[HOSEA]
1 A wife and children Hosea hath.
2 He bids them all implore.
3 A concubine weds for a sign.
4 The ten tribes menac'd sore.
5 By threats warns princes, people, priests.
6 Exhorts them to repent;
7 Sins many and great he doth relate,
8 And judgments to be sent.
9 Captivity is now denounc'd,
10 For all their sins thereat.
11 For their most rude ingratitude.
12 Hypocrisy so great.
13 Destroy'd is Israel by himself.
His help in God doth lie.
14 Who will relent, if they repent
Of their Idolatry.
[JOEL]
1 Joel describes a dismal dearth,
2 Prescribes a solemn fast;
3 Denounces woes 'gainst Zion's foes.
Pronounces blessings last.
[AMOS]
1 Amos three sins and four reproves.
2 God threatens many a coast.
3 Chiefly his own, to him best known,
4 He swears to punish most.
5 Bids them repent, does them lament.
6 Their wantonness abhorr'd.
7 Amos prays twice for Jacob's rise,
8 A famine of the word,
9 And David's tent restor'd.