who shall roar like a lion: for he shall roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west. 11 They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria : and I will make them to dwell in their houses, saith the LORD.

12 Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit: 'but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the 12 Holy One. Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make

2

Heb.]

1

[Ch. xii. I in or, and Judah is yet unstedfast with the Holy one who is faithful

with God, and

upon.

3

4

Or, strength
Or, strove

a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his Heb. visit ways; according to his doings will he recompense 3 him. In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he 'had power with 4 God: yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him he found him at Beth-el, and there 5 spake with us; even the LORD, the God of 6 hosts; the LORD is his memorial. Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgement, and wait on thy God continually.

7

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'He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are 8 in his hand he loveth to 'oppress. And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labours they shall 9 find in me none iniquity that were sin. But I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as 10 in the days of the solemn feast. I have also

5

Or, for the God of hosts

LORD is the

Or, As for

Canaan, the

9

dc.

Or, a

Canaanite
Heb. Canaan.

Or, defraud

spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied. visions; and by the ministry of the prophets Heb. by the 11 have I used similitudes. Is Gilead iniquity? they hand. are altogether vanity; in Gilgal they sacrifice

bullocks:

10

yea, their altars are as heaps in the 10 Or, shall be

1 Or, kept

2 Or, spake with trembling &c.

3 Or, became guilty

4 Or, the sacrificers of

men

furrows of the field. And Jacob fled into the 12 field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. And by a prophet the 13 LORD brought Ísrael up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he 'preserved. Ephraim hath voked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

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When Ephraim 'spake, there was trembling; 1 13 he exalted himself in Israel: but when he 'offended in Baal, he died. And now they sin 2 more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. Therefore 3 they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshingfloor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Yet + I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; Or, knowest and thou shalt know no god but me, and beside me there is no saviour. I did know thee in the 5 wilderness, in the land of great drought. Ac-6 cording to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me. Therefore 7 am I unto them as a lion: as a leopard will I watch by the way: I will meet them as a bear 8 that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the art destroyed, caul of their heart: and there will I devour them like a lion; the wild beast shall tear them. is thy destruction, O Israel, 'that thou art against me, against thy help. Where now is thy king, 10 Or, but in me that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy Some ancient judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king versions have, and princes? I have given thee a king in mine 11 anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

6 Or, Thou

O Israel;

for thou dc.

7 Or, for in me, in thy help

is thy help

who shall

help?

It 9

13

I will

Or, when it standeth not in &c.

is time, he

2 Heb. hand.

3 Heb. Sheol.

6

Or, I will be

Or, if [Ch. xiv. 1 in Heb.]

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store. The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; 'for it is time he should not tarry in the 14 place of the breaking forth of children. ransom them from the 'power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, 'where are thy plagues? O grave, 'where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine 15 eyes. Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the "breath of the LORD Or, wind coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: 'he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant 16 vessels. Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in desolate pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. 14 I O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; 2 for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. with you words, and return unto the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good so will we render as 3 bullocks the offering of our lips. 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 4 fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine I will be as 5 anger is turned away from him.

Take

7 Or, become

8

Or, receive

us graciously "The Sept.

and Syriac have, the fruit

of our lips.

the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom 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 7 Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be memorial

10 Or, his

1 Or, O Ephraim, what &c.

as the wine of Lebanon. 'Ephraim shall say, 8 What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir tree; from me is thy fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall understand these 9 things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall

therein.

JOEL.

1 I

2

THE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

different kinds

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in 3 your days, or in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another 4 generation. That which 'the palmerworm hath Probably, left hath the locust eaten; and that which of locusts, or the locust hath left hath the cankerworm locusts in eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath of growth. 5 left hath 'the caterpiller eaten. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is 6 cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and

he hath the jaw teeth of a great lion. He hath

different stages

2

3

laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: Or, broken he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; 3 Or, down 8 the branches thereof are made white. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the 9 husband of her youth. The meal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, 10 mourn. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is 'dried Or, ashamed