le removed like a cottage, and the tranfgreffion thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it fall fall, and not rife again. W° CHAP. XXIX. 1−4. "O to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt: addye year to year; let them kill facrifices. 2. Yet I will diftress Ariel, and therefhall be heaviness and forrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3. And I will camp against thee round abort, and will lay fiege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4. And thoufhalt be brought down, and speak out of the ground, and thy Speech fhall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar fpirit, out of the ground, and thy speech fball whisper out of the dust. CHAP. XXX. 13.-17. 13. Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, fwelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh fuddenly at an inftant. 14. And he fall break it as the breaking of the porters veffel, that is broken in pieces, he shall not spare; fo that there shall not be found in the bursting of it, afherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 15. For thus faith the Lord God, the holy One of Ifrael, In retarning and rest (hall be faved, in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye would not. 16. But ye faid, No, for we will flee upon borfes; therefore hall ye flee: and we will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you, be fwift. 17. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of five fall ye flee, till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an infign on an hill. DAN. IX. 26.—27. 26. And after threefcore and two weeks fhall Meffiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come, fall destroy the city and the fanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war defolations are determined. 27. And 27. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall caufe the facrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it defolate, even until the confummation, and that determined fhall be poured upon the defolate. HOSEA iij. 4. 4. For the children of Ifrael shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a facrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim. TH Joel j. 1-20. HE word of the Lord that came to Joel the fon of Pethuel 2. Hear this, ye oldmen, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3. Tell ye your children of it, and let children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4, That which the palmer-worm hath left, hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locuft hath left,hath the canker-worm eaten ; and that which the canker-worm hath left, hath the catterpiller eaten. 5. Awake ye drunkards, and weep, and howl all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. 6. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheekteeth of a great lion. 7. He hath laid my vine wafte, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. 8. Lament like a virgin girded with sacksloth for the husband of her youth. 9. The meat-offering, and the drink-offering is cut off from the boufe of the Lord, the priests the Lords minifters mourn. 10. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dryed up, the oyl languisheth. 11. Be ye afhamed, Oye husband-men, bowl, Oye vine-dreffers, for the wheat, and for the barly; because the harvest of the field is perished. Rr 12. The 12. The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languifheth, the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree alfo, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withered away from the fons of men. 13. Gird your felves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye minifters of the altar: come, lie all night in fackloth, ye minifters of my God: for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God. 14. Sanctifie ye a fast, call a folemn assembly, gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord. 15. Alas for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a deftruction from the almighty shall it come. 16. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17. The feed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid defolate, the barns are broken down ; for the corn is withered. 18. How do the beafts grone? the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pafture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made defolate. 19. O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the paftures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field. 20. The beasts of the field cry also unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. B Снар. i). 1,—19. Low ye the trumpet in Zion, and found an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2. A day of darknessand of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning Spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong, there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3. Afire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wilderness, yea, and nothing shall efcape them. 4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, fo fhall they run. 5. Like the noife of chariots on the tops of mountains fall they leap, like the noife of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people fet in battle aray. 6. Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces fhall gather blackness. 7. They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march every one on his ways, and they fhall not break their ranks. 8. Neither ball one thrust another,they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9. They shall run to and fro in the city: they shall run upon the wall: they shall climb up upon the houses: they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10. The earthball quake before them, the heavens fhall tremble, the fun and the moon fhall be dark, and the stars fhall withdraw their shining. 11. And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great, and very terrible, and who can abide it? 12. Therefore alfo now, faith the Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fafting, and with weeping, and with mourning. 13. And rent your heart, and not your garments, and turn unio the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14. Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a bleffing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the Lord your God? 15. Blow the trumpet in Zion, fanctifie a fast, calla folemn afSembly. 16. Gather the people: fanctifie the congregation: affemble the elders: gather the children, and those that fuck the breafts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her clofet. Po7. Let the priests, the minifters of the Lord, weep b between the and the altar, and let them fay, Spare thy people, O Lord, Rr 2 and and give not thine heritage to reproach; that the heathen shouldrule over them: wherefore should they fay among the people, Where is their God? 18. Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19. Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will fend you corn, and wine, and oyl, and ye jhall be fatisfyed therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the hea then. Matt. xxij. 7. 7. But when the king heard thereof, he was wrath: and he fent forth his armies, and destroyed thofe murderers, and burnt up their city. CHA P. xxiv. 1-28. AND Jesus went out, and departed from the temple ;and his dicame to him for to fhew him the buildings of the temple. 2. And Jefus faid unto them, See ye not all these things? veryly I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3. And as he fat upon the mount of Olives, the difciples came unto him privately, faying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the fign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4. And Jesus answered, and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5. For many shall come in my name, faying, I am Chrift: and fballdeceive many. 6. And ye shall hear of wars, and rumors of wars: fee that Je be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation fhall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there fhall be famines, and peftilences, and earthquakes in divers places. 8. All these are the beginnings of forrows. 9. Then fhall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my names fake. |