↑ Heb. sons of a year? i Ps. 50. 9. & 51. 16. k Job 29. 6. 12 Kings 16.3. & 21.6. & 23. Jer. 7. 31. & 10. 19. 5. Ez. 23. 37. t Heb. belly. Dent.10.12 Hos. 6.6. & 1 Sam. 15. 22 12. 6. n Gen. 18. 19. Is. I. 17. † Heb. humble thy Or, thy name shall see that which is. . old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of k rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath mshewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? 9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom self to walk. shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the t scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with Pthe wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Or, Is there yet unto every man a house of the wicked, &c. † Heb. measure of leanness, Amos 8. 5. -16 Deut. 25. 13 20. 10, 23. P Hos. 12. 7. Lev. 26. 16. $ Lev. 26. 26. 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. 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 Deut. 28.38. deliverest will I give up to the sword. 39, 40. Or, he doth much keep the, &c. u1 Kings 16. 25, 26. * Hos. 5. 11. YI Kings 16. 25, 26. 30, &c. & 21. 2 Kings 21.3. 1 Kings 9. 8. Jer. 1). 8. Or, aston ishment. a Is. 25. 8. Jer. 51. 51. Lam. 5. 1. ↑ Heb the gatherings of summer. 15 Thou shalt tsow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. 16 For the statutes of "Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of y Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee za desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the areproach of my people. CHAPTER VII. 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of See Is. 55.13. thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. 5 Trust ye not in a friend,h Jer. 9. 4. put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. 10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now tshall she be trodden down t as the mire of the streets. 11 In the day that thy " walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed. "Ps. 27. 1. Lam. 3. 39. P Ps. 37. 6. or, And thou walt see her that is mine enemy, and cover her with shame. 9 Ps. 35. 26. Ps. 42. 3. 10. & 79, 10, & 115. 2. Joel 2. 17. sch. 4. 11. Heb for a tread she shall be ing down. to Sam. 22.43. Zech. 10. 5. &c. 12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, "Amos 9.11, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and When they have gathered from mountain to mountain. * Is. 11. 16. & 19. 23, &c. & 27. 13. Hos. 11.11. I Or, even to. 1 13 Notwithstanding, the land CHRIST shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, y for the fruit of their doings. 710. 1 Or. After that it hath been. y Jer. 21. 14. ch. 3. 12. by his mercies. Before of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of CHRIST the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. i 14 Feed thy people with thy 18 Who is a God like unto 15 a According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things. 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 710. Or, creeping things. Jer. 33. 9. Ex. 15. 11. Ex. 34. 6, 7. ich. 4. 7. & 5. Jer. 50. 20. 3,7,8. k Ps. 103. 9. 1s. 57. 16. Jer. 3. 5. 73. m Ps. 105.9, 20 Thou wilt perform the truth Luke 1, 72, to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, m which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. 10. === 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and m who can tabide in the fierceness of his anger? n his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. The LORD is good, a strong Before hold in the day of trouble; and Phe knoweth them that trust in CHRIST him. about 713. 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end Tim. 2. 19. of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9 What do ye imagine against Ps. 2. 1. the LORD? she will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. r $1 Sam. 3. 12. 2 Sam. 23. 6, 7. u ch. 3. 11. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stub-x Mal. 4. 1. ble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee, y that imagineth evil against y2 Kings 19. the LORD, ta wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be tcut down, when he shall a pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. 13 For now will I bbreak his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. 14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: The miserable ruin Before CHRIST about 713. * 2 Kings 19. Rom. 10. 13. +Heb. feast. Heb. Belial. e ver. 11, 12. f ver. 14. 1Or, The disperser, or, hammer. a Jer. 50. 23. b Jer. 51. 11, cl. 3. 14. the pride of Jacob as the pride of Israel. d Ps. 80. 12. Is. 63. 2, 3. Or, dyed scarlet. 1 Or, fiery torches. ↑ Heb. their show. 1 Or, gallants. I will make thy grave; for thou and the faces of them all gather Before CHRIST about 713. k Joel 2.6. Ez. 19. 2-7. 15 Behold upon the mountains 11 Where is the dwelling of the feet of him that bringeth the lions, and the feeding place: 14.10.11. good tidings, that publisheth of the young lions, where the peace! O Judah, keep thy lion, even the old lion, walked, solemn feasts, perform thy vows: and the lion's whelp, and none for te the wicked shall no more made them afraid? pass through thee; he is utterly !cut off. i CHAPTER II. The fearful and victorious armies of God against Nineveh. E that dasheth in pieces 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. His come up before thy face, saith the LORD of i 13 m Behold, I am against thee, Ez. 9.3. & keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for d the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made ered, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. 4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. 5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall Or, molten. be dissolved. † Heb. cor ering, or, coverer. it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the b Jer. 47. 3. wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots. fame of the sword, and the lightning of the spear. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glit-Heb. the tering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of Is. 47. 9, 12. witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. 5 d Behold, I am against thee, d saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, fand I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the Hab. 2. 16. kingdoms thy shame. The miserable ruin round about it, whose rampart | go into clay, and tread the mor- Before CHRIST about 713. 15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the Joel 1.4. cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself, many as the locusts. 16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away. 17 y Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the. great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. 10r, spread eth himself. Rev. 9. 7. Ps. 76, 6, a Jer 50. 18. Ez. 31.3, &c. iant ones. b 1 Kings 22. 17. † Heb. wrinkling. 18 Thy shepherds slumber, O Ez. 15. 16. aking of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mount-Or. ralains, and no man gathereth them. 19 There no thealing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? Mic. 1.9. Lam. 2. 15. See Is. 14. 8, Zeph. 2. 15. &c. Before about 626. HABAKKUK. CHAPTER I. CHRIST 1 Unto Habakkuk, complaining of the iniquity of the land, 5 is sheweil the fearful vengeance by the Chaldeans. 12 He complaineth that vengeance should be executed by them who are jar worse. a Lam. 3. 8. HE burden which Habakkuk 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and con tention. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more † fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall ! fly as the eagle that hasteth to or the sup eat. 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the bwicked doth compass about the righteous; there- 9 They shall come all for vioOr, wrested. fore I wrong judgment proceed-lence: It their faces shall sup up HABAKKUK. scorn unto them: they shall deCHRIST ride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. about 626. 8 Dan. 5. 4. h Ps. 90. 2. & 93.2. 11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. 12 h Art thou not from everLam. 5. 19. lasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O 15, 10.5,6,7 mighty God, thou hast testablished them for correction. i 2 Kings 19. 25. Ps. 17. 13. Ez. 30. 25. † Heb. rock, k Ps. 5. 5. 1 Jer. 12. 1. 13k Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: 1 wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? 14 And makest men as the fishes 1Or, moving. of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? m Jer. 16. 16. Amos 4. 2. 15 They mtake up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in Or, fue net. their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. n Deut. 8. 17. Is. 10. 13. & 37. 24, 25. n 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and Or, dainty. their meat It plenteous. ↑ Heb. fat. a Is. 21. 8, 11. ↑ Heb. 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? CHAPTER II. 1 Into Habakkuk, waiting for an answer, is I WILL astand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, fenced place. band will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer twhen I am reproved. b P's. 85. 8. Or, in me. Or, when I am argued with. † Heb. upon or, arguing. C1s. 8. 1. & 30. 8. d Dan. 10. 14. & 11. 27, 35 2 And the LORD answered me, my reproof 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 Heb. 10. 37. Will surely come, it will not tarry. f John 3. 36. Rom. 1. 17. Gal, 3. 11. Heb. 10. 38. 1 Or, How much more. 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. 6 Shall not all these htake up h Mic. 2. 4. a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that in- Or, Ho, he. creaseth 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? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; be-k ver. 17. cause of men's blood, and fort Heb the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. 9 T Woe to him that I coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may mset 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 T Woe to him that buildeth a town with at blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy a bottle to him, and makest 4 Hos. 7. 5. him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16 Thou art filled with shame! for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand Jer. 25.26, shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of 5 Yea also, because he trans-beasts, which made them afraid, │ more with shame than with glory. 27. & 51. 57. |