time turned he his anger away, death, but gave their life over to and did not stir up all his wrath. the pestilence; 39 For he remembered that they 51 And smote all the first born were but flesh; a wind that passeth in Egypt; the chief of their away, and cometh not again. strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood: and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. 48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunder bolts. 49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from 52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. 55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 61 And delivered his strength PS. LXXXI:1-16 into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth Iwith his inheritance. 63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts; he put them to a perpetual reproach. 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; 1 Sing aloud unto God Our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hithwith the psaltery. er the timbrel, the pleasant harp 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and 68 But chose the tribe of Judah,! delivered thee: I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I ibah. Selah. proved thee at the waters of Mer the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou 70 He chose David also his serv-wilt hearken unto me; ant, and took him from the sheepfolds: 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I which brought thee out of the land am the LORD thy God. of Egypt: open thy mouth wide. and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. JOEL 1:1-20-B. C. 800 1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7 He hath laid my vine waște, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. 8¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. 10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. 4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, and that which the cankerworm ye priests; howl, ye ministers of hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. the altar: come, lie all night in 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: weep; and howl, all ye drinkers for the meat offering and the of wine, because of the new wine; drink offering is withholden from for it is cut off from your mouth. the house of your God. 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a 2 A day of darkness and of solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made deso late. gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen so shall they run. the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of 5 Like the noise of chariots on fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 190 LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pas-shall be much pained: all faces 6 Before their face the people tures of the wilderness, and the shall be much pained: all' faces flame hath burned all the trees of shall gather blackness. the field. 7 They shall run like mighty men of war; and they shall march men; they shall climb the wall like every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall cilmb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall quake before that the heathen should rule over them; the heavens shall tremble: them: wherefore should they say the sun and the moon shall be among the people, Where is there dark, and the stars shall withdraw God? their shining: 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? 12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth im of the evil. 14 Who knoweth if he will reurn and repent, and leave a blessng behind him; even a meatofering and a drinkoffering unto the LORD your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, anctify a fast, call a solemn asembly: 16 Gather the people, sanctify he congregation, assemble the eldrs, gather the children, and those hat suck the breasts: let the brideroom go forth of his chamber, nd the bride out of her closet. AMOS II:6-16-B. C. 787 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof: because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: 8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. İl And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. 17 Let the priests, the ministers f the LORD, weep between the orch and the altar, and let them 12 But ye gave the Nazarites ay, Spare thy people, O LORD, and wine to drink; and commanded the ive not thine heritage to reproach, prohpets, saying, Prophesy not. |