PS. CXXVI:1-6 1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. and with him is plenteous redemption. 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. 2 Then was our mouth filled AMOS IX:11-15-B. C. 787 with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the the tabernacle of David that is heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. 3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. 4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 11 In that day will I raise up fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. 13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop 1 Out of the depths have I cried sweet wine, and all the hills shall unto thee, O LORD. PS. CXXX:1-8 2 LORD, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. 3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand? 4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. 5I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the LORD more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. 7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, melt. 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. HOSEA I:10-11-B. C. 785 10 ¶ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be meas- HOSEA VI:11-780 B. C. ured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place harvest for thee, when I returned * 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall the captivity of my people. be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. HOSEA IV:15-16-B. C. 780 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear. The LORD liveth. I HOSEA XIV:4-9-B. C. 725 4I will heal their backsliding, will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow 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 Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 16 For Israel slideth back as a 8 Ephraim shall say, What have backsliding heifer: now the LORDI to do any more with idols? I will feed them as a lamb in a large place. HOSEA V:14-15—B. C. 780 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. 9 Who is wise, and he shall unand he shall know them? for the derstand these things? prudent, ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. MICAH II:12-13-B. C. 730 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their 12 I will surely assemble, O offence, and seek my face: in their Jacob, all of thee; I will surely affliction they will seek me early. gather the remnant of Israel; 1 *Hosea 6:11-"Also, O Judah, there is an harvest appointed for thee when I return the captivity of my people." R. V. will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. MICAH IV:1-7-B. C. 710 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jeru salem. afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. 5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever. 6 In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. MICAH IV:11-13-B. C. 710 11 ¶ Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. 12 BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD: NEITHER UNDER STAND THEY HIS COUNSEL: HE SHALL GATHER 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter 3 And he shall judge among iron, and I will make thy hoofs of Zion: for I will make thy horn many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall brass: and thou shalt beat in beat their swords into plowshares, pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the and their spears into pruningLORD, and their substance unto the hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall Lord of the whole earth. they learn war any more. 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them IS. X:20-23-B. C. 713 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more|GETHER THE DISPERSED OF again stay upon him that smote JUDAH FROM THE FOUR them; but shall stay upon the CORNERS OF THE EARTH. LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in 13 THE ENVY ALSO OF truth. EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART, 21 The remnant shall return, AND THE ADVERSARIES OF even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF: 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall over-shoulders of the Philistines toflow with righteousness. 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. IS. XI: 10-16—B. C. 712 10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious. 14 But they shall fly upon the them of the east together: they ward the west; they shall spoil shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. way 11 And it shall come to pass in 16 And there shall be an highthat day, that the Lord shall set for the remnant of his peɔhis hand again the second time to ple, which shall be left, from Asrecover the remnant of his people, syria; like as it was to Israel in which shall be left, from Assyria, the day that he came up out of and from Egypt, and from Path- the land of Egypt. ros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from IS. 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C. 712 Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 1 For the LORD will have mercy * 12 AND HE SHALL SET UP on Jacob, and will yet choose IsAN ENSIGN FOR THE NA- rael, and set them in their own TIONS, AND SHALL ASSEM-land: and the strangers shall be BLE THE OUTCASTS OF IS- joined with them, and they shall RAEL, AND GATHER TO- cleave to the house of Jacob. *Is. 11:12 "The outcasts of Israel," "The dispersed of Judah." 2 And the people shall take 6 They helped every one his them, and bring them to their neighbour; and every one said to place: and the house of Israel shall his brother, Be of good courage. possess them in the land of the 7 So the carpenter encouraged LORD for servants and handmaids: the goldsmith, and he that smoothand they shall take them captives, eth with the hammer him that whose captives they were: and smote the anvil, saying, It is they shall rule over their oppres- ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be removed. sors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. IS. XLI:1-20-B. C. 712 8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 9 Thou, whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou thee, and not cast thee away. 1 Keep silence before me, Oart my servant; I have chosen islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near, then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment. 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. 3 He pursueth them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generation from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. 5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 10 Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen will uphold thee with the right thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I hand of my righteousness. 11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help |