_But now_ hear _the oracle of Jehovah: Turn ye to Me with all your heart, And with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend ye your hearts and not your garments, And turn to Jehovah your God: For He is gracious and merciful, Long-suffering and plenteous in love, And relents of the evil. Who knows but He will turn and relent, And leave behind Him a blessing, Meal-offering and drink-offering to Jehovah your God?_
_Blow a horn in Zion, Hallow a fast, summon the assembly! Gather the people, hallow the congregation, Assemble the old men,[1218] gather the children, and infants at the breast; Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber, And the bride from her bower.[1219] Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between porch and altar; Let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, Thy people, And give not Thine heritage to dishonour, for the heathen to mock them:[1220] Why should it be said among the nations, Where is their God?_
[1160] _Arabia Deserta_, p. 307.
[1161] _Arabia Deserta_, p. 335.
[1162] _Id._, 396.
[1163] _Id._, 335.
[1164] Barrow, _South Africa_, p. 257, quoted by Pusey.
[1165] _Impressions of South Africa_, by James Bryce: Macmillans, 1897.
[1166] Volney, _Voyage en Syrie_, I. 277, quoted by Pusey.
[1167] Lebanon.
[1168] Abridged from Thomson’s _The Land and the Book_, ed. 1877, Northern Palestine, pp. 416 ff.
[1169] From Driver’s abridgment (_Joel and Amos_, p. 90) of an account in the _Journ. of Sacred Lit._, October 1865, pp. 235 f.
[1170] Morier, _A Second Journey through Persia_, p. 99, quoted by Pusey, from whose notes and Driver’s excursus upon locusts in _Joel and Amos_ the following quotations have been borrowed.
[1171] Shaw’s _Travels in Barbary_, 1738, pp. 236-8; Jackson’s _Travels to Morocco_.
[1172] Adansson, _Voyage au Sénegal_, p. 88.
[1173] Chénier, _Recherches Historiques sur les Maures_, III., p. 496.
[1174] Burckhardt, _Notes_, II. 90.
[1175] Barrow, _South Africa_, p. 257.
[1176] _Journ. of Sac. Lit._, October 1865.
[1177] Lichtenstein, _Travels in South Africa_.
[1178] _Standard_, December 25th, 1896.
[1179] Fr. Alvarez.
[1180] Barheb., _Chron. Syr._, p. 784; Burckhardt, _Notes_, II. 90.
[1181] i. 20, 17.
[1182] i. 19.
[1183] i. 5.
[1184] Cf. i. 12, 13, and many verses in chap. ii.
[1185] Of Merx and others: see above, p. 394.
[1186] See above, p. 377.
[1187] See Vol. I., pp. 242, 245 f.
[1188] Jer. xiv.
[1189] Cf. Ezek. xlvi. 15 on the Thamid, and Neh. x. 33; Dan. viii. 11, xi. 31, xii. 11: cf. p. 382.
[1190] Acts xxvi. 7.
[1191] XIV. _Antt._ iv. 3, xvi. 2; VI. _Wars_ ii. 1.
[1192] i. 9, 13.
[1193] i. 16.
[1194] ii. 14.
[1195] i. 8, 13.
[1196] ii. 12.
[1197] LXX. Βαθουήλ
[1198] See above, pp. 399 f.
[1199] חסיל from חסל, used in the O.T. only in Deut. xxviii. 38, _to devour_; but in post-biblical Hebrew _to utterly destroy_, _bring to an end_. _Talmud Jerus._: Taanith III. 66_d_, “Why is the locust called חסיל? Because it brings everything to an end.”
[1200] A.V. _cheek-teeth_, R.V. _jaw-teeth_, or _eye-teeth_. “Possibly (from the Arabic) _projectors_”: Driver.
[1201] Heb. text inserts _elders_, which may be taken as vocative, or with the LXX. as accusative, but after the latter we should expect _and_. Wellhausen suggests its deletion, and Nowack regards it as an intrusion. For אספו Wellhausen reads האספו, _be ye gathered_.
[1202] Keshōdh mishshaddhai (Isa. xiii. 6); Driver, _as overpowering from the Overpowerer_.
[1203] A.V. _clods_. מגרפותיהם: the meaning is doubtful, but the corresponding Arabic word means _besom_ or _shovel_ or (_P.E.F.Q._, 1891, p. 111, with plate) _hoe_, and the Aram. _shovel_. See Driver’s note.
[1204] Reading, after the LXX. τί ἀποθήσομεν ἑαυτοῖς (probably an error for ἐν αὐτοῖς), מה נניחה בהם for the Massoretic מה נאנחה בהמה _How the beasts sob!_ to which A.V. and Driver adhere.