21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and thee:

5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy people shall spoil them, and the God would not hearken unto Ba- remnant of my people shall poslaam; but the LORD thy God sess them. turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy

God loved thee.

re

10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have proached and magnified themselves against the people of the

6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy LORD of hosts. days for ever.

AMOS II:1-3-B. C. 787

11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

1 Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burnt the bones of the king of IS. XV:1-9-B. C. 712 Edom into lime:

2 But I will send a fire upon 1 The burden of Moab. Because Moab, and it shall devour the pal- in the night Ar of Moab is laid aces of Kirioth: and Moab shall waste, and brought to silence; bedie with tumult, with shouting, cause in the night Kir of Moab is and with the sound of the trumpet: laid waste, and brought to silence;

3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

ZEPH. II:8-11-B. C. 630

8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard. cut off.

3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto

9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of him. nettles, and saltpits, and a perpet

5 My heart shall cry out for ual desolation: the residue of my Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto

Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall

be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

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1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; *bewray not him that wandereth.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the † 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit

*Is. 16:3-"Bewray (Archaic) to show, disclose or reveal to one's injury or prejudice; betray by exposure; disclose unconsciously, make known."

†Is. 16:4-"Let my outcasts dwell with thee Moab, be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler."

Is. XI:10-13-10 ¶ 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.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adverseries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteous

ness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have brok- IS. XXV:9-12-B. C. 712 en down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. 9¶ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have wait

10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting

to cease.

ed for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh. #Is. 16:8—“They are gone over the sea.”