Saith the Lord GOD.
6And I also have given you Cleanness of teeth in aU your cities, And want of bread in all your places; Yet have ye not returned unto Me, Saith the LORD.
7And I also have withholden the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain upon one city, And caused it not to rain upon another city; One piece was rained upon, And the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8So two or three cities wandered un- to one city AMOS 5.10 To drink water, and were not satis- fied; Yet have ye not returned unto Me, Saith the LOKD.
9I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards And your fig-trees and your olive- trees Hath the palmer-worm devoured; Yet have ye not returned unto Me, Saith the LORD.
10I have sent among you the pesti- lence in the way of Egypt; Your young men have I slain with the sword, And have carried away 'your horses; And I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils; Yet have ye not returned unto Me, Saith the LORD.
UI have overthrown some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, . And ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; Yet have ye not returned unto Me, Saith the LORD.
^Therefore thus will I do unto thee, 0 Israel; Because I will do this unto thee, Prepare to meet thy God, 0 Israel. 13For, lo, He that formeth the moun- tains, and createth the wind, And declareth unto man what is his thought, That maketh the morning darkness, And treadeth upon the high places of the earth; The LORD, the God of hosts, is His name.
£J Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, 0 house of Israel: 2The virgin of Israel is fallen, She shall no more rise; She is cast down upon her land, There is none to raise her up. 3For thus saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, of the house of Israel 4For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live; 6But seek not Beth-el, Nor enter into Gilgal, And pass not to Beer-sheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Beth-el shall come to nought. 6Seek the LORD, and live — Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el — 7Ye who turn justice to wormwood, And cast righteousness to the ground; 8Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, And bringeth on the shadow of death in the morning, And darkeneth the day into night; That calleth for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth; The LORD is His name; 9That causeth destruction to flash upon the strong, So that destruction cometh upon the fortress.
l°They hate him that reproveth in the gate, AMOS And they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. "Therefore, because ye trample upon the poor, And take from him exactions of wheat, Ye have built houses of hewn stone, But ye shall not dwell in them, Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, But ye shall not drink the wine thereof. 12For I know how manifold are your transgressions, And how mighty are your sins; Ye that afflict the just, that take a ransom, And that turn aside the needy in the gate. "Therefore the prudent doth keep silence in such a time; For it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; And so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.
15Hate the evil, and love the good, And establish justice in the gate; It may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, Will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16Therefore thus saith the LORD, The God of hosts, the Lord.
Lamentation shall be in all the broad places, And they shall say in all the streets* 'Alas! alasi' And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, And proclaim lamentation to such as are skilful of wailing l7And in all vineyards shall be lamen- tation; i For I will pass through the midst of thee, Saith the LORD l8Woe unto you that desire the day lof the LORD' Wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD?
It is darkness, and not light. 19As if a man did flee from a lion, And a bear met him; And went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a serpent bit him. 20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21I hate, I despise your feasts, And I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
MYea, though ye offer me burnt- offerings and your meal-offerings, I will not accept them, Neither will I regard the peace- offerings of your fat beasts. 23Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; And let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries ^But let justice well up as waters, And righteousness as a mighty stream.
5Did ye bring unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, 0 house of Israel? 26So shall ye take up Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. "There- fore will I cause you to go into captiv- ity beyond Damascus, saith He, whose name is the LORD God of hosts.
^ Woe to them that are at ease in And to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, AMOS The notable rrten of the first of the nations, To whom the house of Israel come!
2Pass ye unto Calneh, and see, And from thence go ye to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines; Are they better than these king- doms?
Or is their border greater than your border?
8Ye that put far away the evil day, And cause the seat of violence to come near; 4That lie upon beds of ivory, And stretch themselves upon their couches, And eat the lambs out of the flock, And the calves out of the midst of the stall; ^hat thrum on the psaltery, That devise for themselves instru- ments of music, like David; 6That drink wine in bowls, And anoint themselves with the chief ointments; • But they are not grieved for the hurt of Joseph.
^Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of them that go cap- tive, And the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
8The Lord GOD hath sworn by Him- self, Saith the LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; And I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto nim that is in the innermost parts of the house 'Is there yet any with thee?' and he shall say. 'No'; then shall he say: ' Hold thy peace; for we must not make mention of the name of the LORD.'
nFor, behold, the LORD commandeth, And the great house shall be smitten into splinters, And the little house into chips 12Do horses run upon the rock? Doth one plow there with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood; 13Ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, That say: ' Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?' l4For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of the Arabah.
T Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2And if it had come to pass, that when they made an end of eating the grass of the land — so I said 0 Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech Thee; How shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
3The LORD repented concerning this; 'It shall not be', saith the LORD.
4Thu« the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land. 6Then said I • 0 Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; How shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Y.O A1YLUO 6The LORD repented concerning this 'This also shall not be', saith the Lore GOD.
7Thus He showed me; and, behold the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand. 8And the LORD said unto me 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said 'A plumbline. ' Then said the Lord Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel; I will not again pardon them any more; 9And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shal] be laid waste; And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, say- ing: 'Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. nFor thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led away captive put of his land.' 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos: '0 thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there; 13but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.' 14Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser fcf syco- more-trees; "and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said unto me: Go, prophesy unto My people Israel. "Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest: Prophesy not against Israel, » Heb. fan* And preach not against the house of Isaac; l7Therefore thus saith the LORD: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, And thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, And thy land shall be divided by line; And thou thyself shalt die in an un- clean land, And Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. ' Q Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2And He said: 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said: 'A basket of lsummer fruit.' Then said the LORD unto me: The bend is come upon My people Israel, I will not again pardon them any more. 3And the songs of the palace shall be waitings in that day, Saith the Lord GOD; The dead bodies shall be many; In every place silence shall be cast.
4Hear this, 0 ye that would swallow the needy, And destroy the poor of the land, fiSaying: 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth corn? Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances of deceit; ^hat we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the refuse of the corn.' 7The LORD hath sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their works.
AMOS 8Shall not the land tremble for this, And every one mourn that dwelleth therein? Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; And it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt. 9Andit shall come to pass in that day, Saith the Lord GOD, That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in the clear day. 10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, And baldness upon every head; And I will make it as the mourning for an only son, And the end thereof as a bitter day.
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD 12And they shall wander from sea to sea, And from the north evenlio the east, They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LOKD, And shall not find it. 13In that day shall the fair virgins And the young men faint for thirst. 14They that swear by the sin of Sama- ria, And say: 'As thy God, 0 Dan, liveth'; And: 'As the way of Beer-sheba liveth'; Even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
O I saw the Lord standing beside the altar; and He said: Smite the- capitals, that the posts may shake; And break them in pieces on the head of all of them; And I will slay the residue of them with the sword; There shall not one of them flee away, And there shall not one of them escape.
2Though they dig into the nether- world, Thence shall My hand take them; And though they climb up to heaven, Thence will I bring them down. 3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; And though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea, Thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. 4And though they go into captivity before their enemies, Thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them; And I will set Mine eyes upon them For evil, and not for good.
5For the Lord, the GOD of hosts, Is He that toucheth the land and it melteth, And all that dwell therein mourn; And it nseth up wholly like the River, And smketh again, like the River of 6It is He that buildeth His upper chambers in the heaven, And hath founded His vault upon the earth; He that calleth for the waters of the sea, AMOS And poureth them out upon the face of the earth; The LORD is His name.
7Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD.
Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, And the Philistines from Caphtor, And Aram from Kir? 8Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD Are upon the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; Saving that I will not utterly de- stroy the house of Jacob, Saith the LORD.
9For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, Like as corn is sifted in a sieve, Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10A11 ^the sinners of My people shall die by the sword.
That say: ' The evil shall not over- take nor confront us.; nln that day will I raise up The tabernacle of David that is fallen, And close up the breaches thereof, And I will raise up his ruins, And I will build it as in the days of old; 12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations, upon whom My name is called, Saith the LORD that doeth this.
13Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, That the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; And the mountains shall drop sweet wine, And all the hills shall melt. 14And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel, And they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; And they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15And*I will plant them upon their land, And they shall no more be plucked up Out of their land which I have given them, Saith the LORD thy God.
may OBADIAH '•THE vision of Obadiah.
Thus saith the Lord GOD concern- ing Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD, And an ambassador is sent among the nations: 'Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.' 2Behold, I make thee small among the nations; OBADIAH Thou art greatly despised. 3The pride of thy heart hath be- guiled thee, 0 thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, Thy habitation on high; That sayest in thy heart.
'Who shall bring me down to the ground?' 4Though thou make thy nest as high as the eagle, And though thou set it among the stars, 1 will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
,6If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night — How art thou cut off! — Would they not steal till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers came to thee, Would they not leave some glean- ing grapes?, 6How is Esau searched out! How are his hidden places sought out!
7A11 the men of thy confederacy Have conducted thee to the bor- der; The men that were at peace with thee Have beguiled thee, and prevailed 1 against thee; They that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee, In whom there is no discernment. 8Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, Destroy the wise men out of Edom, And discernment out of the mount of Esau? 9And thy mighty men, 0 Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter, 10For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, And thou shalt be cut off for ever. uln the day that thou didst stand aloof, In the day that strangers carried • away his substance, And foreigners entered into his gates, And cast lots upon Jerusalem, Even thou wast as one of them. 12But thou shouldest not have gazed on the day of thy brother In the day of his disaster, Neither shouldest thou have re- joiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly In the day of distress. 13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of My people In the day of their calamity; Yea, thou shouldest not have gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor have laid hands on their sub- stance In the day of their calamity. "Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, To cut off those of his that escape; Neither shouldest thou have de- livered up those of his That did remain in the day of dis- tress.
15For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations; As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.
16For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink con- tinually, OBADIAH \Va, they ukill drink, und swallow down. An*l hhali be a»s though they had nut ITBut in mount Zion thc4re whall thodtf that eM*aj>e, And h Miuil be holy; And the house of Jat'ob ^hali p they of the Lowland the "And the huzfrf; of Jacob s-hall be a fin1. And the hoiii*e of Joseph a flam*-, And the hoiifC of Esau for srtubblp, And they Fhall kindle in them, arid, devour them; < And there shall not be any re-; maining of the house of Esau:; For the LOHD hath &pokcn. "And they of the South shall posses the mount of Esau, i And they shall possess the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria; And Benjamin shall possess Gilead. £0And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, That are among the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath, And the captivity of Jerusalem, that i.s in Sepharad, Shall posses the cities of the South. 21 And saviours shall "come up on mount Zion To judge the mount of Esau; And the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.
rur JONAH •J Now the word of the LORD came * unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saving: * Arise, go to Xineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it; For their wickedness is come up be- fore Me/ *But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Taishish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of the LORD.
*But the LORD hurled a great wind Into tike sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship wme like to be broken. *And the mariners wen*, afraid, and cried every oftaft unto Us god; wad they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into » the sea, to lighten it unto them.
But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he ,Iay, and was fast asleep. 6So the shipmaster came to Mm, and said unto him: 'What meanest thou that ithou sleepest? arise, call upon thy 'God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.J 7And they said every one to his feliow: 'Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us/ So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. Thai said they unto him: cTell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: -what is thine occupa- tion? aad whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?7 *And he said unto them: JONAH 'I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.' 10Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him: 'What is this that thou hast done?' For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
uThen said they unto him: 'What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?' for the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 12And he said unto them: 'Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you; for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.' "Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. 14Wherefqre they cried unto the LOBD, and said: 'We be- seech Thee, 0 LOKD, we beseech Thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for Thou, 0 LORD, hast done as it pleased Thee.' 15So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging l6Then the men feared the LORD ex- ceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. O And the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three- days and three nights. 2Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly. 3And he said.
I called out of mine affliction Unto the LORD, and He answered me; Out of the belly of the nether- world cried I, And Thou heardest my voice.
4For thou didst cast me into the depth, In the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All Thy waves and Thy billows Passed over me. 6And I said: 'I aon cast out From before Thine eyes'; Yet I will look again ' Toward Thy holy temple. 6The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head. 7I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; Yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, 0 LORD my God.
8When my soul fainted within me, 1 remembered the LORD; And my prayer came in unto Thee, Into Thy holy temple.
9They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy 10But I will sacrifice unto Thee With the voice of thanksgiving; That which I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation is of the LORD. nAnd the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
O And the word of the LORD came ^ unto Jonah the second time, say- ing: 2' Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.' 3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he pro- claimed, and said: 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'
6And the people of Nineveh be- lieved God; and they proclaimed a JONAH fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: 'Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?'
10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, which He said He would do unto them; and He A did it not. xBut it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'I pray Thee, 0 LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in mine own country? There- fore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gra- cious God, and compassionate, long- suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repentest Thee of the evil, there- fore now, 0 LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.' 4And the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?' ^hen 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, till he might see what would become of the city. 6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd, ^ut God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and re- quested for himself that he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.' 9And God said to Jonah 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'lamgreat- y angry, even unto death.' 10And the LORD said: 'Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and per- shed in a night; uand should not I lave pity on Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore ;housand persons that cannot discern Between their right hand and their ,eft hand, and also much cattle?'
MICAH MICAH -j THE word of the LOED that came *- to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concern- ing Samaria and Jerusalem.
2Hear, ye peoples, all of you, Hearken, 0 earth, and all that therein is; And let the Lord GOD be witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple. 3For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of His place, And will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4And the mountains shall be molten under Him, And the valleys shall be cleft, As wax before the fire, As waters that are poured down a steep place.
5For the transgression of Jacob is all this, And for the sins of the house of Israel What is the transgression of Jacob'* is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the field, A place for the planting of vine- yards; And I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, And I will uncover the foundations thereof.
rAnd all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, i And all her hires shall be burned with fire, And all her idols will I lay desolate; For of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, And unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.
8For this will I wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jack- als, And a mourning like the ostriches. 9For her wound is incurable; For it is come even unto Judah; It reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. 10Tell it not in Gath, Weep not at all; At Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust. "Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; The inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; The wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the standing-place thereof. 12For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good; Because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jeru- salem. 13Bind the chariots to the swift steeds, 0 inhabitant of Lachish; She was. the beginning of sin to the daughter of 2/ion; For the transgressions of Israel are found ill thee. 14Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath; MICAH The houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of 15I will yet bring unto thee, 0 inhab- itant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee; The glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam. 16Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight; Enlarge thy baldness as the vulture; For they are gone into captivity from thee.
O Woe to them that devise iniquity And work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they execute it, Because it is in the power of their hand. 2And they covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away; Thus they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage, therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, From which ye shall not remove your necks, Neither shall ye walk upright; for it shall be an evil time. *In that day shall they take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamenta- tion, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; He changeth the portion of my people; How doth he remove it from me! Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.', Therefore thou shalt have none that