them out of Assyria, and I will bring them into the land of Gilead Ο CHAPTER XI CHAPTER X PEN thy doores, O Lebanon, that the fire may devoure thy The destruction cedars. Howle firre tree, for the cedar is fallen; because of Ierusalem. all the mighty are spoiled; howle O yee okes of Bashan, for the forrest of the vintage is come downe. reiected. There is a voyce of the howling of the shepheards; for their The elect being glory is spoiled: a voyce of the roaring of young lyons; for the cared for, the pride of Iordan is spoiled. Thus saith the LORD my God; Feede rest are the flocke of the slaughter; whose possessours slay them, and hold themselves not guiltie: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their owne shepheards pitie them not. For I will no more pitie the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but loe, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. And I will feede the flocke of slaughter, even you, O poore of the flock: and I tooke unto me two staves; the one I called Beautie, and the other I called Bandes, and I fed the flocke. Three shepheards also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule loathed them, and their soule also abhorred mee. Then said I, I will not feede you: that that dieth, let it die and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the rest eate, every one the flesh of another. bands broken by the reiection And I tooke my staffe, even Beautie, and cut it asunder, that The staves of I might breake my covenant which I had made with all the beauty and people. And it was broken in that day: and so the poore of the flocke that waited upon me, knew that it was the word of of Christ. the LORD. And I said unto them, If yee thinke good, give me my price and if not, forbeare: so they weighed for my price thirtie pieces of silver. And the LORD said unto mee, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price, that I was prised at of them. And I tooke the thirtie pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. Then I cut asunder mine other staffe, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood betweene Iudah and Israel. CHAPTER curse of a foolish Shepheard. And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepheard. For loe, I wil raise up a shepherd in the The Type and land, which shall not visit those that bee cut off, neither shall seeke the yong one, nor heale that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shal eate the flesh of the fat, and teare their clawes in pieces. Woe to the idoll shepheard that leaveth the flocke: the sword shall be upon his arme, and upon his right eye: his arme shall be cleane dryed up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. Ierusalem a cup of trem bling to her selfe, and a burden some stone to TH CHAPTER XII HE burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth foorth the Heavens, and laith the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Ierusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Iudah and against Ierusalem. And in that day will I make Ierusalem a burdensome stone for all people all that burden themselves with it, shall be cut in her adversaries. pieces; though all the people of the earth bee gathered together against it. In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madnesse, and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Iudah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindnesse. And the governours of Iudah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Ierusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hostes their God. The victorious restoring of Iudah. The repentance of Ierusalem. In that day will I make the governours of Iudah like a harth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheafe; and they shall devoure all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left and Ierusalem shall bee inhabited againe in her owne place, even in Ierusalem. The LORD also shall save the tents of Iudah first, that the glory of the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of Ierusalem do not magnifie themselves against Iudah. In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the Angel of the LORD before them. And it shall come to passe in that day, that I will seeke to destroy all the nations that come against Ierusalem. And I wil powre upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall looke upon me whom they have pearced, and they shal mourne for him, as one mourneth for his onely sonne, and shall be in bitter XII nesse for him, as one that is in bitternesse for his first borne. In CHAPTER that day shall there bee a great mourning in Ierusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. And the land shal mourne, every familie apart, the familie of the house of David apart, and their wives apart, the familie of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart: the familie of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart: the familie of Shimei apart, and their wives apart: all the families that remaine, every family apart, and their wives apart. CHAPTER XIII IN N that day there shalbe a fountaine opened to the house of The fountaine David, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, for sinne, and for of purgation for Ierusalem, uncleannesse. And it shal come to passe in that day, saith the LORD of hostes, from idolatrie, that I will cut off the names of the idoles out of the land: and and false prophecie. they shal no more be remembred: and also I wil cause the prophets, and the uncleane spirit to passe out of the land. And it shal come to passe that when any shall yet prophecie, then his father and his mother that begate him, shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live for thou speakest lies in the Name of the LORD: and his father and his mother, that begate him, shall thrust him through when he prophecieth. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the prophets shalbe ashamed every one of his vision, when hee hath prophecied: neither shall they weare a rough garment to deceive. But he shal say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman: for man taught me to keepe cattell from my youth. And one shal say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then hee shall answere: Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. triall of a third Awake, O sword, against my shepheard, and against the man The death of that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hostes: smite the Shepheard, Christ, and the and the sheepe shalbe scattered; and I wil turne mine hand upon part. the litle ones. And it shall come to passe, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off, and die, but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the thirde part through the fire, and wil refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my Name, and I wil heare them: I wil say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God. 4: YY 353 CHAPTER The destroyers The comming of Christ, and the graces of his kingdome. The plague of Ierusalems enemies. B CHAPTER XIIII EHOLDE, the day of the LORD commeth, and thy spoile shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I wil gather all nations against Ierusalem to battell, and the citie shall be taken, and the houses rifeled, and the women ravished, and halfe of the citie shall goe forth into captivitie, and the residue of the people shal not be cut off from the citie. Then shall the LORD goe forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battel. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Ierusalem on the East, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the East, and toward the West, and there shall bee a very great valley, and halfe of the Mountaine shall remove toward the North, and halfe of it toward the South. And ye shal flee to the valley of the mountaines: for the valley of the mountaines shal reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee like as yee fled from before the earthquake in the dayes of Uzziah king of Iudah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the Saints with thee. And it shall come to passe in that day, that the light shall not be cleare, nor darke. But it shall be one day, which shalbe knowen to the LORD, not day nor night: but it shal come to passe that at evening time it shalbe light. And it shal be in that day, that living waters shall goe out from Ierusalem: halfe of them toward the former Sea, and halfe of them toward the hinder Sea: in Summer and in winter shall it be. And the LORD shall be King over all the earth: in that day shal there be one LORD, and his Name one. All the land shall be turned as a plaine from Geba to Rimmon, South of Ierusalem: and it shall be lifted up and inhabited in her place: from Beniamins gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the towre of Hananiel unto the Kings winepresses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shalbe no more utter destruction: but Ierusalem shalbe safely inhabited. And this shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite all the people, that have fought against Ierusalem: their flesh shall consume away, while they stand upon their feete, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. And it shall come to passe in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shalbe among them, and they shall lay holde every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. And Iudah also shall fight at Ierusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, golde and silver, and apparell in great abundance. And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camell, and of the asse, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. CHAPTER And it shall come to passe that every one that is left of all the The remnant nations which came against Ierusalem, shall even goe up from shal turne to the Lord, yeere to yeere to worship the King the LORD of hostes, and to keepe the feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be, that who so will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Ierusalem, to worship the King the LORD of hostes, even upon them shall be no raine. And if the family of Egypt goe not up, and come not, that have no raine: there shall bee the plague wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keepe the feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keepe the feast of Tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bels of the horses, HOLINES And their UNTO THE LORD, and the pots in the LORDS house shall bee like spoiles shalbe holy. the bowles before the Altar. Yea, every pot in Ierusalem and in Iudah shall bee Holinesse unto the LORD of hostes, and all they that sacrifice, shall come and take of them, and seethe therein and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hostes. MALACHI CHAPTER I Israels un HE burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi com- Whereas Edom sayth, Wee are impoverished, but we will returne and build the desolate places; Thus sayth the LORD of hostes, They shal build, but I will throw downe; and they shal call them, The border of wickednesse, and |