A lamentation for her.

Before Chrift 787.

d Chap. 6.12.

• Job 9. 3. & 38.31.

f Chap.

9.6. g Chap. 4.13.

+ Heb. Spoil.

21.

Ifai. 29.

CHAP. V.

2 The virgin of Ifrael is fallen, the fhall no more rife: fhe is forfaken upon her land, there is none to raise her up.

3 For thus faith the Lord GOD, The city that went out by a thousand, fhall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred, fhall leave ten to the house of Ifrael.

4 For thus faith the LORD unto the house of Ifrael, Seek ye me, and ye fhall live.

5 But feek not a Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to b Beer-fheba: for Gilgal Thall furely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

6 Seek the LORD and ye fhall live, left he break out like fire in the houfe of Jofeph and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteoufnefs in the earth,

8 Seek him that maketh the e feven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night that calleth for the waters of the fea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the LORD is his name:

9 That ftrengthneth the +fpoiled against the ftrong; fo that the fpoiled fhall come against the fortress.

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10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that fpesketh uprightly.

11 Forafmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of Deut. 28. wheat; ye have built houses of hewn ftone, have built houfes of hewn ftone, but ye fhall not dwell in them: ye have planted +plcafant vineyards, but ye fhall not drink wine

38,39. Zeph. I. 13. Hag. 1. 6. + Heb. vineyards

of them.

12 For I know your manifold tranfgreffions, of defire and your mighty fins: they afflict the juft, they take a bribe, and they turn afide the poor in Tansom. the gate from their right.

|| Or,

13 Therefore the prudent fhall keep filence in that time, for it is an evil time.

/ Pfal. 34. 14 Seek good and not evil, that ye may live: 14.& 97. and fo the LORD the God of hofts fhall be with Rom. 12. you, as ye have spoken.

10.

9.

m Exod.

32.30.

2 King.

19.4.

Joel 2. 14.

15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: m it may be that the LORD God of hofts will be gracious unto the remnant of Jofeph,

God rejetteth their fer vice.

16 Therefore the LORD the God of hofts, Betore Christ the Lord faith thus, Wailing shall be in all ftreets, and they fhall fay in all the high-ways, Alas, 787.. alas and they fhall call the husbandman to mourning, and a fuch as are skilful of lamenta- » Jer. 9. tion to wailing.

n

17.

• Exod.

17 And in all vineyards fhall be wailing: for I will pafs through thee, faith the LORD. 18 PWo unto you that defire the day of the 12. 12. LORD: to what end is it for you? the day the LORD is darkness and not light.

p Ifai. 5.

of 19.

Jer. 17.15. & 30.7. a Joel 2.2. and Zeph. I. bit 2 Pet. 3. 4.

19 9 As if a man did flee from a lion, and bear met him; or went into the house, leaned his hand on the wall, and a ferpent him.

20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darknefs, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

15.

9 Jer, 48. 44.

Ifai. 1.

II.

i Jer. 6.20.

21 I hate, I defpife your feaft-days, and s I will not fmell in your folemn affemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt-offerings, and Lev. 26. your meat-offerings, I will not accept them: or, neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your mell your fat beafts.

31.

holy-days.

Or,

23 Take thou away from me the noife of thy shankfongs, for I will not hear the melody of thy fferings." viols.

24 But let judgment † run down as waters + Heb. and righteoufnefs as a mighty stream.

t

Toll. "

42.

25 Have ye offered unto me facrifices and Ads 7. offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house See Ifai. of Ifrael?

42.43.

Before out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst Christ of the ftall;

787. 5 iThat chant to the found of the viol, and invent to themselves inftruments of mufick, k like David;

9, 12. #Or, quavit.

1 Chron. 23.5. in bowls of wine. Gen. 37.

25. + Heb. reach.

m Jer. 51.

34. Hebr. 6. 13, 17.

+ Heb. the fulness thereof.

6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: 'but they are not grieved for the affliction of Jofeph.

7 Therefore now fhall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves, fhall be removed.

8 m The Lord God hath fworn by himself, faith the LORD the God of hofts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city, with tall that is therein.

9 And it fhall come to pafs, if there remain ten men in one houfe, that they fhall die.

10 And a mans uncle fhall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall fay unto him that is by the fides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? Chap. and he shall fay, No: then shall he fay, " Hold thy tongue; for we may not make mention

5.13.

• Chap.
8.3.
Or,

they will

not, or,

have not, Or, droppings.

of the name of the LORD.

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11 For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will fmite the great houfe with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

12 Shall horfes run upon the rock? will Hof.10. one plow there with oxen? for P ye have turned Chap. 5. 7. judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock.

Or, valley.

*நெ. green SOFTMS.

19.

13 Ye which rejoyce in a thing of nought, which fay, Have we not taken to us horns by our own ftrength?

14 But behold, I will raife up against you a nation, O houfe of Ifrael, faith the LORD the God of hofts, and they shall afflict you from the entring in of Hemath, unto the river of the wildernefs.

CHAP. VII.

I

1 The judgments of the grafhoppers, 3 and of the fire, are diverted by the prayer of Amos. 7 By the wall of a plumb-line is fignified the rejection of Ifrael. 10 Amaziah complaineth of Amos. 14 Amos fbeweth his calling, 16 and Amaziahs judġment. Hus hath the Lord GOD fhewed unto me,

Tand behold, he formed || grafhoppers in the beginning of the fhooting up of the latter growth, and lo, it was the latter growth after the kings mowings.

2 And it came to pafs, that when they had Ifai. 57. made an end of eating the grafs of the land, Or, then I faid, O Lord GOD, Forgive, I beseech who of for thee; by whom fhall Jacob arife? for he is for) Farb Ball fund i fmall

3

Her rejection fignified.

b The LORD repented for this: It fhall Before not be, faith the LORD.

Chrift

Jonah

3. 10.

4 Thus hath the Lord GOD fhewed unto, 787. me, and behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

5 Then faid I, O Lord GOD, cease, I befeech thee; by whom fhall Jacob arise? for hee verf. 2. is fmall.

6 The LORD repented for this: This allo fhall not be, faith the Lord GOD.

7 Thus he fhewed me, and behold the Lord ftood upon a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

8 And the LORD faid unto me, Amos, what feeft thou? and I faid,. A plumb-line. Then faid the Lord, Behold, I will fet a plumb-line d See in the midst of my people Ifrael, I will not again pafs by them any more.

16 Now therefore hear thou the word of wild figs. the LORD: thou fayeft, Prophefie not against from behind. of Ifaac. Ifrael, and drop not thy word against the house. Ezek. 17 P Therefore thus faith the LORD, 9 Thy? See Jer. wife fhall be an harlot in the city, and thy fons 29. 21, 25 and thy daughters fhall fall by the fword, and Hof. 4. thy land shall be divided by line: and thou fhalt die in a polluted land, and Ifrael fhall furely go into captivity forth of his land.

CHAP. VI.

1 By a basket of fummer-fruit, is fewed the propin

Oppreffion reproved.

Before

Christ famine of the word threatned.

787.

TH

Hus hath the Lord God fhewed unto me,
a
and behold, a basket of summer-fruit.

2 And he faid, Amos, what feeft thou? and I said, A basket of fummer-fruit. Then faid the a Ezek. LORD unto me, The end is come upon my 7.2. I will not again pass by them 7.8.

Chap. people of Ifrael,

+ Heb. Shall howl.

any more.

3 And the fongs of the temple + fhall be howlings in that day, faith the Lord GOD: there Chap. fhall be many dead bodies in every place, they 6.9, 10. fhall caft them forth + with filence. + Heb. be filent.

d Prov. 30.14.

Or, month.

e

c

4 Hear this, O ye that dfwallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, when will the new-moon be Neh. 13. gone, that we may fell corn? and the fabbath, that we may fet forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the fhekel great, and falfiMic.6. fying the balances by deceit ?

15,16.

+ Heb. pen.

10.

+ Heb.

6 That we may buy the poor for 8 filver, and perverting the needy for a pair of fhoes; yea, and fell the the balances refuse of the wheat?

of deceit. Hof, 12.7.

g Chap. 2.6.

Chap. 6.8.

9.5.

8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein ? and it fhall rife up wholly as a flood; and it shall be Chap. caft out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 791. 9 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, faith Jobs. the Lord GOD, * that I will caufe the fun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the 10.& 59. clear day. 9.10, Jer. 15.9.

14.

Ifai. 13.

m Ifaiah 15.2.

10

k

And I will turn your feasts into mourn Tobit. ing, and all your fongs into lamentation, and 2.6. I will bring up fackcloth upon all loyns, and baldnefs upon every head: and I will make it head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only fun, and the end thereof a bitter day.

Jer. 48.37. Ezek. 7.

1.8.

■ Jer.6. 26.

11 Behold, the days come, faith the Lord Zech. 12. GOD, that I will fend a famine in the land, not Sam. a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

3. I. Pfal. 74-9.

12 And they fhall wander from fea to fea, and from the north even to the east, they fhall Hof.4, run to and fro to feek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

35. Deut. 9.

21.

+ Heb. way. See A&s 9.2.& 18. 25.& 19. 9,23.

14 They that P fwear by 9 the fin of Samaria, and fay, Thy God, O Dan, liveth, and the manner of Beer-fheba liveth; even they shall Chap. fall, and never rife up again. CHA P. IX.

my name is called.