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ter, even you, O pour of the flock. And I took unto me two ftaves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

Refloration of Judab propbehed. Chap. xi. xii. Jerusalem a cup of trembling. TS1 out of him the nail, out of him the battle 7 And I will feed the flock of flaughbow, out of him every oppreffor together. 5¶ And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the fireets in the battle; and they hall fight because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horfes fhall be confounded.

8 Three fhepherds alfo I cut off in one month; and my foul loathed them, and their fou. alfo abhorred me.

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6 And I will ftrengthen the houfe of 9 Then faid I, I will not feed you: that Judah, and I will fave the houfe of Jo-that dieth, let it die; and that that is to feph, and I will bring them again to place be cut off, let it be cut off and let the them; for I have mercy upon them: and reft eat every one the flesh of another. they fhall be as though I had not caft 10 ¶ And I took my staff, even Beauty, them off: for I am the LORD their God, and cut it afunder, that I might break and will hear them. my covenant which I had made with all the people.

7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart fhall rejoice as through wine ; yea, their children fhall fee it, and be glad; their heart hall rejoice in the LORD.

8 I will hifs for them, and gather them: for I have redeemed them: and they fhall increase as they have increased.

9 And I will fow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they fhall live with their children, and turn again.

10 I will bring them again alfo out of the land of Egypt,and gather them out of Affyria and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place

fhall not be found for them.

11 And he hall pass through the fea with affliction, and hall fmite the waves in the fea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up and the pride of Affyria hall be brought down, and the fceptre of Egypt hall depart away.

12 And I will ftrengthen them in the LORD and they thall walk up and down in his name, faith the LORD.

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11 And it was broken in that day; and fo the poor of the flock that waited upon me. knew that it was the word of the LORD.

12 And I faid unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of filver.

18 And the LORD faid unto me, Caft. it unto the potter a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of filver, and caft them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

14 Then I cut afunder mine other staff. even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Ifrael.

15 And the LORD faid unto me, Take unto thee yet the inflruments of a foolish thepherd.

10 For, le, I will raife up a fhepherd in the land, which fhall not vifit thole that be cut off, neither fhall feek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that ftandeth ftill: but he fhall cat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedaris fallen; because the mighty are (poiled: howl, 01 ye oaks of Bahan; for the foreft of the vintage is come down.

3 There is a voice of the howling of the Thepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is fpoiled.

4 Thus faith the LORD my God, Feed the flock of the flaughter;

17 Woe to the idol fhepherd that leav eth the flock! the word ball be upon his arm, and upon his right eye his arm fhall be clean dried up, and his right eye thall be utterly darkened.

CHAP. XII.

Jerufalem, a cup of trembling, 3 and a burdensome fone to her adverfaries. 6 The victorious refloring of Judah." THE burden of the word of the LORD for Ifrael, faith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the fpirit of man within him!

2 Behold, I will make Jerufalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they fhall be in the fiege both against Judah' and against Jerufalem.

5 Whofe poffeffors flay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that fell them fay, Bleed be the LORD; for I am rich:and theirownthepherdspity themnot. 84 And in that day will I make Jeru6 For I will no more pity the inhab-falem a burdenfome ftone for all people: itants of the land, faith the LORD: but, lo, all that burden themselves with it all be I will deliver the men every one into his cut in pieces, though all the people of the neighbour's hand, and into the hand of earth be gathered together against it. his king: and they fhall fmite the land,and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

4 In that day, faith the LORD, I will fmite every horse with astonishment, and

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ZECHARIAH.

The coming of Christ. his rider with madness: and I will open and his mother that begat him shall fay mine eyes upon the houfe of Judah, and unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou will fmite every horfe of the people with fpeakeft lies in the name of the LORD: blindness. and his father and his mother that begat him thall thruft him through when "he prophefieth.

5 And the governors of Judah fhall fay in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerufalem ball be my strength in the LORD of holts their God.

And it hall come to pass in that day, that the prophets fhall be afhamed every one of his vifion, when he hath prophef. ed; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

5 But he thall fay, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

6 lathat day will I make the governors of judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a fheaf, and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerufalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerufalem. 6 And one thall fay unto him, What are 7 The LORD alfo ball fave the tents of thefe wounds in thine hands? Then he Judah first, that the glory of the houfe of ball anfwer, Thofe with which I was David, and the glory of the inhabitants wounded in the house of my friends. of Jerufalem, do not magnify themselves against Judah.

8 In that day fhall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerufalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day fhall be as David; and the house of David ball be as God,as the angel of the LORD before then. 9 And it had come to pafs in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerufalem.

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7 Awake, O sword, against my thepherd, and against the man ibat is my fellow, faith the LORD of holts: fmite the shepherd, and the sheep thall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

8 And it all come to pass, that in all the land, faith the LORD, two parts therein thall be cut off and die; but the third hall be left therein.

10 And will pour upon the boufe of 9. And I will bring the third part David, and upon the inhabitants of Jeru- through the fire, and will refine them as falem, the fpirit of grace and of fuppli-filver is refined, and will try them as gold cations and they shall look upon me is tried; they shall call on my name, and whom they have pierced, and they shall I will hear them: I will fay, It is my mourn for him, as one mourneth for bis people; and they hall fay, The LORD is only Son, and shall be in bitterness for him, my God. as one that is in bitterness for bis firstborn. 11 In that day hall there be a great mourning in Jerufalem, as the mourning of Hadadrinon in the valley of Megiddon,

12 And the land hall mourn, every family apart; the family of the honfe of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the honte of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

13 The family of the houfe of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family Shimei apart, and their wives apart.

All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

CHAP. XIII. 1.Jerufalem's purgation from idolatry and Jalje prophecy. 7 The death of Chrift, and the fawing and trial of a third part. IN that day there fhall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the habitants of Jerufalem for fin and for uncleannefs...

2 And it thall come to pafs in that day, faith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they thall no more be remembered: and alfo I will caufe the prophets and the unclean fpirit to pafs out of the land.

3 And it fhall come to pafs, that when any hall, yet prophefy, then his father

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СПАР XIV.

The defroyers of Jerufalem defroyed. 5 The coming of Christ, and the graces of bis kingdom.

BEHOLD, the day of the LORD COMeth, and thy fpoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

2 For I will gather all nations against Jerufalem to battle; and the city thall be taken,and the boufes rifled, and the women ravished: and half of the city hall go. forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

34 Then hall the LORD go forth, and fight against thofe nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

4 And his feet hall fand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerufalem on the caft, and the mount of Olives hall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the welt, and there shall be a very great valley ; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the fouth.

5 And ye hall flee to the valley of the mountains: for the valley of the mountains all reach onto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of ju. dah: and the LORD my God fhall come, and all the faints with thee,

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The graces of Cbrif's kingdom. Chap. i.

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6 And it fhall come to pass in that day, round about fhall be gathered together, that the light thall not be clear, nor dark: gold, and filver, and apparel, in great a7 But it fhall be one day which fhall bundance. be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it thall be light.

8 And it fhall be in that day, that liv. ing waters hall go out from Jerufalem; half of them toward the former fca, and half of them toward the hinder fea: in fummer and in winter shall it be.

9 And the LORD thall be king over all the earth in that day fhall there be one LORD, and his name one.

15 And fo fhall be the plague of the horfe, of the mule, of the camel, and of the afs, and of all the beafts that shall be in thefe tents, as this plague.

16 And it thall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerufalem, shall even go up from year to year, to worship the King. the LORD of hofts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

17 And it fhall be, that whofo will not 10 All the land fhall be turned as a come up of all the families of the earth plain from Geba to Rimmon, fouth of unto Jerufalem to worship the King, the Jerufalem and it fhall be lifted up, and LORD of hosts, even upon them fhail be inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's no rain. gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's wine presses.

11 And men fhall dwell in it, and there fhall be no more utter deftruction; but Jerufalem fhall be fafely inhabited.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that bave no rain; there fhall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will fmite the heathen that come not up to keep the feaft of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of E12 And this fhall be the plague where-gypt, and the punishment of all nations with the LORD will fmite all the people that come not up to keep the feast of tabthat have fought against Jerufalem, Their ernacles.

fleth thall confume away while they ftand 20 In that day shall there be upon the upon their feet, and their eyes shall con-bells of the horfes, HOLINESS UNTO fume away in their holes, and their tongue THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S fhall confume away in their mouth. houfe fhall be like the bowls before the altar.

13 And it shall come to pafs in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD fhall 21 Yea, every pot in Jerufalem and in be among them; and they hall lay hold Judah fhall be holiness unto the LORD of every one on the hand of his neighbour, hofts and all they that facrifice fhall and his hand fhall rise up against the hand come and take of them, and feethe there. of his neighbour. in ; and in that day there fhall be no 14 And Judah alfo fhall fight at Jeru-more the Canaanite in the house of the falem; and the wealth of all the heathen 'LORD of hosts.

MALACHI

CHAP. I.

6 ¶ A fon honoureth his father, and a 1 Malachi complaineth of Ifrael's unkind-servant his master: if then I be a father, neis, 6 irreligion, 12 and profaneness. Where is mine honour? and if I be a maf THE burden of the word of the LORD ter, Where is my fear faith the LORD to Ifrael by Malachi. of hofts unto you, O priefts, that despise my name. And ye fay, Wherein have we defpifed thy name?

2 I have loved you, faith the LORD. Yet ye fay, Wherein haft thou loved us? Was not Efau Jacob's brother faith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye fay, Wherein have we pol8 And I hated Efau, and laid his moun- luted thee? In that ye fay, The table of tains and his heritage wafte for the drag-the Lord is contemptible. ons of the wildernels.

8 And if ye offer the blind for facrifice, 4 Whereas Edom faith, We are impov- ¦ Is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame erished: but we will return and build the and sick, Is it not evil? Offer it now unto defolate places; thus faith the LORD of thy governor; Will he be pleafed with hofts, They hall build, but I will throw thee, or accept thy perfont faith the down, and they hall call them, The bor- LORD of hosts. der of wickednefs, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation

for ever.

5 And your eyes fhall fee, and ye shall fay, the LORD will be magnified from the border of Ifrael.

9 And now I prav you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us; this hath been by your means: Will he regard your perfons? faith the LORD of hosts.

10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nougbi ? Neither

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MALACHI. the people's idolatry,reproved.

de ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. according as ye have not kept my ways, I have no pleasure in you, faith the LORD but have been partial in the law. of hofts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

11 For from the rifing of the fun, even unto the going down of the fame, my name ball be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incenfe ball be offer. ed unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name bhall be great among the heathen, faith the LORD of hosts.

12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye fay, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat is contemptible.

10 Have we not all one father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11 ¶ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Ifrael and in Jerufalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which ire loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the mafter and the fchol13 Ye faid alfo, Behold, what a weari-ar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and rinefs is it! and ye have fouffed at it, faith him that offereth an offering unto the the LORD of hofts; and ye brought that LORD of hosts.

which was torn and the lame,and thefick; | 18 And this have ye done again, covthus ye brought an offering: Should Iering the altar of the LORD with tears, accept this of your hand? faith the LORD. with weeping, and with crying out, info

14 But curfed be the deceiver, which much that he regardeth not the offering hath in his flock a male, and voweth and any more, or receiveth it with good will facrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt at your hand.

thing: for I am a great King, faith the 14 Yet ye fay, Wherefore? Because LORD of hofts, and my name is dreadful the LORD hath been witness between among the heathen.

СНАР. 11.

1 He reproveth the priests for neglecting their covenant, 11 and the people for idolatry, adultery, 17 and infidelity. AND now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you:

thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou haft dealt treacherously; yet is the thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

15 And, Did not he make one? Yet had he the refidue of the fpirit. And, Wherefore one? That he might feek a godly feed. Therefore take heed to your fpirit, and let none deal treacherously against

2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, faith the LORD of hofts, the wife of his youth. will even fend a eurfe upon you, and I will curfe your bleflings: yea, I have curfed them already, because ye do not Jay is to heart.

3 Behold, I will corrupt your feed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your folemn feafts; and one fhall take you away with it.

4 And ye fhall know that I have fent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, faith the LORD of hosts.

5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

16 For the LORD, the God of Ifrael, faith, that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, faith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your fpirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye fay, Wherein have we wearied bim? When ye fay, Every one that doeth evil is good in the fight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment ? CHAP. III.*

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Of the messenger, majesty, and grace of Cbrift. Of the rebellion, 8 facrilege, 13 and infidelity of the people.

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, BEHOLD, I will fend my meffenger, and iniquity was not found in his lips and he shall prepare the way before me: he walked with me in peace and equity, and the LORD, whom ye feek, fhall fudand did turn many away from iniquity.denly come to his temple, even the mef7 For the prieft's lips should keep fenger of the covenant whom ye delight knowledge, and they fhould feek the law in behold, he thall come, faith the at his mouth for he is the meffenger of LORD of hosts. the LORD of hosts.

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8 But ye are departed out of the way ye have caufed many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, faith the LORD of hosts.

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2 But, Who may abide the day of his coming? and, Who fhall ftand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' foap :

3 And he hall fit as a refiner and puri9 Therefore have I alfo made you con-fier of filver: and he shall purify the fons temptible and bafe before all the people, of Levi, and purge them as gold and fil

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ver, that they may offer unto the LORD walked mournfully before the LORD of an offering in righteousness.

hofts?

15 And now we call the proud happy ; yea, they that work wickedness are fet up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

4 Then thall the offering of Judah and Jerufalem be pleafant unto the LORD, as in the days of old and as in former years. 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a fwift witness 16 Then they that feared the LORD against the forcerers, and against the a-fpake often one to another: and the LORD dulterers, and against falfe fwearers, and hearkened, and heard it, and a book of against those that opprefs the hireling in remembrance was written before him bis wages, the widow, and the fatherlefs, for them that feared the LORD, and that and that turn aside the stranger from his thought upon his name. right, and fear not me, faith the LORD of hosts.

6 For I am the LORD, I change not, therefore ye fons of Jacob are not confumed.

7¶ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, faith the LORD of hosts. But ye faid, Wherein hall we return?

17 And they fhall be mine, faith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will fpare them, as a man fpareth his own fon that ferveth him.

18 Then fhall ye return, and difcern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that ferveth God, and him that ferveth him not.

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CHAP. IV.
God's judgment on the wicked, 2 and
bis blefing on the good. 5 Ne telleth of
Elijab's coming.

8¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye fay, Wherein have FOR, behold, the day cometh, that we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. fhall burn as an oven; and all the 9 Ye are curfed with a curfe: for ye proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, have robbed me, even this whole nation. thall be stubble: and the day that com10 Bring ye all the tithes into the ftore-eth fhall burn them up, faith the LORD house, that there may be meat in mine of hosts, that it shall leave them neither house, and prove me now herewith, faith root nor branch. the LORD of hofts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a bleffing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your fakes, and he fhall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine caft her fruit before the time in the field, faith the LORD of hosts.

12 And all nations hall call you bleff. ed: for ye shall be a delightfome land, faith the LORD of hosts.

13¶Your words have been fout against me, faith the LORD. Yet ye fay, What have we fpoken jo much against

thee?

2¶ But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arife with healing in his wings; and ye fhall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

3 And ye fall tread down the wicked; for they thall be afhes under the foles of your feet in the day that I fhall do this, faith the LORD of hofts.

4 Remember ye the law of Mofes my fervant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Ifrael, with the ftatutes and judgments.

5 Behold, I will fend you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

6 And he shall turn the heart of the fa14 Ye have faid, It is vain to ferve thers to the children, and the heart of God and, What profit is it that we have the children to their fathers, left I come kept his ordinance, and that we have and fmite the earth with a curfe.

END OF THE PROPHETS.

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