The church's complaint.

Before CHRIST 710.

* Lev. 26. 16.

Ps. 107. 17, 18.

$ Lev. 26. 26.

Hos. 4. 10, * Deut. 28.

448 38, 39, 40.

Amos 5.11.
Zeph. 1. 13.
Hag. 1. 6.

MICAH.

13 Therefore also will I 'make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

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14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

15 Thou shalt 'sow, but thou shalt not Or, he doth reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine,

much keep

the, &c.

1 Kings 16. but shalt not drink wine.

25, 26.

* Hos. 5. 11.

*

16 For the statutes of "Omri are kept, 1 Kings 16 and all the works of the house of Ahab, and Kings 21. ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reOr, asto- proach of my people.

* 1 Kings 9. Jer. 19. 8.

8.

nishment.

a Isai. 25.8.

Jer. 51. 51.
Lam, 5.1.

+ Heb. the gatherings of

summer.

CHAP. VII.

a

The church's confidence in God.

Before

CHRIST

I will wait for the God of my salvation; my corr
God will hear me.

710.

Lam. 4. 21. m Ps. 37.24. Prov. 24.16.

P. 27.1.
P. 57.6.
Or, And
her that is

thou wilt sce

mine enemy,
and cover her
with shame,

t

P5. 26.
Ps. 42. 3.

8 'Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: Prov. 24. " when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in dark- 17 ness, "the LORD shall be a light unto me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, I shall behold his righteousness. 10 Then she that is mine enemy shall it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, 'Where is the LORD thy God? mine & 115.2. eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. 11 In the day that thy " walls are to be built, a treading in that day shall the decree be far removed. * 2 Sam. 22. 12 In that day also he shall come even Zech. 10. 5. to thee from Assyria, and from the forti- "Amos 9. fied cities, and from the fortress even to the Isai. 11.16. river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

1 The church, complaining of her small number,
3 and the general corruption, 5 putteth her confi-
dence not in man, but in God. 8 She triumpheth
over her enemies. 14 God comforteth her by pro-
mises, 16 by confusion of the enemies, 18 and by

his mercies.

WOE

a

OE is me! for I am as t when they have gathered the summer fruits, as Isai. 17. 6. the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is Isai. 28. 4. no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

& 24. 13.

Hos. 9. 10. Ps. 12. 1, & 14. 1, 3.

c

2 The good man is perished out of the Isai. 57. 1. earth: and there is none upright among men : or, mercifi. they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Or, godly, Hab. 1.15.

3 That they may do evil with both hands Hos. 4. 18. earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth this mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

ch. 3. 11.

mischief of
his soul.
$2 Sam. 23.
6, 7.

Ezek. 2. 6.
See Isai. 55.

13.

* Jer. 9. 4.

Matt. 10.21, 35, 36.

4 The best of them is a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

h

10. & 79.10.

Joel 2.

Jo. 17.

t Heb. she shall be fir

down.

43.

11, &c.

& 19.23,&c.

& 27. 13. shall be even to.

13 || Notwithstanding the land
desolate because of them that dwell therein,
for the fruit of their doings.

14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

i Ezek. 22.7. 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the Luke 12.5% daughter in law against her mother in law; 2 Tim. 3. 2, a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

& 21. 16.

3.

Hos. 11.11.
| Or,
Or, After

that it hath

been.
y Jer. 21. 14.

ch.3.12.
Ps. 28. 9.
Isai. 37.24.

Or, Rule,

ch. 5. 4.

* Ps. 68. 22. & 78. 12.

con- "Isai. 26.11.

& 29.9.

16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay Job g. 5. their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

•
Isai. 49. 23.

e

P.79 Ps. 18. 45.

||Or, creep ing things.

11.

6,7.

18 Who is a God like unto thee, that Exod. 15. "pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the trans- Exod. 34. gression of the remnant of his heritage? *he Jer. 50. 20. retaineth not his anger for ever, because he 5.3,7,8. delighteth in mercy.

'ch. 4.7. & * Ps. 105.9.

Isai. 57. 10.

19 He will turn again, he will have com- Jer. 3. 5. passion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

73.

20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham," which thou hast Ps. 105.9, * Isai. 8. 17. 7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

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CHAP. I.

NAHU M.

name be sown out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten The majesty of God in goodness to his people, and image: I will make thy grave; for thou art severity against his enemies.

2 God is jealous, and the LORD reveng-
eth; the LORD revengeth, and †is furious;
the LORD will take vengeance on his adver-

5. & 34. 14. saries, and he reserveth wrath for his ene-
Josh. 24. 19. mies.
*Deut.32.35.

Ps. 94. 1.

d

vile.

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet Isai. 52. 7. of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, † keep thy solemn + Heb. feast. feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked + Heb. shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly Belia, 12.

cut off.

CHAP. II.

Nineveh.

f

e

3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great The fearful and victorious armies of God against Isai. 59. 18. in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and

+ Heb. that

hath fury.

Exod. 34.

6,7.

in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of HE

Neh. 9. 17. his feet.

Ps. 103. 8.

Jonali 4. 2.

* Job 9.4.

4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it Ps. 18.7, dry, and drieth up all the rivers: "Bashan Hab. 5.5, languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

&c. & 97. 2.

11, 12.

® Ps. 106. 9. Isai. 50. 2. Matt. 8. 26.

Ps. 68. 8.

K

a

that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: "keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

C

ver. 11, f ver. 14.

the Isai. 10.12.

Jer. 25. 29.

2 For the LORD hath turned away excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of or, Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

d

3 The shield of his mighty men is made

the pride of

Jacib as the pride of Israel.

e

Ps. 80. 12.

Hos. 10. 1.

5 The mountains quake at him, and the Isai. 33. 9. hills melt, and 'the earth is burned at his Judg. 5. 5. presence, yea, the world, and all that dwellred, the valiant men are in scarlet: the Isai. 63. 2, therein. chariots shall be with flaming torches in the sc day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall scarlet be terribly shaken.

7 And || Huzzab shall be || led away captive, or, there she shall be brought up, and her maids shall was a stand lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering Or, upon their breasts,

8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall || look back.

9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the † pleasant furniture. 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and "the knees smite to

1

and

discovered.

f Isai. 38. 14.

&

9.11. that she

|| Or, from the hath been. Or, cause

them to

turn.
|| Or, and
their infinite
store, &c.

vessels of de

8.

Isai. 13. 7,

Dan. 5 6. i Jer. 30 9.

ether, and much pain is in all loins, the faces of them all gather blackness. 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, Ezek. 19. 2,

Joel 2. 6.

1 Job 4. 10,

11.

-7.

Israel's iniquity revenged by the Chaldeans.

Before CHRIST cir. 626.

Job 21.7.

Ps. 94. 3, &c.

Jer. 12. 1.

|| Or,

* rested.

* Isai. 29. 14.

Acts 13. 41.

d Deut. 28. 49, 50.

Jer. 5. 15.

6.

covetousness, 12 for cruelty, 15 for drunkenness,
18 and for idolatry.

ment doth never go forth: for the "wicked doth
compass about the righteous; therefore wrong

proceedeth.

a

a

Before CHRIST cir. 626.

dgment procede among the heathen, and I me upon the tower, mandatch, and set Isal.

5 ¶ Behold ye

regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will
work a work in your days, which ye will not
believe, though it be told

you.

6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march Chron. 36. through the † breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.

Fulfilled,

† Heb. breadths.

7 They are terrible and dreadful: their shem shall judgment and their dignity shall proceed of judgment of themselves.

|| Or, from proceed the

these, and

the captivity

of these. Heb. sharp. Jer. 5. 6.

8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall Zeph. 3. 3. spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

"Jer. 4. 13.

WILL stand upon my 21. 8, will watch to Heb.

b

11.

see what he will say unto me, and what I fenced place. shall answer + when I am reproved.

C

d

2 And the LORD answered me, and said,
Write the vision, and make it plain upon
tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed
time, but at the end it shall speak, and not
lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it
will surely come, it will not tarry.

4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not
upright in him: but the 'just shall live by his
faith.
5 Yea also, because he transgresseth
by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth
at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell,
and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but
gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth
unto him all people :

6 Shall not all these "take up a parable
against him, and a taunting proverb against
him, and say, || Woe to him that increaseth
that which is not his! how long? and to him
that ladeth himself with thick clay!

7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

k

Ps. 85. 8. ||Or, in me.

Or, when I feb. upon

with.

Hcb. my reproof, or, arguing.

Isai. 8. 1. Dan. 10. 14.& 11. 27,

& 30. 8.

35

8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, 'Isai. 33. 1. all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the vio- ver. 17. lence of the land, of the city, and of all that bloods. dwell therein.

m

+ Heb.

Jer. 22. 13. ||Or, gaineth set an evil gain.

9 Woe to him that '|| coveteth an evil
covetousness to his house, that he may
his nest on high, that he may be delivered
from the power of evil!

10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house
by cutting off many people, and hast sinned
against thy soul.

11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall || answer it.

12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with "+ blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Jer. 19.

16. Obad. 4. + Heb. pulm

of the hand.

Or, piece,
or fastening..
||Or, witness
against it.
"Jer. 22. 13.

Ezek 24.9.
Mic. 3. 10.

Nah. 3. 1.

+ Heb.

13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, bloods. and the people shall weary themselves || for ||Or, in vain. very vanity?

14 For the earth shall be filled || with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the

waters cover the sea.

q

"Jer. 51. 58.

or,

by
the LORD.
P Isai. 11. 9.

knowing

15 ¶ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, Hos. 7. 5. and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest 'look on their nakedness!

Gen. 9. 22.