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God, ye people of Gomor- 18 Come now, and let us reafon together, faith the II To what purpofe is the Lord: though your fins be multitude of your facrifices as fcarlet, they fhall be as unto me? faith the Lord: I white as fnow; though they am full of the burnt-offer-be red like crimson, they ings of rams, and the fat of fhall be as wool. fed beafts, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts? 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye fhall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refufe and rebel, ye fhall be devoured with the fword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 13 Bring no more vain oblations, incenfe is an abo- 21 How is the faithful mination unto me, the new-city become an harlot ! it was moons and fabbaths, the cal- full of judgment, righteoufling of affemblies I cannot nefs lodged in it; but now away with, it is iniquity, murderers. even the folemn meeting, 14 Your new-moons, and your appointed feafts my foul hateth: they are a trouble unto me, I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye fpread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash ye, make you ¶ clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, ceafe to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; feek judgment, relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherlefs, plead for the widow. 8 22 Thy filver is become drofs, thy wine mixed with water. 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherlefs, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore faith the Lord, the Lord of hofts, the Mighty One of Ifrael, Ah, I will ease me of mine adverfaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. 25¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away the drofs, and take take away all thy tin. 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou thalt be called, The city of righter oufnefs, the faithful city. 27 Zion fhall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the deftruction of the tranfgreffors and of the finners fhall be together, and they that forfake the Lord fhall be confumed.. 29 For they fhall be afhamed of the oaks which ye have defired, and ye fhall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chofen. 30 For ye fhall be as an oak whofe leaf fadeth, and as å garden that hath no water. 31 And the ftrong fhall be as tow, and the maker of it as a fpark, and they fhall both burn together, and none fhall quench them. hills; and all nations fhall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and fay, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerufalem. 4 And he fhall judge among the nations, and fhall rebuke many people: and they fhall beat their fwords into plow-fhares, and their fpears into pruning-hooks: nation fhall not lift up fword against nation, neither fhall they learn war any more. 50 houfe of Jacob, come. ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. 6 Therefore thou haft forfaken thy people the house of Jacob, becaufe they be replenished from the eaft, and are foothfayers like the Philiftines, and they please themfelves in the children of ftrangers. 7 Their land also is full of filver and gold, neither is there any end of their treafures: their land is alfo full of horfes, neither is there any end of their chariots. 8 Their land alfo is full of idols: they worship the E e 2 work work of their own hands, Lord alone fhall be exalted that which their own fingers have made. 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himfelf: therefore forgive them not. ro Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the duft, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man fhall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men fhall be bowed down, and the Lord alone fhall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lord of hofts fhall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he fhall be brought low; 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bafhan, 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high ws, and upon every tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16 And upon all the fhips of Tarfhifh, and upon all pleasant pictures. 17 And the loftinefs of man fhall be bowed down, and the haughtinefs of men fhall be made low: and the in that day. 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19 And they fhall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arifeth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man fhall caft his idols of filver, and his idols of gold, which they made, each one for himself to worship, to the moles, and to the bats: 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majefty, when he arifeth to fhake terribly the earth. 22 Ceafe ye from man whofe breath is in his noftrils for wherein is he to be accounted of? tower in the midft of it, and | field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midft of the earth. alfo made a wine-prefs therein and he looked that it fhould bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerufalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it fhall be eaten up and break down the wall thereof, and it fhall be trodden down. 6 And I will lay it wafte: it fhall not be pruned, nor digged, but there fhall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hofts is the houfe of Ifrael, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold, oppreffion; for righteousness, but behold, a cry. 8 Woe unto them that oin house to house, that lay 9 In mine ears faid the Lord of hofts, Of a truth many houfes fhall be defolate, even great and fair without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard fhall yield one bath, and the feed of an homer shall yield an ephah. II ¶ Woe unto them that rife up early in the morning, that they may follow ftrong drink, that continue until night, till wine inflame them. 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feafts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither confider the operation of his hands. 13¶ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with the mighty man fhall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty fhall be humbled. 16 But the Lord of hofts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy, fhall be fanctified in righteoufnefs. 17 Then fhall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones fhall strangers eat. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and fin as it were with a cart-rope : 19 That fay, Let him make fpeed, and haften his work, that we may fee it: and let the counfel of the Holy One of Ifrael draw nigh and come, that we may know it. 20 ¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for fweet, and fweet for bitter. 21 Woe unto them that are wife in their own eyes, and prudent in their own fight. 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of ftrength to mingle ftrong drink: righteous from him. 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame confumeth the chaff, fo their root shall be as rottennefs, and their blosfom fhall go up as duft: because they have caft away the law of the Lord of hosts, and defpifed the word of the Holy One of Ifrael. 25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath ftretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcafes were torn in the midst of the streets: For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an enfign to the nations from far, and will hifs unto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they fhall come with speed swiftly. 27 None fhall be weary nor ftumble among them: none fhall flumber nor fleep; neither fhall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their fhoes be broken. are 28 Whose arrows sharp, and all their bows 23 Which juftify the wic-bent, their horfes hoofs fhall ked for reward, and take a-be counted like flint, and way the righteoufnefs of the their wheels like a whirlwind. 29 Their |