IL- 1 Heb. the roof of thy mouth. a ch. 5. 8.

Hab. 1. 8.

The distress of Israel.

9 For "they are gone up to Assyria, ° a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

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11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. 12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

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13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

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14 For Israel hath forgotten "his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multipled fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

CHAPTER IX.

The distress and captivity of Israel for their idolatry. [B. c. 760.]

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REJOICE not, O Israel, for joy, as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a "reward upon every cornfloor.

Dan. 2. 37. 8 ch. 12. 11. t Deut. 4. 6, 8. Ps. 119. 18. & 147.
Or, In the sacrifices of mine offerings they, dc. u Jer. 7. 21.
x Jer. 14. 10, 12. ch. 5. 6. & 9. 4. Am. 5. 22.
y ch. 9. 9.
z Deut. 28. 68. ch. 9. 3, 6. & 11. 5. a Deut. 32. 18.
b Is.

29. 23. Eph. 2. 10. c 1 Kings 12. 31. d Jer. 17. 27. Am. 2. 5.

y Ps. 73. 9.

b Deut. 28.

Ez. 26. 7. 19, 20. Zech. 7. 6. Am. 8. 7.

c ch. 6. 7. d Ps. 78. 34, ch. 5. 15. e Tit. Kings 15. 13, 17, 25, g ch. 2. S. & 13. 2. h Jer. 13, 27. b. 10. 12, 13. k ch. 7. 9. 12 Kings 17. 6. in Jer. 22. 28. & 48. 38. n 2 Kings 15, 19. 30.6. Ez. 16, 33, 34. 3 Heb. loves. q Ez. 16, 37. ch. Or, begin. Or, in a little while, as Hag. 2. 6.

The distress of Israel.

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5 What will ye do in the solemn day, 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. 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

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S The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: 'for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of

m ch. 2. 11. n ch. 7. 16. ver. 3. shall be desired, the nettle, dr. Heb. the desire. ch. 10. 8. Heb. man of the spirit.

3. 4. q Jer. 6. 17. & 31. 6. Ez. 3. 17. & 33. 7.

6. ch. 10. 9.

x See ch. 2. 15.

See Judg. 6. 32.

d Deut. 28, 41, 62.

1 Sam. 28. 15. 16.

i Luke 23. 29, 1 ch. 1. 6.

8 Judg. 19. 22.

Heb. spoil. * Or, their silver

t ch. 8. 13.

b Ps. 81. 12. Ez. 20. 8.

y Num. 25. 3. Ps. 106, 28.

o Is. 5. 6. & 32. 13. & 34. 13. p Ez. 13. 3, &c. Mic. 2. 11. Zeph. • Or, against. r Is. 31. u Is. 28. 4. Mic. 7. 1. z ch. 4. 14. a Jer. 11. 13. Am. 4. 5. c Job 27. 14. ch. 5. 6. f See h ver. 16. ch. 13. 16. k eh. 4. 15. & 12. 11. Heb. the desires, Ez. 24. 21.

e Deut. 31. 17. 2 Kings 17. 18. g Sec Ez. 26, & 27, & 28. Heb. that casteth the fruit. n ver. 13.

m Is. 1. 23.

Judgments upon them.

mine house, I will love them no more: "all their princes are revolters.

16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is driel up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, thoug they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

17 My God will cast them away, becau they did not hearken unto him and the shall be wanderers among the nations. CHAPTER X

Judgments upon Israel threatened for their impiety and idols/ [B. c. 740.]

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ISRAEL is an empty vine, he bring forth fruit unto himself: according to t multitude of his fruit he hath increase the altars; according to the goodness of le land they have made goodly images.

23 Their heart is divided; now shi they be found faulty: he shall break dow their altars, he shall spoil their images. 3 For now they shall say, We have 1 king, because we feared not the LORD; wh then should a king do to us?

4 They have spoken words, swear. falsely in making a covenant: thus jud. ment springeth up as hemlock in the t rows of the field.

5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fe: because of the calves of Beth-aven:

the people thereof shall mourn over it,

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the glory thereof, because it is depar the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, i

from it.

God's goodness to Israet,

and their ingratitude.

90 Israel, thou hast sinned from the lays of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of niquity did not overtake them.

10 It is in my desire that I should chasise them; and the people shall be gathred against them, when they shall bind hemselves in their two furrows.

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HEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and 'called my son out of Egypt. As they called them, so they went from a they sacrificed unto Baalim, and med incense to graven images.

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4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that 'take off the yoke on their jaws, and h I laid meat unto them.

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5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, 'because of their own counsels.

7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: "though they called them to the Most High, 2 none at all would exalt him.

8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as " Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

10 They shall walk after the LORD: "he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

ance.

[B. c. 725.]

17. 16. ch. 2. 13. & 13. 2. e Deut. 1. 31. & 32. 10, 11, 12. Is. 46. 3. f Ex. 15. 26. g Lev. 26. 13. 1 Heh, lift up. h Ps. 78. 25. ch. 2. 8. i See ch. 8. 13. & 9. 3. k2 Kings 17. 13, 14. 1 ch. 10. 6. m Jer. 3. 6, &c. & 8. 5. ch. 4. 16. n eh. 7. 16. 2 Heb. together they exalted not. o Jer. 9. 7. ch. 6. 4. p Gen. 14. 8. & 19, 24, 25. Deut. 29. 23. Am. 4. 11. q Deut. 32. 36. 1s. 63. 15. Jer. 31. 20. r Num. 23. 19.

most holy.

y ch. 12. 1.

Is. 55. 8, 9.

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power with God:

4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;

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12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel "served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

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exalted himself in Israel; but wh he offended in Baal, he died.

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The iniquity of Ephraim is bound s sin is hid.

The sorrows of a travailing woman >me upon him: he is an unwise son; should not stay long in the place of aking forth of children.

I will ransom them from 7 the power grave; I will redeem them from O death, I will be thy plagues; O I will be thy destruction: repentall be hid from mine eyes.

Though he be fruitful among his n, an east wind shall come, the wind LORD shall come up from the wilderad his spring shall become dry, and ntain shall be dried up: he shall spoil asure of all pleasant vessels. Samaria shall become desolate; 'for th rebelled against her God: they all by the sword: their infants shall ed in pieces, and their women with hall be ripped up.

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Exhortation to repentance.

ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and 'receive us graciously so will we render the calves of our lips.

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3d Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: 'neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

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4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them 'freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he

shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

6 His branches shall spread, and 'his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and "his smell as Lebanon.

7 "They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

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8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

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9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

CHAP. XIV.-a ch. 12. 6. Joel 2. 13.

b ch. 13. 9. d Jer. 31. 18, &c. ch. 5. 13. & 12. 1. 1 Or, give good. 33. 17. Is. 30. 2, 16. & 31, 1. f ch. 2. 17. ver. 8.

h Jer. 5. 6. & 14. 7.

2 Or, blossom, m Gen. 27. 27.

ch. 11. 7. 3 Heb. strike. Cant. 4. 11. p Jer. 31. 18. John 8. 47. & 18, 37. 2. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 7, 8.

O ver. 3. Dan. 12. 10.

c Heb. 13. 15. e Deut. 17. 16. Ps. g Ps. 10. 14. & 68. 5. i Eph. 1. 6. k Job 29. 19. Prov. 19. 12. Heb. shall go. 1 Ps. 52. 8. & 128. 3.

n Ps. 91. 1. • Or, blossom. • Or, memoriat. q James 1. 17. r Ps. 107. 43. Jer. 9. 12. s Prov. 10. 29. Luke 2. 34. 2 Cor.