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hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the
street, to them that went over.
CHAP. LII.

7¶ Hearken unto me, ye that know right-
eousness, the people in whose heart is my
law;
fear ye not the reproach of men, neither
be ye afraid of their revilings.

8 For the moth shall eat them up like a gar-
ment, and the worm shall eat them like wool:
but my righteousness shall be for ever, and
my salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm
of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days,
in the generations of old. Art thou not it that
hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea,
the waters of the great deep; that hath made
the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed
to pass over?

11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD
shall return, and come with singing unto Zion;
and everlasting joy shall be upon their head:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sor-
row and mourning shall flee away.

121, even I, am he that comforteth you: who
art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of
man that shall die, and of the son of man
which shall be made as grass;
13 And forgettest the LORD thy Maker, that
hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the
foundations of the earth; and hast feared
continually every day because of the fury of
the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?
and where is the fury of the oppressor? I
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may
be loosed, and that he should not die in the
pit, nor that his bread should fail.

15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided
the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of
hosts is his name.

16 And I have put my words in thy mouth,
and have covered thee in the shadow of my
hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay
the foundations of the earth, and say unto
Zion, Thou art my people.
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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusa-
lem, which hast drunk at the hand of the
LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken
the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung
them out.

18 There is none to guide her among all the
sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is
there any that taketh her by the hand of all
the sons that she hath brought up.
19 These two things are come unto thee:
who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and
destruction, and the famine, and the sword:
by whom shall I comfort thee?

1 Christ persuadeth the church to believe his free redemption, 7 to receive the ministers thereof, 9to joy in the power thereof, 11 and to free themselves from bondage. 13 Christ's king: dom shall be exalted.

AWAKE, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that fule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. 7¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

9¶ Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go before go by flight: for the LORD will you; and the God of Israel will be your rere

ward.

13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the
head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net:
14 As many were astonished at thee; (his
they are full of the fury of the LORD, the re-visage was so marred more than any man,

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of thy God.

Therefore hear now this, thou afflict-
ed, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy
God that pleadeth the cause of his people,
Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup
of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my
fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

23 But I will put it into the hand of them
that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul,

and his from more than the sons of men :)
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the
kings shall shut their mouths at him: for
that which had not been told them shall they
see; and that which they had not heard shall
they consider.

CHAP. LIII.

1 The prophet, complaining of incredulity, excuseth the scandal of the cross, 4 by the benefit. of his passion, 10 and the good success thereof.

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The Gentiles deliverance, &c.

The benefit of Christ's passion. ISAIAH.
WHO hath believed our report? and to hand and on the left; and thy seed shall in

whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? herit the Gentiles, and make the desolate
cities to be inhabited.

2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us

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4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. 5 For thy Maker is thy husband; The LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

8 He was taken from prison and from judg- 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the ment: and who shall declare his generation? hills be removed; but my kindness shall not for he was cut off out of the land of the liv-depart from thee, neither shall the covenant ing: for the transgression of my people was of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that he stricken. hath mercy on thee.

9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted! behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

12 Therefore will I divide him a portion 15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, with the great, and he shall divide the spoil but not by me: whosoever shall gather togewith the strong; because he hath poured out ther against thee shall fall for thy sake. nis soul unto death: and he was numbered 16 Behold, I have created the smith that with the transgressors; and he bare the sin bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringof many, and made intercession for the trans-eth forth an instrument for his work; and I gressors.

CHAP. LIV.

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17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

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happiness believers. which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

The blind watchmen. better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.

8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, besides those that are gathered unto him.

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6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: The 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him 9 All ye beasts of the field, come to dereturn unto the LORD, and he will have mer-vour; yea, all ye beasts in the forest cy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

CHAP. LVI.

The prophet exhorteth to sanctification. 3 He promiseth it shall be general without respect of persons. 9 He inveigheth against blind watchmen.

THUS sajtu tie. RP,y elvation go near HUS saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls, a place and a name

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10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much mrore abundan.

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CHAP. LVII.

The blessed death of the righteous. 3 God reproveth the Jews for their whorish idolatry. 13 He giveth evangelical promises to the penitent. THE andful men are THE righteous perisheth, and no man lay

taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood; 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered a meat-offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lov edst their bed where thou sawest it.

9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and

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5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackway; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: cloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call thou hast found the life of thy hand; there-this a fast, and an acceptable day to the fore thou wast not grieved. LORD?

11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not re membered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou N 12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

fearest me not?

13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry the all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; 14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

CHAP. LVIII.

1 The prophet, being sent to reprove hypocrisy, 3 expresseth a counterfeit fast and a true. 8 He declareth what promises are due unto godliness, 13 and to the keeping of the sabbath.

RY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice

6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

¶ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rere-ward.

9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

10 And thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day:

11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

13¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. CHAP. LIX. *

Cike a lumpet, and shew my people 1 The damnable nature of sin. 3 The sins of the

their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice: they take delight in approaching to God.

3¶ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye tind pleasure, and exact all your labours.

4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice so be heard on

Jews. 9 Calamity is for sin. 16 Salvation is only of God. 20 The covenant of the Redeemer.

Bened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

EHOLD, the LORD's hand is not short

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

access CHAP. LX.

1 The glory of the church in the abundant access of the Gentiles, 15 and the great blessings after a short affliction.

ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, 8 The way of peace they know not: and and kings to the brightness of thy rising. there is no judgment in their goings: they 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: have made them crooked paths: whosoever all they gather themselves together, they goeth therein shall not know peace. come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, 9¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, nei-and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. ther doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon-day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will

repay recompence.

19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thy heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gen tiles shall come unto thee.

6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.

7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. 10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. 11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of feet glorious.

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14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee: and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy

21 As for me, this is my covenant with them,
saith the LORD; My Spirit that is upon thee,of many generations.
and my words which I have put in thy mouth,
shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of
the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth
of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from
henceforth and for ever.

16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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