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Sanctifie yee a fast : call a solemne assembly: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD: Alas for the day: for the day of the He prescribeth LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almightie shall it a fast, for complaint. come. Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God? The seede is rotten under their clods: the garners are laide desolate : the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered. How doe the beastes grone? the heards of cattell are perplexed, because they have no pasture, yea the flockes of sheepe are made desolate. O LORD, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field crie also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wildernesse.

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LOW yee the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarme in my He sheweth holy mountaine : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: unto Zion the for the day of the LORD commeth, for it is nie at hand; a of Gods iudgeday of darkenesse and of gloominesse, a day of clouds and of thicke ment. darkenesse, as the morning spread upon the mountaines: a great people and a strong, there hath not beene ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the yeres of many generations. 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 wildernes, yea and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horse men, so shall they runne. Like the noise of charets on the tops of mountaines shall they leape, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people, set in battell aray. Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blacknesse. They shall runne like mighty men, they shall clime the wall like men of warre, and they shall march every one on his wayes, and they shall not breake their rankes. Neither shall one thrust another, they shall walke every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall runne to and fro in the citie: they shall runne upon the wall: they shall clime up upon the houses: they shall enter in at the windowes, like a theefe. The earth shall quake before them, the heavens shall tremble, the Sun and the Moone shall be darke, and the starres shall withdrawe their shining. And the LORD shall utter his voyce before his armie, for his campe is very great:

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for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible, and who can abide it?

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turne yee even to me with to repentance, all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. And rent your heart and not your garments; and turne unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kindnesse, and repenteth him of the evill. Who knoweth if he will returne and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meate offring and a drinke offring unto the LORD your God?

Prescribeth a fast,

Promiseth a blessing thereon.

He comforteth Zion with present,

Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assembly. Gather the people: sanctifie the congregation: assemble the elders: gather the children, and those that sucke the breasts: let the bridegroome goe forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weepe betweene the porch and the altar, and let them say; Spare thy people O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproch; that the heathen should rule over them: Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

Then will the LORD be iealous for his land, and pitie his people. Yea the LORD will answere and say unto his people; Behold, I will send you corne and wine, and oyle, and yee shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproch among the heathen. But I will remove farre off from you the northren armie, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the East sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost Sea, and his stinke shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

Feare not, O land, be glad and reioyce: for the LORD will doe great things. Be not afraid, yee beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wildernesse doe spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine doe yeeld their strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and reioyce in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former raine moderately, and he will cause to come downe for you the raine, the former raine, and the latter raine in the first month. And the floores shall bee full of wheate, and the fats shall overflowe with wine and oyle. And I will restore to you the yeeres that the locust hath eaten, the canker worme, and the caterpiller, and the palmer worme, my great armie which I sent among you. And ye shall eate in plentie, and be satisfied, and praise the Name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wonderously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. And ye shal know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am

the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be CHAPTER ashamed.

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And it shall come to passe afterward, that I will powre out my and future Spirit upon all flesh, and your sonnes and your daughters shall blessings. prophecie, your old men shall dreame dreames, your yong men shall see visions. And also upon the servants, and upon the handmaids in those dayes will I powre out my Spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, blood and fire, and pillars of smoke. The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse, and the Moone into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to passe that whosoever shall call on the Name of the LORD, shall bee delivered: for in mount Zion and in Ierusalem shalbe deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant, whom the LORD shall call.

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OR behold, in those dayes and in that time, when I shall bring Gods iudgeagaine the captivitie of Iudah and Ierusalem, I wil also ments against gather all nations, and will bring them downe into the valley his people. of Iehoshaphat, and wil plead with them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and solde a girle for wine, that they might drinke. Yea and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render mee a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I returne your recompense upon your owne head. Because yee have taken my silver and my gold, and have caried into your temples my goodly pleasant things. The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that yee might remove them farre from their border. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither yee have sold them, and wil returne your recompence upon your owne head. And I will sell your sonnes and your daughters into the hande of the children of Iudah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people farre off, for the LORD hath spoken it.

Proclaime ye this among the gentiles: prepare warre, wake up God will be the mightie men, let all the men of warre draw neere, let them knowen in his iudgement. come up. Beate your plowe shares into swords, and your pruning hookes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong. Assemble your selves, and come all ye heathen, and gather your selves together round about: thither cause thy mightie ones to come 4: QQ

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CHAPTER downe, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Iehoshaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe, come, get you downe, for the presse is full, the fats overflowe, for the wickednesse is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the LORD is neere in the valley of decision. The Sunne and the Moone shall be darkened, and the starres shall withdraw their shining. The LORD also shal roare out of Zion, and utter his voice from Ierusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake, but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy Mountaine: then shall Ierusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers passe through her any more.

His blessing upon the Church.

And it shall come to passe in that day, that the mountaines shal drop downe new wine, and the hils shall flow with milke, and all the rivers of Iudah shall flow with waters, and a fountaine shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wildernes, for the violence against the children of Iudah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. But Iudah shall dwell for ever, and Ierusalem from generation to generation. For I wil cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Amos sheweth Gods iudgement upon

Syria,

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HE wordes of Amos, who was among the heardmen of Tekoa, which hee sawe concerning Israel, in the daies of Uzziah King of Iudah, and in the dayes of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash king of Israel, two yere before the earthquake. And he said, The LORD will roare from Zion, and utter his voice from Ierusalem: and the habitations of the shepheards shall mourne, and the top of Carmel shall wither. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they have threshed

Gilead, with threshing instruments of yron.
But I will send a fire
into the house of Hazael, which shall devoure the palaces of
Benhadad. I wil breake also the barre of Damascus, and cut off
the inhabitant from the plaine of Aven: and him that holdeth the
scepter from the house of Eden, and the people of Syria shall goe
into captivitie, unto Kir, saith the LORD.

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Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Gaza, and for upon foure I will not turne away the punishment thereof: because they Philistines, caried away captive the whole captivitie, to deliver them up to Edom. But I wil send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devoure the palaces thereof. And I wil cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and I wil turne mine hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.

Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for upon Tyrus, foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they delivered up the whole captivitie to Edom, and remembred not the brotherly covenant. But I wil send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devoure the palaces thereof.

Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Edom, and for upon Edom, foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof, because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pitie, and his anger did teare perpetually, and kept his wrath for ever. But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devoure the palaces of Bozrah.

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Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of the children of upon Ammon. Ammon, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof; because they have ript up the women with childe of Gilead, they might enlarge their border. But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devoure the palaces thereof, with showting in the day of battell, with a tempest in the day of the whirlewinde. And their king shall goe into captivitie, hee, and his princes together, sayth the LORD.

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HUS sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Moab, and Gods wrath for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, against Moab, because hee burnt the bones of the King of Edom into

lime. But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: and I will cut off the iudge