Jonah 4 - Micah 2
1599 Geneva Bible
4 The great goodness of God toward his creatures.
1 Therefore it displeased [a]Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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 prevented it to flee unto [b]Tarshish: for I knew, that thou art a gracious God, 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 [c]from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be [d]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 [e]till he might see what should be done in the city.
6 And the Lord God prepared a [f]gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, and deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
8 And when the sun did arise, God prepared also a fervent East wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said unto Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be [g]angry unto the death.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night,
11 And should [h]not I spare Nineveh that great city, wherein are sixscore thousand persons, that [i]cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?
Micah
1 1 The destruction of Judah and Jerusalem because of the idolatry.
1 The word of the Lord, that came unto Micah the [j]Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria, and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, [k]all ye people: hearken thou, O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witness against you, even the Lord from his holy Temple.
3 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, and will come [l]down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall melt under him (so shall the valleys cleave) as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured downward.
5 For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel: what is the wickedness of Jacob? Is not [m]Samaria? and which are the high [n]places of Judah? Is not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble down into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be broken, and all the [o]gifts thereof shall be burnt with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I destroy: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return [p]to the wages of an harlot.
8 Therefore I will mourn and howl: I will go without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.
9 For her plagues are grievous: for it is come into Judah: the enemy is come unto the gate of my people, unto Jerusalem.
10 Declare ye it not at [q]Gath, neither weep ye: for the house of [r]Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
11 Thou that dwellest at [s]Shaphir, go together naked with shame: she that dwelleth at Zaanan, shall not come forth in the mourning of Beth Ezel: the enemy shall [t]receive of you for his standing.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came from the Lord unto the [u]gate of Jerusalem.
13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the beasts [v]of price: she [w]is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth [x]Gath: the houses of Achzib shall be as a lie to the kings of Israel.
15 Yet will I bring an [y]heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, he shall come unto Adullam, [z]the glory of Israel.
16 Make thee bald: and shave thee for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.
2 1 Threatenings against the wanton and dainty people. 6 They would teach the Prophets to preach.
1 Woe unto them that imagine iniquity, and work wickedness upon their beds: [aa]when the morning is light they practice it, because their hand [ab]hath power.
2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even man and his heritage.
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family have I devised a plague, whereout ye shall not pluck your necks, and ye shall not go so proudly, for this time is evil.
4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, [ac]We be utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he taken it away to restore it unto me? he hath divided our fields.
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in [ad]the congregation of the Lord.
6 [ae]They that prophesy, Prophesy ye not. [af]They shall not prophesy to them, neither shall they take shame.
7 O thou that art named of the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord shortened? [ag]are these his works? are not my works good unto him [ah]that walketh uprightly?
8 But he that was [ai]yesterday my people, is risen up on the other side, as against an enemy: they spoil the [aj]beautiful garment from them that pass by peaceably, as though they returned from the war.
9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their children have ye taken away [ak]my glory continually.
10 Arise and depart, for this is not your [al]rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11 If a man [am]walk in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, [an]I will prophesy unto thee of wine, and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 I will surely gather [ao]thee wholly, O Jacob: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel: I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, even as the flock in the midst of their fold: the cities shall be full of brute of the men.
13 The [ap]breaker up shall come up before them: they shall break out, and pass by the gate, and go out by it, and their king shall go before them, and the Lord shall be [aq]upon their heads.
Footnotes
- Jonah 4:1 Because hereby he should be taken as a false prophet, and so the Name of God, which he preached, should be blasphemed.
- Jonah 4:2 Read Jonah 1:3.
- Jonah 4:3 Thus he prayed of grief fearing lest God’s Name by this forgiveness might be blasphemed, as though he sent his Prophets forth to denounce his judgments in vain.
- Jonah 4:4 Wilt thou be judge when I do things for my glory, and when I do not?
- Jonah 4:5 For he doubted as yet whether God would show them mercy or not, and therefore after forty days he departed out of the city, looking what issue God would send.
- Jonah 4:6 Which was a further means, to cover him from the heat of the sun, as he remained in his booth.
- Jonah 4:9 This declareth the great inconveniences whereinto God’s servants do fall when they give place to their own affections, and do not in all things willingly submit themselves to God.
- Jonah 4:11 Thus God mercifully reproveth him which would pity himself, and this gourd, and yet would restrain God to show his compassion to so many thousand people.
- Jonah 4:11 Meaning, that they were children and infants.
- Micah 1:1 Born in Moresheth, a city of Judah.
- Micah 1:2 Because of the malice and obstinacy of the people, whom he had so oft exhorted to repentance, he summoneth them to God’s judgments, taking all creatures, and God himself to witness, that the preaching of his Prophets, which they have abused, shall be revenged.
- Micah 1:3 Meaning hereby, that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and holds.
- Micah 1:5 Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice, was the puddle, and stews of all idolatry and corruption, and boasted themselves of their father Jacob.
- Micah 1:5 That is, the idolatry and infection.
- Micah 1:7 Which they gathered by evil practices, and thought that their idols had enriched them therewith for their service unto them.
- Micah 1:7 The gain that came by their idols shall be consumed as a thing of naught: for as the wages or riches of harlots are wickedly gotten, so are they vilely and speedily spent.
- Micah 1:10 Lest the Philistines our enemies rejoice at our destruction.
- Micah 1:10 Which was a city near to Jerusalem, Josh. 18:23, there called Ophrah, and signifieth dust: therefore he willeth them to mourn and roll themselves in the dust, for their dusty city.
- Micah 1:11 These were cities whereby the enemy should pass as he came to Judah.
- Micah 1:11 He shall not depart before he hath overcome you, and so you shall pay for his tarrying.
- Micah 1:12 For Rabshakeh had shut up Jerusalem, that they could not send to succor them.
- Micah 1:13 To flee away: for Sennacherib laid siege first to that city, and re-mained therein when he sent his captains and army against Jerusalem.
- Micah 1:13 Thou first receivedst the idolatry of Jeroboam, and so didst infect Jerusalem.
- Micah 1:14 Thou shalt bribe the Philistines thy neighbors, but they shall deceive thee, as well as they of Jerusalem.
- Micah 1:15 He prophesieth against his own city: and because it signified an heritage, he saith that God would send an heir to possess it.
- Micah 1:15 For so they thought themselves for the strength of their city.
- Micah 2:1 As soon as they rise, they execute their wicked devices of the night, and according to their power hurt others.
- Micah 2:1 Hebrew, is in power.
- Micah 2:4 Thus the Jews lament and say that there is no hope of restitution, seeing their possessions are divided among the enemies.
- Micah 2:5 Ye shall have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee.
- Micah 2:6 Thus the people warn the prophets that they speak to them no more, for they cannot abide their threatenings.
- Micah 2:6 God saith that they shall not prophesy, nor receive no more of their rebukes nor taunts.
- Micah 2:7 Are these your works according to his Law?
- Micah 2:7 Do not the godly find my words comfortable?
- Micah 2:8 That is, aforetime.
- Micah 2:8 The poor can have no commodity by them, but they spoil them, as though they were enemies.
- Micah 2:9 That is, their substance and living, which is God’s blessing, and as it were part of his glory.
- Micah 2:10 Jerusalem shall not be your safeguard: but the cause of your destruction.
- Micah 2:11 That is, show himself to be a Prophet.
- Micah 2:11 He showeth what prophets they delight in, that is, in flatterers, which tell them pleasant tales, and speak of their commodities.
- Micah 2:12 To destroy thee.
- Micah 2:13 The enemy shall break their gates and walls, and lead them into Chaldea.
- Micah 2:13 To drive them forward, and to help their enemies.
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