3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa: and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

4 T But the LORD † sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship † was like to be broken.

Matt. 12.

39, Jonas. 11, 12. 10.

Gen.

ch. 3. 2, 3. & 4. 11.

20, 21.

Gen. 18. Ezra 9. 6. Rev. 18. 5. s. 19.

Jam. 5. 4.

e Josh.

2 Chron. 2. 16. Acts 9. 36.

Gen.4.16.

Job 1. 12.,

& 2.7.

g Ps. 107. 25.

cast forth. thought to

the

Heb Heb. be broken.

h So

Before CHRIST about 862.

a Ps. 120.1. & 130. & 142. 1.

56.

Or, out of mine afflic tion.

b Ps. 65. 2. Or, the grave. Isa. 14. 9.

Ps. 88. 6.

+ Heb. heart.

d Ps. 42. 7.

Ps. 31. 22. 8. 38.

fL Kings

g Ps. 69. 1. Lam. 3. 54. + Heb.

cuttings of

h Ps. 16. 10. JOr, the pit.

1 The prayer of Jonah: 19 He is delivered out of the belly of the fish,↑↑ HEN Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,dt tili wind

T

b

2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. T

3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the †midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: "all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet will look again toward thy holy temple.

I

RS

5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depths closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life "from corruption, O LORD my God.

7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered Acts 27.18, Ps. 18. 6. the LORD: 'and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

19,38. sam. 24,

k

28.

7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

13

8 Then said they unto him, "Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou? 9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which made the sea and the dry land.

10 Then were the men fexceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

... 11 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea † may be calm unto us? for the seat wrought and was tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you..

HOVAH.

o Ps. 146. 6. Acts 17.24.

Heb.with great fear.

2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

5 So the people of Nineveh 'believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them..

6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his, robe from

e Job 2. 8. him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

d 2 Chron. 20.3.

Joel 2. 15.

+ Heb.said. † Heb.

great men.

50.

30.

not hast

Deut. 21. Ps. 115.3. Lukes. 24.

forth

sacrifice

g2 Sam. 12. 22.

15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea fceased from her raging. 16 Then the men "feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made

Vows.

17.¶Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the t belly of the fish three days and three nights.

vowed vows.

30.

Isa. 58. 6.

Isa. 59.6.

h Jer. 18.8. Amos 7. 3,

7And he caused it to be proclaimed and † pub lished through Nineveh by decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and ery mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and Joel 2. 14. turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and The did it not.

Jonah reproved.

CHAP. IV.

Jonah, repining at God's mercy, is reproved, by the type of a gourd. UT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

BUT

2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto a ch. 1. 3. Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a 'gracious God, b Ex. 34. 6. and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the LORD, || Doest thou well to be angry?

5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

Ps. 86. 5.

Joel 2. 13.

19. 4.

1 Kings ver. 8. or, Art

Before

CHRIST

God's wrath against Jacob.

rer shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. about 862. So Jonah † was exceeding glad of the gourd.

† Heb. re

joiced with

great joy.

Or, silent.

e ver. 3.

7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, 'It is better for me to die than to live.

9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to the great be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

Or, Art thou ly angry? Or, I am greatly angry. spared.

Or, pal Ileb.

6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and merist. made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a Kikajon.

+Heb. was the night

the son of

fch. 1. 2. & 3. 2, 3.

g Deut. 1.

39.

h Ps. 36. 6. & 145. 9.

10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which † came up in a night, and perished in a night:

11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much "cattle?

1 Micah sheweth the wrath of God against Jacob for idolatry. 10 He exhorteth to mourning.

CHRIST

about 750.

a Jer.26.18. Amos 1.1.

THE word of the LORD came to Micah the Mor-Heb of Jotham, Ahaz, and He-Hear which he saw concerning of them

asthite in the days zekiah, kings of Judah, Samaria and Jerusalem.

b

people, all

c Deut.32.1 Isa. 1. 2. + Heb, the

thereof.

Mal. 5.

e

2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and fulness tall that therein is: and let the Lord GOD "be ness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. 3 For behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the "high places of the earth.

wit-P 50.7. P. 11.4. Jonah 2.7. 126.21.

4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down † a steep place. 5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel.. What is transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they Jerusalem?

the

not

of

6 Therefore, I will make Samaria as an heap the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I wil pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will 'discover the foundations thereof. 7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the "hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. 8 Therefore, I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked: "I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the towls.

Hab. 2. 20.

g Ps. 115. 3. h Deut. 32. 13. & 33. 29.

iJudg. 5. 5.

Amos 4.13 P. 97. 5. Isa.64.1,2,3 Hab.3.6,10. descent. k2 Kings 15 19. 25. ch3123

Amos 9. 5.

+ Heba

Ezek. 13. 14.

m Hos. 2.

come Jer. 6. 26. r

9 For her wound is incurable; for it is unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah 'roll thyself in the dust. 11 Pass ye away, I thou tinhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of nan came not forth in the mourning of || Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

thou that dwel lest fairly.

+ Heb. in

habitress

t Isa. 20. 4.

& 47. 2, 3.

Jer. 13. 22.

Nah. 3. 5. Zaa-Or, the locks.

country of

Or. a place ||

ne.r.

Or, was

12 For the inhabitant of Maroth || waited care- grieved.

3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

4 TIn that day shall one take up a parable against you, and "lament †with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! I turning away he hath di vided our fields.

5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast not as they a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. 6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that Ezek. 21. 2. prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that Isa. 30.10. they shall not take shame.

+ Heb. drop, &c.

8 Even † of late my people is risen up as an ene-CHRIST my: ye pull off the robe with the garment from about 730. them that pass by securely as men averse from war. + Heb. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out yesterday. from their pleasant houses; from their children against a have ye taken away my glory for ever.

Heb. over

garment.

Or, wives.

10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your mrest: because it is "polluted, it shall destroy you, m Deut. 12. even with a sore destruction.

11 If a man || walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

9.

n Lev. 18. Jer. 3. 2.

walk with

the wind,

and lie falsely. o Ezek. 13.

3.

12 T'I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will pch. 4. 6,7. put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the Jer. 31. flock in the midst of their fold: "they shall maker Ezek. 36. great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

10.

37.

13 The breaker is come up before them; they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king shall pass Hos. 3.5. before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

CHAP. III.

1 The cruelty of the princes. 5 The falsehood of the prophets. 8 The security of them both.

t Isa. 52.

12.

7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the viners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their flips; for there is no answer of God.

81 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, 'to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

Before CHRIST

The restoration of the church

[jalla 2 lat word dhuCHAP. IV.

about 710. 1 The establishment of Christ's kingdom. 3 The peace, restoration, kingdom, and victory of the church.

a Isa. 2. 2, &c.

Ezek. 17.

22, 23.

6 Isa. 2. 5.

Joel 3. 10. | Or, scythes.

P72.7.

d1 Kings

4. 25!

Zech. 3, 10.

UT "in the last days it shall come to pass, that BUT last the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teaca us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. S.

4 "But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it, 5 For all people will walk every one in the name Zech. 10. of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever. wob

e Jer. 2. 11.

12.

g Ezek. 34. 16.

6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble Zeph. 3. 19. her that halteth, "and I will gather her that is Ps. 147.2. driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

Ezek. 34.

13, & 37.21.

i ch. 2. 12.

7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, 45.3, 7, 8. and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and Isa. 9. 6. the LORD * shall reign over them in mount Zion from Dan. 7.14, henceforth, even for ever.

& 7. 18.

& 24. 23.

27.

Luke 1.33.

Or, Edar:

1 Jer. 8.19.

17 1. 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong Rev. 11.15 hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it Gen.35. 21. come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. va 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? 'is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for m Isa. 13. pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Isa. 21.
Isa. 41.

10...

15, 16... Jer. 51. 33.

s Dan. 2.

m

11 ¶"Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD: neither understand they his counsel for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. CHAP. V.oul m

NOW

1 The birth of Christ: 4 his kingdom : 8 his conquest. TOW gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they Matt. 2.6. shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the c1 Sam. 23. cheek.medal to

& 27.30. John 7.42.

23.

d Ex.18.25. Isa. 9. 6.

2 But thou, 'Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou Gen.49.10 be little among the "thousands of Judah, yet out of f Ps. 90. 2. thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Ruler

Prov. 8.22,

23: John 1.1.

+ Heb.

the days of eternity.

in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

3 Therefore will he give them up until the

Before

Before

God's controversy for injustice.

g ch. 4. 10.

h

Or, rule.

4.7. LORD. 40.11. Ezek. 34.

$4¶And he shall stand and 'feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

the

5 And this man 'shall be the peace, when Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight † principal men. 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of "Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he "deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

the man,

-7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for nor waiteth for the sons of men. 18 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

& 49. 10.

23. ch. 7. 14. k Ps. 72. 8.

Isa. 52. 13. Zech. 9.10. Ps. 72.7.

Luke 1. 32.

Isa. 9. 6. Zech. 9. 10. Luke 2. 14.

Eph. 2. 14. princes of men. eat up.

+ lleb.

† Heb.

m Gen. 10. 8, 10, 11. | Or,

with her swords.

own naked

n Luke 1. 1

o ver. 3.

p Deut. 32.

110. 3. or, goats.

4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 0 my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD. 6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves † of year old?

5.3, 4. Hos. 4.1. 31

e Ex. 12.51.

& 14. 30.

& 20. 2.

Deut. 4. 20. Amos 2.10.

5. & 23. 7.

& 24. 10,11.

Deut. 23. 4, Josh. 24. 9,

5.

10.

13 Therefore, also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. 14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy 20. 10,23. casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou be pure shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that with, &c. which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. Jer. 9.3, 15 Thou shalt 'sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou Lev.26.16 shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint 18.107.17, thee with oil; and sweet wine,ut shalt hot drink

pHos.12.7.

5, 6, 8.

& Lev.26.26

Hos. 4. 10. Wine.

t Deut. 28. 38, 39, 40.

Zeph. 1. 13.

16 For the statutes of "Omri are kept, and all Amos 5.11. the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in Hag. 1. 6. their counsels; that I should make thee a desoladoth much tion, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therekeep thee, fore ye shall bear the "reproach of my people.

Or, he

u 1 Kings 16. 25, 26.

≈ Hos.5.11.

y1 Kings 16.30, &c. & 21. 25, 26...

2 Kings 21.

3.

* 1 Kings

CHAP. VII.

O is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapeJer. 19.8. gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: Or, aston- my soul desired the first ripe fruit.

9. 8.

ishment.

a Isa. 25.8. Jer. 51. 51.

2 The good man is perished out of the earth: Lam. 5. 1. and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; "they hunt every man his brother with a net.

+ Heb. the gatherings of

summer.

a Isa. 17.6. & 24, 13.

c Ps. 12. 1.

Isa. 57. 1.

3 That they may do evil with both hands Tsa. 28. 4. earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh Hos. 9, 10 for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth this & 14.1, 3. mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. 11 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most merciful upright is sharper than a thorn-hedge: the day of Hos. 4.18 thy watchmen, and thy visitation cometh; now shall Isa. 1.23. be their perplexity.