A paraphrasticall explication of the twelve minor prophets. Viz. Hoseah. Joel. Amos. Obadiah. Jonah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Haggai. Zechariah. Malachi. / By Da. Stokes. D.D.

CHAP. I.

1 THe burden of Nineveh. The book of the visi∣on of Nahum the Elko∣shite.

2 God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, the Lord revengeth and is fu∣rious, the Lord will take vengeance on his adversa∣ries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

3 The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirl-wind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it drie, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence, yea, the world,

and all that dwell there∣in.

6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? his furie is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

7 The Lord is good, a strong bold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him.

8 But with an over∣running floud he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darknesse shall pursue his enemies.

9 What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affli∣ction shall not rise up the se∣cond time.

10 For while they be fol∣den together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be de∣voured as stubble fully dry.

11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord a wic∣ked counsellour.

12 Thus saith the Lord, Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall passe through: though I have afflicted thee: I will afflict thee no more.

13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sun∣der.

14 And the Lord hath given a commandment con∣cerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image, & the molten image, I wil make thy grave for thou art vile.

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good things, that publisheth peace: O Iudah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more passe through thee, he is ut∣terly cut off.