Beersheba. For they shall fall, that they may not rise again.
(Amos)
Chapter 9
Prophecy of Christ and His Church.

I saw the LORD stand upon the altar, and he said, Strike the pommel, that the posts may shake. For their covetousness shall come upon their head, and shall slay their seed with the sword: none shall escape, nor any escape.

And if they go down to hell, my hand shall take them from thence: and if they go up to heaven, I will cast them down;

And though they hide themselves in the top of mount Carmel, yet will I seek them there, and bring them down: and though they hide themselves from mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, yet will I command the serpents to sting them there;

And if they go captive before their enemies, yet will I command the sword to slay them there.
For I will keep mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

For the LORD of hosts is such a one: when he toucheth a land, it melteth, and all the inhabitants thereof mourn, and it runneth over them as the waters, and is overflowed as with the river of Egypt.

He it is that buildeth his house in heaven, and maketh his tabernacle upon the earth: he calleth
unto the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: he is called LORD.

Are not ye children of Israel like unto me as the Moors? saith the LORD. Have not I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Caphtor, and the Syrians out of Kir?

Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon a sinful kingdom, that I may utterly destroy it from the face of the earth, though I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

But, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as one sifts with a sieve, and the grains shall not fall to the earth.

All the sinners among my people shall die by the sword, which say, Calamity shall not be so near, neither shall it meet with us.

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and will fence the breaches thereof, and will raise up again that which is broken down, and will build it as it was before,

That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and the remnant of all the nations, upon whom my name shall be preached, saith the LORD that doeth these things.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall till and reap at the same time, and they shall press and sow at the same time: and the mountains shall run with sweet wine, and all the hills shall be fruitful.

For I will turn the prison of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink wine of them; and they shall make gardens, and eat fruit of them.

For I will plant them in their land, and they shall no more be cut off from their land, which I will give them, saith the LORD thy God.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
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The Prophet Obadiah (Obadiah) ^
Of the punishment of Edom and the redemption of the Israelites.

This is the vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD of Edom; We have heard from the Lord, that a message is sent unto the heathen, saying, Come, and let us fight against them.

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen, and greatly despised.

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, because thou dwellest in the clefts of the rock, in thy high castles, saying in thine heart, Who shall thrust me down?

Though thou mount up as an eagle, and make thy nest among the stars, yet will I bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

If thieves or spoilers come upon thee by night, how shalt thou be destroyed! Yea, they shall steal enough: and when the vintners come upon thee, they shall not leave thee a gleaning.

How shall they search out Esau, and seek his treasures?

All thine own covenanters shall cast thee out of the land: they in whom thou trustest for comfort shall deceive thee, and overcome thee: they that eat thy bread shall betray thee before thou know it.

What is the matter? saith the LORD, I will destroy in that day the wise men of Edom, and the prudent men of the mount of Esau.

For thy mighty men of Theman shall be afraid, that they may all be cut off in the mount of Esau by the slaughter.

For the iniquity of thy brother Jacob.

In the day that thou stoodest against him, when the strangers carried away his host captive, and when the foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, thou wast as one
of them. Therefore thou shalt be ashamed of all; thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Thou shalt no more take thy pleasure in thy brother in the time of his affliction, neither shalt thou rejoice over the children of Judah in the time of their mourning, neither shalt thou speak proudly with thy mouth in the time of their anguish.

Thou shalt not go in unto the gate of my people in the time of their mourning: thou shalt not see thy pleasure in their calamity in the time of their mourning: thou shalt not send against their host in the time of their mourning;

Thou shalt not stand in the way to slay his escaped: thou shalt not betray his remnant in the time of trouble.

For the day of the LORD is at hand upon all nations. As thou hast done, so shall it be done unto thee; and as thou hast earned, so shall it come upon thy head again.

For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink daily; yea, they shall drink it up, and swallow it up, as if it had never been there.

But in mount Zion there shall yet be saved some that shall be sanctuaries: and the house of Jacob shall possess the possession thereof.

And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau straw. And they shall burn them, and consume them, that there be none left unto the house of Esau: for the LORD hath spoken it.

And they that are toward the south shall possess the mountains of Esau, and they that are in the south shall possess the Philistines: yea, they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess the mountains of Gilead.

And the exiles of this host of the children of Israel, which are among the Canaanites unto Zarpath, and the exiles of the city of Jerusalem, which are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities southward.

And saviours shall come up to mount Zion, to judge the mountain of Esau. So shall the kingdom of the LORD be.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
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The prophet Jonah ^
Chapter 1
Jonah’s profession, disobedience and punishment.

And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amithai, saying: 2. Arise, go into the great city of Nineveh, and preach therein: for their wickedness is come up before me.

And Jonah arose, and fled from before the LORD, and would have gone to the sea, and came down to Japho. And when he found a ship going to sea, he gave ferry money, and entered into it, that he might go with them into the sea before the LORD.

And the LORD sent a great wind upon the sea, and there arose a great tempest in the sea, as if the ship were broken.

And the shipmen were afraid, and cried every man unto his God, and cast the vessels that were in the ship into the sea, that they might be lightened. But Jonah was gone down into the ship, and lay and slept.

And the master of the ship came unto him, and said unto him, Why sleepest thou? Arise, call upon thy God, if perhaps God would remember us, that we perish not.

And one said unto another: Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose sake we are so wicked. And as they were casting lots, Jonah was stricken.

And they said unto him, Tell us, why is it so evil with us? What is thy trade, and whence comest thou? Of what country art thou, and of what nation art thou?

And he said unto them: I am an Eberian, and I fear the LORD God of heaven, which made the sea and the dry land.

And the people were sore afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this thing? For they knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD: for he had told them.

And they said unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be still unto us? For the sea was boisterous.

And he said unto them: Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be still unto you.
For I know that such a great tempest cometh upon you for my sake.

And the people made haste to return to the land, but they could not; for the sea was rushing against them.

Then cried they unto the LORD, saying: O LORD, let us not perish for this man’s soul, neither count us innocent of blood: for thou, O LORD, doest as it