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Israel's punishment.

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k Is. 29. 21. ch. 8. 6.

1 Is. 10. 2. ch. 5. 12.

In Ez. 22. 11.

Or, young

woman. n Lev. 20. 3. Ez. 36. 20. Rom. 2. 24. o Ex. 22. 26.

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cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

I will not turn away the punishment | lion
thereof; because they sold the right-
eous for silver, and the poor for a
pair of shoes;

7 That pant after the dust of the
earth on the head of the poor, and
turn aside the way of the meek:
mand a man and his father will go
in unto the same "maid, "to profane
my holy name :

8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine Or, the fined, of the condemned in the house of their god.

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5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

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+ Heb. give forth hit voice.

6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Or, not run shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

together 1 Or, and shall not the LORD do somewhat?

7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secretele. 45.7. unto his servants the prophets.

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8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

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9¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

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d Gen. 6, 13,
& 18. 17. Ps.
25. 14. John
15. 15.
⚫ ch. 1. 2.
f Acts 4.20, &
5. 20, 29.
1 Cor. 9. 16.

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11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be 12 Kings 17. even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. 12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd † taketh out of the mouth of + Heb. deli the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

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HEAR this word, ye kine of Ba

shan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Jer. 36. 22. Judg. §. 2. 11 Kings 22

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a Ps. 22. 12. Ez. $3. 18.

2 The Lord God hath sworn by Ps. 89, 35. his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you

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Lev. 7. 13. & 23. 17.

* Lev. 22. 18, 21. Deut. 12. 6.

¡ Ps. 81. 12. Is. 28. 11. Jer. 5. 3. Hag. 2 17. ver. 8, 9.

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7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: "yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew 'Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: "yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

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13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high ei 5. 8. 9. places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

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bla. 47. 4.

Jer. 19. 16.

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Exhortation to repentance.

CHAPTER V.

lamentation for Israel. 4 An exhortation to repentance. 21 God rejecteth their hypocritical serv

ice.

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Ez. 19. 1. & 27.2.

EAR ye this word which I take Jer. 7. 29. up against you, even a lamentation, O 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

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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, 2 Chr. 15. 2. and ye shall live:

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Jer. 29. 13. ver. 6.

Is. 55. 3. & ch. 4. 4.

e ch. 8. 14.

f Hos. 4. 15. & 10. 8.

6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; g ver. 4. lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

7 Ye who turn judgment to worm- ch. 6. 12. wood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

38. 31.

8 Seek him that maketh the seven Job 9. 9. & stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with Ps. 104. 20. night: that 'calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

1 Job 38. 34. ch. 9. 6.

m ch. 4. 13.

spoiled Heb. spoil.

9 That strengtheneth the against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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13 Therefore the prudent shall keep sch. & 10. silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, 'as ye have spoken. "Hate the evil, and love the

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t Mic. 3. 11.

u Ps. 34. 14. &

97. 10. Rom. 12.9.

Israel's service rejected.

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x Ex. 32. 30.
2 Kings 19. 4.
Joel 2. 14.

y Jer. 9. 17.

1 Ex. 12. 12. Nah. 1. 12.

a Is. 5. 19. Jer. 17. 15. Ez. 12. 22, 27. 2 Pet. 3. 4.

b Jer. 30. 7. Joel 2. 2. Zeph. 1. 15. © Jer. 48. 44.

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good, and establish judgment in the
gate: it may be that the LORD God
of hosts will be gracious unto the
remnant of Joseph.

16 Therefore the LORD, the God of
hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing
shall be in all streets; and they shall
say in all the highways, Alas! alas!
and they shall call the husbandman
to mourning, and ' such as are skilful
of lamentation to wailing.

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

18 Woe 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 d Prov. 21. 27. be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Is. 1. 11-16.

Jer. 6. 20.
Hos. 8. 13.

e Lev. 26. 31.
| Or, smell
your holy
days.
f Is. 66. 3.
Mic. 6. 6, 7.

I Or, thank offerings.

g Hos. 6. 6.
Mic. 6. 8.
† Heb. roll.

h Deut. 32. 17. Josh. 24. 14. Ez. 20. 8, 16, 24. Acts 7. 42, 43. See Is. 43. 23.

Il Or, Siccuth your king.

i 1 Kings 11.

33.

k 2 Kings 17.

6.

1 ch. 4. 13.

a Luke 6. 24. #Or, are secure.

b Ex. 19. 5. Or. firstfruits.

© Jer. 2. 10.

d Is. 10. 9.

e 2 Kings 18. 31.

(2 Chr. 26. 6. g. Nah. 3. 8.

h Ez. 12. 27. i ch. 5. 18. & 9. 10.

21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

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

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

24 But let judgment † run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

26 But ye have borne the taber nacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, 'whose name is The God of hosts.

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Sore judgments threatened.

day, and cause the seat of violence
to come near;

4 That lie upon beds of ivory,
and stretch themselves upon their
couches, and eat the lambs out of
the flock, and the calves out of the
midst of the stall;

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5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;

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B. C. 787.

Or, habita

tion, 1 Or, abound with super. Auities. *ch. 5. 12. ver. 12.

Or, quaner. 1Ps. 94. 29,

m Is. 5. 12.

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13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength ? 14 But, behold, I will raise up 7 Jer. 5. 15 against 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 OE to them that are at ease in river of the wilderness.

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2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

3 The LORD repented for this: It Deut. 32. 36. shall not be, saith the LORD.

ver. 6. Jonah

3. 10. James

5. 16.

e ver. 2, 3.

4 See 2 Kings 21. 13. 18.28.

17. & 34. 11. Lam. 2. 8. • ch. 8. 2.

Mic. 7. 18.

{ Beer-sheba,

Gen. 26. 23.

& 46. 1. ch. 5. 5. & 8. 14. 2 Kings 15. | 10

1 Kings 12.

1 32.

i 2 Kings 14. 1 23.

* ch. 2. 12. 11 Kings 12. 32. & 13, 1.

m 1 Kings 20. $5. 2 Kings 2. 5. & 4. 38. 1 & 6. L.

Or, sanc tuary.

it Heb. house

of the kingdom.

ch. 1. 1. Zech. 13. 5. 1 Or, wild figs

+ Heb. from behind.

⚫ Ez. 21. 2. Mic. 2. 6.

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4 T Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

5 Then said I, O Lord GoD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise for he is small.

6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God. 7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

Oppressing the poor.

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.

CHAPTER VIII.

Israel's approaching end typified by a basket of sum
mer fruit. 4 Oppressors of the poor reproved. 11
A famine of the word foretold.

HUS hath the Lord God shewed

Tunto me: and behold a basket of

summer fruit.

2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

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3 And the songs of the temple
shall be howlings in that day, saith
the Lord GOD: there shall be many
dead bodies in every place they
shall cast them forth with silence.
4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow
up the needy, even to make the poor
of the land to fail,

5 Saying, When will the new moon
9' And the high places of Isaac shall be gone, that we may sell corn? and
be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Is-the sabbath, that we may set forth
rael shall be laid waste; and I will wheat, making the ephah small, and
rise against the house of Jeroboam the shekel great, and + falsifying the
with the sword.
balances by deceit ?

10 Then Amaziah the priest of
Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of
Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired
I against thee in the midst of the house
of Israel: the land is not able to bear
all his words.

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 Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:

15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, See Jer. 28. Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

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7 The LORD hath sworn by the i ch. 6. 8. excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble for 1 Hos. 4. 3. this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, mas by the flood of m ch. 9. 5. Egypt.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GoD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

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The desolation of Israel.

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r Hos. 4. 15. s Deut. 9. 21.

+ Heb. way; see Acts 9. 2. & 18. 25. & 19. 9, 23. & 21. 14.

t ch. 5. 5.

|| Or, chapiter, or, knop.

Or, wound them.

a Ps. 68. 21. Hab. 3. 13. b ch. 2. 14.

c Ps. 139. 8, &c.

d Job 20. 6. Jer. 51. 53. Obad. 4.

e Lev. 26. 33. Deut. 28. 65. Ez. 5. 12.

f Lev. 17. 10. Jer. 44. 11.

g Mic. 1. 4. h ch. 3. 8.

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to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

CHAPTER IX.

The tabernacle of David.

them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

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7 Are ye not as children of the ch. 4. 13. Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Jer. 47. 4. Caphtor, and the Syrians from "Kir? 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and Ip 9 will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith

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5 And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall g melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be iPs. 104. 3, 13. drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth

Or, spheres. Heb. ascen sions.

II Or, bundle. k ch. 5. 8.

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9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least † grain fall upon the earth.

D Deut. 2.
Jer. 47. 4.
• ch. 1. 5.

ver. 4.
Jer. 30, 11.

& 31. 35, 36.
Obad. 16, 17.

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10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, ch. 6, 3, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

s Acts 15, 16, 17.

11 ¶ 'In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and + Heb. hodge, ↑ I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

12 That they may possess the remnant of "Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

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13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

or wall

t Obad, 19. Num. 24. 18.

+ Heb. spos whom my name is called.

w Lev. 2. 5.

14 And I will bring again the cap-y tivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

Joel 3, 18. Heb, draw eth forth Or, new

wine.

Jer. St. S.

1. 61. 4. & 98.33-96

65. 21.

Ez.

a Is. 60. 21. Jer. 32 41. Ez. $4.28. Joel S. 20.

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