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title: "Commentary on Joel, Amos and Obadiah"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
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shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 67 of 79
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Joel, Amos and Obadiah, section 67. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-joel-amos-and-obadiah/67/"
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# Commentary on Joel, Amos and Obadiah

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on three of the shorter prophets: Joel, Amos and Obadiah.

## 67. Chapter 2

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[¶0] 1 Thus saith Jehovah,— For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not be propitious to him; For he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into ashes:

[¶1] 2 And I will send a fire on Moab, And it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth; And die in a tumult shall Moab, With shouting, at the sound of the trumpet;

[¶2] 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst of him, And with him all his princes will I slay, saith Jehovah.

[¶3] 4 Thus saith Jehovah,— For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not be propitious to him; For they have despised the law of Jehovah, And his statutes have they not kept; And to go astray have their lies made them, After which their fathers walked:

[¶4] 5 And I will send a fire on Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

[¶5] 6 Thus saith Jehovah,— For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not be propitious to him; For they have sold the just for silver, and the poor for shoes;

[¶6] 7 Panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the needy, They turn aside the way of the miserable; The son and his father enter in into the same maid, So that they profane my holy name;

[¶7] 8 And on pledged garments they lie near every altar, And the wine of the condemned they drink In the house of their god.

[¶8] 9 Yet I exterminated the Amorite before their face, Whose tallness was like the tallness of cedars, And who was strong like the oak; And I destroyed his fruit above and his root beneath;

[¶9] 10 And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you in the desert forty years, That you might possess the land of the Amorite;

[¶10] 11 And I raised up Prophets from your sons, And from your youths, Nazarites;— Have I not done all this, O children of Israel, saith Jehovah:

[¶11] 12 But to the Nazarites have ye quaffed wine; And on my Prophets have ye laid a command, Saying, “Ye shall not prophesy.”

[¶12] 13 Behold, I am fast bound under you, (196) As a wagon is bound, which is full of sheaves.—

[¶13] 14 Perish shall flight from the swift, And the valiant shall not confirm his strength, And the strong shall not deliver his life,

[¶14] 15 And the holder of the bow shall not stand, And the swift on foot shall not escape, Nor shall he who mounts a horse save his life;

[¶15] 16 Yea, the strong of heart, among the valiant, Shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.