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Prophets

6. Amos

6. Next comes the prophet Amos Ch. iv. v. 11.

‘I (i.e. the Lord) have overthrown {some} of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the Lord.’

12. ‘Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: {and} because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet they God, O Israel.
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    7. Seventhly and lastly comes /behold/ Zephaniah, Ch. ii. v. 8. 9.

    ‘I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified {themselves} against their border.

    9. ‘Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts and God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, {even} the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation, the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.’

    10. ‘This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified {themselves} against the people of the Lord of hosts.’

    11. ‘The Lord {will be} terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and {men} shall worship him every one from his place, {even} all the isles of the heathen.’

    12 ‘Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by the sword.’

    13. ‘And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Ninevah a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.’—Thereupon follows the picture of the wilderness in detail.

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    Ezekiel xvi.

    52. ‘Thou also which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable then they; they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.’

    53. ‘When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then {will I bring again} the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them.’

    54. ‘That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.’

    55. ‘When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.’

    56. ‘For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride.’

    57. ‘Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of {thy} reproach of the daughters of Syria, [and] MS ‘all’. all {that are} round about her, the daughters of the Philistines which despise thee round about.’

    59. ‘Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thy abominations saith the Lord.’

    60. ‘For thus saith the Lord God, I will even deal with thee as thou hast done which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.’
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    3. Next comes a passage in Jeremiah xxiii. 14.

    ‘I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they committ adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evil doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.’

    Dishonesty seems in this passage to have been the principal imputation meant to be conveyed.

    Here we see prophet Jeremiah pouring down as usual upon the heads of rivals /rival prophets/ as well as enemies at large a torrent of vague vituperation: they on their part we may well believe were not behind hand with him. But happily their prophecies have perished with them, and his [...?] and the storehouse of religion is encumbered with his.