fore. 24 And the floors shall be filled land, cast lots over my people, and with corn, and the presses shall over- have given their boys to harlots, and flow with wine and oil. 25 And I will sold their girls for wine, and have recompense you for the years which drunk. And what have ye to do with the locust, and the caterpillar, and the me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galipalmerworm, and the cankerworm lee of the *Gentiles? do ye al have eaten, even my great army, which render me a recompense? Philistines. I sent against you. 26 And ye shall or do ye bear malice against me? cat abundantly, and be satisfied, and quickly and speedily will I return shall praise the name of the Lord your your recompense upon your own God for the things which he has heads; "because ye have taken my wrought wonderfully with you: and silver and my gold, and ye have my people shall not be ashamed for brought my choice ornaments into ever. And ye shall know that I am your temples; and ye have sold the in the midst of Israel, and that I am children of Juda and the children of the Lord your God, and that there is Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, none else beside me and my people that ye might expel them from their shall no more be ashamed for ever. coasts. Therefore, behold, I will raise 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, them up out of the place whither ye that I will pour out of my Spirit upon have sold them, and I will return your all flesh; and your sons and your recompense on your own heads. And daughters shall prophesy, and your I will sell your sons and your daughold men shall dream dreams, and ters into the hands of the children of your young men shall see visions. Juda, and they shall sell them into 29 And on my servants and on my captivity to a far distant nation: for handmaids in those days will I pour the Lord has spoken it. out of my Spirit. 30 And I will show wonders in heaven, and upon the earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord come. 32 And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one in the rem- be as the Lord has said, בשרידים + nant,' read as one word. and they that have glad tidings preached to them to whom the Lord has called. * 8 9 Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the mighty men of war, draw + Gr. sanctify. near and arise, all ye warriors. 10 Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: +Or, daggers. let the weak say, I am strong. "Gather yourselves together, and go in, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves there: let the *timid become a warrior. 12 Let + Gr. meek. them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about. 13 Bring forth the sickles, 1.20. for the vintage is come: go in, tread | 18 And it shall come to pass in that the grapes, for the press is full: cause day tuat the mountains shall drop the vats to overflow; for their wicked-sweet wine, and the hills shall flow ness is multiplied. 14 Noises have re- with milk, and all the fountains of sounded in the valley of judgment: Juda shall flow with water,+See chap. for the day of the Lord is near in the and a fountain shall go valley of judgment. 15 The sun and forth of the house of the Lord, and the moon shall be darkened, and the shall water the valley of flags. stars shall withdraw their light. 16 And 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and the Lord shall cry out of Sion, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; because of the wrongs of the chiland the heaven and the earth shall be dren of Juda, because they have shed shaken, but the Lord shall spare his righteous blood in their land. 20 But people, and shall strengthen the chil- Judea shall be inhabited for ever, dren of Israel. And ye shall know and Jerusalem to all generations. that I am the Lord your God, who 21 And I will make inquisition for dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and their blood, and will by no means Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall not pass through her any more. shall dwell in Sion. 17 AMOS. CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-10. 6 1. THE words of Amos which came | habitants out of the plain of On, and to him in Accarim out of Thecue, which will cut in pieces 'a tribe Damhe saw concerning Jerusalem, in the out of the men of Charrhan: biguous. days of Ozias king of Juda, in the and the famous people of Syria shall days of Jeroboam the son of Joas be led captive, says the Lord. Thus king of Israel, two years before the says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, earthquake. And he said, The Lord and for four, I will not turn away has spoken out of Sion, and has uttered from them; because they took prisoners his voice out of Jerusalem; and the the captivity of Solomon, to shut them pastures of the shepherds have mourned, up into Idumea. And I will send and the top of Carmel is dried up. forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and 3And the Lord said, For three sins of it shall devour its foundations. And Damascus, and for four, I will not turn I will destroy the inhabitants out of away from it; because they sawed with Azotus, and a tribe shall see v. 5. iron saws the women with child of the be cut off from Ascalon, and I will Galaadites. And I will send a fire on stretch out my hand upon Accaron: the house of Azael, and it shall devour and the remnant of the Philistines the foundations of the son of Ader. shall perish, says the Lord. 9 Thus "And I will break to pieces the bars of says the Lord; For three transDamascus, and will destroy the in-gressions of Tyre, and for four, I will + Heb. Om Alex. μήτραν. + Heb. his ever. Heb. ambiguous, see Prov. 29. 14. Mic. 7. 18. + that tread,' &c. τῶν πατούντων. will send a fire on Juda, and it shall not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Idumea, and remembered not the covenant of brethren. 10And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it. 11 Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and anger tore for summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end. 12 And I will send forth a fire upon Thaman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls. 13 Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because 9 Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite they ripped up the women with child from before them, whose height was of the Galaadites, that they might as the height of a cedar, and he was widen their coasts. 14 And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbath, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction: 15 and her kings shall go into captivity, their priests and their rulers together, says the Lord. false accusa strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that you should inherit the land of the Amorites. "And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things 2. Thus says the Lord; For three so, ye sons of Israel? says the Lord. sins of Moab, and for four, I will not 12 But ye gave the consecrated ones turn away from it; because they burnt wine to drink; and ye commanded the bones of the king of Idumea to the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. lime. 2 But I will send forth a fire on 13 Therefore, behold, I roll under you, Moab, and it shall devour the foun- as a waggon full of straw is rolled. dations of its citics: and Moab shall 14And flight shall perish from the perish in weakness, with a shout, and runner, and the strong shall not hold with the sound of a trumpet. And I fast his strength, 15 and the warrior will destroy the judge out of her, and shall not save his life: and the archer will slay all her princes with him, says shall not withstand, and he that is the Lord. Thus says the Lord; For swift of foot shall in nowise escape; three sins of the children of Juda, and and the horseman shall not save his for four, I will not turn away from life. 16 And the strong shall find no him; because they have rejected the confidence in power: the naked shall law of the Lord, and have not kept flee away in that day, says the Lord. his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers 3. Hear ye this word, O house of followed, caused them to err. And I Israel, which the Lord has spoken + Gr. themselves. 3 5 concerning you, and against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, But verily have I known you especially out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins. Shall two walk together at all, if they do not know + one another? 4 Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion's whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing? Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything? 6 Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought? For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets. A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy? also take vengeance on the altars of Bathel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground. 15 I will crush and smite the turretted- tor, confound. house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, says the Lord. 3 4. Hear ye this word, ye heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink. 2 The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the or, holy days come upon you, when things. they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons. And ye shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and ye shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, says the Lord. Ye went into Bethel, and sinned, and ye multiplied sin at 9 Proclaim it to the regions among Galgala; and ye brought your meatthe Assyrians, and to the regions of offerings in the morning, and your Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to tithes every third day. And they the mountain of Samaria, and behold read the law without, and called for many wonderful things in the midst public professions: proclaim aloud that of it, and the oppression that is in it. the children of Israel have loved these 10 And she knew not what things things, says the Lord. And I will Gr. are be- would come against her, give you dulness of teeth +g.d. idleness says the Lord, even those in all your cities, and want that store up wrong and misery in of bread in all your places: yet ye their countries. 11 Therefore thus says returned not to me, says the Lord. the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall Also I withheld from you the rain be made desolate round about thee; three months before the harvest: and and he shall bring down thy strength I will rain upon one city, and on out of thee, and thy countries shall be another city I will not rain: one part spoiled. 12 Thus says the Lord; As shall be rained upon, and the part on when a shepherd rescues from the which I shall not rain shall be dried mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of up. And the inhabitants of two or an car, so shall the children of Israel three cities shall be gathered to one who dwell in Samaria in the presence city to drink water, and they shall not of a foreign family, and in Damascus, be satisfied: yet ye have not turned be drawn forth. Hear, O ye priests, to me, says the Lord. I smote you and testify to the house of Jacob, says with parching, and with blight: ye the Lord God Almighty. For in multiplied your gardens, your vinethe day wherein I shall take vengeance yards, and your fig-grounds, and the of the sins of Israel upon him, I will cankerworm devoured your olive fore her. + 13 8 9 of teeth. + Lit. in the wrath of you. yards: yet not even thus did ye return to me, says the Lord. 10 I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with thy horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did ye return to me, says the Lord. "I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and ye became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did ye return to me, says the Lord. 12 Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to thee, prepare to call on thy God, O Israel. 13 For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the 'darkness, Gr. vapour. and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name. 9 ed men. the earth: 8 who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name: who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress. 10 They hated him that reproved in the gate, and abhorred holy speech. "Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them. 12 For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates. 13 Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time * of evils. 14 Seek good, and not evil, Or, of wickthat ye may live: and so 5. Hear ye this word of the Lord, the Lord God Almighty shall be with even a lamentation, which I take up you, as ye have said, 15 We have hated against you. The house of Israel is evil, and loved good: and restore ye fallen; it shall no more rise. The judgment in the gates; that the Lord virgin of Israel has fallen upon his God Almighty may have mercy on land; there is none that shall raise her the remnant of Joseph. 16 Therefore up. Therefore thus says the Lord, thus says the Lord God Almighty; In even God; The city out of which all the streets shall be lamentations; there went forth a thousand, in it there and in all the ways shall it be said, shall be left a hundred, and in that out Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be of which there went forth a hundred, called to mourning and lamentation, there shall be left ten to the house of and to them that are skilled in comIsrael. 4 Wherefore thus says the plaining. "And there shall be lamentaLord to the house of Israel, Seek ye tion in all the ways; because I will me, and ye shall live. But seek not pass through the midst of thee, says Bethel, and go not in to Galgala, and the Lord. 18 Woe to you that desire cross not over to the Well of the Oath: the day of the Lord! what+Lit. wherefor Galgala shall surely go into cap- is this day of the Lord to far, &c. tivity, and Bethel shall be as that you? whereas it is darkness, and not which is not. 6 Seek ye the Lord, light. 19 As if a man should flee from and ye shall live; lest the house of the face of a lion, and a bear should Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour meet him; and he should spring into him, and there shall be none to quench his house, and lean his hands upon the it for the house of Israel. It is he wall, and a serpent should bite him. that executes judgment in the height 20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, above, and he has established justice on and not light? and is not this day 3 5 2 + fore is this |