display: Amos 1:2

text: And he said, The LORD will roare from Zion, and vtter his voice from Ierusalem: and the habitations of the shepheards shall mourne, and the top of Carmel shall wither.


display: Amos 1:3

Amos

testament: OT

text: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they haue threshed Gilead, with threshing instruments of yron.


display: Amos 1:4

text: But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall deuoure the palaces of Benhadad.


display: Amos 1:5

text: I wil breake also the barre of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plaine of Auen: and him that holdeth the scepter from the house of Eden, and the people of Syria shall goe into captiuitie, vnto Kir, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 1:6

text: ¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Gaza, and for foure I will not turne away the punishment thereof: because they caried away captiue the whole captiuitie, to deliuer them vp to Edom.


display: Amos 1:7

text: But I wil send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall deuoure the palaces thereof.


display: Amos 1:8

text: And I wil cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and I wil turne mine hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.


display: Amos 1:9

text: ¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they deliuered vp the whole captiuitie to Edom, and remembred not the brotherly couenant.


display: Amos 1:10

text: But I wil send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall deuoure the palaces thereof.


display: Amos 1:11

text: ¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Edom, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof, because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pitie, and his anger did teare perpetually, and kept his wrath for euer.


display: Amos 1:12

text: But I will send a fire vpon Teman, which shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.


display: Amos 1:13

text: ¶ Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof; because they haue ript vp the women with childe of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.


display: Amos 1:14

text: But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof, with showting in the day of battell, with a tempest in the day of the whirlewinde.


display: Amos 1:15

text: And their king shall goe into captiuitie, hee, and his princes together, sayth the LORD.


display: Amos 2:1

text: Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Moab, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because hee burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime.


display: Amos 2:2

text: But I will send a fire vpon Moab, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:


display: Amos 2:3

text: And I will cut off the iudge from the middest thereof, and wil slay all the princes thereof with him, sayeth the LORD.


display: Amos 2:4

text: ¶ Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Iudah, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they haue despised the Law of the LORD, and haue not kept his Commandements, and their lies caused them to erre, after the which their fathers haue walked.


display: Amos 2:5

text: But I will send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.


display: Amos 2:6

text: ¶ Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Israel, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they solde the righteous for siluer, and the poore for a paire of shooes:


display: Amos 2:7

text: That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poore, and turne aside the way of the meeke; and a man and his father will goe in vnto the same maid, to profane my holy Name.


display: Amos 2:8

text: And they lay themselues downe vpon clothes laide to pledge, by euery Altar, and they drinke the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.


display: Amos 2:9

text: ¶ Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the Cedars, and hee was strong as the okes, yet I destroyed his fruite from aboue, and his rootes from beneath.


display: Amos 2:10

text: Also I brought you vp from the land of Egypt, and ledde you fourtie yeeres through the wildernesse, to possesse the land of the Amorite.


display: Amos 2:11

text: And I raised vp of your sonnes for Prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not euen thus, O ye children of Israel, saith the LORD ?


display: Amos 2:12

text: But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commaunded the Prophets, saying, Prophecie not.


display: Amos 2:13

text: Behold, I am pressed vnder you, as a cart is pressed that is ful of sheaues.


display: Amos 2:14

text: Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie deliuer himselfe:


display: Amos 2:15

text: Neither shall hee stand that handleth the bow, and hee that is swift of foote, shall not deliuer himselfe, neither shall hee that rideth the horse, deliuer himselfe.


display: Amos 2:16

text: And hee that is couragious among the mighty, shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 3:1

text: Heare this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family, which I brought vp from the land of Egypt, saying;


display: Amos 3:2

text: You onely haue I knowen of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.


display: Amos 3:3

text: Can two walke together, except they be agreed?


display: Amos 3:4

text: Will a lyon roare in the forrest, when he hath no pray? will a young lyon cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?


display: Amos 3:5

text: Can a bird fall in a snare vpon the earth, where no ginne is for him? shall one take vp a snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?


display: Amos 3:6

text: Shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, and the people not be afraid? shall there be euill in a citie, and the LORD hath not done it?


display: Amos 3:7

text: Surely the Lord GOD will doe nothing, but he reuealeth his secret vnto his seruants the Prophets.


display: Amos 3:8

text: The lyon hath roared, Who will not feare? the Lord GOD hath spoken, Who can but prophecie?


display: Amos 3:9

text: ¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say; Assemble your selues vpon the mountaines of Samaria: and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.


display: Amos 3:10

text: For they know not to doe right, saith the LORD; who store vp violence, and robberie in their palaces.


display: Amos 3:11

text: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, An aduersarie there shall be euen round about the land: and he shal bring downe thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.


display: Amos 3:12

text: Thus saith the LORD, As the shepheard taketh out of the mouth of the lyon two legges or a piece of an eare; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.


display: Amos 3:13

text: Heare yee and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hostes;


display: Amos 3:14

text: That in the day that I shall visite the transgressions of Israel vpon him, I will also visite the altars of Bethel, and the hornes of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.


display: Amos 3:15

text: And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of yuorie shall perish, and the great houses shall haue an end, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 4:1

text: Heare this word yea kine of Bashan, that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, which crush the needy, which say to their masters; Bring, and let vs drinke.


display: Amos 4:2

text: The Lord GOD hath sworne by his holinesse, that loe, the dayes shall come vpon you, that he will take you away with hookes, and your posteritie with fish-hookes.


display: Amos 4:3

text: And yee shall goe out at the breaches, euery Cow at that which is before her, and yee shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 4:4

text: ¶ Come to Bethel and transgresse, at Gilgal multiplie transgression; and bring your sacrifices euery morning, and your tithes after three yeeres.


display: Amos 4:5

text: And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiuing with leauen, and proclaime and publish the free offrings; for this liketh you, O yee children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.


display: Amos 4:6

text: ¶ And I also haue giuen you cleannesse of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 4:7

text: And also I haue withholden the raine from you, when there were yet three moneths to the haruest, and I caused it to raine vpon one citie, and caused it not to raine vpon an other city: one piece was rained vpon, & the piece wherupon it rained not, withered.


display: Amos 4:8

text: So two or three cities wandered vnto one citie, to drinke water; but they were not satisfied: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 4:9

text: I haue smitten you with blasting and mildew; when your gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your oliue trees increased, the palmer worme deuoured them: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 4:10

text: I haue sent among you the pestilence, after the maner of Egypt: your yongmen haue I slain with the sword, and haue taken away your horses, & I haue made the stinke of your campes to come vp vnto your nostrils, yet haue ye not returned vnto me, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 4:11

text: I haue ouerthrowen some of you, as God ouerthrew Sodome & Gomorrah, and yee were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 4:12

text: Therefore thus will I doe vnto thee, O Israel: and because I will doe this vnto thee, prepare to meete thy God, O Israel.


display: Amos 4:13

text: For loe, he that formeth the mountaines, and createth the wind, and declareth vnto man, what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkenesse, and treadeth vpon the high places of the earth: the LORD, the God of hostes is his Name.


display: Amos 5:1

text: Heare ye this word which I take vp against you, euen a lamentation, O house of Israel.


display: Amos 5:2

text: The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise: she is forsaken vpon her land, there is none to raise her vp.


display: Amos 5:3

text: For thus saith the Lord GOD, The citie that went out by a thousand, shall leaue an hundred, and that which went foorth by an hundred, shall leaue ten to the house of Israel.


display: Amos 5:4

text: ¶ For thus saith the LORD vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye mee, and ye shall liue.


display: Amos 5:5

text: But seeke not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal and passe not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely goe into captiuitie, and Bethel shal come to nought.


display: Amos 5:6

text: Seeke the LORD, and ye shall liue, lest hee breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph and deuoure it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel,


display: Amos 5:7

text: Ye who turne iudgment to wormwood, and leaue off righteousnesse in the earth:


display: Amos 5:8

text: Seeke him that maketh the seuen starres and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day darke with night: that calleth for the waters of the Sea, and powreth them out vpon the face of the earth: the LORD is his Name.


display: Amos 5:9

text: That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong: so that the spoiled shall come against the fortresse.


display: Amos 5:10

text: They hate him that rebuketh in the gate: and they abhorre him that speaketh vprightly.


display: Amos 5:11

text: Forasmuch therfore as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: yee haue planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.


display: Amos 5:12

text: For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take a bribe, and they turne aside the poore in the gate from their right.


display: Amos 5:13

text: Therefore the prudent shall keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.


display: Amos 5:14

text: Seeke good and not euill, that ye may liue: and so the LORD, the God of hosts shall be with you, as yee haue spoken.


display: Amos 5:15

text: Hate the euill, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hostes will bee gracious vnto the remnant of Ioseph.


display: Amos 5:16

text: Therefore the LORD, the God of hostes, the Lord saith thus: Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the high wayes, Alas, Alas: and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation, to wailing.


display: Amos 5:17

text: And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will passe through thee, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 5:18

text: Woe vnto you that desire the day of the LORD: to what ende is it for you? the day of the LORD is darknes and not light.


display: Amos 5:19

text: As if a man did flee from a lyon, and a beare met him, or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.


display: Amos 5:20

text: Shall not the day of the LORD be darkenes, and not light? euen very darke, and no brightnesse in it?


display: Amos 5:21

text: ¶ I hate, I despise your feast dayes, and I will not smell in your solemne assemblies.


display: Amos 5:22

text: Though ye offer me burnt offerings, and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.


display: Amos 5:23

text: Take thou away from mee the noise of thy songs: for I will not heare the melodie of thy violes.


display: Amos 5:24

text: But let iudgement run downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie streame.


display: Amos 5:25

text: Haue yee offered vnto mee sacrifices and offerings in the wildernesse fourtie yeeres, O house of Israel?


display: Amos 5:26

text: But yee haue borne the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the starre of your god, which ye made to your selues.


display: Amos 5:27

text: Therefore wil I cause you to go into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose Name is the God of hostes.


display: Amos 6:1

text: Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountaine of Samaria, which are named chiefe of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came.


display: Amos 6:2

text: Passe ye vnto Calneh, and see, and from thence go ye to Hemath the great: then goe downe to Gath of the Philistines: bee they better then these kingdomes? or their border greater then your border?


display: Amos 6:3

text: Ye that put farre away the euil day, and cause the seat of violence to come neere:


display: Amos 6:4

text: That lie vpon beds of Yuorie, and stretch themselues vpon their couches, and eate the lambes out of the flocke, and the calues out of the midst of the stall:


display: Amos 6:5

text: That chaunt to the sound of the Uiole, and inuent to themselues instruments of musicke, like Dauid:


display: Amos 6:6

text: That drinke wine in bowles, and anoint themselues with the chiefe ointments: but they are not grieued for the affliction of Ioseph.


display: Amos 6:7

text: ¶ Therefore now shall they goe captiue, with the first that goe captiue, and the banquet of them that stretched themselues, shalbe remoued.


display: Amos 6:8

text: The Lord GOD hath sworne by himselfe, saith the LORD the God of hostes, I abhorre the excellencie of Iacob, and hate his palaces: therefore wil I deliuer vp the citie, with all that is therein.


display: Amos 6:9

text: And it shall come to passe, if there remaine tenne men in one house, that they shall die.


display: Amos 6:10

text: And a mans vncle shall take him vp, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say vnto him that is by the sides of the house; Is there yet any with thee? and hee shall say, No. Then shall he say, Holde thy tongue: for wee may not make mention of the Name of the LORD.


display: Amos 6:11

text: For beholde, the LORD commandeth, and hee will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.


display: Amos 6:12

text: ¶ Shall horses runne vpon the rocke? wil one plow there with oxen? for ye haue turned iudgement into gall, and the fruite of righteousnesse into hemlocke.


display: Amos 6:13

text: Yee which reioyce in a thing of nought, which say, Haue we not taken to vs hornes by our owne strength?


display: Amos 6:14

text: But beholde, I wil raise vp against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hostes, and they shall afflict you from the entring in of Hemath, vnto the riuer of the wildernesse.


display: Amos 7:1

text: Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed vnto me, and behold, he formed grassehoppers in the beginning of the shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was the latter grouth after the kings mowings.


display: Amos 7:2

text: And it came to passe, that when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I said; O Lord GOD, forgiue, I beseech thee, by whom shal Iacob arise? for he is small.


display: Amos 7:3

text: The LORD repented for this. It shall not be, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 7:4

text: ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed vnto me; and behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it deuoured the great deepe, and did eate vp a part.


display: Amos 7:5

text: Then said I, O Lord GOD , cease, I beseech thee, by whom shal Iacob arise? for he is small.


display: Amos 7:6

text: The LORD repented for this. This also shall not bee, saith the Lord GOD.


display: Amos 7:7

text: ¶ Thus hee shewed mee, and behold, the Lord stood vpon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.


display: Amos 7:8

text: And the LORD said vnto mee, Amos, what seest thou? And I sayd, A plumb-line. Then sayd the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel, I will not againe passe by them any more.


display: Amos 7:9

text: And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the Sanctuaries of Israel shalbe laide waste: and I will rise against the house of Ieroboam with the sword.


display: Amos 7:10

text: ¶ Then Amaziah the Priest of Beth-el sent to Ieroboam king of Israel, saying; Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to beare all his words.


display: Amos 7:11

text: For thus Amos saith, Ieroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captiue, out of their owne land.


display: Amos 7:12

text: Also Amaziah said vnto Amos, O thou Seer, goe, flee thee away into the land of Iudah, and there eate bread, and prophecie there.


display: Amos 7:13

text: But prophecie not againe any more at Beth-el: for it is the Kings Chappell, and it is the Kings Court.


display: Amos 7:14

text: ¶ Then answered Amos, and sayde to Amaziah; I was no Prophet, neither was I a Prophets sonne, but I was an heardman, and a gatherer of Sycomore fruit.


display: Amos 7:15

text: And the LORD tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the LORD said vnto me, Goe, prophecie vnto my people Israel.


display: Amos 7:16

text: ¶ Now therefore heare thou the worde of the LORD; Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.


display: Amos 7:17

text: Therfore thus sayth the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be diuided by line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely goe into captiuitie foorth of his land.


display: Amos 8:1

text: Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed vnto me, and beholde, a basket of Summer fruit.


display: Amos 8:2

text: And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I sayde, A basket of Summer fruite. Then said the LORD vnto mee, The ende is come vpon my people of Israel; I will not againe passe by them anymore.


display: Amos 8:3

text: And the songs of the Temples shalbe howlings in that day, sayth the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in euery place, they shall cast them foorth with silence.


display: Amos 8:4

text: ¶ Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the needy, euen to make the poore of the land to faile,


display: Amos 8:5

text: Saying, When will the newe Moone be gone, that we may sell corne? and the Sabbath, that wee may set forth wheat, making the Ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?


display: Amos 8:6

text: That wee may buy the poore for siluer, & the needie for a paire of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate?


display: Amos 8:7

text: The LORD hath sworne by the excellencie of Iacob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.


display: Amos 8:8

text: Shall not the land tremble for this, and euery one mourne that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise vp wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.


display: Amos 8:9

text: And it shall come to passe in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the Sunne to go downe at noone, and I will darken the earth in the cleare day.


display: Amos 8:10

text: And I will turne your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and I will bring vp sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the end thereof as a bitter day.


display: Amos 8:11

text: ¶ Behold, the daies come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.


display: Amos 8:12

text: And they shall wander from Sea to Sea, and from the North euen to the East they shall runne to and fro, to seeke the worde of the LORD, and shall not finde it.


display: Amos 8:13

text: In that day shall the faire virgines and young men faint for thirst.


display: Amos 8:14

text: They that sweare by the sinne of Samaria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, liueth, and the manner of Beer-sheba liueth, euen they shall fall, and neuer rise vp againe.


display: Amos 9:1

text: I saw the LORD standing vpon the altar, and he said, Smite the lintell of the doore, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head all of them, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: hee that fleeth of them, shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them, shall not be deliuered.


display: Amos 9:2

text: Though they digge into hell, thence shall mine hand take them: though they clime vp to heauen, thence will I bring them downe.


display: Amos 9:3

text: And though they hide themselues in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence, and though they be hid from my sight in the bottome of the Sea, thence will I commaund the serpent, and he shall bite them.


display: Amos 9:4

text: And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence will I commaund the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes vpon them for euill, and not for good.


display: Amos 9:5

text: And the Lord GOD of hostes is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwelleth therein shall mourne, and it shall rise vp wholly like a flood, and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt.


display: Amos 9:6

text: It is he that buildeth his stories in the heauen, and hath founded his troupe in the earth, he that calleth for the waters of the Sea, and powreth them out vpon the face of the earth: the LORD is his name.


display: Amos 9:7

text: Are yee not as children of the Ethiopians vnto me, O children of Israel, saith the LORD ? haue not I brought vp Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


display: Amos 9:8

text: Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are vpon the sinfull kingdome, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; sauing that I will not vtterly destroy the house of Iacob, saith the LORD.


display: Amos 9:9

text: For loe, I will commaund, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corne is sifted in a sieue, yet shall not the least graine fall vpon the earth.


display: Amos 9:10

text: All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say: The euill shall not ouertake nor preuent vs.


display: Amos 9:11

text: ¶ In that day will I raise vp the tabernacle of Dauid, that is fallen, and close vp the breaches thereof, and I will raise vp his ruines, and I will build it as in the dayes of old;


display: Amos 9:12

text: That they may possesse the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen; which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doth this.


display: Amos 9:13

text: Behold, the daies come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall ouertake the reaper, & the treader of grapes him that soweth seede, and the mountaines shall drop sweete wine, and all the hils shall melt.


display: Amos 9:14

text: And I will bring againe the captiuitie of my people of Israel: and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drinke the wine thereof: they shall also make gardens, and eate the fruite of them.


display: Amos 9:15

text: And I will plant them vpon their land, and they shall no more be pulled vp out of their land, which I haue giuen them, saith the LORD thy God.


display: Obadiah 1:1

text: The vision of Obadiah: Thus saith the Lord GOD, concerning Edom; Wee haue heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen: Arise yee, and let vs rise vp against her in battell.


display: Obadiah 1:2

text: Behold, I haue made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.


display: Obadiah 1:3

text: ¶ The pride of thine heart hath deceiued thee: thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocke, Whose habitation is high, that saith in his heart: Who shall bring me downe to the ground?


display: Obadiah 1:4

text: Though thou exalt thy selfe as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the starres, thence will I bring thee downe, saith the LORD.


display: Obadiah 1:5

text: If theeues came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off?) would they not haue stollen til they had enough? if the grape gatherers came to thee, would they not leaue some grapes?


display: Obadiah 1:6

text: How are the things of Esau searched out? how are his hid things sought vp?


display: Obadiah 1:7

text: All the men of thy confederacie haue brought thee euen to the border: the men that were at peace with thee, haue deceiued thee, and preuailed against thee: they that eate thy bread haue laide a wound vnder thee: there is none vnderstanding in him.


display: Obadiah 1:8

text: Shal I not in that day, saith the LORD, euen destroy the wise men out of Edom, and vnderstanding out of the mount of Esau?


display: Obadiah 1:9

text: And thy mightie men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that euery one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.


display: Obadiah 1:10

text: ¶ For thy violence against thy brother Iacob shame shall couer thee, and thou shalt be cut off for euer.


display: Obadiah 1:11

text: In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers caried away captiue his forces, and forreiners entred into his gates, and cast lots vpon Ierusalem, euen thou wast as one of them.


display: Obadiah 1:12

text: But thou shouldest not haue looked on the day of thy brother in the day that hee became a stranger, neither shouldest thou haue reioyced ouer the children of Iudah in the day of their destruction: neither shouldest thou haue spoken proudly in the day of distresse.


display: Obadiah 1:13

text: Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people in the day of their calamitie: yea, thou shouldest not haue looked on their affliction in the day of their calamitie, nor haue laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamitie.


display: Obadiah 1:14

text: Neither shouldest thou haue stood in the crosse way to cut off those of his that did escape, neither shouldest thou haue deliuered vp those of his that did remaine in the day of distresse.


display: Obadiah 1:15

text: For the day of the LORD is neere vpon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall bee done vnto thee, thy reward shall returne vpon thine owne head.


display: Obadiah 1:16

text: For as ye haue drunke vpon my holy mountaine, so shall all the heathen drinke continually: yea, they shall drinke, and they shall swallow downe, and they shall bee as though they had not bene.


display: Obadiah 1:17

text: ¶ But vpon mount Zion shall be deliuerance, and there shall be holinesse, and the house of Iacob shall possesse their possessions.


display: Obadiah 1:18

text: And the house of Iacob shall bee a fire, and the house of Ioseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them and deuoure them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the LORD hath spoken it.


display: Obadiah 1:19

text: And they of the South shall possesse the mount of Esau, and they of the plaine, the Philistines: and they shall possesse the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria, and Beniamin shall possesse Gilead.


display: Obadiah 1:20

text: And the captiuitie of this hoste of the children of Israel shall possesse that of the Canaanites euen vnto Zarephath, and the captiuitie of Ierusalem which is in Sepharad, shall possesse the cities of the South.


display: Obadiah 1:21

text: And Sauiours shall come vp on mount Zion to iudge the mount of Esau, and the kingdome shall be the LORDs.


display: Jonah 1:1

text: Now the word of the LORD came vnto Ionah the sonne of Amittai, saying,


display: Jonah 1:2

text: Arise, goe to Nineueh that great citie, and cry against it: for their wickednes is come vp before me.


display: Jonah 1:3

text: But Ionah rose vp to flee vnto Tarshish, from the presence of the LORD, and went downe to Ioppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he payed the fare thereof, and went downe into it, to goe with them vnto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.


display: Jonah 1:4

text: ¶ But the LORD sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.


display: Jonah 1:5

text: Then the Mariners were afraid, and cried euery man vnto his god, and cast foorth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: but Ionah was gone downe into the sides of the ship, and hee lay, and was fast asleepe.


display: Jonah 1:6

text: So the shipmaster came to him, and said vnto him; What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.


display: Jonah 1:7

text: And they said euery one to his fellow; Come, and let vs cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this euil is vpon vs. So they cast lots, and the lot fell vpon Ionah.


display: Jonah 1:8

text: Then said they vnto him, Tel vs, we pray thee, for whose cause this euill is vpon vs: What is thine occupation? and whence commest thou? What is thy countrey? and of what people art thou?


display: Jonah 1:9

text: And hee said vnto them, I am an Hebrew, and I feare the LORD the God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry land.


display: Jonah 1:10

text: Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and saide vnto him; Why hast thou done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.)


display: Jonah 1:11

text: ¶ Then said they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was tempestuous.)


display: Jonah 1:12

text: And he said vnto them, Take me vp, and cast mee foorth into the sea; so shall the sea be calme vnto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you.


display: Jonah 1:13

text: Neuerthelesse the men rowed hard to bring it to the land, but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.


display: Jonah 1:14

text: Wherefore they cried vnto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, We beseech thee, let vs not perish for this mans life, and lay not vpon vs, innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.


display: Jonah 1:15

text: So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him foorth into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.


display: Jonah 1:16

text: Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice vnto the LORD, and made vowes.


display: Jonah 1:17

text: ¶ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow vp Ionah, and Ionah was in the belly of the fish three dayes, and three nights.


display: Jonah 2:1

text: Then Ionah prayed vnto the LORD his God, out of the fishes belly,


display: Jonah 2:2

text: And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction vnto the LORD, and hee heard mee; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voyce.


display: Jonah 2:3

text: For thou hadst cast mee into the deepe, in the middest of the Seas, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billowes & thy waues passed ouer me.


display: Jonah 2:4

text: Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will looke againe toward thy holy Temple.


display: Jonah 2:5

text: The waters compassed mee about euen to the soule; the depth closed mee round about; the weedes were wrapt about my head.


display: Jonah 2:6

text: I went downe to the bottomes of the mountaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my life from corruption, O LORD my God.


display: Jonah 2:7

text: When my soule fainted within mee, I remembred the LORD, and my prayer came in vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.


display: Jonah 2:8

text: They that obserue lying vanities, forsake their owne mercy.


display: Jonah 2:9

text: But I wil sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thanksgiuing, I will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the LORD.


display: Jonah 2:10

text: ¶ And the LORD spake vnto the fish, and it vomited out Ionah vpon the drie land.


display: Jonah 3:1

text: And the word of þ Lordcame vnto Ionah the second time, saying;


display: Jonah 3:2

text: Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, and preach vnto it the preaching that I bid thee.


display: Jonah 3:3

text: So Ionah arose and went vnto Nineueh, according to the word of the LORD: now Nineueh was an exceeding great citie of three dayes iourney.


display: Jonah 3:4

text: And Ionah began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and hee cryed, and said; Yet fourtie dayes, and Niniueh shalbe ouerthrowen.


display: Jonah 3:5

text: ¶ So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them euen to the least of them.


display: Jonah 3:6

text: For word came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him and couered him with sackcloth, & sate in ashes.


display: Jonah 3:7

text: And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineueh (by the decree of the King and his nobles) saying; Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flocke taste any thing; let them not feede, nor drinke water.


display: Jonah 3:8

text: But let man and beast be couered with sackecloth, and cry mightily vnto God: yea, let them turne euery one from his euill way, and from the violence that is in their hands.


display: Jonah 3:9

text: Who can tell if God will turne and repent, and turne away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?


display: Jonah 3:10

text: ¶ And God saw their workes, that they turned from their euill way, and God repented of the euill that hee had sayd, that he would doe vnto them, and he did it not.


display: Jonah 4:1

text: But it displeased Ionah exceedingly, and he was very angry.


display: Jonah 4:2

text: And he prayed vnto the LORD, and sayd, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? Therefore I fledde before vnto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of the euill.


display: Jonah 4:3

text: Therefore now, O LORD, Take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die then to liue.


display: Jonah 4:4

text: ¶ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?


display: Jonah 4:5

text: So Ionah went out of the citie, and sate on the East side of the city, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadow, till hee might see what would become of the citie.


display: Jonah 4:6

text: And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadow ouer his head, to deliuer him from his griefe. So Ionah was exceeding glad of the gourd.


display: Jonah 4:7

text: But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.


display: Jonah 4:8

text: And it came to passe when the Sunne did arise, that God prepared a vehement East wind; and the Sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that hee fainted, and wished in himselfe to die, and said, It is better for me to die, then to liue.


display: Jonah 4:9

text: And God said to Ionah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? and he said, I doe well to be angry, euen vnto death.


display: Jonah 4:10

text: Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pitie on the gourde, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came vp in a night, and perished in a night:


display: Jonah 4:11

text: And should not I spare Nineueh that great citie, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons, that cannot discerne betweene their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattell?


display: Micah 1:1

text: The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the dayes of Iotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah Kings of Iudah, which hee saw concerning Samaria and Ierusalem.


display: Micah 1:2

text: Heare all ye people, hearken O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord GOD be witnesse against you, the Lord from his holy temple.


display: Micah 1:3

text: For behold, the LORD commeth forth out of his place, and will come downe and tread vpon the high places of the earth.


display: Micah 1:4

text: And the mountaines shall be molten vnder him, and the valleis shall be cleft: as waxe before the fire, and as the waters that are powred downe a steepe place.


display: Micah 1:5

text: For the transgression of Iacob is all this, and for the sinnes of the house of Israel: What is the transgression of Iacob? Is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Iudah? are they not Ierusalem?


display: Micah 1:6

text: Therfore I will make Samaria as an heape of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard; and I will powre downe the stones therof into the valley, and I will discouer the foundations thereof.


display: Micah 1:7

text: And all the grauen images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burnt with the fire, and all the idoles therof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall returne to the hire of an harlot.


display: Micah 1:8

text: Therfore I wil waile and houle, I will goe stript and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owles.


display: Micah 1:9

text: For her wound is incurable, for it is come vnto Iudah: he is come vnto the gate of my people, euen to Ierusalem.


display: Micah 1:10

text: ¶ Declare yee it not at Gath, weepe yee not at all: In the house of Aphrah rowle thy selfe in the dust.


display: Micah 1:11

text: Passe yee away thou inhabitant of Saphir, hauing thy shame naked; the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel, he shall receiue of you his standing.


display: Micah 1:12

text: For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good, but euill came downe from the LORD vnto the gate of Ierusalem.


display: Micah 1:13

text: O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the charet to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sinne to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.


display: Micah 1:14

text: Therfore shalt thou giue presents to Moresheth-Gath: the houses of Achzib shalbe a lie to þ kings of Israel.


display: Micah 1:15

text: Yet wil I bring an heire vnto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come vnto Adullam, the glory of Israel


display: Micah 1:16

text: Make thee bald, and polle thee for thy delicate children, enlarge thy baldnesse as the Eagle, for they are gone into captiuitie from thee.


display: Micah 2:1

text: Woe to them that deuise iniquitie, and worke euill vpon their beds: when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.


display: Micah 2:2

text: And they couet fields and take them by violence: and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen a man and his heritage.


display: Micah 2:3

text: Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, against this familie doe I deuise an euill, from which ye shall not remoue your necks, neither shall ye goe haughtily: for this time is euill.


display: Micah 2:4

text: ¶ In that day shall one take vp a parable against you, and lament with a dolefull lamentation, and say, We be vtterly spoiled: hee hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he remoued it from me? turning away hee hath diuided our fields.


display: Micah 2:5

text: Therefore thou shalt haue none that shall cast a cord by lot in the Congregation of the LORD.


display: Micah 2:6

text: Prophecie ye not, say they, to them that prophecie: they shall not prophecie to them, that they shall not take shame.


display: Micah 2:7

text: ¶ O thou that art named the house of Iacob, is the Spirit of the LORD straitned? are these his dongs? doe not my words do good to him that walketh vprightly?


display: Micah 2:8

text: Euen of late, my people is risen vp as an enemie: ye pull off the robe with the garment, frō them that passe by securely, as men auerse from warre.


display: Micah 2:9

text: The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, from their children haue ye taken away my glory for euer.


display: Micah 2:10

text: Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you euen with a sore destruction.


display: Micah 2:11

text: If a man walking in the spirit and falshood, doe lie, saying, I will prophecie vnto thee of wine and of strong drinke, he shall euen bee the prophet of this people.


display: Micah 2:12

text: ¶ I will surely assemble, O Iacob, all of thee: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as the sheepe of Bozrah, as the flocke in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.


display: Micah 2:13

text: The breaker is come vp before them: they haue broken vp and haue passed through the gate, and are gone out by it, and their king shal passe before them, & the LORD on the head of them.


display: Micah 3:1

text: And I said, Heare, I pray you, O heads of Iacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know iudgement?


display: Micah 3:2

text: Who hate the good and loue the euill, who plucke off their skinne from off them, and their flesh from off their bones.


display: Micah 3:3

text: Who also eate the flesh of my people, and flay their skinne from off them, and they breake their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.


display: Micah 3:4

text: Then shall they cry vnto the LORD, but he will not heare them: he will euen hide his face from them at that time, as they haue behaued themselues ill in their doings.


display: Micah 3:5

text: ¶ Thus saith the LORD concerning the Prophets that make my people erre, that bite with their teeth and crie; Peace: and he that putteth not into their mouths, they euen prepare warre against him:


display: Micah 3:6

text: Therefore night shall be vnto you, that yee shall not haue a vision, and it shall be darke vnto you, that yee shall not diuine, and the Sunne shall goe downe ouer the Prophets, and the day shall be darke ouer them.


display: Micah 3:7

text: Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diuiners confounded: yea, they shall all couer their lips; for there is no answere of God.


display: Micah 3:8

text: ¶ But truely I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of iudgment and of might, to declare vnto Iacob his transgression, and to Israel his sinne.


display: Micah 3:9

text: Heare this, I pray you, yee heads of the house of Iacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhorre iudgement and peruert all equitie.


display: Micah 3:10

text: They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie.


display: Micah 3:11

text: The heads thereof iudge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hyre, and the Prophets thereof diuine for money: yet will they leane vpon the LORD, and say; Is not the LORD among vs? none euill can come vpon vs.


display: Micah 3:12

text: Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Ierusalem shal become heapes, and the mountaine of the house, as the high places of the forrest.


display: Micah 4:1

text: But in the last dayes it shal come to passe, that the mountaine of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountaines, and it shalbe exalted aboue the hilles, and people shall flow vnto it.


display: Micah 4:2

text: And many nations shall come, and say; Come, and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Iacob, and he will teach vs of his wayes, and wee will walke in his pathes: for the Law shall goe foorth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Ierusalem.


display: Micah 4:3

text: ¶ And he shall iudge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afarre off, and they shall beate their swords into plowshares, and their speares into pruning hookes: nation shall not lift vp a sword against nation, neither shall they learne warre any more.


display: Micah 4:4

text: But they shall sit euery man vnder his Uine, and vnder his figgetree, and none shal make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hostes hath spoken it.


display: Micah 4:5

text: For all people will walke euery one in the name of his god, and we will walke in the Name of the LORD our God for euer and euer.


display: Micah 4:6

text: In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driuen out, and her that I haue afflicted.


display: Micah 4:7

text: And I will make her that halted, a remnant; and her that was cast farre off, a strong nation; and the LORD shall reigne ouer them, in Mount Zion from hencefoorth, euen for euer.


display: Micah 4:8

text: ¶ And thou, O towre of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, vnto thee shall it come, euen the first dominion, the kingdome shall come to the daughter of Ierusalem.


display: Micah 4:9

text: Now why doest thou cry out alowd? is there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs haue taken thee, as a woman in trauell.


display: Micah 4:10

text: Bee in paine and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in trauell: for now shalt thou goe foorth out of the citie, and thou shalt dwel in the field, and thou shalt go euen to Babylon: there shalt thou be deliuered: there the LORD shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies.


display: Micah 4:11

text: ¶ Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, & let our eye look vpon Zion.


display: Micah 4:12

text: But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither vnderstand they his counsell: for hee shall gather them as the sheaues into the floore.


display: Micah 4:13

text: Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horne yron, & I will make thy hooues brasse, and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gaine vnto the LORD, and their substance vnto the Lord of the whole earth.


display: Micah 5:1

text: Now gather thy selfe in troupes, O daughter of troupes: he hath laid siege against vs: they shal smite the Iudge of Israel with a rod vpon the cheeke.


display: Micah 5:2

text: But thou Beth-leem Ephratah, though thou bee little among the thousands of Iudah, yet out of thee shall he come foorth vnto mee, that is to be ruler in Israel: whose goings foorth haue bene from of old, from euerlasting.


display: Micah 5:3

text: Therefore will hee giue them vp, vntill the time that shee which trauaileth, hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall returne vnto the children of Israel.


display: Micah 5:4

text: ¶ And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the Maiestie of the Name of the LORD his God, and they shall abide: for now shall he be great vnto the ends of the earth.


display: Micah 5:5

text: And this man shall bee the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when hee shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seuen Shepheards, and eight principall men.


display: Micah 5:6

text: And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall hee deliuer vs from the Assyrian, when he commeth into our land, and when hee treadeth within our borders.


display: Micah 5:7

text: And the remnant of Iacob shall be in the midst of many people, as a dew from the LORD, as the showres vpon the grasse that tarieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sonnes of men.


display: Micah 5:8

text: ¶ And the remnant of Iacob shal be among the Gentiles in the middest of many people, as a Lyon among the beasts of the forrest, as a yong Lyon among the flockes of sheepe: who if he goe through, both treadeth downe, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliuer.


display: Micah 5:9

text: Thine hand shall be lift vp vpon thine aduersaries, and all thine enemies shalbe cut off.


display: Micah 5:10

text: And it shall come to passe in that day, sayth the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy charets.


display: Micah 5:11

text: And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw downe all thy strong holdes.


display: Micah 5:12

text: And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand, and thou shalt haue no more Southsayers.


display: Micah 5:13

text: Thy grauen images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee: & thou shalt no more worship the worke of thine hands.


display: Micah 5:14

text: And I will plucke vp thy groues out of the middest of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.


display: Micah 5:15

text: And I will execute vengeance in anger, and furie vpon the heathen, such as they haue not heard.


display: Micah 6:1

text: Heare yee now what the LORD saith, Arise, contend thou before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voice.


display: Micah 6:2

text: Heare yee, O mountaines, the LORDs controuersie, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controuersie with his people, and he will pleade with Israel.


display: Micah 6:3

text: O my people, what haue I done vnto thee, and wherein haue I wearied thee? testifie against me.


display: Micah 6:4

text: For I brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of seruants, and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron and Miriam.


display: Micah 6:5

text: O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him from Shittim vnto Gilgal, that yee may know the righteousnesse of the LORD.


display: Micah 6:6

text: ¶ Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow my selfe before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calues of a yeere olde?


display: Micah 6:7

text: Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rammes, or with tenne thousands of riuers of oyle? shall I giue my first borne for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sinne of my soule?


display: Micah 6:8

text: Hee hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doeth the LORD require of thee, but to do iustly, and to loue mercy, and to walke humbly with thy God?


display: Micah 6:9

text: The LORDs voice cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy Name: heare ye the rodde, and who hath appointed it.


display: Micah 6:10

text: ¶ Are there yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable.


display: Micah 6:11

text: Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitfull weights?


display: Micah 6:12

text: For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.


display: Micah 6:13

text: Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.


display: Micah 6:14

text: Thou shalt eate, but not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the midst of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: & that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sword.


display: Micah 6:15

text: Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reape: thou shalt tread the oliues, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oile; & sweet wine, but shalt not drinke wine.


display: Micah 6:16

text: ¶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the workes of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore yee shall beare the reproch of my people.


display: Micah 7:1

text: Woe is mee, for I am as when they haue gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eate: my soule desired the first ripe fruit.


display: Micah 7:2

text: The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none vpright among men: they all lie in waite for blood: they hunt euery man his brother with a net.


display: Micah 7:3

text: ¶ That they may doe euill with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the iudge asketh for a reward: and the great man, he vttereth his mischieuous desire: so they wrap it vp.


display: Micah 7:4

text: The best of them is as a brier: the most vpright is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen, and thy visitation commeth; now shall be their perplexitie.


display: Micah 7:5

text: ¶ Trust yee not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.


display: Micah 7:6

text: For the sonne dishonoureth the father: the daughter riseth vp against her mother: the daughter in law against her mother in law; a mans enemies are the men of his owne house.


display: Micah 7:7

text: Therefore I will looke vnto you the LORD: I will waite for the God of my saluation: my God will heare me.


display: Micah 7:8

text: ¶ Reioyce not against mee, O mine enemie: When I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darknes, the LORD shall be a light vnto me.


display: Micah 7:9

text: I will beare the indignation of the LORD, because I haue sinned against him, vntill he plead my cause, and execute iudgement for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousnesse.


display: Micah 7:10

text: Then she that is mine enemie shall see it, and shame shall couer her which said vnto mee; Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she bee troden downe, as the myre of the streets.


display: Micah 7:11

text: In the day that thy walles are to be built, in that day shall the decree bee farre remoued.


display: Micah 7:12

text: In that day also he shal come euen to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortresse euen to the riuer, and from Sea to Sea, and from mountaine to mountaine;


display: Micah 7:13

text: Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruite of their doings.


display: Micah 7:14

text: ¶ Feede thy people with thy rod, the flocke of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feede in Bashan and Gilead, as in the dayes of old.


display: Micah 7:15

text: According to the dayes of thy comming out of the land of Egypt will I shew vnto him meruailous things.


display: Micah 7:16

text: ¶ The nations shall see, and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand vpon their mouth: their eares shall be deafe.


display: Micah 7:17

text: They shall licke the dust like a serpent, they shall moue out of their holes like wormes of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall feare because of thee.


display: Micah 7:18

text: Who is a God like vnto thee, that pardoneth iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? hee retaineth not his anger for euer, because he delighteth in mercy.


display: Micah 7:19

text: He wil turne againe, he will haue compassion vpon vs: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depths of the Sea.


display: Micah 7:20

text: Thou wilt performe the trueth to Iacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworne vnto our fathers from the dayes of old.


display: Nahum 1:1

text: The burden of Nineueh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.


display: Nahum 1:2

text: God is ielous, and the LORD reuengeth: the LORD reuengeth, and is furious, the LORD wil take vengeance on his aduersaries, and he reserueth wrath for his enemies.


display: Nahum 1:3

text: The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlewind, and in the storme, and the clouds are the dust of his feete.


display: Nahum 1:4

text: He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it drie, and drieth vp all the riuers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the floure of Lebanon languisheth.


display: Nahum 1:5

text: The mountaines quake at him, and the hilles melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence, yea the world and all that dwell therein.


display: Nahum 1:6

text: Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? his furie is powred out like fire, and the rocks are throwen downe by him.


display: Nahum 1:7

text: The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, & he knoweth them that trust in him.


display: Nahum 1:8

text: But with an ouer-running flood he will make an vtter ende of the place thereof, and darkenesse shall pursue his enemies.


display: Nahum 1:9

text: What doe ye imagine against the LORD ? he will make an vtter ende: affliction shall not rise vp the second time.


display: Nahum 1:10

text: For while they be folden together as thornes, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be deuoured as stubble fully drie.


display: Nahum 1:11

text: There is one come out of thee, that imagineth euill against the LORD: a wicked counseller.


display: Nahum 1:12

text: Thus saith the LORD, Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut downe, when he shall passe through: though I haue afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.


display: Nahum 1:13

text: For now will I breake his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.


display: Nahum 1:14

text: And the LORD hath giuen a commandement concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sowen: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the grauen image, and the molten image, I wil make thy graue, for thou art vile.


display: Nahum 1:15

text: Behold vpon the mountaines the feete of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. O Iudah keepe thy solemne feasts, performe thy vowes: for the wicked shall no more passe through thee, he is vtterly cut off.


display: Nahum 2:1

text: He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way: make thy loines strong: fortifie thy power mightily.


display: Nahum 2:2

text: For the LORD hath turned away the excellencie of Iacob, as the excellencie of Israel: for the emptiers haue emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.


display: Nahum 2:3

text: The shield of his mightie men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the charets shall bee with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the firre trees shall bee terribly shaken.


display: Nahum 2:4

text: The charets shall rage in the streets, they shall iustle one against another in the broad wayes: they shall seeme like torches, they shall runne like the lightnings.


display: Nahum 2:5

text: Hee shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walke: they shall make haste to the wal thereof, and the defence shall bee prepared.


display: Nahum 2:6

text: The gates of the riuers shall bee opened, and the palace shall bee dissolued.


display: Nahum 2:7

text: And Huzzab shall be led away captiue, she shall be brought vp, and her maids shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, tabring vpon their breasts.


display: Nahum 2:8

text: But Nineueh is of olde like a poole of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand shall they cry: but none shal looke backe.


display: Nahum 2:9

text: Take ye the spoyle of siluer, take the spoile of golde: for there is none end of the store, and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.


display: Nahum 2:10

text: Shee is emptie, and voide, and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much paine is in all loynes, and the faces of them all gather blacknesse.


display: Nahum 2:11

text: Where is the dwelling of the Lions, and the feeding place of the yong Lions? where the Lion, euen the olde Lion walked, and the Lions whelpe, and none made them afraid.


display: Nahum 2:12

text: The Lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, and strangled for his Lionesses, and filled his holes with pray, and his dens with rauine.


display: Nahum 2:13

text: Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burne her charets in the smoke, and the sword shall deuoure thy yong Lions, and I wil cut off thy pray from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.


display: Nahum 3:1

text: Woe to the bloody City, it is all full of lyes and robberie, the pray departeth not.


display: Nahum 3:2

text: The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheeles, and of the praunsing horses, and of the iumping charets.


display: Nahum 3:3

text: The horseman lifteth vp both the bright sword, & the glittering speare, and there is a multitude of slaine, and a great number of carkeises: and there is none ende of their corpses: they stumble vpon their corpses,


display: Nahum 3:4

text: Because of the multitude of the whoredomes of the wel-fauoured harlot, the mistresse of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredomes, and families through her witchcrafts.


display: Nahum 3:5

text: Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hostes, and I will discouer thy skirtes vpon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakednesse, and the kingdomes thy shame.


display: Nahum 3:6

text: And I will cast abominable filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stocke.


display: Nahum 3:7

text: And it shall come to passe, that all they that looke vpon thee, shall flee from thee, and say; Nineueh is layde waste, who will bemoane her? whence shall I seeke comforters for thee?


display: Nahum 3:8

text: Art thou better then populous No, that was scituate among the riuers that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?


display: Nahum 3:9

text: Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinit, Put and Lubim were thy helpers.


display: Nahum 3:10

text: Yet was she caried away, she went into captiuitie: her yong children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streetes: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chaines.


display: Nahum 3:11

text: Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt bee hid, thou also shalt seeke strength because of the enemie.


display: Nahum 3:12

text: All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they bee shaken, they shall euen fall into the mouth of the eater.


display: Nahum 3:13

text: Beholde, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open vnto thine enemies, the fire shall deuoure thy barres.


display: Nahum 3:14

text: Draw thee waters for the siege: fortifie thy strong holdes, goe into clay, and tread the morter: make strong the bricke-kill.


display: Nahum 3:15

text: There shall the fire deuoure thee: the sword shall cut thee off: it shall eate thee vp like the cankerworme: make thy selfe many as the cankerworme, make thy selfe many as the locusts.


display: Nahum 3:16

text: Thou hast multiplied thy merchants aboue the starres of heauen; the cankerworme spoileth & flieth away.


display: Nahum 3:17

text: The crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day: but when the Sunne ariseth, they flee away, and their place is not knowen where they are.


display: Nahum 3:18

text: Thy shepheards slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered vpon the mountaines, & no man gathereth them.


display: Nahum 3:19

text: There is no healing of thy bruise: thy wound is grieuous: all that heare the bruit of thee, shall clap the hands ouer thee; for vpon whom hath not thy wickednesse passed continually?


display: Habakkuk 1:1

text: The burden which Habakkuk þ Prophet did see.


display: Habakkuk 1:2

text: O LORD, howe long shall I crie, and thou wilt not heare! euen cry out vnto thee of violence, and thou wilt not saue?


display: Habakkuk 1:3

text: Why doest thou shew me iniquity, & cause me to behold grieuance? for spoiling and violence are before me: & there are that raise vp strife and contention.


display: Habakkuk 1:4

text: Therefore the Lawe is slacked, and iudgement doeth neuer goe foorth: for the wicked doeth compasse about the righteous: therfore wrong iudgement proceedeth.


display: Habakkuk 1:5

text: ¶ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marueilously: for I wil worke a worke in your daies, which yee will not beleeue, though it be tolde you.


display: Habakkuk 1:6

text: For loe, I raise vp the Caldeans, that bitter and hastie nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs.


display: Habakkuk 1:7

text: They are terrible and dreadfull: their iudgement and their dignity shal proceed of themselues.


display: Habakkuk 1:8

text: Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the euening wolues: & their horsemen shall spread themselues, and their horsemen shall come from farre, they shall flie as the Eagle that hasteth to eate.


display: Habakkuk 1:9

text: They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup vp as the East winde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sand.


display: Habakkuk 1:10

text: And they shal scoffe at the Kings, and the Princes shall bee a scorne vnto them: they shall deride euery strong holde, for they shall heape dust & take it.


display: Habakkuk 1:11

text: Then shall his minde change, and he shall passe ouer, and offend, imputing this his power vnto his God.


display: Habakkuk 1:12

text: ¶ Art thou not from euerlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy one? we shall not die: O LORD, thou hast ordained them for iudgement, and O mightie God, thou hast established them for correction.


display: Habakkuk 1:13

text: Thou art of purer eyes then to beholde euill, and canst not looke on ininquitie: wherefore lookest thou vpon them that deale treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then hee?


display: Habakkuk 1:14

text: And makest men as the fishes of the Sea, as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them.


display: Habakkuk 1:15

text: They take vp all of them with the angle: they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragge; therefore they reioyce and are glad.


display: Habakkuk 1:16

text: Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their drag: because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.


display: Habakkuk 1:17

text: Shall they therefore emptie their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?


display: Habakkuk 2:1

text: I will stand vpon my watch, & set mee vpon the towre, and will watch to see what he will say vnto me, and what I shall answere when I am reproued.


display: Habakkuk 2:2

text: And the LORD answered me and said, write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it.


display: Habakkuk 2:3

text: For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tary, wait for it, because it will surely come, it wil not tary.


display: Habakkuk 2:4

text: Behold, his soule which is lifted vp, is not vpright in him; but the iust shall liue by his faith.


display: Habakkuk 2:5

text: ¶ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, & heapeth vnto him all people:


display: Habakkuk 2:6

text: Shal not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say; Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his: how long? and to him that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay.


display: Habakkuk 2:7

text: Shall they not rise vp suddenly that shall bite thee? and awake, that shall vexe thee? and thou shalt be for booties vnto them?


display: Habakkuk 2:8

text: Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoile thee: because of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, of the citie, and of all that dwell therein.


display: Habakkuk 2:9

text: ¶ Woe to him that coueteth an euill couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that hee may be deliuered from the power of euill.


display: Habakkuk 2:10

text: Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soule.


display: Habakkuk 2:11

text: For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shall answere it.


display: Habakkuk 2:12

text: ¶ Woe to him that buildeth a towne with blood, and stablisheth a citie by iniquitie.


display: Habakkuk 2:13

text: Behold, is it not of the LORD of hostes, that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shal wearie themselues for very vanitie?


display: Habakkuk 2:14

text: For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters couer the Sea.


display: Habakkuk 2:15

text: ¶ Woe vnto him that giueth his neighbour drinke: that puttest thy bottell to him, and makest him drunken also; that thou mayest looke on their nakednesse.


display: Habakkuk 2:16

text: Thou art filled with shame for glory: drinke thou also, and let thy foreskin bee vncouered: the cup of the LORDs right hand shall be turned vnto thee, and shamefull spewing shalbe on thy glory.


display: Habakkuk 2:17

text: For the violence of Lebanon shall couer thee: and the spoile of beasts, which made them afraide, because of mens blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, & of al that dwel therin.


display: Habakkuk 2:18

text: ¶ What profiteth the grauen image, that the maker thereof hath grauen it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his worke, trusteth therin, to make dumbe idoles.


display: Habakkuk 2:19

text: Woe vnto him that saith to the wood, Awake: to the dumbe stone, Arise, it shall teach: behold, it is layed ouer with gold and siluer, and there is no breath at all in the middest of it.


display: Habakkuk 2:20

text: But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.


display: Habakkuk 3:1

text: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet vpon Sigionoth.


display: Habakkuk 3:2

text: O LORD, I haue heard thy speach, and was afraide: O LORD, reuiue thy worke in the midst of the yeeres, in the midst of the yeeres make knowen; in wrath remember mercy.


display: Habakkuk 3:3

text: God came from Teman, and the holy on from mount Paran Selah. His glory couered the heauens and the earth was full of his praise.


display: Habakkuk 3:4

text: And his brightnesse was as the light: he had hornes comming out of his hand, and there was the hiding of his power:


display: Habakkuk 3:5

text: Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went forth at his feete.


display: Habakkuk 3:6

text: He stood and measured the earth: hee beheld and droue asunder the nations, and the euerlasting mountaines were scattered, the perpetuall hilles did bowe: his wayes are euerlasting.


display: Habakkuk 3:7

text: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtaines of the land of Midian did tremble.


display: Habakkuk 3:8

text: Was the LORD displeased against the riuers? was thine anger against the riuers? was thy wrath against the Sea, that thou didst ride vpon thine horses, and thy charets of saluation?


display: Habakkuk 3:9

text: Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oathes of the tribes, euen thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleaue the earth with riuers.


display: Habakkuk 3:10

text: The mountaines sawe thee, and they trembled: the ouerflowing of the water passed by: the deepe vttered his voyce, and lift vp his hands on high.


display: Habakkuk 3:11

text: The Sunne and Moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the shining of thy glittering speare.


display: Habakkuk 3:12

text: Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.


display: Habakkuk 3:13

text: Thou wentest forth for the saluation of thy people, euen for saluation with thine Anointed, thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discouering the foundation vnto the necke. Selah.


display: Habakkuk 3:14

text: Thou didst strike through with his staues the head of his villages: they came out as a whirle-winde to scatter me: their reioycing was as to deuoure the poore secretly.


display: Habakkuk 3:15

text: Thou didst walke through the Sea with thine horses, through the heape of great waters.


display: Habakkuk 3:16

text: When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips quiuered at the voice: rottennesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when hee commeth vp vnto the people, he wil inuade them with his troupes.


display: Habakkuk 3:17

text: ¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossome, neither shall fruite bee in the vines: the labour of the Oliue shall faile, and the fields shal yeeld no meat, the flocke shall be cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no heard in the stalles:


display: Habakkuk 3:18

text: Yet I will reioyce in the LORD: I will ioy in the God of my saluation.


display: Habakkuk 3:19

text: The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hindes feet, and he will make me to walke vpon mine high places. To the chiefe singer on my stringed instruments.


display: Zephaniah 1:1

text: The worde of the LORD which came vnto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Hizkiah, in the dayes of Iosiah, the sonne of Amon king of Iudah.


display: Zephaniah 1:2

text: I will vtterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.


display: Zephaniah 1:3

text: I will consume man and beast: I will consume the foules of the heauen and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.


display: Zephaniah 1:4

text: I will also stretch out mine hand vpon Iudah, and vpon all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests:


display: Zephaniah 1:5

text: And them that worship the hoste of heauen vpon the house tops, & them that worship, and that sweare by the LORD, and that sweare by Malcham:


display: Zephaniah 1:6

text: And them that are turned backe from the LORD, & those that haue not sought þ LORD, nor enquired for him.


display: Zephaniah 1:7

text: Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice: he hath bid his ghests.


display: Zephaniah 1:8

text: And it shall come to passe in the day of the LORDs Sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the kings children, and al such as are clothed with strange apparell.


display: Zephaniah 1:9

text: In the same day also wil I punish all those that leape on the threshold, which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit.


display: Zephaniah 1:10

text: And it shall come to passe in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hils.


display: Zephaniah 1:11

text: Howle yee inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut downe: all they that beare siluer are cut off.


display: Zephaniah 1:12

text: And it shall come to passe at that time, that I wil search Ierusalem with candles, and punish the men that are setled on their lees, that say in their heart, The LORD will not doe good, neither will he doe euill.


display: Zephaniah 1:13

text: Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant Uineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.


display: Zephaniah 1:14

text: The great day of the LORD is neere, it is neere, and hasteth greatly, euen the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.


display: Zephaniah 1:15

text: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distresse, a day of wastenesse and desolation, a day of darknesse and gloominesse, a day of cloudes and thicke darkenesse;


display: Zephaniah 1:16

text: A day of the trumpet and alarme against the fenced cities, and against the high towres.


display: Zephaniah 1:17

text: And I will bring distresse vpon men, that they shall walke like blinde men, because they haue sinned against the LORD, and their blood shall bee powred out as dust, and their flesh as the doung.


display: Zephaniah 1:18

text: Neither their siluer nor their golde shall be able to deliuer them in the day of the LORDs wrath; but the whole land shall bee deuoured by the fire of his iealousie: for hee shall make euen a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.


display: Zephaniah 2:1

text: Gather your selues together, yea gather together, O nation not desired.


display: Zephaniah 2:2

text: Before the decree bring foorth, before the day passe as the chaffe, before the fierce anger of the LORD come vpon you, before the day of the LORDs anger come vpon you.


display: Zephaniah 2:3

text: Seeke ye the LORD all ye meeke of the earth, which haue wrought his iudgement, seeke righteousnesse, seeke meeknesse: it may be, ye shall be hid in the day of the LORDs anger.


display: Zephaniah 2:4

text: ¶ For Gaza shall bee forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall driue out Ashdod at the noone day, and Ekron shall be rooted vp.


display: Zephaniah 2:5

text: Woe vnto the inhabitants of the sea coast: the nation of the Cherethites, the word of the LORD is against you: O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will euen destroy thee, that there shal be no inhabitant.


display: Zephaniah 2:6

text: And the sea coast shall bee dwellings and cottages for shepheards, and foldes for flockes.


display: Zephaniah 2:7

text: And the coast shall bee for the remnant of the house of Iudah, they shall feede thereupon, in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie downe in the euening: for the LORD their God shall visite them, and turne away their captiuitie.


display: Zephaniah 2:8

text: ¶ I haue heard the reproach of Moab, and the reuilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they haue reproched my people, and magnified themselues against their border.


display: Zephaniah 2:9

text: Therefore, as I liue, saith the LORD of hostes the God of Israel, surely Moab shalbe as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, euen the breeding of netles, and salt pits, and a perpetuall desolation, the residue of my people shall spoile them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.


display: Zephaniah 2:10

text: This shall they haue for their pride, because they haue reproched and magnified themselues against the people of the LORD of hostes.


display: Zephaniah 2:11

text: The LORD will be terrible vnto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and men shall worship him, euery one from his place, euen all the Iles of the heathen.


display: Zephaniah 2:12

text: ¶ Ye Ethiopians also, ye shalbe slaine by my sword.


display: Zephaniah 2:13

text: And he wil stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, and wil make Nineueh a desolation, and dry like a wildernes.


display: Zephaniah 2:14

text: And flocks shall lie downe in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the Cormorant, and the Bitterne, shall lodge in the vpper lintels of it: their voice shal sing in the windowes, desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall vncouer the Cedar worke.


display: Zephaniah 2:15

text: This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelessely, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is shee become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie downe in! euery one that passeth by her, shall hisse and wagge his hand.


display: Zephaniah 3:1

text: Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing citie.


display: Zephaniah 3:2

text: She obeyed not the voice: she receiued not correction: she trusted not in the LORD: she drew not neere to her God.


display: Zephaniah 3:3

text: Her princes within her are roaring lyons; her Iudges are euening wolues, they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.


display: Zephaniah 3:4

text: Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie, they haue done violence to the Law.


display: Zephaniah 3:5

text: The iust LORD is in the middest thereof: he will not doe iniquitie: euery morning doeth hee bring his iudgement to light, he faileth not: but the vniust knoweth no shame.


display: Zephaniah 3:6

text: I haue cut off the nations: their towres are desolate, I made their streetes waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroied, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.


display: Zephaniah 3:7

text: I said, Surely thou wilt feare mee: thou wilt receiue instruction: so their dwelling should not bee cut off, howsoeuer I punished them: but they rose early, & corrupted all their doings.


display: Zephaniah 3:8

text: ¶ Therefore waite ye vpon mee, sayth the LORD, vntill the day that I rise vp to the pray: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation, euen all my fierce anger: for all the earth shalbe deuoured with the fire of my iealousie.


display: Zephaniah 3:9

text: For then will I turne to the people a pure language, that they may all call vpon the Name of the LORD, to serue him with one consent.


display: Zephaniah 3:10

text: From beyond the riuers of Ethiopia, my suppliants, euen the daughter of my dispersed shal bring mine offring.


display: Zephaniah 3:11

text: In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that reioyce in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of mine holy mountaine.


display: Zephaniah 3:12

text: I will also leaue in the middest of thee an afflicted and poore people: and they shall trust in the Name of the LORD.


display: Zephaniah 3:13

text: The remnant of Israel shall not doe iniquitie, nor speake lies: neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feede, and lie downe, and none shall make them afraid.


display: Zephaniah 3:14

text: ¶ Sing, O daughter of Zion: shout, O Israel: be glad and reioyce with all the heart, O daughter of Ierusalem.


display: Zephaniah 3:15

text: The LORD hath taken away thy iudgements, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, euen the LORD is in the middest of thee: thou shalt not see euill any more.


display: Zephaniah 3:16

text: In that day it shall be said to Ierusalem, Feare thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slacke.


display: Zephaniah 3:17

text: The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mightie: hee will saue, he will reioyce ouer thee with ioy: hee will rest in his loue, hee will ioy ouer thee with singing.


display: Zephaniah 3:18

text: I will gather them that are sorrowfull for the solemne assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproch of it was a burden.


display: Zephaniah 3:19

text: Behold, at that time I will vndoe all that afflict thee, and I will saue her that halteth, and gather her that was driuen out, and I will get them praise and fame in euery land, where they haue beene put to shame.


display: Zephaniah 3:20

text: At that time will I bring you againe euen in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turne backe your captiuitie before your eyes, saith the LORD.


display: Haggai 1:1

text: In the second yeere of Darius the king, in the sixt moneth, in the first day of the moneth came the worde of the LORD by Haggai the Prophet vnto Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, gouernour of Iudah, and to Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, saying;


display: Haggai 1:2

text: Thus speaketh the LORD of hostes, saying; This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORDs house should be built.


display: Haggai 1:3

text: Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying;


display: Haggai 1:4

text: Is it time for you, O yee, to dwell in your sieled houses, and this house lie waste?


display: Haggai 1:5

text: Nowe therefore thus saith the LORD of hostes; Consider your wayes.


display: Haggai 1:6

text: Yee haue sowen much and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not inough: yee drinke, but yee are not filled with drinke: yee cloth you, but there is none warme: and hee that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.


display: Haggai 1:7

text: ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hostes, Consider your wayes.


display: Haggai 1:8

text: Goe vp to the mountaine, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.


display: Haggai 1:9

text: Ye looked for much, and loe it came to litle: and when yee brought it home, I did blow vpon it: Why, saith the LORD of hostes? because of mine house that is waste, and yee runne euery man vnto his owne house.


display: Haggai 1:10

text: Therefore the heauen ouer you is stayed from dew, and the earth is staied from her fruite.


display: Haggai 1:11

text: And I called for a drought vpon the land and vpon the mountaines, and vpon the corne, and vpon the new wine, and vpon the oyle, and vpon that which the ground bringeth forth, & vpon men, and vpon cattell, and vpon all the labour of the hands.


display: Haggai 1:12

text: ¶ Then Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, with all the remnant of the people obeyed the voyce of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the Prophet (as the LORD their God had sent him) and the people did feare before the LORD.


display: Haggai 1:13

text: Then spake Haggai the LORDs messenger in the LORDs message vnto the people, saying; I am with you, saith the LORD.


display: Haggai 1:14

text: And the LORD stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel gouernour of Iudah, and the spirit of Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they came and did worke in the house of the LORD of hostes their God:


display: Haggai 1:15

text: In the foure and twentieth day of the sixt moneth, in the second yeere of Darius the King.


display: Haggai 2:1

text: In the seuenth moneth, in the one and twentith day of the moneth, came the word of the LORD by the Prophet Haggai, saying;


display: Haggai 2:2

text: Speake now to Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, gouernour of Iudah, and to Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,


display: Haggai 2:3

text: Who is left among you that sawe this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it, as nothing?


display: Haggai 2:4

text: Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD, and bee strong, O Ioshua, sonne of Iosedech the high Priest, and be strong all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and worke: (for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts,)


display: Haggai 2:5

text: According to the word that I couenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you, Feare ye not.


display: Haggai 2:6

text: For thus saith the LORD of hosts, Yet once, it is a litle while, and I will shake the heauens, and the earth, and the sea, and the drie land.


display: Haggai 2:7

text: And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.


display: Haggai 2:8

text: The siluer is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.


display: Haggai 2:9

text: The glory of this latter house shal be greater then of the former, saith the LORD of hostes: and in this place will I giue peace, saith the LORD of hostes.


display: Haggai 2:10

text: ¶ In the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, in the second yeere of Darius, came þ word of the LORD by Haggai the Prophet, saying,


display: Haggai 2:11

text: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Aske now the priests concerning the law, saying,


display: Haggai 2:12

text: If one beare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt doe touch bread or pottage, or wine, or oile, or any meate, shall it be holy? and the priests answered and said, No.


display: Haggai 2:13

text: Then said Haggai, If one that is vncleane by a dead body, touch any of these, shal it be vncleane? and the priests answered and said, It shalbe vncleane.


display: Haggai 2:14

text: Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD, and so is euery worke of their hands, and that which they offer there, is vncleane.


display: Haggai 2:15

text: And now I pray you consider from this day and vpward, from before a stone was laid vpon a stone in the Temple of the LORD.


display: Haggai 2:16

text: Since those dayes were, when one came to an heape of twentie measures, there were but ten: when one came to the presse-fatte for to draw out fiftie vessels out of the presse, there were but twentie.


display: Haggai 2:17

text: I smote you with blasting, and with mildew, and with haile in all the labours of your hands: yet yee turned not to me, saith the LORD.


display: Haggai 2:18

text: Consider now from this day, and vpward from the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, euen from the day that the foundatio of the LORDs Temple was laid, consider it.


display: Haggai 2:19

text: Is the seed yet in the barne? yea, as yet the vine and the fig tree, & the pomegranate, and the Oliue tree hath not brought foorth: from this day will I blesse you.


display: Haggai 2:20

text: ¶ And againe the worde of the LORD came vnto Haggai in the foure and twentieth day of the moneth, saying,


display: Haggai 2:21

text: Speake to Zerubbabel gouernor of Iudah, saying, I wil shake the heauens and the earth.


display: Haggai 2:22

text: And I will ouerthrow the throne of kingdomes, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdomes of the heathen, and I will ouerthrow the charets, and those that ride in them, and the horses and their riders shall come downe, euery one by the sword of his brother.


display: Haggai 2:23

text: In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my seruant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I haue chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.


display: Zechariah 1:1

text: In the eight moneth, in the seconde yeere of Darius, came the word of the LORD vnto Zechariah, the sonne of Barachiah, the sonne of Iddo the Prophet, saying,


display: Zechariah 1:2

text: The LORD hath bene sore displeased with your fathers.


display: Zechariah 1:3

text: Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the LORD of hostes; Turne ye vnto me, saith the LORD of hostes, and I will turne vnto you, saith the LORD of hostes.


display: Zechariah 1:4

text: Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whom the former Prophets haue cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hostes, Turne ye now from your euill wayes, and from your euil doings: but they did not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the LORD.


display: Zechariah 1:5

text: Your fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, doe they liue for euer?


display: Zechariah 1:6

text: But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my seruants the Prophets, did they not take holde of your fathers? and they returned and saide; Like as the LORD of hostes thought to doe vnto vs, according to our wayes, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with vs.


display: Zechariah 1:7

text: ¶ Upon the foure and twentieth day of the eleuenth moneth, which is the moneth Sebat, in the second yere of Darius, came the word of the LORD vnto Zechariah, the sonne of Barachiah, the sonne of Iddo the Prophet, saying:


display: Zechariah 1:8

text: I saw by night, and behold a man riding vpon a red horse, and he stood among the mirtle trees that were in the bottome, and behinde him were there red horses, speckled and white.


display: Zechariah 1:9

text: Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? And the Angel that talked with me, said vnto me, I wil shew thee what these be.


display: Zechariah 1:10

text: And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said, These are they, whom the LORD hath sent to walke to and fro through the earth.


display: Zechariah 1:11

text: And they answered the Angel of the LORD that stood among the mirtle trees, and said, Wee haue walked to and fro through the earth: and behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.


display: Zechariah 1:12

text: ¶ Then the Angel of the LORD answered, and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not haue mercie on Ierusalem, and on the cities of Iudah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten yeeres?


display: Zechariah 1:13

text: And the LORD answered the Angel that talked with me, with good words, and comfortable words.


display: Zechariah 1:14

text: So the Angel that communed with me, said vnto me; Cry thou, saying; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I am iealous for Ierusalem, and for Zion, with a great iealousie.


display: Zechariah 1:15

text: And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.


display: Zechariah 1:16

text: Therefore thus saith the LORD, I am returned to Ierusalem with mercies: my house shall bee built in it, saith the LORD of hostes, and a line shalbe stretched forth vpon Ierusalem.


display: Zechariah 1:17

text: Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hostes, My cities through prosperitie shall yet be spread abroad, and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Ierusalem.


display: Zechariah 1:18

text: ¶ Then lift I vp mine eyes, and saw, and behold foure hornes.


display: Zechariah 1:19

text: And I said vnto the Angel that talked with me; What be these? and he answered mee, These are the hornes which haue scattered Iudah, Israel, and Ierusalem.


display: Zechariah 1:20

text: And the LORD shewed mee foure carpenters.


display: Zechariah 1:21

text: Then said I, What come these to doe? And hee spake, saying, These are the hornes which haue scattered Iudah, so that no man did lift vp his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the hornes of the Gentiles, which lift vp their horne ouer the land of Iudah to scatter it.


display: Zechariah 2:1

text: I lift vp mine eyes againe, and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.


display: Zechariah 2:2

text: Then said I, Whither goest thou? And hee said vnto me, To measure Ierusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.


display: Zechariah 2:3

text: And behold, the Angel that talked with me, went foorth, and another Angel went out to meete him:


display: Zechariah 2:4

text: And said vnto him, Run, speake to this young man, saying; Ierusalem shall be inhabited as townes without walles, for the multitude of men and cattell therein.


display: Zechariah 2:5

text: For I, saith the LORD, will be vnto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.


display: Zechariah 2:6

text: ¶ Ho, ho, come foorth, and flee from the land of the North, saith the LORD: for I haue spread you abroad as the foure windes of the heauen, sayth the LORD.


display: Zechariah 2:7

text: Deliuer thy selfe, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.


display: Zechariah 2:8

text: For thus sayth the LORD of hostes, After the glory hath he sent me vnto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.


display: Zechariah 2:9

text: For behold, I will shake mine hand vpon them, and they shall bee a spoile to their seruants: and yee shall know that the LORD of hostes hath sent me.


display: Zechariah 2:10

text: ¶ Sing and reioyce, O daughter of Zion: for loe, I come, and I will dwell in the middest of thee, sayth the LORD.


display: Zechariah 2:11

text: And many nations shalbe ioyned to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwel in the middest of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hostes hath sent me vnto thee.


display: Zechariah 2:12

text: And the LORD shall inherite Iudah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Ierusalem againe.


display: Zechariah 2:13

text: Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised vp out of his holy habitation.


display: Zechariah 3:1

text: And he shewed me Ioshua the high Priest, standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.


display: Zechariah 3:2

text: And the LORD said vnto Satan; The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan, euen the LORD that hath chosen Ierusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire?


display: Zechariah 3:3

text: Now Ioshua was clothed with filthie garments, and stood before the Angel.