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 lllw- scab: lowed.

gien to tak peace irae the yirth, and that they soud shed ithers’ blade; and that was gien to him a great sword.

5. And whan he had lowsed the third seal, I heard the third leevin- ane sayin, “Come!” And I lookit, and lo! a black horse, and he that sat on it had a pair 0’ banks in his haun.

6. And I heard a voice i’ the mids o’ the fowr leevin-anes, sayin, “Twa gowpens o’ wheat for a hauf-merk, and a forpet o’ barley for a hauf- merk ; and the oyle and the wine ye are-na to skaith ! "

7. And whan he 10wsed the fowrth seal, I heard the fowrth leevin-ane sayin, “ Come ! ”

8. And I lookit, and lo! a blae horse, and he that sat on’t had his name “ Death,” and the Sheuch fol- low't wi’ him. And he had pooer gien him ower a fowrth pairt o’ the yirth to slay wi’ the sword, and wi' hung’er. and wi' the 1death, and wi' the wild beass o’ the yirth.

9. And whan he lowsed the ﬁfth seal, I saw, aneath the altar, the sauls o’ sic as had been slain for the word 0’ God. and for the witness that they held.

10. And they cry’t oot wi’ a lood voice, sayin, “To whatna time, 0 Lord, the Holie and the True, dost thou no judge and avenge oor blude on thae that dwall on the yirth ’l”

11. And that was gien to them, ilk ane, a white robe; and it was tell’t them that they soud rest their sels a wee while, till their marrows, and their brethren that send he slain e'en as they war, soud be a’ fulﬁlled.

12. And I saw when he lowsed the sixth seal; that was a great yirdin; and the sun was black as sack-claith 0’ hair ; and the hale mune becam as blude ;

13. And the stem: 0’ heeven fell

1 V. 8. I jalouse the pl e is meant here ; or some 0' the nameess sconrges that men ca’ “ The Death."

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The Sauna sealed.

to the yirth, as a fig-tree sheds her or_ra ﬁgs, whan shaken o’ a michty wm’.

14. And the heeven slip it awa, as a scroll row’t-up; an every mountain and isle war mov’t out 0’ their stances.

15. And the kings 0’ the yirth, and the nobles, and rulers o’ thoosands, and the rich, and the michty. and ilka thirlman, and ilka freeman, hid theirsels i' the caves and i’ the dens o’ the mountains,

16. Sayin to the mountains and the craigs, “Fa' on us! and beild us lrae the face 0’ him wha sits on the Thron, and frae the wrath o’ the Lamb !

17. “For the great day 0’ their wrath is come; and wha is ﬁt to staun ‘l”

CHAPTIR SEEVEN.

The Saun’s are sealed: “ Wha are they in white attire? "

EFTIR thir things I saw iowr Angels siaunin on the fowr

corners 0’ the yirth, haudin siccar

the fowr wins 0’ the yirth, that nae

win’ soud blaw on the yirth, or on

the sea, or on ony tree.

2. And I saw anither Angel come up frae the sunrisin, haein the seal 0’ the leevin God, and he cry’t oot wi’ a soondin voice to the fowr Angels to wham it was gien to bring skaith on the yirth and the sea,

3. Sayin, “ Ye maunna skaith the yirth, nor the sea, nor the trees. to we hae seal't the servants o’ oor God on their broos.”

4. And I heard the number 0’ thae seal’t: a hunner and forty-fowr thoosand; seal’t oot 0’ every 2tribe 0’ the sons 0' Isra’l.

5. Oct 0’ Judah’s

'V. 4. We ken-na why Dan is left eat in this list. Some think Dan had clean ane ower to eidols (see Judges xviii. 30, g1), and was nae mair to be coontit as Isrs’l. We hand-us wi’ Grotius, that the tribe was extinct.

tribe, twal’