Josh. 7. 19. 1 Sam. 14. 43. | Or, JEHOVAH. • Ps. 146. 6. Acts 17. 24. + Heb. with great fear. 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 comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? 9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear || the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land. 10 Then were the men texceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. 11 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea † may be calm unto us? for the seat wrought, and was tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, "Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. q 13 Nevertheless the men trowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them. 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 us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, 'hast done as it pleased thee. t 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 feared the LORD + Heb. sacriexceedingly, and † offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. 17 Now the LORD had prepared a And great fish to swallow up Jonah. Jonah was in the three days and three nights. belly of the fish CHAPTER II. 1 The prayer of Jonah. 10 He is delivered from the fish. ΤΗ HEN Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, a b 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 hadst cast me into the deep, in the † midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. e d 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again 'toward thy holy temple. ficed a * Matt. 12. 40. & 16. 4. Luke 11.30. + Heb. bowels. Ps. 120. 1. || Or, out of mine affliction. b Ps. 65. 2. © Ps. 88. 6. 38. Lam. 3, 54. 5 The waters compassed me about, Ps. 69. 1. even to the soul: the depth 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 was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought + Heb. cuttings off. 1 Jonah, sent again, preacheth to the Ninevites. AND the word of the LORD came unto 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great 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 LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great So Gen.30.8. city of three days' journey. + Heb. of God: Ps. 36. 6. • See Deut. 18. 22. b Matt. 12. 41. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 So the people of Nineveh beLuke 11.32. lieved God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. Jonah's repining reproved. God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. CHAPTER IV. 1 Jonah, repining at God's mercy, 4 is reproved by the type of a gourd. BUT UT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. a and 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. b с Before CHRIST cir. 862. a ch. 1. 3. b Exod. 34. 6. Ps. 86. 5. Joel 2. 13. 1 Kings 19. 4. d ver. 8. 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 Then said the LORD, Doest thou Or, Art 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 of the city. 6 And the LORD God prepared a † 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 sun did arise, that God prepared a || vehement Or, silent. east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. e ver. 3. Doestor, Art 9 And God said to Jonah, 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 madest 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 sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? h thou greatly angry? Or, I am greatly angry. MICAH. Before CHRIST cir. 750. ■ Jer. 26. 18. b Amos 1. 1. + Heb. Hear, d Ps. 50. 7. f Isai. 26. 21. h Deut. 32. 13. & 33. 29. Amos 4. 13. i Judg. 5. 5. Ps. 97. 5. Isai. 64. 1, 2, 3. Amos 9. 5. + Heb. a descent 2 + Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and tall that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. d 3 For, behold, 'the LORD cometh forth out 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 ta steep place. 5 For the transgression of Jacob is all Hab. 3. 6,10. 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? the mourning of || Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing. 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth || 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 the 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 Moresheth-gath the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel. WOE to them that devise iniquity, b d cir. 730. b Ps. 36. 4. Gen. 31. 29. and work evil upon their beds! Hos. 7. 6. when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and Or, defraud. his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. f 4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament t with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be+ Heb. with utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! | turning away he string. hath divided our fields. i ch. 1. 15. of * Deut. 32. 8, 9. 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that Or, Proshall cast a cord by lot in the tion of the LORD. congrega 6 | Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. phesy not as + Heb. Drop, 1 Isai. 30. 10. A promise of restoring Jacob. Before CHRIST cir. 730. || Or, shortened? + Heb. up. right? + Heb.yesterday. + Heb. over against a garment. Or, wives. MICAH, III. 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest because it is "polluted, it Lev. 18. 25, shall destroy you, even with a sore de Deut. 12. 9. 28. The glory, &c. of the church. their mouths, they even prepare war against him. Before CHRIST 710. h Isai. 8. 20, 22. Ezek. 13. 23. Zech. 13. 4. + Heb. from a vision. 6 h Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, † that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark + Heb. from over them. 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their † lips; for there is no answer of God. 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, 'to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. m 10 They build up Zion with "+ blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Р 11 °The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, tand say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. q 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. CHAPTER IV. 1 The glory, 3 peace, 8 kingdom, 11 and victory of the church. BUT UT ain the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn 25. Kings 4. Zech. 3. 10. i ch. 2. 12. & 5. 3, 7, 8. & 7. 18. * Isai. 9. 6. & 24. 23. Dan. 7. 14, 27. Luke 1. 33. Rev. 11. 15. || Or, Edar: Gen. 35. 21. Jer. 8. 19. Isai. 13. 8. & 21. 3. Jer. 30. 6. & 50. 43. "Lam. 2. 16. • Obad. 12. ch. 7. 10. P Isai. 55. 8. Rom. 11. 33. Isai. 21. 10. Isai. 41. 15, 16. Jer. 51. 33. ⚫ Dan. 2. 44. Isai. 18. 7. ⚫ Lam. 3. 30. Matt. 5. 39. & 27.30. Matt. 2. 6. John 7. 42. 1 Sam. 23. 23. g 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, h and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; k 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. 8 ¶ And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there 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 LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. 12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. S ૧ 13 'Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn 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. 2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, Exod.18.25. though thou be little among the thou с d 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both Or, goats. treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. 9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. 10 And it shall come to pass in that Zech. 9. 10. day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots : 11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: 12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: 13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the Or, statues. midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. 14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. 15 And I will "execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. Isai. 2. 8. || Or, ene- 2 Thess. 1.8. |