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noyes@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of Jehovah, which came to Hoses, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.

noyes@Hosea:1:2 @ The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. Jehovah said to Hosea: Go, and take thee a wife of lewdness, and children of lewdness; for the land hath committed great lewdness; it is false to Jehovah.

noyes@Hosea:1:3 @ So he went, and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.

noyes@Hosea:1:4 @ And Jehovah said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will bring the kingdom of the house of Israel to an end.

noyes@Hosea:1:5 @ Yea, in that day will I break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

noyes@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Unpitied; for I will no more have pity upon the house of Israel, but will surely take them away.

noyes@Hosea:1:7 @ But upon the house of Judah will I have pity, and will save them by Jehovah their God; I will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

noyes@Hosea:1:8 @ Then she weaned her daughter Unpitied, and conceived, and bore a son.

noyes@Hosea:1:9 @ And God said, Call his name Not–my–people. For ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

noyes@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured, or numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall it be said to them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

noyes@Hosea:1:11 @ Then shall the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel be gathered together, and shall appoint to themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land. For great shall be the day of Jezreel.

noyes@Hosea:2:1 @ Call ye your brethren My–people; and your sisters Pitied.

noyes@Hosea:2:2 @ Contend ye with your mother, contend! For she is not my wife, Nor am I her husband; That she put away lewdness from her face, And adultery from her breasts, Lest I strip her naked, And expose her, as when she was born;

noyes@Hosea:2:3 @ Lest I make her as the desert, and like a parched land, And kill her with thirst.

noyes@Hosea:2:4 @ Upon her sons also I will not have pity, For they are the sons of lewdness.

noyes@Hosea:2:5 @ For their mother hath been guilty of lewdness; She that bore them hath brought upon herself shame; For she said, I will go after my lovers, Who give me my food and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my strong drink.

noyes@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will enclose her with a wall, So that she shall not find her paths.

noyes@Hosea:2:7 @ When she followeth after her lovers, she shall not overtake them; When she seeketh them, she shall not find them. Then shall she say, I will go back to my former husband, For then it was better with me than now.

noyes@Hosea:2:8 @ For she did not consider that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, And multiplied silver unto her, And gold, of which they made images of Baal.

noyes@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore will I take back my corn in its time, And my new wine in its season, And I will take away my wool and my flax, Which covered her nakedness.

noyes@Hosea:2:10 @ And now will I reveal her shame before the eyes of her lovers, And none shall deliver her out of my hand.

noyes@Hosea:2:11 @ And I will cause all her joy to cease; Her feasts, and new moons, and sabbaths, And all her festal days.

noyes@Hosea:2:12 @ I will destroy her vines, and her fig–trees, Of which she said, These are my hire, Which my lovers have given me; And I will make them a forest, And the wild beasts shall eat them.

noyes@Hosea:2:13 @ I will punish her for the days of the Baals, When she burned incense to them, And decked herself with her rings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Hosea:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And will lead her to the desert, And will speak kindly to her;

noyes@Hosea:2:15 @ And thence will I give her her vineyards, And the valley of Achor for a door of hope; And there shall she sing, as in the days of her youth! As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

noyes@Hosea:2:16 @ At that time, saith Jehovah, Thou shalt call me, MY HUSBAND; Thou shalt no more call me, MY BAAL;

noyes@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will take away the name of the Baals out of her mouth, And their name shall no more be uttered.

noyes@Hosea:2:18 @ At that time will I make for them a covenant With the beasts of the forest, and with the birds of heaven, And with the creeping things of the ground. The bow and the sword and the battle will I break from the land, And I will cause them to lie down in safety.

noyes@Hosea:2:19 @ I will betroth thee to me forever; Yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in justice, And in kindness, and in tender love.

noyes@Hosea:2:20 @ Yea, I will betroth thee to me in faithfulness, And thou shalt know Jehovah.

noyes@Hosea:2:21 @ At that time will I hear, saith Jehovah; I will hear the heavens; And they shall hear the earth,

noyes@Hosea:2:22 @ And the earth shall hear the corn, and the new wine, and the oil, And they shall hear Jezreel.

noyes@Hosea:2:23 @ And I will plant her for myself in the land; And I will have pity upon her that was called Unpitied; And I will say to them called Not–my–people, Thou art my people; And they shall say, Thou art my God.

noyes@Hosea:3:1 @ And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman that is loved by another, and is an adulteress; even as Jehovah loveth the sons of Israel, who turn themselves to other gods, and love raisin–cakes.

noyes@Hosea:3:2 @ So I bought her for me for fifteen shekels of silver, and a homer and a half of barley.

noyes@Hosea:3:3 @ And I said to her, Thou shalt wait for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be with any man; so will I also wait for thee.

noyes@Hosea:3:4 @ For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim.

noyes@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward shall the sons of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and turn with fear to Jehovah and his goodness in future times.

noyes@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel! For Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; For there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

noyes@Hosea:4:2 @ Perjury, and falsehood, and murder, And theft, and adultery have broken forth, And blood reacheth to blood.

noyes@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore shall the land mourn, And every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, Together with the beasts of the forest, and the birds of heaven; Yea, even the fishes of the sea shall perish.

noyes@Hosea:4:4 @ Yet let no man rebuke, and let no man reprove; For thy people are like those that contend with the priest,

noyes@Hosea:4:5 @ Therefore shalt thou Fall by day, And the prophet shall fall with thee by night, And I will destroy thy mother.

noyes@Hosea:4:6 @ My people is destroyed for lack of knowledge; Since thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, so that thou shalt no more be my priest; Since thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

noyes@Hosea:4:7 @ As they have become great, so have they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

noyes@Hosea:4:8 @ They feed upon the sins of my people, And incline their hearts to their iniquity.

noyes@Hosea:4:9 @ And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; I will punish them for their ways, And requite them for their doings.

noyes@Hosea:4:10 @ They shall eat and shall not be satisfied; They shall commit fornication, and shall not increase, For they have left off giving heed to Jehovah.

noyes@Hosea:4:11 @ Fornication and wine and new wine take away the understanding;

noyes@Hosea:4:12 @ My people ask counsel of their stocks, And their staff revealeth to them. For the spirit of fornication causeth them to err; Yea, they commit fornication, forsaking their God.

noyes@Hosea:4:13 @ On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, And on the hills they burn incense, Under the oak, and the poplar, and the terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters commit fornication, And your daughters–in–law commit adultery;

noyes@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not punish your daughters, when they commit fornication, Nor your daughters–in–law, when they commit adultery; For ye yourselves go aside with harlots, And sacrifice with prostitutes; Therefore the people that hath not understanding shall fall.

noyes@Hosea:4:15 @ Though thou play the harlot, O Israel, Yet let not Judah offend! Come ye not to Gilgal, Neither go ye up to Bethaven. And swear ye not, saying, As Jehovah liveth!

noyes@Hosea:4:16 @ For like a refractory heifer is Israel become refractory, Therefore will Jehovah feed them, like a lamb in a wide place.

noyes@Hosea:4:17 @ Ephraim is joined to idols; Let him alone!

noyes@Hosea:4:18 @ When their carousal is over, They give themselves up to lasciviousness; Their rulers love shame.

noyes@Hosea:4:19 @ The wind hath bound them up with its wings, And they shall be brought to shame on account of their sacrifices.

noyes@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear ye this, O ye priests, And hearken, O house of Israel, And give ear, O house of the king! For judgment is coming upon you, Because ye have been a snare at Mizpah, And an outspread net upon Tabor.

noyes@Hosea:5:2 @ By their sacrifices they commit deep transgression, And I will bring chastisement upon them all.

noyes@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For thou committest fornication, O Ephraim, And Israel is defiled.

noyes@Hosea:5:4 @ They will not frame their doings To return to their God; For a spirit of fornication is within them, And they have no regard to Jehovah.

noyes@Hosea:5:5 @ The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

noyes@Hosea:5:6 @ With their flocks and with their herds shall they go to seek Jehovah, And shall not find him; He hath withdrawn himself from them.

noyes@Hosea:5:7 @ They have been false to Jehovah, For they have begotten strange children; Now shall the new moon consume them with their possessions.

noyes@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the trumpet in Gibeah, And the cornet in Ramah; Cry aloud at Bethaven! Look behind thee, O Benjamin!

noyes@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel do I make known what is sure.

noyes@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Judah are like them that remove the land mark; I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

noyes@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim is oppressed; he is crushed with punishment, Because he willingly walked after the decree.

noyes@Hosea:5:12 @ I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as rottenness to the house of Judah.

noyes@Hosea:5:13 @ When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, And Judah sent to the hostile king; But he will not be able to heal you, Nor will he cure you of your wound.

noyes@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear, and will depart; I will take away, and none shall rescue.

noyes@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go back to my place, Till they have suffered for their sin, and seek my face! In their affliction they will seek me early.

noyes@Hosea:6:1 @ "Come, and let us return to Jehovah! For he hath torn, and he will heal us; He hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

noyes@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days will he revive us, On the third day he will raise us up, And we shall live in his presence,

noyes@Hosea:6:3 @ Let us, therefore, know him; Let us ever strive to know Jehovah, His coming forth is sure as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter rain which watereth the earth."

noyes@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? For your goodness is like the morning cloud, And like the early dew, which vanisheth away.

noyes@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, And my judgments have gone forth like the light.

noyes@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God rather than burnt–offerings.

noyes@Hosea:6:7 @ But they, after the manner of men, have transgressed the covenant; Even therein have they dealt unfaithfully with me.

noyes@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead is a city of them that do iniquity; She is full of footsteps of blood.

noyes@Hosea:6:9 @ As troops of robbers lying in wait for a man, so is the company of priests; They murder in the way to Shechem; Yea, they commit heinous wickedness.

noyes@Hosea:6:10 @ I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; There Ephraim committeth fornication, Israel is polluted.

noyes@Hosea:6:11 @ For thee also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.

noyes@Hosea:7:1 @ When I was about to deliver my people from captivity, When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, And the wickedness of Samaria; For they practise fraud, And the thief entereth in, And the band of robbers spoileth without.

noyes@Hosea:7:2 @ And they think not in their hearts, That I remember all their wickedness. Now shall their doings encompass them; They are before my face.

noyes@Hosea:7:3 @ With their wickedness they gladden the king, And with their falsehoods the princes; All of them are adulterers;

noyes@Hosea:7:4 @ They are as an oven heated by the baker; He ceaseth to stir the fire, Until the dough which he hath kneaded be leavened.

noyes@Hosea:7:5 @ On the feast–day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine, And he stretcheth out his hand with revilers.

noyes@Hosea:7:6 @ For they make ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; All night the baker sleepeth; In the morning it gloweth like a flaming fire.

noyes@Hosea:7:7 @ They all glow as an oven; They have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen; And none among them calleth upon me.

noyes@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim hath mixed himself with the nations; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

noyes@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have devoured his strength, And he knoweth it not; Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, Yet he knoweth it not.

noyes@Hosea:7:10 @ The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Yet do not they return to Jehovah their God, Nor seek him, for all this.

noyes@Hosea:7:11 @ Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding; They call upon Egypt; they go to Assyria.

noyes@Hosea:7:12 @ When they go, I will spread my net over them; As birds of heaven will I bring them down. I will chastise them, as hath been proclaimed in their congregation.

noyes@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them, for they have wandered from me! Destruction upon them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I myself would redeem them, they speak falsely to me.

noyes@Hosea:7:14 @ They cry not to me from their heart, But howl upon their beds; For corn and wine they assemble themselves; They rebel against me.

noyes@Hosea:7:15 @ I have chastened them; I have also strengthened their arms; Yet do they devise evil against me.

noyes@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes shall fall by the sword for the haughtiness of their tongues; This shall be their reproach in the land of Egypt.

noyes@Hosea:8:1 @ Put the trumpet to thy mouth! Like an eagle cometh an enemy against the house of Jehovah, Because they have transgressed my covenant, And have rebelled against my law.

noyes@Hosea:8:2 @ They shall say to me, My God, we know thee, we, thine Israel!

noyes@Hosea:8:3 @ Israel hath cast away what is good; The enemy shall pursue him.

noyes@Hosea:8:4 @ They have set up kings, but not by me; They have made princes, and I knew it not. Of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols, That they may be brought to destruction.

noyes@Hosea:8:5 @ An abomination is thy calf, O Samaria! Mine anger is kindled against them; How long will it be ere they can attain to purity!

noyes@Hosea:8:6 @ For from Israel it came; The workman made it, and it is no God; Yea, into fragments shall the calf of Samaria be broken.

noyes@Hosea:8:7 @ They have sown the wind, And they shall reap the whirlwind. They shall have no standing harvest; The ear shall yield no meal; If perchance it yield, strangers shall devour it.

noyes@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up; Soon shall they become among the nations As a vessel which no one desireth.

noyes@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a solitary wild–ass; Ephraim hireth lovers;

noyes@Hosea:8:10 @ But though they hire among the nations, Soon will I gather the nations against them; Then shall they rest a little while from the burden of their king, and their princes!

noyes@Hosea:8:11 @ Ephraim hath built many altars for sin, Therefore shall he have altars for sin.

noyes@Hosea:8:12 @ Though I write for him many laws, They are accounted as a strange thing;

noyes@Hosea:8:13 @ As to the sacrifices which they should offer me, they slay flesh and eat it; Jehovah hath no pleasure in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, And punish their sins; To Egypt shall they return.

noyes@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces, And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities; But I will send a fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.

noyes@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, Exult not, like the nations! For thou committest fornication, forsaking thy God! Thou lovest hire on every corn–floor.

noyes@Hosea:9:2 @ The floor and the vat shall not feed them, And the new wine shall deceive them.

noyes@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; To Egypt shall Ephraim go back, And eat unclean things in Assyria.

noyes@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, Nor shall their sacrifices please him; They shall be to them as the bread of mourners; All that eat thereof shall be polluted. Their bread shall be for their own hunger; It shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

noyes@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do in the festal day, In the day of the feast of Jehovah?

noyes@Hosea:9:6 @ For, behold, they go forth from a wasted land; Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them; The precious places of their silver, Nettles shall possess them; Thorns shall spring up in their habitations.

noyes@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of visitation are come; The days of retribution are come–– Israel shall know that the prophet was foolish, That the man of the spirit was mad–– For the greatness of‘ thy iniquity, and thy great hatred.

noyes@Hosea:9:8 @ If Ephraim seek an answer from my God, The prophet is as the snare of the fowler in all his ways, A net in the house of his God.

noyes@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity; He will requite their sins.

noyes@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; As the early fruit on the fig–tree, at its first time of bearing, I saw your fathers. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to shame, And had abominable idols according to their love.

noyes@Hosea:9:11 @ The glory of Ephraim shall fly away as a bird; They shall not bring forth, nor bear in the womb, nor conceive;

noyes@Hosea:9:12 @ Yea, if they bring up children, I will utterly bereave them; Yea, woe to them when I depart from them!

noyes@Hosea:9:13 @ I have seen Ephraim planted, like Tyre, in a rich pasture, Yet shall Ephraim bring out his children to the murderer.

noyes@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O Jehovah! What wilt thou give them? Give them a miscarrying womb, And dry breasts!

noyes@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal; Yea, there have I hated them for the wickedness of their doings; I will drive them from my house; I will love them no more; All their princes are revolters.

noyes@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is smitten; Their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit; Yea, though they should beget children, I will destroy the beloved fruit of the womb.

noyes@Hosea:9:17 @ My God shall cast them away, Because they have not hearkened to him, And they shall be wanderers among the nations.

noyes@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel is a luxuriant vine, That bringeth forth fruit; But according to the abundance of his fruit hath he abounded in altars; According to the goodness of his land hath he made goodly images.

noyes@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is divided; now shall they suffer for it; He will break down their altars, And destroy their images.

noyes@Hosea:10:3 @ For soon shall they say, We have no king, Because we fear not Jehovah; What can a king do for us?

noyes@Hosea:10:4 @ They utter empty words, Swearing falsely, making covenants, And now judgment springeth up, as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

noyes@Hosea:10:5 @ For the calf of Bethaven shall the inhabitants of Samaria be in fear; Yea, its people shall grieve for it, And its priests shall tremble for it, Because its glory has departed from it.

noyes@Hosea:10:6 @ It shall be carried to Assyria, As a present to the hostile king. Ephraim shall be covered with confusion, And Israel shall be ashamed of his doings,

noyes@Hosea:10:7 @ Samaria shall be brought to destruction; Her king shall be as a twig upon the waters.

noyes@Hosea:10:8 @ The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed; The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! And to the hills, Fall on us!

noyes@Hosea:10:9 @ More than in the days of Gibeah hast thou sinned, O Israel! There they stood; The battle in Gibeah against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them.

noyes@Hosea:10:10 @ Now will I chastise them according to my pleasure, And the nations shall be gathered together against them, When I shall bind them for their two iniquities.

noyes@Hosea:10:11 @ Ephraim is a trained heifer, that loveth to tread out the corn; But I will lay the yoke upon her fair neck; I will cause Ephraim to draw, Judah shall plough, Jacob shall harrow.

noyes@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow for yourselves to righteousness, and ye shall reap according to your piety; Break up your fallow ground; For it is a time to seek Jehovah, Till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

noyes@Hosea:10:13 @ Ye plough wickedness, ye shall reap injustice; Ye shall eat the fruit of falsehood. Because thou trustest in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men,

noyes@Hosea:10:14 @ There shall arise a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Betharbel in the day of battle, When the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

noyes@Hosea:10:15 @ Such things shall Bethel bring upon you Because of your great wickedness. In the morning shall the king of Israel be destroyed.

noyes@Hosea:11:1 @ When Israel was a child, I loved him, And called my son out of Egypt,

noyes@Hosea:11:2 @ But they turned away from those that called them. They sacrificed to images of Baal; They burned incense to idols.

noyes@Hosea:11:3 @ I helped Ephraim to go, Yea, I took them up in my arms; Yet they marked not that I healed them.

noyes@Hosea:11:4 @ I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I was to them as those who lift up the yoke from their jaws; I dealt gently with them, and gave them food.

noyes@Hosea:11:5 @ They shall no more go down to Egypt; For the Assyrian shall be their king, Because they refuse to return to me.

noyes@Hosea:11:6 @ The sword shall fall upon their cities, It shall consume their bars, and devour Because of their devices.

noyes@Hosea:11:7 @ For my people persevere in turning away from me; Though they are called to the Most High, None will exalt him.

noyes@Hosea:11:8 @ How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I abandon thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is changed within me; Yea, my compassion is kindled.

noyes@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in the midst of thee, And I will not come in anger.

noyes@Hosea:11:10 @ They shall walk after Jehovah, when he shall roar like a lion, When he shall roar, then shall their sons hasten from the west;

noyes@Hosea:11:11 @ They shall hasten as a bird from Egypt, And as a dove from the land of Assyria, And I will place them in their houses, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Hosea:11:12 @ Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, And the house of Israel with deceit; Judah also is inconstant toward God, Toward the holy and faithful one.

noyes@Hosea:12:1 @ Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind; Every day he multiplieth falsehood and violence; They make a league with Assyria, And oil is carried into Egypt.

noyes@Hosea:12:2 @ Therefore Jehovah hath a controversy with Judah. And he will punish Jacob for his ways, And requite him according to his doings.

noyes@Hosea:12:3 @ In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his strength he contended with God;

noyes@Hosea:12:4 @ Yea, he contended with the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. At Bethel he found him, And there he spake with us.

noyes@Hosea:12:5 @ And Jehovah, the God of hosts, Jehovah is his name.

noyes@Hosea:12:6 @ Therefore turn thou to thy God; Observe mercy and justice, And hope in thy God always!

noyes@Hosea:12:7 @ He is a Canaanite; in his hands are the balances of deceit; He loveth to oppress.

noyes@Hosea:12:8 @ Yet Ephraim saith, Lo, I have become rich; I have found myself substance; In all my earnings can be found no transgression in which there is guilt.

noyes@Hosea:12:9 @ Yet I, Jehovah, have been thy God from the land of Egypt; I will again cause thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

noyes@Hosea:12:10 @ I have also spoken to the prophets, And I have given many visions, And by the prophets I have used similitudes.

noyes@Hosea:12:11 @ Behold, Gilead is full of iniquity; Surely they have become corrupt; In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen, And their altars are like the heaps in the furrows of the field.

noyes@Hosea:12:12 @ Jacob fled into the country of Syria, And Israel served for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.

noyes@Hosea:12:13 @ By a prophet Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet was he preserved.

noyes@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim hath provoked his Lord most bitterly; Therefore will he leave his blood upon him, And recompense to him his reproach.

noyes@Hosea:13:1 @ Once when Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; But he offended through Baal, and died.

noyes@Hosea:13:2 @ And now they sin more and more, And have made to themselves molten images; Of their silver by their skill have they made idols; All of it is the work of artificers. They say concerning them, Whoever will sacrifice, let him kiss the calves!

noyes@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore shall they be as the morning cloud, And as the early dew, which passeth away; As chaff driven with a whirlwind from the thrashing–floor, And as smoke from the chimney.

noyes@Hosea:13:4 @ Yet I, Jehovah, have been thy God from the land of Egypt, And thou hast known no God but me; Yea, there was no saviour besides me.

noyes@Hosea:13:5 @ I cared for thee in the desert, In the land of great drought.

noyes@Hosea:13:6 @ As they were fed, so they were filled; They were filled, and their heart was lifted up; Therefore they forgot me.

noyes@Hosea:13:7 @ Therefore have I become to them as a lion; As a leopard I watch for them in the way;

noyes@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, And I will rend the caul of their heart, And there will I devour them as a lioness; The wild beast shall tear them.

noyes@Hosea:13:9 @ It hath been thy destruction, O Israel, That against me, against thy help, thou hast rebelled!

noyes@Hosea:13:10 @ Where is now thy king? Let him save thee in all thy cities! And where thy judges, In regard to whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes!

noyes@Hosea:13:11 @ I gave thee a king in mine anger, And I have taken him away in my wrath;

noyes@Hosea:13:12 @ the iniquity of Ephraim is treasured up; His guilt is laid up in store.

noyes@Hosea:13:13 @ The pangs of a travailing woman shall come upon him; He is an unwise son, For else would he not tarry long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

noyes@Hosea:13:14 @ I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death; O death, where is thy plague? O grave, where is thy destruction? Repentance is hidden from mine eyes.

noyes@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he be fruitful among his brethren, An east wind shall come, A wind of Jehovah shall come up from the desert, And his spring shall become dry, And his fountain shall be dried up, And the treasure of all his pleasant vessels shall be spoiled.

noyes@Hosea:13:16 @ Samaria shall suffer for her guilt, For she hath rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword; Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child shall be ripped up.

noyes@Hosea:14:1 @ Return, O Israel, to Jehovah thy God; For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

noyes@Hosea:14:2 @ Take with you words, And return to Jehovah, saying, "Forgive all our iniquity, and receive us graciously, And we will render to thee the sacrifices of our lips!

noyes@Hosea:14:3 @ Assyria shall not help us; We will not ride on horses; And no more will we say to the work of our hands, Ye are our Gods! For from thee the fatherless obtaineth mercy."

noyes@Hosea:14:4 @ "I will heal their rebellion; I will love them freely; For my anger is turned away from them.

noyes@Hosea:14:5 @ I will be as the dew to Israel; He shall blossom as the lily, And strike his roots like Lebanon.

noyes@Hosea:14:6 @ His sprouts shall spread forth, And his beauty shall be as the olive–tree, And his fragrance as Lebanon.

noyes@Hosea:14:7 @ They that dwell under his shadow Shall revive as the corn; They shall shoot forth as the vine; Their name shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

noyes@Hosea:14:8 @ Ephraim shall say, What have I more to do with idols? I will hear him; I will care for him; I will be like a green cypress–tree; From me shall thy fruit be found."

noyes@Hosea:14:9 @ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, Prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, And the righteous walk in them; But in them transgressors stumble.

noyes@Joel:1:1 @ The word of Jehovah, which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

noyes@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, ye old men; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land! Hath such a thing happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?

noyes@Joel:1:3 @ Tell ye your children of it, And let your children tell their children, And their children another generation!

noyes@Joel:1:4 @ That which the gnawing–locust left hath the swarming–locust eaten, And that which the swarming–locust left hath the licking–locust eaten, And that which the licking–locust left hath the consuming–locust eaten.

noyes@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep! Howl, all ye drinkers of wine, For the new wine, which is snatched from your mouths!

noyes@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation hath come up on my land, Strong, and not to be numbered; Their teeth are the teeth of the lion; They have the jaw–teeth of the lioness.

noyes@Joel:1:7 @ They have made my vine a desolation, And my fig–tree a broken branch; They have made it quite bare and cast it away; The branches thereof are made white.

noyes@Joel:1:8 @ Lament ye, like a bride, Clothed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

noyes@Joel:1:9 @ The flour–offering and the drink–offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; The priests, the servants of Jehovah mourn.

noyes@Joel:1:10 @ The field is laid waste; The ground mourneth, For the corn is laid waste; The new wine is dried up; The oil languisheth.

noyes@Joel:1:11 @ Lament, O ye husbandmen, Howl, O ye vine–dressers, For the wheat and the barley, For the harvest of the field hath perished!

noyes@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is dried up, And the fig–tree languisheth; The pomegranate, the palm–tree, and the apple–tree,––All the trees of the field, are withered; Yea, joy is withered away from the sons of men.

noyes@Joel:1:13 @ Gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn, ye priests! Howl, ye ministers of the altar! Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God, For the flour–offering and the drink–offering are withholden from the house of your God!

noyes@Joel:1:14 @ Appoint ye a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of Jehovah, your God, And cry unto Jehovah!

noyes@Joel:1:15 @ Alas, alas the day! For the day of Jehovah is near; Even as destruction from the Almighty doth it come.

noyes@Joel:1:16 @ Is not our food cut off from before our eyes, Yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

noyes@Joel:1:17 @ The seeds are rotten under their clods, The storehouses are laid desolate, the garners are destroyed; For the corn is withered.

noyes@Joel:1:18 @ How do the beasts groan, How do the herds of oxen wander perplexed, Having no pasture! The flocks of sheep also are destroyed.

noyes@Joel:1:19 @ To thee, O Jehovah, do I call, For a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert, And a flame hath burned all the trees of the field!

noyes@Joel:1:20 @ The beasts of the field, also, cry unto thee, For the streams of water are dried up, And a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert!

noyes@Joel:2:1 @ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion; Sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble! For the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is near!

noyes@Joel:2:2 @ A day of darkness, and gloominess, A day of clouds, and thick darkness. As the morning light spreadeth itself upon the mountains, There cometh a numerous people and a strong; Like them there have been none of old time, And after them there shall not be, Even to the years of many generations.

noyes@Joel:2:3 @ 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, nothing escapeth them.

noyes@Joel:2:4 @ Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, And like horsemen do they run;

noyes@Joel:2:5 @ Like rattling chariots they leap on the tops of the mountains; Like the crackling flame of fire, which devoureth stubble; Like a mighty host set in battle array.

noyes@Joel:2:6 @ Before them the people tremble, And all faces gather blackness.

noyes@Joel:2:7 @ They run like mighty men; They climb the wall like warriors; They march every one on his way; They change not their paths.

noyes@Joel:2:8 @ One doth not thrust another; They march every one in his path, And though they rush among weapons, they are not wounded.

noyes@Joel:2:9 @ They run through the city; They run upon the wall; They go up into the houses; They enter in at the windows, like a thief.

noyes@Joel:2:10 @ The earth quaketh before them, And the heavens tremble; The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.

noyes@Joel:2:11 @ Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; For very great is his host; Yea, it is mighty, executing his word; The day of Jehovah is great, and very terrible; Who shall be able to bear it?

noyes@Joel:2:12 @ Yet even now, saith Jehovah, Turn ye to me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning!

noyes@Joel:2:13 @ And rend your hearts, and not your garments, And turn to Jehovah your God, For he is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness, And repenteth of a threatened evil.

noyes@Joel:2:14 @ Who knoweth but he will turn and repent, And leave a blessing behind him, Even a flour–offering and a drink–offering for Jehovah your God.

noyes@Joel:2:15 @ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion; Appoint yea fast; proclaim a solemn assembly!

noyes@Joel:2:16 @ Gather the people; appoint a congregation; Assemble the elders; Gather the children and the sucklings! Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber, And the bride from her nuptial bed!

noyes@Joel:2:17 @ Let the priests, the servants of Jehovah, Weep between the porch and the altar, And say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, And give not thine inheritance to reproach, And to be a by–word to the nations! Why should they say among the nations, Where is their God?

noyes@Joel:2:18 @ Then will Jehovah be zealous for his land, And have compassion on his people,

noyes@Joel:2:19 @ Yea, Jehovah will answer, and say to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, And new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

noyes@Joel:2:20 @ I will remove far from you the northern host, And I will drive it into a dry and desolate land; Its van toward the Eastern sea, And its rear toward the Western sea. And its scent shall come up, And its ill savor shall come up, Because it hath done great things.

noyes@Joel:2:21 @ Fear not, O land, exult and rejoice, For Jehovah hath done great things!

noyes@Joel:2:22 @ Fear not, O ye beasts of the field, For the pastures of the desert spring up, For the tree beareth its fruit; The fig–tree and the vine yield their strength!

noyes@Joel:2:23 @ And, O ye sons of Zion, exult, And rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he giveth you the former rain in just measure, And causeth showers to come down upon you, Even the former rain, and the latter rain, as aforetime.

noyes@Joel:2:24 @ And the threshing–floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

noyes@Joel:2:25 @ And I will restore to you the years Which the swarming–locust hath eaten, The licking–locust, the consuming–locust, and the gnawing–locusts, My great army, which I sent among you.

noyes@Joel:2:26 @ Ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, And praise the name of Jehovah your God, Who hath dealt wondrously with you; And my people shall never be put to shame.

noyes@Joel:2:27 @ Ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am Jehovah, your God, and none else; And my people shall never be put to shame.

noyes@Joel:2:28 @ And it shall come to pass afterward, That I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.

noyes@Joel:2:29 @ Upon the men–servants also, and upon the handmaids, Will I pour out my spirit in those days.

noyes@Joel:2:30 @ And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth; Blood and fire, and pillars of smoke.

noyes@Joel:2:31 @ The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of Jehovah cometh, The great and the terrible day. Then whoever calleth on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered;

noyes@Joel:2:32 @ For upon mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, shall be deliverance, As Jehovah hath spoken; And among the remnant, whom Jehovah shall call.

noyes@Joel:3:1 @ For behold, in those days and at that time, When I shall bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,

noyes@Joel:3:2 @ I will assemble all the nations, And will bring them down it to the valley of Jehoshaphat, And there will I contend with them for my people and inheritance, Israel; Because they scattered them among the nations, And divided my land among themselves.

noyes@Joel:3:3 @ Yea, they cast lots for my people, And gave a boy for a harlot, And sold a damsel for wine to drink.

noyes@Joel:3:4 @ What have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Sidon, And all the borders of Philistia? Will ye retaliate on me? Or will ye do anything against me? Swiftly and speedily will I bring back your doings upon your own head.

noyes@Joel:3:5 @ Ye have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried into your palaces my precious, goodly things;

noyes@Joel:3:6 @ The sons also of Judah, and the sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the Grecians, That ye might remove them far from their border.

noyes@Joel:3:7 @ Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, And I will return your injury upon your own head;

noyes@Joel:3:8 @ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation afar off; For Jehovah hath spoken it.

noyes@Joel:3:9 @ Proclaim ye this among the nations: "Prepare war! Stir up the mighty ones! Let all the warriors draw near; let them come up!"

noyes@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your ploughshares into swords, And your pruning–hooks into spears; Let the weak say, I am strong!

noyes@Joel:3:11 @ Assemble yourselves and come, all ye nations round about; Gather yourselves together! Thither, O Jehovah, bring down thy mighty ones!

noyes@Joel:3:12 @ Let the nations rise and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat! For there will I sit to judge all the nations around.

noyes@Joel:3:13 @ Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; Come and tread, for the wine–press is full; The vats overflow; For their wickedness is great!

noyes@Joel:3:14 @ The multitudes, the multitudes in the valley of judgment! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of judgment.

noyes@Joel:3:15 @ The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.

noyes@Joel:3:16 @ Jehovah also will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and the earth shall shake. But Jehovah will be a refuge to his people! A strong–hold to the sons of Israel.

noyes@Joel:3:17 @ Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; And Jerusalem shall be holy; Strangers shall pass through her no more.

noyes@Joel:3:18 @ In that day shall the mountains drop down new wine, And the hills shall flow with milk. And all the streams of Judah shall flow with water. A fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, That shall water the valley of Shittim.

noyes@Joel:3:19 @ Egypt shall be a waste, And Edom a desolate wilderness, For their violence against the sons of Judah; For they shed innocent blood in their land.

noyes@Joel:3:20 @ But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.

noyes@Joel:3:21 @ And I will avenge their blood, which I have not avenged, And Jehovah will dwell upon Zion.

noyes@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa, which he prophesied concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earth quake. He said:––

noyes@Amos:1:2 @ Jehovah will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; The habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, And the top of Carmel shall wither.

noyes@Amos:1:3 @ Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, will I not turn away its punishment; For they thrashed Gilead with thrashing–wains of iron.

noyes@Amos:1:4 @ I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, Which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

noyes@Amos:1:5 @ I will also break the bar of Damascus, And I will destroy the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, And him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth–Eden, And the people of Syria shall be led captive to Kir: Jehovah hath said it.

noyes@Amos:1:6 @ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, And for four, I will not turn away its punishment; For they led captive all that fell into their hands, And delivered them up to Edom.

noyes@Amos:1:7 @ But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, Which shall devour her palaces.

noyes@Amos:1:8 @ And I will destroy the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; And I will turn my hand against Ekron, And the residue of the Philistines shall perish. The Lord, Jehovah, hath said it.

noyes@Amos:1:9 @ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, And for four, will I not turn away its punishment; Because they delivered up all their captives to Edom, And remembered not the brotherly covenant.

noyes@Amos:1:10 @ But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, Which shall devour her palaces.

noyes@Amos:1:11 @ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, And for four, will I not turn away his punishment; For he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity, And his anger tore perpetually; Yea, he kept his wrath forever.

noyes@Amos:1:12 @ But I will send a fire upon Teman. Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

noyes@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, And for four, will I not turn away their punishment; For they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, That they might enlarge their border.

noyes@Amos:1:14 @ But I will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah, Which shall devour her palaces, Amid the war–shout in the day of battle, In a whirlwind in the day of the storm.

noyes@Amos:1:15 @ Their king shall go into captivity, He and his princes together, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, And for four, will I not turn away his punishment; For he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime!

noyes@Amos:2:2 @ But I will send a fire on Moab, Which shall devour the palaces of Kirioth; And Moab shall die amid tumults, Amid the war–shout, and the sound of the trumpet.

noyes@Amos:2:3 @ I will destroy the judge from the midst of him, And slay all the princes with him, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, And for four, will I not turn away their punishment; For they have despised the law of Jehovah, And have not kept his statutes, And their idols have caused them to err, After which their fathers walked.

noyes@Amos:2:5 @ But I will send a fire upon Judah, Which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

noyes@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, will I not turn away their punishment. For they sell the righteous for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes;

noyes@Amos:2:7 @ They pant for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And pervert the cause of the afflicted. The son and the father go in to the same damsel, To dishonor my holy name.

noyes@Amos:2:8 @ They lay themselves down upon pledged garments Near every altar; And drink wine, procured by fines, In the house of their gods.

noyes@Amos:2:9 @ Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, Who were tall as the cedars, And strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above, And their roots beneath.

noyes@Amos:2:10 @ I brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you in the desert forty years, That ye might possess the land of the Amorite.

noyes@Amos:2:11 @ Of your sons also I raised up prophets, And of your young men Nazarites; Is it not even so, O ye sons of Israel? saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:2:12 @ But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets, Saying, Prophesy not!

noyes@Amos:2:13 @ Behold, I will press you down, As a wagon presseth down that is full of sheaves.

noyes@Amos:2:14 @ And flight shall fail the swift, And the strong shall not exert his strength, And the mighty shall not save his life,

noyes@Amos:2:15 @ And he that handleth the bow shall not stand, And the swift of foot shall not save himself, And the horseman shall not escape with his life.

noyes@Amos:2:16 @ He that is strong in heart among the mighty Shall, in that day, flee away naked, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:3:1 @ Hear these words, which Jehovah speaketh against you, ye sons of Israel; Against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt!

noyes@Amos:3:2 @ You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities.

noyes@Amos:3:3 @ Can two walk together, Unless they agree together?

noyes@Amos:3:4 @ Will the lion roar in the forest, When he seeth no prey? Will the young lion cry aloud from his den, If he have seized nothing?

noyes@Amos:3:5 @ Can a bird fall into a snare upon the earth, Where none is set for him? Will a snare spring up from the ground, When it hath caught nothing?

noyes@Amos:3:6 @ Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, And the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil upon a city, And Jehovah not have done it?

noyes@Amos:3:7 @ Surely the Lord Jehovah doeth nothing, But he revealeth his secret To his servants the prophets.

noyes@Amos:3:8 @ When the lion roareth, who will not fear? When the Lord Jehovah speaketh, who will not prophesy?

noyes@Amos:3:9 @ Proclaim ye, in the palaces in Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, And say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria; Behold the great tumults in the midst of her, And the oppressions within her!

noyes@Amos:3:10 @ For they have no care to do right, saith Jehovah; They treasure up rapine and robbery in their palaces.

noyes@Amos:3:11 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An enemy shall encompass the land. And shall bring down thy strength from thee, And thy palaces shall be plundered.

noyes@Amos:3:12 @ Thus saith Jehovah: As the shepherd taketh out of the lion’s mouth Two legs, or a portion of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be taken out, Who in Samaria sit in the corners of their sofas, And upon their damask couches.

noyes@Amos:3:13 @ Hear ye, and testify to the house of Jacob, Saith the Lord, Jehovah, God of hosts!

noyes@Amos:3:14 @ In the day when I punish the transgressions of Israel, Then will I punish the altars of Bethel; The horns of the altar shall be cut off, And fall to the ground.

noyes@Amos:3:15 @ and I will smite the winter–house together with the summer–house, And the houses of ivory shall be destroyed, And the great houses shall be brought to the ground, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:1 @ Hear these words, O ye kine of Bashan, That are on the mountain of Samaria; That oppress the poor; that crush the needy; That say to your master, Bring, and let us drink!

noyes@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness; Behold, the days shall come upon you When ye shall be taken away with hooks, And your residue with fishing–hooks.

noyes@Amos:4:3 @ And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one right forward, And ye shall be thrown into a castle, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:4 @ Go, now, to Bethel, and transgress; At Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, And your tithes every three years!

noyes@Amos:4:5 @ Burn a thank–offering from your extortions, And proclaim the free–will offerings; publish them abroad! For this is your delight, ye sons of Israel, Saith the Lord, Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:6 @ I also have caused cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And want of bread in all your places; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:7 @ I also have withholden from you the rain three months before the harvest; I have caused it to rain upon one city, And upon another city have I not caused it to rain; One piece of ground hath been rained upon, And another, upon which I have not caused it to rain, hath withered.

noyes@Amos:4:8 @ Two or three cities have gone to one city, To drink water, and have not been satisfied; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:9 @ I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; The locust hath devoured your many gardens, Your vineyards, your fig–trees, and your olive–trees; Yet have ye not returned to me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:10 @ I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I have slain your young men with the sword, And your horses have I led into captivity; I have made the smell of your camps to come up into your nostrils; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:11 @ I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; And ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I deal with thee, O Israel! Yet since I will thus deal with thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel!

noyes@Amos:4:13 @ For behold, he formed the mountains, and created the wind; He declareth to man what is his thought; He maketh the morning darkness, And walketh upon the high places of the earth; Jehovah, God of hosts, is his name.

noyes@Amos:5:1 @ Hear these words, which I utter concerning you; This lamentation, O house of Israel!

noyes@Amos:5:2 @ She is fallen, she shall rise no more, The virgin of Israel! She is prostrate on her own ground, there is none to raise her up!

noyes@Amos:5:3 @ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah; The city which sent out a thousand shall have a hundred left, And that which sent out a hundred shall have ten left, To the house of Israel.

noyes@Amos:5:4 @ For thus saith Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live!

noyes@Amos:5:5 @ Seek not Bethel, And go not to Gilgal, And pass not over to Beersheba! For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity! And Bethel shall come to naught.

noyes@Amos:5:6 @ Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live! Lest he rush like a fire on the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be none to quench it in the house of Israel.

noyes@Amos:5:7 @ Ye who turn justice into wormwood, And cast righteousness down to the ground.

noyes@Amos:5:8 @ Seek him, that made the Pleiades and Orion; That changeth death–like darkness into morning, And darkeneth day into night; That calleth up the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name!

noyes@Amos:5:9 @ Who sendeth sudden destruction upon the strong, And bringeth desolation upon the fortress.

noyes@Amos:5:10 @ They hate him that pleadeth in the gate, And abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

noyes@Amos:5:11 @ Since, then, ye trample upon the poor, And take from him presents of wheat, Though ye build houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; Though ye plant pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine.

noyes@Amos:5:12 @ For I know that your sins are many, And your transgressions manifold, Ye who afflict the righteous, and take a bribe, And oppress the poor in the gate!

noyes@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore the wise man shall be silent at that time, For it shall be an evil time.

noyes@Amos:5:14 @ Seek ye good, and not evil, that ye may live; Then shall Jehovah, the God of hosts, be with you, as ye boast.

noyes@Amos:5:15 @ Hate ye evil, and love good, And establish justice in the gate; It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will have pity upon the remnant of Joseph.

noyes@Amos:5:16 @ Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the streets shall there be wailing, And in all the highways shall they cry, Alas! alas! They shall call the husbandmen to mourning, And those who are skilful in lamentation to wailing,

noyes@Amos:5:17 @ And in all vineyards shall be sounds of woe, For I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:5:18 @ Woe unto them that ask for the day of Jehovah! What is the day of Jehovah to you? It shall be darkness, and not light.

noyes@Amos:5:19 @ As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or went into a house and leaned his hand on a wall, And a serpent bit him;

noyes@Amos:5:20 @ So shall the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light, Even thick darkness, and no brightness in it.

noyes@Amos:5:21 @ I hate, I despise your feasts; I have no delight in your solemn assemblies.

noyes@Amos:5:22 @ When ye offer me burnt–offerings and flour–offerings, I will not accept them; And upon the thank–offerings of your fatlings I will not look.

noyes@Amos:5:23 @ Take ye away from me the noise of your songs, And the music of your harps let me not hear!

noyes@Amos:5:24 @ Let justice flow forth as waters, And righteousness as a mighty stream!

noyes@Amos:5:25 @ Did ye offer me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness, for forty years, O house of Israel?

noyes@Amos:5:26 @ But ye bore the tabernacle of your king, And the shrine of your images, The star of your god, which ye made for yourselves.

noyes@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, Saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts!

noyes@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to them that dwell at ease in Zion; That feel secure upon the mountain of Samaria; The honorable men of the chief of the nations, To whom the house of Israel resort!

noyes@Amos:6:2 @ Pass over to Calneh, and see; And thence go to great Hamath; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines: Are they better than these kingdoms, Or is their border greater than your border?

noyes@Amos:6:3 @ Woe to them, that put far away the day of evil, And bring near the seat of oppression;

noyes@Amos:6:4 @ That lie upon beds of ivory, And stretch themselves upon their couches; That eat lambs from the flock, And calves from the stall;

noyes@Amos:6:5 @ That chant to the sound of the harp, And invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

noyes@Amos:6:6 @ That drink wine in bowls, And anoint themselves with the most precious perfumes, But grieve not for the destruction of Joseph!

noyes@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of the captives; Yea, the shouting of them that stretch themselves upon their couches shall cease.

noyes@Amos:6:8 @ The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, And I hate his palaces; I will give up the city, and all that is therein.

noyes@Amos:6:9 @ And if ten men remain in one house, These also shall die.

noyes@Amos:6:10 @ A man’s relative, or a burner of the dead, shall take him up, To carry his bones out of the house, And he shall say to him that is in the innermost part of the house, Is there yet any one with thee? And he shall answer, No one! Then shall he say, Keep silence! For we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:6:11 @ For behold Jehovah hath commanded, And he will smite the great house with breaches, And the small house with clefts.

noyes@Amos:6:12 @ Shall horses run upon rocks, Or will one plough rocks with oxen, That ye change justice into hemlock, And the fruit of equity into wormwood,

noyes@Amos:6:13 @ Ye that rejoice in a thing of naught, And say, Have we not acquired dominion by our own strength?

noyes@Amos:6:14 @ Behold, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, I will raise against you a nation, That shall oppress you from Hamath Even to the brook of the desert.

noyes@Amos:7:1 @ The Lord Jehovah showed me this vision: Behold, he formed locusts In the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; Behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowing.

noyes@Amos:7:2 @ And when they had devoured the grass of the land, Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob stand? For he is small!

noyes@Amos:7:3 @ Jehovah repented of this; It shall not be, said Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:7:4 @ The Lord Jehovah also showed me this vision: Behold, the Lord Jehovah commanded the fire to execute judgment; And it devoured the great deep, And it devoured the fields.

noyes@Amos:7:5 @ Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, desist, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob stand? For he is small!

noyes@Amos:7:6 @ Jehovah repented of this; This also shall not be, said the Lord Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:7:7 @ He also showed me this vision: Behold, the Lord stood upon a wall, built with a plumb–line, And in his hand was a plumb–line;

noyes@Amos:7:8 @ And Jehovah said to me, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A plumb–line. And the Lord said, Behold I will set a plumb–line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not spare them any more.

noyes@Amos:7:9 @ The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

noyes@Amos:7:10 @ Then sent Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, To Jeroboam, the king of Israel, and said: Amos conspireth against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; The land is not able to bear all his words.

noyes@Amos:7:11 @ For thus hath Amos said: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led captive from their own land.

noyes@Amos:7:12 @ And Amaziah said to Amos, Go, thou seer! flee into the land of Judah! There eat thy bread, and there prophesy!

noyes@Amos:7:13 @ But prophesy no more at Bethel, For it is the king’s sanctuary, And it is the king’s abode.

noyes@Amos:7:14 @ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: I was no prophet, nor the son of a prophet; I was a shepherd, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit.

noyes@Amos:7:15 @ And Jehovah took me from the flock; And Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel!

noyes@Amos:7:16 @ Now, therefore, hear the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, And speak no word against the house of Isaac!

noyes@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith Jehovah: "Thy wife shall be put to shame in the city, And thy sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Thy land shall be divided by the line, And thou shalt die in a polluted land, And Israel shall surely be led captive from his own land."

noyes@Amos:8:1 @ The Lord Jehovah showed me this vision: Behold a basket of ripe fruits!

noyes@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of ripe fruits. Then said Jehovah to me, The destruction of my people Israel is ripe; I will not spare them any more.

noyes@Amos:8:3 @ The songs of the palace shall be shrieks in that day, Saith the Lord Jehovah. There shall be many dead bodies in every place, And they shall be cast forth in silence.

noyes@Amos:8:4 @ Hear this, ye that pant to oppress the needy, And to destroy the poor of the land.

noyes@Amos:8:5 @ That say, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn, And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel heavy, And falsifying the balances for deceit,

noyes@Amos:8:6 @ That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the refuse of the wheat?

noyes@Amos:8:7 @ Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.

noyes@Amos:8:8 @ Shall not the land tremble for this, And shall not all that dwell therein mourn? Shall not all of it rise in waves like a river, And be swept from its place, and overflowed, as by the river of Egypt!

noyes@Amos:8:9 @ It shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And will darken the land in the clear day.

noyes@Amos:8:10 @ I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, And baldness upon all heads. I will fill the land with mourning, as for an only son, And its end shall be as a day of bitter woe.

noyes@Amos:8:11 @ Behold, the time cometh, saith the Lord Jehovah, That I will send a famine upon the land; Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the word of Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:8:12 @ And men shall wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east shall they run to and fro, To seek an answer from Jehovah, and shall not find it.

noyes@Amos:8:13 @ In that day shall the fair virgins, and the young men, faint for thirst,

noyes@Amos:8:14 @ Who swear by the sin of Samaria, And say, By the life of thy God, O Dan! And, By the worship of Beersheba! They shall fall, and shall rise no more!

noyes@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the Lord standing by the altar; and he said: Smite the capital, so that the thresholds shall tremble! Break them in pieces upon the heads of all of them! And their residue will I slay with the sword. He that fleeth of them shall not flee from danger, And he that escapeth of them shall not escape into safety.

noyes@Amos:9:2 @ Though they dig down to the under–world, Thence shall my hand take them; Though they climb up to heaven, Thence will I bring them down.

noyes@Amos:9:3 @ Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, There will I search for them, and take them away; Though they hide themselves from mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, There will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

noyes@Amos:9:4 @ Though they go into captivity before their enemies, There will I command the sword, and it shall slay them; I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

noyes@Amos:9:5 @ For the Lord Jehovah of hosts Is he, that toucheth the earth, and it shall melt, And all that dwell therein shall mourn; All of it shall rise in waves like a river, And shall be overflowed, as by the river of Egypt;

noyes@Amos:9:6 @ He that buildeth his upper rooms in the heavens, And foundeth his arch upon the earth,––That calleth the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth,––Jehovah is his name.

noyes@Amos:9:7 @ Are ye not as the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Did I not bring Israel from the land of Egypt, And the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

noyes@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet will I not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Amos:9:9 @ For, behold, I will command, And I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, As one sifteth corn with a sieve, And not a grain shall fall upon the ground.

noyes@Amos:9:10 @ But all the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, Who say, Evil shall not approach, nor fall upon us.

noyes@Amos:9:11 @ In that day I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David, And I will close up the breaches thereof, And raise up its ruins, And I will build it, as in the days of old.

noyes@Amos:9:12 @ That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations, which shall be called by my name. Thus saith Jehovah, who doeth this.

noyes@Amos:9:13 @ Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That the plougher shall draw near to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the sower of the seed; And the mountains shall drop new wine, And all the hills shall melt.

noyes@Amos:9:14 @ I will bring back the captives of my people Israel, And they shall build the desolate cities, and shall inhabit them; And they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

noyes@Amos:9:15 @ I will plant them in their land, And they shall no more be rooted up from the land which I have given them, Saith Jehovah, thy God.

noyes@Obadiah:1:1 @ The prophecy of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom. We have heard a message from Jehovah, And an ambassador hath been sent among the nations "Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war."

noyes@Obadiah:1:2 @ Behold, I will make thee small among the nations; Thou shalt be greatly despised.

noyes@Obadiah:1:3 @ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high, Who sayest in thine heart, "Who shall bring me down to the ground?"

noyes@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though thou lift thyself up as the eagle, And though thou set thy nest among the stars, Thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Obadiah:1:5 @ If thieves had come upon thee, Or robbers by night, Would they not have ceased stealing when they had enough? How art thou utterly destroyed! If grape–gatherers had come upon thee, Would they not have left gleanings of the grapes?

noyes@Obadiah:1:6 @ How is Esau searched through! How are his hidden places explored!

noyes@Obadiah:1:7 @ All thine allies have brought thee to the border; They that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; They that ate thy bread have spread a snare under thee; There is no understanding in thee.

noyes@Obadiah:1:8 @ In that day, saith Jehovah, I will destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mount of Esau.

noyes@Obadiah:1:9 @ Thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed; Every one shall be cut off from the mount of Esau.

noyes@Obadiah:1:10 @ For slaughter and for oppression of thy brother Jacob shall shame cover thee, And thou shalt be destroyed forever.

noyes@Obadiah:1:11 @ In the day when thou stoodest over against him, In the day when strangers carried away captive his forces, And when foreigners entered his gates, And when they cast lots upon Jerusalem, Thou also wast as one of them.

noyes@Obadiah:1:12 @ But thou shouldst not have looked with delight on the day of thy brother in the day of his calamity; Nor shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction, Nor have spoken haughtily in the day of his distress.

noyes@Obadiah:1:13 @ Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, Nor have looked with delight on their affliction in the day of their calamity, Nor have laid hand on their substance in the day of their calamity,

noyes@Obadiah:1:14 @ Nor have stood in the cross–way to cut off their fugitives, Nor have delivered up those that remained in the day of distress!

noyes@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: As thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee; Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

noyes@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink perpetually, Yea, they shall drink and swallow it down, And they shall be as though they had not been.

noyes@Obadiah:1:17 @ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and it shall be holy; And the house of Jacob shall regain their possessions.

noyes@Obadiah:1:18 @ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau stubble, And they shall kindle them and devour them. And there shall be none remaining of the house of Esau; For Jehovah hath spoken it.

noyes@Obadiah:1:19 @ And they of the south shall possess the mountain of Esau, And they of the plain, the Philistines; And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, And the fields of Samaria; And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

noyes@Obadiah:1:20 @ And the captives of this host of the sons of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites unto Sarepta, And the captives of Jerusalem which are at Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south.

noyes@Obadiah:1:21 @ And saviors shall go up to mount Zion, To rule the mount of Esau. And the kingdom shall be Jehovah’s.

noyes@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of Jehovah came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,

noyes@Jonah:1:2 @ Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

noyes@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish, and paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.

noyes@Jonah:1:4 @ But Jehovah sent forth a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken in pieces.

noyes@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. And they cast forth the things that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down to the lower part of the ship, and he lay and was fast asleep.

noyes@Jonah:1:6 @ And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God! Perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.

noyes@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said one to another, come, and let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil is upon us! And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

noyes@Jonah:1:8 @ Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray thee, on whose account this evil is upon us. What is thy business? And whence comest thou? What is thy country? And of what people art thou?

noyes@Jonah:1:9 @ And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.

noyes@Jonah:1:10 @ Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, Wherefore hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them.

noyes@Jonah:1:11 @ Then said they to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

noyes@Jonah:1:12 @ And he said to them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; and the sea shall be calm to you. For I know that because of me this great tempest is upon you.

noyes@Jonah:1:13 @ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

noyes@Jonah:1:14 @ And they cried to Jehovah, and said, We beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for the life of this man, and lay not upon us innocent blood! For thou, O Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.

noyes@Jonah:1:15 @ And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

noyes@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men feared Jehovah exceedingly, and offered sacrifice to Jehovah, and made vows.

noyes@Jonah:1:17 @ Now Jehovah had appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

noyes@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to Jehovah from the belly of the fish,

noyes@Jonah:2:2 @ and said:–– I cried by reason of my distress to Jehovah, And he heard me: Out of the depth of the under–world I cried, And thou didst hear my voice.

noyes@Jonah:2:3 @ Thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, And the flood compassed me about; All thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

noyes@Jonah:2:4 @ And I said, "I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again to thy holy temple!"

noyes@Jonah:2:5 @ The waters compassed me about, even to the life, The deep enclosed me round about; Sea–weeds were bound around my head;

noyes@Jonah:2:6 @ I sank down to the foundations of the mountains; The bars of the earth were about me forever; Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah, my God!

noyes@Jonah:2:7 @ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah, And my prayer came to thee, To thy holy temple.

noyes@Jonah:2:8 @ They that honor lying vanities forsake their mercy;

noyes@Jonah:2:9 @ But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed; Salvation is from Jehovah.

noyes@Jonah:2:10 @ And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it cast out Jonah upon the dry land.

noyes@Jonah:3:1 @ And the word of Jehovah came to Jonah the second time, saying,

noyes@Jonah:3:2 @ Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to her the words which I shall speak to thee.

noyes@Jonah:3:3 @ And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was through God a great city, three days’ journey in extent.

noyes@Jonah:3:4 @ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

noyes@Jonah:3:5 @ And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

noyes@Jonah:3:6 @ For when the matter came to the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his mantle and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

noyes@Jonah:3:7 @ And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water.

noyes@Jonah:3:8 @ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God. Yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

noyes@Jonah:3:9 @ Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

noyes@Jonah:3:10 @ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way: and God repented of the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

noyes@Jonah:4:1 @ But this displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

noyes@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Ah! Jehovah, was not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? Therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish. For I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in mercy, and that thou repentest of a threatened evil.

noyes@Jonah:4:3 @ And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray thee, my life from me! for it is better for me to die than to live.

noyes@Jonah:4:4 @ And Jehovah said, Is it right that thou shouldst be angry?

noyes@Jonah:4:5 @ Now Jonah had gone out of the city, and had sat on the east side of the city, and had made himself a booth there, and had sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.

noyes@Jonah:4:6 @ And God, Jehovah, appointed a gourd; and it grew up over Jonah to be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his distress. And Jonah was exceedingly glad of the gourd.

noyes@Jonah:4:7 @ But God appointed a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.

noyes@Jonah:4:8 @ And when the sun arose, God appointed a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he was faint, and he asked for himself death, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

noyes@Jonah:4:9 @ And God said to Jonah, Is it right that thou shouldst be angry for the gourd? And he said, It is right that I should be angry even to death.

noyes@Jonah:4:10 @ And Jehovah said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for which thou hast not labored, and which thou madest not to grow, which grew up in a night and perished in a night;

noyes@Jonah:4:11 @ and should not I spare Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?

noyes@Micah:1:1 @ The word of Jehovah, which came to Micah, the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah; which was revealed to him concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

noyes@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, all ye nations, Give ear, O earth, and all that is therein! The Lord, Jehovah, appeareth as a witness against you, The Lord from his holy palace.

noyes@Micah:1:3 @ Behold, Jehovah cometh forth from his dwelling–place; He cometh down, and advanceth upon the high places of the earth.

noyes@Micah:1:4 @ The mountains melt under him, And the valleys cleave asunder, Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.

noyes@Micah:1:5 @ For the transgression of Jacob is all this, And for the sin of the house of Israel. Where is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not at Samaria? And where are the high places of Judah? Are they not at Jerusalem?

noyes@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore will I make Samaria a heap of stones in the field, A place for the planting of a vineyard; I will pour down her stones into the valley, And lay bare her foundations.

noyes@Micah:1:7 @ All her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, And all the hire of her harlotry shall be burned with fire, And all her idols will I destroy. For from the hire of a harlot did she gather her ornaments, And to the hire of a harlot shall they return.

noyes@Micah:1:8 @ Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will wail like the jackal, And mourn like the ostrich.

noyes@Micah:1:9 @ For her wound is mortal; It extendeth to Judah; It reacheth to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

noyes@Micah:1:10 @ Tell it not in Gath! weep not in Acco! In Beth–Aprah roll yourselves in the dust!

noyes@Micah:1:11 @ Pass on, thou inhabitant of Saphir, naked and in shame! The inhabitant of Zaanan no more goeth out; The grief of Beth–Azel denieth you an abode.

noyes@Micah:1:12 @ The inhabitant of Maroth mourneth for his goods, For evil came down from Jehovah to the gates of Jerusalem.

noyes@Micah:1:13 @ Bind the chariot to the courser, O inhabitant of Lachish! Thou wast the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; In thee were found the transgressions of Israel.

noyes@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore shalt thou resign the possession of Moresheth of Gath; The houses of Achzib shall disappoint the kings of Israel.

noyes@Micah:1:15 @ A possessor will I bring to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah; The glory of Israel shall flee to Adullam.

noyes@Micah:1:16 @ Make thyself bald, cut off thy locks, for the children of thy love; Enlarge thy baldness like the eagle; For they have gone from thee into captivity.

noyes@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to them that devise iniquity, And contrive evil upon their beds; When the morning is light, they practise it, Because it is in the power of their hand.

noyes@Micah:2:2 @ They covet fields, and take them by violence; Houses, and take them from their owners. They defraud a man of his house; Yea, a man of his inheritance.

noyes@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this race do I meditate evil. From which ye shall not remove your necks, nor lift up your heads; For it shall be a time of evil.

noyes@Micah:2:4 @ In that day shall this song be uttered concerning thee. And this sad lamentation be made: "We are utterly laid waste; He hath changed the portion of my people; How hath he torn it from me! He hath taken away and distributed our fields."

noyes@Micah:2:5 @ Behold, thou shalt have no one henceforth Who shall draw out a line for a portion, In the congregation of Jehovah.

noyes@Micah:2:6 @ "Prophesy not," "O ye that prophesy!" If they prophesy not concerning these things, The shame will not depart.

noyes@Micah:2:7 @ O ye that are called the house of Jacob, Is the spirit of Jehovah impatient? Are these his doings? Are not my words kind to him that walketh uprightly?

noyes@Micah:2:8 @ But long since hath my people risen against me, as an enemy; Ye strip the mantle from the garment of those that pass by securely, as men returning from war.

noyes@Micah:2:9 @ The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant abodes; Ye deprive their children forever of the glory which I gave them.

noyes@Micah:2:10 @ Arise and depart; This land is not your rest! On account of its pollution shall it be wasted, And given to utter destruction.

noyes@Micah:2:11 @ If a man follow wind, and invent falsehood, and say, "I will prophesy to thee of wine and strong drink!" He will be the prophet for this people.

noyes@Micah:2:12 @ Yet will I fully gather thee, O Jacob, I will surely assemble the residue of Israel! I will put them together like sheep in a fold; Like a flock in their fold shall they be in a tumult on account of the multitude of men.

noyes@Micah:2:13 @ He that forceth a way goeth before them; They force their way, and pass through the gate, And go forth by it; And their king goeth before them, Even Jehovah at the head of them.

noyes@Micah:3:1 @ I also said: Hear, O ye heads of Jacob, And ye leaders of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to administer justice?

noyes@Micah:3:2 @ But ye hate what is good, and love what is evil; Ye tear from men their skin, Yea, their flesh from their bones;

noyes@Micah:3:3 @ Ye devour the flesh of my people, And strip them of their skin, And break their bones, And cut them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh for the caldron?

noyes@Micah:3:4 @ Then shall they cry to Jehovah, But he will not hear them; Yea, at that time will he hide his face from them, Because they have done iniquity.

noyes@Micah:3:5 @ Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets, who deceive my people, Who, while they bite with their teeth, proclaim peace, But who, if one fill not their mouths, prepare war against him:

noyes@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore shall night come upon you, so that ye shall have no vision, And darkness, so that ye shall not divine; The sun shall go down upon the prophets, And the day shall be dark to them.

noyes@Micah:3:7 @ Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded, So that all of them shall hide their faces, Because there is no answer from God.

noyes@Micah:3:8 @ But I am full of power, even of the spirit of Jehovah; Full of uprightness and courage, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

noyes@Micah:3:9 @ O hear this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, And ye leaders of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all equity,

noyes@Micah:3:10 @ Who build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity!

noyes@Micah:3:11 @ Her heads judge for reward, And her priests teach for hire, And her prophets divine for money, And yet they lean upon Jehovah, saying, "Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us."

noyes@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore because of you shall Zion be ploughed as a field, And Jerusalem become heaps of stones, And the mountain of the temple like the heights of a forest.

noyes@Micah:4:1 @ But it shall come to pass in the last days That the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established at the head of the mountains, And exalted above the hills; And the nations shall flow to it.

noyes@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall go, saying, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, To the house of the God of Jacob, That he may teach us his ways, And that we may walk in his paths!" For from Zion shall go forth a law, And the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

noyes@Micah:4:3 @ He shall be a judge of many nations, And an umpire of many kingdoms afar off. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, And their spears into pruning–hooks; Nation shall not lift up the sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.

noyes@Micah:4:4 @ But they shall sit every one under his vine, And under his fig–tree, And none shall make them afraid; The mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.

noyes@Micah:4:5 @ Though all the nations walk every one in the name of its God, Yet will we walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.

noyes@Micah:4:6 @ In that day, saith Jehovah, I will gather the halting, And the far scattered I will assemble, And those whom I have afflicted.

noyes@Micah:4:7 @ I will make the halting a remnant, And the far scattered a strong nation; And Jehovah shall reign over them in mount Zion, Henceforth, even forever.

noyes@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, O tower of the flock, O hill of the daughter of Zion, to thee it shall come, To thee shall come the former dominion, Even the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

noyes@Micah:4:9 @ And now why dost thou cry aloud? Is there no king within thee? Have thy counsellors perished, That pangs have taken hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

noyes@Micah:4:10 @ Yea, writhe, and be in anguish, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail! For now shalt thou go forth from the city, and dwell in the field; Thou shalt go even to Babylon; Yet there shalt thou be delivered. Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

noyes@Micah:4:11 @ Now many nations gather themselves against thee, Who say, Let her be polluted, And let our eyes gaze upon Zion!

noyes@Micah:4:12 @ But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, And understand not his purposes; For he gathereth them as sheaves into the thrashing–floor.

noyes@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thrash, O daughter of Zion! For I will make thy horns iron, And thy hoofs brass; Thou shalt beat in pieces many nations, And thou shalt devote their spoils to Jehovah, Their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

noyes@Micah:5:1 @ Yet now gather yourselves in troops, O people of troops! They lay siege against us; With a rod they smite the cheek of the judge of Israel.

noyes@Micah:5:2 @ But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, Who art small to be among the thousands of Judah, Out of thee shall he come forth for me to be ruler in Israel, Whose origin is from the ancient age, from the days of old!

noyes@Micah:5:3 @ But He shall deliver them up, Until she that bringeth forth hath brought forth; Then shall the residue of his brethren return to the children of Israel.

noyes@Micah:5:4 @ He shall stand and rule in the strength of Jehovah, In the majesty of Jehovah, his God; And they shall dwell in security, For he shall be great even to the ends of the earth.

noyes@Micah:5:5 @ And he shall be peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, To trample upon our palaces, Then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, And eight leaders of the people,

noyes@Micah:5:6 @ And they shall devour the land of Assyria with the sword, The land of Nimrod within her gates. Thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, And treadeth in our borders.

noyes@Micah:5:7 @ The residue of Jacob shall be in the midst of many nations As the dew which cometh from Jehovah, As drops of rain upon the grass, Which tarrieth not for man, Nor waiteth for the sons of men.

noyes@Micah:5:8 @ The residue of Jacob shall be among the nations, In the midst of many kingdoms, As a lion among the beasts of the forest, As a young lion among flocks of sheep, Who, when he assaulteth, treadeth down and teareth, and none can deliver.

noyes@Micah:5:9 @ Thy hand shall be lifted up over thine adversaries, And all thine enemies shall be destroyed!

noyes@Micah:5:10 @ It shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, That I will destroy thy horses from the midst of thee, And I will consume thy chariots;

noyes@Micah:5:11 @ I will destroy the fortified cities of thy land, And throw down all thy strongholds;

noyes@Micah:5:12 @ I will destroy sorceries from thy borders, And soothsayers shall not be with thee.

noyes@Micah:5:13 @ I will destroy thy graven images and thy statues from the midst of thee, And thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thine hands;

noyes@Micah:5:14 @ I will root out thy Astartes from the midst of thee, And I will destroy thy fortified cities;

noyes@Micah:5:15 @ And I will execute vengeance in anger and in fury Upon the nations which have not hearkened to me.

noyes@Micah:6:1 @ Hear ye what Jehovah saith! Arise, contend thou before the mountains, And let the hills hear thy voice!

noyes@Micah:6:2 @ Hear, O ye mountains, the controversy of Jehovah! Hear, ye strong foundations of the earth! For Jehovah hath a controversy with his people; He contendeth with Israel.

noyes@Micah:6:3 @ "O my people, what have I done to thee, And wherein have I offended thee? Testify against me!

noyes@Micah:6:4 @ I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of bondage I redeemed thee; I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, to go before thee.

noyes@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised. And what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, What happened from Shittim to Gilgal, That ye may know the mercies of Jehovah."

noyes@Micah:6:6 @ Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, And bow myself before the most high God? Shall I come before him with burnt–offerings, With calves of a year old?

noyes@Micah:6:7 @ Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first–born for the sin of my soul, The fruit of my body for my transgression?

noyes@Micah:6:8 @ He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; What doth Jehovah require of thee, But to do justly, and to love mercy, And to walk humbly before thy God?

noyes@Micah:6:9 @ The voice of Jehovah crieth to the city, And the man of wisdom will discern thee; Hear ye the rod, and who hath threatened it!

noyes@Micah:6:10 @ Are there not yet in the houses of the unrighteous the treasures of iniquity, And the scanty measure, which is abominable?

noyes@Micah:6:11 @ Shall I count her pure with the wicked balances, And with the bag of deceitful weights?

noyes@Micah:6:12 @ For her rich men are full of violence, And her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

noyes@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore will I sorely smite thee, And make thee desolate on account of thy sins.

noyes@Micah:6:14 @ Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied, And hunger shall be within thee. Thou shalt remove, but shalt not save, And what thou savest will I give up to the sword.

noyes@Micah:6:15 @ Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; Thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil, And the grapes, but shalt not drink the wine.

noyes@Micah:6:16 @ For ye keep the statutes of Omri, And all the works of the house of Ahab, And walk in their devices; Therefore will I make thee a desolation, And thine inhabitants a derision; And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

noyes@Micah:7:1 @ Woe is me! I live where the summer fruits are gathered, And the vintage is gleaned; There is no cluster to eat; I long for the first–ripe fig.

noyes@Micah:7:2 @ The good man is perished from the land, And there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every one hunteth his brother with a net.

noyes@Micah:7:3 @ Their hands are diligent for evil; The prince asketh a bribe, And the judge decideth for money! The great man giveth judgment according to his desire; They conspire to pervert justice.

noyes@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them is like a brier; The most upright of them is sharper than a thorn–hedge. The day of recompense, announced by thy watchmen, cometh; Then shall come their perplexity.

noyes@Micah:7:5 @ Trust ye not in a friend! Put no confidence in a guide! From her that lieth in thy bosom Keep the doors of thy mouth!

noyes@Micah:7:6 @ For the son dishonoreth his father, The daughter riseth up against her mother, And the daughter–in–law against her mother–in–law; The inmates of a man’s house are his foes.

noyes@Micah:7:7 @ I will look to Jehovah; I will hope in the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.

noyes@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not over me, O my enemy! Though I have fallen, I shall arise; Though I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be my light.

noyes@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, Because I have sinned against him, Until he maintain my cause, and execute judgment for me, Until he bring me to the light, And I behold his mercy.

noyes@Micah:7:10 @ She that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her, That said to me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall gaze upon her; Soon shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.

noyes@Micah:7:11 @ The day cometh when thy walls are to be built; In that day shall the decree be far removed.

noyes@Micah:7:12 @ In that day shall they come to thee From Assyria, and the cities of Egypt, And from Egypt to the river, From sea to sea, from mountain to mountain.

noyes@Micah:7:13 @ But first the land shall be desolate on account of its inhabitants, For the fruit of their doings.

noyes@Micah:7:14 @ Feed thy people with thy crook, The flock of thine inheritance, That dwell solitarily in the forest in the midst of Carmel! Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

noyes@Micah:7:15 @ As in the day when thou camest from Egypt, So will I show thee wonders.

noyes@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see, and be ashamed of all their might: They shall lay their hands upon their mouths; Their ears shall be deaf.

noyes@Micah:7:17 @ They shall lick the dust like the serpent; Like the creeping things of the earth, they shall come trembling from their strongholds; To Jehovah our God shall they come with awe, And shall fear on account of thee.

noyes@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like thee, that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by transgression, In the remnant of his inheritance? He retaineth not his anger forever, For he delighteth in mercy.

noyes@Micah:7:19 @ He will again have compassion on us, He will blot out our iniquities; Yea, thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

noyes@Micah:7:20 @ Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob, And mercy to Abraham, Which thou swarest to our fathers from the days of old.

noyes@Nahum:1:1 @ The prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the prophecy of Nahum, the Elkoshite.

noyes@Nahum:1:2 @ Jehovah is a jealous God, and an avenger; Jehovah is an avenger, and full of wrath! Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, And keepeth indignation for his enemies!

noyes@Nahum:1:3 @ Jehovah is slow to anger, but great in power; He will by no means clear the guilty; Jehovah cometh in the whirlwind and the storm, And the clouds are the dust of his feet.

noyes@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, And drieth up all the rivers. Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, And the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

noyes@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains tremble before him, And the hills melt; The earth is moved at his presence, Yea, the world and all that dwell therein.

noyes@Nahum:1:6 @ Who can stand before his indignation, And who can abide before the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, And the rocks are cast down by him!

noyes@Nahum:1:7 @ Jehovah is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; He careth for them that trust in him;

noyes@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overwhelming flood will he make a full end of her place, And darkness shall pursue his enemies.

noyes@Nahum:1:9 @ What do ye meditate against Jehovah? He will make a full end; Not the second time shall the calamity come.

noyes@Nahum:1:10 @ For while they are entangled like thorns, And like those that are drunk with wine, They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

noyes@Nahum:1:11 @ From thee hath gone forth one that devised evil against Jehovah; That meditated destruction.

noyes@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be flourishing, and likewise many, Yet shall they be cut down, and pass away; I have afflicted thee, but I will afflict thee no more.

noyes@Nahum:1:13 @ For now will I break his yoke from off thee, And will burst thy bonds in sunder.

noyes@Nahum:1:14 @ And concerning thee hath Jehovah given command, That thy name shall no more be sown. From the house of thy god I will cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou hast become vile!

noyes@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, That publisheth peace! Keep, O Judah, thy feasts, perform thy vows! For no more shall the destroyer pass through thee; He is utterly consumed.

noyes@Nahum:2:1 @ The ravager cometh up against thee, Guard the fortress; watch the way; Gird up the loins; confirm the strength.

noyes@Nahum:2:2 @ For Jehovah restoreth the glory of Jacob, As the glory of Israel; For the wasters have wasted them, And destroyed their branches.

noyes@Nahum:2:3 @ The shields of his mighty men are red; His warriors are clothed in crimson; His chariots glitter with the fire of steel in the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.

noyes@Nahum:2:4 @ The chariots rave in the streets; They run to and fro in the broad ways; Their appearance is like torches; They run like lightnings.

noyes@Nahum:2:5 @ He calleth for his mighty men; They stumble on their way; They hasten to the wall; But the mantelet is prepared,

noyes@Nahum:2:6 @ The gates of rivers are opened, And the palace melteth away.

noyes@Nahum:2:7 @ Huzzab is uncovered; she is carried away captive, Her maidservants sigh with the voice of doves, And smite their breasts.

noyes@Nahum:2:8 @ Nineveh was like a pool full of water of old; Yet shall they flee away; Stand! stand! shall they cry; But none shall look back.

noyes@Nahum:2:9 @ Seize the silver; seize the gold; There is no end to the treasures; There is abundance of all precious furniture.

noyes@Nahum:2:10 @ She hath become void, and empty, and desolate; The heart melteth, and the knees smite together; Pangs are in all their loins, And the faces of all gather blackness.

noyes@Nahum:2:11 @ Where now is the dwelling of the lions, And the feeding–place of the young lions, Where the lion and the lioness walked, And the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

noyes@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion tore in pieces for his whelps, And strangled for his lionesses, And filled his dens with prey, And his lairs with ravin.

noyes@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold! I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, And I will burn thy chariots into smoke, And the sword shall devour thy young lions. And I will cut off thy prey from the earth, And the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

noyes@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the city of blood! She is all full of deceit and robbery; She ceaseth not from plunder.

noyes@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of the whip! The noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the prancing horses, And of the bounding chariots!

noyes@Nahum:3:3 @ The horseman lifteth up the flame of the sword, And the lightning of the spear; There is a multitude of the slain; heaps of dead bodies; There is no end to the carcasses; they stumble over the carcasses.

noyes@Nahum:3:4 @ It is because of the many whoredoms of the harlot, The graceful beauty, the mistress of enchantments, That sold nations by her whoredoms, And kingdoms by her enchantments.

noyes@Nahum:3:5 @ Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of host, And I will lift up thy trail over thy face, And I will show the nations thy nakedness, And the kingdoms thy shame.

noyes@Nahum:3:6 @ And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, And I will dishonor thee, and make thee a gazing–stock,

noyes@Nahum:3:7 @ And all that see thee shall flee from thee, And shall say, "Nineveh is laid waste; Who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?"

noyes@Nahum:3:8 @ Art thou better than No–Ammon, That dwelt by the rivers, That had the waters round about her, Whose fortress was the sea, And whose wall was from the waters?

noyes@Nahum:3:9 @ Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, a countless multitude; Phut and Lybia were thy helpers!

noyes@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet was she carried away; she went into captivity; Her children were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; For her honorable men they cast lots, And all her great men were bound in chains.

noyes@Nahum:3:11 @ Thou also shalt drink to the full; Thou, too, shalt be hidden; Thou shalt seek a refuge from the enemy!

noyes@Nahum:3:12 @ All thy strong–holds shall be like fig–trees with the first ripe figs; If they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

noyes@Nahum:3:13 @ Behold, thy people shall be women in the midst of thee; The gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thine enemies; The fire shall devour thy bars.

noyes@Nahum:3:14 @ Draw thee water for the siege, Fortify thy strongholds. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar; Repair the brick–kiln!

noyes@Nahum:3:15 @ Then shall the fire devour thee; The sword shall cut thee off, It shall devour thee like the locust; Though thou art increased like the locusts, Though thou art increased like the thick locusts.

noyes@Nahum:3:16 @ Thy merchants have been more numerous than the stars of heaven; The locusts spread themselves and fly away.

noyes@Nahum:3:17 @ Thy princes are like locusts, And thy captains like swarms of locusts, Which encamp in the hedges in the time of cold; But when the sun ariseth, they flee away, And the place is not known where they are.

noyes@Nahum:3:18 @ Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria! Thy nobles take their rest, Thy people are scattered on the mountains, and none gathereth them.

noyes@Nahum:3:19 @ Thy bruise is incurable; Thy wound is mortal. All that hear of thee shall clap their hands over thee; For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

noyes@Habakkuk:1:1 @ The prophecy which was revealed to the prophet Habakkuk.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:2 @ How long, O Jehovah, do I cry, and thou dost not hear! How long do I complain to thee of violence, and thou dost not save!

noyes@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why dost thou suffer me to see iniquity, And why dost thou look upon wickedness? For spoiling and violence are before me; There is contention, and strife exalteth itself.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:4 @ Therefore the law faileth, And judgment is not pronounced according to truth; For the wicked encompasseth the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment is pronounced.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:5 @ Behold ye among the nations, and look! Yea, wonder, and be astonished! For I do a work in your days Which ye will not believe though it be told you.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:6 @ For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, A fierce and swift people, Which go over the breadth of the earth, To take possession of dwelling–places that are not their own.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:7 @ They are terrible and dreadful; From themselves go forth their law and their dignity.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:8 @ Their horses are swifter than leopards, And fiercer than evening wolves. Their horsemen leap proudly; Their horsemen come from far; They fly like an eagle, hastening to devour.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:9 @ All of them come for violence; The multitude of their faces is directed forwards, And they gather captives as sand.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:10 @ They also scoff at kings, And princes are to them a laughing–stock; They deride every stronghold, For they heap up earth and take it.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:11 @ Then their spirit is uplifted, and they transgress, and become guilty; This their strength is made their god.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:12 @ Art thou not from everlasting, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We shall not die! Thou, O Jehovah, hast appointed them for judgment; Thou, O Rock, hast ordained them for chastisement.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:13 @ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, And canst not look on wickedness; Why then dost thou look on transgressors, And art silent, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he?

noyes@Habakkuk:1:14 @ And why makest thou men as the fishes of the sea, As the reptiles that have no ruler?

noyes@Habakkuk:1:15 @ They take up all of them with the hook, They catch them in their net, And gather them in their drag; Therefore they rejoice and exult.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:16 @ Therefore they sacrifice to their net, And burn incense to their drag; Because by them their portion is fat, And their food plenteous.

noyes@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Shall they therefore empty the net, And slay the nations continually without mercy?

noyes@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will stand on my watch–tower, And set myself on the bulwark, And watch to see what he will say to me, And what I shall answer to my expostulation.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:2 @ And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, That he may run that readeth it.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision is yet for an appointed time, But it hasteneth to the end; it shall not deceive; If it tarry, wait for it; For it shall surely come; it shall not long delay.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:4 @ Behold, the soul of him that is puffed up shall not be at ease; But the just shall live by his faithfulness.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:5 @ Behold, the man of wine is outrageous; The proud man remaineth not at rest; He enlargeth his desire as the grave; He is as death, and cannot be satisfied; He gathereth to himself all the nations, And collecteth to himself all the kingdoms.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:6 @ Shall not all of them utter a song against him, Yea, songs of reproach and derision concerning him? And say, Woe to him that heapeth up that which belongeth not to him! For how long a time? That ladeth himself with goods taken in pledge!

noyes@Habakkuk:2:7 @ Shall not they suddenly rise up that will oppress thee, And awake, that will harass thee? Yea, thou shalt be their booty.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou hast plundered many kingdoms, All the residue of the nations shall plunder thee: For the blood of men, and for violence against the land, Against the city and all its inhabitants.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:9 @ Woe to him that procureth unjust gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the evil hand!

noyes@Habakkuk:2:10 @ Thou hast devised shame for thine house; By destroying many nations, thou hast brought ruin upon thyself.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the stone from the wall crieth out, And the beam from the timber answereth it.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:12 @ Woe to him that buildeth a town by blood, And establisheth a city by iniquity!

noyes@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, it is determined by Jehovah of hosts, That nations shall labor for the fire, And kingdoms weary themselves for naught.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, As the waters cover the sea.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:15 @ Woe to him who giveth his neighbor drink; Who poureth out the strong wine, and maketh him drunken, That he may look upon his nakedness!

noyes@Habakkuk:2:16 @ Thou shalt be filled with shame instead of glory; Drink thou also, and show thy foreskin! To thee shall come the cup in the right hand of Jehovah, And foul shame shall be upon thy glory.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, And the destruction of the beasts which made them afraid, On account of the blood of men, and violence against the land, Against the city and all its inhabitants.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:18 @ What profiteth the graven image, When the maker hath graven it? Or the molten image, and the teacher of lies, That the artificer trusteth in his work, When he maketh dumb idols?

noyes@Habakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him who saith to the wood, Awake! To the dumb stone, Arise! Will it teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath within it.

noyes@Habakkuk:2:20 @ But Jehovah is in his Holy temple; Be silent before him, all the earth!

noyes@Habakkuk:3:1 @ The prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, in the form of an ode.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:2 @ O Jehovah, I have heard thy words, and tremble. O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known, In wrath remember mercy!

noyes@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God cometh from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran; His glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is full of his praise.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:4 @ His brightness is as the light; Rays stream forth from his hand, And there is the hiding–place of his power.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before him goeth the pestilence, And the plague followeth his steps.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:6 @ He standeth, and measureth the earth; He beholdeth, and maketh the nations tremble; The everlasting mountains are broken asunder; The eternal hills sink down; The eternal paths are trodden by him.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:7 @ I see the tents of Cushan in affliction, And the canopies of the land of Midian tremble.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Is the anger of Jehovah kindled against the rivers, Is thy wrath against the rivers, Is thy indignation against the floods, That thou ridest on with thy horses, Upon thy chariots of victory?

noyes@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Thy bow is made bare; Curses are the arrows of thy word; Thou causest rivers to break forth from the earth.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:10 @ The mountains see thee and tremble; The flood of waters overflows; The deep uttereth his voice, And lifteth up his hands on high.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:11 @ The sun and the moon remain in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which fly, At the brightness of the lightning of thy spear.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:12 @ Thou marchest through the land in indignation; Thou thrashest the nations in anger;

noyes@Habakkuk:3:13 @ Thou goest forth for the deliverance of thy people, For the deliverance of thine anointed. Thou smitest the head of the house of the wicked; Thou destroyest the foundation even to the neck.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:14 @ Thou piercest with his own spears the chief of his captains, Who rushed like a whirlwind to scatter us; Who exulted, as if they should devour the distressed in a hiding–place.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:15 @ Thou ridest through the sea with thy horses, Through the raging of mighty waters.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:16 @ I have heard, and my heart trembleth; My lips quiver at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and my knees tremble, That I must wait in silence for the day of trouble, When the invader shall come up against my people!

noyes@Habakkuk:3:17 @ For the fig–tree shall not blossom, And there shall be no fruit upon the vine; The produce of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food. The flocks shall he cut off from the folds, And there shall be no herd in the stalls.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:18 @ Yet will I rejoice in Jehovah, I will exult in God, my helper.

noyes@Habakkuk:3:19 @ The Lord Jehovah is my strength; He will make my feet like the hind’s, And cause me to walk upon my high places. To the leader of the music on my stringed instruments.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:1 @ The word of Jehovah, which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:2 @ I will utterly consume all things from the face of the land, saith Jehovah;

noyes@Zephaniah:1:3 @ I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of heaven, and the fishes of the sea, And the stumbling–blocks with the wicked; And I will cut off man from the face of the land, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:4 @ I will stretch out my hand over Judah, And over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And I will cut off from this place the residue of Baal, The name of the idol–sacrificers with the priests,

noyes@Zephaniah:1:5 @ And those who bow themselves on the house–tops to the host of heaven, And those who bow themselves and swear by Jehovah, And also swear by their idol,

noyes@Zephaniah:1:6 @ And those that turn back from Jehovah, And those that seek not Jehovah, nor inquire for him.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:7 @ Be silent before the Lord Jehovah! For the day of Jehovah is near; For Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice; He hath appointed his guests.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah it shall come to pass That I will punish the princes and the sons of the king, And all that are clothed with foreign apparel.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:9 @ In that day also will I punish all that leap over the threshold, That fill the houses of their master with violence and deceit.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, That there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish–gate, And of a howling from the other part of the city, And of great destruction from the hills.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:11 @ Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh! For all the trafficking people are cut down; All they that bear silver are destroyed.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:12 @ And it shall come to pass at that time, That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And I will punish the men that are settled on their lees; That say in their hearts, "Jehovah doeth neither good nor evil."

noyes@Zephaniah:1:13 @ Their substance shall become a spoil, And their houses a desolation; They shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; And shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:14 @ The day of Jehovah is near, the great day; It is near, and hasteth greatly; The day of Jehovah shall resound; Bitterly shall the mighty man cry for help.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:15 @ That day is a day of wrath, A day of distress and anguish, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness,

noyes@Zephaniah:1:16 @ A day of the trumpet and the war–shout, Against the fenced cities, And against the high towers.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:17 @ And I will distress the men, so that they shall walk like the blind, Because they have sinned against Jehovah. And their blood shall be poured out as dust, And their flesh as dung.

noyes@Zephaniah:1:18 @ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah, But by the fire of his indignation shall the whole land be devoured; For destruction, and that a speedy one, will he bring Upon all that dwell in the land.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Search yourselves; yea, search, O nation without shame!

noyes@Zephaniah:2:2 @ Before the decree bring forth, Before the day come upon you like chaff; Before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, Before the day of the anger of Jehovah come upon you.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek ye Jehovah, all ye lowly of the land, Ye, who obey his commands! Seek righteousness; seek lowliness; It may be that ye shall be hid in the day of the anger of Jehovah.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For Gaza shall be forsaken, And Askelon a desolation; Ashdod shall be driven out at noonday, And Ekron shall be rooted up.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe to the inhabitants of the sea–coasts, the nation of the Cherethites! This is the word of Jehovah against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: "I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant."

noyes@Zephaniah:2:6 @ And the sea–coast shall be pastures full of habitations for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:7 @ The coast shall be for the residue of the house of Judah; Thereon shall they feed; In the houses of Askelon shall they lie down in the evening; For Jehovah their God will look upon them, and bring back their captives.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:8 @ I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, With which they have reproached my people, And exalted themselves against their borders.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, A possession for thorns, and a pit for salt, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of my people shall spoil them, And the remainder of my nation shall possess them.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:10 @ This shall come upon them for their pride, Because they have uttered reproaches, and exalted themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:11 @ Jehovah will be terrible against them; For he will destroy all the gods of the earth; And before him shall worship, every one from his place, All the islands of the nations.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:12 @ Ye, also, O Ethiopians! Ye shall be slain by my sword!

noyes@Zephaniah:2:13 @ He will also stretch out his hand against the North, And destroy Assyria, And make Nineveh a desolation, Even dry like a desert.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:14 @ And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, Yea, all the tribes of wild beasts; The pelican and the hedgehog shall lodge in the capitals of her pillars; A cry shall resound in the window; Desolation shall be upon the threshold; For her cedar–work shall be laid bare.

noyes@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This is the rejoicing city that dwelt in security, That said in her heart, "I, and none besides me!" Now is she become a desolation, a resting–place for wild beasts! Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:1 @ Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

noyes@Zephaniah:3:2 @ She listeneth to no voice, She receiveth not admonition; She trusteth not in Jehovah, She draweth not near to her God.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her princes within her are roaring lions; Her judges are evening wolves; They reserve nothing for the morning.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:4 @ Her prophets are vainglorious, Men of treachery; Her priests pollute the sanctuary, They violate the law.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:5 @ But Jehovah is just in the midst of her; He doeth no iniquity. Every morning bringeth he his righteousness to light; he faileth not; Yet the wicked knoweth not shame.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:6 @ I have cut off nations; their towers are destroyed; I have laid waste their streets so that none passeth through; Their cities are made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:7 @ Then I said, "Surely thou wilt fear me; thou wilt receive admonition, That thy habitation may not be cut off, As I have commanded concerning thee." But they were diligent to commit iniquity In all their doings.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:8 @ Therefore wait for me, saith Jehovah. Until the day when I rise up to the prey. For my purpose is to gather the nations, to assemble the kingdoms, To pour upon them my indignation, Even all the heat of my wrath. For with the fire of mine anger shall all the earth be devoured.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:9 @ Then will I again bestow upon the nations pure lips, So that they shall all of them call upon the name of Jehovah, And serve him with one consent.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:10 @ From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My suppliants, the sons of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:11 @ In that day thou shalt not be ashamed For all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me; For I will take away from the midst of thee thy proud exulters, And thou shalt no more exalt thyself upon my holy mountain.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:12 @ I will leave in the midst of thee a humble and lowly people, Who trust in the name of Jehovah.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:13 @ The residue of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak falsehood; Neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth; Therefore shall they feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:14 @ Sing, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!

noyes@Zephaniah:3:15 @ Jehovah hath taken away thy punishments; He hath removed thine enemies. The king of Israel, Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; Thou shalt see evil no more.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:16 @ In that day shall it be said to Jerusalem, Fear not! And to Zion, Let not thy hands hang down!

noyes@Zephaniah:3:17 @ Jehovah thy God will be in the midst of thee; The mighty one will save thee. He will rejoice over thee with gladness; He will pardon thee in his love; He will exult over thee with singing.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:18 @ I will gather them that mourn, far from the solemn assembly, They were far from thee; the reproach was a burden upon thee.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:19 @ Behold, at that time I will destroy all that afflict thee; And I will save the halting, and gather the scattered, And I will make them a praise and a name In every land where they have been put to shame.

noyes@Zephaniah:3:20 @ At that time I will bring you back, And at that time I will gather you; For I will make you a name and a praise among all the nations of the earth, When I bring back your captives before your eyes, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high–priest, saying,

noyes@Haggai:1:2 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: This people saith, The time is not yet come, the time that the house of Jehovah should be built.

noyes@Haggai:1:3 @ But the word of Jehovah hath come by Haggai the prophet, saying:––

noyes@Haggai:1:4 @ Is it, then, a time for yourselves To dwell in ceiled houses, While this house lieth waste?

noyes@Haggai:1:5 @ Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!

noyes@Haggai:1:6 @ Ye sow much, and bring in little; Ye eat, but are not full; Ye drink, but are not satisfied; Ye clothe yourselves, but are not warmed; And he that earneth wages earneth them for a purse with holes.

noyes@Haggai:1:7 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!

noyes@Haggai:1:8 @ Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house, That I may have pleasure therein, And be glorified, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Haggai:1:9 @ Ye look for much, and lo, it cometh to little; And when ye bring it home, I blow it away; And why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house which lieth waste, While ye run every one to his own house.

noyes@Haggai:1:10 @ Therefore the heaven over you withholdeth the dew, And the earth refuseth her fruit.

noyes@Haggai:1:11 @ And I have called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains; And upon the corn, and the new wine, and the oil; Upon that which the ground bringeth forth, And upon men, and upon cattle, And upon all the labor of the hands.

noyes@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high–priest, and all the remnant of people, hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people feared before Jehovah.

noyes@Haggai:1:13 @ Then spake Haggai, the messenger of Jehovah, by a message from Jehovah to the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Haggai:1:14 @ And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high–priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of people, so that they came and executed work upon the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,

noyes@Haggai:1:15 @ on the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

noyes@Haggai:2:1 @ In the seventh month, on the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai, saying:

noyes@Haggai:2:2 @ Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high–priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying:––

noyes@Haggai:2:3 @ Who is there left among you, That saw this house In its former glory? And what do ye see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?

noyes@Haggai:2:4 @ Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith Jehovah; And be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high–priest; And be strong, O all ye people of the land, saith Jehovah, and work! For I am with you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Haggai:2:5 @ This is the covenant which I made with you when ye came out of Egypt, And my spirit remaineth among you: Fear ye not!

noyes@Haggai:2:6 @ For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once more, in a short time, I will shake the heavens and the earth, The sea and the dry land.

noyes@Haggai:2:7 @ I will shake all the nations, And here shall come the precious things of all the nations; And I will fill this house with glory, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Haggai:2:8 @ Mine is the silver and mine the gold, Saith Jehovah of hosts;

noyes@Haggai:2:9 @ Greater shall be the glory of this latter house than of the former, Saith Jehovah of hosts; And in this place will I give peace, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Haggai:2:10 @ On the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,

noyes@Haggai:2:11 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the law from the priests, saying,

noyes@Haggai:2:12 @ If a man carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

noyes@Haggai:2:13 @ Then said Haggai, If a man unclean by a dead body touch any of these things, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

noyes@Haggai:2:14 @ Then answered Haggai and said:–– So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; And so is all the work of their hands; And that which they offer there is unclean.

noyes@Haggai:2:15 @ And now, I pray you, consider From that day and upward, From the time before one stone was laid upon another in the temple of Jehovah.

noyes@Haggai:2:16 @ Since that time one hath come to a heap of twenty measures, And there were but ten; One hath come to a vat to draw out fifty vessels from the wine–press, And there were but twenty;

noyes@Haggai:2:17 @ I have smitten you with blasting, with mildew, and with hail, Even all the works of your hands; Yet none among you hath turned to me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Haggai:2:18 @ Consider, I pray you, From that day and upward, From the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, From the day when the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was laid, Consider ye!

noyes@Haggai:2:19 @ Is there yet seed in the barn? Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig–tree, and pomegranate, and the olive–tree have not borne. But from this day will I bless you.

noyes@Haggai:2:20 @ And the word of Jehovah came the second time to Haggai, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

noyes@Haggai:2:21 @ Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, and say:–– I will shake the heavens and the earth,

noyes@Haggai:2:22 @ And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms, And I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, And I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them, And the horses and their riders shall come down, One by the sword of the other.

noyes@Haggai:2:23 @ In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, my servant, saith Jehovah, And keep thee as a signet–ring; For thee have I chosen, saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:––

noyes@Zechariah:1:2 @ Jehovah hath been much displeased with your fathers.

noyes@Zechariah:1:3 @ But say thou to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith Jehovah of hosts, And I will turn to you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Zechariah:1:4 @ Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings! But they did not hear, nor hearken to me, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:1:5 @ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

noyes@Zechariah:1:6 @ But my words and my statutes, Which I commanded my servants, the prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers? And they returned and said, Even as Jehovah of hosts thought To do to us according to our ways, and according to doings, So hath he done to us.

noyes@Zechariah:1:7 @ On the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:

noyes@Zechariah:1:8 @ I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse; and he stood among the myrtle–trees that were in the deep valley, and behind him were other horses, red, fox–colored, and white.

noyes@Zechariah:1:9 @ Then I said, What are these, my lord? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show thee what these are.

noyes@Zechariah:1:10 @ And the man that stood among the myrtle–trees answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to go to and fro through the earth.

noyes@Zechariah:1:11 @ And they answered the angel of Jehovah that stood among the myrtle–trees, and said, We have gone to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth is still and at rest.

noyes@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the angel of Jehovah answered, and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

noyes@Zechariah:1:13 @ And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me good words and comfortable words.

noyes@Zechariah:1:14 @ And the angel who talked with me said to me: Proclaim thou and say, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy,

noyes@Zechariah:1:15 @ And with great anger am I angry with the nations that are at ease; For I was but a little displeased, And they helped forward the affliction.

noyes@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I return to Jerusalem with mercies; My house shall be built in it, Saith Jehovah of hosts, And a measuring–line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.

noyes@Zechariah:1:17 @ Proclaim yet and say, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity, And Jehovah will yet comfort Zion, And will yet choose Jerusalem.

noyes@Zechariah:1:18 @ Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, four horns.

noyes@Zechariah:1:19 @ And I said to the angel that talked with me, What mean these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

noyes@Zechariah:1:20 @ And Jehovah showed me four smiths.

noyes@Zechariah:1:21 @ Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; and now these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.

noyes@Zechariah:2:1 @ I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring–line in his hand.

noyes@Zechariah:2:2 @ Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

noyes@Zechariah:2:3 @ And behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went forth to meet him,

noyes@Zechariah:2:4 @ and said to him, Run, speak to that young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls On account of the multitude of men and of cattle within her.

noyes@Zechariah:2:5 @ And I will be to her, saith Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And glory will I be within her.

noyes@Zechariah:2:6 @ Ho! ho! flee ye out of the land of the North, saith Jehovah; For toward the four winds of heaven have I scattered you abroad, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:2:7 @ Ho, Zion, escape, Thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon!

noyes@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: For glory hath he sent me to the nations which plundered you; (For he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.)

noyes@Zechariah:2:9 @ For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, And they shall be a spoil to those that served them; And ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.

noyes@Zechariah:2:10 @ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For, behold, I will come, And I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah;

noyes@Zechariah:2:11 @ And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, And shall be my people; And I will dwell in the midst of thee; And thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to thee.

noyes@Zechariah:2:12 @ And Jehovah will possess Judah as his portion in the holy land, And will again choose Jerusalem.

noyes@Zechariah:2:13 @ Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah! For he riseth up from his holy habitation.

noyes@Zechariah:3:1 @ And he showed me Joshua, the high–priest, standing before the angel of Jehovah, and the adversary standing at his right hand, to accuse him.

noyes@Zechariah:3:2 @ And Jehovah said to the adversary:–– Jehovah rebuke thee, thou adversary, Even Jehovah, who hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee! Is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?

noyes@Zechariah:3:3 @ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

noyes@Zechariah:3:4 @ And he spake and said to them that stood before him, saying, Take off the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and will clothe thee with goodly apparel.

noyes@Zechariah:3:5 @ And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head! And they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of Jehovah stood by.

noyes@Zechariah:3:6 @ And the angel of Jehovah declared to Joshua and said:

noyes@Zechariah:3:7 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, And if thou wilt keep my charge, Then thou shalt also rule my house, And shalt also keep my courts, And I will give thee guides among these that stand by.

noyes@Zechariah:3:8 @ Hear now, O Joshua, high–priest, Thou and thy companions, who sit before thee! For they are men that are signs. For, behold, I will cause to come my servant, the Branch.

noyes@Zechariah:3:9 @ For, behold, the stone which I have laid before Joshua, Upon this one stone shall be seven eyes; Behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts; And I will remove the iniquity of this land in one day.

noyes@Zechariah:3:10 @ In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, Shall ye invite every one his neighbor Under the vine and under the fig–tree.

noyes@Zechariah:4:1 @ And the angel that talked with me came again, and awaked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

noyes@Zechariah:4:2 @ and said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold, a chandelier all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps upon it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps which are upon the top of it;

noyes@Zechariah:4:3 @ and two olive–trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side of it.

noyes@Zechariah:4:4 @ And I spake, and said to the angel that talked with me, What mean these, my lord?

noyes@Zechariah:4:5 @ Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, Knowest thou not what these mean? And I said, No, my lord.

noyes@Zechariah:4:6 @ Then he answered and spake to me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying:–– Not by might, nor by power, But by my spirit, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Zechariah:4:7 @ What art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain! And he shall bring forth the corner–stone amid shoutings, "Grace, grace be to it!"

noyes@Zechariah:4:8 @ Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:

noyes@Zechariah:4:9 @ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it. And thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to you.

noyes@Zechariah:4:10 @ For who hath despised the day of small things? With joy shall the plummet be seen in the hand of Zerubbabel by those seven; they are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

noyes@Zechariah:4:11 @ Then I spake and said to him, What mean these two olive–trees, upon the right side of the chandelier and upon the left side thereof?

noyes@Zechariah:4:12 @ And I spake the second time, and said to him, What mean these two olive–branches, which are by the side of the two golden tubes which empty the golden oil out of themselves?

noyes@Zechariah:4:13 @ And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these mean? And I said, No, my lord.

noyes@Zechariah:4:14 @ And he said, These are the two anointed ones that stand before the Lord of all the earth.

noyes@Zechariah:5:1 @ And I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, a flying roll.

noyes@Zechariah:5:2 @ And he said to me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

noyes@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then said he to me:–– This is the curse that goeth forth Over the Face of the whole land; For every one who stealeth shall be cut off from hence, according to it, And every one who sweareth falsely shall be cut off from hence, according to it.

noyes@Zechariah:5:4 @ I will bring it forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, And it shall enter into the house of the thief, And into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; And it shall abide in his house, And shall consume it, with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

noyes@Zechariah:5:5 @ Then the angel who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what this is which goeth forth.

noyes@Zechariah:5:6 @ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which goeth forth. He said, moreover, This is their image through all the land.

noyes@Zechariah:5:7 @ And behold, a talent of lead was lifted up, and a woman was sitting upon the ephah.

noyes@Zechariah:5:8 @ And he said, This is the Wickedness. And he cast her into the ephah, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

noyes@Zechariah:5:9 @ Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked, and behold, there came forth two women, and wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and heaven.

noyes@Zechariah:5:10 @ Then said I to the angel who talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

noyes@Zechariah:5:11 @ And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar, that it may be fixed there, and set upon its base.

noyes@Zechariah:6:1 @ And I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

noyes@Zechariah:6:2 @ In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot, black horses;

noyes@Zechariah:6:3 @ and in the third chariot, white horses; and in the fourth chariot, spotted–red horses.

noyes@Zechariah:6:4 @ Then I spake, and said to the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?

noyes@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four Winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

noyes@Zechariah:6:6 @ The black horses, which are thereto, go forth into the north country, and the white go forth after them; and the spotted go forth into the south country.

noyes@Zechariah:6:7 @ And the red ones went forth, and sought to go, even to walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, Go, walk ye to and fro through the earth! So they walked to and fro through the earth.

noyes@Zechariah:6:8 @ Then he cried to me, and spake to me, saying, Behold, these that go forth toward the land of the North shall execute my wrath against the land of the North.

noyes@Zechariah:6:9 @ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:

noyes@Zechariah:6:10 @ Take from those of the captivity, from Heldai, from Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, whither they are come from Babylon;

noyes@Zechariah:6:11 @ take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it upon the head of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high–priest,

noyes@Zechariah:6:12 @ and speak to him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts:–– Behold a man whose name is the Branch, He shall spring up from his place, And he shall build the temple of Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:6:13 @ He shall build the temple of Jehovah, And he shall bear the majesty, And sit and rule upon his throne, And be a priest upon his throne, And the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

noyes@Zechariah:6:14 @ And the crown shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen, the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:6:15 @ And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah, your God.

noyes@Zechariah:7:1 @ And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;

noyes@Zechariah:7:2 @ when they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regem–melech, and their men, to pray before Jehovah,

noyes@Zechariah:7:3 @ and to speak to the priests that were in the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Shall I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"

noyes@Zechariah:7:4 @ Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts to me, saying,

noyes@Zechariah:7:5 @ Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast for me, even for me?

noyes@Zechariah:7:6 @ And when ye eat and drink, is it not ye that eat, and ye that drink?

noyes@Zechariah:7:7 @ Are not these the words which Jehovah proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and when the South and the Plain were inhabited?

noyes@Zechariah:7:8 @ And the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah, saying,

noyes@Zechariah:7:9 @ Thus spake Jehovah of hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother.

noyes@Zechariah:7:10 @ And the widow, and the orphan, and the stranger, and the poor, oppress not, and meditate not evil against one another in your heart.

noyes@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to hearken, and showed a refractory shoulder, and made their ears dull, that they might not hear;

noyes@Zechariah:7:12 @ yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, that they might not hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts sent through his spirit by the former prophets. Therefore came great anger from Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Zechariah:7:13 @ And as he called and they would not hear, so they called and I would not hear, saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Zechariah:7:14 @ And I scattered them as with a whirlwind among all the nations, which they knew not. And the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through, nor returned; and thus the beautiful land was made a desolation.

noyes@Zechariah:8:1 @ And the word of Jehovah of hosts came to me, saying,

noyes@Zechariah:8:2 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I have been jealous for Zion with great jealousy, And with great wrath have I been jealous for her.

noyes@Zechariah:8:3 @ Thus saith Jehovah: I have returned to Zion, And I will dwell in Jerusalem; And Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, And the mountain of Jehovah of hosts the holy mountain.

noyes@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell In the streets of Jerusalem, Every one with his staff in his hand for great age.

noyes@Zechariah:8:5 @ And the streets of the city shall be full Of boys and girls playing in her streets.

noyes@Zechariah:8:6 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be difficult in the eyes Of the residue of this people in these days, Is it therefore difficult in my eyes, Saith Jehovah of hosts?

noyes@Zechariah:8:7 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people From the land of the rising, and from the land of the setting sun.

noyes@Zechariah:8:8 @ And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in Jerusalem; And they shall be my people, And I will be their God, In truth and in righteousness.

noyes@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, Ye that hear in these days These words by the mouth of the prophets, Who were in the day when the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, The temple, that it might be built.

noyes@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before these days There was no recompense for men, Nor was there any recompense for beasts; Nor to him that went out, nor to him that came in, was there security from the enemy; For I set all men one against another.

noyes@Zechariah:8:11 @ But now I will not be as in former days Toward the residue of this people, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Zechariah:8:12 @ For the seed shall be prosperous; The vine shall yield its fruit, And the earth shall yield her increase, And the heavens shall yield their dew; And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these.

noyes@Zechariah:8:13 @ And it shall be, that as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing. Fear not; let your hands be strong!

noyes@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I thought to do you evil, When your fathers provoked me to anger, Saith Jehovah of hosts, And I repented not,

noyes@Zechariah:8:15 @ So have I again thought in these days To do good to Jerusalem, And to the house of Judah. Fear ye not!

noyes@Zechariah:8:16 @ These are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; Judge according to truth, and for peace in your gates;

noyes@Zechariah:8:17 @ And meditate not evil against one another in your hearts, And love not a false oath! For all these are things which I hate, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:8:18 @ And the word of Jehovah of hosts came to me, saying,

noyes@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth month, And the fast of the seventh month, and the fast of the tenth month, Shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, And cheerful festivals. But love ye truth and peace!

noyes@Zechariah:8:20 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that many nations shall come, And the inhabitants of many cities;

noyes@Zechariah:8:21 @ And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, "Let us go speedily to pray before Jehovah, And to seek Jehovah of hosts! I will go also!"

noyes@Zechariah:8:22 @ Then shall come many nations and mighty kingdoms, To seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, And to pray before Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days shall ten men of all languages of the nations take hold, They shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, Saying, "We will go with you, For we have heard that God is with you."

noyes@Zechariah:9:1 @ The prophecy of the word of Jehovah is against the land of Hadrach, And upon Damascus shall it come down, For the eye of Jehovah is over man, And over all the tribes of Israel,

noyes@Zechariah:9:2 @ And against Hamath, which bordereth thereon, And Tyre and Sidon, though she be very wise.

noyes@Zechariah:9:3 @ Though Tyre hath built her a fortress, And hath heaped up silver as dust, And fine gold as the mire of the streets,

noyes@Zechariah:9:4 @ Behold, the Lord will cast her out, And will smite her power into the sea, And she shall be devoured by fire.

noyes@Zechariah:9:5 @ Askelon shall see it and fear, Gaza also shall see and tremble, And Ekron, because her expectation shall be put to shame. The king shall perish from Gaza, And Askelon shall not be inhabited.

noyes@Zechariah:9:6 @ And strangers shall dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

noyes@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, And his abominations from between his teeth; And even he shall be left for our God, And he shall be as a governor in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.

noyes@Zechariah:9:8 @ And I will encamp about my house, as a garrison, Against him that passeth by and him that returneth, And no oppressor shall pass through them any more; For now have I seen with my own eyes.

noyes@Zechariah:9:9 @ Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion, Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, thy king cometh to thee; He is just and victorious, Mild, and riding upon an ass, Even upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

noyes@Zechariah:9:10 @ And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem; And the battle–bow shall be cut off. And he shall speak peace to the nations; And his dominion shall be from sea to sea, And from the river to the ends of the earth.

noyes@Zechariah:9:11 @ As for thee also, on account of thy blood–sealed covenant, I will set thy prisoners free from the pit wherein is no water.

noyes@Zechariah:9:12 @ Return ye to the strong–hold, ye prisoners of hope! Even this day do I declare it: I will restore double unto thee.

noyes@Zechariah:9:13 @ For I will bend Judah as a bow for myself; As a bow will I extend Ephraim to the utmost; And I will raise up thy sons, O Zion, Against thy sons, O Greece, And make thee as the sword of a mighty man.

noyes@Zechariah:9:14 @ And Jehovah shall be seen over them. And his arrow shall go forth as lightning; And the Lord Jehovah shall blow the trumpet, And shall go forth with whirlwinds of the South.

noyes@Zechariah:9:15 @ Jehovah of hosts shall defend them; And they shall devour, and trample under feet the sling–stones, And they shall drink, and shout as through wine, And they shall be filled like a bowl, like the corners of the altar.

noyes@Zechariah:9:16 @ And Jehovah, their God, shall save them in that day; He will save his people as a flock; For they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifting themselves up in his land.

noyes@Zechariah:9:17 @ How great shall be their prosperity, and how great their beauty! Corn shall make the young men thrive, and new wire the maidens.

noyes@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain! It is Jehovah that maketh the lightning; And he will give you abundant showers, To every one the herb of the field.

noyes@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the teraphim speak falsehood, And the diviners see a lie, And the dreams speak falsehood; Vain are their consolations. Therefore they wander as a flock; They are in distress, because there is no shepherd.

noyes@Zechariah:10:3 @ My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And the bucks will I punish; For Jehovah of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, And make them as his goodly horse in battle.

noyes@Zechariah:10:4 @ From him shall come forth the corner–stone, From him the nail, From him the battle–bow; From him shall every leader come forth.

noyes@Zechariah:10:5 @ And they shall be as mighty men, Who tread down their enemies in battle as the mire of the streets, And they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them, So that the riders on horses shall be confounded.

noyes@Zechariah:10:6 @ And I will strengthen the house of Judah, And give victory to the house of Joseph, And I will set them in their dwellings, because I have compassion upon them; And they shall be as though I had not cast them off; For I am Jehovah, their God, and I will hear them.

noyes@Zechariah:10:7 @ And Ephraim shall be as a mighty man, And their heart shall rejoice, as through wine; And their sons shall see it and rejoice, Their hearts shall rejoice in Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:10:8 @ I will whistle for them, and will gather them; for I have redeemed them; And they shall increase as they increased before.

noyes@Zechariah:10:9 @ Though I scatter them among the nations, Yet in far countries will they remember me; And they shall live with their children, and shall return.

noyes@Zechariah:10:10 @ And I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, And from Assyria will I gather them; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and of Lebanon, And there shall not be room enough for them.

noyes@Zechariah:10:11 @ And he shall pass through the sea of distress, And he shall smite the sea of waves, And all the depths of the river shall be dried up; And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, And the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

noyes@Zechariah:10:12 @ And I will strengthen them through Jehovah, And in his name shall they walk, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open thy doors, O Lebanon, That the fire may devour thy cedars!

noyes@Zechariah:11:2 @ Howl, O cypress, for the cedar falleth! For the lofty ones are destroyed! Howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, For the high forest is come down!

noyes@Zechariah:11:3 @ Hark! the voice of the howling of the shepherds, Because their glory is destroyed! The voice of the roaring of young lions, Because the pride of Jordan is destroyed!

noyes@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus said Jehovah, my God: Feed thou the flock of slaughter,

noyes@Zechariah:11:5 @ Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty, And which they who sell say, "Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich!" And whose shepherds spare them not.

noyes@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no longer spare The inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; But, behold, I will deliver the men Every one into the hand of his neighbor, And into the hand of his king; And they shall smite the land, And I will not deliver out of their hand.

noyes@Zechariah:11:7 @ So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly a miserable flock. And I took to me two crooks; the one I called Favor, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

noyes@Zechariah:11:8 @ And I cut off three shepherds in one month; for I was weary of them, and they also abhorred me.

noyes@Zechariah:11:9 @ Then I said, I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat the flesh of one another.

noyes@Zechariah:11:10 @ And I took my staff Favor, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the nations.

noyes@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock, who had regard to me, knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:11:12 @ Then I said to them, If it seem good in your eyes, give me my wages; if not, keep them. And they weighed for my wages thirty shekels of silver.

noyes@Zechariah:11:13 @ And Jehovah said to me, Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver, and cast them into the house of Jehovah, into the treasury.

noyes@Zechariah:11:14 @ Then I broke my other crook, even Bands, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

noyes@Zechariah:11:15 @ And Jehovah said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

noyes@Zechariah:11:16 @ For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land Who shall not care for those that are perishing, Nor seek that which is gone astray, Nor heal that which is wounded, Nor support that which cannot go; But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, And consume it even to the hoofs.

noyes@Zechariah:11:17 @ Woe to the foolish shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword is upon his arm, and upon his right eye; His arm shall surely be withered, And his right eye shall surely be darkened!

noyes@Zechariah:12:1 @ The prophecy of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretched out the heavens, And laid the foundation of the earth, And formed the spirit of man within him:

noyes@Zechariah:12:2 @ Behold, I make Jerusalem a cup of giddiness to all the nations round about, And for Judah also shall it be In the siege against Jerusalem.

noyes@Zechariah:12:3 @ And in that day will I make Jerusalem A burdensome stone for all nations; All that lift it up shall tear themselves, And all the nations of the earth shall gather themselves together against it.

noyes@Zechariah:12:4 @ In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with amazement, And his rider with madness; I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, And every horse of the nations will I smite with blindness.

noyes@Zechariah:12:5 @ Then shall the leaders of Judah say in their heart, "Strong are the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Through Jehovah of hosts, their God."

noyes@Zechariah:12:6 @ In that day will I make the leaders of Judah Like a fire–pan among wood, And like a torch of fire in a sheaf, And they shall devour, on the right hand and on the left, All the nations round about. And Jerusalem shall again dwell in her own place at Jerusalem.

noyes@Zechariah:12:7 @ Jehovah will also save the tents of Judah first, That the glory of the house of David, And the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, May not magnify itself against Judah.

noyes@Zechariah:12:8 @ In that day shall Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And he that is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, And the house of David shall be as God, As the angel of Jehovah before them.

noyes@Zechariah:12:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That I will seek to destroy all the nations Which come against Jerusalem.

noyes@Zechariah:12:10 @ Then will I pour upon the house of David, And upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, A spirit of supplication, and of prayer; And they shall look to me whom they pierced, And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, And shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first–born.

noyes@Zechariah:12:11 @ In that day the mourning shall be great in Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.

noyes@Zechariah:12:12 @ And the land shall mourn, every family apart; The family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; The family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

noyes@Zechariah:12:13 @ The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; The family of the house of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

noyes@Zechariah:12:14 @ All the families that remain, Every family apart, and their wives apart.

noyes@Zechariah:13:1 @ In that day there shall be a fountain opened To the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for uncleanness.

noyes@Zechariah:13:2 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, Saith Jehovah of hosts, That I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, And they shall no more be remembered; And the prophets also, and the impure spirit, Will I cause to pass out of the land.

noyes@Zechariah:13:3 @ And it shall come to pass, when any one shall yet prophesy, That his father and mother shall say to him, Even they that begat him, "Thou shalt not live; For thou hast spoken falsehood in the name of Jehovah." And his father and mother that begat him shall pierce him through when he prophesieth.

noyes@Zechariah:13:4 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophet shall be ashamed Every one of his vision when he prophesieth; Neither shall they wear a garment of hair, to deceive.

noyes@Zechariah:13:5 @ But each shall say, "I am no prophet; I am a man that tilleth the ground; For a man hath purchased me from my youth."

noyes@Zechariah:13:6 @ And when one shall say to him, "What are these wounds in thy hands?" He shall answer, "Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends."

noyes@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, Even against the man who is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts! Smite the shepherd, and let the sheep be scattered! I will also turn my hand against the lambs.

noyes@Zechariah:13:8 @ And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, That two parts therein shall be cut off and die; But the third part shall be left therein.

noyes@Zechariah:13:9 @ And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will refine them, as silver is refined, And will try them, as gold is tried; They shall call upon me, and I will hear them; I will say, "It is my people." And they shall say, "Jehovah is our God."

noyes@Zechariah:14:1 @ Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, When thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

noyes@Zechariah:14:2 @ For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; And the city shall be taken, And the houses shall be rifled, And the women shall be ravished; And half of the city shall go forth into captivity, And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

noyes@Zechariah:14:3 @ Then shall Jehovah go forth, And fight against those nations, As he once fought in the day of battle.

noyes@Zechariah:14:4 @ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, Which is before Jerusalem on the east; And the Mount of Olives shall be cloven in the middle of it, eastward and westward, Into a very great valley; And half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, And half of it toward the south.

noyes@Zechariah:14:5 @ And ye shall flee through the valley of my mountains, For the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal; Yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled before the earthquake In the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And Jehovah, my God, will come, And all his holy ones with him.

noyes@Zechariah:14:6 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That there shall he no light, but cold and ice;

noyes@Zechariah:14:7 @ And there shall be one day, (Known to Jehovah is it,) It shall be neither day nor night; But at the time of evening there shall be light.

noyes@Zechariah:14:8 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, Half of them toward the eastern sea, And half of them toward the western sea; In summer and in winter shall they be.

noyes@Zechariah:14:9 @ And Jehovah shall be king over all the earth; In that day shall Jehovah be one, and his name one.

noyes@Zechariah:14:10 @ The whole land shall be turned into a plain, From Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; And the city shall be exalted and inhabited in her place, From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, And to the corner gate, And from the tower of Hananeel to the king’s wine–presses.

noyes@Zechariah:14:11 @ Men shall dwell therein, And there shall be no more destruction; But Jerusalem shall dwell securely.

noyes@Zechariah:14:12 @ And this shall be the plague With which Jehovah will smite all the nations Which warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, And their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, And their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

noyes@Zechariah:14:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, That there shall be a great tumult among them from Jehovah; And they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, And his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

noyes@Zechariah:14:14 @ And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem; But the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, Gold and silver and apparel in great abundance.

noyes@Zechariah:14:15 @ And so shall be the plague of the horse, Of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, And of every beast which shall be in those camps, Even as this plague.

noyes@Zechariah:14:16 @ And it shall be, that every one that is left Of all the nations which come against Jerusalem, Even they shall go up, from year to year, To worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, And to keep the feast of tabernacles.

noyes@Zechariah:14:17 @ And it shall be that whoso will not go up, Of the families of the earth, to Jerusalem, To worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, Upon them shall be no rain.

noyes@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, Then not for them shall there be water. The plague shall come upon them With which Jehovah shall smite the nations Which go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

noyes@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment of Egypt, And the punishment of all the nations That come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

noyes@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day, upon the bells of the horses Shall be written, "Holy to Jehovah." And the pots in the house of Jehovah Shall be as the bowls before the altar.

noyes@Zechariah:14:21 @ And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah Shall be holy to Jehovah of hosts; And all that sacrifice shall come, And shall take of them, and seethe therein. And there shall be no more a trader In the house of Jehovah of hosts, in that day.

noyes@Malachi:1:1 @ The prophecy of the word of Jehovah, concerning Israel, by Malachi.

noyes@Malachi:1:2 @ I have loved you, saith Jehovah. But ye say, "Wherein hast thou loved us?" Was not Esau Jacob’s brother, saith Jehovah? Yet I loved Jacob,

noyes@Malachi:1:3 @ And Esau I hated; And I made his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance to be habitations of the desert.

noyes@Malachi:1:4 @ Although Edom say, "We are ruined, Yet will we build again the desolate places." Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They may build, but I will throw down; And men shall call them "The impious land, The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation forever."

noyes@Malachi:1:5 @ And your eyes shall see it, and ye shall say, "Great is Jehovah beyond the borders of Israel!"

noyes@Malachi:1:6 @ A son honoreth his father, And a servant his master; If I, then, be a father, where is mine honor? And if I be a master, where is my fear? Saith Jehovah of hosts to you, ye priests that despise my name. Ye say, "Wherein do we despise thy name?"

noyes@Malachi:1:7 @ Ye bring polluted food to mine altar. And ye say, "Wherein do we pollute thee?" In that ye say, "The table of Jehovah is contemptible."

noyes@Malachi:1:8 @

noyes@Malachi:1:9 @ And now, I pray you, beseech God to be gracious unto us! Since such things are done by you, Will he have regard to you, Saith Jehovah of hosts?

noyes@Malachi:1:10 @ O that some one of you would close the doors, That ye might not kindle the fire upon mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, Neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

noyes@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same My name shall be great among the nations. And in every place shall incense be offered to my name, And a pure offering; For my name shall be great among the nations, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:1:12 @ But ye profane it, In that ye say, "The table of Jehovah is polluted, And what is offered thereon, even its food, is contemptible."

noyes@Malachi:1:13 @ Ye say also, "Behold, what weariness!" And ye snuff at it, Saith Jehovah of hosts; And ye bring that which is plundered, and lame, and sick, And present it for an offering; Shall I accept it at your hand? Saith Jehovah.

noyes@Malachi:1:14 @ Cursed be the deceiver, Who hath in his flock a male, And yet voweth and sacrificeth to Jehovah that which is marred; For I am a great king, saith Jehovah of hosts; And my name is terrible among the nations.

noyes@Malachi:2:1 @ And now to you, O ye priests, is this commandment:

noyes@Malachi:2:2 @ If ye will not hearken, If ye will not lay it to heart, To give glory to my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings; Yea, I have cursed them already, Because ye do not lay it to heart.

noyes@Malachi:2:3 @ Behold, I will rebuke your seed, And I will scatter dung in your faces, The dung of your solemn feasts, And ye shall be carried to it.

noyes@Malachi:2:4 @ And ye shall know that I have sent to you this commandment, That my covenant may remain with Levi, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:2:5 @ My covenant was with him for life and peace, Which I gave to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, And was afraid before my name.

noyes@Malachi:2:6 @ The law of truth was in his mouth, And unrighteousness was not found in his lips; He walked with me in truth and equity, And turned many away from iniquity.

noyes@Malachi:2:7 @ For the lips of the priest should keep knowledge, And men should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:2:8 @ But ye have departed from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble at the law, And ye have made void the covenant with Levi, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:2:9 @ Therefore will I also make you Despicable and base before all the people; According as ye have not kept my ways. But have had respect to persons in the law.

noyes@Malachi:2:10 @ Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? Why should we deal treacherously one against another, And profane the covenant made with our fathers?

noyes@Malachi:2:11 @ Judah hath dealt treacherously, And an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah hath profaned the holy people of Jehovah, which he loveth, And hath married the daughter of a strange god.

noyes@Malachi:2:12 @ Jehovah will cut off the man that doeth this, Him that waketh and him that answereth, from the tents of Jacob, And him that bringeth an offering to Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:2:13 @ And this also ye do: Ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, With weeping and with groans, So that he no more hath regard to the offering, Nor receiveth it with good–will from your hand.

noyes@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye say, "Wherefore?" It is because Jehovah has been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, Against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully, Although she was thy companion and thy covenanted wife.

noyes@Malachi:2:15 @ But did not He make one only? And yet had he a residue of the spirit; And wherefore one? He sought a godly race. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And be not unfaithful to the wife of thy youth!

noyes@Malachi:2:16 @ For I hate him that putteth away, Saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, And him that covereth his garment with violence, Saith Jehovah of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and be not unfaithful.

noyes@Malachi:2:17 @ Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words; Yet ye say, "Wherein have we wearied him?" In that ye say, "Every one of them that do evil Is good in the sight of Jehovah, And in them he hath delight"; Or, "Where is the God of judgment?"

noyes@Malachi:3:1 @ Behold, I will send my messenger, And he shall prepare the way before me; And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, Behold, he shall come, saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:3:2 @ But who shall abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he shall be like the fire of the refiner, And like the soap of the fuller.

noyes@Malachi:3:3 @ And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, And he shall purify the sons of Levi, And shall refine them as gold and silver, That, being holy to Jehovah, they may bring an offering in righteousness.

noyes@Malachi:3:4 @ Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasing to Jehovah, As in the days of old, And as in former years.

noyes@Malachi:3:5 @ And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, and against adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those who defraud the hireling of his hire, And oppress the widow and the fatherless, And turn aside the stranger from his right, And fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:3:6 @ For I am Jehovah; I change not; Therefore, ye sons of Jacob, are ye not consumed.

noyes@Malachi:3:7 @ From the days of your fathers have ye turned aside from my statutes, And have not kept them; Return to me, and I will return to you, Saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, "Wherein shall we return?"

noyes@Malachi:3:8 @ Shall a man rob God, That ye have robbed me? But ye say, "Wherein have we robbed thee?" In tithes and offerings.

noyes@Malachi:3:9 @ Ye are cursed with a curse, For ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

noyes@Malachi:3:10 @ Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, That there be food in my house; And try me now in this, Saith Jehovah of hosts, Whether I will not open to you the windows of heaven, And pour out upon you a blessing, until there is none left.

noyes@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will rebuke for you the devourer, And he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, Nor shall your vine be barren in the field, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:3:12 @ And all nations shall call you blessed; For ye shall be a delightful land, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:3:13 @ Your words have been bold against me, saith Jehovah; Yet ye say, "What have we spoken against thee?"

noyes@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye have said, "It is a vain thing to serve God"; And, "What profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, And that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

noyes@Malachi:3:15 @ Therefore we call the proud happy; Yea, they that do wickedness are built up; Yea, they tempt God, and are delivered."

noyes@Malachi:3:16 @ Then they that feared Jehovah spake to one another, And Jehovah gave ear and heard; And a book of remembrance was written before him, For them that feared Jehovah, And that thought upon his name.

noyes@Malachi:3:17 @ And they shall be to me, saith Jehovah of hosts, In the day which I appoint, as my own possession; And I will spare them, As a father spareth his own son that serveth him.

noyes@Malachi:3:18 @ Then shall ye return and see What is the difference between the righteous and the wicked, Between him who serveth God And him who serveth him not.

noyes@Malachi:4:1 @ For, behold, the day cometh, which shall burn as an oven; Then shall all the proud, And all that do wickedness, be stubble; And the day that cometh shall burn them up, Saith Jehovah of hosts; It shall leave them neither root nor branch.

noyes@Malachi:4:2 @ But for you that fear my name Shall the sun of salvation arise With healing under his wings. And ye shall go forth and leap for joy, Like calves of the stall.

noyes@Malachi:4:3 @ And ye shall tread down the wicked; For they shall be as dust under the soles of your feet In the day which I appoint, saith Jehovah of hosts.

noyes@Malachi:4:4 @ Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, My statutes and precepts!

noyes@Malachi:4:5 @ Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, Before the day of Jehovah come, The great and terrible day.

noyes@Malachi:4:6 @ He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, And the heart of the children to their fathers, That I may not come And smite the land with a curse.

noyes@Matthew:1:1 @ The genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

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