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Christ's birth and kingdom.

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CHAPTER X.

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The judgment of Assyria. lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict stretched out still. her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations

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CHAPTER X.

1 The wo of tyrants....24 Israel is comforted with a promise of deliverance from Assyria.

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Wo them rite grievousness which they have 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen O a 3,22 2 Kings 17, a great light: they that dwell in the land of the unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, John shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast 'multiplied the nation, and not in-prescribed: 16. creased the joy: they joy before thee according to e Eph. 5,14 the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they tch, 37, 31. b divide the spoil.

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3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, d Hosea 9, and in the desolation which shall come from far? Luke 19,44. to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

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4 || Without me they shall bow down under the 12 prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For fJohn 6, 68. all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, h chap. 9,4 and against the people of my wrath will I give him ich. 3, 17. charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and k Jer. 34, to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit 'he meaneth not so, neither doth his 1ch. 45, 4 heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon Mat. 28, his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg-a ment and with justice, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. 81 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it s ch. 26, 11. hath lighted upon Israel.

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9 And all the people " shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. b Jer. 4, 8. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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8 For " he saith, Are not my princes altogether m2 Kings kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus ?

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10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the n Jobs, idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

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11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 14, 14. 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the i Pet. 1, 17. LORD hath performed his whole work upon mount p Jer. 25, Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of 1 Pet.4, 17. the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

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Rev. 13, 20. r Dan. 4,30. s Hab. 1, 15. t Hos. 5, 10.

13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down Acts 17, 26. the inhabitants like a valiant man:

13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet' that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to g Mal. 2, 8, err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 14 And my hand hath found, as a "nest, the riches u ch. 16, 2 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, young men, neither shall have mercy on their fath-have I gathered all the earth; and there was none iPs. 147, erless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 10, 11. and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that Ezek. 9; For all this his anger is not turned away, but his heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself 1 Job 2, 23. hand is stretched out still. against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

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16 Therefore shall the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his 15 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning ofa fire. a Ps. 105, n Jer. 41,7. land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and 15. Hom. 12,5. the fire: no man shall " spare his brother. his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and de- 2 Sam. 23, 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and bevour his thorns and his briers in one day;

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Before 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the CHRIST remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

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21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

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22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of i Rom. 9,27. the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the conPsal. 119, sumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the Lord GoD of hosts shall make a 'con1 ch. 28, 22. sumption, even " determined, in the midst of all the mch. 5, 5. land.

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24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be "not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger, in their destruction. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

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27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his "burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall Rev. 13, be destroyed because of the anointing.

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28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim ; cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of

2 Jer. 4,6. Gebim 2 gather themselves to flee.

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32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop 2 Amos 2 the bough with terror: and the "high ones of stature

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9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy k ch.2, 4. & mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowl- Hos.2, 18. edge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. I Rev. 18, 1. 10 And in that day there shall be a " root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it m Rom. 15 shall the Gentiles seek: and his "rest shall be glorious. Rev. 5, 5. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the nch. 66, 1. LORD shall set his hand again the second time too Jer. 16, recover the remnant of his people, which shall be 14 left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the ¶na- p John 3, 4 tions, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and Acts 13. gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

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15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry-shod. 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant c ch. 35, 3. of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

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A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God.
AND in that day "thushalt say, O LORD, I will a llosea 1,

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thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and Rev. 19, 1,
not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my
strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of
the wells of salvation.

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4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare & his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excel- 1 Phil. 2, 9. lent things: this is known in all the earth.

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6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for
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CHAPTER XIII.

1 God mustereth the armics of his wrath....19 The desolation
of Babylon.

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and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
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4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the "king- 41

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9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; Psal. 104, and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

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11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud "to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

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12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; d Rev. 16, and every one that is "joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

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4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the 17. king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

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6 He who 'smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is Rev. 17, 6. persecuted, and none hindereth.

7 The whole earth is at 'rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

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9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee Rom. 8, 22. at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

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11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and Rev. 17, the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the F. 89, ground, which didst weaken the nations!

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sides of the pit.

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16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

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18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house:

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19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

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20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy Job 18,19people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be re- Ps. 37, 28. nowned.

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21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the ini- 23 Mat. 23, 25. quity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, Zeph. 2, and pools of water and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely

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20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the CHRIST fremnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon hin? that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

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Dan. 12, 2.

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21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

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22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of i Rom. 9,27. the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the conPsal. 119, sumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the Lord GoD of hosts shall make a 'conI ch. 28, 22. sumption, even " determined, in the midst of all the m ch. 5, 5. land. 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be "not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. § 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger, in their destruction. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, t shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his "burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall Rev. 13, be destroyed because of the anointing,

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28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Jer. 4,6. Gebim gather themselves to flee.

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32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

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34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests
with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
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4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall 'smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and 2,12 the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together; and a Rom. 8, 20 little child shall lead them.

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9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy k ch.2, 4. & mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowl- Hos.2, 18. edge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 1 Rev. 13, 1. 10 And in that day there shall be a " root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it m Rom. 15 shall the Gentiles seek: and his "rest shall be glorious. Rev. 5, 5. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the n ch. 66, 1. LORD shall set his hand again the second time to o Jer. 16, recover the remnant of his people, which shall be 14 left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the a na- p John 5, 4 {tions, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and 9 Acts 13, gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

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AND in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will a Hosea 1,
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The confusion of Egypt. Before top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost? 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egype. 741 fruitful brauches thereof,saith the LORD God of Israel. tians: and they shall fight every one against his 7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker and brother, and every one against his neighbour; city 21.& 1922. his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. against city, and kingdom against kingdom. Micah 7, 7. 8 And he shall not look to the 'altars, the work 1 Jer. 3, 23, of his hands, neither shall respect that which his "fingers have made, either the groves or the images. 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they n ch. 7, 16. left, because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

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3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst 1 Sam. 14. thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and 2 Chron. they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. Prov. 21,80 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand e Ex. 8, 19. of a 'cruel lord and a fierce king shall rule overz them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

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Jer. 46, 26.
Ezek. 29,19.

10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the fch. 20, 4. Psalvation, and hast not been mindful of the Rockriver shall be wasted and dried up. of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

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7 The paper-reeds by the brooks, by the 'mouth Amos 9, 1, of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

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12 Wo to the multitude of many people, which 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that make a 'noise like the noise of the seas; and to the cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rush-spread nets upon the waters shall languish. ing of mighty waters! 9 Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave net-works, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes there-mR12, of, all that make sluices and ponds for " fish. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are "fools, the 22 counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: P how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of ma- { Psal. 9, 5. ny waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they Dan. 2,35. shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of a Ps. 83, 15. the mountains before the wind, and like a "rolling thing before the whirlwind.

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13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye 14 The LORD hath mingled a ' perverse spirit in swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to 22, 22. to a people terrible from their "beginning hitherto;}'err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staga nation meted out and trodden down, whose land gereth in his vomit. the rivers have spoiled!

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3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling-place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in Isa. 4, 6. the heat of harvest.

f Mic. 6, 9.

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15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, tRev. 17, 2. which the "head or tail, branch or rush, may do. u ch. 9, 14. 16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; x Jer. 50,50 and it shall be afraid and fear, because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he ch.11, 16. shaketh over it.

y Pr. 28, 1. & 30, 32.

17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto 2 ch. 36, 1 Egypt: every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it

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18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt 106. speak the language of Canaan, and 'swear to the LORD Acts 19, 19. of hosts: one shall be called, The city of destruction. Heb. 13, 19 In that day shall there be an "altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof " to the LORD.

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7 In that time shall the present be brought unto 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness 1. & 15, 16. the LORD of hosts of a " people scattered and peeled, unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for Ps. 72, 10. and from a people terrible from their beginning hith- they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppres-e 15. erto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, sors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of great one, and he shall deliver them. the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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