Zeph. 3. 20. strong. Hag. 2. 19. y ver. 9. 2 Jer. 31. 28. 22 Chron. 35. 16. ch. 1. 6. b ch. 7.9. ver. 19. 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: 15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not. 16 ¶ These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to Ephes. 4.25. his neighbour; +execute the judgment Judge truth, of truth and peace in your gates: + Heb. and the judgment of 17 And let none of you imagine evil prace. in your hearts against his neighbour; and Prov. 3.29. d love no false oath: for all these are deb.5.3,4 things that I hate, saith the LORD. eh. 7. 10. 18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The f Jer. 52. 12, fast of the fourth month, and the fast of 13. ch.7.3, the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, 2 Kings 25 and the fast of the tenth, shall be to 1, 2. the house of Judah joy and gladness, Jer. 52.4. and chearful || feasts; therefore love the Isai. 35-10. truth and peace. 25. Jer.41. i Esth. 8. 17. Or, solemn, Or, set times," k ver. 16. Mic. 4.1, 2. nually. + Heb. going. 20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 21 And the inhabitants of one city M3 shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go Or conti+speedily + to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also. 22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of LORD, ch. hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. + Heb. to intreat the face of the 7.2. m Isai. 60.3, &c. & 66.23. n Isai. 3.6. & 4.1. 25. m 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard 1 Cor. 14. that God is with you. 8 And "I will encamp about mine ch.2.3. house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall 50. 24. pass through them any more: for now Phave I seen with mine eyes. 9¶ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, 'thy King cometh unto thee: her is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 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 unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be "from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. Ps. 18. 14. & 77. 17. & 14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GoD shall 144-6. blow the trumpet, and shall go with b Isai. 21. 1. whirlwinds of the south. b 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend Or, subdue the stones of them; and they shall devour, and [[ sub- the song. a Jer. 14. 22. b Deut. 11. 14. land. d 17 For 'how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men ||chearful, and new wine the maids. CHAP. X. 1 God is to be sought unto, and not idols. 5 As he visited his flock for sin, so he will save and restore them. a ASK ye of the LORD brain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD The elect accepted, the rest rejected. CHRIST of Assyria; and I will bring them into Befare the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. 16. 11 "And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria • Im 14 shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. a b Ezek. Ja 13 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down e Mic. 4. 5in his name, saith the LORD. CHAP. XI. 1 The destruction of Jerusalem. 3 The elect being cared for, the rest are rejected. 10 The staves of Beauty and Bands broken by the rejection of Christ. 15 The type and curse of a foolish shepherd. 13.33 shall make ||bright clouds, and give them OPEN thy doors, O Lebanon, that a chan 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even | Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. Isai. 51.17, cup of trembling unto all the people round about, || when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 22, 23. Or, slumber, or, poison. Or, and also against Judah shall shall be in Jerusalem. d ver. 4, 6, 8, 9, 11. & ch. 13. 1. & 14. 4, 6, 8, 9, 13. e Matt. 21. 44. CHRIST cir. 587. The repentance of Jerusalem. of Judah first, that the glory of the house Before of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. 8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he h Joel 3. 10. that is feeble among them at that day Or, abject. shall be as David; and the house of fallen. David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. Heb. Hag. 2. 22. ver. 3. k Jer. 31.9. Ezek. 39. 29. & 50. 4. Joel 2.28. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his Amos 8. 10. only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. m 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 "And the land shall mourn, tevery 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; 1 John 19. 34, 37. Rev. m Jer. 6. 26. 13 The family of the house of Levi 1 The fountain of purgation for Jerusalem, b Hebr. 9. ch. 12. 3. 3 And in that day will I make Jeru-IN that day there shall be a fountain ⚫ opened to the house of David and to 14. 1 Pet. 1. the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and 19. Rev. 1.5. for + uncleanness. hebe which salem a burdensome stone for all people: siege against all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, 'I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open Ezek. 38. 4. mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. Isai. 13.9. Joel 2.31. Acts 2. 20. b Joel 3.2. CHAP. XIV. 1 The destroyers of Jerusalem destroyed. 4 2 For 'I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall c Isai. 13. 16. be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women 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. d See Ezek. 21.23. e Joel 3. 12, 14. 1 Or, my mountains. Or, when he shall touch the valley of the mountains to the place he separated. 3 ¶ Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 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 cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toWard the north, and half of it toward the e f Amos 1. 1. south. g Matt. 16. 27. & 24-30, 31. & 25. 31. Jude 14. cir. 787. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the h Joel 3. 11. mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, eit shall ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before not be clear the earthquake in the days of Uzziah places, and king of Judah: and the LORD my God other places shall come, and all the saints with of the world. thee. ju some dark in ↑ Heb. precious. ↑ Heb. thickness. 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor + dark: which 7 But it shall be 'one day Rev. 21. 5. shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, k Matt. 24. 36. 766 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in t great abundance. 15 And 'so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. 16 ¶ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; † He spen there shall be the plague, wherewith the is LORD will smite the heathen that come d Dent. 13. not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the || punishment of 1 Or, sia. Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 1 Or, bridles 20 In that day shall there be upon the || bells of the horses, "HOLINESS. 23. 15. 1 Malachi complaineth of Israel's unkindness. 6 Of their irreligiousness, 12 and profaneness. HE burden of the word of the LORD The Israel + by Malachi. 2 "I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Rom.9. 13. LORD: yet I loved Jacob, Ezek. 35-3, < Jer. 49. 18. 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his 47.9,14,15 mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Obad.10,&c. d P. 35-27. Or, upon + Heb. from pon. e Exod. 20. 12. 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. 5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. 6¶ A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: "if then I be a faf Luke 6.46. ther, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that 17.& 3.7,, despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? g ch. 2. 14, 13. Or, Bring unio, ac. 21. Deut. 15 i Ezek. 41. 22. ver. 12 k Lev. 22. 22. Deut. 15. 21. ver. 14. + Heb. to sacrifice. 7 || Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, 'The table of the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind †for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased +Heb. the with thee, or 1accept thy person? saith face of God. the LORD of hosts. 1 Job 42.8. + Heb. from 9 And now, I pray you, beseech + God Hos. 13.9 that he will be gracious unto us: "this your hand. hath been + by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts. 10 Who is there even among you that Cer.9.13. would shut the doors for nought? "neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. o Isai. 1. 11. Jer. 6. 20. Amos 5. 21. 5. Ps. 113. 3. sai. 59. 19. 11 For from the rising of the sun Isai. 60. 3. even unto the going down of the same John 4.21, my name shall be great among the Gen23. Tim.2 tiles; and in every place 'incense shall 8. Rev. 8.3. be offered unto my name, and a pure fai. 35.8. Joel 3. 17. Rev. 21. 27. & 22. 15g Eph. 2. 19, 20, 21, 22. CHRIST Before offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of cir. 397. hosts. 12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, "The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. t Isai. 66. 19, 20. u ver. 7. as ye might it away. 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, 10r, where saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought have blown that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. 14¶ But cursed be the deceiver, ||which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. 2 "If ye will not hear, and if ye will aLev. 26. not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my 28. 15, &c. name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even 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. 3 Behold, I will || corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and || one shall take you away with it. |