The miserable ruin of Nineveh.

Before CHRIST

cir. 713.

+ Heb. city of bloods.

a Ezek. 22.

2, 3. & 24.6,

9.

12.

Hab. 2.

Jer. 47.3.

↑ Heb. the Alame of the

scord, and of the spear.

the lightning

CHAP. III.

The miserable ruin of Nineveh. OE to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, 2. the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

2,3.

Rev. 18.

a ch. 2. 13.

5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the 3. Jer. 13.22, 12, LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy 26. Ezek. 16. skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

37. Mic. 1.

f Hab. 2. 16.

6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as "a gazingstock.

7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste:* who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

m

8 'Art thou better than † populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose m Jer. 46.25, rampart was the sea, and her wall was 25. Eeek.30. from the sea?

14-16.

+ Heb. in thy help.

9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were +thy helpers.

10 Yet was she carried away, she went Isai. 13.16 into captivity: "her young children also

Ps. 137.9. Hos. 13. 16.

The miserable ruin of Nineveh.

were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

Before CHRIST cir. 713

Lam.2.19.

Joel 3.3. Obad. 11.

Jer. 25. 17, 7. ch.1.10.

12 All thy strong holds shall be like *fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they r Rev. 6. 13. be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

& 51.30.

13 Behold, 'thy people in the midst $ Jer. 50. 37. of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

t Ps. 147. 13 Jer. 51.30.

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14 Draw thee waters for the siege, "fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, ch. 2. 1. and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make x Joel 1.4 thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm || spoileth, and fleeth away.

y

Or, spreadeth himself.

17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, y Rev. 9. 7. and thy captains as the great grashoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold | day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

z Exod. 15.

Ezek. 31. 3,

18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king 16. Ps. 76.6. of Assyria: thy || nobles shall dwell in a Jer. 50. 8. the dust: thy people is scattered upon &c. the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

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19 There is no fhealing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

1 Unto Habakkuk, complaining of the iniquity of the land, 5 is shewed the fearful vengeance by the Chaldeans. 12 He complaineth that vengeance should be executed by them who are far worse.

HE burden which Habakkuk the

T prophet did see.

2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth for the

Or, valiant

ones.

b 1 Kings 22.

+ Heb.

wrinkling. Mic. 1. 9. Zeph. 2. 15.

d Lam. 2. 15

See Isai. 14. 8, &c.

7 I saw the tents of || Cushan || in afOr, under fliction: and the curtains of the land of vanity. Midian did tremble. b Deut. 33. 26, 27. Ps.

8 Was the LORD displeased against the 65.4.& 104 rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, "that thou didst ride upon thine horses and || thy chariots of salvation?

3. ver. 15. Or, thy chariots were salvation.

1 Or, Thou didst cleave the rivers of

9 Thy bow was made quite naked, acthe earth. cording to the oaths of the tribes, even thy iP. 78.15 word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

16. & 105.41.

k Exod. 19. 16, 18. Judg. 5-45. Ps.

18. & 114-4

10 The mountains saw thee, and they 8. 8. & 77. trembled: the overflowing of the water 1 Exod. 14. passed by: the deep uttered his voice, 32. Josh. 3. and lifted up his hands on high.

16.

Before CHRIST

11

his confidence in God.

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: || at the light of thine "arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

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

Before CHRIST cir. 626.

m Josh. 10. 12, 13. I Or, thine

arrows the light, &c.

walked in

nJosh.10.11. Ps. 18. 14.

o Jer. 51. 33.

13 Thou wentest forth for the salva- & 77. 17, 18, tion of thy people, even for salvation with Amos 3 thine anointed; thou woundedst the Mic. 4- 13. head out of the house of the wicked, †by P Josh. 10. discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they +came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

24. & 11. 8, +

Heb. mak

12. P. 68.21.

ing naked.

+ Heb. were tempestuous.

q ver. 8. Ps. 77.19.

15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of Or, mud. great waters.

r Ps. 119.

16 When I heard, 'my belly trembled; 10 my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness Jer. 23.9. entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his cut troops.

them

pieces.

s Job 13. 15.

17¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall +fail, and ↑ Heb. lie. the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, Isa. 41. 16. I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is ". my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to 'walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

CHAP. I. cir. 630. God's severe judgment against Judah for divers sins.

+ Heb. By taking away

an end. + Heb. the face of the land.

THE word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

2¶ I will utterly consume all things I will make from off+the land, saith the LORD. 3 "I will consume man and beast, I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

Hes.

4.3. b Ezek. 7. 4.7. Matt.

19. & 14.31 13. 41.

1 Or, idols. e Fulfilled eir. 624.

4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the Hos. 10. 5. name of the Chemarims with the priests;

2 Kings 23. 4, 5,

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5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

6 And 'them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him. 71Hold 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 guests. 8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will nish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

9 In the same day also will I punish + Heb.saneall those that leap on the threshold, prepared. which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

upon. o Jer. 39. 6.

Amos 5. 6. 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of

Before CHRIST cir.é

The judgment of the Philistines. coasts, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, Ik Jesh. 13 will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

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6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, 1and folds for flocks.

7 And the coast shall be for the rem- Mic nant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashke- ver. lon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their GoD shall "visit them, and turn away their captivity.

1 Or, when, Ac n Exod. 4 31. Luke

8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproach- ch.3 ed my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

t

Jer. 24 p Jer. $1. qEzek. 5.

2 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD. of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely 'Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, "even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

25. Deut. 19. & 34.13

Gen. 19 23.13 Jer. 49 15

& 50.40. x ver. 7.

y Isai. 16.6.

10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and Jer. 45. 99. magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

+ Heb. make lean.

11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every 3 Mal, 1. one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

John 4 11. a Gen. 10.5

12bYe Ethiopians also, ye shall be b slain by my sword.

c

13 ¶ And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; 31. 3. and will make Nineveh a desolation, and Nah 1.1 dry like a wilderness.

2.10.43

1518 e ver. & flai. Uth

22.

14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bit-or, pelicu tern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: ||for he shall uncover the "cedar work.

15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she ke become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by Ea her shall hiss, and wag his hand. CHAP. III.

m

Jerusalem reproved for divers sins.

CHRIST

cir. 630. Ezek. 22.

27. Mic. 3. 9, 10, 11.

a Hab. 1.8. Jer

32. Lam. 2. 14. Hos. 9.

e

4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done 'violence to the law.

5 The just LORD his in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to See Mic. 3 light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

ver. 15, 17.

+ Heb. morning by morning.

i Jer. 3.3.& 6. 15. &8. 12.

1 Or,

corners.

k So Jer. 8.

6.

1 Gen. 6. 12.

m Ps. 27. 14. &c 37.34

Prov. 20. 22.

Joel 3.2.

8 ¶ Therefore "wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for ch. 1. 18. all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

p Isai. 19. 18.

9 For then will I turn to the people Pa + Heb. lip. pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one + consent.

+ Heb. shoulder.

q Ps. 68. 31. Isai. 18. 1, 7.

10 From beyond the rivers of Ethi& 60. 4, &c. opia my suppliants, even the daughter of Acts 8. 27. my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

Mal. 1. 11.

11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I Jer. 7.4 will take away out of the midst of thee Mthem that 'rejoice in thy pride, and thou

u Isai. 60. x Isai. 63. 8. Rev. 14. 5.

y Ezek. 34. 28 Mic. 4.

13 The remnant of Israel "shall not 1 Cor. 1. 27, do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their ch. 9.7. mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, " and none shall make them afraid. 14 ¶'Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. 15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, bis in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be || slack.

17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; the will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that "halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and +I will get them praise and fame in every land + where they have been put to shame.

20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.

1 Haggai reproveth the people for neglecting the building of the house. 7 He inciteth them to the building. 12 He promiseth God's assistance to them being forward. 'N "the second year of Darius the king,

of

first day of

the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, || governor of 17, 19. Ezra Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jose32 Matt. 1. dech, the high priest, saying,

b1 Chron.3.

12. Luke 3.

27.

fain.

2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, cap saying, This people say, The time is not Ezra 3.2 come, the time that the LORD's house Chron. should be built.

& 5.2.

6. 15.

e Ezra 5. 1.

3 Then came the word of the LORD

I

in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; + Consider your ways.

4. & 7. 14.
z Isai. 12.6.
& 54.1.

Zech. 2. 10.

& 9.9.

a John 1.49.

b

ver. 5, 17.

Ezek. 48. 35Rev. 7. 15. & 21.3.4.

6 Ye have sown much, and bring in on your little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; Lam. 3. 40.

ye

drink, but ye are not filled with drink; er.., 3-1

7.

f2 Sam. 7.2. by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Ps. 132.3,

&c.

it away.