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according to his own will, and none shall stand, shall place the abomination that maketh debefore him; and he shall stand in the glorious solate.

land, which by his hand shall be consumed. 32 And such as do wickedly against the 17 He shall also set his face to enter with covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the strength of his whole kingdom, and up- the people that do know their God shall be right ones with him; thus shall he do: and strong, and do exploits. he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her; but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

34 Now, when they shall fall, they shall

18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach be holpen with a little help but many shall offered by him to cease; without his own cleave to them with flatteries. reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.

19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble, and fall, and not be found.

35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and

20 Then shall stand up in his estate araiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. 21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile per-shall prosper till the indignation be accomson, to whom they shall not give the honour plished: for that that is determined shall be of the kingdom: but he shall come in peace-done. ably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fa22 And with the arms of a flood shall they thers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any be overflown from before him, and shall be god: for he shall magnify himself above all. broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. 38 But in his estate shall he honour the God

23 And after the league made with him of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and up, and shall become strong with a small with precious stones, and pleasant things. people. 39 Thus shall he do in the most strong 24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the holds with a strange god, whom he shalt fattest places of the province; and he shall acknowledge and increase with glory and do that which his fathers have not done, nor he shall cause them to rule over many, and his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among shall divide the land for gain.

them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, 40 And at the time of the end shall the and he shall forecast his devices against the king of the south push at him and the king of strong holds, even for a time. the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the

25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall countries, and shall overflow and pass over. be stirred up to battle with a very great and 41 He shall enter also into the glorious mighty army; but he shall not stand: for land, and many countries shall be overthey shall forecast devices against him. thrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries; and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. CHAP. XII.

27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.

29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south: but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.

30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and return and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even

return, and have intelligence with them that

the holy covenant.

31 And arms shall stand on his part,and they children of thy people; and there shall be a shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and time of trouble, such as never was since there shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they was a nation even to that same time: and at

AND at that time shall Michael stand up,

the great prince which standeth for

that time thy people shall be delivered, every liveth for ever, that it shall be for a time, one that shall be found written in the book. times, and an half; and when he shall

2 And many of them that sleep in the dust have accomplished to scatter the power of of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting the holy people, all these things shall be life, and some to shame and everlasting con- finished.

tempt.

8 And I heard, but I understood not: then 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of brightness of the firmament; and they that these things? turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

5 Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. which was upon the waters of the river, How 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh long shall it be to the end of these wonders? to the thousand three hundred and five and 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, thirty days.

which was upon the waters of the river, 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for when he held up his right hand and his left thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end hand unto heaven, and sware by him that of the days.

¶ HOSEA.

THE

CHAP. I.

cannot be measured nor numbered: and it HE word of the LORD that came unto shall come to pass, that in the place where it Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of was said unto them, Ye are not my people, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the sons of the living God.

son of Joash, king of Israel.

11 Then shall the children of Judah and

2 The beginning of the word of the LORD the children of Israel be gathered together, by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, and appoint themselves one head, and they take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and shall come up out of the land: for great shall children of whoredoms: for the land hath com- be the day of Jezreel. mitted great whoredom, departing from the

LORD.

CHAP. II.

3 So he went and took Gomer the daugh- SAY ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and

ter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

to your sisters, Ruhamah."

2 Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: 4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his let her therefore put away her whoredoms name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I out of her sight, and her adulteries from be will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the tween her breasts; house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

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4 And I will not have mercy upon her chil 6 And she conceived again, and bare a dren; for they be the children of whoredoms. daughter. And God said unto him, Call her 5 For their mother hath played the harlot : name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

8 Now, when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

she that conceived them hath done shame. fully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall 9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: she say, I will go and return to my first husfor ye are not my people, and I will not be band; for then was it better with me than now. your God. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, 10 Yet the number of the children of Is-and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver rael shall be as the sand of the sea, which and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

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9 Therefore will I return, and take away my 3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the for me many days: thou shalt not play the season thereof, and will recover my wool harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man; and my flax given to cover her nakedness. so will I also be for thee. 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without

11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, an image, and without an ephod, and withher feast-days, her new-moons, and her sab-out teraphim. baths, and all her solemn feasts.

5 Afterward shall the children of Israel re12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig- turn, and seek the LORD their God, and Datrees, whereof she hath said, These are my vid their king; and shall fear the LORD and rewards that my lovers have given me : and his goodness in the latter days. I will make them a forest, and the beasts of

CHAP. IV.

the

e field shall eat their upon her the days of Hostel word of the LORD, ye children

EAR
of

Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, versy with the inhabitants of the land, be-
and she decked herself with her ear-rings and cause there is no truth, nor mercy, nor know-
her jewels, and she went after her lovers, ledge of God in the land.
and forgat me, saith the LORD.

2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, stealing, and committing adultery, they and bring her into the wilderness, and speak break out, and blood toucheth blood. comfortably unto her.

3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and 15 And I will give her her vineyards from every one that dwelleth therein shall lanthence, and the valley of Achor for a door guish, with the beasts of the field, and with of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the days of her youth, and as in the day when sea also shall be taken away. she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali.

4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the

17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no night, and I will destroy thy mother. inore be remembered by their name.

6 My people are destroyed for lack of

18 And in that day will I make a cove-knowledge: because thou hast rejected know⚫nant for them with the beasts of the field, ledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt and with the fowls of heaven, and with the be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotcreeping things of the ground: and I will ten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy break the bow, and the sword, and the bat- children. tle, out of the earth, and wil! make them to lie down safely.

19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies:

20 1 will even betroth thee unto me faithfulness; and thou shalt know LORD.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD: I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and he wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. CHAP. III.

HEN said the LORD unto me, Go yet,

in

the

an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley.

7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me; therefore will I change their glory into shame.

8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

10 For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase; because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

11 Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.

12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars, and elms, because

daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacri

fice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye

15 ¶ I will go and return to my place, til they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. CHAP. VI.

and let us return unto the LORD:

unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, COME math torn, and he will heal us;

nor swear, The LORD liveth.

16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a 2 After two days will he revive us; in the lamb in a large place. third day he will raise us up, and we shall

17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him live in his sight. alone.

3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to 18 Their drink is sour; they have com- know the LORD: his going forth is prepared mitted whoredom continually: her rulers as the morning; and he shall come unto us with shame do love, Give ye. as the rain, as the latter and former rain up

19 The wind hath bound her up in her to the earth. wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

CHAP. V.

4 T O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the

HEAR ye this, O priests; and hearken, early dew it goeth away.

ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the house of the king; for judgment is toward prophets; I have slain them by the words of you, because ye have been a snare on Miz- my mouth and thy judgments are as the pah, and a net spread upon Tabor. light that goeth forth.

2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now, Ó Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shal fall with them.

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burntofferings.

7 But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treach erously against me.

8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

6 They shall go with their flocks and with 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall for thee, when I returned the captivity of not find him he hath withdrawn himself my people.

from them.

CHAP. VII.

7 They have dealt treacherously against WHEN I would have healed Israel, then

the LORD; for they have begotten strange the iniquity of Ephraim was discochildren now shall a month devour them vered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for with their portions. they commit falsehood; and the thief co8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the meth in, and the troop of robbers spoileth trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, without: after thee, O Benjamín.

9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

10 The princes of Judah were like them 3 They make the king glad with their that remove the bound: therefore I will pour wickedness, and the princes with their lies. out my wrath upon them like water. 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heat11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in ed by the baker, who ceaseth from raising judgment, because he willingly walked after after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be the commandment. leavened.

12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a 5 In the day of our king the princes have moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. made him sick with bottles of wine: he 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and stretched out his hand with scorners. Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to 6 For they have made ready their heart the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their could he not heal you, nor cure you of your baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

wound.

14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, 7 They are all hot as an oven, and bave and as a young lion to the house of Judah: devoured their judges: all their kings are I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take fallen; there is none among them that calleth. away, and none shall rescue him.

unto me.

8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength,and he knoweth it not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face; and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

shall

SET the trumpet to thy nst the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

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.

11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

EJOICE not, O Israel, for joy, as other people. for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God; thou hast loved a reward upon every corn-floor.

13 Woe unto them! for they have fled 2 The floor and the wine-press shall not from me destruction unto them! because feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. they have transgressed against me: though 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S i have redeemed them, yet they have spoken land: but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, lies against me. and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 14 And they have not cried unto me with 4 They shall not offer wine-offerings to the their heart, when they howled upon their LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto beds: they assemble themselves for corn and him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the wine, and they rebel against me. bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall 15 Though I have bound and strengthen- be polluted: for their bread for their soul ed their arms, yet do they imagine mischief shall not come into the house of the LORD. against me. 5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and

6 For, lo, they are gone because of des

16 They return, but not to the most High; in the day of the feast of the LORD? they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their truction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memtongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. CHAP. VIII.

phis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

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

11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

7 The days of visitation are

the

days of recompence are come; Israel shall

3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; ness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in mine anger is kindled against them: how the fig-tree at her first time; but they went long will it be ere they attain to innocency? to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto

9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilder

6 For from Israel was it also: the work-that shame; and their abominations were ac. man made it; therefore it is not God: but cording as they loved. the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly

7 For they have sown the wind, and they away like a bird, from the birth, and from shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the woinb, and from the conception. the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, 12 Though they bring up their children, the strangers shall swallow it up. yet will I bereave them, that there shall not

12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

8 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.

8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be a man left: yea, woe also to them when be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is I depart from them! no pleasure.

13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. forth his children to the murderer, 10 Yea, though they have hired among 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? the nations, now will I gather them, and give them a miscarrying womb and dry they shall sorrow a little for the burden of breasts. the king of princes.

15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried

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