3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, Lev. 25.23. and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. Jer. 2. 7. & ch. 8. 13. Egyptitself, other bondage as bad as that. Israel reproved for impiety, &c. 17 My God will cast them away, beand they shall be wanderers among the cause they did not hearken unto him: nations. CHAP. X... Israel is reproved and threatened for their SRAEL an empty vine, bring Before cir. 740. They shall not offer wine offerings I eth forth fruit unto himself: acorda Nah. 4-2. to the LORD, 'neither shall they be pleasbut into an- ing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for Ezek. 4. 13. their bread for their soul shall not come 2 Kings 17. into the house of the LORD. Dan. 1. 8. 6. ch.11. 11. h ch. 3.4. ch. 8. 13. * Deut. 26. 1 Lev. 17.11. 5 What will ye do in "the solemn day, i Jer. 6. 20. and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of + destruction: "Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. an ch. 2. 11. n ch. 7. 16. + Heb. spoil. ver. 3. Or, their silver shall be desired, the nettle, &c. + Heb. the desire. 7. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, +'the o Isai. 5. 6. spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. & 32. 13. & 34. 13. ch. 20. 8. + Heb. max 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with of the spirit. my God: but the prophet is a snare of a Ezek. 13. fowler in all his ways, and hatred || in the 2. 11. Zeph. house of his God. 3, &e. Mic, 3.4. q Jer. 6. 17. 31.6. 9 They have deeply corrupted themEzek. 3. 17. selves, as in the days of 'Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. & 33-7. Or, against. r Isai. 31. 6. cb. 10. 9. 22. t ch. 8. 13. Mic. 7. 1. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the Julg. 19. wilderness; I saw your fathers as "the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: Isai. 28. 4. but they went to 'Baal-peor, and 'sepax See ch. 2. rated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they Numb. 25. loved. 15 3. Ps. 106. 28. z ch. 4.14. 32. a 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall a Jer. 11.13. fly away like a bird, from the birth, and See Judg. & from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there c Job 27.14. shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I'depart from them! b Ps. 81. 19. Ezek. 20. 8. Amos 4.5. d Deut. 28. 41, 62. e Dent. 31. 17. 2 Kings 6. 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is plant17. 18, ch. 5. ed in a pleasant place: "but Ephraim shall See 1 Sam. bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt 26, & 27, & thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 28. 15, 16. 20. h ver. 16. ch. 13. 16. i Luke 23. 29. + Heb, that casteth the fruit. E ch. 4. 15. & 12. 11. 1 ch. 1. 6. n ver. 13. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: 3 For now they shall say, We have falsely in making a covenant: thus judg- 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear 6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria shall receive shame, and Israel shall be for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim ashamed of his own counsel. 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. for there I hated them: 1for the wickedness, reap in mercy; break up your fal- 21. v. 18. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is Isai.1.23 dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, Heb. the though they bring forth, yet will I slay Ezek. 4491. even the beloved fruit of their womb. dwires, 735 the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morn-Ke ing cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with Dust2 A promise of God's mercy. Before CHRIST cir. 725 f Isai. 43.11. g Isai. 43 11. i Deut. 8. 15. + Heb. droughts. k Deut. 8.12, 14. & 32.15. 1 ch. 8. 14. m Lam.3.10. ch. 5. 14. n Jer. 5. 6. JOEL, I. 4¶ Yet 'I am the LORD thy God from 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore 1 have they forgotten me. 7 Therefore I will be unto them as a 0.2 Sam. 17. lion: as a leopard by the way will I ob 8. Prov. 12. + Heb. the beast of the field. p Prov. 6. 32. ch. 14. 1. Mal. 1.9. q ver. 4. + Heb in thy help. Rather, serve them: 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. 9¶O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyWhere is thy self; but in me is thine help. king King Hosea being then in pri 10 I will be thy king: 'where is any son, 1 Kings other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? 17.4. r Deut. 32. 38. ch. 10.3. ver. 4. SI Sam. 8. 5. 19. t 1 Sam. 8. 7.& 10. 19. & 15-22, & 16. 1. ch. 10. 3- 34. Job 14 17. Jer. 30. 6. 3. 2 Kings 19. + Heb. a time. 11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12 "The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise x Isai. 13.8. son; for he should not stay long in the * Prov. 22. 3. place of the breaking forth of children. 14 I will ransom them from the I will redeem them of the grave; power from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: a Isai. 25.8. Ezek. 37. 12. + Heb. the hand. b 1 Cor. 15. 54,55 Jer. 15. 6. Rom. 11. 29. 41. 52. & 48. d See Gen. 19. e Jer. 4. 11. Ezek. 17. 10. & 19. 12. ch. 4. 19. Before CHRIST eir. 800. ch. 2.2. b. Ps. 78.4. << Dent. 28. 38. cb. 2. 25. -esidue of 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all good. iniquity, and || receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. 3 Asshur shall not save us; we will 13 & 12. 1. not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 17 Isai. 30. less findeth mercy. Ye are our gods: for in thee the father-216. & 31. e Deut. 17. 16. Ps. 33. f ch. 2. 17. ver. 8. g Ps. 10. 14. 4¶ I will heal their backsliding, I will 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he 6 His branches shall spread, and beauty shall be as the olive tree, and smell as Lebanon. m 1his his h Jer. 5. 6. & 14.7. ch.11. 7. i Eph. 1. 6. Prov. 19. 12. ¡Or, blossom. Job 29, 19. leb.strike + Heb. shall 1 Ps. 52. 8. & 128.3. 10. 7 "They that dwell under his shadow Ecclus. 50. shall return; they shall revive as the corn, m Gen. 27. and grow as the vine: the || scent thereof ii. shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 27. Cant. 4 n Ps. 91. 1. JOr, blossom. 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I toor, mo do any more with idols? I have heard rial. him, and observed him: I am like a green p fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. o ver. 3. q Jam. 1. 17. Jer. 31. 18. Jer. 9. 12. Ps. 107: 43. Dan 12. 10. 39. 9' Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for 'the ways of the LORD are 24, 27. John right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. JOEL. 1 Joel, declaring sundry judgments of God, THE HE word of the LORD that came to 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. worm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. 8. 47. & 18. 37 Prov. 10. 29. Luke 2. 34. 2 Cor. 2. Pet. 2. 16. 7,8. Before CHRIST cir. 800. 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off d Isai. 32. 10. from your mouth. 30. 25, 26, 27. 6 For a nation is come up upon my e So Prov. land, strong, and without number, whose ch. 2. 2, 11, teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath 25 the cheek teeth of a great lion. f Rev. 9.8. my fig tree 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and & Isai. 5.6. +barked my fig tree: he hath made it laid clean bare, and cast it away; the branches for a barkthereof are made white. ing. 8¶Lament like a virgin girded with h Isai. 22. 12. 4+That which the palmerworm hath Heb. The left hath the locust eaten; and that which sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meat offering and the drink he palmer the locust hath left hath the canker3 A worm eaten; and that which the canker-offering is cut off from the house of the ch. 2. 14. Terribleness of God's judgments. CHRIST cir. 800. JOEL. CHRIST Joel prescribeth a fat, Before LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, | behind them a flame burneth: the land is Befor as the garden of Eden before them, and cir. behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, G. and nothing shall escape them. 1 Jer. 12. 11. & 14. 2. ver. 12. mourn. 10 The field is wasted, 1 the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: "the new Isai. 24.7 wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 "Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; n Jer. 14. 3, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. | Or, ashamed. 4. • ver. 10. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are witherp.24.11. ed: because 'joy is withered away from the sons of men. Jer. 33. Isi. 9. 3. Jer. 4. 8. r ver. 9. $ 2 Chron. 20. 3, 4. ch. 2. 15, 16. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. 14 'Sanctify ye a fast, call a || solemn assembly, gather the elders and "all the Or, day of inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, t Lev. 23.36. restraint. u a Chron. 20. 13. x Jer. 30.7. y Isai. 13. 6, 9. ch. 2. 1. z See Deut. 12. 6, 7. & 16. 11, 14, 15. + Heb. grains. a Hos. 4-3 b Ps. 50. 15. c Jer. 9. 10. ch. 2. 3. 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. 19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the || pastures of Or, habita- the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. tions. d Job 38. 41. Ps. 10. 21. & 145-15 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are 87 dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 7. & 18. 5. 8121 Isai. 51-2 4 *The appearance of them is as the iZ74 appearance of horses; and as horsemen, Ber.9 :so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the ess tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, "as a strong people set in ver. 2 battle array. 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: "all faces shall gather +blackness. 7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: 'the sun and Jer the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 'And the LORD shall utter his voice before this army: for his camp is very great: "for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and 'who can abide it? 12¶ Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 24. 144 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; 1 He sheweth unto Zion the terribleness of even 'a meat offering and a drink offering God's judgment. 12 He exhorteth to reunto the LORD your God? pentance, 15 prescribeth a fast, 18 promiseth 15¶Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanc-ch a blessing thereon. 21 He comforteth Ziontify a fast, call a solemn assembly: with present 28 and future blessings. LOW ye the trumpet in Zion, my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the 2A day of darkness and of gloominess, 3A fire devoureth before them; and CHAP. III. The enemies of God's people threatened. 19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say cir. 800. unto his people, Behold, I will send you See ch. 1. corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be 10. Mal. 3. satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 30, 11, 12. t See Exod. 10. 19. 18. Zech. 14. 8. 24. Jer. 1.14. "the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his Ezek. 47. face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink Deut. I shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because the hath done great things. + Heb. he hath magniAed to do. 2 ch. 1. 18, 20. 21 ¶ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the a Zech. 8. 19. field: for the pastures of the wilderness See ch. 1. 19. do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. & 61. 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, lai 41.16 and rejoice in the LORD your God: for Hab. 3. 18. he hath given you || the former rain + moZech. 10. 7. derately, and he will cause to come eacher of down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 1 Or, a righteous 3 And they have cast lots for my Nah. 3.10. people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 9. 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, 'O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the Amos 1. 6, coasts of Palestine? will ye render meg Ezek. 25 a recompence? and if ye recompense me, 15, 16, 17. 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 i Ezek. 23. Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. 42. Jer. 6. 20. 1 See Isai. 8. + Heb. 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gen-31046. tiles; † Prepare war, wake up the mighty 37 men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: m sanctify. 3. m See Isai. 2.4. Mic. 4. Or, scyther. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: "let Zech. 12.8. the weak say, I am strong. 11.° Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither || cause "thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. o ver. 2. LORD shall bring down. Pai. 13.3 l's. 103. 20. q ver. 2. r Ps. 96. 13. 110. 6. Isai. &98.9.& 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: 2.4.& 3.13. for there will I sit to judge all the hea- Mi43. then round about. s Matt. 13. 39. Rev. 14. t Jer. 51.33u Isai. 63. 3. 13 'Put ye in the sickle, for the har- 15, 18. vest is ripe: come, get you down; for the Hos. 6.11. "press is full, the fats overflow; for their Lam. 1. 15. wickedness is great. Rev. 14. 19, 20. ver. 2. Or, co cision, or, threshing. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the val-x ley 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. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of ch.2.1. 31. z ch. 2. 10, a Jer. 25. 30. ch. 2. 11. Amos 1. 2. |