The Hebrew Prophets

Therfore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord saith thus, Mourning shalbe in all streetes: and they shall say in al the hie wayes, Alas, alas: and they shall call the husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourne, to mourning.

And in al the vines shalbe lamentation: for I wil passe through thee, saith the Lord.

Woe vnto you, that desire the day of the Lord: what haue you to do with it? the day of the Lord is darkenes and not light.

As if a man did flee from a lyon, and a beare met him: or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Shal not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen darkenes and no light in it?

I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smelll in your solemne assemblies.

Though ye offer me burnt offrings and meat offrings, I wil not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offrings of your fat beasts.

Take thou away from me the multitude of thy songs (for I wil not heare the melodie of thy violes)

And let iudgement runne downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie riuer.

Haue ye offered vnto me sacrifices and offrings in the wildernesse fourtie yeeres, O house of Israel?

But you haue borne Siccuth your King, and Chiun your images, and the starre of your gods, which ye made to your selues.

Therefore wil I cause you to goe into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose Name is the God of hostes.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and trust in the moutaine of Samaria, which were famous at the beginning of the nations: and the house of Israel came to them.

Goe you vnto Calneh, and see: and from thence goe you to Hamath the great: then goe downe to Gath of the Philistims: be they better then these kingdomes? or the border of their land greater then your border,

Ye that put farre away the euill day, and approch to the seate of iniquitie?

They lie vpon beddes of yuorie, and stretch themselues vpon their beddes, and eate the lambes of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall.

They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid.

They drinke wine in bowles, and anoynt themselues with the chiefe ointments, but no man is sory for the affliction of Ioseph.

Therefore nowe shall they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorow of them that stretched themselues, is at hand.

The Lord God hath sworne by himselfe, saith the Lord God of hostes, I abhorre the excellencie of Iaakob, and hate his palaces: therefore wil I deliuer vp the citie with all that is therein.

And if there remaine ten men in one house, they shall die.

And his vncle shall take him vp and burne him to cary out the bones out of the house, and shall say vnto him, that is by ye sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? And he shall say, None. Then shall he say, Holde thy tongue: for we may not remember the Name of the Lord.

For behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the litle house with clefts.

Shal horses runne vpon the rocke? or wil one plowe there with oxen? for yee haue turned iudgement into gall, and the fruite of righteousnes into wormewood.

Ye reioyce in a thing of nought: yee say, Haue not wee gotten vs hornes by our owne strength?