Judah's punishment,

B. C. about 517.

|| Or, gallants.

|| Or, the defenced forest. b Is. 32. 19.

c ver. 7.

d Jer. 2. 3. & 50.7

e Dent. 29.19. Hos. 12. 8.

† Heb. make to be found.

f ver. 4.

|| Or, verily the poor.

b

2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

3 ¶ There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, and dhold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD but, lo, I will t deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and || Or, Binders. the other I called || Bands; and I fed the flock.

g Zeph. 3. 12. Matt. 11. 5.

and her restoration.

CHAPTER XII.

Jerusalem a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone

to her adversaries. 6 The restoration of Judah. 9 The repentance of Jerusalem.

THE

B. C. about 517.

|| Or, bear.

o Jer. 23. 1. Ez. 34. 2. John 10. 12,

13.

a ls. 42. 5. & 44. 24. & 45.

12, 18. & 48.

13.

THE burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the Lord, a which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, Num. 16. 22. and formeth the spirit of man within him.

Ecc. 12. 7.
Is. 57. 16.
Heb. 12. 9.

c Is. 51. 17, 22, 23.

or, poison.

2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem ca cup of trembling unto all the peo- Or, slumber, ple round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

e

|| Or, and also against Judah shall he be which shall be in siege against Jerusalem.

3 ¶ And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves d ver. 4, 6, 8, with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

9, 11. & ch. 13. 1. & 14. 4, 6, 8, 9, 13.

e Matt. 21. 44.

Ez. 38. 4.

4 In that day, saith the LORD, If Ps. 76. 6. will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants Or, There is of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

strength to me and to the inhabitants, &c. Joel 3. 16.

6 ¶ In that day will I make the governors of Judah 5 like a hearth of fireg Obad. 18. among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

Jerusalem's repentance.

B. C.

1 John 19. 34, 37. Rev. 1. 7. m Jer. 6. 26. Am. 8. 10.

Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of about 517. supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, mas one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

n Acts 2. 37. o 2 Kings 23. 29. 2 Chr. 35. 24.

+ Heb. families, families.

P Matt. 24. 30.

Rev. 1. 7.

q 2 Sam. 5. 14.

Luke 3. 31.

a ch. 12. 3.
b Heb. 9. 14.
1 Pet. 1. 19.
Rev. 1. 5.

+Heb. separation for uncleanness.

c Ex. 23. 13. Josh. 23. 7. Ps. 16. 4. Ez. 30. 13. Hos. 2. 17. Mic. 5. 12, 13. d 2 Pet. 2. 1.

e Deut. 13. 6, 8. & 18. 20.

f Mic. 3. 6, 7.

g2 Kings 1. 8.

Is. 20. 2.
Matt. 3. 4.

+ Heb. a gar

ment of hair. † Heb. to lie. h Am. 7. 14.

i Is. 40. 11.

Ez. 34. 23.

k John 10. 30. & 14. 10, 11. Phil. 2. 6.

1 Matt. 26. 31. Mark 14. 27.

n

12 P And the land shall mourn, † every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

CHAPTER XIII.

b

A fountain opened for sin. 2 The removal of idolatry, and false prophets. 7 The smiting of the Shepherd, and the salvation of a third part of the people. Na that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for † uncleanness.

2 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause d the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophe

sieth.

m

The Messiah's coming.

shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

B. C. about 517.

m Matt. 18. 10, 14. Luke 12. 32.

n Rom. 11. 5.

o Is. 48. 10.

P1 Pet. 1. 6, 7. a Ps. 50. 15. &

91. 15. ch. 10. 6.

r Ps. 144. 15. Jer. 30. 22. Ez. 11. 20. Hos. 2. 23. ch. 8. 8.

a Is. 13. 9. Joel 2. 31. Acts 2. 20.

c Is. 13.16.

cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations b Joel 3. 2. against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

d

e

of the

23.

e Joel 3. 12, 14.

4 ¶ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which See Ez. 11. is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah : 5 and the LORD my God shall come, and hall the saints with thee.

6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be † clear, † Heb. prenor † dark:

i

k

cious. + Heb. thick

ness.

7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day,Or, the day nor night but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

shall be one. h Joel 3. 11. i Rev. 22. 5.

k Matt. 24. 36.

60, 19, 20. Rev. 21. 23.

8 And it shall be in that day, that Is. 30. 26. & living m waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

9 And the LORD shall be "king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

|| Or, eastern, Joel 2. 20.

m Ez. 47. 1. Joel 3. 18. Rev. 22. 1. n Dan. 2. 44. Rev. 11. 15. o Eph. 4. 5, 6.