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. II.

1. THe burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel shall be toward the Lord.

2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus and Zidon, though it be very wise.

3 And Tyrus did build h••r self a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.

5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrow∣ful, and Ekron: for her expectation shall be asha∣med, and the king shall pe∣rish from Gaza, and Ash∣kelon shall not be inhabited.

6 And a bastard shll dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Phi∣listins.

7 And I will take away his bloud out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaines, even he shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governour in Iudah, and Ekron as a Iebusite.

8 And I will enc amp a∣bout mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth; and no oppressour shall passe through them any more; for now have I seen with mine eyes.

9 Rejoyce greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Ierusalem: be∣hold,

thy king cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation, lowly, and riding upon an asse, and upon a colt, the foal of an asse.

10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse frrm Ierusa∣lem, and the battle-bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the ri∣ver even unto the ends of the earth.

11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent forth thy priso∣ners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

12 Turn ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, even to day do I declare, that I will render double unto thee:

13 When I have bend Iu∣dah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a migh∣ty man:

14 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirl∣winds of the South.

15 The Lord of Hosts shall defend them, and they shall devour, & subdue with sling-stones, and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine, and they shalbe filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

16 And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his peo∣ple, for they shall be as the stone, of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

17 For how great is his goodnesse, and how great is his beauty? corn shall make the young men cheer∣full, and new wine the maids.