CHAPTER I. Jonah, sent to Nineveh, fleeth to Tarshish, 1. 4 He is bewrayed by a tempest, 11 thrown into the sea, 17 and swallowed by a fish. TOW the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son NOW of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that bgreat city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah drose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish ffrom the presence of the LORD. 4 T But the LORD tsent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship twas like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and beast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the ship-master came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, kcall upon thy God,lif so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. JONAH. B. C. cir. 862. B. C. cir. 862. a 2Ki. 14. 25. t Heb. digged. 4Pr 21.30 Jonas. b Called. Mt.12.39. Ge. 10, 11,12. ch. 3.2,3.&4. 11. De.21.8. P8.89.9. Lu. 8. 24. † Heb. stood. Ge. 18. "Ma.4.41 20,21.Ez- Ac. 5. 11. ra 9.6.Ja. † Heb. 5.4.Re. 18 sacrific 5. ed a sa d ch. 4. 2. crifice Jos. 19. unto the LORD, 46.2Ch.2. and 16. Ac. 9. vowed vows. 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. the LORD, and said, We beseech 17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up 36. Jonah. And Jonah was in the Ge.4.16. Mat. 12. belly of the fish three days and Job 1. 12. three nights. 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, band 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: dall thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again 5 The waters compassed me ftoward thy holy temple. about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. Jos.7.198 Ps.69.1.6 I went down to the bottoms ISa. 14.43 La. 3. 54. of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life htrom corruption, O LORD my God. 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 mentexceed-t Heb. ingly 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. VAH. OPs.146.6 Ac.17.24. with great fear. 38. † Heb. cuttings att. hPs.16.10 I Or, the pit. i Ps.18.6. 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: iand my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. k 2Ki. 17. 8 They that observe lying 15. Ps.31. vanities, forsake their own mer6.Je.10.8. may be silent & 16. 19. Cy. † Heb. 23. &116. 11 T Then said they unto him, from us. IPs 50.14, with the voice of thanksgiving; 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee What shall we do unto thee, that IOr, the sea tmay be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was more tempestuous. 17,18.Ho. I will pay that that I have vow14. 2. He. ed. Salvation is of the LORD. 10 T And the LORD spake unto P8.3.8. the fish, and it vomited out Jo nah upon the dry land. 13. 15. CHAPTER III. Jonah, sent again, preacheth to the Ninevites, 1. 5 Upon their repentance, 10 God repenteth. The Ninevites' repentance. AND the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, CHAPTER I. B. C. B. C. eir. 862. cir. 862. t Heb. ach. 1. 3. bEx.34.6. Ps. 86. 5. 1Ki. 194 d ver. 8. 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 fexceeding great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he & 80. 10. Art thou cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5T So the people of Nineveh bbelieved God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. a See De.18.22. Mat.12. 41. Lu.11 32 Job 2.8. 7 dAnd he caused it to be proclaimed and published through d 2Ch.20. Nineveh by the decree of the king and his t tnobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor † Heb. flock, taste any thing: let them said not feed, nor drink water. + Heb. men. 8 But let man and beast be co-great vered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. CHAPTER IV. Jonah, repining at God's mercy, 1, 4 is reproved by the type of a gourd. BUT it displeased Jonah ex ceedingly, and he was very 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, angry. CHAPTER I. Micah sheweth the wrath of God against Jacob for idolatry, 1. 10 He exhorteth to mourning. e Is. 58 6. IOr, greatly Or, ↑ Heb. rejoiced great Or, silent. ever. 3. 14. greatly angry. Or, Je.18.8. spared. Amos 7.† Heb. 3,6. was the fch.1.2.& Jonah's repining reproved, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore 1 "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. 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for dit is better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou 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 I 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 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. 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest 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 tcame up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, fthat great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot disDe.1.39. cern between their right hand Ps.36.6. and their left hand, and also & 145. 9. much heattle? witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. cir. 750. cir. 750. Je.26.18 Ps.11.4 3 For behold, fthe LORD cometh bAm.1.1. Jon. 2. 7. forth out of his place, and will Hab.2.20 come down, and tread upon the fls.26.21, hhigh places of the earth. EP.115.3 4 And ithe mountains shall be h De. 32. 13&33.29 molten under him, and the valAm. 4.13. leys shall be cleft, as wax before iJu.5. 5. the fire, and as the waters that Ps. 97. 5. are poured down ta steep place. 18.64.1.2. 5 For the transgression of Jacob Hab. 3.6, 3.Am.9.5 is all this, and for the sins of the d Ps. 50. 7 Mal. 3. 5. 10. ↑ Heb. a descent. THE ness God's wrath against Israel MICAH. B. C. cir. 750. house of Israel. What is the Ez.13.14 n Is. 21.3. 6 Therefore, I will make Sama-Ho.2.5, ria kas an heap of the field, and 12. as plantings of a vineyard: and& 22. 4. I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and II. 20.2. will discover the foundations 3, 4. thereof. 7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. 8 Therefore, I will wail and howl; "I will go stripped and naked: PI will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning 9 For her wound is incurable; for "it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. as the towls. 10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. Je. 4. 19. B. C. cır. 730. Je. 8. 3. fAmos 5. 13. Ep. 5. 16, Hab.2.6 h2Sa. 1.17 † Heb. with a PJob 30. 6. lamen † Heb. wounds. 8. tation of lamen- Or, Or, and Judah for idolatry. 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. 4 T In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and blament twith a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: ihe hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. 5 Therefore, thou shalt have none that shall kcast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. 6 Prophesy ye not, say they 13.13.8.7. Prophe 11 Pass ye away, thou tinhabitant of Saphir, having thy tshame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel: he shall receive of you his standing. 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth I 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 Is-12 Ki. 18. Or, rael 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. over Or, a grieved. a yar 8 Even tof late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is "polluted, it shall destroy you, 11 If a man walking in the even with a sore destruction. spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink: he shall even be the prophet of this people. 12 PI will surely assemble, O Jacob, ail of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;) will put thein together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the h2Ch11.7 Je.31.10 gate, and are gone out by it; and C.Job 1.20 Ez.36.37 them, and the LORD on the their king shall pass before Is.15.2.&s Ho. 3.5. head of them. 22.12. Je. 7.29. & 16. 6. & 47.5. & 48.37. dLa. 4. 5. cir. 730. a Ho. 7.6. Is.52.12. 710. TO to them that devise iniquity, and bwork evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. b Ps.36.4. 2 And they covet dfields, and Ge.31 29 aJe.5.4,5. take them by violence; and d 1. 5. 8. houses, and take them away: so Or, dethey oppress a man and his fraud. Falsehood of the prophets. CHAPTER IV, V. the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; B. C. B. C. 3 Who also beat the flesh of my b Ps.14.4. people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then dshall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doinge. 7. Ez.11.3. 710. b Is. 2. 4. Joel 3.10. Or, scythes. Ps.72.7. dPs.18.41 Je.2.11. Is.56.10, 11.Ez.13. 10&22.25 fch. 2.11. Mat.7.15. Ez. 13, 12. 18, 19. 5 T Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that fbite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and She that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him: 6bTherefore, night shall be un-h Is. 8 20. to you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto 23, 24. you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down overt Heb. the prophets, and the day shall from a be dark over them. 22. F.z.13. Zec.13.4. vision. 7 Then shall the seers bet Heb. 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 pow-upper er by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, Ito 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. 10 They build up Zion with afblood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Zec. 10. g F.z. 34. 16. Zeph. 3. 19. hPs.147.2 Ez.34.13. & 37. 21. i ch. 2.12. & 5.3,7,8. & 7. 18. k1s.9.6& 24 23. Da 7. 14, 27. Lu. 1. 33. lip. The glory, 1, 3 peace, 8 kingdom, 11 and victory of the church. QUT in the last days it shall BUT 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 Je. 8.19. & 21. 3. Is.13.8. Je. 30, 6. & 50. 43. La2.16. Ho. 4.18. ↑ Heb. Ro.11.33. The glory of the church. his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 T And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into bploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 4 dBut they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. 5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and fwe will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever. 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, band I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted: 7 And I will make her that halted ia 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 T 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 counsellor 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. thoughts of the LORD, neither 12 But they know not P the understand they his counsel: for sheaves into the floor. 418.21.10. he shall gather them as the Je.26.18 19.41.15, saying. 16. Je. 51. ch. 1. 6. 33. 7. Ps.79.1. MICAH. B. C. 710. B. C. 710. La.3.30. Or,with Mat.5.39. De. 32.1. & 27.30. Ps.50.1.4. bMat.2.6. 1s. 1. 2. Johu 7.42 1 Sa.23. God's controversy for ignorance, &c. CHAPTER VI. God's controversy for unkindness, 1, 6 for ignorance, 10 for injustice, 16 and for idolatry. HEAR ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou Ho.12.2. before the mountains, and let C1s1.18& the hills hear thy voice. 5.3.4.&43 26.Ho.4.1 2 Hear ye, O mountains, bthe d.Je2.5,31 LORD'S controversy, and ye Ex12.51 strong foundations of the earth: & 14.30& for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. 20.2. De.4 20. Amos 2. 10. 23. John the days The birth and kingdom of Christ. hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. 2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephra tah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be "Ruler in Israel: fwhose goings forth have 23. been from of old, from feverlasting.d Ex. 18. 3 Therefore, will he give them 25. up, until the time that she Ge49.10 which travaileth hath brought Is. 9. 6. forth: then the remnant of his Ps. 90.2. brethren shall return unto the Pr. 8. 22, children of Israel. 4 And he shall stand and i feed in the strength of thet Heb. LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now kshall he be great unto the ends of the earth. 5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight tprincipal men. 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. Nu. 22.5. & 23.7.& 24. 10, 11. De.23.4,5 Jos. 24.9, 10. Re. 2. 14. 5Nu.25.1. & 33. 49. Jos. 4.19. & 5. 10. a of eternity. 8ch. 4.10. h ch. 4.7. 1Or, rule. ils. 40.11. Heb. hJu.5.11. & 49. 10. sons of Ez.34.23. year? ch. 7. 14. Ps. 50.9. kPs.72.8. & 51. 16. Is. 52.13. Zec.9.10. Job 29.6 Lu. 1.32.16.3. IPs. 72.7. 23.16.Je 1s. 9. 6. 31. &19.5. Zec.9.10. Ez.23.37. Lu. 2. 14. † Heb. Ep. 2. 14. belly De. 10. 12.1Sa.15 22. Ho. 6. 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people Pasadew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. ↑ Heb. 8 And the remnant of Jacob eat up. 19.18.1.17 shall be among the Gentiles in the "Ge.10.8† Heb. midst of many people as a lion 10, 11. humble among the beasts of the forest, as Or, thyself a young lion among the flocks with her to walk. of sheep: who, it he go through, own na-1Or, thy both treadeth down, and teareth ked name 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 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 'sooth-sayers: 13 Thy graven images also will 1 cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more wor-t Is. 2. 8. ship the work of thy hands. 14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: BO will I destroy thy | cities. 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. Or, statues. I Or, 10, 23. Shall 1 Or, be pure with. &c. PHO.12.7 Je. 9. 5, 6, 8. 3, enemies. u Pa. 149 7. ver. 8. Le. 26. 2Th. 1. 8.4. 10. 30 my people, d what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 50 my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son Shittin unto Gilgal; that ye of Beor answered him from may know the righteousness of the LORD. 6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shali! come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves t of a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of krivers of oil? shall I give my first-born, for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but "to do justly, and to love mercy, and to f walk humbly with thy God? 9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who bath appointed it. 10 | Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with P the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabi tants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore, also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in ma king 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 deliverest will I give up to the sword 16. Ps. 107. 17, 18 Le. 26. 26. Ho. |