The confusion of Egypt. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 714. d See Ps. 68. 81. & 72. 10, ch. 16. 1. Zeph. 8. 10. Mal. 1.11. 2 Or, outspread and polished: See ver. 2. & Jer. 46. 13. Ezek. 29, & 30. b Ps. 18. 10. Ex. 12. 12. & 104. 3. Jer. 43. 12. ISAIAH, XIX. and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. CHAPTER XIX. 1 The confusion of Egypt. 11 The foolishness of their princes. 18 The calling of Egypt to the church. 23 The covenant of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel. HE burden of Egypt. Behold, The Lots brideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians Judg.7.22. against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. & Heb. mingle. 1 Sam. 14. 16, 20. 2 Chr. 20. 23. 4 Heb. shall be emptied. 5 Heb. swallow up. ⚫ ch. 8. 19. & 47.12., 6 Or, shut up. fch. 20. 4. Jer. 46.26. Ezek. 29.19. Jer. 51. 36. Ezek.30.12. b2 Kings 19. 24. 7 Heb. and shall not be. 11 Kings 10. 28. 3 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will 'destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 58 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, ' and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in 'fine Prov. 7. 16. flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. The calling of Egypt. the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds 3 for fish. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 714. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise foundacounsellors of Pharaoh is become tions. 8 Heb. of brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, living I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? things. k Num. 13. 12 Where are they? where are 11 Cor. 1. thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, m the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled on a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. m Jer. 2. 16. 4 Or, gover nors. 5 Heb. corners. 6 Heb. a spirit of perverseness. 1 Kings 22.22. ch. 29.10. o ch. 9. 14. be Jer. 51.30. 16 In that day shall Egypt like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it. 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. Nah. 3. 13. q ch. 11. 15. Zeph. 3.9. 7 Heb. the 8 Or, of Heres, or, of the sun. Gen. 28.18. Josh. 22. 10. Ex. 24.4. Josh. 4. 20. u Mal. 1. 11 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my Ps. 100. 3. people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. ch.29.23. Hos. 2. 23. Ephes. 2.10. CHAPTER XX. Time of Arabia's calamity. that travaileth: I was bowed down BEFORE CHRIST cir. 714. My mind 42 My heart panted, fearfulness or affrighted me: the night of my plea-wandered. sure hath he turned into fear unto me. Deut. 28. 5 Prepare the table, watch in 8 Heb. put. the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye & Dan. 5. 5. princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. h ver. 9. 7 h And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, In the year that a Tartan came unto I stand continually upon the watch 1 Hab. 2. 1. Ashdod, (when Sargon the king tower in the daytime, and I am set of Assyria sent him,) and fought in my ward whole nights: against Ashdod, and took it; N . 2 At the same time spake the LORD 2 by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. с 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and 2 Sam. 10. old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. ch. 3. 17. Mic. 1. 11. 6 Or, a Zech.9.14. 6 Heb.hard. b ch. 33. 1. Jer. 49.34. f 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? CHAPTER XXI. 1 The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his HE burden of the desert of the pass through; so it cometh from the 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler ch. 18. 17. spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 8 Therefore d are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman d ch. 15. 5. & 16. 11. e ch. 18.8. The invasion of Jewry. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712. ISAIAH, XXII. HE the valley of This burden of leth Yale Yow, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? a 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tuch. 32. 13. multuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 2 Heb. of the bow. b Jer. 4. 19. & 9.1. 8 Heb. I will be bitter in weeping. 2 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; b I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of Lam. 1.5. treading down, and of perplexity "by the Lord Gon of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. c ch. 37. 3. & 2. 2. * Jer. 49. 35. f ch. 15. 1. 4 Heb.made naked. 5 Heb. the e 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and f Kir 4 uncovered the shield. 5 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of choice of thy chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. valleys. 6 Or, toward. 6 8 T And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in g1 Kings 7. that day to the armour & of the house of the forest. 2. & 10. 17. 16 hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant " Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. Σ BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712 2 Or, O he. • See 2 Sam. 18. 18. Matt. 27.60. Or, the covered thee LORD who with an excellent co vering and gorgeously, clothed thee shall surely, ver. 18. 4 Heb. the captivity of a man. t Esth. 7.8. 6 Heb. large of spaces. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall Job 12.14. shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. Rev. 3. 7. y Ezra 9. 8. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels Or, of flagons. 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. CHAPTER XXIII. 1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre. 17 Their unhappy return. instruments of viola. cir. 715. HE "burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid Jer. 25.22. waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chit-Amos 1.9. tim it is revealed to them. 7 Ezek. 26, & 27, & 28. Zech. 9. 2,4. b ver. 12. 7 Heb. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of silent. Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is amart of nations. Ezek. 27.3. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength overthrow of Tyre. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 715. d ch. 19. 16. ⚫ ch. 22. 2. ISAIAH, XXIV. of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor 5 As at the report concerning Judgments upon the land. that dwell before the LORD, to eat suf- CHAPTER XXIV. 1 The doleful judgments of God upon the land. 6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the ye inhabitants of the isle. 7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her Heb.from own feet shall carry her 2afar off to sojourn. afar off. 28. 2, 12. 8 Who hath taken this counsel See Ezek. against Tyre, f the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? 8 Heb. 4 Heb. girdle. 6 Or, ing a mer- 8 Rev.18.22. 1 PB. 72. 9. k ver. 1. Ezek. 27.25, 80. 8 Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of an harlot. to ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she 1 Rev. 17.2. shall turn to her hire, and 'shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 4 a 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, "the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 715. 3 Heb. old. cir. 712. 8 Heb. the face perverteth thereof. Or,prince. Ezek. 7. 12, 13. 5 Heb. the height of the people. Gen. 8. 17. Num.85.88. 6 Therefore hath the curse de- d Mal. 4. 6. voured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. Joel 1.10,12. 7 The new wine mourneth, the ch. 16.8,9. vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. Jer. 7. 84. 25.10. & 16.9. & Ezek. 26.13. Rev. 18. 22. g ch. 17.5,6. 15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD 6Or,valleys. in the fires, even the name of the Mal. 1. 11. The prophet BEFORE CHRIST cir. 712. LORD God of Israel in the isles of the blast of the terrible ones is as a 16 From the uttermost part of Heb.wing the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! 'the treacherous dealers have secret to me. dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 8 Heb. Leanness to me, or, My 1 Jer. 5. 11. kSeelKings Amos 5. 19. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: 1 Gen. 7. 11. for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. m Ps. 18. 7. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, Pand the kings of the earth upon the earth. 5 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be 'visited. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in Heb. 12.22. mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. rRev.19.4,6. 8 Or, there shall be glory before his ancients. cir. 712. a Ex. 15. 2. Ps. 118. 28. b Ps. 98. 1. • Num. 23. 19. d ch. 21. 9. & 23. 13. CHAPTER XXV. 1 The prophet praiseth God, for his judgments, 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise 7 And he will destroy in this 8 He will 'swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have Gen.49.18. waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice Ps. 20. 5. in his salvation. 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, or, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. 5 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. threshed. 5 Or, threshed in Madmenah 12 And the Pfortress of the high P ch. 26. 5. fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. CHAPTER XXVI. 1 A song inciting to confidence in God, 5 for b LORD, thou art my God; "TIN that day shall this song be 2 For thou hast made of a city an Jer. 51. 37. heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. sung in the land of Judah; We have a 'strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. C 3 Thou wilt keep him in ' 'perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: peace because he trusteth in thee. 4. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: d for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: 5 T For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, ch. 57. 19. 8 Or, thought, gination. or, ima d ch. 45. 17. 9 Heb. the rock of ages. Deut. 32. 4. e ch. 25.12. 32. 19. |