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Commentary on Joel, Amos, ObadiahTranslator's PrefaceCalvin's Preface to JoelJoel 1:1-4Prayer Lecture 38Lecture thirty ninthJoel 1:5Joel 1:6-7Joel 1:8Joel 1:9Joel 1:10Joel 1:11Prayer Lecture 39Lecture fortiethJoel 1:13-15Joel 1:16-17Joel 1:18Joel 1:19-20Prayer Lecture 40Joel 2:1-11Prayer Lecture 41Joel 2:12-13Joel 2:14Prayer Lecture 42Joel 2:15-17Joel 2:18-19Joel 2:20Prayer Lecture 43Lecture forty fourthJoel 2:21Joel 2:22Joel 2:23Joel 2:24Joel 2:25Joel 2:26Joel 2:27Joel 2:28Prayer Lecture 44Lecture forty fifthJoel 2:29Joel 2:30-31Prayer Lecture 45Joel 2:32Joel 3:1-3Prayer Lecture 46Lecture forty seventhJoel 3:4-6Joel 3:7Joel 3:8Joel 3:9-11Prayer Lecture 47Joel 3:12Joel 3:13Joel 3:14Joel 3:15Joel 3:16Joel 3:17Joel 3:18-19Joel 3:20Joel 3:21Prayer Lecture 48Lecture forty ninthAmos 1:1Amos 1:2Amos 1:3-5Prayer Lecture 49Lecture fiftiethAmos 1:6-8Amos 1:9-10Amos 1:11-12Amos 1:13-15Prayer Lecture 50Amos 2:1-3Amos 2:4-5Amos 2:6Amos 2:7Prayer Lecture 51Lecture fifty secondAmos 2:8Amos 2:9-12Amos 2:13Prayer Lecture 52Amos 2:14-16Amos 3:1-2Amos 3:3-8Prayer Lecture 53Lecture fifty fourthAmos 3:9Amos 3:10Amos 3:11-12Amos 3:13-14Prayer Lecture 54Lecture fifty fifthAmos 3:15Amos 4:1Amos 4:2Amos 4:3Amos 4:4-6Prayer Lecture 55Lecture fifty sixthAmos 4:7Amos 4:8Amos 4:9Amos 4:10Amos 4:11Amos 4:12-13Prayer Lecture 56Lecture fifty seventhAmos 5:1Amos 5:2Amos 5:3Amos 5:4-6Amos 5:7Prayer Lecture 57Lecture fifty eighthAmos 5:8Amos 5:9Amos 5:10Amos 5:11Amos 5:12Amos 5:13Prayer Lecture 58Amos 5:14Amos 5:15Amos 5:16Amos 5:17Amos 5:18Amos 5:19Prayer Lecture 59Amos 5:21-23Amos 5:24Amos 5:25-26Amos 5:27Prayer Lecture 60Amos 6:1Amos 6:2Amos 6:3Amos 6:4Amos 6:5Amos 6:6-7Prayer Lecture 61Amos 6:8Amos 6:9Amos 6:10Amos 6:11Amos 6:12Amos 6:13Amos 6:14Prayer Lecture 62Amos 7:1-3Amos 7:4-6Amos 7:7-9Prayer Lecture 63Amos 7:10-13Amos 7:14-15Prayer Lecture 64Amos 7:16Amos 8:1-2Amos 8:3-4Amos 8:5Prayer Lecture 65Lecture sixty sixthAmos 8:6Amos 8:7Amos 8:8Amos 8:9Amos 8:10Amos 8:11-12Prayer Lecture 66Amos 8:13-14Amos 9:1Amos 9:2-4Amos 9:5Amos 9:6Prayer Lecture 67Amos 9:7Amos 9:8-9Amos 9:10Amos 9:11Amos 9:12Prayer Lecture 68Lecture sixty ninthAmos 9:13Amos 9:14Amos 9:15IntroductionObadiah 1:1Obadiah 2-4Prayer Lecture 69Lecture seventiethObadiah 5Obadiah 6Obadiah 7-8Obadiah 9Obadiah 10-11Prayer Lecture 70Obadiah 12-14Obadiah 15Obadiah 16Obadiah 17Obadiah 18Obadiah 19-20Obadiah 21Prayer Lecture 71Joel · Chapter 1Joel · Chapter 2Joel · Chapter 3Amos · Chapter 1Amos · Chapter 2Amos · Chapter 3Amos · Chapter 4Amos · Chapter 5Amos · Chapter 6Amos · Chapter 7Amos · Chapter 8Amos · Chapter 9Obadiah · Chapter 1Addenda to HoseaAddenda to JoelAddenda to Amos

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Amos · Chapter 8

Chapter 8

1 Thus hath the Lord Jehovah showed me,— Even lo, a basket of summer-fruit;

2 And he said, “What seest thou, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer-fruit.” Then Jehovah said to me,— “Come has the end of my people Israel, I will no more pass by them.”

3 And howlings shall be the songs of the temple In that day, saith the Lord Jehovah; Many a dead body, in every place, Shall be cast down in silence. (362)

4 Hear this, ye who swallow up the poor, And exterminate the needy of the land, saying,—

5 “When will pass the new moon, that we may sell corn? And the , that we may bring out wheat, And lesson the ephah, and increase the shekel, And turn one side the deceitful balances?

6 That we may buy with silver the poor, And the needy for shoes, And sell the refuse of corn.”

7 Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob, “I shall not forget any of their works.”

8 Shall not the land be for this in a tumult, And every one who dwells in it mourn? Yea, heave up as a river shall the whole of it, (371) And it shall be driven and sunk as by the river of Egypt.

9 And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, That I will cause the sun to set at noon, And will darken the land in a clear day;

10 I will also turn your festal-days to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation; And to come up on all loins will I make sackcloth, And upon every head, baldness; And I will set her as in mourning for an only son, And her posterity as in the day of bitterness. (375)

11 Behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, When I shall send a famine on the land, Not the famine of bread, nor thirst for waters, But for hearing the words of Jehovah;

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, And from the south to the east shall they run, To seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it:

13 And in that day shall faint, The fair virgins and young men, for thirst;

14 Who swear by the sin of Samaria, and who say,— “Live does thy God, O Dan, And live does the way of Beersheba;” And they shall fall and rise again no more.